that's why it's called the roosevelt room. here's a picture of president richard nixon and gerald ford holding a staff meeting. president jimmy carter meeting with the joint chief of staff. president bill clinton holding a meeting in 1993. it is a room that has a ton of history, a room i was fortunate to be in for that very important interview. good night, everyone. i'll see you tomorrow. "kennedy" begins right now. kennedy: thanks, trish. will the allegations are gruesome. fingers snipped, limbs hacked, decapitation, all while music was playing to hide the screaming. but are we any closer to knowing what happened to the missing "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi, and can we believe the reports out of turkey? the president today said, well, we can't jump to conclusions. watch this. >> i just want to find out what's happening. in fact, secretary of state pompeo is going to be back probably late tonight or early tomorrow morning. he went to turkey. he went all over. but he spent a lot of time with

the crown prince, and he's going to have a full report. i'm not going to cover it all. with that being said, saudi arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east. kennedy: secretary of state mike pompeo today met with the saudi king and crown prince. the guy accused of ordering the killing and said everybody involved will be held accountable. hmm. >> they promise accountability for each of the persons who the results of the investigation, deserves accountability. >> including the member of the royal family? >> made no exception who they would hold accountable. kennedy: what do we know? khashoggi went into the saudi consulate in istanbul, that's in turkey, two weeks ago, appears he never left. there were reports out of turkey that investigators there have audio and video evidence that the saudis killed him. they have not made any of it public, and they only have -- the only way they have it is if they were bugging the consulate

which apparently is a no-no. so what's their angle in all of this? after all, turkey and saudi arabia are regional competitors, so they each have something to gain and a lot to lose. the iranians and other mideast nations also have a few horses in this race, and now u.s. politicians demanding answers. the stakes keep climbing higher. is it safe to assume secretary pompeo and president trump already have answers? and that all sides are trying to figure out a way that everybody gets off the hook to preserve the peace? keep weapons deals intact and perhaps cover up the murder of a journalist? joining me former cia analyst and host of the buck sexton show, buck sexton is here, welcome back, buck. >> hey, kennedy. kennedy: let's go beneath the surface a little bit. there is so much room for speculation and conspiracy theory. when you've got the kind of gaps that we've got in this story. but what is really going on beneath the surface that strikes you? >> first off, i think everybody

should understand that the turkish security services are very competent and certainly have a lot of information about what went on here, and while it's a no-no to have things going on inside a consulate of a foreign nation that is on your soil. stuff happens outside, around and maybe sometimes inside, too. so there's a very real possibility the turks have a lot of the information here they've been suggesting and leaking about up to this point, and leaking, i think, really to influence the conversation in this country more than anywhere else. the saudis have a pretty clear play here. they're going to say that this was a rogue operation that was absolutely not brought to the attention of mohammed bin salman, and while we may not believe them, that plausible deniability will be enough to hope that business will go back to as usual in just a short matter of time here. in terms of the investigation,

though, kennedy, we don't have actual evidence yet. we have news reports. there are certainly tapes and may even be the audio they're talking about of what happened. meaning he went into the consulate. there are people coming and going and a lot of reporting about. this but what happened inside is what we want to know, and then also -- kennedy: who has had -- we've had a lot of really graphic disgusting descriptions of how this journalist was allegedly murdered. but who has actually heard or seen this evidence? >> it's tough to say. kennedy: you think pompeo has laid eyeballs and ear balls on it? >> i know the administration said they haven't gotten to or seen all of this. i think that part of that is they want to have people in place to verify it, and quite honestly, talking about someone like pompeo hearing it, they weren't speaking in english in there. so you're going need some processes, some analytic processes, the sorts of things i used to do to verify that the

information is what it's been presented as, it hasn't been doctored in any way. stakes here kennedy are very, very high, and as you mentioned, there are international players here who, one, have a lot of interest as well, but also, they lie all the time. these are governments that are oppressive, these are semi authoritarian cases. kennedy: i don't buy the line that turkey certainly is a moderate ally considering the direction that erdogan has been going concentrating powers, assassinating political enemies of his own. so i have a hard time with only turkey giving us their side of the story and extracting certain bits of information to sell to the united states because obviously they are gaming the system, they are trying get something out of it. what's unique here is the secretary of state was also cia director. how does that influence how he deals with this situation in particular? >> he knows how the dark side game is played.

