president trump. what do you want to hear from him? send me your questions on facebook, also on twitter @trish regan. we've first show here in the books. thanks for watching, everyone. kennedy: thanks so much, trish. and here's a news alert now. a potentially are explosive development in the case of a washington post journalist who is missing and feared dead. according to "the wall street journal," the saudi government plans to admit he was killed during an interrogation gone wrong. that's a far cry from the denial the saudi king reported to president trump, and it could have major implications for our relationship with the kingdom. as you may know, jamal khashoggi vanished almost two weeks ago. here's video of him understanding the turkish consulate, and he has not been seen since. he is a saudi citizen as well as a permanent resident of these united states. he's been an outspoken critic of

the saudi royal family, and his disappearance has caused a major rift between saudi arabia and turkey. it's causing problems for the white house because we have a new deal to sell the saudis more than $100 billion in weapons, and the kingdom is also one of the world's biggest oil produceers. president trump has said there will be, quote, severe punishment if the saudis killed that journalist. this afternoon the president commented on the new reports that the saudis are about to admit it. watch. >> we're working very close with saudi arabia and with turkey, and they're working together to figure out what happened. and they want to know what happened also. so a lot of people are working on it, a lot of people. and we'll be bound very much by that. we'll see. i heard that report, but nobody knows if it's an official report. so far it's just a rumor of a report coming out. kennedy: turkish investigators searched the consulate for clues but so far no revealed findings.

so what happened to mr. khashoggi, and what happens next? joining me now, former cia officer and president of diligence llc, mike baker, the first guest in this new hour of "kennedy." welcome, mike. >> thank you very much, kennedy. thank you. kennedy: this is such a crazy story. so now the saudis appear to be admitting that it was an interrogation gone wrong, whatever that means. what does it mean to you? >> well, look, given the saudis' reaction in the immediate aftermath of this when khashoggi's disappearance was reported, sort of their deer in the headlights reaction rather than some sort of coordinated, you know, after-action, it cheerily shows -- clearly shows something went wrong. either it was a hastily put together -- [inaudible] because they realized they were going to get a shot at him so they hastily put together this operation, or as being indicated

in this latest report, he came back in, and they had decided, okay, we're going to spend a little time with him, and something obviously, clearly, went wrong. kennedy: okay, so something that went wrong -- [inaudible conversations] hold on just a second, mike -- >> the footage -- kennedy: okay, mike -- >> as soon as, what i'm saying, as soon as it was clear there's no foot edge of him -- footage of him walking out of the consulate -- kennedy: mike, hold on just a second. okay. yes, very good. so let's discuss the more than a dozen saudi agents who were reportedly sent to turkey on private jets. what would they have been doing there, and how would an interrogation with that kind of manpower gone right? >> well, look, again, i think the likely story here is that they realized with a relatively short time fuse that they had an opportunity to pick him up. now, whether they intended when they brought those resources

together, brought those personnel into the consulate, whether they intended to do him harm or rendition him back to i saudi or whatever their intention was, it obviously wasn't thought through. and, you know, that's not a, you know, a statement of rocket science. everything -- what we've got, and this is not atypical for problems like this, we've got the facts that we know. we know when he went in, and we haven't seen any footage of him coming out. everything about what happened -- kennedy: what about who was inside, because we're hearing there was a saudi doctor who's a specialist in autopsies and that they brought in a bone saw. i don't know, i don't know how things work in turkey and saudi arabia, but in this country those are mitigating circumstances. >> yeah. if it's true. and what i'm saying is, look, you've got to let this investigation, we've got to get the facts. and that's very important because, look, this is a very important -- no matter what you

