citizens, and we're putting criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens, and we're literally handcuffing the police to the point where they can't do their job. in a place like -- elizabeth: yeah, go ahead. finish your thought, sorry. >> in a place like new york city, we have a mayor who, you know, claims to be a member of, former member of the new york city police department, but he's making decisions not based on a cop, more based on someone who was just employed by the new york city police department. elizabeth: got it. anthony, merry christmas to you. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. happy holidays, happy hanukkah. have a good evening. ♪ ♪ kennedy: you can't jail me, i'm depressed and hairy, e vegan. that's crypto low life sam bankman-fried told a judge in the bahamas. he faces 155 years in prison.

accused of one of the biggest frauds in american financial history. the ftx founder in court today following his arrest last night as you saw on this show. investigators say he lost billions in client assets -- lost -- and used their money as his personal piggybank. st been a very dramatic 24 hours for sbf who was supposed to testify morning on capitol hill. his arrest, obviously, changed all that. instead he was in the courts fighting extradition to the united states where he is facing 8 charges of fraud and conspiracy. today in new york prosecutors outlined their case against him. watch. >> this case is about fraud. fraud is fraud. it does not matter the complexity of the investment scheme, it does not matter or the amount of money involved. if you mislead and deceive to take what does not belong to you, we will hold you accountable. kennedy: fraud. fraud is fraud. and the amount of money, staggering. it has gone missing, as much as

$32 billion. so how did this happen? today on capitol hill the new ceo of ftx, yeah, he's a wolf. he trieded to explain. he did not mince words. >> this is really old passioned 'em -- old-fashioned embezzlement. this is just taking money from customers and using it for your own purpose. not sophisticated at all. sophisticated perhaps in the way they were able to sort of hide it from people. kennedy: bankman-fried is obviously desperate to avoid a jail cell. he offered a quarter of a million dollars in cash to be freed on bond. this afternoon a judge in the bahamas denied it claiming sbf is a major with flight risk. he also complains he leads a lifestyle that is incompatible with prison. i can't eat cheese. do you know what it does to my sinuses, you guys? he says he's too depressed to do

my time. well, joining me to discuss tonight the, former united states attorney for the western district of virginia and owner of fish wick and associates, john fishwick is here. welcome, john. >> kennedy, thanks so much for having me on your show. kennedy: these are some very serious charges that, as i said, add up to 155 years in prison. what are the most serious counts sbf is facing? >> well, i think the most serious charge he's facing is, you know, he's defrauded and stolen from the small investors all across the country, folks who have put their life savings in there, hundreds and hundreds of those folks, and he just stole from them just plain and simple. and i think that's what gets the attention the most of the department of justice. obviously, there are other investors who have lost millions and millions of dollars, but it's the average person who's been so harmed by this incredible schemester. and so that, i i think, is the most important part of these charges, and that's who really needs to be -- whatever money

can be found, it needs to make its way to those folks. kennedy: all right. so are we going to find out how much ptx paid people like tom brady and larry david and steph curry and shaquille o'neal and a list of others? and will they at some point be compelled to give that money back to victims? >> well, i think you're going to find that there's going to be an incredibly comprehensive investigation. besides the department of justice, you know, the bankruptcy court through mr. ray and his team, i think it's clear to everybody that they're hard-charging, fair, just the facts people. remember the show "crag -- dragnet." that's everybody from end enforcers to other individuals who have been involved, i think they're going to get to the bottom of everything here, and i think there's going to be a race to the courthouse. a lot of folks are going to want to meet with doj to limit their prison time. kennedy: is this a net for the feds to try and ensnare other

people who were involved in this, or is bankman-fried, is he really the whale in this entire enterprise? who are they going after? i guess i'm asking, are they pressing him hard because heir trying to get to someone else, or do they just want to see him really held accountable? >> well, that's a great question, kennedy, and time will tell. but, obviously, they're going. to put a lot of pressure on him. he's bonn from living in a swanky house in the bahamas to a jail cell odd, and that's going to throw a lot of cold water on him, and he's a talker. ultimately, i expect him to flip. right now he's going to fight extradition, etc. but i think eventually he's going to talk. he is a huge fish. he's the whale. he's the mastermind behind all of this -- can. kennedy: who does he flip on in. >> well, great question. obviously, people within his company. i think ultimate pressure if point for him will be, is, you know, his parents are stanford law professors, and they've been involved in this company. and i'm sure he is going to be very, very protective of them,

