others, we'll continue following this avenatti drama and caravan coverage, we're watching georgia and florida, deadline is fast approaching, have a wonderful evening. kennedy begins now. kennedy: thank you, president trump today beginning to right a wrong which has plagued nation for generation, pushing for major criminal justice reform, for too long we've been locking up americans for decades for nonviolent crimes we have been tying hands of judges. now finally, there is acted. ceremony of white house president explained why he thinks this so important, watch. >> legislation i am supporting today contains man significant reforms, first, it will provide new incentives for low risk

inmates to learn the skills they need to find employment. we're better off when former inmates can receive and reenter societies as law abiding productive citizens. kennedy: how could it work? reduce mandatory minimum for nonviolent drug conviction and other crimes, and it would eliminate stacking that would add years in a drug is involved. penalty for cracker hanker, and have been called racist. does this much needed legislation have a chance of passing? >> today's announcement shows that true bipartisanship is possible. maybe it will be thriving if we're going to get something done. when republicans and democrats

talk, debate and seek common ground we can achieve breakthroughs that move the country forward. kennedy: prison reform hit front page this year when kim kardashian west convinced president to commute sentence of alice johnson, a grandmother serving life for a non-violent truth offense, today president gave shout out to lawmakers who have been pushing another these changes, longer than the reality star. mike lee has been pushing for criminal justice reform since before he became senator, i spoke with him earlier. >> welcome back. >> thank you very much good to be with us. >> this is an issue that has divided communities and families but not a devicive issue. it is such a no-brainer, and you know, you can go much further with legislation but what does the first steppabl do? >> it has a couple main

features, first part deals with prison reform, you said, giving is intensiving on prisoners, serving time in a federal prison. to take courses, otherwise prepare themselves, to enter society without reoffending, second is sentencing reform, and more morning and draconian provisions of federal law over federal law is criminal law, with the massive sentences. a man was en sensed for a federal offense for selling 3 dime bags of pot. this would give him 55 years before. >> what are chances that it passes senate where you are? >> they are good, if this bill were brought up today it would

passover whelming 3, it would pass with a veto-proof super majority i believe. not that we niederaur it. so i'mer kownl -- bring the bill up now this passover whelmingly and bring a big bipartisan victory, and will make life better for millions americans who one way or another are affected by criminal federal justice system. >> this special for president's son-in-law. jared kushner and his wife ivanka trump, but this was almost opposite to some of jeff session's vie of the criminal justice system. so, with sessions now having resigned, does that mean that this administration starts a new on this very issue? >> i think it can. in any even. ever sessions who was his tapper

--ever sessions did not persuade to imto not support it president keeps makes his own decision, today he decided to support the bill. we have full support of administration. and like i said we have a support i believe of a super majority in both houses of congress, house version passed with 360 votes away couple months ago, i believe we'll keep that number if not increase if and get it passed in senate. kennedy: is this something there is protiopressure it pass in the duck session before new congress is sworn in, or are you confident that democrats will get onboard. have you been working across the a.m. on this issue. >> right, and i've been working for 8 years, on this issue, and initially it was me and a lot of

democrats, not as many republicans a now, overtime people realize, neither democratic or republicans or liberal or conservative this is a good public policy issue. i am glad you asked. about this congress versus the next. i believe kennedy this needs to be done in this congress, we don't know what demands democratic control house of representative might make in next congress. and i have some grave doubts about our ability to to pass in senate whatever they pass in democratic control house next year. president obama tried for 8 years to get this done, he could not, president trump has a chance now, congress needs to act now. kennedy: do you. as far as up break, healthcare, building walling wall funding where does this fanned in docket -- stand in docket in short-term before january. >> like measure to keep

government funded and fund border security, this is one thing that i think has got to be addressed before the end of the year, we have time, a couple month, we have until noon january 3 next year. so, let's get it done now. kennedy: who will be the senator from florida that you shake hands with, and welcome to chamber it is returning champion bill nelson or rick scott? >> i believe it will be rick scott. i saw him a few hours ago. he was here today, and looked forward to welcoming him his a colleague. it close, but i sense he is the rightful victor, and he will come out on top. kennedy: last question, who do i think democrat put up in 2020? >> to run for president? kennedy: mm-hmm. >> i believe one of my colleagues, i think cory booker would be an outstanding choice, and kamala harris.