feel about saudi arabia, and every administration has had a difficult relationship with the saudis and the royal family over a long period of time. but, you know, it's an important relationship regardless of how you feel about -- kennedy: every administration kisses saudi kieseer. >> that's right. you want to get the facts straight. kennedy: saudi arabia is an awful a place, and turkey, turkey has a horrible regime. erdogan is an awful person. i think it's very interesting that saudi arabia and turkey are very upset with each other. i say let them battle it out. let these two -- >> well, yeah, we could say that, except our relationship with the saudis is very important. again, it's always been difficult, you know? there's an upside and there's an obvious downside in terms of their human rights record -- kennedy: yeah. >> -- their treatment, you know, their allowing, placating extremism on their own soil as long as they don't attack the royal family. there's been problems with that

relationship, but it is important. so we have -- kennedy: how is it important? because of their dirty, filthy, oil? hey, man, larry kudlow said we have enough reserves in this country that we can energize ourselves, and if that is the case, then i think we need to not only look at what we can do here independent of saudi arabia, but also maybe get off filthy, dirty oil and stop propping up these murderous, anti-woman, anti-gay regimes that are antithetical to freedom. >> right. kennedy: they are not our friends. the saudis and the turks are not our friends. >> -- purely on energy or energy be policy. there are other elements there. they've been a key part of sort of our strategy over the years in the middle east. all i'm saying is if we're going to unwind that relationship and restructure it, we want to make sure we're on solid ground this in terms of what happened -- kennedy: and what if we're not? what if mohamed is an authoritarian, control-heavy

freak? it remains to be seen how much benefit we get out of that relationship. i think we should be focusing more on jordan and the kurds. but that's just me, mike baker. [laughter] >> there you go, kennedy. congratulations on the new time slot. kennedy: thank you, baby, great to have you. first guest, great to have you. >> i appreciate it. kennedy: meantime, president trump's critics claiming the president is being too soft on the saudis, attempting to shift the blame away from the royal family with comments like this. watch. >> the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know, maybe -- i don't want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. who knows? kennedy: democrats quick to the pounce on that including connecticut senator chris murphy. i saw chris murphy in a very interesting position at a midtown bar. anyhow, he said the president was acting like a public relations agent for the saudi

regime, and maryland senator chris van hollen said the president's claim, quote, defied reality. will this turn into a political mess just three weeks before the midterms? former director of communications for hillary, along with former special assistant the president trump mark lauder. welcome to you both. >> good evening. kennedy: so, mark be, i will start with you. obviously, this is the kind of foreign relations fiasco the president doesn't need three weeks before the midterms. is he responding appropriately? >> i think he's waiting to hear what the investigation shows. i mean, at this point he had a 20-minute conversation this morning with the king who denied it. we need to see more information. he's been very clear. he said it on "60 minutes" and again today, as the evidence comes out, we will have -- hold saudi arabia accountable, there will be senate consequences -- significant consequences if they

are behind this, and he dispatched secretary of state mike pompeo to saudi arabia and possibly to turkey to get to the bottom of it. kennedy: yeah, but what are they really going to get to the bottom of, adrienne? >> yeah, look, i mean, i agree with you. this is a country that treats women horribly. i mean, they just, you know, gave accolades, the president of saudi arabia was giving accolades because he finally, like women are now able to drive over there. they have been a frenemy, i guess is the best way to put it, for the last, you know, got knows how long -- god knows how long. they are a strategic partner that we need in the middle east, but at the same time i wish president trump would come out and strongly condemn this. i recognize what mark is saying, there's still a lot of information we don't know. but he could have said if these allegations are true, if this is true, this is wrong, and and i as president of the united states not stand for this, and we will impose drastic sanctions on the saudi arabians. so i wish that i had seen a stronger statement coming from

president trump. kennedy: all right. so, mark lauder, what else could have possibly happened if the saudis are now saying, yeah, he was pretty much killed? >> we don't know, and there's -- i mean, i saw some -- kennedy: if the saudis are saying that, it's because they know that turkey is spying on everyone, and they've probably got cameras and microphones all over the place. >> and since the turks say they have audio and video, one would suspect that, and i think that also is part of the reason why you're seeing this change of narrative from saudi arabia so quickly. i also think it has very significant, it's very significantly tied to the fact that mike pompeo is over there, as of this morning he was dispatched on a plane, and he should be landing shortly. they need the united states, as much as they are our strategic ally, they know that this relationship is very much into their benefit because we are protecting them from other rogue elements in the middle east --

