president wants to do. he has the wind on his back right now. gregg: you know what they say about the wind, it will change on a moment's notice. thanks for joining us. i'm gregg jarrett in new york, have a good evening. kennedy: president trump back on his so box pushing a big government agenda. does anybody still listen? should fbi director christopher wray resign or stand up to the president. entitlement reform should be a rallying cry for republicans, so why is mitch mcconnell dragging his back feet? former president obama sat down with the world's favorite ginger and waxed on and on about the internet and sold his version of thinly veiled communism.

>> the danger of the internet is people can have different realities and reinforce their current biases. kennedy: the further you bend toward one ends of the spectrum the more likely you have to engage in paralyzing confirmation bias. remember how much the president hated fox news? >> is a watched fox news, i wouldn't vote for me. >> if you watched fox news on a regular basis, it's a constant menu. they will find folks who make me mad. kennedy: he didn't stop at an observation because they never do. he per sift. >> all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the internet. kennedy: leadership:meaning government. go on. >> it used to be in the united

states we had three television stations and everybody watched walter con kite owall -- walter. there would be conservatives and liberals. but people could agree on a base lines of reality. kennedy: the problem is there are too many choices, and too many realities. government has not done enough to confine and constrain the internet so people you disagree with are obviously dealing with a flawed set of facts. fox news is bad, so its counterpart mist be good. leadership should make sure we are all lapping you have the same dribble from a government-approved trough. that is so wrong. a proliferation of choice is not tomorrow a sign of success, it's

how a post in modern operates. different viewpoints don't rest within your accepted set of facts. he went on to criticize digital activism. someone of the things we want to do as we working with young people to build up platforms for social change. make sure they don't think sending out a hashtag in and off itself is bringing about change. kennedy: we would never want to do that. come on, man, it's been lonely just mocking hillary. thanks, obama. welcome to the show. i'm kennedy. the former president has been out of office for nearly a year. the candidate he supported lost. so why does he feel the need to keep dropping pearls much wisdom

all over us? joining me now is the town hall political editor and fox news contributor, guy benson. guy: i'm also a peaferl wisdom dropper myself. it's good to be here. kennedy: let's talk about the implied oppression of free speech. i don't know if it's a generational thing or statist thing. but he was saying the dangers of the internet is people can create their own reality, there are too many realities, man the good old days we only had three choices. that sounds pretty limiting. guy: i don't yearn for the good old days when americans had two newspapers and three anchors who told them what the news was. i think more choices tales is a good thing, are a good thing for the american people. but he's right that when people

construct their own echo chamber where they only tune in and only read certain outlets and news organizations and commentators with whom they agree, they are susceptible to missing out on a lot of relevant perspectives and facts when it comes to national conversations. though i think you are criticizing obama correctly for being nostalgic about the bad old days. he did stop well short of calling for regulation. he was asked by prince harry, do you think the government should step up and do more in terms of regulating the internet and education. he correctly cite on the education side of that economic trump. kennedy: the entire idea of net neutrality is a form of control and that's why libertarians pushed against it. that's why the commissioner of

the fcc is right in ending those rules that allow government to have more control over the internet. now, another side of this, people are saying that he's overtly criticizing the president. i think you have to read in between the lines. i think you are looking too deeply into what he said for an overt criticism of the sitting president. what do you think? >> it's not overt, it's oblique. it's not that subtle. when he talks about leaders who need to be responsible in how they engage on social media. it's a slap at trump and probably and deserved slap. a number of the points he made were solid and good. but i'm also sitting there being, dude, when you just point out hashtags unto themselves aren't enough.

