actually be in the running. don't forget friday night. have a wonderful evening, everyone. always good to spend time with you. kennedy begins right now. kennedy: thank you, trish. the battle over the border wall gets heated at the white house. top democrats have claiming victory of course, but will president trump get the last laugh? earlier today senate minority leader schumer and house minority leader pelosi visited the president in the oval office. they were trying to hammer out a deal to fund the border wall and avoid a government shutdown next friday. and with cameras rolling, surprised cameras, president trump and chuck schumer, went toe-to-toe. watch. >> the one thing i think we can agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute. and you want to shut it down. >> no, no, no. the last time, chuck, you shut it down. >> no, no. >> and then you opened it very

quickly. >> 20 times. >> i don't want to do what you did. >> 20 times yuled for i will shut -- you called for i will shut down the government if i don't get my wall. you said it. >> i will take it. okay? >> good. >> if we don't get what we want, one way or another, i will shut down the government. >> we disagree. >> i'm proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. i'm not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, it didn't work. i will take the mantle of shutting it down. i'm going to shut it down for border security. >> we believe you shouldn't shut it down. >> thank you very much, everybody. kennedy: wow, it was like two old new yorkers fighting over the last bagel. for some reason after the meeting pelosi reportedly questioned the president's manhood as if things weren't

strange enough. it is unclear which side truly has the upper hand. as far as congressional votes are concerned. will we see a shutdown and who is going to get the blame? and was today's stand off a sign of wonderful things to come once democrats take power in the house? joining me now, he will be one of nancy pelosi's subjects very soon, kentucky congressman. welcome back. >> thanks for having me on. kennedy: what did you think of that entertaining exchange? >>i'm all for transparency. i think you need more of that. i'm in some meetings in congress, i wish there could be cameras there. if the voters could see what goes on, it would be better m kennedy: who do you think came out on top of this three-way battle royale? >> trump is in a great negotiating position because the little secret that nobody is discussing in the news is that the shutdown would only shut down one quarter of one quarter of the government. i don't mean to disappoint

conservatives, but so much of the government was already funded back in september. the soldiers are already going to get paid for a year. the military is funded. okay? department of education, department of labor, health and human services, all funded. the va is funded. so what we're talking about here really if trump does shut it down, if it is his shutdown, we're talking about extended vacation for nasa workers and the epa. that's about -- i mean there's not much more than that. less than 10% of the government that would not be funded. kennedy: i know you have written very tightly worded legislation abolishing entire departments of the federal government. is there any way if we have a shutdown like this you and your colleagues can write something that says that instead of, you know, taking a little bit from here and a little bit from there and, you know, government workers get a little time off, they will get paid eventually, can we just abolish the department of commerce?

>> we could start there. i would like to get rid of the department of education. >> that was your bill. i think it should have passed >> you know, the deadline is december 31st, 2018 for it to shut down in my legislation. look, even that is already funded. even in the shutdown, if it were to happen, the department of education would be funded. that's what nobody is talking about. to be very serious, the president is in a very good position because if he does -- if he doesn't blink, and if he says give me the wall or i'm not signing this bill, what happens is the epa doesn't get funded, and some of the department of interior and nasa for instance and people may not miss it. that's the dangerous thing for the liberals and the proponents of bigger government is what if nobody cares after two weeks that the epa is shut down. kennedy: yeah, that's always the danger of an ultimatum is someone likes to be single and mingle and that's never a good feeling. the president also threatened to have the military go build the

wall. i don't think he can do that. do you think he can do that? >> practically he cannot do that. but what i heard him say is i would use the military for border security. so i think he could, you know, as he's done in the past use them to assist the border agents there, but i don't think they can actually be building a wall. certainly not a permanent wall. but look -- kennedy: what if it is one of those temporary walls that's actually built with really good material that's hard to blow down with humans or hurricanes. >> temporary walls are very expensive. kennedy: yeah, they are. >> something that you could take down and put up. back to that point, the military is fully funded for the full year. that's the thing that we did hear in the house and the senate is trump is in a very good negotiating position, if he wants to drive a hard bargain because three quarters of discretionary spending is already funded for a full year. and 100% of the nondiscretionary funding. we're only talking about a quarter of a quarter percent

