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missile technology just discovered could be the biggest threat to us. gordon chang is here. and wait until you hear what liberal california wants to put a tax on now. here's a hint, you might lose your appetite. trish lee began prime time -- "trish regan primetime" begins right now. ♪ ♪ trish: a top contender to become the democratic nominee for president going straight back to the bell to good oldie vicive, old-fashioned, manipulative identity politics. joe biden announcing his candidacy today with a message designed to rally minorities while painting the president as a racist who inspires more racism. watch him. >> the longest of 2017 we saw klansmen and white supremacists and neo-nazis come out in the open. he said there were, quote, some very fine people on on both sides. those words, the president of

the united states assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. and at that moment, i knew the threat to this nation was unlike any i'd ever seen in my lifetime. trish: yeah, come on. you know what in this political tactic takes us backwards as a nation. the president may not speak perfectly all the time, but, hey, let's face it, neither does joe, right? >> my mother if believed and my father believed that if i wanted to be president of the united states, i could be. [applause] [bleep] his mom lived in long island for ten years or so, god rest her soul, and although she's -- wait, your mom's still alive. it was your dad passed. [laughter] god bless her soul. chuck graham, state senator's here.

chuck -- stand up, chuck. god love ya, and what am i talking about? >> a man who will be the next president of the united states, barack america! [laughter] trish: i'm sorry, that's just too good not to play. anyway, biden's message today, a message of division designed to put conservatives on decent, that's what -- defense, that's what you call dirty politics. calling someone a racist is one of the worst things you could possibly say. so immediately, they're put on defense. so the democrats figure why not go with that tactic. but enough with that rhetoric. i want to talk about results. the president has put in place policies that have generated economic growth, most significantly in minority populations. with hispanics and african-americans now looking at the lowest unemployment rates we've had on record, and women? we're looking at the lowest

unemployment rate since 1953. now, i'm not saying racism doesn't exist in this country. it still does. and there's plenty of successes imtoo. -- sexism too. but as a country the best way to overcome this, i'm telling you, it's by creating more opportunity and more prosperity for everyone, not by selling division and handouts and reparations, for goodness sakes. we cannot and we not toll the rate racism -- will not tolerate racism in this country, but the path is not for politicians to point fingers and name-call and shout he's a racist, but to offer ideas, real ideas that can improve the lives of every american citizen. joining me right now, strategic communications director for the trump 2020 campaign, mr. marc lotter. pleasure mark, good to have you back. >> thanks for having me, trish. trish: they're going to say he's

a racist, you can't elect a racist. when he says, no i'm not, that immediately puts him in the position to have to defend himself. i, for one, would like to see a democrat who has an idea or two about growing our economy, an idea that might actually work, but instead all i'm hearing is he's a racist. >> and it's important to note that that entire segment is built on a lie. it's something that's widely been debunked and taken out of context over and over again. and here's the important part, it really doesn't matter that joe biden got into the race. he's just 1 of 20 right now, but whoever's going to come out on the other side of that primary is going to face a president donald trump who actually created manufacturing jobs, half a million of them, whereas under the previous eight years we lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs. it's because of the leadership of the president. i know that the former vice president thinks he connects with blue collar america, but this president brought blue collar american jobs back.

that's what he does. today the vice president -- the former vice president held a fundraiser, apparently, with a giant union-buster. so we're seeing the hypocrisy, but the president -- whoever he has to face come next year -- he's ready, he's got the results, and the american people see it in their wallets, they see it in the historic low unemployment rate, it's just -- they see the results -- trish: no, i think you're right, you know, and they're feeling a little bit better about their prospects and maybe a little bit better about the country. let me ask you about the relationship between barack obama and joe biden, because there are some reports out there saying that, you know, obama -- he's not necessarily going to take obama's support. is he trying to distance himself? and would he be trying to distance himself because of the whole mueller investigation, the fact that we spent two years doing nothing, and the fact that we may get that i.g. report very soon in which we might learn to what extent the obama administration was trying to