self-awareness. he was talking about how you can create self-affirming hallelujah choruses where you miss an entire side of an issue. in the same interview he talked about his greatest accomplishment has been obamacare. there are millions. americans have been harmed by what was called the affordable care act it's not affordable. the premiums have doubled. kennedy: and choices have shrunk. maybe that's the goal of communism, the collective. guy: when says you can just hear one side of an issue and goth not get a broader perspective in this dangerous new era of online demagoguery. he himself was a world class

develop going. he was more sophisticated than president trump in his demagoguery but he absolutely was part of the problem. it's good he recognizes the problem. kennedy: he constantly criticized fox news which is laughable because it was a collection of people with oftentimes differenting viewpoints. that's okay. it's good to challenge our leaders. i'm delighted have your pearls in my jewelry case. well there will be has been a bunch of crazy twists into president trump's alleged ties to russia. a former bush administration lawyer calling on christopher wray to tell president trump to stop targeting his agency or resign. the heads of agencies or doj

should purge employees they feel could be politically motivated. ' president trump went on the offensive claiming the agency was tainted in using the dirty dossier to discredit his campaign. should the head of the fbi consider resigning? what would this mean for the mueller investigation? kat timpf is here tonight with joe devito and marie harf. katharf.cat kat, a lot of people say people who burrow into government jobs for oftentimes decades, they are the most of proper mat ache because they see the president as the biggest threat to their silent power.

kat he said it was -- kat: he said it was kinds of the deep state. but i think? in general you should steer clear of the phrase "deep state." because you place a tinfoil hat on your head. i think the fact that strzok was sending these text messages is hilarious. kennedy: do you think telling people not to send certain text messages -- >> like listen, use one of these secret messaging apps with your work lover. but we can't take it in the other direction saying everybody has to go. >> the traitor with none of the

vowels tonight, trtr. we do need a purge. we do need to clean out the stables and clean this wrap out. these people have been accumulating there. they are unaccountable and unelected. the president is not above criticism. we don't know what these people are doing. kennedy: they say the same thing about congress. but who do you put in? >> i worked in the federal government for 10 years and bureaucracy does a lot of good things like tracking terrorists, paying your social security checks. they will take it to a realistic place. it's not all people out to

destroy the president. piewtion words like turning are very load, irresponsible, there are patriotic men and women who work at the fbi. a few bad apples should not taint the organization. kennedy: i'm going to come up with a compromise and use the phrase katie pavlich used. boots versus suits. the boots are the men and women who work hard, do the day to day slog, and the military, they are the warriors, and the suits are the ones in the highest etch hit echelons, when they are biased, that's dangerous because the trickle down effect is felt in the pyramid. a big political battle brewing for 2018.

according to plitd co-house speaker paul ryan and senate leader mitch mcconnell have completely different views on entitlement reform. ryan wants to take an ax to medicaid, medicare and welfare and he feels he has the momentum to do that after passing tax cuts. mitch mcconnell said it's not happening. so will washington ever have the courage to shrink the federal government? what i think is so incredibly necessary is for these legislators to operate so they don't care if they are re-elected. entitlements are so cumbersome to the point of being unfair to those they claim to help. kat they are not compassionate when there is a system that keeps you dependent on welfare. i don't know what the republican party is anymore.

people say it's a fiscally conservative party and no they aren't. they are more likely to pass this huge infrastructure spending bill than they are to cut entitlements. i will not be able to handle it if mitch mcconnell ever says anything about being fiscally conservative. they don't care about the national debt or budget. they just want to spend money like democrats do. kennedy: they never give it to the people who need it. those who are the most of vulnerable are the last ones in line when you allow too many people to line up. >> the government becomes the middle man and these are not safety nets. these are spider webs. otherwise you wouldn't have generations of families on public assistance.

we keep arguing what is the better way to spend money we don't have. kennedy: all they are doing is buying votes. that's the unfortunate reality. it may be jade. but there is too much risk avoidance. this not enough actual helping. all they are doing is beefing up programs in their own districts, going back and buying votes. >> i think that's a pretty cynical view, and some of it may be true. but that's what you are saying. >> medicaid and medicare is not buying people ponies, it's helping them get health understand. when we say pour the baby out with the bath water, that's.

the infrastructure bill is so shocking to me because there is no way to pay for it. and they are proposing a huge increase. tunning. kennedy: it is stunning. no one has any sort of fiscal restraint. that's not cynical. that's the truth. first up, christmas is the time for giving. but outspoken san antonio's coach says rich people don't give enough to charity. coach pop is all wrong. this is what it's all about, jamie --