he understands what really happens when it comes to the kind of intrigue, getting collection operations in and around any diplomatic facility perhaps anywhere in the world, that there are going to be players involved here that pompeo is interacting with on a diplomatic level but he also understands who the key intelligence players for a way they think anybody else would be able to. he brings that to bear. i have to say, the media in this country is making this very much an issue of morality and the need for america to take a strong stand. i can't help but notice one of the dominant narratives, the two-part narrative this is because trump cozies up to dictators and says mean things about journalists. this is crazy, kennedy. journalists have been murdered, bad things happen long before trump came to office. turkey and saudi arabia are notorious on that front, and places like syria during the obama years. you can hear the narratives.

it's trump's fault. kennedy: that were people doing bad things in saudi arabia and turkey during the obama years. >> yes. kennedy: obviously, there is bad blood over the muslim brotherhood and the arab spring with turkey and saudi arabia take sides. turkey was amenable, saudi arabia very much opposed to that amenability. so is this just a grudge match and they're both trying to curry favor with the united states for economic and political gain? >> i think it's always about who is going to be the leader in the sunni muslim world. obviously the turks aren't arabs, but in the sunni muslim world, have you turkey, powerful, big military for the region and saudi arabia for arms sales mostly is a regional military power, and because of what happened to egypt after the arab spring, we rely on saudi as counterbalance to iranian ambitions in the region which are very aggressive. it happens in shia militias in iraq, hezbollah, yemen with the

houthi rebels. we need somebody we can rely on in the region to box in iranian ambitions and where turkey wants to play in this game remains to be seen. so far very unhelpful and isthmus. by the way, khashoggi also had a favorable view of islamism. not jihadism but islamism and ties to the royal family in saudi arabia. could this be a personal -- kennedy: obviously, he doesn't like the crown prince and the crown prince doesn't like being criticized. >> this could be political. kennedy: i defer with the president, and i don't automatically offer either of the countries or any actors the benefit of the doubt because frankly they haven't earned it, and i'm still much more offended by the saudi hijackers murdering 3,000 americans on 9/11. haven't forgotten about that one yet, buck. >> if we didn't sever relations with the kingdom of saudi arabia, trust me, we're not

going to over this one. i think people were expecting a major moment of moral clarity are going to be disappointed. kennedy: not disappointed with your appearance here. buck, thank you. >> always good to see you. kennedy: you, too, thanks. the disappearance of jamal khashoggi is causing divisions in the republican party with less than three weeks to go before the crucial midterm elections. lindsey graham is one of the most vocal supporters but no mood to follow his lead and give the saudis the benefit of the doubt, watch. >> what i'm going to do is sanctions the hell out of saudi arabia. we deal with bad people all the time. this is in our face. kennedy: graham was joined in throwing the challenge flag by house speaker paul ryan who had it with the saudi stall tactics. >> supposed to be a new saudi government reforming opening up transparency, moderating islam, and to see something like this could be a real setback. kennedy: you think? on the other hand, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell

praising the president for his wait and see approach. everybody knows that talk is cheap but could party divisions cost republicans in the midterm. host of "the next revolution" with steve hilton, he's on fox news right now, and the author of positive populism. welcome back to the show, steve. >> looking good at 9:00, great to see you. kennedy: good to see and you loving the new time. let's talk about this a little bit, obviously every story right now they are jockeying for political gain on both sides. is this causing a big and dangerous split within the republican party? >> i'm not sure it is. i think it's quite a typical situation actually. when lindsey graham said, i agree what he said did saudi arabia, when he said we deal with these regimes all the time, he's not quite right there. congress doesn't deal with them, it's the administration, the executive branch that ends

