that's it for us today. see you back here tomorrow. kennedy beginning right now. ♪ kennedy: thank you, david asman. democrats are mad at the president again and they want to send him straight to the principal after admitting that he would receive dirt on rivals from foreign governments. that's a poor plan. and he might not tell the fbi about it. it's evidence that the president is fine with collusion. the supporters say the president is being taken out of context. it began when the president said this on abc. >> if russia, china, someone else offers you information, should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to

listen. there's nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent, oh, i think i would want to hear it. >> you want that interference in our elections? it's not interference. i think i without take it. if i felt there was something wrong i would go to the fbi. kennedy: i would call the feds on the norwegians as fast as you can imagine. the democrats slipped out, including virginia senator mark warner. >> the fact that this president has so little moral com compassr little understanding that he needs to protect our nation that he would still welcome information from russia, china or any potential adversary if it helped his political exa campais outrageous. kennedy: but then republicans

swooped in to defend the president. here's house majority leader kevin mccarthy. >> this president has bnl toughebeentougher on washingtonn anyone before. if you've gone through the mueller report and found no collusion, even though the foreign entities tried. the president acted proper along the way. kennedy: but house speaker nancy pelosi wasn't having any of it and all she said is nah. >> what the president said last night shows clearly, once again, over and over again, that he does not not know the difference between right and wrong and that's probably the nicest thing i could say about him. if he doesn't know the dirchts, it could explain some of his ridiculous behavior. kennedy: from the kim jong-un collection, this time some of the president's allies are scratching their collective heads including south carolina senator lindsey graham said the

president himself tried to clear the air tweeting, quote, i meet and talk to foreign governments every day. i just met with the quean of england, the prince of wales, the president of france and the president of poland. we talked about everything. should i immediately, dot dot dot, call the fbi about these calls and meetings? how ridiculous. i would never be trusted again. with that being said my full answer is rarely played by the fake news media. they purposely leigh out the part that matters. it is worth noting that the president spelled wales with an h which is so cute. but aside from the aquatic royalty is the president's admission that he whowld accept dirt on foreign rival rivals a g deal or are the democrats crying fowl. it's going to get thursday with independent women's forerum fellow imeferl beverly hallburgn

seewriting and jenna ellis. welcome, everyone. so jenna, i will start with you because you work with the president's campaign organization. and i think this was a misstep. i think there's a way of taking the question without giving george ste steph stephanopoulos. >> anytime that the president says -- kennedy: that's right. don't give them too much ammo. >> but at the same time he's showing them for the hypocrites that they are. now everyone is able to talk about you didn't cry fowl with the dnc, didn't cry fowl with the obama administration. the democrats are acting like the insecure party in a bad relationship where all they keep doing is whining rather than

stepping up to the table. kennedy: i understand that. they're always going to have the same reaction. what i would like to see from the president is the internalization that accepting opposition research from a foreign entity is, if nothing else, a giant pain i and a huge waste of time and it could put some elements of our democracy at risk. if for no other reaso reason thn that, it's bet to use h answer he used in the past. i don't need opposition research from them. >> he's done that. kennedy: it's not a bad question. george stephanopoulos led him through the primrose path. >> it depends. i think i might. i might possibly. kennedy: the only thing i like about this is at least he's being honest about it. at least he's being honest about what he's going to do and what everyone else does and everyone else is going to keep doing it and it sucks a and no one has learn anything. >> not only does it piss me off,

it makes me want to throw up. some are defending the fact that the president of the united states is willing to take information from a foreign power that could -- kennedy: for free when you guys paid for it at the dnc. you guys paid good money for that opposition research. >> that could impact the election. and we've seen this movie before. we saw what he did in 2016. kennedy: with the steele dossier, you're right. >> it's crazy as hell. there are laws about this, the law lays out fundamentally and very clear about these type things. and it's against the law. so you're a contusion attorney, you're an attorney, you're an attorney, you're an attorney and now you're defending something that you know is against the l law. kennedy: antwuan i'm going to say something. >> so what he's saying is i make him want to throw up. >> you know exactly what i said. kennedy: i don't like when the president does it, i don't appreciate what he said. i don't like that his campaign