that would not get funded if the president drives this hard bargain and doesn't get his wall. kennedy: i know. you guys really need to tackle the nondiscretionary spending. >> that's three quarters of the government right there. kennedy: it is too much. >> not even on the table. kennedy: let's get a new table. >> we're supposed to have a speaker for the last two years, actually a little bit longer than that, chairman of ways and means and chairman of budget et and an expert on this type of spending. kennedy: i know how to tinker with numbers. i'm a policy. cut with my giant scissors. >> none of that happened. kennedy: nothing, no. he preached that. good job, paul. while funding for the wall is causing major political divisions, the parties seem to be coming together for a different reason and that's criminal justice reform. president trump is pressuring mitch mcconnell to hold a vote on the bill. today the leader agreed saying he's going to take it up this

month. today in the oval office the president expressed his delight. >> we just heard word, got word that mitch mcconnell and the group are going to be putting it up for a vote. we have great democrat support, great republican support. criminal justice reform, something that people have been trying to get how long? many many years. >> a long time. kennedy: the bill would allow judges a little more discretion for reducing sentences for non-violent drug crimes, also assistance to help inmates develop skills to readjust to life after prison. will this get passed before the end of the year or is tom cotton going to go in and screw everything up, congressman? >>i think it is going to pass in the senate. a version of it has already passed in the house. the vote was 360 to 59. now, that version only had prison reform. this version as you just mentioned also has sentencing reform. so some of the republicans get a little queasy at that.

they want to lock them up and throw away the key. you still have a lot of republicans in the house who would vote for this bill. we've get an expedited process for passing a bill. if we know we can get two thirds majority, then you don't have to run it through committee and debate all that time. we could pass it very quickly in the house. with the two thirds majority, if the senate will pass it. and it's a good bill. kennedy: it is one of the few areas where you like to see bipartisan consensus because it's really not spending money. it's about -- it's ultimately about freedom and redemption and i think those are great things for the republican party and either party to embrace. i will give you the last word on anything you so choose, young man. >> well, i say locking people up in prison is like socialism with restrained mobility; right? you're paying for their food, their healthcare, their housing, their cable tv, and so conservatives shouldn't be locking for everybody up because it's just like socialism with restrained mobility. and i think judges do need more

discretion. republicans, we're for republican form of government. we're for leaving things to the states. i think we should leave more discretion to the judges so they don't end up locking up people for too long of a period of time. and the more non-violent people that you lock up, the more violent criminals you have to let go because there are only so many jails. kennedy: you also take non-violent people and turn them into violent people because their lives are irreparably changed by the system. lock them up. it is a fun thing to say, especially lock her up, not a fun thing to pay for. congressman, always appreciate your time. if we don't see you, merry christmas. >> thanks. kennedy: back to the border wall and potential for a government shutdown. who wins, who loses if the fed closes up shop? tonight's panel is a good one. former state department spokesperson, cohost on fox news radio. and he is the author of bulls eye brief adam johnson is here. and young voice spokesperson

steven kent in the house. welcome everyone. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: government shutdown, are you for it or against it? >> i'm against it. kennedy: wrong! >> that was an extraordinary exchange today. it's like the season of the reality show; right? >> i was going to say the apprentice is back. kennedy: i loved it. i would love to see more things -- and i like that you -- they don't just get to be politicians because they really are frustrated with each other, and i think it is better for them to express some authentic frustration. i really do. i would like to see how the process works. >> hold on, do we think good deals get cut under that pressure? >> no, i don't think this is conducive to cutting a deal policy making wise but it probably helps all of them politically to fight with each other. i think what was so interesting today is that chuck schumer made very clear that there are two kinds of deals that republicans and democrats will support in the house and the senate. and donald trump can take either of those, but if it doesn't have the level of border funding he

