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the prime a.g. title but fell out of favor after recusing himself in the russia investigation. president has been openly chastising him ever since and today with the smoke barely dmreerd last night's midterms, the president pounced earlier today on special report, house oversight committee chair trey gowdy said it was only a matter of time. >> it was going to happen, i knew it was going to happen after the election. i did not think it would happen before all the votes had been counted. but he's a better proverbial dead man walking for several months now. kennedy: democrats including senate minority leader chuck schumer crying foul. >> i find the timing very suspect, number one. but number two, our paramount view is that any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should not be able to interfere with the mueller investigation in any way.

they should not be able to end it, should not be able to limit it, should not be able to interfere with mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is right thing, and that will help guide us as we go through the process. kennedy: the democrats said shut the chuck up. the acting attorney general matthew whitaker, they claim he's been openly hostile to the mueller investigation and just a white house puppet. there's the question of what will happen to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, is he next on the chopping block? with us now to break down all of the drama in today's events, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in d.c. with the latest. reporter: we're seven hours into this developing story, and two things stand out to me. number one, when you look at events earlier today, looks very considered, very deliberate, almost has that

feel of a rollout. what we know from reporting now is the white house chief of staff john kelly contacted the attorney general this morning, and asked for a letter of resignation on behalf of the president. then we had that dynamic news conference in the middle of the day with the president in the east room, and that it was only after that, that the information about sessions resignation became public. second thing, heading into the midterms, one of my contacts told me they believed if republicans in the senate expanded their majority up into 52, 53, 54, they expected the president to move very swiftly on attorney general jeff sessions because they would have greater comfort that whoever he nominated for that job, let's say come january, they'd have a good margin to get through the nominee without getting hung up on republicans in the senate. kennedy: yes, namely lisa murkowski and susan collins who have pushed back on quite a few

major issues for the president, including the kavanaugh confirmation and health care. so it makes us wonder if mr. whitaker is going to be the presumptive a.g. nominee, or is there another short list that hasn't been made public that you have been privy to? reporter: what i would focus on right now, kennedy, if i could, is why whitaker is in this job in the first place? he wasn't a household name and not well known outside the beltway, but based on my reporting tonight, i can tell you he is someone who is well liked by the president and one of the primary reasons is that he's not seen as an fbi or justice department insider, not one of the gang, if you will, who came up through the ranks with special counsel robert mueller, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, the former fbi director james comey or current fbi director christopher wray. somewhat of an outsider, more sympathetic to the president's

position, and i learned that whitaker had been a quiet advocate for the declassification of these russia records. remember in september, the president said i'm going to immediately declassify these records about a surveillance warrant on one of my campaign aides and he did this quick reversal? but today the news conference the president was asked about this, and he said i'm giving it serious consideration. we may move on this, but i was never going to do anything before the midterm elections, so again, it's another data point that lines up with this idea that it was really very well choreographed, deliberate, considered move by the white house. kennedy: all right, so matthew whitaker is now running the department of justice, you know, at least in the interim. so was he installed by the president or jeff sessions? he was the chief of staff for sessions. reporter: that's right, he was the chief of staff, and there was confusion, i'm glad you raised this, shortly after it was known that sessions resigned, the information we

had is whitaker was going to be sworn in right away and had different information he didn't need to be sworn in as acting attorney general because he'd already been sworn in as the chief of staff. at the end of the day, i don't think the details are important. what's important is the fact he's the boss for the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on the russia case, and the way he could be removed from that is if an ethics review found he had some kind of russia conflict. and tonight, democrats are really putting whitaker under the microscope because of what he's written about in the media and also on twitter, specifically an op-ed last summer that he did for cnn where he talked about what he thought was a red line for the special counsel. if robert mueller started looking at the trump family finances, he felt that this was a red line. also their businesses. because he felt it was so many steps removed from the original

mandate of campaign collusion. there's also some other articles where he talks about defunding the special counsel -- >> he really crafted a blueprint of laying out a case, if not stopping the mueller investigation, ways of starving it. reporter: good way to put it. kennedy: a choked-out end. we'll be curious to see what happens. obviously, with democrats in control of the house, they won't be verbally obstructionist, they may make this guy's life very difficult looking for conflicts of interest and see if they find them. catherine, thank you so much. reporter: you're welcome. kennedy: the political fallout of the sessions quote, unquote resignation, and as i mentioned democrats are freaking out. with democrat running things on the house side, are both sides on a collision course or a collusion course, as it were? joining me capitol hill senior producer chad pergram. chad, i know you had a very big

