education move forward and push these school standards of basically saying, look, we want you, the school boards, to adopt these school standards that are going to make sure that we create these the, protect these intimate spaces or these safe spaces so that only biological girls can be in that -- elizabeth: but, mercedes -- >> now we have to see what the school board -- elizabeth: but the same school board members are there in loudoun county, both democrats and republicans, right? there can't be any six -- fixes to the problem if they're still there. you've got five seconds. okay. >> we're seeing more republicans engage, and the parents are not going to let up. they're going to make sure that their kids are protected. elizabeth: thank you, liz macdonald, have a good night. kennedy: hello, hump night. where did covid come from? who's responsible for the cover-up and what role could people like dr. anthony fauci

have had in helping create the global nightmare? republicans are ready to start the investigation finally. it's been nearly three years since the coronavirus was unleashed on the world. it has since killed more than 7 million people globally, more than 1 million here in the u.s. alone. hundreds of millions more have gotten ill, but so far we don't really know the origin answer. or do we? did it start in a market pull of exotic animal, or did it escape accidentally from a chinese lab? and if service the latter, did u.s. scientists unwittingly fund that research causing the worst pandemic in a hundred years? three years later it's shocking that we are still having to ask these questions. now with republicans poised to take control of the house, we might finally start getting some answers. congressman jim jordan and james comer, congressmen, i should say, now demanding testimony from 40 previously unmoan biden

officials to know who they -- what they knew and when they knew it. guess who's at the top of the list? >> we're going to have a hearing later today, all kinds of key facts he knew when this thing started, february 1st, 020, he knew all kinds of things, and he kept that information from the american people. kennedy: my beagle ate the bat, so i had to kill the beagle. fauci, of course, he won't admit he blew it. he has denied supporting gain of function research in china. but as you recall, you can't criticize him because he's science. oh. yeah. >> so if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about. but if they get up and really aim their bullets at tony fauci, well, people with can recognize there's a person there. so it's easy to criticize, but they're really criticizing science because i represent science. so if you are trying to to, you know, get at me as a public

health official and a scientist the, you're really attacking not only dr. anthony fauci, you're attacking science. i'm the bad guy to an entire subset of people because i represent something that is uncomfortable for them. st called the truth. kennedy: yeah. the truth is you're a knob, tony. unfortunately, those claims won't protect lord fauci from my inconvenient subpoenas, so will house republicans get to the bottom of the covid mystery? joining me now, kentucky republican congressman and ranking member of the house oversight committee, james comer is back. welcome back, sir. >> great to be back. kennedy: hi. so there is a very long list of previously unknown biden officials that you are hoping to talk to. what are you hoping to get from some of these lesser known players? >> well, we want to know the thought process. many of these the people had something to do with, from a government standpoint, of sending american tax a dollars

to e can cohealth alliance who in turn sent it to the wuhan has been to be the used for gain of function research. this is something that, clearly, shouldn't have ever been allowed. but at the end of the day, when you lack at the terms of that grant to ecohealth alliance, they were clearly out of compliance. so there are a lot of problems with the grant aside from the if fact that we believe that it created to covid-19 to begin with. but let's just take it from the government level. many of these people have flown under the radar. all of the attention goes to dri think that's where people thought we would start the investigation. but we've researched every single government employee that had anything to do with the tax dollars going to the wuhan lab, and that a's where we're starting. we have sent them letters, they're going to have to come in and do interviews with us so we can find out what all took place. once we get all this information from the government employees, then we're going to talk to the scientists that dr. fauci likes to refer to, and then we're going to bring dr. a few fauci

in. -- dr. fauci in. kennedy: and a lot of those scientists got sweetheart grants for changing their hypotheses on what the hemorrhage was, because we don't have answer to that. what do you say to people who tell you the search for answers is really just political? >> it's not political. i mean, everybody was affected by covid-19. we all have friends and family that died of covid-19. those of us who had kids in the public school system can tell you without the shadow of a doubt that that they are behind because of the forced by dr. fauci and his science backers that required students to go virtual instead of in-person learning. small businesses were shut down and never reopened. with respect to the scientists, they received grant dollars from the government all the time they were giving dr. fauci a green light to go on and say whatever he wanted to say about the vaccines, about masks and about government shutdowns. while we had them in there

asking about the tax dollars going to ecohealth alliance, we're also going to ask hem about all the grant dollars that dr. fauci's scientists got along the way. so this is a problem, and we believe these government employees will have a lot of answers for us. elizabeth: kennedy: yes, and dr.s fauci and collins were the oversight. they were the only ones in charge where millions and millions of dollars went. and, you know, it was essentially to their cronies. now, one of your fellow kentucky lawmakers, rand paul, he has been the most vocal in going after fauci. will you consult with him when you're putting your investigatory case together? >> absolutely. in fact, jim jordan and i have already meant with rand paul. we've had several conversations. so he had a lot of big plans for potential senate majority. he doesn't have that, unfortunately. elections is have consequences, but he is sharing information with us. so we are in close communication