wants, he can shut the government down. the choice is fairly simple here. and i don't think anything -- but to your point, no progress got made by this televised catfight. >> if it weren't televised, would we have had more progress? >> i will take the other side of that. i think the fact that you gave all parties an opportunity to get it out there, let them be real -- what you did was -- >> we only have ten days. >> as the congressman said, it is not that big of a deal anyway. >> we didn't learn anything new from this tv catfight. >> also true. >> they actually talked together. they actually sat in the same room. they actually had something to say. it was a little awkward, i agree. it was a little weird especially afterwards. >> i don't have a problem with this. i will tell you why because so often when people go up before cameras, whether it's the president or chuck and nancy, they have their stupid prescripted points. >> talking points, yes.

>> and their strawmen -- >> this was real. >> when you are presented with an issue and you have to counterpunch, it does show people's hands and it shows how deeply dug in each side really is. >> i think what was real was the level of discomfort felt by the democratic leaders there. they did not know how to deal with this format. >> do they want a blankie and safe space? >> no, they didn't know how to handle -- >> this is the minority leader of the senate and incoming house speaker. >> i think they -- look, donald trump said his peace, everybody listened to him. he passed it off to nancy pelosi. he immediately started interrupting her. i will say as a democrat, not a huge fan of either pelosi or schumer, i thought they did a pretty good job today standing up to the president, not letting him bully them like many people do. they laid it out clearly, we have policies here, mr. president.

>> it's nice to see people actually -- >> i would argue that actually what we saw today is the very reason why donald trump got elected. you can argue whether it was a popular election win or electoral election win. people put him in washington to effectively knock down the walls, to get a job done, to make people uncomfortable, to have a dialogue. he's doing it, with tax reform. are you kidding me? >> we're not talking about tax reform. we're talking about shutting the government down or getting an immigration deal. that spectacle today only works if it's combined with private serious substantive negotiations. by the way, house and senate republicans have to be in those too because those caucuses are not on board with the president either right now. >> are you happy to see no discussion of the dreamers and trying to figure out what we're going to do with the legal status of those people in this country? >> nancy pelosi is ready to

untether them from her wagon. >> it is an interesting question. i have argued this deal to keep the government open needs to be very narrowly tailored, should not include the wall, not include daca, not include the contentious issues they will fight about -- >> but why? >> we haven't got these done in 30, 40, 50 years -- >> because they don't want to give the president a win. if they give him a win on border funding and daca, that makes him way too popular with independents. they are much much happier doing absolutely nothing. and they will get together and spend stupid amounts of money on things inconsequential. a federal judge says mueller needs to show the goods before president trump's former campaign chairman gets sentenced to the big house. but what does this mean for the president himself? my next guest predicts an indictment is coming. andy mccarthy joins me to explain next.

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♪ kennedy: a federal judge has ordered special counsel robert mueller to put up or shut up in his case against paul manafort. mueller's team is accusing the president's former campaign manager of violating his plea

deal by telling, quote, multiple discernible lies that were not instances of mere memory lapses. these lies are said to involve manafort's contact with the trump administration as well as a russian ukrainian political operative, but earlier today a judge ruled that the document filed by prosecutors did not contain enough factual evidence to proceed to a hearing. the special counsel seems to be on a hot streak of late. how will this setback affect the president and manafort? joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor andy mccarthy is here. welcome back. >> nice to be with you, kennedy. kennedy: what was the judge saying that there was not enough factual evidence to make the case that paul manafort had violated the plea agreement that he had as special counsel? >> yeah, i think this is a lot of heavy breathing. mostly what the judge wants them to do is go off and see if they can't work it out. in point of fact, i'd like to

say that i've written a bunch of these agreements, except that they are really kind of wrote agreements. they are very one-sided in favor of the prosecutor because the prosecutor always has all the cards when you're dealing with somebody who pleads guilty and wants a cooperation sort of leniency deal. kennedy: uh-huh. >> most people think they are bargaining to give information to the prosecutor. actually all you are bargaining for is a chance to allow the prosecutor to evaluate whether he thinks you're telling the truth or not, and all you -- kennedy: it sounds like they really don't have to show anything, and the ball is really in the prosecutor's court to control. so why is this such an uphill fight for manafort given that, you know, he hasn't really been indicted for anything having to do with the campaign or the president specifically? >> yeah, well, his current problem is that he's already been convicted on about i think