night, and you had long days, so thank you so much for being here. >> my pleasure, my pleasure. i want to pick up on one point that catherine alluded to about choking off the money for the special counsel. democrats get control of the house in january, but what we would look for is money in a government spending bill in december. it's going to be very hard to cut off funding for the special counsel's office with democrats running the house of representatives, and they have to keep the government funded, starring in december, you know that's an issue with the border wall, but with the democrats winning the house and take control in january, any theory by whitaker is going to fall by the wayside, kennedy. kennedy: interesting. also we saw very tough talk for years from john bolton, but he's operating in a different role serving at the will and the pleasure of the president, as mr. whitaker, the acting a.g. presumably is as well, and this is obviously a big

unexpected development timingwise, and you know there was a lot of speculation as to who would go first, sessions or rosenstein. we know the answer now but the question is what happens to rod rosenstein? >> right, i've been told for a long time by senior house republicans and other source nothing is going to happen with rod rosenstein. obviously this opens the door and this is why chuck schumer, he held a press conference as we were learning about jeff session's fate earlier today. i'm going to read what you chuck schumer said, he would it would be a prelude to crisis if tends the mueller probe. right before we came on the air, house minority leader nancy pelosi made her official announcement she is going to seek the speakership. she talked about oversight and constitutional authority, checks and balances. the question is how far are democrats willing to go? republicans think that democrats, this is going to be a carte blanche here, what

they're going to try to do to the administration. nancy pelosi historically has said we have to do this in a tempered fashion. her word today was it can't be a scatter shot approach. the question however, kennedy is can she control her caucus? she can certainly control her caucus when she was the speaker years ago, but this is a different group of people. kennedy: very different landscape and also she has never entered a political sphere with so much active and vocal opposition, and you know, i'm going to talk about this later in the show, that's what a lot of these congress people were running on was opposing nancy pelosi and she can't rule with the same kind of iron fist that she has but the question still remains is there someone else waiting in the wings who perhaps is already in house leadership who deserves or wants or is more adept at getting the role other than

nancy pelosi. >> the people we look at immediately is steny hoyer and jim clyburn. they won't run if nancy pelosi is in the running for speaker of the house. jim clyburn is a senior member of the congressional black caucus, and when you talk to members of the congressional black caucus, they would like an african-american at the speaker's table there, somewhere at the leadership table. some tell you it's jim clyburn's time. he's a bit of a wild card. if something happens to pelosi, something happens to hoyer. kennedy, frankly, it's thought that trio of members, that troika forms a symbiotic relationship with the rest of the caucus. kennedy: or maybe a level of co dependency that is unhealthy for a party that's got a massive split down the middle. what i want to been clyburn specifically, is he more popular with the progressive wing of the party?

that happens to the most vocal wing of the party, and i think you're right, i think nancy pelosi has a tougher time reining them. in nancy hates steny, she's going to turf his chances of becoming speaker, clyburn is the natural heir apparent. >> you would look at him, hakeem jeffries from new york city, ben ray lujan, the chairman of the congressional campaign committee. he announced he was going to run for assistant leader, but at the end of the day, nancy pelosi is a pretty good vote counter, and she is liberal, represents san francisco, she commanded about 85% of the vote in her re-election bid, there but keep in mind, a lot of the seats they flipped, kennedy, and the reason that would block her is not because there are members that are too liberal, trying to force her to the left, it's that you have more moderate democrat coming to the house of representatives and they don't like nancy pelosi or have been on record as saying we can't support her and by the same token how this plays in the jeff sessions and robert

mueller, they represent districts where president trump is popular. they might have to temper what their checks and balances are as they go after the administration. kennedy: and she mistakes her own identity politics with populism which is very different, and that's what you're talk about with the democrat moderates, they're populists, messages resonate with the blue collar states that the president won and nancy pelosi has no idea how to reach those people and for that reason alone, among many others she should gracefully step aside, last word, chad. >> maybe democratic ohio senator sherrod brown, the same night they elected mike dewine as governor, here's somebody who represents, you know, the blue collar area of cleveland, the mahoning valley where

president trump performed so well. there are arguments that that's the democrat that trump needs to model and performs so well in the environment we operate so well. kennedy: there are so many wings the party might take flight on its own. chad pergram, thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. kennedy: coming up, cnn's jim acosta wouldn't let go of the microphone during the president's fiery news conference, and tonight they kicked him out of the white house! who's right and who's wrong? who overstepped their