pollute the intelligence community negatively against the now-president? >> yeah, i'm not going to ascribe any motives to the former vice president. that's up to them. but really it would be smart for any of the democrats not to seek to run on a third obama term. it didn't work for hillary clinton, it's not going to work in 2020 because, let's remember, in 2016 the voters turned away a third obama term. and not just by somebody who promised obama lite. no, president trump promised to dismantle the obama agenda, he's done it, and that's why -- trish: so that might be a reason for distancing yourself, because you know that, you know, that was eight years of nothing. i mean, nothing. 1.8% annual economic growth, no thank you, right? i mean, no economic growth. and, by the way, a more divided country. and that's what i blame him for, because he went in there supposedly to unite us and left us in a much more divided spot. so i hear ya, why would biden

want to campaign on any of that. >> absolutely. plus the weakness on the foreign stage. we're now leading again in the world. it's a pretty clear choice. trish: marc, thank you so much. president trump says he never asked then-white house counsel don mcgahn to fire special counsel robert mueller. that's what the report does say. but don mcgahn has told mueller's investigators over the course of 30 hours of interviews and under threat of prosecution for lying that the president asked him to tell deputy attorney general rod rosenstein to remove mueller. of course, he didn't do it. i mean, if the president did do that, is there anything legally wrong with asking a question, can we fire him? i mean, can you not ask your counsel what are our options here? i want him fired, i don't like this investigation, it's not fair? and if he did so, is that really obstruction of justice? i don't think so. why do the democrats keep trying to say then that it is

obstruction? joining me right now to wade through it all, constitutional law attorney jenna ellis and former federal prosecutor, doug burns. so if he did do that, hey, can we just get rid of this mueller guy? you know, he's driving me nuts, he's driving the staff nuts, and there's no "there" there, and we need to shut this down. >> you completely hit the nail on the head. this has always been about characterizations, okay? everything's characterized. let's hit the rewind button for a little history lesson. you heard everybody foaming at the mouth, this is exactly like the saturday night massacre. excuse me, president nixon specifically addressed that arkansas. ball cox, the independent come, be fired. the attorney general of the united states, elliott richardson, resigned in disgust. the deputy attorney general similarly resigned. what happened here is nothing like that, zero, there's no analysis -- so back to your point --

trish: can he ask the question? >> real quick, so i'm sorry i'm rambling, real quick, the characterization point i'm trying to make is assume for the sake of argument that the president was musing and said, guys, can i get some legal advice here? technically speaking, can i fire him? that gets completely mistranslated over and over. look at that, it's obstruction of justice. everybody has got to stop now. trish: by the way, for, like, a crime that -- [inaudible conversations] trish: there was nothing there. i'm talking about not even a smidgen of anything. and he's saying this is out of hand, this is ridiculous. ill think he'd be able to, you know, ask your lawyer, can we get rid of the guy? >> of course you can ask your lawyers legal questions. the mueller report contains so much legally irrelevant information. and, of course, the mainstream media and the democrats are going to want to nitpick every single detail they can impugn trump's character with.

but let's not forget the facts here what the facts show is that trump didn't fire mueller, he didn't have -- he didn't even exert executive privilege. what he did do was not get charged with a crime whatsoever. and under nixon we had an independent counsel's office rather than a special counsel's office -- trish: okay. >> key point. right. >> it's very, very different legally. trish: okay. so i think they need to just forget about the whole obstruction of justice thing. they don't have a shred of anything. you have the right, i would think, to ask your lawyer, is it something possible that we could be considering doing. that's conversation -- you're going to disagree with me? >> i have a formulation that is not particularly a legal term, enough is enough! [laughter] trish: okay. i want to move on to the inspector general, michael horowitz's, report. i'm telling you, there's something going on. >> as always. trish: why -- >> and let's not forget that bill barr's obligation as the

