plus general jack keane is here with his thoughts on how maduro goes once and for all. have a terrific night. see you right back here tomorrow. kennedy begins next. kennedy: alexander ocasio cortez is full of hot baloney about everything and in the last 24 hours we have learned just how big of a hypocrite the freshman socialist congresswoman really is and some of it could put her in legal jeopardy. let's start with her running amazon out of new york city. good job, that genius move cost the big apple up to 50,000 jobs and tens of billions in tax revenue. she claims she couldn't let the tax giant get a bunch of government handouts. that is partially true, but the rest of it is very shortsighted. get this, however, after an incredible amount of backlash including a series of manhattan billboards shaming her, aoc is now flip-flopping like every other politician in the world. according to her top aide, the

congresswoman now says amazon might be allowed into new york city after all, but only if there is community input. translation, her constituents want amazon's tax dollars and good paying jobs. congrats aoc you are now a full-blown hypocrite. but wait, there's more. remember how she's been so vocal against dark money in politics? how transparency was so -- [inaudible] -- you guys? looks like that might have been bs too according to a new federal elections commission complaint. aoc's chief of staff allegedly funneled millions of dollars in donations through a pair of political action committees, that part is fine but went into two private companies that he also controlled. you are not allowed to hide that kind of money naturally. ocasio cortez is denying any wrongdoing. watch. >> there is no violation.

there's no violation. >> -- taking dark money? >> oh, no, no. [inaudible]. kennedy: it's not dark money. what? but if true, what kind of trouble could team aoc really be in? is this the kind of thing that could sink her brand new political career? joining me now is an attorney with all the answers. so gayle, what is the big deal in this complaint? >> right, well these are serious and troubling allegations, and if they are true, they could result in serious consequences, including jail time. essentially we have very strict campaign finance laws that require reporting, which goes into what you're talking about, the hypocrisy, that there's a need for transparency, and then there are also campaign contribution limits and these allegations basically pull back the veil on what possibly her campaign was doing in coordination with an independent

pac, a pac that's supposed to not be controlled by the campaign, and then also the allegations are that money was taken from the pacs, funneled into separate organizations, that were not pacs, and they were disguised as consulting fees. and thus, that information -- kennedy: that sounds a great way to make money, pay yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, ain't politics great? who says you can't make a bunch of money? i understand why her chief of staff might be in trouble. but why is aoc potentially in hot water as well? >> right, well, they are -- the candidates are required to file forms, and if you look at the forms that have been put in these news reports, it did not show that aoc and her chief of staff, who is a campaign manager at that time, were controlling this pac. and that is a failure -- any time you submit a federal

election reporting form, you need to be truthful. you need to be honest -- honest. it's so ironic that aoc has been out there talking about transparency and the malign influence of money in politics, and yet these are very clear rules that every candidate has to follow. kennedy: who has violated these rules in the past that we might know about? is there a high-profile story that -- >> yes, there was a recent case in 2015, under similar factual allegations of this, with aoc and her campaign, and the person who was prosecuted for those criminal allegations had to serve jail time, so this is a very serious allegation that could really derail the socialist want to be of the democratic party, and as you started at the very beginning of this segment, when you can't even get the rules right and follow the laws, if you're

trying to add additional laws and you disregard the laws that are already on the books, it makes constituents wonder what your agenda is. kennedy: well, and her chief of staff, he's a tech millionaire, a multimillionaire, made a bunch of money in silicon valley and he went on msnbc and basically laid out a road map for this very thing, and he says in his facts page that it was no secret what he was doing. they were doing something new. they were doing something big, and with her it certainly worked because justice democrats were backing a number of up and coming political campaigns and hers obviously got the most traction. she won and has stumbled into a high degree of notoriety since then, but some of the defenses she might be using have also been used by the trump white house. and, you know, talking about unorthodox approaches to politics, which is fine, and also, you know, these are