. kennedy: welcome back, we've got breaking news tonight, the white house suspended the credentials of cnn's jim acosta after he took his daily grandstanding routine too far at today's lengthy press conference. it happened after he pushed away the arm of a female intern who is trying to take back the microphone when he was playing ball hog, and as you will see, he was hardly the only one attacking the president. watch. >> here we go. reporter: well, if you don't mind, mr. president. >> honestly, i think you should let me run the country. you run cnn. if you did it well, ratings would be much better. reporter: mr. president, if i may ask a question -- >> that's enough. that's enough.

that's enough. reporter: the other folks -- pardon me ma'am. >> excuse me, that's enough. >> you are a rude, terrible person, you shouldn't be working for cnn. reporter: why are you pitting americans against one another, sir? >> what are you trying to be, oprah? just asking. a real comedian here. that's a racist question, that's such a hostile media. when you get bored, would you please tell me? kennedy: white house press secretary sarah sanders took acosta to task saying he never should have touched that young woman but moments ago cnn released a statement saying sanders provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. it never happened? we all saw it! they weren't locked in a dark broom closet you weirdos! pull your heads out of the spot where the sun don't shine! was the press out of line today, and does acosta deserve this punishment? joining me now, from american

majority where he serves as ceo and speechwriter for george w. bush and former adviser to the dnc antoine sea wright. welcome, gentlemen. >> good to be with you, kennedy. kennedy: at the defense of jim acosta, the president was belligerent and rude and won't answer questions and trying to shut down the press and trying to turn the american people against the press. having said that, is it ever okay to put your hands on a woman, particularly a young woman who is probably college age. this is probably her first job. >> i never want to downplay someone putting their hands on another woman, particularly because that is someone's daughter. i just didn't see what apparently everyone else saw about the whole putting the hands on. i did see jim try to remove himself away from her, taking the mic. i did see that. however, it was a bad day.

a bad day for trump. every day is a bad day when he does his press briefings. because he runs away from accountability. and any time he's pressed on any issue, particularly the issues that we know are wrong, he knows is wrong, but he doesn't want to fess up to it, it becomes problematic. kennedy: here's what i will say. the president defends himself by saying you have a lot of access to me. it was an hour and a half press briefing on a day his party lost the house and there is accountability there. and he didn't shy away from it like past presidents have. >> he was angry the entire time. >> oh, stop. he was pushing back. you know what we saw on display today kennedy, we saw the opposition party on full display. the media dropped all -- you know what i think? i think we should drop the illusions that these people are journalists and reporters. they're not. they're just political operatives masquerading as

reporters, opinionists. >> go ahead, ned. >> and i would like -- i want a free press, i want an honest press, and i'm not talking about being honest about the facts, that's a bridge too far for many of them, i want them to be honest about who they are and what they're doing. they all have a very specific world view, trying to drive a narrative that fit that world view. they're trying to act as they're purveyors of truth and pure as driven snow. nope, just opinion, just another guy with an opinion. choose to accept or reject it. >> i agree we have to have a free press and members of the press that hold the president or any public official accountable. that is their job, that's why it's enshrined in the first amendment and they require protection,ing and the president does go too far, but i will say about jim acosta, he's incredibly annoying. he doesn't understand decorum and even if you think the president's actions are beneath you, it doesn't give you

license to mock them. so antoine, it's got to be frustrating for members of the press in the room who see acosta pulling the stunts over and over and over again, at some point they are indefensible? >> kennedy, i would agree with you if it was just him. you saw his treatment of april ryan. we saw his treatment of other reporters just the same. that's why i opened my comments, this is par for the course with this president, and now this administration, because if you see the behavior of sarah sanders, even other people in his press shot, they tend to repeat his behavior toward the press. it is so dangerous. kennedy: not surprised at how the president is. >> i'm not acting surprised. kennedy: the press knows this, they know when they pose certain questions, and i don't think they need to treat him with kid gloves, that's not what i'm saying at all. but please don't think you're entitled to be a total a-hole

and people want to ask honest questions and the public requires those answers. >> i think you should do everything in decency and order as we say in the south. however, i think the president has a responsibility to treat these people with respect and dignity. >> i want to go to ned, we're running out of time. >> respect is a two-way street. i agree that the press is there to be holding people accountable, not to be a propaganda machine or mouthpiece of the deep state. >> come on, man. this is the problem -- kennedy: i don't know if -- i think there are people who are trying to get facts. >> i think there are some. kennedy: i think jim acosta is a news actor who's just in it for himself, and i think his little displays have exhausted themselves, and i would much rather see someone from cnn and every other news organization. >> what about april ryan, not trying to shine bright in the light. she's trying to fundamentally