attorney general is to do whatsoever justice requires. and i think that the american public has forgotten with the democrats simply trying to hate president trump, this whole witch hunt, everyone's saying, okay, now maybe the case is closed, now let's move on, the kind of reasonable democrats. but what they're forgetting is that bill barr has an obligation to his oath of office to go and pursue full justice. i think we're going to see that here. of. >> and, let me hit the rewind button again. all of this talk about how this started and the nice so count is -- fisa court is nothing more than a deflection from the very real mueller probe. that calculus has changed. the mueller report came back with no finding that a crime should be prosecuted, and now, i'll tell you what, i'm throwing around a lot of cliches, but careful what you wish for. and you've said this so many times, it's completely legitimate to say we need to examine, and by the way, with mueller, he must be allowed to

delve into this fully and completely, well, now the same thing. trish: can you get alan dershowitz? he's a democrat, right? mueller's a republican. you know, i'm kidding, but do we -- seriously, do we need possibly, like, a whole other -- >> absolutely. we absolutely do. and that's part of what the department of jus is disis only -- justices is obligated to do. the court of public opinion is all about the rhetoric and the political questions. but bill barr has an oath of office to the legal questions. and what they're trying to do in the mainstream media is burden-shift. they're forgetting that there's a presumption of innocence, forgetting that an investigation as a prosecutor is to see and follow where the facts lead, and i think bill barr will do that. trish: politically, that's exactly what hillary clinton was trying to do with that op-ed last night. oh, yeah, there was a giant wrong. yeah, there was, but it has nothing to do with the president -- >> pretty amazing. trish: -- and everything to do

with your campaign that paid for that research and then commissioned the fisa warrant and never telling the judge where that information -- >> they just pivot and pivot and pivot, they do that all the time. >> and that's what the character assassination of bill barr is. they're trying to line it up and say, okay, he's in the pocket of the administration. every attorney general is appointed by the sitting president. trish: it's really important, i mean, for people that are watching right now, this is important what you're hearing, because you're not going to hear this on cnn. >> appreciate you saying that. trevor we, do as americans, have a duty to understand, just as bill barr has a duty to understand why this happened. you can't just politically -- >> and i would throw in, and i feel strongly about this, that analyze this strictly legal. i have never factored in politics. i call it the way i see it. trish: thank you both for doing that. we're going to keep tag talking to you. good stuff. all right, coming up, everyone,

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trish: new numbers tonight from homeland security as the migrant summer on our southern border spirals completely and utterly out of control. this is according to our border patrol, more migrants have been apprehended in just the first seven months of in the fiscal year than in all of 2018.

that's over 400,000 and still counting. this is absolutely a crisis, despite what many on the left say. here with me right now, someone who agrees with that, i know, "fox & friends" weekend cohost pete hegseth, pete, i mean, come on, come on. when are they going to admit it? >> trish, speaking of the left, so i wore my informal, casual joe biden announcement outfit tonight -- [laughter] because what i really want to know is where does joe biden stand? where do the democrats stand? we don't know, we'll find out maybe in the days to come as he figures out where he wants to stand with the left. we've finally seen the institutional left, the newspapers and the news media, act knowledge the crisisment they want to all it a humanitarian crisis. when you have the same number in half a year illegally cross our border, you know you have problems. and here's the reality, everyone just thinks it's groups of people going to ports of entry to claim asylum.