or anyone from the administration would accept opposition research when it has cost us so much money and so much ill will. but i also don't appreciate that the democrats are trying to take the moral high ground when the same russian operatives who are trying to infiltrate the voting machines, the same ones interfacing with christopher steele. that is not okay. you're laundering intelligence. >> russia wanted to help donald trump win this election. kennedy: why did christopher steele. >> they did what they did to help donald trump. that's the bottom line. kennedy: why did the fbi and cia use that information and lie about that information on a fisa warrant application. >> you know as well as i know -- kennedy: you're not answering my question. >> if we were having this conversation about barack obama you would be doing cartwheels out of your chair and going crazy saying lock him up, impeachment. kennedy: you need to remove your

blinders because i just told you i don't accept it from the president. i don't accept it from the past administration. and i don't except talking points and rationalization from the democratic party who is guilty of much worse was they paid for it. >> much worse? >> i agree with lindsey graham first of all this was a mistake. but when trump tried to dig himself out of this, he did a poor job. he's conflating the issue of whether the information is coming from the foreign government to urined mine the cam pin. but he makes the comparison of of course i'm going to talk to the queen of england. kennedy: it's not the same thing as talking to pries charles about climate change. someone who is trying to overturn the ma magnitsky act is not the same as some guy with a pinky in the air saying let's go fly our jets. >> he doesn't help himself out at all. he was just found innocent of

any collusion with russia. he's been a president that's tough on russia. to make the statement it doesn't put him in a good place. >> the same trump that stood with putin -- and went against what the american intelligence community say. kennedy: you know what's crazy. i understand that no one is capable of seeing this or pointing it out or admitting it, but all of these things are true at the same time and that's why this political environment is absolutely bat poop crazy. it's all true. and everyone who wants to see the president as this idealized figure who's out to deregulate and save the union, they see that. and for those of you who see he is an authoritarian nazi who wants to undermine this country to serve himself and enrich his businesses, you see that. but oddly enough some of those things are mutually exclusive.

>> i will give him credit where credit is due. >> no you won't. >> i've done that on this net work. i've given him credit. you will never call him out. kennedy: don't ever say never. i would give president obama an. >> i have been on this network and other networks with her. i've never. >> yes, i absolutely have. >> i've never seen you. >> absolutely yes i have. read what i have written in the national review and other places. kennedy: i wrote the national review. they won't publish my letters. and you know i call the president out. and you know i call everybody out. >> i didn't say you. kennedy: that's a mistake. you're on my show. are we still on the air? yeah. >> the fact that we're talking about this and saying this is actions that should not happen. kennedy: of course it shouldn't happen. >> maybe we can equally apply it to both.

>> kennedy: dumb unforced errors, that voters go in the boothe and they say, you know, i really like the fact that i have lower taxes, i like that my son who just graduated from college has a job, i like the financial flexibility but i can't stand the nonsense. >> i think a lot of people who are paying attention to this conversation actually sl a problem with the fact that everybody is saying that donald trump is just so, you know, crazy and all of the things that you just said about him when they see the fact that they're seeing the entire clip. they're not saying that he's per fact. not saying he's a perfect person. we're saying he hasn't broken the law. that's a different thing. kennedy: i don't think people are saying that when they're in the voting boothe. they're nobooth.they're saying . >> they're saying the media is exhausting.

kennedy: i enjoy his rallies. there are times where he forces the issue and it's absolutely exhausting and unnecessary and he's been president long enough that he know what is is expected. >> he also buried a good news cycle for him. had a great meeting with the polish president yesterday. had a good criminal justice reforms -- kennedy: kim kardashian. >> then this in the news cycle. typical donald trump. kennedy: typical donald trump. we're all going to die pop not the panel. they're returning. two more oil tankers attacked off of the coast of iran. secretary of state mike pompeo says it was the republic. says it was the republic. are we headed to