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kennedy: one of the most of outspoken and successful coaches in the nba called trump an embarrassment to the world. and he says rich people like him are cheap skates when it comes to charity and he's right. when a local reporter asked him why it's important to contribute to charity, he respond, because we are rich as hell and we don't need it all and other people need it. an went on to say, you are an ass if you don't give. guess what. rich people do give to charity. the top 1% of american income earners are responsible for all one third all donations made.

so who is the real ass here, buddy? joining me, the president of economic at trinity college. gregg popovich makes it sounds like rich people are lazy and selfish and they don't give a lot of money, but in fact. >> it's actually wrong. ever since the days of andrew carnegie said it's the duty of rich people to accumulate wealth and give it away. and since then people have been doing it. you can look around at the top museums, the concert halls, carnegie hall, david koch theater. all this money is coming from rich people. i can go to those theaters without having to fork over the $50 million renovation price.

so every time i go i thank rich people for all the great work they are doing for society. kennedy: when you see the ballet or the opera or any number of the arts that are still alive and thriving is because of the benefactors contributing to these programs. obviously the new tax bill that was signed into law sort of penalizes people who make charitable donations who itemized those donations in the past, and $4,400 were deducted against income. but 5% of what used to be 30% of people will do that. >> there is higher standard deduction rate, so for most of people they are not going to want to go through and say i gave $5 at my church yesterday. i gave $5 two weeks ago. so for most of people the amount of deductions you are not going

to have to worry about them. that will be simplifying. kennedy: most of people will take the double standard deduction. >> there is lots of things people can do, and they say for high income people, a lot of those people are going to be doing a lot of itemized deductions. i'm not an expert on the specifics of it. but it will be simplifying it. a lot of charities are saying now that we are not itemizing each line, then we are not getting special benefits for people. that is true to some extent. ideally they will be having to get people's money through voluntary means and not getting these special privileges that we currently have. so i think americans should be able to decide if they want to give their money to charity or not give their money to charity.

and i question this whole approach the government needs to be encouraging people to be doing more. so i'm totally happy. kennedy: i don't think we need the government or hotheads like gregg popovich shaping people into giving money. and i don't think rich people by virtue of their richness are bad. >> if they want to give, they give. but we can't have government to say you need to do this or encourage you to do that. let the person decide. government shouldn't be deciding what percentage of your money goes to the opera. i happen to love the opera, but which won't mandate that on other people. even the rich person to doesn't give to charity, i would say

that's their prerogative. steve jobs, people criticize him and say he didn't give enough to charity. but if you look at the wealth he created and great technology he created. warren buffet. the fact that he hasn't been so far. some people even criticize him. kennedy: i don't care if billionaires criticize each other. >> it's one of these minds sets that a lot of people feel like they need to give their money away during their lifetime. when they pass away -- kennedy: when you pass away can i have your money? >> all of the billions of it. kennedy: i knew this job would be worthwhile. ed, thank you so much for your time. always great to see you. isis threatening to kill innocent party-goers for

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kennedy: the islamic state released a new video urging followers to target large groups of intoxicated people as they celebrate the new your. this as one million people are expected to descend on times square new year's eve. i will be there with jesse watters. there will be more security than ever. my next guest knows a thing or two of keeping america safe.

michael balanc -- balbo nirks, e to the show. what is new york doing to keep people safe? >> they are focusing on the public perception. there has been a marked increase of attacks against civilians. we say the attack on halloween where an individual used a car as a weapon just as they have done in europe. what we are seeing is these types of attacks are done on the spur of the moment against unarmed civilians and randomly. the call to attack folks who are ref he willing, in an attempt to try to instill fear, they have gone virtual. they don't have a caliphate they wanted anymore. so they are trying to inspire

people. kennedy: we talked about how 90% of the isis territory has been taken back by the u.s. and our allies. what happens to the 30,000 isis fighters who are no longer fighting in iraq, syria and afghanistan? >> so there is a great concern in europe that they are going to return. there are places as we have seen in brussels where there are neighborhoods where a lot of folks come back and there have been -- there is evidence attacks have been planned from these placed. so europe is very concerned about folks coming back into europe. but that's something that could happen near the united states. but we have seen folks who haven't gone overseas. they have been right here at home. like the san bernardino attacks. they take every day items and try to do things with cars.