ten counts, and he's got probably upwards of 120, 130 years of potential prison exposure. so he's got two avenues as i see it. one is to try to convince mueller that he is of great value. that doesn't seem to be going very well. and the other is the possibility of being pardoned, and the interesting dynamic here, kennedy, is those two things are really at loggerheads. kennedy: it is interesting as you point out, it doesn't really matter if manafort violated the agreement that these things are written so prosecutors can just decide if they want to do away with you. it's interesting because on the flip side, the mueller team seems to be pretty happy with what michael cohen has presented to them, but at the same time, concurrently, you have the southern district of new york which said really nasty gossipy things about michael cohen in their sentencing memo and you think that spells trouble for

the president. why? >> well, i think if you read that memo that the southern district of new york, my old office filed, it looks like a testimonial to the vital nature of the campaign finance laws in our election system, and it's, you know, it is a way to claw back authority from the rich and the powerful and tamp down on public cynicism about money and elections and the like. it doesn't look to me like that was written for cohen. they look like from the beginning they have been trying to make a case on the president, to the point, kennedy, that when cohen pled guilty in court, they elicited from him that he was directed by trump. that was not necessary to anything -- that was not necessary to establishing the factual basis for cohen's plea, and usually the justice department goes out of its way not to mention publicly people who have not been charged formally. kennedy: what could this mean for the president? you have written that he could

potentially be indicted when he leaves office, which, you know, leaves people like adam schiff utterly gleeful. >> yeah, well, the fact that i think that the southern district is heading that way doesn't mean i think it's a good case. i really don't. i don't think that those kinds of payments actually are supposed to be in kind campaign donations under the law. they usually are handled by administrative fine, not criminal prosecution. it is hard for me to believe that you could get a high crime and misdemeanor out of something that's usually handled by a fine. kennedy: the president says it was not that big of a deal. it is not a crime. we will see what happens. this case isn't going anywhere any time soon. it also doesn't seem to be wrapping up any time soon. andy mccarthy, thank you very much. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: indeed. coming up, you want to laugh? good luck because the pc police

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kennedy: well, they are at war with fun, they are going to smother the life out of any college gathering. college used to be a place for the young and the restless. now it's a clinical playground for dictatorial social engineers led by the terrified and humorless. one student club at the university of london forced comics to sign a behavioral agreement in order to perform on their campus and made those comics promise to refrain from anything that might veer into racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ablism, homophobia,

isl islamphobia, antireligion. can you imagine? this is utter nonsense. college and comedy are supposed to go hand in hand to make you think and laugh and take you to the edge and occasionally throw you into a meat grinder when it is done right. instead you have got a generation of attachment parenting victims who are not only edgeless. they have been worn down and compressed into boring spheres in the name of their own tragic safety. do you know what happens when you tell a joke that pokes gentle fun at race and sexuality at columbia university? they kill your mic. that happened when someone dared jab at intersectionalism. kevin hart initially stood up to the mob and refused to apologize for anti-gay tweets that were unearthed before his oscar hosting duties.

he said i chose to pass on the apology. i have addressed this several times. i have moved on. and i'm in a completely different place in my life. unfortunately, he too eventually caved into the pc mob. he did apologize. and he stepped down. human beings are not static sacks whose intention and identity are derived from a single crystallized moment on twitter. and hypersensitivity is not a virtue. this joyless mob activism is a breeding ground for authoritarianism and god bless the few brave souls who take it seriously enough to stand up to the nonsense and make fun of the whole thing. that's the memo. >> some comedy greats like chris rock and jerry seinfeld they refuse to appear on college