kennedy: i understand that, so, but we don't, we don't need to protect them. if they need us as much as we think they do if they are switching to more of a market economy that's based, that's very tech-heavy, of course they need the united states and our investment and intellectual property just like china, north korea and everyone else. and i think the president needs to talk as toughly on saudi arabia as he does with other regimes. but, adrienne, this is partly exacerbated because of the clinton and obama administrations who were doing the exact same thing as the bushes and and now president trump. >> yeah. it defies -- kennedy: and it's not just a single party thing. they all do it. is it because saudi arabia has filthy pictures of every president in compromising positions? >> i certainly hope not. [laughter] no, i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that they are stuff a -- such a strategic ally for us -- kennedy: people keep saying

that, but what does that mean? there's no other country in the middle east with bases where we can launch attacks against innocent several civilians? >> in an area where there is so much strife and turmoil, having several key allies over there -- obviously, jordan being one, but they're such a, you know, small country with limited resources, you do have the saudi arabians who do have a lot of oil -- kennedy: you know what they have? they have subtle hate for us. >> yes. and we have a lot of animus toward them as well. but as we continue to fight isis and continue to fight terrorism, we do need to have allies over there, and i think that's the quagmire that past presidents and, frankly, president trump has right now. kennedy: two animuses don't belong in a zoo together. that's what i say. adrienne and mark, thank you so much. i'm off center. i'm back. very good. steve mnuchin is still scheduled to attend the future investment event in saudi arabia next week,

but now marco rubio is calling for secretary mnuchin to pull out of the summit. >> when you say it's not teem for business as usual -- time for business as usual, i assume that you're suggesting mnuchin should not go to the economic conference in riyadh? >> i don't think he should go. i don't think any government official should be pretending it's business as usual until we know exactly what's happened here. kennedy: if mnuchin did decide to pull out of the summit, he wouldn't be alone. several high profile ceos have already bailed. here to explain how much money is on the line, gerri willis. she's here, and she's awesome. so this meeting is called davos in the desert by some, and it's very important to the saudis. >> oh, absolutely important to the saudis, because as you were mentioning before, they're trying to modernize their economy. the prince is desperate to keep younger people in the country, and what he wants to do is bolster that economy. he actually wanted to privatize

the state oil company and sell shares in it. that never went over. but he does want to introduce social changes. he did in that with allowing women to drive. kennedy: wow, how big of him. that's so brave. >> exactly right. what he really wants to do is invite big investors in. the big problem right now is this, you know, conference in the desert now is going nowhere because so many people are pulling out. who? let's go through the list. jamie dimon, the ceo of jpmorgan chase, steven schwartzman from blackstone, larry fink, the ceo of blackrock, the world's biggest fund manager. these are huge, huge people on wall street, and why would they do this? why would they pull out? because the first thing you learn in business school is go to countries that have the rule of law. so that you can predict what's going to happen, you know what's going to be there -- kennedy: markets like stability. money likes stability. >> that's right. you want to know that if your ceo gets abducted -- can.

kennedy: yeah. if they're going to assassinate journalists, they'll do is the similar thing with anyone who stands in the way of their capital. gerri willis, so wonderful to see you. >> thank you. kennedy: great to have you live and in the flesh, just like i like her. coming up, we may finally be getting some answers about the infamous anti-trump dossier. the co-founder of fusion gps has been called to testify on the hill tomorrow. will he show? republican -- republican -- [audio difficulty]