up dealing with them. you end up often in this situation where congress can almost take pleasure in grandstanding and sending messages and sending statements out that sound very righteous but it's actually the daily job of dealing with the regimes that falls to the presidency and the executive branch. so you often get this split on all sorts of different issues. i think that actually lindsey graham is right, you have to have a price paid if the behavior turns out to be sanctioned by the leadership of saudi arabia because otherwise it sends a message that you can get away with it. that's not the kind of place we want to be in. kennedy: you don't want to be in the place where you are assassinating journalists who happen to disagree with the way you are metering justice and governing in your country. and i think that's the thing that has so many people outraged but it's interesting because the president has made a couple of missteps according

to his political enemies here, but the things about the story that resonate almost have to do with the journalist himself. what do you see as being the most important factors at play? >> well, to be completely honest, i think you got to bring it back to what's the really, really important fundamental interest here? and actually something that buck just touched on as well. the potential for saudi arabia to right the wrong that it's done and, of course the point that you made about 9/11, which is that it's not just the 9/11 attack. for decades before that, it was the saudis who were funding the worst form of islamist extremism all around the world, setting up mosque and islamic centers all around the world to teach this violent jihadism. one thing we can do, now that we have leverage because basically this saudi regime is going to want to get back in our good books, they're going to want investment coming back

in the business deals right. kennedy: they've shown their hand, that's important, steve, and i want to point out what you're saying because the economic conference that's going on there, davos in the desert, they're calling it, it's the big conference where you have heads of state, the commerce secretary, you've got heads of businesses and banks. many of them pulling out, but saudi arabia is showing how critical that is, particularly how critical tech investment is in their country, if they're going to modernize their economy and move beyond energy dependence. >> that's exactly right, and so i think in order to get those deals back on track and to basically give a green light to that, we should extract a price to them. that should be for them to fund exactly at the same scale as they did before moderate islamic centers around the world, moderate mosques. that's what you need to happen, particularly young men around the world, have an alternative to the radical mosques which

often are the only islamic centers in their area, it's a structural problem, and the saudis could actually put some of that money into funding that. that will do some recompense for the damage they have already caused. kennedy: i love your forward-thinking approach, i will see you sunday night on "the next revolution," steve. >> exactly. kennedy: appreciate it. fox business network still considering whether or not to maintain their participation in the conference. those conversations are ongoing. steven, thanks again. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: coming up, president trump is challenging every federal agency to make big budget cuts. that sounds great, right? unfortunately the deficit is rising and the president's new plan doesn't go nearly far enough. i have liberty-minded solutions. gary johnson is here, we're talking spending and his new mexico senate race. he's next. after walking six miles at an amusement park,

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. kennedy: well, we all know washington is full of cowards and blow hards who are hell-bent on stealing your money as they beg for votes, and the easiest way to do that is throw a bunch of expensive programs at you and pretend they're free! that is fraud, and it's immoral

and common place and has to stop. there is nothing more corrosive to liberty than taking your property by force, and that's exactly what the federal government is doing with ballooning nondiscretionary programs that gobble up the federal budget like a fat kid at a cake buffett. the president has good intentions with nickel plan that is challenging every federal agency to make a 5% budget cut, spending cuts are a fantastic and necessary goal. the problem is that only applies to discretionary programs, which account for just a third of the slop and the trough, and military spending, which might not be trimmed, eats up half of that. so what would this wooden nickel plan save? about $70 billion, which is nothing compared to the $779 billion deficit we're running in 2018. tax cuts have helped turbo charge a booming economy, but even with low unemployment, high consumer confidence, and a bootylicious stock market that

can take a good spanking and bounce back, revenues are only up by a half a percent. you can't cut taxes and increase spending and expect the party to last, and you can't meaningfully cut spending unless you finally fuss with the nondiscretionary monsters in the closet. entitlements, medicare, medicaid and social security which is an entitlement for those who draw from but haven't paid into it, annihilate 70% of the total federal budget. those beasts have to be tamed but it will take brave, logical and rare souls who are routinely blocked from making meaningful moves to pare down the sickening grab bag loaded with goodies that make politicians popular and the country very, very sick, that's the memo. the federal deficit projected to top a trillion bucks next year. how do we stop the financial mess from crippling the next generations?