and that's a huge pressure point for koj with. but $-- for the doj. but $40 million was given by him in the last political cycle to politicians. i think bigger game on the contributions is not just that you didn't follow the rules when you gave money to politicians, did you expect to get something in return from the politicians, or did you get something in return from the if politicians. i think it's interesting that that charge is in this early stage indictment. that sends a signal to me that doj is looking for bigger charges as relates to potential political corruption. kennedy: now, we know that when the federal government goes after you, their conviction rate is very, very high. do you expect that he will spend some serious time in prison? >> absolutely. i mean, years and years and years, potentially the rest of his life. and that's why the pressure's going to be profound on him in a big way. either he's going to fight these charges, and if it goes to trial, the indictment will not be indictment, it'll be

potentially hundreds of charges against him because each time he used the mail or an e-mail and lied about it or a text, that can be a separate charge. or he's going to have to flip and say, hey, look, this is everything i know, i'm telling you everything i know. they're trying to get some leniency. it's going to be hard. he is looking at years and years, potentially the rest of his life in prison. i do not expect him to make bond. kennedy: no, and i didn't buy any of the excuses when he went on that fake apology tour. i didn't buy a moment of it or a drop of his crocodile tears. john, thank you so much. good to talk to you. >> thank you so much, kennedy. kennedy: so did sam bankman-fried ruin cryptocurrency for everyone? added slow candidates are trying can be advocates are trying anything they can to distance themselves from ftx's fall from grace and save what's left of the clip eau industry. lawmakers still very much out for blood as they have been even in the best of times. reps from both sides of the aisle today had choice words

about what could come next for crypto. >> the idea that cryptocurrency can be a solution for financial inclusion is not only laughable, it's dangerous, mr. ray. these get quick rich kind of ads targeting my residents, it is predatory. and to quote my friend senator warren, it's [bleep] >> we have an obligation to do everything in our power to insure this never happens again. kennedy: so will the biggest reaction be industry-killing regular ration? joining me now to discuss,s historian kurt walker. kurt, welcome back. from your perspective, what is the potential fallout here in terms of regulation? >> well, regulators like to do one thing, and that is certainly regulate. like i said last time though, the stuff that happened here is crystal clear law breaking, and

so treating, treating ftx like they're some kind of animal in business that has never existed before still just strikes me as really bizarre. just reclassify ftx as to what they are which is, essentially, an illegal banking operation that is running a gigantic ponzi scheme, casino, whatever you want to call it. there's already a lot of laws on the books that can be very easily pointed towards sam and and his cohorts and ultimately tighten up. i don't think we need some new bureau of regulatory people. we don't need another thousand federal employees just to do the same thing they'd be doing with other investment companies around the economy. kennedy: all right. he was obviously a very high profile person who bought access and privilege in washington. was there resentment from your community having just one guy there with one voice crafting his own legislation in congress?

>> it is weird. so sam really did kind of pop out of nowhere about two years ago. i had never heard of him, and i've been around for ten years, and i know a lot of people that do a lot of things in the space. he didn't just show up, he showed up as this billionaire or who goes out and and hops on stage with bill clinton and tony blair, and he's on the cover of "forbes," and he's going to be the next warren buffett. and a lot of people i mow were saying, did you know him? if where did he come from? and then all of a sudden he's talking about regulation, he's going to change the world and he's going to give all his money away and he's a vegan. and so he just, he kind of comes across as something like a pr agency made something out of clay that looks exactly like a mole to make the industry look goofy. and then, obviously, now he's made basically everybody in the entire blockchain economy very suspect to mainstream observers, and i don't know, whole thing just really stinks. and the fact that it took 30 days or more for him to be