with rand paul, and we'll continue to be throughout this whole information. -- investigation. kennedy: do you think joe manchin is going to switch parties? >> i hope so. i mean, if he wants to have my life if west virginia, he needs to get on the republican party bandwagon. kennedy: interesting. and where -- if you actually uncover the origin of covid-19, what happens then? >> well, we want to hold people accountable for a cover-up -- kennedy: what does that mean who? well, i mean, if dr. fauci lied and we have evidence that dr. fauci lied, then i think that he needs to be referred. criminally. because this is something that never should have happened. this is what happens when you have a political party that a doesn't provide any i'm of oversight. -- any type of oversight. dr. fauci was allowed to do whatever, say whatever. no one questioned him, and the mainstream media got the backs of the democrats who were turning a blind eye to

dr. fauci. now we mow that so much of what he said just wasn't true. was that intentional or was it a mistake, i don't know, but we're going to start with the low-level government employees and work our way all the way up to the top with dr. collins and dr. fauci. kennedy: that is a very interesting play by you and your fellow committee members and, frankly, i hope it is fruit ifful and successful, and i hope we get many, many more answers. congressman comer, thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me. kennedy: now, meanwhile, masks crawling back out of the woodwork. firms from new york to -- firms from new york -- officials from new york to los angeles recommending masking, but after three years have people had enough of the masks? let's meet tonight's party panel, contributing editor at the spectator usa, stephen l. miller, he is here, and he is not wearing a tie.

democrat pollster and author, he's wearing two ties, his name is douglas schoen, and he will be playing the part of the guy mt. middle who is talking about democrat issues. we've also got reason magazine editor-in-chief, katherine mangu-ward. this she is, stunning, sparkling and smiling. so is there a lot to smile about here with these new mask advises, steven? >> i think it's curious that they're talking about bringing these back in certain kind of democrat-run enclaves like new york, california, now maybe arizona as well. i don't really have a problem if it's just a recommendation. people can wear a mask, whatever, but a lot of the times we see in places like california that changes into mandates. we already saw in l.a. county they were possibly looking at reinstating mask mandates in schools and public places. so i don't know how much people are really going to go for that. i think california, you know, that's just sadism as punishment, so they'll take anything that gavin newsom, you

know, puts at them. around the country it's a little hard to swallow when we were promised the virus would be shut down. kennedy: yeah, we're going to shut the virus down. katherine, i want to go to you because as a public school mom, i don't want to hear that kids have to be tested and masked in order to be taught in school. what will happen with the moms in this country if we do, in fact, do -- they're no longer recommendations, they are mandates in schools? >> have you ever seen les mis? i think it's going to be hike that. i think it's just going to be singing on the barricades -- [laughter] you know, a lot of tragic, you know, soliloquies. it's going to be a mess. and i, unfortunately, we mow how this pattern goes. the pattern is that there's a recommendation, and then it gets applied to kids first. that never made sense with covid, and it's not going to make sense now in the

tripledemic, and that's not going to stop anyone, i fear, because teachers' unions still wield a lot of power on this question. they want kids masked, they want to be masked, they want the cover of a mandate. and if is and when that happens, a lot of moms who are not partisan, maybe not political at all a, are going to riot, and i join them. i will be out front with them, for sure. kennedy: do you consider yourself to be political, katherine? >> i do. i do very much, kennedy. kennedy: i hope you infect those other broads with your rationality and, dare i say reason? that'll be a good day. but we are, we're entering more dark times, aren't we, doug? a lot of these politicians, they have gotten drunk on and with power, and they don't want to give it up. and the fact that there are new viruses emerging, they're not pandemic viruses, they're the kind of things that we've been dealing with for years and years and years, decades. but now it's the all the more reason to make even more

emergency control necessary. >> you know, i don't think so, kennedy. i, i think i agree with stephen that recommendations make sense, and in this case to be a little bit more nuanced and say that at risk populations probably have more to benefit from n95 or the equivalent masks make sense. but i worry about overbroad, overreaching recommendations when really what the scientific and political community is saying is we really don't know what to do so better -- kennedy: we don't know what to do. ah, shrug. mask, no mask, maybe give us $2 the 00 billion. no, i'm with katherine on this one. you go for more regulations and mandates, use that name, i -- a use that word, i will send you on a mandate somewhere the sun don't shine. i don't even know what that

means, doug. that that's how mad i am. >> yeah, i gathered. more loquacious. >> u-haul.com. kennedy: panel, please don't go anywhere, we have much more show. coming up next, sam bankman-fried may be the latest so-called scammer to find trouble in the bahamas, but he didn't start the fire. infamous fyre festival founder billy mcfarlane back with a brand new plan. guess where all he is? if he's in studio. he's going to tell me all about it. fresh out of prison. ♪