first-time politicians, and they are going to make mistakes, but it doesn't seem like aoc is really going to be gracious and forgiving in terms of some of the mistakes the president has made. >> and maybe she should understand the law before she's out there trying to make new legislation to limit the freedoms of fellow americans. so i would say that's incumbent on her to understand what the law is, particularly when she's entrusted with her constituents' money who want to contribute to her campaign, and ignorance of the law is no defense. kennedy: no, she might find that out the hard way. it is really interesting. i can see how her chief of staff may be in trouble, but, you know, these are just growing pains of being the boss, i guess. gayle trotter, thank you very much. >> great to be with you, kennedy. >> kennedy: amen, sister. over at the white house president trump lashing out today at house democrats as they step up their investigations against him. he tweeted now that they realize

the only collusion with russia was done by crooked hillary and the democrats, nadler, schiff and the dem heads of the committees have gone stone cold crazy. 81 letters sent to innocent people to harass them, they won't get anything done for our country. and white house press secretary sarah sanders also called it a disgraceful and abusive investigation. our very own judge andrew napolitano said earlier today democrats are casting too wide a net. watch. >> it is not specific what jerry nadler is looking for. the president is right, this is almost literally a witch hunt. they are looking for anything they can find. kennedy: witch hunt, it's like a poorly organized scavenger hunt. meanwhile, john cornyn says democrats are feeling desperate as the mueller probe winds down. watch? >> they're worried the mueller report will come up with basically nothing against the president, in regards collusion,

so that's why i think they are launching this full assault which as i say there's a prelude to impeachment and we'll make sure that we can't get anything else done -- and will make sure that we can't get anything else done. kennedy: jerry nadler is still defending his probe saying quote we have to make sure this is not a dictatorship. is it a fishing expedition or a witch hunt? joining me now president trump's 2020 campaign national press secretary back in action. welcome back. >> hey, kennedy, great to join you. kennedy: i think it is a bad move for democrats because it could backfire in so many ways, and if they were really focused, and really aggressive in a narrower lane, i think they could do more damage to the president. i have said it before and i will say it to you now, i don't think impeachment is the worst thing for president trump's 2020 prospects. >> look how it worked out for bill clinton it backfired on republicans. that's the famous example people

keep bringing up. this is clearly -- there's no evidence of anything here. there was substantive evidence in the clinton case of perjury. here you have absolutely nothing, no crime, no collusion, in fact you already have the senate democrats and the intel committee saying there's no evidence of collusion, it doesn't exist. so what are they doing? casting a wide net after innocent americans in what is a witch hunt after anyone related to trump. kennedy: you know what happens when your net is too wide, things fall through and then you catch dolphins, and that will be the most problematic for democrats, and you can see all of this going in a very obvious direction. and the problem is, democrats and the house feel very embol n emboldened, too much so, because there are a lot of people who still feel underserved by both parties in this country, and democrats haven't found a way to capitalize on what's going well and offering that to undecided and independent voters out there. i'm sure that's not the thing

that you want to hear, but it is very obvious how the president can take the green new deal and these investigations which could be a road to nowhere and potential impeachment and turn that into a trifecta for a 2020 victory >> no doubt about it, exposing the radicalism, the socialism, the relentless investigating, and key to this, the unwillingness to work across the aisle. we've seen the mold, how this can work, criminal justice reform, for example. but democrats are choosing not to do this. they are running afoul of the american people. there is a poll, rasmussen end of last year, voters were asked, do you think democrats, the incoming house majority to work with the president or to impeach? it was nearly 70% said work with the president. so they are doing the exact opposite of what the people have said for them to do. kennedy: people were relieved when the shutdown ended. not just people who were affected by it and people who work for the federal government or contractors who had their paychecks withheld for an uncomfortably long period of time, i agree with you, they do want people to work together, and they have a great deal of

respect for people like joe manchin, and you know, even later on we will talk about other senators who are working on legislation to wind down the war in afghanistan, finally. but i want to ask you, and i want you to think about this critically and objectively, who is the president least looking forward to taking on in the 2020 presidential race? >> there's no one. i can tell you this because he's not scared of a single person out there. how can you run against this economy? kennedy: some are worse than others. >> really not because look -- kennedy: then i will put it this way. does he want someone who is more of a socialist? is that a better punching bag for him than someone who is a moderate like amy klobuchar? >> i think there are two options that are equally bad. you have the joe biden types who is not in yet, but he's been in washington 45 years. he oversaw the failed obama economy. and then you have got the socialists. neither are good. how do you choose between bad and worse? i think that's what we're up against. kennedy: well, you also have people like howard schultz which