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he's going to take the fifth because there have been quite a few discrepancies since the last time he was under oath until now. >> that's exactly right, and that's what we wanted to get to the bottom of. that's one of -- just remember who glenn simpson is. he's the guy that was hired by hillary clinton, her campaign and the democrats to do, basically, research which got turned into a basis for spying on the, official spying on the campaign of president trump, then-candidate trump. so for him to come in, i think he must feel that he's got some exposure the some criminal liability. so he's indicated already he's not going to answer any questions. kennedy: yeah. because he said that he hadn't had any contact with bruce ohr until around thanksgiving in 2016, but thousand we're learning from some of -- now we're learning from some of bruce ohr's e-mails that it was august of that year. so they add -- had a lot to

discuss before the election. there's so many people involved here, and sometimes it's easy to lose track of these players and how they intersect including michael sussman who was the attorney working for the law firm that was paying for the dossier. what was his interaction with james baker who was lead counsel at the fbi. what does rod rosenstein have to do with any of this? where was his oversight when all of this was going on, and should there have been more recusals in this case? >> well, i'm not saying there should be more recusals. i think jeff sessions should never have recused himself. but i certainly think rod rosen stein has some exposure, and he should have -- and a conflict of interest, and he should have recused himself, and i think he should be gone. but he's not. and so we're getting this constant morass of denials from the top people at doj and the fbi, and what they're denying

is, essentially, misuse and abuse of power of the police power that they held for political purposes. that's not supposed to happen -- kennedy: that's not supposed to happen with either party at any time. >> exactly. kennedy: but, and, you know, there are democrats who say the only reason you guys on the judiciary committee, republicans, are barking up this tree is to protect the president from any sort of criminal liability in regards to the mueller investigation. but there are so many elements and so many ways that rod rosenstein is involved, and the fact that you have three people within the fbi and doj who are saying that when rosenstein said he would wear a wire and and record the president or try and invoke the 25th amendment, those three people who, you know, were all kind of questionable at this point, they're saying he was completely serious. wouldn't you like to though the answer to that? >> absolutely. so chairman goodlatte has said that he's going to issue a

subpoena for mr. rosenstein, because he has basically said i will only come in for one on one interview with the chairman of the house judiciary committee. well, that doesn't make sense. so we need to subpoena him, get him to come in, and let's see if he takes the fifth or which way he goes, because he's also testified under oath previously, and is we need to find out -- because as you note, kennedy, things keep dripping out -- kennedy: yeah. >> they're leak. and we find there's discrepancies, and they also are very incriminating to these people, and they don't want them leaked out. kennedy: well, given the statements we've heard so far, and unfortunately there's a lot we haven't had access to, all of these statements can't be true at the same time. that means someone is lying, and it's probably someone who had power and influence, and they either didn't use it properly or things justin didn't turn out the way they planned. and now it's through gross to passty and negligence -- opacity and negligence.

it's now a series of people covering their arses, and i hope you get to the bottom of it, congressman biggs. >> we'll do all i can. ken thanks so much. coming up, hillary clinton may have hit a new low, forgetting about all that special place in hell and even the me too movement. the power-hungry political failure still defending her husband's affair with monica lewinsky. oh, what a gift. my monolong is -- monologue is next. plus, elizabeth warren released her dna results. is the senator actually native american? the panel returns to discuss. such fun. she's our next president. [laughter] we saved hundreds on our car insurance when we switched to geico. this is how it made me feel. it was like that feeling when you're mowing the lawn on a sunny day... ...and without even trying, you end up with one last strip that's exactly the width of your mower. when you're done,

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sleazy husband. watch. >> in relate are prospect -- retrospect, do you think bill should have resigned in the wake of the monica lewinsky scandal? >> absolutely not. >> it wasn't an abuse of power? >> no. no. >> there are people who look at the incidents of the '90s, and they say a president of the united states cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern. the power imbalance -- >> who was an adult. but let me ask you this, where's the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made and which he dismisses, denies and red calls? -- ridicules. so there was an investigation. and as i believe came out in the right place -- kennedy: all over that blue dress. he was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice, and he should have known better the potential consequences for the young woman whose life was ruined over the affair! lewinsky herself has