i think bernie sanders could reemerge as a credible challenger. if i have to pick 29 thre betwe3 i would put money on cory booker. kennedy: i couldn't saying kamala harris. she has a strategy, mike lee snro than. >> now recount chaos in florida state. deadline tomorrow three prime minister -- 3:00 p.m. this is florida, we're waiting for a federal judge to decide whether palm beach county can extend recount for 5 mer 5 more. and to count mail in ballots that were rejected because this signature on them did not match file signatures. on top of that palm beach county recounting 175 thousand early votes after their old and

overworked counting machines began malfunctioning, this is a circus. in a new interview with daily caller, president trump slams brinda snipes, calling her a disgrace, she should be fired. will real winners from florida stand up, we bring in panel, a republican strategist she is here. noel, and along with luca sbisar trump founder and richard fowler. president sometimes forget he's is president, he talks about brenda snipes need be to be fired. >> that is up to people of

broward county, there are votes left to be counted. you can't tell them have you right to vote, then not count them. kennedy: the instructtions are explicit, if you don't follow them, then sometime they don't count. >> i get, that we have absentee ballots, and early vote they deserve to be counted. we need to let the recounts happen that is the law of florida. kennedy: can't wait. nothing chaotic will emerge there. >> i am great richard said he wants votes to be counted, unlike bill me nelson's attorne. who said this not about counting votes this about winning.

the votes should be counted, the debate is not over. >> why -- >> hey, hey, let me speak, your side not just say we should count military ballots, i love when you pull that military card, but votes of illegal should be counted and signatures that are wrong or incorrect. bill nelson's team actually objected to -- >> listen. >> votes not counted who were not legal in wait. >> there is no evidence that bill -- you say -- >> they said it happened. >> bill nel john. nelson. >> they objected those votes not counted. >> where is that evidence? >> multiple reports about this. kennedy: there have been several press accounts said that same thing. >> yeah. kennedy: there were 22 votes still introduced, and bill nelson team said go ahead.

we want to win. 62 i22 votes is not going to che it but admit citizenship is special. >> i agree. it is, voting is rei reserved fr citizens, 99.999% are people who went to polls in the counties and they wanted to vote, they voted, they deserve to be counted. kennedy: we should not be taking about this. >> this is florida, broward county and palm beach county, i ran for congress two years ago in florida '18 with debacle they had all eyes of nation on florida with gore and bush, they should never want to be humiliated again. and what shaping, we -- what is shaping --shap -- happening. it is happening again, they did not have their act together,

they should be prepare the for millions of votes. kennedy: you can't count votes because, a county to replace the vote counting machine, that they have an 11 million dollar budget set aside, and they could not decide, they could not figure out what was ada am complaining, it -- compliant it is hurting everyone. >> i agree. idea there has been a lot of rumors about voter fraud. >> it is vote eri voter incompe. kennedy: i am concerned, you have incompetent voters, a few, whose votes don't deserve to be counted, if they are not following basic rules and incompetent people who cannot have -- >> florida law enforcement

division. they said there is no voter fraud. kennedy: but there is incompetence. >> let'sly -- rick scott has been governor of sa state, he hs done nothing to improve it. kennedy: we should left low energy. >> safe three, panel will return, later for devastating wildfire continue to average california, we'll have a live report after the break. dr. drew pinski is here to talk about long road to recovery that see many now face, next. it's time for sleep number's veterans day sale

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kennedy: 50 people are dead, thousands more have lost everything, there are 100 people missing, wildfires raging up and town state of california, woolsey fire in l.a. and ventura county dis destroyed 500 homingd building that is 47% contained after burning 100,000 acres that larger than city of denver, camp fire deadliest in california. more than 8600 homes destroyed there. ast leave the 100 people are still missing, claudia cowen is

in paradise, california with more. reporter: good evening, well with death toll from camp fire climbing higher, big question is how many more victims will be found, butte county officials released updated list of those missing names of nate people 98, most elderly who have not been seen. a long. 63-year-old ernie, a san francisco native what perished with his dog. today ryan zinke, and california governor brown met with first responders special promised to deliver help from highest levels of develop, they learned more about ongoing search for victims. >> this is my fourth trip to california. unfortunately every trip has

been for forest fire, each trip i say this is the worst fire i have sign now we're here toward this is the worst fire i've seen. reporter: a small arm army of core energy recovery teams chaplains and national guard searching. the one thing they don't want is for someone to come across human remains once you the evacuation is lifted, no word on whether that will happen, not knowing about loved ones and homes adding to anxiety for the evacuees. many shelters are filled to capacity, $6,000 firefighters now have camp fire 35 percent contained, dramatic video from a drone shows move of city in ashes, but important to note, that hospital, high school, and city hall, and several department stores did not burn, they will serve as symbols of highway patrol -- hope and

endurance. kennedy. kennedy: claudia thank you for your reporting. >> as family continue to pray their loved one return. many are forced to grapple with knowing they no longer have a home or a place to work, 1 fires are out. how do you begin to confront that trauma? we bridge in dr. drew pin sky p, this state has been ravaged by fires. >> this has been bad, we had friends staying with from thousand oaks, they have a mass murder then a fire the next day. barrly got their fight under them from that, it feel like fires are more incident and widespread, they are. there are many reasons, almost always man-made and lack of proper forestry management.