could serve as a spoiler and democrats are really worried about him, but then mark cuban might get in as an independent as well. so it seems like it is such a free-for-all that it could really -- and there are people who thought that jill stein and gary johnson were going to hurt president trump, but it ended up hurting hilary clinton. are you praying for a third and fourth party contender as well? >> certainly. we would love to see howard schultz out there, another one of these independents for sure, that would definitely help us in the long run. you mentioned amy klobuchar. i mentioned joe biden. kennedy: does the president have a nickname for her yet? >> i don't think so. there was a comment about how she was covered in snow during her announcement. i think we all saw that. kennedy: i thought the president would capitalize on her eating with a comb. >> that was a little bizarre. i have to say. maybe that will be part of the nickname. we will have to find out. kennedy: dandy dandruff klobuchar over there. we will see.

great to see you. >> great to see you. kennedy: democratic lawmakers turning on one of their own over comments that seemed anti-semit anti-semitic. but now omar is refusing to apologize what a big surprise. what happens now? plus, the nsa has been illegally tracking americans for far too long. tonight some good news for all you liberty lovers, but does the curtailment go far enough? that's ahead. please stay here for every moment. -we're doing karaoke later, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay.

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okay for people to push for allegiance of foreign countries. kennedy: why do they all think that they are at a sit-in at the berkeley quad? some jewish lawmakers call it offensive to suggest they have a dual allegiance to israel and the united states. this has been the second time she has been rebuked in her party the last month. democrats have been preaching about the need for party unity. will the class of 19 get left behind? with us now, tonight's panel democratic strategist and attorney at law daniel mclaughlin is here. along with the jamie weinstein show pod cast host and jw strategies founding partner, jaime weinstein and look at this young americans for liberty president the young, the american, the cliff maloney. welcome, everyone. >> thank you. >> danielle,ly start with you.

-- i will start with you. >> i knew you would. kennedy: they have aoc in their class. they have to stand out. everybody has big ideas and big feelings and they are the product of the matriculation system in the united states, which is essentially a snow flake factory. and so everyone's got to be special and talk about their point of view but sometimes that runs counter with rationality and the party line. >> the party line was broken there and we can see the democrats really making a big effort here to make sure they are seen to be the party that is not full of anti-semites. i think this is different than the last gaffe. i think in all honesty this is different. kennedy: every gaffe is going to be magnified, though, unfortunately for her. >> of course it is. i think it is partly -- kennedy: maybe it is an isolated incident. it wouldn't be that bad. >> i just think in her defense she wasn't saying that jewish

people had a -- [inaudible] -- she said why should i as member of a congress have to tow a line on israel, this is not something that -- she's not saying that she's not being an antisemite, she's saying maybe netanyahu is being indicted, maybe i don't agree with -- kennedy: that's fine. >> she has freedom of speech to do that. kennedy: if she were capable of sprinkling those nuggets in as a little bit of factual context, that might help her case, i think she's an anti-semite. >> that was actually the worst one of the comments she made. what she's suggesting is that the americans who happen to be pushing for a stronger u.s. israel relationship because they believe it is in america's interest are actually loyal to israel. i'm pro-israel. i know none who are more loyal to israel than the united states. i think there's a deeper problem for the democratic party here. they should be worried what we have seen in the u.k. with the labour party maybe seeping over to the united states. this kind of coordination of kind of the progressive movement

here. if that moves the party to antiisrael position, and even in some cases making anti-semitic statements, they are going to be a minority party in this country for a long time, just like over in the u.k. the labour party should be in power now. the conservative party is a mess. no one wants to touch the labour party. kennedy: in this country, to follow up on that a little bit, you have some of the organizers of the womens march who were associated with antisemitism. you have some of lebron james comments. cheerily in different aspects -- clearly in different aspects of culture it is seeping in a way i personally find to be unacceptable. if i were in leadership in the house of representatives, i would do much more than have a strongly worded resolution that doesn't even say her name. >> that's the problem with politics being so culturally driven; right? i talk about emotion and people wanting to not talk about the policies. if she wanted to talk about f h foreign aid to israel, if she wanted to talk about the