exhaustively stated although the relationship was consensual, this moment is supposed to allow the crafting of objective standards for abuse. the olden days for full of life-ruining, relax ared standards, and be nowadays we see how the mob can go too far. but when people like kirsten brand and lien that dunham are defining the modern metrics and they think bill clinton should have resigned, perhaps it would be best to take a more proactive approach to monica who was thrown in the swamp and ravaged by gators? time has provided proper perspective on that crazy chapter, and we all know the most powerful person in the world had no business preying upon the least powerful person in the white house. hillary's lack of self-awareness is as repulsive as it is unsurprising, and it's one of the glaring reasons she isn't president. if hillary weren't truth allergic and had answered the question honestly, she would have said bill couldn't have

resigned because then she couldn't be president. it was all about abusing her power to denigrate the so-called nuts and sluts who dared accuse her husband of serial buggery. what if chelsea were summited to the same emotional pull from a college professor when she was 22? hillary would have had him strung up by the nards which she would have served with fava beans and a nice chianti. this whole enterprise is disgusting, and i would say get the hell off the stage. but when they're asking who wants to make fun of hillary, i say, me too. and that's the memo. ♪ ♪ kennedy: that was fun. a slew of political business and entertainment figures have been taken down by the me too movement. so is it time for bill clinton to get the boot as well?

is tonight's panel is here to discuss. she's a republican strategist and one of the finest dressers i know, knoll -- noel whit more is here, along with former adviser to the dnc, antwan seawright. and mat welch. welcome, everyone. >> hi. congratulations on -- kennedy: well, thank you. 9:00, here we come. >> and, boy, did you hit the ground running? [laughter] kennedy: antoine, i'll start with you. i know a lot of people in hillary's sphere really love her, and they say she's funny and misunderstood, but then she goes on tv and says the most god awful, stupid things in the world. how do you defend that? >> well, you don't. i probably would have said something different if i were in her position, but i'm not -- cp ken what would you have said? >> i'm not going to insert myself -- kennedy: insert away, antoine. i think what hillary could have said is that, you know, things

happened, and she could have probably capitalized on the moment that we live in and use it as a teaching tool to show young girls or those who have been through sexual assault, whatever it is, she could have really used it as a teachable moment -- kennedy: yeah. she could have done that so many times, and i agree with you, she could have said, you know what? yeah, man, looking back, boy, did we have the -- >> make no mistake. the second part of her interview was accurate and correct to say, you know what? the president of the united states -- kennedy: absolute deflection. >> i'll be interested to know what melania trump will have to say this -- kennedy: she just had a very honest interview -- >> i said in 2058. keep in mind, this happened then -- kennedy: well, he was still president of the united states. he was sworn to uphold and defend the constitution. >> absolutely. kennedy: all right. so let's talk about this, because her rationalization is disgusting. she's saying that i lewinsky is equally culpable because she was

an adult, and if that was the standard that we used for a lot of these other accusers, you know, things would be very different for people like charlie rose and matt lauer. it's offensive and disgusting. >> you know what? she is really a hypocrite. this is coming from a woman, how -- it's not authentic, it's not sincere. she had what they called in the white house, she had what was called the bimbo eruption room where she would have lists of people that were accusing her husband, and she labeled them bimbos. anyone that accused her husband of having inappropriate relationships or affair, she called them bimbos. so she really -- i wrote a column on this -- >> but you knew this? >> you weren't either. kennedy: i was in the white house in the '90s. >> there you go. >> she helped organize the discrediting of the accusers, including people who had a lot more evidence for their accusation than christine blasey ford, for example, had on brett

kavanaugh. juanita broaddrick, believe her, don't believe her, but there's more credible evidence to chew on at the time than we've seen in other cases like that. and it is important that hillary clinton was part of the effort to discredit that. and that's wrong and that's unseemly. bottom line is i think we live in a world now, and this is a better world, where it's if you're the head of anything whether it is a restaurant, an opinion magazine, television station, you shouldn't be with the 22-year-old interns -- kennedy: i mean, let alone the president of the united states. we can't relitigate this -- >> we can't, but -- kennedy: right now. today massachusetts democratic senator elizabeth warren basically announced that she's running for president in 2020, releasing dna results that she thinks vindicate her claim of native american heritage. but not everyone is sold. the results date senator warren's indian ancestry back six to ten generations. yeah. that means that could make her between one-sixty forty and