former governor of new mexico and current libertarian candidate for u.s. senate there, gary johnson joins me. welcome back, governor johnson. >> kennedy, great to be with you, and i'm conducting a campaign that the biggest issue facing this country is the debt and the deficit, and if we don't -- i'm pledging to submit a balanced budget to congress, and you can't -- you summed it all up, you can't submit a balanced budget to congress if you're not going to take on medicaid, medicare, social security, which really doesn't factor into debt and deficit but military spending. it can't be done. and at $21 trillion national debt, when interest rates go up 100 basis points, one point, that's $210 billion that we have to spend extra for interest only. if interest rates go back to historical norms, we're going to be spending all

discretionary -- current discretionary spending on interest only. kennedy: yeah, when the bill comes week really don't have a way to pay for it, and part of the way that republicans sold the tax bill, and i love cutting taxes, you can't have real economic health unless you lower taxes, but you have to couple that with spending cuts and no one is bold enough to do it. there are few people in congress now, those rare voices who stand up for liberty, economic and otherwise, but they really get pounced on by the establishment. paul ryan, who has talked a good game, he uses his mouth prettier than a $20 bill, he showed up to congress in 1999 when there was a surplus. and now he's leaving, and we are $21 trillion in debt. >> no, that's -- you've hit it on the head. these are really difficult issues but it is the biggest

issue we're facing, and it is incredibly unfair to young people that we're going to strap them with a debt that can't be paid? and you know what -- kennedy: and they're not going to have any entitlements. you are absolutely right. they're not going to have social security, there's not going to be medicare for all, another entitlement program, we can't afford with we can't pay for the ones we've got. that no one wants to pare down. >> and what's the result of this going to be -- what is the result of all of this going to eventually be? it's going to be horrible inflation. and that's going to be where the money that's in your pocket today is going to buy less tomorrow and you're going to recognize that, so you're going to buy everything that you possibly can and the shelves are going to be bare. debt and deficit were the key to success, zimbabwe would be the world's center followed by venezuela. it doesn't work. this is a recipe for disaster. we've been talk -- somewhat talking about it for decades on

and off. right now it's just mute. it's not front and center, and should be on the front burner. kennedy: no, governor johnson, you are running for senate in new mexico. right now one poll has you at 16%. your democratic opponent has around 40%. and senator rand paul has endorsed and you not the republican who's running in the race. do you think that you can narrow the gap in time for voting day? >> yeah, i wouldn't be doing this if there weren't the opportunity to actually win and, of course, crisscrossing the state, it's been kind of fun, and what a gift to only have to run in a three-month campaign as opposed to a couple years. stepping in, really, last minute and taking the place of the libertarian nominee for senate in nvment so we got a late start but nonetheless, i'm believing that this might actually succeed.

i might actually be in the u.s. senate. kennedy: and then you would be the swing vote. >> well, i might be the swing vote. that's also a possibility. >> the deciding factor. can people in new mexico handle that. i would love to see you on the senate budget committee with a giant pair of scissors that you can borrow from john stossel. best of luck with the campaign, thanks for your time. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: nancy pelosi predicting, blue tsunami nancy says that's happening in a few weeks. should the house minority leader be so optimistic? a new report suggests that promised blue wave can end up costing voters a lot of money. the panel is here to break it all down, after the break. stay with us. under your budget. actually it's great. mm-hmm. yeah, and when you move in, geico could help you save on renters' insurance! man 1: (behind wall) yep, geico helped me with renters insurance, too! um... the walls seem a bit thin... man 2: (behind wall) they are! and craig practices the accordion every night! says the guy who sings karaoke by himself.