relationship when it comes to policies we have, you can have some real conversations. anyone who pushes a pro-israel agenda is maybe giving them foreign aid actually makes them more reliant on the united states. so those types of conversations i think are very different than trying to just push and words matter, but you really really when you're focused on culture, you are not talking about the issues and debating the real problem. kennedy: when you are focused on emotion, you are never going to come to a set of rational conclusions. that's my other problem with her, but in her heart, i think she has reveal who had she really is, and if i were one of the jewish members of congress, who have stood up pretty forcefully, including the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, where she sits, you know, he said she doesn't need to be removed from the committee. maybe she does. what do you think? >> i don't profess to know what is in her heart. i think we have to be able to be honest about the separation between the jewish people and the state of israel. and i think that you can -- >> but she's not, though.

kennedy: no, she's not. >> she is saying that people in the united states have dual loyalty, jews to israel. >> she didn't say that. what she said -- >> what other loyalty -- >> she did not talk about jewish people. that's the difference i think between this comment and the apac -- kennedy: she does. she has. and she will continue to. she doesn't want to learn some of these gaffes. she has an agenda and she will do whatever she can. >> i think it is worthwhile to point out i mean there is this kind of idea that oh, people, are impugning her or other people because you can't criticize israel or you will be called anti-semitic which i think is total nonsense. we just saw brett stevens who is very pro-israel, pro netanyahu criticizing netanyahu in the new york times for his recent alliance in this up coming campaign. you saw very pro-israel people and generally pro netanyahu people criticize netanyahu. that happens all the time. kennedy: that's fine. you can criticize policy. you can have an issue with that, but it's the, you know, the dual

loyalty and the buying everything and buying loyalty, it is all problematic. coming up, for years the nsa has been snooping on our phones, keeping track of who we're calling and texting. all in the name of phony baloney security. are we really any safer because of it? my monologue says a big fat no. that's next.

kennedy: remember when we cared about privacy and the constitution, when edward snowden showed us back in 2013 the government was warrantlessly spying on millions of americans in a number of sickening ways including getting our data that was stored and misused later. some republicans claimed we were not only asking for it but this kind of unconstitutional data hoarding was for our own good. but actually the program was curtailed and the nsa believe it

or not has pretty much stopped using that method all together, about six months ago. the program part of the 2015 usa freedom act expires at the end of this year, and i say good riddance. if terrorists need surveilling, they are plenty of legal ways to peep into the darkest recesses of their androids but the government has way too many shady ways to spy on you, based on who you know and gossip about and all of that nonsense gets stored on multiple law enforcement and intelligence databases, regardless of if you have committed a crime or are a threat to national security. and that's the curious about thing about our surveillance apparatus. it has more roaming tentacles than a coped up octopus and various laws expire at different times and offer cover and opportunity for entities like the fbi to make your life a living hell even if you're innocent. last year with the help of persuasive and deceptive nunes congress reauthorized section 702 of fisa that expanded

multiple agencies abilities to sweep up innocent americans full digital communications in pursuit of foreign bad guys even when people here who should be protected by the 4th amendment weren't talking to the target and those e-mails texts and other digital data are accessible at any time for any real or suspected crime. and then the same lawmakers complained the deep state was corruptly spying on their guy and his associates with their expanded dark tools with almost no oversight. cry me a river. whenever the president or congress has the opportunity and authority to reel in these absurdly effective and powerful programs, or at the very least robustly debate the abuses and asupply safeguards, they -- and apply safeguards, they absolutely should. it is no surprise the nsa recently abandoned the data collection program because it issen count stoogsal -- is unconstitutional, provides a false sense of safety, is rife with abuse and doesn't actually

work to catch terrorists. that's the memo. kennedy: president trump has railed against the fisa abuses of the past but he did sign a bill last year extended many of these controversial programs, so should the white house reexamine america's surveillance state now that they have another crack at it? the party panel is back, danielle, jamie and cliff. cliff, i will start with you. and i get sick of the same old debate, well, you know, if you want to be safe, you have to give up little bit of that precious freedom. >> my advice to every american, stop trusting the government. i mean this is the problem when you think well, my party's in charge, so you know, i don't care. i have nothing to hide. kennedy: did the surveillance go smaller under president obama? >> no, it hasn't gotten smaller anybody. that's the problem here. i'm going to be pretty brutally honest here.