one-one thousand and twenty-fourth native american. to make matters worse, the cherokee nation secretary of state slammed warren's claims saying, quote, a dna test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. hanging over all of this was the president's promise to give her a million dollars or a million dollars to the charity of warren's choice if she took that dna choice. so does he owe her $1 million? or maybe a thousandth of an apology? what do you think, noel? >> it's priceless, you know? because look at this, senator sacajawea, you know, she is going to be looking at running -- [laughter] what? she's going to be looking at possibly running for president -- kennedy: yeah. >> and, you know, this is not going to bode well for her if you've got native american groups coming out saying that, basically, she got -- kennedy: well, it's not only

native american groups, you have other democratic strategists saying this is the stupidest thing we could be talking about right now. >> i am one of them, you know? i'm very clear about as democrats we have no need to lose focus on the overall mission. and i tweet this often to remind my democratic friends if it doesn't help the cause, please take a pause. she could have done this on november 7th, after the midterm was over. look, people in middle class america are not up at night worrying about whether elizabeth warren is native american. kennedy: no one. >> and that's what we get distracted as democrats. i this -- i think we have to keep our eyes on the ball. instead of having conversations about the failure of this president on issues that really matter, instead the news of the day is this -- >> how much does donald trump want to run against elizabeth warren? he is praying to run against -- kennedy: if he can goad her into more unforced errors? and. >> and have his side rallying

around being anti-pc. you saw the study saying that the 80% of americans -- some dispute over the wording of the study -- but 80% of americans think political correctness has gone too far. it is a potent source of the trump coalition such as it exists. it has much more to do than ideas -- kennedy: thanks for that, matt. i had no idea. >> good for you. [laughter] >> we heard from barack obama's birth certificate, now her dna test, we have yet to hear from the president's tax returns -- >> what does that have to do -- >> it has a lot to do. kennedy: well, the last time we got that breaking news, it was al capone's vault. [laughter] >> i'm still waiting on the tax returns and the $5 million that he promised president obama about his birth certificate. kennedy: you know where his tax returns are? they are in kenya in that loving birthing -- lovely birthing center where president obama was born. >> watch out, you'll get a tomahawk in your back -- kennedy: would you vote for

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♪ ♪ kennedy: welcome back. we're 23 days away from the midterm elections, and the opioid crisis is emerging as a

major issue for voters. a recent analysis by "the wall street journal" shows that ads mentioning the opioid crisis have aired more than 50,000 times in gubernatorial races across 45 states. my next guest says the crisis is hitting his community very hard. he published an op-ed titled drug abuse touches all of us, let's fight it together. the mayor of knox county, tennessee, and wwe superstar glenn jacobs also known as cain. welcome back, my friend. >> hey, kennedy. how are you? kennedy: thoughtful words from you about this issue, and obviously health care at the forefront of a lot of voters' minds during these midterms. and the opioid crisis is a big part of that. you have two very different schools of thought when it comes to tackling it. where do you fall? in terms of, you know are, criminalization versus turning it into more of a conversation

about mental and physical health? >> i think it is a conversation about mental and physical health. you know, to me, it's an economic problem, it's supply and demand. and what we've done is really we have with tried to constrain supply of different types of drugs. and unfortunately what's happened is people just switched the drug, and we end up chasing the drug. what's happened here in knox county is people are my grating from prescription drugs back to street drugs such as methamphetamine, fentanyl and carfentanil. unfortunately, as long as there's demand, there's going to be supply. so i think we immediate to start looking at the demand side and how as a community finish. kennedy: you're absolutely right. >> work with prevention. kennedy: such a good point, because it has been a losing war on the supply side, but, you know, we don't talk about demand, and when you talk about that and you talk about your family and friends and your neighbors who have battled drug