have you -- you asked about long road back, we feel helpless we have loss, we have to focus on our relationship, and realize that is what matters. kennedy: that, you are a lot of celebrity saying that. they are not wallowing in self pity. >> it brings it in focus, i lost a lot of stuff, i feel bad, i fell bullpei --felt helpless but matters. jim: president got hammered for talking about forestry, but there is something to it there are cycles of drought, and el nino and la nina, you have so much precipitation, that is when mountains, forests explode than they die, that it catches fire. >> i think timing is off, we were lang wishing in unpleasant

feelings, i talk someone who is a forestry expert yesterday, he had been in paradise the year before, he told them they were in great danger because of the excessive growth of the forest. >> why can be they bleen i clea. >> i am trying to get answer, you don't see bulldozers doing backfires,. kennedy: those are controlled burns, that would take care of some of that over growth. >> you hear littl politicallyicd yeah, --i expedia rhetoric, saying the new abnormal climate, it is, it is not going back we have to do something to keep it from being so bad. the animals in environment, they are not doing well. kennedy: you are destroying habitat of some critically

endangered species through man caused wildfires how is managing forest not moral option. >> i walk around in my -- grailt statstraight state of californi. how can this be. kennedy: we were talking about rats on people in off-ramps. >> i have it. >> you should post that. >> some of my homeless friends, with rats crawling on them. and we have giant typhus outbreak in southern california. wish you were back home with us. you could enjoy it with us. kennedy: i was listen to john and ken away couple weeks ago talking about homeless crisis, how no one really -- >> it is unbelievable. kennedy: the rea real issues.

>> we could solve it by expanding before nation of gravely disabled and conservatorship, in the meantime people are suffering in street and major disease outbreaks? southern california with our fires. >> that is not acceptable new abnormal, i don't care when jerry brown says. >> thank you. >> come back to. kennedy: coming up surreal swift in avenatti saga, cops arrested him on suspicion of domestic violence. the lawyer denies accusation. >> that is how to works. >> panel react and my monologue, and a trump critic donny deutsch losing his mind, we'll discuss it after the break. cancer may be tough.

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democrat. -- but none seem more puzzled and flapped than donny deutsch. always cloudy in touch land in n -- high has always said darndest things about president. with a special brand of hyperbole in scribin describinga -- though they were happening in present, he thinks it 2020, pump is been shut out, of a second term but will not concede, and will not leave, thought is so vial, and feels so real. donny. >> in sad even he did you run and lose, what would be happy, if it would be turning be -- ste

would be a president saying i'm in the leaving call military, we have to electric at thi look atn if they carried him out, he would say i am your president. this is my new government. kennedy: give him a hug and behavioral therapy, he has been traumatize by jealous or oks. it not 2020 yet. in ran he acting like worse case will be executed with certainty, this must be stopped before it can materialized. did you know donny deutsch realize he is playing to president's hands and beefing up base with the half baked terrors. if you want to beat the

president, don't give in to self pity like hillary or nutty anger like for double d, any candidate is beatable. the president's most strokal critics must relied their his firstiahis --hysterical againstt working for them. >> sad face, that is the memo. kennedy: clear donald trump owns more real estate than don i dony deutsch's brain, what driving them. chris. donny said really craze things about president, and i wonder

what his motivation is. not just you know we need to stop him and come up with a better plan, and better strategy. he so actively hates him, i think. just contemptible jealously. >> he is nuts, this is same donny deutsch who said that anthony wiener was a wonderful human being and use a racial epithet referring to marco rubio, and say only reason people cared about sarah palin is because of her sex appeal, at the en of the the day, donny deutsch is a lunatic. >> i'm surprised at this point having seen how 2016 went this is not the way to beat trump, how have they not figured it out. >> with comments like that, they have not. they need to get serious on messaging and serious on a

candidate that can appeal to far to left fringe and moderate democrat, that fell like they don't have a home. kennedy: you know, worry this might happen, and acting like it is happening, i is a sign of mental illness. >> i can't speak for donny deutsch. kennedy: do you worry about president being defeated and not leaving? >> no, i can't speak for donny deutsch, last week, we know republican don't want to call it a wave, it was, there are no suburban republicans -- >> let's get back to donny deutsch blah blah. >> we realize you can't out trump, trump you can beat trump on the issues. kennedy: why don't these people figure it out, have you house leadership that can't get story straight on what they do once