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mike pompeo, iran. >> iran is lashing out because the regime wants our maximum pressure campaign lifted. disrupting global oil markets and engage in nuclear blackmail. the international community condemns iran's assault on the freedom of navigation and the targeting of innocent civilians. kennedy: pat shanahan weighing in tweeting, acran's unprovoked attacks in the region are a threat to international security and peace. the u.s. navy reportedly rescued dozens of sailors who jumped overboard. iran's mission to the u.s. rejecting u.s. claims that it was responsible for the attack. it happened in the same syria where four oil tankers were damaged last month. both shanahan and pompeo says the u.s. does not want conflict

and promise to focus on diplomacy but with iran itching for a war, how long can we sit back and take the punches. here with me now, vice president at the aeto institute. welcome, christopher rntl. >> thank you. good to be here. kennedy: how do we know it was iran? >> we don't. given what happened it's not so long ago in the run up to the war on iraq, the american people a have a to be skeptical that the administration will present the information that they are proving a definite linkage between iran and the attacks. short of that, given what happened, all of the things that we remember after the war in iraq, i think it's not surprising that a lot of americans want to know more before they jump to conclusions. kennedy: tony blair is still

making the case in the uk. who benefits from this? >> that's a great question. i think no one benefits from this, especially in the short term. perhaps it's a distraction from some of the other news of the day. but i think there are certainly, there are still inside iran individuals committed to trying to reach some kind of agreement, not just with the united states but other countries like we had with joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear deal. there were some who were committed to that deal, committed to makes diplomacy work, trying to improve relations with the outside world. those people now look -- have been shunned because that deal of course was blo blown up by te trump administration. there are other hard liners that were happy about that. kennedy: there were shis with that agreement to begin with. including verifiability and the inability to have impromptu look

see at some of the sensitive nuclear facilities within iran that were set aside from the agreement. and there were also many opaque side deals that congress really never got to glean. so the whole process was really iffy to begin with. i'm not a fan of sanctions because i think they tend to hurt lower-income people in countries and those are the people that we usually necessarily want to help. but you say this financial black aidblocaideblockaid is working. why is that in. >> it's trying to strangle the economy by cutting off the flow of oil. daily exports have gone down to 800,000 barrel as day, more than 60% cut. that's the man source of revenue to the government of iran, the people of iran. some iranians have said if we're not going to sell oil to the

rest of the world, neither can everyone else. the problem is the iranians can't do that. experts agree it would be impossible for them to close the strait. oil markets are a lot more resilient than we used to believe. supplies shipped around. we could argue that some of the rising costs of oil that we've seen are because of the tension in the region so the markets havmarketshave baked this into e of oil and the gasoline in the gas tank. so i think there is a sense that this pressure, this maximum pressure campaign which secretary pompeo talks about is having an effect. but the question is, what exactly is going to come out of it. kennedy: that's the question, what is the long-term strategy here. >> right. kennedy: and you know, my worry is when you have mike pompeo coupled with someone like john bolton, things can heat up very quickly and john bolton has not been shy at all about his desire

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and republicans are sadly no better. and don't take my golden word for it. listen to that frustrated pile of curls rand paul. >> when the democrats are in power, republicans appear to be the conservative party. but when republicans are in power, it seems there is no conservative party. the hypocrisy hangs in the air and chokes anyone with a sense of decency. the dirty little secret is that by and large both parties don't care about the debt. kennedy: they don't care about the didn't an debt and he's rig. both parties have used to their spender bender and they're betting they'll be thrown out of the office before the bill comes that will bring on third world austerity than poop through a goose. so for this fiscal here has

boomed 47% over last year to $739 billion. the total deficit for 2018 was 779 billion. we're breaking records and the bank. sure tax cuts brought many more revenue but even though it's raining receipts, it's leaving faster than it's coming in. and somehow that's just like my prom night and the whole thing is going to end in lonely tears. the government accountability awches calls our cash addiction unsustainable but both parties are operating like that's a made up word. this year the president proposed a $4.7 trillion budget. it's pretty tame when you consider president bernie sanders would fork over $3.2 trillion a year on health care scam on top of the impossible number with no way to pay for it. you can't shout from the

mountaintops against the else of socialism when your sick urges are entirely socialistic. for now congress will keep ordering tankses we don't need and f-35s we don't need, they're quarantine flute flies whicfruit flieswhile using the e cushions to scare snakes out of trees in guam. that tea party wave has dried up. they're not hanging ten but congress should be hanging their heads in shame for the constant and shameful fiscal misconduct. and that's the memo. the national debt is currently more than 22 trillion bucks and it's only going to climb. so why do our politicians keep spending our money like they just won the lotto. joining me tonight jonas.