arrested? all of it's goofy. kennedy: yeah. and the fact that we're talking about $32 billion. so, you know, you've got a lot of smart people that he interfaced with, people who have been burned by fraudsters in the past. how did he get into places like sequoia? if is it jargon? >> well, he's a rich kid, first of all, you know? sam dresses like he's 15 years old and just crawled out of bed, but he's 30 years old, and he's the son of some very powerful and well-connected people. and so it's the kind of thing where you can say, hey, dad, didn't you have a friend at sequoia? and if the answer is yes or maybe, then i think sam probably just tugged on that thread. it's really the only thing that makes my sense to me, frankly. now, he doesn't strike me as a particularly good salesman, he's not a particularly good speaker. he doesn't even really inspire much confidence if you sit and listen to him talk about much of anything. the only thing that makes sense

is sort of old family ties and really kind of painting him as something that he isn't. and it almost feels like he's a kind of a patsy or something. i don't want to get conspiratorial -- kennedy: go ahead. >> yeah, i mean, oregon how to walk into sequoia to ask for a billion dollars. [laughter] kennedy: yeah. and you mow a lot. you have a lot of information in your head, and what sets you apart from sam is you probably read about stuff. you probably do more research. so, you know, it's one thing to get in the door. a lot of people can gain access, but making it through those multiple levels and securing people's confidence, that's what a con man is. and that's what he did. and i tend to agree that, yes, this is garden variety fraud for which there are a number of laws and statutes on the books to which he can be prosecuted. you know, but the question is for people who want decentralized currency, how long will it take to get back to a

place of trust? >> well, that's the unfortunate thing on the altar here that's being sacrificed is we actually have really great technology that allows for low friction global payments and for increased data integrity. and, in fact, the tools to stop the sort of fraud that sam has committed have existed for almost 15 years in the bitcoin space. and the fact that somebody like sam was able to get this many people to trust him and then use celebrities to advertise and take in all of these billions of dollars, it really just speaks to the fact that people don't understand what the technology is, they don't know what it's for, and the fact that it was used as a sort of ponzi scheme and giant grift -- can. kennedy: so easily. >> -- that's a big black eye, and it really stinks. it's very unfortunate. kennedy: yeah. well, sam, so eat some cheese. kurt, thanks so much for your time, appreciate it. [laughter] >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: coming up, winter is coming, and the russia a/ukraine

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kennedy: welcome back, sassafras. experts say we could be entering the most dangerous of the entire war in ukraine, winter rapidly approaching, and the russ keys are getting desperate. ukrainians have been kicking their arses all over the country, and because of that the russians have been relying more and more on deadly missile attacks. now the white house reportedly finalizing plans to ship some of our patriot missile defense systems to the front lines, that, of course, infuriating moscow x they even just rejected a ukrainian deal to end the war by christmas. bah humbug, you bunch of commie scrooges. joining me now, former cia officer and ceo and chairman of portman square group, gingerbread-scented just in time for the holidays, welcome back, mike baker. [laughter] >> thank you very much. both ceo and chairman. that's a lot on my plate. kennedy: and you voted yourself

into both roles, well done. [laughter] >> i did. nobody went against me. so this is -- and unfortunately, look, this is a horrible time of year right now in ukraine for this conflict. if anybody imagined there would be some sort of christmas surprise and a peace agreement, maybe russians pulling out and some of this really heavy fighting that's going on in the east to subside, doesn't look like that's going to be the case at all. kennedy: no, and it's not a surprise that russia is turning this down. putin has said, well, you know, you made your own bed, you gotta lie in it, but maybe they didn't make their own bed. but what will it take, you know, at this point? we've seen twists and turns, we've seen momentum shift. it appears by all accounts to be back on the side of ukraine, so -- >> yeah. kennedy: -- what turns tide and brings the russians to the peace table? >> yeah. i mean, look, obviously,

ukrainians didn't make their own bed in this case. putin stripped the bed and period on it. -- peed on it. and if you're not going to get that sort of analysis from anywhere else. ken nope. bret baier, not gonna talk about peeing the bed. >> he's not going to talk about it. [laughter] but here's the thing, the russians, they've been talking as they've been getting their arse kicked, they're been talking occasionally about a peace deal. zelenskyy goes and presents in front of the g7 which has been meeting in paris over the past couple of days and talk as about, among other things, talking abouts about this -- talks about that maybe we could have a settlement, and it would start at christmas time with the russians withdrawing? putin and his cronies say, absolutely not. look, we have part of your country now, we annexed it which, of course, was a sham. kennedy: yeah. >> but putin has handled this, every step of the way it has been an unmitigated disaster for the russians. and in the sense if you think about it, now finland and sweden