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upcoming midterms, listen to this, three weeks to election day, fox news releasing brand new polls that show the top issues for voters, health care and the economy, but it appears democrat candidates are benefitting from all of the chaos. here to break down the results, fox business network's susan li, the one and only. >> the bootylicious "fox news poll." if the election were today, the house might flip to democrat. taking a look at the "fox news poll," for those that vote in congressional districts, democratic candidates are with the edge, 49%, republican candidates, 42%. but hey, it didn't change after the divisive, polarizing and some would say ugly brett kavanaugh nomination battle, right? let's talk about the top issues. top issue for voters is health care, what are you going to do about it, what about the cost and what about premiums going into the vote? health care 58% of voters, the

top issue for them, and the economy, how are they feeling? how big are their wallets? how secure do they feel in their job, 54% say it's the most important issue out there. president trump himself, 51%, third top issue. yeah. remember when he goes for the rallies, a vote for the candidate is a vote for me. kennedy: he says i'm not on the ballot and there he is. top three, made the podium. >> i want to point out the lowest topic on the list, the mueller investigation. you hear about it over and over again in left-wing media. how much do voters care about it? less than a third. kennedy: you know what's not on the list? climate change. >> it was on the list, just above mueller, i didn't think you cared that much about it. kennedy: no one does. i can't wait for it to be warm, bikini weather. yeah! >> and ultimately for i guess for voters, what about president trump himself and approval ratings? it actually lifted from september. so voters were impressed that

he actually stuck by his nominee despite the fact that it was such an ugly battle. kennedy: nine points up from last year, almost not underwater, susan li, brilliant analysis. >> absolutely, and bootylicious, you think? kennedy: we will spin the records. meantime, last night house minority leader nancy pelosi was asked for a midterm forecast. she took the question quite literally and gave a weather report, oh, nance. >> people ask me is it a wave or tsunami? in either case, it's little drops of water, and many of them, if the election were today, we would win the majority. i don't know how much water would be involved, but i know we would win the majority. wave or tsunami, we'll see in three weeks. kennedy: mercy. wow, what a gift.

if pelosi's predictions hold true, democrats are likely to push for repeal of the president's tax cuts. according to heritage foundation such a move could raise taxes and every single congressional district. would a dimm victory be an economic disaster. senior fellow mattie duppler is back with right term strategy president chris barron and capri cafaro. welcome, everyone. >> hello. kennedy: mattie, start with you, with nancy's very bold prediction. [ laughter ] >> let's talk about taxes a little bit. people like lower taxes, will democrats be so bold as to undo those loving tax cuts? >> democrats have been so bold since the moment the tax cut was passed into law. the number one priority is to repeal it as soon as we get power. that gets complicated as elections get closer. last month before the house left for recess to go into

campaign mode, we extend individual cuts for americans, and guess what? democrats were excited about that, in particular, democrats run statewide, kyrsten sinema in arizona, but cares about tax cuts, jacky rosen running statewide in nevada. it will be interesting to see if democrats, if they get the opportunity to control the agenda keep the word on this. are they talking a big game? >> i don't think that's the winning message. i don't think democrats have quite found their lane. they should be focusing on health care more than taxes because republicans certainly don't have an answer for that but they're not going to do that, nancy pelosi is in charge, every day is -- it really is a wonder. >> she's going to make members walk the plank over and over again voting for stuff that's incredibly unpopular. she doesn't care. she didn't care about the majority when she had it before, made conservative and moderate democrats take votes on crazy things.

kennedy: well, we don't know what's in it, but we'll read it someday! >> she doesn't care, and by the way, it's not brain surgery here, the fact is people like keeping their money. running on we're going to raise your taxes, doesn't seem like a great thing. kennedy: come on, man, you don't have to be a libertarian want to to cut spending. democrats and republicans are allergic to it. this is how we ended up with shutting the government down how many times? nobody is willing to give anything up, and now we're hearing my side of the aisle and understandably so, this whole thing about now they're sounding the alarm what's going to happen to entitlements if republicans say then entitlements are on the chopping block and everyone is going to have a nap sack on a stick and not going to have health care and no social security. i always say this. kennedy: girl, cut entitlements. grow a pair of scissors. >> you can grow a pair of something. either way here's the deal. in ohio, we were growing a pair

of buckeyes, when you have a pair of buckeyes, this is what happens. you can be efficient in your entitlements by doing things like pay for performance. it's not about throwing the baby out with the bathwater and saying we're going to cut eligibility. kennedy: don't throw the baby out, it's clean in bathwater. the race to the 2020 presidential nomination is heating up and look like a casting call for the next sharknado. with the d-list news figures, former vice president joe biden, he is the early favorite, but yesterday said people have every right to be concerned about the fact that he's going to be 77 years young by the time primary season rolls around. california senator kamala harris has her eyes on the big white house. rounding out the list is michael avenatti who filed paperwork with the federal election committee. saying his candidacy is not a joke. should we tell her or let it