addiction, it's a very, very different kind of conversation than the one where you say, you know, we have to lock people up, and we have to kill drug dealers, and, you know, you really have to tackle what it is inside people that want to fill that hole within themselves with drugs. >> that's exactly it. we can't incarcerate our way out of this problem. it's causing huge stress locally on us with our jails and our detention center. we have to look at another way of dealing with this problem, and i think that we do have to look at treatment, frankly. kennedy: all right. so republicans really screwed it up in terms of health care. what do you think -- and you were obviously more on the constitutional liberty side of the republican party -- what do you think republicans have to do to get that conversation back on track? >> well, again, we need to look at health care, and we need to understand that addiction is a problem that can happen to anyone at any time. and we need to treat people with

compassion. of course, if someone commits a crime, they have to pay for that. but along the way, we have to have systems in place to where when they come out of jail, they are able to enter society again and be productive. kennedy: and the president actually spoke about that last week. some of the most interesting conversations coming from the white house about criminal justice and rehabilitation that i have seen, and i know where you live you are continuing that conversation, so thanks so much for being here. good to see you. >> thank you. kennedy: glenn jacobs. topical storm is next. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands?

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♪ ♪ kennedy: a new study finds 6 in 10 americans believe they've seen a ghost. the other 4 have never been to a bernie sanders rally. that's a true story, and this is the topical storm. topic number one, we begin tonight at a california -- there it is -- a california florist that's having a huge doorbuster sale. oh, this fella broke into a florist at three in the morning and stole a bunch of teddy bears. that heartless freak. it's unclear who he is or why he was fighting with his girlfriend, but he must have screwed up pretty big if he took that many bears. da bears!

heck, pete davidson didn't buy that many for ariana grande when she dumped him. [laughter] the bad news for the bear thief is that he's looking at some serious jail time if they catch him. the good news is police ran his fingerprints, and it turns out he's one-one thousand twenty-fourth native american, so he just got a job offer from elizabeth warren's campaign. i'm with her. [laughter] topic number two. let's head down to, whoo, austin, texas, where an uber passenger was not happy with his service. oh, no. [laughter] i love it so much. it sounds like a one-star -- sounds like me singing our national anthem. this french ball bulldog thought his mom was taking him to the park, but mom decidedded not to

drive. that guy makes danica patrick look like a driver's ed instructor. two million people have watched video of the babbling bulldog mostly to see someone babbling like an idiot. besides samantha bee. what? topic number three. a giant pig was on the loose on the streets of california yesterday, but police were able to bait it into a trap by using doritos. it's the same trick the oscars used the make michael moore show up. uh-huh. well, long story short, never build a trap of straw, especially drinking straws because california police will throw you in jail and throw away the key. fortunately, the cop had a bag of doritos, and now the oinker is headed back to the cool ranch. oddly enough, this was the second time the pig has escaped on camera.

turns out he's a really big ham. wait, it gets worse. yeah, much worse. the hero cop has since gotten a promotion, and although they didn't say how big, we can tell you that she's really bringing home the bacon! where's trish? [laughter] topic number four. let's head to the university of utah where two football fans got married during a pregame tailgate party. oh. it was an adorable ceremony, although the vows were confusing because their speech was a little slurred. [laughter] just kidding. they were stone sober. it's utah. will[laughter] but these two got engaged at a game last year, although that confused a lot of people because when he got down on one knee, everyone thought the national anthem was coming on. the happy couple did just rescue an adorable dog. [laughter]

god, i wish lemmy did that. i want to show him this video. i think that dog just got elizabeth warren's dna results. very excited. for some reason, they can't fine find a pet sitter for a their trip. topic number five. you know what it is, it's mug shot monday, and this week's winner is an arkansas man who told police he ate a bag of methamphetamine right before they pulled hem over. if you're wondering why he thought it was a good idea to admit this, you have never eaten a bag of methamphetamine. yeah. you're what my staff would call a rookie. oh, 38-year-old branley chatwell and allegedly confessed to gulping down a bag of meth and a bag of weed. apparently or he's on the charlie sheen diet. he was booked for tampering with

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