are in the process of making their way into nato. putin never wanted nato expanded. we're about to send patriot missile batteries into ukraine, right? and that is a major issue because if putin understands, the military understands if they control the skies, they are going to make headway here in ukraine. but we can't let that happen. and then the patriots are a very important part of this. those batteries are are very important. the problem is it takes time. it takes months to train up the dozens and dozens that need to operate each battery, so this is not going to happen overnight, but it's an important signal. and perhaps what's happening is as part of this announcement that we're sending the patriots there, part of this is trying to to push putin to the settlement table. that a may be an aspect of it. 'em can. kennedy: ken all right, let's look at the britney green -- brittney griner deal. did you have a glimmer of hope that we had a more open diplomatic channel with russia than previously thought? >> no, no.

look, these negotiations always happen in the backroom. and so it doesn't, it signals that we did have an open channel of coms to some degree, which is good. you always need to be able to talk. we never want to shut that down with china, with russia, with north korea. we always want some level of comms. but it's not as if this agreement, this trade -- which putin is hailing as a massive victory for getting viktor bout back, it's not as though that's going to expand our diplomatic relations with russia. putin is a pariah, and we need to treat him as such. of. kennedy: apparently he fell downstairs and soiled his undies, and that is not a good look -- >> yeah, but who hasn't, this in all honesty city? kennedy: who among us, mike? [laughter] i can't wait to see you back in studio. thanks so much for taking the time.

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on the other side of the border wall, got an opportunity to meet with the governor just to get an understanding, deeper understanding of what the world looks like pre-title 42 and what it likely is going to look like in a few weeks post-title 42. kennedy: wow, what analysis. title 42, of course, allows law enforcement to turn migrants away to protect the country from the covid spread. that rule expires next week. agents say the situation will quickly deteriorate, so is anyone on the left doing can anything to tackle this disaster rationally? let us break it down with the host of the jason rantz show live from from seattle, washington, it's jason rantz. we've got fox news senior political analyst, my friend juan williams, and cofounder of base politics, 'em hannah -- hannah if cox is here. she's threatening us from last time, i'm not sure why.

welcome, everyone. jason, i will start with you. he is a very unserious governor in serious times and didn't really have my solutions to this growing crisis. >> because he doesn't have anything in his brain to work with. i mean, we're talking about someone who at the very basic level is someone who really only cares about virtue signal and coming off as presidential. he's obviously running for president. i do like the fact that this is going to force the biden administration to perhaps talk about this. i just hope someone calls him out and says where were you this entire time? because now that you're borrowing at least some of the talking points coming from greg abbott and ron desantis and some others, why didn't you do this before the election? he's only doing it now because he thinks he's going to get some extra that points. remember, this is the party of open borders, so if he's able to maybe move the conversation a little bit, kudos, but he's not

going to get much points as far as thinking this actually comes off as presidential when it kind of comes off as lazy and hacky. kennedy: what's interesting here, juan, is he and people in his administration have brought up the same point that other border state governors have, and that is that they're the having to tackle this on their own. the federal government, you know, even if he doesn't say it directly, that's what his actions are saying, that the federal government isn't doing enough, hat state of california is having to set up their own centers, you know? and in arizona, governor doug ducey, who is on his way out, he has been using shipping containers to build a de facto border wall because federal government isn't protecting that border. >> right. so you've got a situation here where i think the reason that a gavin, that governor newsom went down to the border is to say, look, we are in crisis, and we need to deal with it, and the local governments -- local state governments, in this case -- are