campuses anymore at all. how do we prevent the political correctness from killing comedy? the panel is back. marie, adam, and steven, we're in a very precious spot. >> yes, this is tough. we have an entire generation of people who are coming up with an inability to be confronted with things they find to be challenging, disruptive to their lives. listen i think the pc thing on campus is an isolated sort of incident, but the real issue is going to be when these people enter the workforce which many of them already are. you are sort of seeing this in the tech companies, silicon valley, google. what happens when this permeates into places with great power. we have seen that go awry on social media. kennedy: that's what happens generationally and it is not to say that every millennial or every gen y or gen z, whatever you want to call coming generations and those who are matriculating right now, it is not to say every single one of them is lazy and bubble wrapped, but i will tell you --

>> bubble wrapped maybe. kennedy: there's something going on, this idea of cultural safety. >> right. kennedy: they are desperately trying to make it a reality. >> i think there are two sides to this story because i have been thinking about this a lot. on the one hand, i'm the first person to tell you i'm sick and tired of this whole helicopter parenting thing where everybody who runs a race gets a medal. i disagree with that, winners get the medals. on the other hand, life is hard. there are certain things that are stupid and you should never say. whether it was kevin hart going on twitter i know it was five years ago and making blatantly homophobic jokes, that's stupid, don't do that. kennedy: see, that's one of my points is something dumb you say, at one point in time, it doesn't define you. and it also doesn't define your intention as a human being and i think he made a really good point and this is something we

have lost sight of, is that people do move on. they evolve. >> redemption is possible. >> redemption cannot be impossible. at one point in our history until recently when you said something stupid, it didn't live on forever on the internet. twitter has put a whole other level on this. youtube where people take videos of these things. i don't think people should have to suffer the consequences of something dumb they said forever and ever. i also think we have to be able to distinguish real racism, real sexism, really offensive things from the things that outrage people. it happens on both sides. they look at the other side and look at everything they disagree with and boycott and ask for advertiser boycotts. >> the internet has made the outrage culture so -- >> they make themselves seem really big and there are a lot of corporations that give into it. unfortunately what it also does is when there are really serious and egregious acts, not just words, those tend to be

minimized and people go oh, well, i'm just the victim of a mob when actually you may have people who are guilty of things like sexual assault, but it all gets lumped into the same inartful umbrella and there's something very wrong about that. >> i absolutely agree. it makes it easier for people to dismiss the real issues, comments, actions that are racist, that are sexist, that are assault. i mean it makes it easier for people to say oh that's just a mob. kennedy: i'm sorry, comedy should be able to make fun of all of those things. comedy should be able to amplify and make fun of stereotypes. >> comedy does cross the line sometimes where it is not funny anymore. i mean -- >> and it is offensive. >> and it is offensive. part of that is good judgment. kennedy: i don't know, man, i used to love being offended. i'm so hard to offend. i grew up listening to richard pryor and watching -- >> i don't think he could say that stuff anymore. kennedy: no, you can't. and where does it go ten years

from now? what won't you be able to say in ten years? good lord. thank you guys so much for being here. >> it's a pleasure. kennedy: we've got some news about google ceo sundar pichai, appearing before the house judiciary committee today. he stood up the senate. to answer questions on privacy issues and political bias. he was a no-show at that senate hearing with other tech execs who were present in september. lawmakers hammered him for everything, but republicans really pushed hard on whether or not the search engine is anticonservative. watch. >> those at the top set the tone. it will require a herculean effort by the chief executives and senior management to change the political bias now programmed into the company's culture. >> for you to come in here and say there's no political bias and google tells us you either are being dishonest, i don't want to think that, or you don't have a clue how politically

biassed google is. kennedy: of course pichai said google was a straight-laced operation and the monopoly man was there too. >> i lead this company without political bias and work to ensure that our products continue to operate that way. >> there he was, right there in the back. some congressmen and women raised the idea of regulating google. would that really help the situation? joining moe new from national taxpayers -- joining me now from national taxpayers union, where she's a senior fellow. welcome. >> thank you. kennedy: i understand the impulses. google is really unfair to conservatives, thereafter as conservatives, we have to use the government to shut down google. is that the wrong impulse? >> i don't understand that impulse quite so much. all this conversation about whether or not google or any tech platforms are biassed against conservatives really ignores the recent history of