that is part of it. but the reporting from u.s. customs and border patrol is that the majority are coyotes or cartels. these are smugglers or cartels working to illegally cross our border in places where they can to smuggle people in without detection from the border patrol. so the majority of our apprehensions are taking place where our agents are having to stand that border where they don't have a wall, where they're undermanned and they're dealing with this humanitarian crisis. and we still have major political figures in our country who are unwilling to acknowledge the crisis we face. and we've got this massive caravan still coming along. mexico has not come along with their side of the bargain even though president trump has put a lot of pressure on them. so where this goes, i'm not sure, but the reality is it's a big problem. trish: more expedient for joe biden to point fingers and say, you know what? donald trump's a racist. despite the fact, you know, you look at the numbers -- because i

care about things like that, and i am impressed. because i now see the low level of unemployment for african-americans, for his opinion anic -- hispanics, for women than we've ever had, or the lowest ever historically for african-americans is and for hispanics. but when you get back to this border issue and you've got these people coming here, pete, that just slip into the country and disappear, we also know that they are a drain economically on many states like texas, like arizona. how to do we, how do we fix this in a way that, okay, we need the wall, i get that. we need better policing at the border, but also when you apply for benefits in this country, is no one saying, hey, are you here legally or not? >> well, you know, milton friedman used to say you've got two ways to stop illegal immigration, you either build a wall around your border or build

a wall around your welfare benefits. and right now we're doing neither. as a result, our welfare system's wide open. you've got sanctuary cities and states allowing people to get driver's licenses, eventually potentially to vote in local elections, benefits that u.s. citizens pay for. and as a result, you got a double negative. you got people across an open border and then to an open welfare state. and you've got democrats clamoring for both. the reality is no serious democrat presidential contender is calling for border security and a wall around our welfare benefits. and as a result, you get cheap labor which drive down wages. thankfully, this president's focusing on border security, has tried to bring -- has brought manufacturing back, not tried, brought those jobs back, and -- trish: you're right on that. that's, you know, that's an aspect that not a lot of people talk about, but you think about some low-skilled laborers in this country, many of whom might

be hispanic and may have come here legally, right? let's take the person who does it the right way and is working hard to make a living. that person is then up against someone who's here illegally and maybe willing to work for less money which, therefore, depresses wages. and it's this thing that just kind of keeps spiraling, making it harder and harder for people who don't have an education to get by. >> which is part of what blows the left's mind about president trump's approval ratings, that they've gone up with hispanics during this time, because those who come here legally. and the hispanic community, amazingly entrepreneurial, great family values, focused on faith, an amazing addition to our cup. so when folks like me talk about immigration, i'm talking about illegal immigration, as are you. not immigration. we welcome immigrants who want to learn english, to want to start businesses, who want to better our society. that's the point. but if you don't have a handle

on who's coming here, then those legal hispanic latino immigrants are just as frustrated as we are. it's not a race issue, it's a citizenship issue. it's a border issue. and that's what the left doesn't fundamentally understand because they're clouded by identity politics and hatred of the president. this is a great issue for the president, he'll keep pushing it. but until congress fixes anything, there's only so much he can do as an executive. trish: that's the truth. pete hegseth -- >> i didn't know that, but you -- [laughter] trish: coming up, everyone, democrats claiming climate change is the biggest threat to america right now. well, guess what? as these far-left dems waste their time pushing the whole green new deal, a real threat is i brewing right here in our backyard. that's china. find out what we have learned about what they are doing with their military tonight that affects every single one of us. but first, free public college, medicare for all,

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♪ muck. trish: former vice president joe biden jumping into democrats' 2020 race as contender number 20 today. can he really compete in this whole race for the left? they're going further and further and further left. we tallied up a few of the radical ideas popping up on the trail. take a look. reparations, wow. adding supreme court seats, wow. abolishing the electoral college, wow. medicare for all -- i keep reading these, i'm going to get really angry. free public policy and debt forgiveness, abolishing private health insurance, allowing violent felons to vote in prison and, finally, lowering the