the ones who are bearing the brunt of the burden. but, you know, to me, he was very right to, one, say that under current law anybody is entitled to seek asylum and that you can't just start turning people back. and, of course, the counts have said you can't do it either -- courts -- even using title 42 that's about to expire. but i think to your larger point, he was calling out kevin mccarthy, soon to be, if he's lucky, the speaker of the house and saying, hey, kevin, you're from california, why aren't you as the leader of a major party mt. united states congress doing something about -- kennedy: well, that's a great -- >> and i think that's the challenge. kennedy: yeah, that's a great question he should pose to the current house speaker who is also from california, nancy pelosi, because not only have concern. >> right. kennedy: -- democrats had the majority in the house of representatives, but also in the senate and the presidency. so, you know, it is incredibly, incredibly shortsightedded for him to blaming this on

republicans when they could have done something. sinema is from a border state. he could have gotten her onboard and wherever she goes you know joe manchin follows. but the problem here is, hannah, not everyone can gain asylum. sure, a lot of people can seek it, but once you've been detained, then you are in defensive asylum, ask you don't -- and you don't necessarily have the best chance of staying in this country, and the course of action is about five years for every single person who seeks asylum. so it is very much a broken system even with asigh lees. >> it really is, and i'm so glad you called that out because democrats are every bit as guilty as republicans are. i feel so bad for these people who are fleeing oppression. we're really forchew mate to be in a semi-capitalist country where we don't have to have these kinds of problems that we're facing. these people become political pawns. hay come here and democrats

instead of actually looking to fix our very broken immigration system, want to use them to basically sling mud at republicans. we need an immigration system where it is the fast, easy and simple to come here legally to work, to add to our economy, to pay taxes and get out of to are pressive regimes. instead we have this very convoluted, complicatedded immigration system where it's almost impossible for people to do the right thing. and i don't see anybody actually working to fix that. both parties want to keep going at each other, and there's human lives at the end of the day that are at stake, so i'm disgusted by it. we need to really be rallying to try to make sure that we can accept refugees, no make sure that people who really do need asylum can get it. if right now it's everybody loses. kennedy: and it's very confusing, so people are trying to get into this country and, you know, the way the system is set up they can't leave. hay certainly can't leave and legally come back and work again

because the system sucks. and both parties have let everyone down while the biden administration is doing a victory dance because according to the labor department, inflation has increased by less than expected. man, talk about a low bar. the feds say inflation has dropped to 7.ed 1. that's -- 7.1%. that a's still 7.1 is %. white house claims prices could be on their a way down. families, they are not feeling it. a new survey shows 60% of americans plan to buy fewer gifts for friends and family year. so how do you shop for the holidays when you can't afford to eat? jason? >> i hate this news that people are cutting down on gifts because as a jew, we're supposed to rub hanukkah in the paces of everyone who celebrates christmas. hey, we've got eight crazy nights. unfortunately, we're going to have to cut down on the gift giving. obviously, it's good news that a it went down to 7.1%, but to your point, that's a rather low

bar. it's like saying, well, you know, we had 10 fewer murders this year, but we still had 100 of them. we like progress, but we'd like to get that number as low as humanly as possible, and i think this really tells me how much is coming from this white house. this is not good news in the grand scheme of things in how far we have to go to get to wherest actually good news. people are still the hurting, and i think we do have to acknowledge that. kennedy: yeah, how's that transitory inflation going, juan? >> well, you know, i just disagree. i mean, look, the stock market is not partisan, and the stock market had a really good day today to. it went way up, and it came down a little bit. basically, they reacted to this as good news. i think if you're out there buying gasoline, you can see gasoline going down, used car prices going down, airline tickets. still have some issues at supermarket and gift buying, as you rightly point out, kennedy. it seems to me we went through coronavirus, we know what

happened to our economy, and i think you have to pull together and say, hey, wait. the fed tomorrow is likely to raise interest rates again, so it looks to me like people are engaged onish to shoe, and wall street -- on this issue, and wall street thinks we're making progress. ken eastbound are we, hannah -- kennedy: are we making progress, hannah? >> i don't think so. there are -- they're going to have to push about 3-5 million people out of work, ultimately. there are a lot of bad signs for a very serious recession in the next year. i think consumers also a feel that way, and that's why heir cutting back on buying things. and if i think as a whole the conversation is still not focusing on the root causes of why we're dealing with this, and that comes down to government spending and the fed continuing to print more dollars. i have heard some interesting things from the left, hay keep talking about -- they say the reason inflation is so high is companies are having to pay a lot more to get workers because there's so many jobs. they pass those costs on to people via raising prices. and i think that's really funny