get to the bottom of -- get the answers to questions people want. he treats her with lack of respect. kennedy: maybe he's equal in the way he's disrespectful. that's not a racist question. thank you so much, i appreciate the conversation. >> thanks kennedy. kennedy: coming up, nancy pelosi wanting to be speaker of the house again, so badly she can taste it. don't waste it! but if she gets it, what will that mean for her party's political strategy. will she work with the president or obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. monologue is next. with the panel. it's time for sleep number's veterans day sale

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. kennedy: it was split decision night for the most important election of our lifetime! and while all sides declared victory, democrats walked away with the house as their participation trophy. chief raisin farmer nancy pelosi pushed fellow steny

hoyer and jim clyburn out of the way to make a victory speech like a spinster reaching for the tossed bouquet at 900th wedding. you could smell the chardonnay through the screen as nancy ticked off a list of those to thank and gave a shoutout to sickness as she clumsily hyped, let's hear it for preexisting conditions! throw your hands in the air for cancer and diabetes! now that democrats won back the lower chamber, who should lead them? several junior house hopefuls in a smattering of democratic socialists made nullifying nancy campaign centerpieces and either they represent the greater lurking partywide resentment or have to eat crow from nancy's cauldron. newbies tried to keep the dear leader at arm's length, if she wins the gavel, she'll rip off the arms and beat the commies to death.

or brush up on attachment parents skills as she gives the newly entitled a good suckle in the house nursing room. even the president chimed in, nancy deserved it, she deserves to be speaker again. he's not being contrite or civilrous, he knows she is widely despised in both parties, when things go south, she'll be the easiest to beat in pin the blame the on donkey. if democrats want a shot at narrowing the party chasm and winning the presidency in 2020, they best come up with a short and serious nancy-free speaker list, otherwise they're stuck with the terminal preexisting condition and there's no cure for nancyiteis and that's the memo. earlier today, leader pelosi and the president sounded optimistic about working together. that's fun. watch. >> last night i had a conversation with the president trump about how we could work together. one of the issues that came up

was the people agenda, building infrastructure of america, and i hope that we can achieve that. >> i think she deserves it. she's fought long and hard, she's a very capable person, we should get along and get deals done. kennedy: that would be great. that bipartisan fever could quickly come to an end as democrats can't wait to use the powers to investigate the trump administration from everything from supposed russian collusion to the president's taxes. will the president and pelosi finally get along? the panel is here to discuss, from fox news radio, benson and harve', former state department spokesman maria harve' and guy benson, also here reason.com associate editor robby suave. welcome, everyone. >> hello. kennedy: could this be very, very good news for democrats, winning the house in a crowded republican washington, or it could be just enough rope to

hang themselves with, if they push too hard with the investigations and experience. what's the best move here? >> i think actually they have to do two things at once, put forward a positive policy agenda on health care or infrastructure, criminal justice reform. there are things that can get done. donald trump used to be a democrat. he might work with them. we will see. he likes to make deals. put that to the test. but voters also said across the board they wanted more accountability. i don't think we should investigate for the sake of investigating, but republicans in congress -- kennedy: sure sounds like it. >> republicans in congress have not held the administration to account on anything, we're going to do that too, going to be great. get ready. kennedy: doing both means one thing, wasting time and money on investigations that essentially go nowhere and people get annoyed and realize personal economies haven't improved democratic leadership in the house and they throw them out. >> our colleague at fox mollie hemingway was on the train back

to d.c. and next to her was jerrold nadler, having loud phone conversations what he plans to do looking backwards at russia and brett kavanaugh for new investigations. kennedy: wow, that turned around. >> there may be democrats looking to put forward a positive agenda but others looking to fight base warfare to please constituents. kennedy: i don't know, man, this whole thing, it's crazy because democrats are really struggling to find who they are. i was talking to a liberal friend of mean the other day, he said what does a libertarian democrat look like? i don't think there is such a thing. >> i'm not sure i know what that would look like. they're big government people controlling your pressure points. >> there's a lot of people in the democratic coalition for the -- among the very far left socialist, they have ocasio-cortez, other victories. kennedy: pay for it!