voting age to 16. [laughter] i'm definitely angry right now. that is quite a long list, shall we say, of rather insane proposals which just begs the question here, do americans actually want all of those changes? do they really want all that free stuff 234 maybe they do, but i think they know better, right in they know that it can't actually happen. here with me now, "the next revolution" host steve hilton. steve, it's like, you know, we're living in alice in wonderland upside down world, you know? you want convicted murderers and terrorists to be able to vote. but, you know, and free college for all. which, actually, is sounding a lot better than -- [laughter] allowing the felons to vote. what's your take on it? [laughter] >> well, i think you used the word insane just now. i think on my show every sunday night we have a segment now, we do it every week because there's so much to say, we call it loony left, a loony left update because that was the phrase,

actually, that i grew up with when i was a kid i growing up in britain. margaret thatcher was prime minister, and the british labour party went completely far left and lost election after election with this thing. what's interesting, there's one thing in common with all of those policies, and that is that it increases -- it's about power for the democrats. it's about them having more power. whether that's more political power or more power in the economy, it's a grab apparent, centralization of power. that is exactly the wrong way to go because we know allowing people in communities to make their own decisions, markets to work in the economy, that's the way you get success. trish: indeed. look, this whole idea that you just give people stuff for free, on the one hand, it does have appeal. i guess my question is how much political appeal because i'm a little bit worried about it. you just look around the world, and this kind of stuff never ends well, right? and if we go down that path, our

kids, their kids aren't going to have much of a future. we've seen in the last 20 years, for example, venezuela go from the highest per capita income in latin america to now total desperation. that is the reality of what socialism can do, what this total concentration of power among the government elites. so do people see through it, or do they love the idea of free stuff so much they're saying to themselves, what the heck, maybe i'll give that a shot? >> well, i think the way to look at it if you're just bring purely political calculation around this, with all these ideas you've got winners and losers. yes, if you give free stuff to a earn group of people, they get something in return, but there are lose ors as well. the people who are paying for it, but also the economy generally or society generally. and, actually, the people who are going to be the winners from most of these proposals, they're already baked into the cake for democrats. they're going to vote for them

anyway. the swing voters who actually, once they realize the cost of these proposals to them personally and to america generally, i think they're not going to go for it at all. trish: plus, i think there's something that's kind of inherently unfair about it, right? again, if you're the guy or gal that's just trying to live your life the right way and you're saving your money so that maybe someday you'll be able to pay off your house or you saved your money so you can send your child to school, how is it fair that somebody else gets the free ride? how is it fair that somebody else gets all the handouts and then you realize, wait a second, i've been working my tail off, i barely have anything to show in my retirement while all these other people aren't willing to carry their own weight? >> that's exactly right. and, in fact, one of the most obvious examplings of that is the -- examples of that is the elizabeth warren college proposal, the debt forgiveness and free college and all the rest of it. that is fundamentally an elitist

proposal. the people who are going to get money out of that and get the free stuff are the more wealthy. and it's going to be paid for by working americans whose children may not even go to college, but their taxes are going to help pay for the richer families to do it without having to pay for it. so it is so elitist and so unfair. and i think in the course of a campaign, all that is going to come out. trish: not to mention allowing terrorists to vote. my lord. steve, thank you, as always, sir. and just a quick reminder, catch steve hilton sunday nights, 9 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. he's hosting "the next revolution." coming up, one liberal state wants to add a 1% fee to your restaurant bill to fight climate change. find out where this crazy plan is being tested. and speaking of climate change, democrats claim this is the biggest threat to america. guess what? as democrats waste their time

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how serious do you need to be thinking about this? joining me right now author of "losing south korea," gordon chang. what do you make of this? i mean, they're talking about something that could actually be packed with ten nukes and strike anywhere on earth. sounds like a big deal to me. >> it certainly is. it's a mobile missile which means it's very hard for us to target it before it leaves its launch rails. and the important thing here, trish, is that it looks like the chinese have sold some of this technology to the north koreans, because the missiles that the north koreans tested at the end of november 2017 -- and this one -- bear some similarities. so we don't know if there's been proliferation, but these are questions that the united states needs to start asking, because north korea's most advanced missiles look like they're derived from china's. trish: okay, okay, okay. so we've got to back up here, because i thought we were actually on a path to some kind of peace, right, with north norh