you had the pulse nightclub shooting. we have instances where individuals -- kennedy: the new york city bus terminal in the subway tunnel who had a home made bomb strapped to his chest and ended up burning himself. he tried to kill a bunch of people but wasn't successful. should everyone say sober this new year's? >> i think that first of all, let's go to new york city. you will be there and you will be secure. new york city. i have got a chance nobody the command center. new york state troopers, a whole bunch of units that understand what needs to be done and they have tremendous experience, and it's about controlling the movement of folks. folks standing in pens for hours

and hours. kennedy: they open up at 3:00 in the afternoon. they will be there. not to mention where you go tinge the spotty. i don't know how they keep from getting frostbite. because temperatures will dip into the teens. >> it limits their ability to move around. kennedy: they are creating a perimeter closing off parking garages, and they have sands trucks. i feel good about it. i think people should feel good about this because 2018 will be amazing. speak of security, disney updating its policies at several resorts pat walt disney world in orlando. they are ditching the do not

disturbed but room occupied. they will be required to check-in side rooms at least once a day. disney has yet to confirm that correlation. so does mickey have our best interest at heart or is this an invasion of privacy. the party panel returns. marie, is this best way to handle security post las vegas tragedy? >> it always seems like we are trying to fight the last war. we take our shoes off at airports because a guy tried to light his shoe on fire. after las vegas, hotels and resorts are trying to figure out

how they could have prevented it. there is a host of things we should talk about like guns. someone shouldn't be able to hole up in a hotel room for two weeks and keep bringing in guns. kennedy: will they go through our belongings? if i have a giants bag? >> your you can mentionables? >> i never stayed at a hotel where they honored the do not disturb sign. i like the do not disturb. i don't want to be bothered. >> can't you just lock the bolt? >> they can still see in there. they got all sorts of nudie vision. >> i think this is the worst thing to ever happen. disneyland is already so bad,

they have to worry about mickey busting into your room whenever he wants to. kennedy: maybe that will be the next place like disney vegas. kakat: this won't make anyone safer. kennedy: if you are an iphone user and you want to throw it off a cliff because it's so slow, the problem comes directly from apple. the tech giant facing two lawsuits from users claiming their i phones are slow. the tech giant forced old phones to stop working properly. apple released a statement saying they do slow down old phones to keep the batteries from dying. but is this just a big second company screwing their own users.

my phone is throwing up apps, they all open at once for no reason. >> i don't update my phone. i'm never off of it long enough. if i'm updating it, then i can't send people 30 messages in a row. >> you think all the the notifications you get. they say we are just trying to save battery life. she gets the jitter bug phone that takes your blood pressure for older people. >> as a loyal iphone user this is very annoying. kennedy: marie is a secret libertarian. do you want more proof of why we should get rid of below thed

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kennedy: the food and drug administration process could put your health and life at serious risk. a new report from the office of the inspector general fointds can take up to 10 months to get recalled items off the store shelves. that means' recalled products are left out for you to buy. in one case it took nearly 3 months for the fda to recall a brands of chief cheese after finds out it was contaminated with distear yeah.

should we get rid of the bloated bureaucracy all together? joining me now, dr. marc siegel. a professor of medicine. welcome back to the show, dr. siegel. so, you know, the fda has been wrought with failure over the last several decades. when you hear about these recalls, whether it's spinach or nut birth or cheese, or the entire chipotle chain, you just assume these problems better themselves. but this not an incentive for companies to take stiff off the shelf because they are waiting with for the government to do it for them. >> i'll tell you what a big problem is. companies have been able to keep recalled products on the shelves without anyone know being it. one thing it fda is doing. i do not believe they are asleep

at the switch. they established something called score. and i this's serious attempt to get at this problem. i heard from the fda that next year they are going to expose stories and companies that have tainted products on the shelves. kennedy: we should already been doing that. i understand there is a perceptual problem. but there is a health problem and potentially life and death problem. pregnant women at risk of losing their babies if they contract certain food-borne diseases. >> two infants did die in the amount of time you looked at. between 2012 and 2015 is when this report was covering. they looked at 30 instances. and 27 of them were called very severe.