what is the hardest part of this pill for you to swallow? >> i wasn't choking on decency yet. i am now after that speech. thank you very much. the hardest thing is that nobody really cares anymore. it used to be when the other party was in power you used to bring up the deficit. everyone knows in politics that's a loser. you're not going to get votes on it. you're going to get in trouble that you troo try to do somethg about it. you're going to lose the white house if you try to do something. kennedy: readilread my lips. >> he was right. he was fiscally responsible and that was the end of his eight years in the white house. and even clinton when we was running budget surpluses at the end, the whole party lost. now that probably wouldn't have happened in theory in they lowered taxeses at the end and ran a deficit. so george bush did right away and that's how he got reelected

among other things. it pays as a politician to be fiscally responsible and you're not going to see the democrats bringing it up now because u most of them are leading with plans of spending. kennedy: that's all they're talking about. spend spend spend. >> i want to do free school but i also want to deal with the deficit. there's in way out. kennedy: no one cares about the deficit and you're absolutely right there's no punishment, no accountability. and the only time republicans talk about how their fiscal conservatives is when they're not in power. the second they get in power, the democrats, when it comes to spending -- i know you're a fan of raising taxes. i'm not a fan of raising taxes. i like money and i like freedom. and i like your freedom and my freedom. you need to cut taxes and cut spending and then you can see the economy grow. if you cut taxes and raise spending, what happens, jonas? >> well, the spending right now is going up faster than the tax revenue. the shining star is the tax

revenue increase from the tariffs, almost $50 billion this year but not enough to offset the spending increases. much of the spending is on auto pilot. it's the spending this no one wawants to address. we're going to run shy of a trillion dollar deficit this year. that'this is a good economy. what's going to happen in the next recession. that's where ultimately someone is going to pay. there's going to be trouble down the road. it's going to happen rapidly and people are going to be punished for these behaviors. until then voters don't punish you and investors don't. kennedy: it's the nondiscretionary spending that congress is terrified to tackle because they won't be reelected which would be a great thing. are you proposing that we make old people illegal? >> we could make them older by making the age to claim benefits

older. but it's the voters ultimately. they don't want to fix the problems either. they think it's spending other another group. kennedy: no, i want free colleger. i have a right to have a five-bedroom house and a three--garage. i wish i did. jonas, thank you for your time. >> thank you. kennedy: bernie sanders like to rail against the 1% but he could find himself at 1% in the polls if he keeps talking like he did on cnn last night. the millionaire warrior told anderson cooper that americans would be thrilled to pay higher taxes because that's what they do in sweden. >> as you know, the taxes in many of those countries are much higher than they are -- the individual and personal taxes is much higher than they are in the united states. >> yeah. but i suspect that a lot of people in the country would be delighted to pay more in taxes if they had comprehensive health care as a human right.

kennedy: bernie, i love you, you're crazy, but you're out of your mind. read my lips. the sound you hear is bernie's campaign manager chugging a bottle of whiskey. it might be prison whiskey and you know what that's made of. is bernie right? were his opponents delighted to hear him say that? the panel is back. beverly, i'll start with you. because i don't think americans really love higher taxes, even if it guarantees that some other people might have moderately better health care, which they probably wouldn't. >> now he was also using this comparison when it comes to health care bringing up canada says you can go to the doctor anytime you want, it doesn't cost money. sure, you can go to the doctor, it doesn't mean you're going to receive care, when it comes to an mri or referral to a

specialist, it's weeks that you have to wait. kennedy: it's months. it takes four and a half months in con da. >> there's a reason why the canadians come to the states for health care. i don't think any american out there is saying i want to pay higher taxes. i think he's doubling down on the wrong thing. kennedy: absolutely no one is. and you see what government involvement does to health care. that's why we're watching obamacare unravel. >> that's why the republicans have not repealed and replaced the affordable care act because it's working. kennedy: no it's not working. they don't have a good alternative and they're lazying on them. shame. >> it's not working. >> it's working. kennedy: why are we talking about medicare for all if it's work sog great. >> it needs to be flushed out. you hear moderate dimms like myself saying we need to expand