korea? and they're out there possibly buying things from the chinese. if that's the case, gordon, you know, we talk about china and the threat they represent, it's worse than anybody thought. >> you know, it certainly is. you know, first of all, you know, there's all sorts of missiles that threaten americans, and it's not just the longest range ones. you know, we have a gap, a missile gap. you know, kennedy talked about a missile gap, and it may or may not have existed then, but it certainly exists now because the united states has been a party to the inf. that means we have not developed missiles with a range between 500-5500 kilometers. but china has been doing that. with those new missiles that china has, it can hold our navy hostage because they can attack our carriers which means we can't bring our aircraft carriers anywhere close to the chinese coast should we need to do so. trish: where are they getting the money to buy all this? >> well, that's a great question

because what happens is china's been expanding its military, at the same time senior chinese military officers are openly, in public talking about killing americans. twice in december you had senior chinese officers publicly urge unprovoked attacks on the u.s. navy in the global commons. and in the second of those incidents on december 20th, a rear admiral said, look, we should use our 21d and 26 missiles -- those are the carrier killers -- to sink two aircraft carriers, and he specifically said kill 10,000 americans. trish: what the heck are they thinking? if i mean, they want world war iii? is that what they want? i mean, come on. they do that and, gordon, we are looking at major, major, major military conflict. >> of course, we are going to avenge the deaths of 10,000 americans. but the point here the chinese are now talking about this

openly, they're bragging about it, they're getting extremely confident. they think that we're in terminal decline. we're not. trish: okay, so shut off trade. don't give them another stinking dime. see how then they're able to talk about killing americans. >> absolutely. i mean, this is really important for us because, you know, if we have this trade deal that we're talking about with the chinese, we will then have our companies invest more in china, that'll give china more money, that means their military will be bigger, and they're configuring it to go after us. trish: do you ever think that maybe nixon shouldn't have opened up china? [laughter] >> it certainly was a mistake. look, we rescued chinese communism in 1972 when nixon went to china because china was at the end of a cultural revolution. now, some people say, oh, you know, we should do that because we were at a low point in the cold war. in any event, bush 41 rescued chinese communism in 1989 after

tiananmen massacre, president clinton in 1999 with the wto agreement, and now i hope that we do not the rescue chinese communism again, because the chinese economy is slowing, and there are real problems inside of china, and thing only thing that's going to sustain them is a new trade deal with the united states. trish: well put, sir. thank you. gordon chang, everyone. coming up, one liberal state wants you to pay an exing that 1% whenever you're dining out because they want to use your money to fight climate change. find out where this is happening and how you might be affected when we return. stay here. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ trish: a new statewide nichetive in california is now going to give restaurant owners the option of charging customers an additional 1% to their bill the fight climate change. [laughter] joining me right now, campus reform contributor emma michelle. i like that at least it's an option for a restaurant owner. but, you know, i imagine there'll be a lot of peer pressure. it is california, after all. who gets shortchanged in all this? >> yeah. well, what's interesting about this is we'll have to wait and see how many business owners voluntarily sign up to write an

extra check to the government. i don't know how popular that's actually going to be. but i've worked in the service industry before, and i know who this is going to hit the hardest, the wait staff that rely on tips to make a living. those tips always take a hit when you introduce a fee, but also an effect on average americans who save up all week and or even all month to go get to eat out, enjoy their experience, and they're going to see an extra charge on the bill. that may seem small to the democrats in charge in california, but that's a big deal to arm americans. it -- average americans. it shows they're not looking out for the little guy. trish: people figure, some of these political types, oh, just tax them some more, you know, a little here, a little there, a lot here and a lot there. [laughter] not to be outdone, you got someone who's a big believer in taxes, comrade de blasio here. that's charlie gasparino's name for him, which always cracks me up. [laughter]