how do you pay for medicare? you pay for it. that's what you do. everyone knows that, i'm a congressman now. >> exactly. 50,000 activists who work for the democratic socialists of america. the average age of a member of the organization went down from 70 something to 27 or something like that in the last 22 years. i don't know that democrats fully embrace that but they have the loudest intentions. >> the candidates who took the house back for the democrats, they are not socialists, they are what we used to call blue dog democrats, and the fact we don't have a bigger majority. nancy pelosi or whoever speaker is has to listen to them. the progressive part of the party is there. ocasio-cortez is one member. the members that won the house are moderate. . kennedy: you have tom perez saying she's the future of the party. she can't answer basic questions. >> she's not. kennedy: she has the intelligence and charisma of a bowl of lukewarm oatmeal.

>> she has charisma. kennedy: she has fiber, you are right. president canned one of his first supporters, attorney general jeff sessions. we discussed what that could mean for the russia investigation. what impact could it have on civil liberties in the president's next nominee? this is not a surprise, but now look forward, and the president has made quite an opposite turn from the sessions d.o.j. by embracing things like kim kardashian's love of criminal justice reform. >> i wonder if part of that was to troll jeff sessions. kennedy: i believe it was. >> trump often doesn't have hard and fast ideological underpinnings, so he was annoyed at sessions, i'll do the stuff jeff is against. i'm going to be very curious to see who replaces sessions, because by trump standards, he checked all the boxes. early supporter, obsequious, qualified.

>> conservative. kennedy: can pass the senate. >> treated as badly as anyone trump has treated in washington, including people in the other party. maybe even jim acosta. kennedy: you should write him a nice letter, that sounds sad. >> who's that? kennedy: jeff sessions. >> nice to me personally, baffling to watch this president treat his own attorney general the way he had. kennedy: this attorney general has first of all been a massive opponent of liberty, and he has recused himself of responsibility for very important investigation. >> he's so out of step with what many elements of the right would like to see in terms of a saner criminal justice policy, saner drug laws. he was for the maximum, draconian sentencing for drug crimes. kennedy: including marijuana, and he lumps marijuana in with heroin and lsd. >> i will not be sad to see him gone. not gotten rid of for those reasons, it was different reasons he was gotten rid of.

>> i think what's concerning to many people. kennedy: democrats love jeff sessions. >> distant heroes, jeff sessions. >> he's conservative especially on immigration, but i do think he did the right thing and recused himself from the russia investigation. kennedy: good lord. >> and rod rosenstein overseeing it with what republicans and democrats have said in a responsible way, if that is now thrown into question, the acting attorney general overseen it now said terrible things about the mueller investigation publicly, very irresponsible things. who he nominates. kennedy: who do you think? >> a big question. and republicans in the senate said they won't confirm someone who's going to mess around with the mueller investigation. >> i have no idea. i know people are talking about the idea of lindsey graham, and parachuting nikki haley in the senate seat. kennedy: oddly enough with doug jones seat. [laughter] >> hi! i'm here. >> my guess is as good as

yours. >> trey goudy, maybe? >> if gowdy wants the job. kennedy: they have a great hair budget at the d.o.j. >> the white house. he's negotiating a hair budget. [ laughter ] >> he's fully killerly adventurous. thank you for being here on post-midterm eve as the craziness is ratcheted up to 11 1/2. we didn't think the meter went that high. we're halfway through. coming up, could gridlock in washington be a good thing for the economy or running ourselves straight into the ground. addiction is a dark place.

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is that a bad thing for your wallet? turns out maybe not. fox business network's deirdre bolton has the latest. reporter: i think, kennedy, if today's market behavior is any indication, investors can cheer, the dow closed up more than 400 points, best stock market rally after midterms since 1982. bank of america, merrill lynch analyst putting a research note out saying congressional gridlock can be a market positive, nothing changes, do nothing, undo nothing, means investors can focus on other market factor. so i went back, i looked at data how stocks perform when congress is split with a republican white house and in those instances the s&p 500 averages annual return of 10% when. president trump spoke earlier today he said bipartisan cooperation on democrat issues including cost cuts for drug prices, addressing infrastructure issues. after his press conference, the

markets rose further. the wild cards are the political shake-ups with the u.s. a.g.'s resignation and a democrat-led house meant to members of the administration, and china trade issues which are a distraction for most business leaders, but more than likely, if stocks go higher which they probably will, there will be increased volatility in the weeks to come with the wild cards. back to you. >> i love it, that means there's bargains out there, too. >> indeed. kennedy: thank you so much. >> sure. kennedy: gridlock can be good, but can split houses be bad? what if republicans fight for infrastructure projects that will do nothing to lower our deficit and raise your taxes, and what about the ongoing trade war with china? joining me associate professor of economics at the kings college brian brenberg is here, it is time for brianomics.