they have power. 1 new congres -- once congress n in they are going to launch investigations and bring him down like a pack of hyenas. >> i beg to differ, there will be investigation on what needs to vest gated like puerto rico, and we will pass. -- we're going to pass meaningful legislation and actually govern. kennedy: all right, that fine. michael avenatti. some of the voters want to not all. >> i understand, electoral college. >> michael avenatti, anti-trump lawyer, made a name for himself

rip -- representing stormy daniels, he was accused of domestic violence, he forcefully deny charges. >> have never struck a woman, i never will strike a woman, i have been advocate for women's rights my entire career. i am not going to be intimidated from stopping what i am doing. i am looking forward to a full investigation. at which point, i am confident that i will be fullyico exonera. kennedy: according to tmz, afte- avenatti said she hit me first. could this be what sinks him and ms. political aspiration. >> now all -- they will pretend

he was a side show, despite he visited over 20 states raising money for democratic parties, and hosted by new hampshire democratic party, iowa state, and put together a team of two's who. kennedy: he had an event cancel in the week in vermont. >> jack quinn, and 3 people aring or needing ready for hillary pak. and they are going to tell you he was not real, it was a joke, we never took him seriously. >> i wonder how he feels now that he in the hot seat, he had that witnesses he didn't have sympathy for brett kavanaugh to be in his shoes, feel like he was the wrongfully accused. now, avenatti says, i didn't do this, this is wrong, they will prove this as -- it done happen. i wonder how he feels now that shoe so other foot.

kennedy: interesting. but also, you know there are so many people despite michael avenatti they will let go of their own die process due proce. >> even on brett kavanaugh i believed that both -- in this case, i believe avenatti as well as accuse deserve due process. >> i think you know, if you are accused of something like this, it is so perilous in this climate it is very hard to come back from, even if there is full exoning a and facts come out he was wrong fully accused. i still don't. he will emerge with his representation. >> it will be tough, this speaks on larger problem in our

society, blind scales of justice are no longer blind. >> i think a problem with people like avenatti have been out made himself a martyr who have done fake you know -- tough guy thing, i am a testif tough guy,m going to bust him, and guess what, he set himself up for this. he made himself out to be. -- i'm not saying he is not get due process. by the way, if anyone deserves to have it denied is guy who tried to deny it for brett kavanaugh. >> he set himself as a brand of tough guy. >> people regardless, will be pulling quotes from his social media. >> talking about when they go low we hit harder, and don't tell me about how many wins have you had until you have been in the ring, he talks a lot about hitting people. >> thank you. >> coming up, critics been

challenging president trump pick for acting attorney general, they claim it is illegal, today president and matthew whitaker got good news, i will explain and get reactedñ??w

kennedy: welcome back, deputy of justice today defending president trump appointment of whitaker, saying it is authorized. democrat some republican on hill have been attacking president for selecting whitaker, arguing the legality of the move, joining me now. mark lauder welcome back. >> thank you. kennedy: so, let's discuss. this whitaker story is still ongoing. and many people were saying that this was unconstitutional, and

unauthorized. >> i'm not a lawyer, i can understand this, this is not a play area of the law, it of settled in 1792 reaffirmed 1898, and been standard operate procedures if for over 200 years, every president has made appointment like this on a temporary basis without need for senate confirmation. george w, and barack obama and thomas jefferson, it not a question. >> thank you. the president, you know some look back at past tweets, some things he said about jeff sessions. they say because of this president just wants to shut down the mueller ve investigatin and using someone like whitaker and putting him in charge because he has made public statement about how to shut down mueller probe, some say this is

a directive by president, he talks about removing sessions, sarah sanders saying that president has every right to fight back. can president fight back with words on social media without creating a political firestorm? >> well, president can voice his frustration as he has for last 18 months over the investigation. but, what we're not seeing is anything that backing that claim up. in terms of shutting it down, still going, white house is still cooperating there are reporting that white house is finalizing their decision whether president will answer questions from special counsel add we speak, up in of wishful thinks from liberal is proving to be true in the very least, it is their opposition to this nomination based to fear is rail just full on trump derange.ment

syndrome. kennedy: it looks like mueller investigation will finish. the president ahead he has no desire to actually shut it down, and at-this-point, i think that would be politically foolish. nevertheless, jeff flake and coons from proposed legislation in a senate to protect bob mueller, mitch mcconnell will not put on to the docket. >> there no reason to. president has not taken any act this is grandstanding by democrats and jeff flake, one thing we know, in 7 weeks jeff f flake will not longer be a senator. he will try to get his 5 more minutes of fame. >> he will not vote for a judicial appointment. >> he is grandstand, he has

committed himself to conservative principles and justice and he will gum up the works. kennedy: he has great ideas but not a good politician, mark lawsuiter thanlauder ti. >> topical storm is next stay here.

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