be. >> you love that. >> is he your favorite on the list? >> i love him. everything he touches he destroys. stormy daniels is now going to have to pay trump's legal fees. brett kavanaugh is on the supreme court. single handedly because of michael avenatti. i hope he runs for president. i hope democrats vote for him. what i love, so many liberals say republicans nominate a guy with no experience, reality tv star, blah, blah, blah, and willing to get behind a guy, an ambulance chaser who showed up seven months ago! >> i can't stand the guy. kennedy: democrats are not going to forget kavanaugh and not going to forget avenatti's role in that. >> they lay blame on him. he's been in my hometown twice in the last two months. >> which is great. the things i love about 2020 is it starts in 2018. while president trump is campaigning for republicans, he's up against this cast of

characters. i can't believe you didn't have an elizabeth warren, what happened to her. obama campaign manager said it best, we have three weeks before the midterm election and every day, we've lost three media cycles talking about elizabeth warrant and stunt she pulled. >> it was really offbase, made her look very, very petty and doesn't help her. the only person right now, i'm not a fan of hers, never been a big fan of her work as secretary of state in california, or she was -- >> attorney general. kennedy: attorney general, sorry. but kamala harris actually has a good strategy. she's the only one -- >> she has a strategy. >> but if cory booker is in, how does it work? her southern strategy is premised on being the african-american candidate. kennedy: she hates cory booker. >> if cory booker is in the case, it's very, very

complicated. >> coming from california, has a lot more sway than new jersey. >> we got rid of superdelegates because of the dnc, because we got rid of the superdelegates because of the dnc, that is bad for joe biden and game on for anybody. >> save you from avenatti. >> we know what that's like. kennedy: the office and seniors going to make the 2016 look like the waltons. thank you so much, capri, chris and mattie. thank you so much. robert mueller may finally release findings. when is he going to drop the hammer and will the report see the light of day? andy mccarthy joins me next with answers.

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betty called me at she thought it was a fire. it was worse. a sinkhole opened up under our museum. eight priceless corvettes had plunged into it. chubb was there within hours. they helped make sure it was safe. we had everyone we needed to get our museum back up and running, and we opened the next day. . kennedy: after 17 months of the so-called witch-hunt, the mueller investigation might finally be winding down. according to bloomberg news, the special counsel is close to

releasing that report on possible collusion and obstruction, but don't count on a november surprise, the findings won't come out until after the midterms, there is a chance the report won't be made public, that's a lot of hot malarkey. is the investigation coming to a close? and once it ends will either side be satisfied? no. joining me fox news contributor and former assistant u.s. attorney, andy mccarthy is here. welcome back, andy. >> kennedy, how are you? kennedy: i'm doing very well, i'm very intrigued by this, because we knew that robert mueller was going to lie dormant during this critical midterm run-up, and i have a feeling that he's going to resume work in his little keebler factory right after the start of december, perhaps. what do you think? >> well, i don't think he's ever stopped working. i think that's what's gone on is all the stuff that can go on behind the scenes.

i really do think he's trying to wind down the investigation or it's being wound down whether he wants it that way or not. i think they nailed down the manafort business right before labor day. that really took off the table any pending indictments that they had, and what we've seen in the last few weeks is he's drawing down staffwise, three or four people left the staff to go back to their old jobs or get new jobs. kennedy: with the democratic party? >> right! [laughter]. >> that's right. do you think they ever stopped working for the democratic party? i guess that's the question. kennedy: come on, man! they're all corrupt crusaders, all a bunch of cockroaches. i don't know if that's true. >> and angry, apparently very angry. kennedy: they are cockroaches who want to bring down a good man, andy. let's talk a little bit about rod rosenstein, he gave this sweeping interview to the "wall

street journal." what do you think people expected he would say in public? >> oh, yeah, i'm sure they expected he was going to say the investigation was completely inappropriate and totally politicized, you know? obviously he said it was an appropriate investigation, that it was done by the book. he's running it. so what else would he say? kennedy: why won't he talk to congress? >> probably because congress is looking into something he's uncomfortable with, which is the investigation in 2016. he's happy right now to talk about mueller's investigation 2017 because he can talk about these russia indictments which i think are really more in the nature of publicity stunts than charging because everybody knew no one was going to face trial on that. kennedy: is he in jeopardy? >> no won't be out until mueller issues his report.