crazy night. everyone knew what was going to happen, republicans keep the senate, democrats take the house. gridlock is one thing, the opposite is terrifying when you have two big spending parties vying for how to use that money to buy more votes. >> very concerned about bipartisanship here. you hear people talk about is there a possibility for bipartisanship? i hope not because if we get an infrastructure bill that republicans and democrats can agree on, it's almost certainly going to be bill that wastes so much money that democrats are going to demand that infrastructure gets done from the top down just like obama stimulus, that means doling out money, larding out money to special interests, not the projects, not the things that grow the economy long term, that's the recipe we see if there is an infrastructure plan. kennedy: there's a reason democrats get excited about infrastructure spending. some of the construction stocks

go up. you say there's a way of doing infrastructure that decentralizes and goes project by project, is that possible? >> theoretically possible. i don't think it's going to happen because it's the kind of project that doesn't have politicians out there, you know, clipping ribbons across bridges. a kind of project where in a local environment somebody says we need a new sewer plant because it's going help the community. nobody cares about opening a wastewater treatment plant. that's the infrastructure that over a long term can matter for a community. so i don't think we're going to get kind of spending because it doesn't offer big political rewards. democrats want projects that offer the big headlines but don't often have a return on investment. yeah, the stock market loves it because you have money sloshing around. kennedy: in the short term. >> because have you money sloshing around doesn't mean you are creating value, it means you are taking taxpayer money or future taxpayer money and throwing it through the system now to hand out money to

guys who are happy to give you political support. kennedy: because they feel all of this is within the purview of government. and both these parties have forgotten how to cut spending and how to privatize or utilize the private sector. >> and not interested in the private sector because the private sector doesn't give them the political rewards they want. they get it when the money comes on high, and the guy standing there say i got to money you from, that doesn't facilitate economic growth. kennedy: no. >> and the point is to get people jobs and raise wages and the way you do that is get the private sector involved. kennedy: brianomics, love it. thank you so much, brian brenberg. "topical storm" is next. "topical storm" is next. ñ??w

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. kennedy: apple is cutting back production of its cheaper iphone xr model this week. they want to give factory workers time to enjoy their halloween candy. save me a snickers, kids! this is "topical storm." topic number one -- we begin in a russian supermarket where a customer is going on a crash diet. yeah, this trucker was so hungry he decided to hit the grocery store. some pun intended. police say the truck's brake

lines mysteriously malfunctioned which is shocking because the driver wasn't the type of guy who would vote against vladimir putin. no one was hurt inside, the crash caused $200,000 in damages making it the most expensive disaster since beto o'rourke's campaign. topic number two -- black friday is over two weeks away, but some shoppers are behaving like animals! check this out. this deer sprinted into a pennsylvania walmart like they were selling cheap flat screens and sprinted back out like they were selling cheap venison. the stampede was so loud two people stopped cooking meth in the fitting room, they thought it was a raid. one guy dropped the six pack he was drinking in the store. that poor manager. following the incident, a spokesman for animal control said it's a miracle the deer didn't get hurt because it took

alec baldwin's parking spot. fake news! topic number three -- this will make you salivate. pringles is selling thanksgiving-flavored potato chips. you lazy stoner, you can't cook your own turkey. they're so authentic, when you bite into them, you can hear the sound of your family arguing about politics. the chips come in three flavors, turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie and sales are expected to store now that jeff sessions has been fired and pot is about to be legal. thank you, boregard, many internet commenters think thanksgiving chips are a joke, the only joke on cable news is jim acosta. where's your press pass, buddy? you got to hurry, shoppers are running to the stores to get them! come on, one pop and i can't stop. this guy couldn't get any

because he forgot his credit card and didn't have any doe. that joke is so old. topic number four -- head down to georgia school where a high school football coach is making headlines for taking a knee. here we go again. oh, my gosh! no way, it's a wedding proposal! and she said yes! which is unfortunate because we'd have a much funnier video if she shut him down, but alas the only people shut down in georgia were oprah and stacey abrams. you living your best life. endorsement came a lot closer than taylor swift's endorsement of phil bredesen, it is not often she sticks with a guy for an entire month. that's a big deal! my gosh, how many breakup songs

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