james clapper should be in prison and we should be thankful that edward snowden alerted the american people that the government has been spying on us. i mean, i'm glad the meta data is done and that they are reportedly not using it but them having the ability to use it, them having the ability to spy on americans. that should scare all of us. kennedy: it doesn't mean they are not going to use it again just because it is not in fashion now because these programs are still fully accessible. am i being paranoid, jamie? >> full disclosure i send my e-mails to the fbi every night. [laughter] >> i think this is overblown a little bit. i think the meta data thing, i think that's a legitimate thing, what you said the idea of balancing freedom and security. i don't think this is much of an attack on our freedom. the meta data is a lot of things that put out there in an algorithm to find what may be a threat. if there's abuses it should be prosecuted. kennedy: how do we know about the abuses? that's the problem. you are assuming there aren't that many abuses.

you are assuming that the system operates like the regular judicial system, but it doesn't. there's a fisa court who rubber stamps pretty much everything, it's the high 90%. with no oversight. they kind of look over it and go do what you've got to do. >> it's high 90% because it is a high bar to submit and get the approval. kennedy: how do you know? >> that's technically if you talk to the people -- >> why don't we get a warrant? that's the whole point of due process here. kennedy: even though the warrant that go through the fisa court, we have only seen one application. that's problematic as well. danielle? >> what terrified me was the amount of information that the government was collecting for the very limited number of terrorists they were reportedly tracking. in 2017, 40 terrorists about 548 million -- [inaudible] -- they want the haystack when they are looking for the needle, number one. also part of this conversation rg we need to talk about google, facebook, talk about the nongovernmental entities that

have extraordinary power and are collecting and selling our data at a rate of -- kennedy: the biggest problem is when they collude, when they work together, when big tech and big government get together, because then there's no privacy left. >> there's major problems. there's major problems with them coming together. the cool thing is the free market has worked. a lot of these businesses, the consumers are pushing back. they are saying look we don't want you to share this information with the government. kennedy: even tim cook says you aren't going to tell me to crack my own phone. you crack your own phone and stick it where the sun doesn't shine. i want to thank you for being here. you are all glorious and intelligent. happy fat tuesday to those who celebrate and those who don't, we'll drink for you. two senators introduced a bill today that would end the 17 plus year war in afghanistan. here's senator paul tonight on the fox news channel. >> i would say now that most generals, most republicans, democrats, independents, actually most people you ask say

there is no longer a military solution to the afghan war. and that's why today, you know, i introduced legislation to end the war and give every one of our veterans over there who have served in that theater $2500 a piece, but declare victory and come home. kennedy: paul said the afghan war alone cost america 2 trillion dollars, and the human cost obviously much worse, 2300 servicemembers have already died. 20,000 have been wounded, and there's just the americans. is it time we hightailed out of there? with me now former cia officer and president of diligence llc mike baker who has become a stalwart antiinterventionist. welcome back, baker. [laughter] >> you just set me up there, didn't you? kennedy: yeah. >> i have been -- you are correct in the sense that i have been saying for quite some time now that, you know, enough is enough. i don't think we've ever explained really our endgame other than maybe establish some sort of pseudo-federal stable

democracy in afghanistan. and that frankly is never going to happen. so i don't disagree with rand paul. i do also agree with him when he says there's not really a military solution here. but look, what we have to do is we have to be honest with ourselves and with the american public by saying you want to end this war? you want to wrap it up after 17 years? that's a good idea, but be aware the taliban will likely take control again of that country. now, is that a disaster for us? well, it depends on where you sit on this because, you know, if you think about all the blood and treasure that's been expended there -- kennedy: a lot of blood, a lot of treasure. >> yeah, then we see the taliban roll back in which they will do. they have no place else to go. kennedy: what about the development this year that the taliban is willing to sit down and have some multiparty talks? >> yeah, look, they're just riding this out. they are waiting. because they noven chully, you