conservative thought. there have been nothing better -- the fact the conservatives have been able to use these platforms to build audiences they otherwise never could have is the result of the fact that we were shut out from traditional media. that's why there has been such a large conservative footprint on these tech platforms. i get very skeptical when conservatives say that google or facebook or twitter are bad for conservatives when in fact the opposite is true. without these platforms and the ability for people to speak directly to audiences without the incumbents putting barriers in their way. there wouldn't be conservative thought. there wouldn't be all these great conversations we get to have every day because these tools have been available to people when they were shut out of the mainstream to begin with. kennedy: that's true. that's where the fairness doctrine comes in. and i would hate to see the government in position of the fairness doctrine when it comes to content and tech. i think that would be a horrible idea because, you know, it feels

safe because there's a republican president and republicans still control the senate. they are not going to have the house for more than a few more weeks. >> uh-huh. kennedy: but when the pendulum is in a very different place, i don't think they will want to see that application. >> right. let's think about what fairness actually means. fairness means that the law is executed in a way that it doesn't matter who is in political control. and you're right, if we were to turn over the lever, the regulation of these entities or more to politicians, you can imagine how tricky that would get. now, of course the advent of technology has raised some complexity questions. how do we regulate responsibly these kinds of environments where speech now is so pervasive? i think this is a good problem to have. it is a uniquely american problem to have too. the 1st amendment doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. this is only a problem that we have in the united states where you actually get to have the free competition of ideas and that's the default setting for every piece of speech that happens in the united states. we've seen this conflict and how it works out across the pond.

the eu is contemplating how they are going to tax these companies simply for the criminal activity of being these companies, right? if the eu wants to take these companies on simply because they are big and successful what they do. the united states has taken a much more even hand. we need to keep that in mind. the 1st amendment is tricky business. there's a reason for that. it is because it's very very important. kennedy: hopefully it remains important to people like tim cook who has been a pretty vocal advocate for free speech and the 1st amendment and even the 4th amendment. hopefully consistency will prevail and constitutionality. thank you very much. >> good to see you. >> thank you. for more on the ceo's testimony on capitol hill, go to foxbusiness.com. coming up, a manhunt underway after a deadly shooting at a christmas market in france. officials there are treating the incident as terrorism. we will bring you the

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now. at least three people are dead, 11 critically injured after a terror attack in france. here's a live look at the city. the city is on lockdown and a manhunt is underway for the shooter who targeted a popular christmas market there. the suspect has been identified and was known to authorities before the attack. joining me now for former cia officer and president of diligence llc, mike baker. what do we know so far? >> well, we donn know the motive; right? or at least they haven't released the motive. the french service has always been extremely cautious about this sort of thing. it is no surprise. it is a surprise they came out as quickly as they did and labelled it a terrorist incident. the individual is on their database on their terror database. that's a wide net. so there could be a multitude of reasons why the person was known to them. it doesn't have to be just, you know, associated with terrorism in a sense. and apparently the shooter does have a criminal background. but look, this christmas market,

this christmas market is adjacent next to the cathedral. it's been -- i hate to say this -- but christmas markets throughout europe are high priority security sites because they have been of interest to the terrorists, whether it's isis or any others for a long time. this particular cathedral in this city was targeted 18 years ago, i mean pre-9/11. and there was a bombing plot against the cathedral that was stopped the last minute essentially because british services were able to pick up, intercept some communications between supportered involved in the bombing plot. this has been a target for some time. we don't know the motive. we don't want to jump to conclusions, but the french are still searching for the shooter. kennedy: it's really interesting because it seems as though terror fears are particularly low right now. and as you pointed out, isis and al qaeda have been kneecaped but you still have some very active and angry members who want to