medicaid so 300,000 working people can have access to insurance. i think what bernie is saying, i may be saying it a different way, you said that people will not pay more on their taxes. i disagree. i live in south carolina. there are senators and house members in the legislature who signed no tax pledges when we had to fix infrastructure in the state. they were willing to pass an increase in the gas tax in order to do so. there are some examples -- kennedy: gas taxes hurt poor people too. >> there are examples of people willing to pay more for their benefit, like infrastructure and health care. kennedy: if i don't have to pay more in taxes and my employer covers health care. in canada, you know what they don't have? dental open vision. >> what's happening -- kennedy: they don't have minimum wage laws. >> let me be clear. one time did you hear me say anything about medicare for all? i'm more of a public auction

guy. let's expand medicaid. >> the ultimate public action. >> has bernie met america? read the constitution? i agree congress isn't doing a good job at contemplating everything but the bottom line is of course america doesn't want to pay more in taxes. we want to have more money to spend on things that we choose. and if we look at the contusion, it actually specifies what congress, our federal congress can legislate on and what they can't. you know what's not in there? health care, period. kennedy: negative rights versus positive rights and bernie and is socialists -- he's doubling down on socialism. joe biden takes the moderate lane. i'm not going to pretend to be a moderate. >> we're going to give him so much more money that he can choose to spend it. kennedy: is that great for the president to have someone just

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beto o'rourke has a wild prediction that the state of texas is not a sure thing for republicans in 2020. the former media darling said last night that he's encouraged by recent polls showing joe biden beating president trump in a head-to-head matchup in the lone star state. texas has not elected a democrat to the governor's office or the u.s. senate in more than two decades and donald trump defeated hillary clinton there in 2016. but republican donors not taking chances. they've launched a multimillion dollar effort to register one mill yor onknew gomillion new g. and presso can democrats reallyp texas or is it time to take beto's car keys away again. joining me now in the great state of texas, fox news

contributor lawrence jones is back. >> hello, kennedy. kennedy: what is going on there? >> we have the people who are moving from these big states, liberal progressive states that are also bringing their policies with them. and then you have our likability thing when it came to texas because greg abbott beat a democratic opponent by 13 points. this is not really indicative of the democrats gaining so much ground as it is a lot of texans don't like ted cruz. kennedy: that may not be a texas-wide problem. it's a ted problem. >> the democrats definitely have organization battleground in texas that they have been organizing for a while gaining ground in a lot of the major cities. okay. that being said, i think the gop solution of registering more voters is actually wrong. i think they need to do a good job of connecting with people again. people vote not based on the party but the candidate themselves and i don't think there's an investment in

messaging for the party. so if they can overcome that, they can get more voters. kennedy: is john cornyn in as much trouble as teds cruise is or is he better like? >> he's better like. ted cruz pissed off the democrats as well as the moderate republicans. okay. cornyn is universally liked except when it comes to the te party crowd. but for the most part he shows up to t the events. i don't think he's going to have as much of a problem. i don't think beto is going to go back and run. kennedy: and they did a poll of texas democrats and 60% of them want beto to run for john cornyn's seat. i don't think he would do it. i think his brand is damaged with this presidential run he's made and the press has by and large abandoned him and the luster is. >> i think he let his ego affect

him. one of the things that made him successful in texas despite the money he spent on the race is he did a grassroots campaign. and some people felt like it was authentic. a lot of the democrats are upset in texas because it seems like he went to the national scene so quickly instead of staying in texas and running. he's going to get pushback for jumping into the presidential race after he said he wasn't going to do that. and also i don't think john cornyn is going to be some punching bag like ted cruz. kennedy: would you warn the president that he has to go visit texas, that it is not a foregone conclusion for him the way hillary thought pennsylvania and wisconsin were in the bag for her? >> he has to visit texas but i think donald trump is moved loved in texas than ted cruz is. kennedy: so are bed bugs and lice actually. lice moved up in the rankings this week. >> so bowering. boring.

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