know -- because they know eventually we are going to leave. so do i think they are negotiating in good faith? no. here's the difference between the taliban and isis as an example. the taliban -- that would be self-contained, right? if they take back over afghanistan, all or a significantly large part of it, they are going to stay in their box. you know, i do believe that, and if in fact they allow elements like an isis or al qaeda to once again play in that area, and plot and plan against us and our allies -- kennedy: isn't that against their best interest? >> you would think that they would have learned that lesson after 9/11. and i think what we should have done after 9/11 was what we did. we went in, did a brilliant strategic operation there and then we should have walked out and said you do this again, we're coming back. kennedy: aside from the taliban, you have mission --

[inaudible] -- and that seems to be the biggest threat to these short-term incursions which i think would enjoy more public support if it weren't for the glaring example of afghanistan, which is deadly and ongoing and expensive and pointless. >> and never -- i don't know about pointless, but never really explained our endgame and nor did we really have a chance to get there. it wasn't going to happen. but again, we have to be honest about this. do i care if after all these years we've increased their literacy rates by 2 or 3 percent to build another road? i don't care. kennedy: why don't you increase my kids literacy rate? why don't you read to my children, mike, it would be a polite thing to do. [laughter] kennedy: thank you very much. >> you are welcome. kennedy: coming up, president trump reacting to the news that hillary doesn't plan to run in 2020. it's so good. plus a new poll, it's bad news for bernie. ♪

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♪ kennedy: we are all going off the rails, baby. the people's pantsuit may be gob but not forgotten by the president who responded to hilary clinton's announcement that she is not running in 2020 by tweeting quote crooked hilary clinton confirmed she will not run in 2020 rules out a third bid for the white house. shucks. does that mean i won't get to run against her again? she will be sorely missed. the president's parting shot comes as hillary's 2020 nemesis bernie sanders received some bad news. a new poll from nbc news and the "wall street journal" found that the least popular characteristics of a 2020 presidential candidate are being a socialist or being someone over 75, which is terrible news for him who could play the lead

in a cocoon sequel. should he stay the course or is it time for his campaign to head off to the big bread line in the sky? joining me now co founder and executive editor of real clear politics tom bevin is back. what do you make of this poll and bernie's chances? >> i wouldn't make too much of it. i don't think, you know, bernie's biggest hurdle in the democratic primary is not necessarily being a socialist, it is being a white male. kennedy: yeah. >> because the sort of energy and enthusiasm for in the democratic party right now is for someone who is younger, possibly a woman, possibly a person of color, to be that representatives sort of the perfect foil in democrat's mind for donald trump as opposed to to, you know, an old white male. kennedy: yes. >> that being said, the other problem that bernie has is that in 2016, he was sort of the interesting alternative to the establishment candidate. kennedy: yes. >> that's no longer the case. there are 14 people now running. there will be another five or so that will get in. half a dozen of those are occupying the same space as he is in terms of their policy --

kennedy: it is interesting you say that. it was the things about bernie and donald trump, the areas of overlap that they had in common, that made the race so interesting because they were both anti-establishment, they were both perceived by their supporters as being authentic and that was the most attractive thing about them, but bernie can't run on his authenticity anymore because a lot of people in the democratic party have co-opted his message and now what it's turned into a new democratic establishment, they don't like the fact that he's an independent. >> right, i mean, there are a lot of people pushing the same policies as bernie, occupying the same space. he has to hope that he's authentic, he's the original socialist, he was the socialist before anyone else thought socialism was cool. so if you want the real thing and not an imposter, or a newcomer, then that's where, you know, bernie can have a little bit of traction, but he's got a bunch of other problems besides that. kennedy: who do you see standing out in the field because, you