he's taking this green new deal just one step further. he says he's aiming to cut red meat supply in municipally-run facility, we're talking hospitals, schools. he wants no more red meat or at least a reduction by 50%. what's your thought on that one? >> well, again, going back to out of touch, bill de blasio is showing how out of touch he is here and really how elitist he is. he does not understand that there are kids who are on school lunches in new york city that are going to come home, and they may not get another nutritious meal after leaving school. and the wealthy kids that go to public schools in new york, they're not going to be hit by that, the middle class kids that always have a meal on the table for dinner, they're not going to be hit. this is going to affect the most vulnerable. and the fact that he doesn't understand that shows how out of touch -- trish: he would say, they don't need to eat meat. you're luck key we don't have

peta on heren tonight, they want to get rid of milk, for goodness sakes. [laughter] this is a guy who travels over an hour in his suv with all his security detail in their suvs to go work out at his brooklyn fancy gym on y or whatever the heck it is. watch. >> i also do need to ask. you live on the upper east side in gracie mansion. most days a city suv driefd you is 31 miles to a gym -- 11 miles to a gym in brooklyn, what sort of environmentally responsible example are you setting there, taking this drive in a car as to opposed to going someplace nearby in. >> this is just part of my life. trish: like it's okay for me, it's just not okay for you. right? that's the deal? >> i mean, trish, you would think we were living in a monarchy, because he's getting to do whatever he wants to do while imposing a different standard on everyone that he's

in charge of guiding as a leader. it shows the hypocrisy of things like the green new deal which tell americans you're not capable of making good decisions when it comes to your life lifestyle. we don't see aoc taking a train to get to south x southwest in austin, she's flying there. yet she wants to eliminate air travel -- trish: i know. i love the private planes at davos when they're talking about climate change. emma, great to see you. >> thank you very much. trish: coming up, it's take your child to work day today. find out which of my children happens to be with me here tonight, next. ♪ ♪ [ paper rustling ] exactly, nothing. they're completely different people, that's why they need customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need!

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trish: it's take your child to workday, what did i do? i took my child to work, one of them. >> hi. trish: this is jaime, your sisters couldn't come. >> they had a science project. they could not come. trish: they are working hard. they have a science fair tomorrow but you were able to come. >> yep. trish: you can't to dad's work too. >> >> yeah. >> what do you do there? >> i got to get phone of me and an e-mail thingamajigy.

maybe if you look on your phone mommy -- >> did daddy send pictures of you at work. >> i don't know. trish: you came here. >> yeah. trish: you come here a lot, what do you do? >> i -- trish: do you go to your was on. >> yeah. i go to jaime's office. >> you talk to everyone. >> yep. >> you working on a story. >> yep. trish: to report. >> yep. >> imworkin imwork -- working o♪ you are so cute. combo, combo you are so cute, when you wear that doggy sought. >> i am so glad you are in this place with your little doggy

face. trish: that is really cute, i looking forward to hear you sing it again, when all polished up. >> yep. trish: yes. >> and your little doggy airline suit. trish: earlier you had your delta badge on. >> flying in i love you when i fly in your puppy plane. alexander came up with the pep puppy plane. trish: i have 9-year-old twins, they are busy, they get their science fair tomorrow, i am glad you were able to come, it was a really long day for you, you within to daddy's work all day, then here. and you have a little somewhere something i little special treat for a very special person, your friend nina, our stage manager, her last night on this show. so we want to say thank you nina

from me, and the whole team, and from jaime and i think we have some cupcakes. it is good coming to mommy's work, right, cupcakes, love you, kennedy is next. kennedy: thanks trish, uncle joe officially in, former vice president plans to take down trump with his karate and ninja skills, did he kick it off with policy ideas in of course not, he just bashed the president, take a look. >> i believe history will look back on 4 years of this president and all he embraces as a -- if we give don continue 8 n white house he will alter the character of this nation, who we are, that is why