because that tends to be what would happen if they had these mandatory minimum wages and they keep raising it to 15-20 an hour, and they always push back on that. but right now that's their talking the point. kennedy: yeah, that's interesting because your cofinder, brad plum bow, he goes back andport with nina turner who says, you know, $25 minimum wage does not make your big mac more expensive. well, yes, it does. and, you know, when they're honest about it, that's exactly what happens. if you are paying people more money, you have to absorb that expenditure or somewhere. and guess where it gets absorbed? in higher prices for consumers. so, you know, it is a spiral that continues to propel itself,, jason. >> yeah. we're -- here in washington state as of january 1st, we'll be the highest minimum wage in the nation, and yet at the exact same time, we've hit a historically low level of

productivity. it has dropped by the largest number on record. and yet not only are we paying people more than they're actually worth, and the demands are to pay even more, but already also demands to work less and to work from home. we are fundamentally changing this economy and the labor market and in large part certainly covid played a role, there's no doubt. but we are engaging in some really deep self-inflect flicked no one wants to have that conversation. kennedy: no. they don't even have are a first aid kit. jason, juan, hannah, i hope i see you all again soon. >> i'll be back. kennedy: i hope so. i don't know what that tweet wa- >> it was about my new black dog getting on my white clothes. [laughter] western. kennedy: we were, like, she got a job. she got a dog. >> i got a dog. [laughter] kennedy: coming up, meghan and harry now claiming the royal

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♪ it's beginning to look a lot like christmas -- ♪ everywhere you go ♪ kennedy: oh, harry. that was last might's mouth trumpet monday song. matt was winner. he's good at this. meanwhile on netflix, it's beginning to look a lot like the same old boring baloney, the streaming service releasing a new trail ther for the final episodes of its prince harry and

meghan dock you series. turns out they aren't finished complaining yet. watch this. >> see this institution algaslighting -- >> i wasn't being thrown to the wolves, i was being ped to the wolves. >> they were actively recruiting people to disseminate disinformation. >> they were happy to lie to protect my if brother, they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us. kennedy: oh, no, you poor thing. what lies are the crown fools talking about now? joining me to discuss,s former private secretary and chief of staff to the late princess diana, patrick jepsen returns. welcome back, patrick. >> hi, kennedy. kennedy: hey. so some people still feel bad for harry. most people in the country do not like meghan markle at all. what do you chalk those two things up to? >> well, i think there's quite a polarizing effect they have on society, both sides of the atlantic. interestingly, the one

demographic that meghan is keeping her popularity at a reasonable level in the u.k. is with the 18 to 24s. with every other group, it's gone down so that she's the least popular member of the royal family except for prince andrew, which is not a sign that things are going terribly well. i think the problem is they don't seem to be anchored to reality. if my royal boss had come to me and said, path rib, they're telling lies about me, i would have said, well, who's saying what, and what can we do about it? you can phone the editor of the newspaper and say you've just printed a lie, and you either correct it or we're going to sue the pants off of you. kennedy: yes. it's a different threshold than we have in this country. but they don't -- they seem unable to provide any other content than complaining about these incredibly privileged lives. you know, you talk about private jets and multimillion dollar

estates. they could the clearly afford their own security, but they wanted the perks of a job they no longer wanted. so it's getting pretty flimsy. now, as i watched season five of "the crown," a couple things i found remarkable, i think that prince harry is a consultant on the show, number one. and number two, i'm wondering what your reaction was seeing elizabeth who played princess diana. do you feel like she elbowed -- embodied the soul of woman how served for so long? >> i thought as the series went on she got better and better, so that around episode 7, 8, 99 she was really -- 9, she was really spookily good. i could blink and think it was my boss. and it was very, very moving, i i think, the way she grew into the part. captured not just the voice and the look, but the mannerisms too. somebody said i think in the