change behavior by inflicting terror. >> right, it would be wrong to assume that just because it's kind of slipped off our radar, look, we have all got short attention spans, but the threat is still there. i mean, isis still controls some territory in syria, despite all the efforts of the coalition to date. but we have, and i don't think the administration frankly has got enough credit for this, over the past year and a half or so, but as you say, they've kneecaped it. they have degraded significantly, isis ability to recruit new individuals, to plot and plan for attacks outside of that area. and that is to the administration's credit because they have had a very aggressive effort to degrade isis. kennedy: i want to shift a little bit and talk about something else the administration is doing differently. and that is in regards to china because every administration seems to turn a blind eye to the fact that china is engaging in economic espionage, and a lot of intellectual property theft, which i think is an even larger

issue than some of the tariff challenges that we have seen. so how is this president tackling that? and are these negotiations on tariffs the time where we're going to actually see a shift and not just words from president xi? >> right, well, it is a great topic. we could spend all night talking about this. it is very close to my heart. look, i'm old enough that i can say this, several decades ago, when i first started working for the cia, one of the first things i was engaged in was targeting chinese espionage efforts. that was a long time ago. so nobody should be under the impression that somehow this is a recent development that china's -- that the state has been hoovering up intellectual property and stealing secrets for somehow it just happened recently, this has been going on for a long time. i'm very heartened by the fact that this administration for the first time seems to be willing

at least at this point to go to the mat with the chinese authorities, with xi in particular to say you can't keep doing this. kennedy: they can't keep doing it. >> yes. kennedy: you also have to have companies that stand up and don't just give over their secrets and their technology. mike baker, thank you very much. >> right, sure, thank you, kennedy. take care. kennedy: always good to talk to you on a multitude of

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kennedy: washington redskins quarterback johnson says he played the madden video game to learn the name of his teammates. the names rather. this sort of thing has happened before in 2011, when andy dalton joined the cincinnati bengals he learned his teammate names by watching -- [inaudible]. we begin tonight at a wisconsin cracker barrel where every meal comes with a free punch. oh, no. witnesses say a customer complained about his food, but the waiter told him to talk to the hand. the wild melee wiped out $400 in cracker barrel merchandise which works out to five rabbit claw back scratchers, to big mouth billy basses and ten copies of oklahoma's greatest hits on cassette. thankfully cops were able to break it up before somebody got

strangled with a heated dog leash. there was a rumor on the internet that the suspect was a player on the green bay packers, but the cops quickly shot that down because the packers don't beat anybody this year. [laughter] kennedy: topic number two. a new study claims that james bond has a severe drinking problem because of the amount of alcohol he consumes in his films. it turns out his real code name is 007 and 7. researchers in new zealand determined during his six decades on screen he has consumed average 4 1/2 drinks per movie which would explain why he keeps sending the agent a bunch of texts. bond's career high for drinks was six martinis during one of his movies. if you haven't seen it, that's the one where the bad guys wins while james is passed out in a denny's. there's no word on when bond's intervention will take place,

but there is talk of updating his film catalog to accommodate the lifestyle of a drunk. for instance, casino royale could become crown royal and of course there's you only hurl twice, on a good night. topic number three, let's go to beautiful arizona where the department of transportation is taking on a massive pet project. look at this. a pack of dogs, brought traffic to a stand still after they ran on to i 17 during a morning rush. it is a cute sight to be sure, but unfortunately all of them were busted for jaywalking by the county sheriff's office. they are being forced to live in a tent city. they tried to post bail, but the court wouldn't accept paws as a form of currency. i'm just kidding. they don't put dogs in prison. but rats are another story. if you don't believe me, ask michael cohen. he was asking for it.

topic number four, here we are congratulations are in order to the band queen whose song bohemian rhapsody is the most streamed classic rock song from the 20th century. it turns out the members of queen are really the champions. the universal music group says the song has surged in popularity because of the bio picture of the same name. unfortunately there's also been a surge in neck injuries from middle aged headbangers singing the song in their cars. never mind what will happen when the social justice crowd hears they have a song. it has streamed over 1.6 billion times but not everybody agrees on the song. these two are more of a ♪ we will we will we will rock

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