the reason that this is so important is because there is a food safety modernization act that was passed in 2011 that gives the fda the to step in. the fda has the to step in. will they step in? this is a new watch. i think they are taking this seriously. this year alone they clamped down on listeria and herbs tainted with lead. there are some instances where they stepped in time. kennedy: one way they have gotten out of the way, drug testing and the approval process. so many people have died waiting for fda approval and some of these arbitrary requirements they impose and doctors and drug makers. but you are saying scott gottleib has gone the better and

the agency is in a much better position of approving some of these life-saving drugs and techniques. >> when it comes to food they have to wait until it's on the shelves. when it comes to prescription drugs they have to stop something from getting approved or fast tracked. immunotherapies, they are zooming ahead with it. generics which they think will introduce competition. you only have to show that your active chemical is something that's been used before. the drug companies say heck, the patent is running out. but anybody that wants to come in as a gentlemen nirk has to go through the research -- as a generic has to go through the research again. they are cutting that out. i agree with you about overregulation.

kennedy: that's good news for people facing daunting diagnoses. finally people are getting the right to try and getting some of the drugs and therapies they deserve. thank you so much for your time and happy new year. kennedy: police across the country are calling for body cams on geese after a vicious attack at a gas station. is this a phone?

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kennedy: tonight is our second to the last show of 2017. we wanted to look back at some of our favorite videos of the year.

delete your search history because this is the "topical storm." topic number one. we begin with brigham young university where the football team goes all out with pre-game festivities. they have the cheerleaders and marching band, even the sky divers who can't land. oh, no. he was supposed to land on the 50-year-old line but he wound up landing on the poor people in the front row. they didn't even have any sprite to wash down their anxiety. over 2 million people have watched this video because it's amazing. because it's hardy just another

story about a guy going too far. sky divers aren't the only ones who have landing issues this year. look at this hamster. oh, my gosh that's going to give him an adult size bangaroo. he was trying to work off the calories from the holidays. he jumps on the wheel. for those of you samantha bee fans a punch line is a thing you put at the end of a joke. the on thing samantha bee ever destroyed is one's will to watch television. topic number three.

indiana law enforcement are a god-fearing bunch who fear no man. geese are oos another story. a detective walking into the police station taking the last train to clarksville. but there is good did not meet him at the station. she met him on the sidewalk. they are strong and tough and they have got teeth and they learned to munch your private. it urged citizens to never leave a bar without paying for their gray goose vodka. topic number four. here is a video of an australian man who flew a helicopter to mcdonald's to get a filet of

fish. he likes them so much he goes by chopper which makes total sense to him because australia is the world's florida. i would like a fillet of fish before my bath salts kick in. this video has been seen by over 2 million people. it was the on flying video of the year that didn't involve someone getting dragged off a plane and beaten with a stroller. topic number five. there is a price war going on in the taxi industry and uber's fares are become a real steal. this was shot on a driver's surveillance cam. it shows a woman reaching into

his tip jar and stole the cash. he's going to kill us. coming up, vanity fair has a lot of suggestions on what hillary clinton should do in the new year. including knity and volunteer work.

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kennedy: "vanity fair" used their digital platform to poke fun at hillary clinton. they encouraged the hopeless, hapless presidential loser to do anything but seek the presidency, including teaching class on alternative nostril breathing. the next generation of media titans is imploring mrs. clinton to get the hell off the political stage, asking that she never run again. many times her desperate schtick is worn and thin. but i have a different resolution. stick around. hillary has provided hours of forward and diatribes about

herself. if she hogs the spotlight it gives us endless material and we can pluck out the barbs and jabs. for the love of god, hillary not only should you stick around, you should run for president again. imagine how much you would give us when you score a political turkey and lose the presidency for a third time. send your cards and letters to any hillary affiliated super pac so we can keep the old gal around for one more sadistic turn on the dance floor. the countdown to 2018 starts at 8:00 p.m. new year's eve.

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