early episodes she was mimicking diana. i think by the edge of it she was acting brilliantly, channeling diana. kennedy: so what did you think about your part mt. show where martin bashir, then a young journalist, approached diana's brother saying that a people like you had been compromised and been paid off? did that really happen and were you upset about that? >> it did really happen. we didn't discover that it had happened until just last year. a tenacious investigate i journalist -- in thive of journalist, addy web, spent years digging through the background of the bashir sheriff diana interview, and he turn up some information which brought about the dyson inquiry which revealed cha he had used very underhanded methods including lying about me, forging

documents, purporting to hoe that i was being paid. and it seems husband misdeeds were covered up by bbc top management. so it was really quite a big scandal, but it only came to light last year which is weird for me now to see it bright to -- brought to life on the screen in "the crown." 9. kennedy: yes. and when diana says my patrick, she's talking about you. patrick, thank you so much for your time. i always appreciate it. >> good to be with you. kennedy: topical storm next. here's your tickle me tuesday joke. here we go. what kind of tea is hard to swallow? ♪ pleasure ♪ (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher.

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♪ kennedy: in a new interview, nancy pelosi's daughter says her mom eats nails for breakfast, so that's why she talks like that. you shouldn't bite your nails. and this is the topical storm. topic number one, "the new york times" has named senator-elect john fetterman one of the most stylish people of the year. [laughter] unless that year is 1975, i think they're wrong. yeah, this is the style icon sporting his signature sweat shorts and hoodie combo, known

in the fashion industry as squeegee man chic. a man of the people, the stinky people. yeah, he puts his pants on one leg at a time and then puts his shirt on one neck at a time. when asked how he felt, fetterman replied, he was thrilled because radio grandma -- [inaudible] some critics wonderedded if the new york times was joking, but the times writers say when it comes to fashion, they never kid around. that's balenciaga's job. pervert. topic number two, if you thought snow flows -- plows only came on rubbings, check out the donner pass in lake tahoe, california, getting plowed by a train are. just like my prom night. whoo! the railway was recently hit with 5 feet of snow completely covering it tracks like an fbi lawyer embedded at twitter. but it was no match for this

snowplow train, easily cutting through mountains of snow like a knife through a new york city subway rider. the donner pass is named after the donner party who got stuck there for an entire winter, forcing some of them to resort to cannibalism to survive. so instead of eating carl's jr. in california, they just ate carl. needless to say, the entire experience left a bad taste in their mouths. surprised we didn't get to arme hammer. he's still there. topic number three -- tastes like chicken! uber is celebrating the christmas season by giving away free reindeer rides, and you thought regular uber drivers smelled like animals. it happened in finland where customers can sign up on the uber app for a 2-hour sleigh ride. hold my reindeer! oh, my god! even if you notify your friends and family that you've dearly departed, the journey will take you through a snow covered

forest to a town officially recognized as the hometown of santa claus. so it turns out he's finnish. you'll be treated to a snack of traditional hot berry juice while you warm up around the blazing fire. if you're still hungry, there's always those reindeer. donner pass donkeys, we call 'em. topic number four -- no one calls them that. a team of marine biologists in australia -- oh, no, that's not a biologist --ing they have uncovered a never before seen species after sending cameras to a place where no australian has gone before. and, no, i'm not talking about rehab. this is the blind eel covered in loose, transparent, gelatinous skin. if this thing could look in a mirror, it might never leave the house. it was called in what australians call the twilight zone, 3.5 miles under the sea surrounded by 100

million-year-old volcanos. that's not all the aussies found down under. check out their sweat push. yeah, it migrated to the other side of its body compared to this fish, we all have lazy eyes. and here's a viper fish with fangs so big, they stick out even when its mouth is closed. the next time someone tells you there's plenty of push in the sea, remind them that a lot of those push look like this. congratulations, australia, for finding a bunch of ugly freaks with crooked teeth, and they didn't even have to go to a manchester united game. topic number five -- oh, i'm sure they're mad. it's tickle me tuesday. here's the tickle you've been waiting for, what kind of tea is hard to swallow? reality. >> notot a dad joke, a real jok. [laughter] kennedy: i feel like lawrence there mckinney got it right on twitter with.

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