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taylor swift in cats, alba's casting has people scratching their heads while taylor's makes perfect sense, when you get dumped as many times as she has, it's only a matter of time before you end up with a bunch of cats. clean out the litter box because this is the "topical storm." ♪. kennedy: i could do it all night. topic number one, join me in the subway later, i will. there it is. halloween is two weeks from tonight -- americans reportedly expected to spend $500 million on costumes this year for their pets, and the next day they're going to spend 200 million on therapy for their humiliated animals. look at these poor guys! the dog's like, come on, mom! you need instagram like that bad? why can't i stay home and bark at the door? take a picture in your bikini bottoms, weirdo! and the cats are like this

facebook post is exactly why i'm going to eat your face the second you die. this little fella is dressed as a cereal box. that's not a costume. that's littering! lazy. cute. though. he looks delicious. i wonder what happens when you soak him in milk? topic number two. are we on the air? great! let's head down to pinky's west side bar in charlotte. why does that sound dirty? customers were really throwing them back last night, oh, no! this lovely couple got into an argument with the bartender and that quickly escalated into a full-fledged real housewives episode. look at booze go flying. break it up before someone's husband gets deported to italy. that's a joe giudice reference. he landed a role on the real prison wives of milan.

oh, milano, bon giorno. he was wearing axe body spray, better get a good lawyer, it's stinky in there. the mace, that's what they use on the protesters in brooklyn. topic number three -- officials saved a man at the portland zoo. i don't know why they did it. any adult that needs to be told to stay away from tigers not worth saving. i absolutely draw the line if i hear she is mentally disturbed, but as far as i can tell, this is not a kamala harris supporter. he hopped over the fence, the tiger didn't have enough weight watchers points to eat a stupid person. good thing he didn't do it on the cheat day. true story, all tigers have cheat days, if you don't believe me, ask his ex-wife.

the drama didn't end there because two lions escaped their enclosure. luckily the zookeepers were able to corral him using a tennis ball and sausages. topic number four, "sesame street" puppeteer carroll spinney is calling it quits after 59 years. she was famous for playing big bird or as it's called in politically correct 2018, plus sized bird or big boned bird, and played oscar the emotional challenged trash dweller. "sesame street" announced it on twitter which is interesting because kids aren't on twitter. and any adult who follows "sesame street" isn't allowed near kids, we should keep track of adults who click "like." one, two, three, carroll spinney may be gone, but if

you're looking to watch a bunch of puppets, turn on cnn. if you think snuffelupagus is funny. tune in. a serial dine and dasher who left a dozen restaurants without paying and talking about the high-end restaurants in iowa. think denny's, white castle, jack-in-the-box. first there was hot felon, now there's hungry felon. tracy was a local sensation for pension for running out of restaurants which you cannot do unless you are a republican followed by democrats. several voters posted it online and he was eating free food courtesy of the iowa state prison system. he tracked down a waitress that he stiffed and took her out for

drinks. i'm going to steal it! dine and dash guy doesn't drink beer. he likes johnny walker! we'll be right back. stay here. (roger) being a good father

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tomorrow night on the show, florida congressman matt gaetz has answers, kristin anderson is here along with one of my favorites, lawrence jones and you will be here as well. i'm making pumpkin cheesecake, get yourself ready for that. do an extra 20 for that. you'll thank me later. story. caravan of illegal ill grants from honduras headed for united states. growing to as many as 4,000 people, authorities in guatemala and mexico trying to stop the caravan. but nonetheless it is still headed our way, northbound to u.s. border, a wide open border. the question is, how can border patrol protect the nation whether radical dimms prefer open borde