know, when you talk about the intersection boxes, kamala harris checks almost all of them. she's from california. california has moved their primary up. she's african-american. she has a pretty solid political track record and one of the few democrats who is not only good at raising money it looks like she has a geographic strategy. is there anyone who can touch her at this point even though the field is growing more crowded by the day? >> she looks great on paper and she had a very good rollout that was well done and well scripted but after that she's stumbled a few times. she's not as good as people thought she might be. she certainly hasn't been under this kind of microscope in any political context thus far, and she's not being as good as you might expect her to be. kennedy: no, she's not the second coming of barack obama who gave these -- >> she's ducking questions, avoiding the press. kennedy: she doesn't connect with voters in the same way that these other transformational politicians like clinton and obama and trump have done. i think the field is still wide

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kennedy: a new report claims new jersey sports books has taken more bets from new yorkers than residents of their own state,

mainly because new york's only form of legal gambling is eating chipotle. almost at my goal weight. hurry up. this is a topical storm. topic number one, we begin tonight in the great state of wisconsin, where a suspect did some window shopping. here we go. all right. you just sit over there, justin bieber. cops brought this felon in for questioning only to have him go full fargo. oh, gosh, he's fleeing the interview, guys. [laughter] kennedy: the window is left unlocked and had regular pushout screen, why not, it's not like anyone would want to escape an interrogation room. the story is so stupid you couldn't make it up. police eventually caught up with the handcuffed hooligan and they are very lucky because he was gone for 13 whole minutes before they even noticed. let it be a lesson to everyone, a lot can happen in 13 minutes. if you don't believe me, ask my

prom date. topic number two, you ever had one of those days where nothing goes your way and then to top it all off you get home to find out the dog ate a bag of chocolate chips? yeah, this sort of day happened to a colorado hockey fan. he got front row seats to see the avalanche. uh-huh. oh, no. oh, that's not good. this is why you never order a blizzard from a colorado dairy queen, heavy snowfall caused an avalanche to dump 300 feet of snow on i 70. the only thing higher than the colorado snow was the colorado drivers. luckily the man who shot the video is okay, but like michael bloomberg, his car is not running. it wasn't looking good for him

anyways. las vegas has his odds of winning at one and a gillibrand. in fact the only one with a lower percentage was elizabeth warren's dna test. topic number three, let's go to stockton california where a guy's car broke down so he decided to take a bike. uh-huh. he smashes through the door like the kool-aid man, but he takes his own sweet time getting out. that's because in any other state he would be a wanted fugitive but in california he's a hero for reducing his carbon footprint. thank you, governor newsom. all he needs is a paper straw and get his own star on the walk of fame. the bike burglar has not been caught, but the good news is, the store has since reopened and they even installed a new security window they got from the police. [laughter] >> here we go, okay, i will be over here. don't worry about me. just looking around. i have never seen someone so bad at guarding people. and i've been to several knicks games. there he is.

never gets old. topic number four, today is fat tuesday and popeye's is just what partiers need on the final night of mardi gras. i'm not taking about bail money. the popeye's mardi gras bead box is the newest way for mardi gras revellers. it is like selling hot cakes in new orleans and although the lines are long, if you are going to mardi gras, chances are, you're used to doing long lines. [laughter] >> on a serious note, if you are getting smashed on fat tuesday, police urge you to use an alternate mode of transportation like this responsible fellow did, uh-huh. just going to get a bike. i got a bike and my name is mike. it is not a -- there's a rumor he may be playing for the lakers. that may explain why he was hiding his face. the lakers haven't made a steal all year. finally we salute two people who

were arrested for fighting over food at an alabama buffet. and they are both expected to plead not skinny. they are actually in excellent shape considering the charges, but they allegedly got in to a huge brawl over who was first in line to get a fresh delivery of food. the witnesses say the two began dueling with buffet tongs, and while no one was hurt, two of their friends died of embarrassment. we wish them the best of luck in court because they won't have a leg to stand on. in defense of that joke, it was the only one the producers would let us make. you will be happy to know the two have become great friends. he took her out to dinner last night. [laughter] kennedy: i haven't seen this much snow since that mtv deejay was playing in the 90 -ah, the old crew! remember when we all used to go to the cafeteria

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