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elizabeth: well, it's been a big week for celebrity-backed scammers, but sam bankman fried wasn't the first to go stealing with the stars. music festival promoted by kendall jenner that was doomed before it started? the man responsible for that debacle is now out of prison and launching a brand new business venture. here to tell me all about the launch of pirate, it's fyre festival founder billy mcfarland. how's it going?

is it hard to walk around with the ankle shackles? >> it's so crazy to be the here and look out over new york. thanks for having me. kennedy: what were you thinking? >> i was so stupid and so wrong, and if i could have 30 seconds to tell you what i thought, what i thought is the key word, that i was trying to do, was that for years before fyre i was taking customers from my previous business, the outer islands of the bahamas, these were an try-diverse group who had some, you know, pretense about them in the new york, and we came to these outer islands and really connected over adventure. the bonds that were formed were so incredible, and i was just so driven to share what was happening in the world. and part of it was was to brag to my friends. look, you'll never believe what's happening here, but i was really driven by this desire to share, and that a led to the terrible idea of trying to invite a few thousand people. kennedy: yeah. and a lot of people relived that on netflix -- i didn't watch the hulu one -- >> good.

[laughter] kennedy: i watched the netflix one. who do people in the bahamas hate more, you or sam bankman-fried? >> oh, man. love it will so much and -- kennedy: they don't love you. >> no. kennedy: chester cooper, who's, like, in charge of the royal ministry of shoving people in prison, he said that you're not invited, i'm sorry to tell you. >> yeah. i think the reality is that people are owed there for work leading up to the festival x they needed to get paid -- kennedy: do you feel bad lying to them? >> so bad. i wish i had a stash of cash somewhere, i could send the money tomorrow, but i need to work, and i need to make it happen, and that is the most important thing -- the. kennedy: yes, you owe $26,000 in restitution. that's a lot of money. i really liked inventing ann a that, i thought they did a great jock of dramatizing her story -- anna. there was something about her that was so compelling. i don't know that you share the same qualities necessarily, but i thought it was very interesting in that the sort of,

you know, dramatized version of her story you popped up, and she slept on your couch. were you guys friends? >> i'm so behind in all the streaming tv for obvious reason- kennedy: were you friends with anna delveysome. >> she slept at the townhouse, she kept convincing me to buy her things for dinner. kennedy: what else did you buy her? celine glasses -- >> couldn't afford it. kennedy: just give her credit cards can be. >> she got free cash for a number of months, so she won. kennedy: it was so funny watching you pop up, because it almost seems like a generational thing. like, there's a series of you, and i would include sbf and anna delvey and elizabeth holmes and you. you guys have these, like, massive aspirations, but i don't know if you with have the talent to meet the ambition, so you just sort of fudge everything else. is that a fair assessment? >> i think what went wrong with

me is i got away from what took me to fyre, and that was technology. i've been programming since i was 11 years old, kept using tech to push bound arelies, and it introduced me to this wild world of entertainment and positioner where i came from. kennedy: you're still going there with pirate. do you worry with the scrutiny that you have of being on federal probation that you're not boeing to have a -- going to have a fair launch like you would like if you had a clean slate? >> i think that a lot of people hope i could crawl into a hole and essentially die, but i need to find pride, and that's this lifelong journey of trying to make a positive impact and paying people back. kennedy: would you trade places with sambackman fried in -- sam bankman-fried in the bahamas? >> no, i would not trade places. kennedy: do you think he'll get out? >> i just know the mountain i have in front of me -- kennedy: who deserves to spend more time behind bars, you or

sbf? >> i just don't know the details of his crime, so, yeah. kennedy: i mean, what's fast a mating to me is that i know how beautiful the bahamas is. or are, i don't know how you say that. >> and they're getting a bad rap right now. kennedy: i love the bahamas. and i understand why people would want to go will and be successful will -- go there. i totally get it, but i also think they want to, like, recover their reputations, as we all do. you have made a point, you have served your time, you have paid your pep nance. -- penance. do you deserve to have a fresh start? >> i think it all goes back to what i do in the next 3, 5, 7, 10 years. i'm lucky enough that i'm 30, so i hopefully have 30 more working years ahead of me -- kennedy: i hope so. >> let me go out and try the it, and i'd rather go try honestly than give up. kennedy: thank you for answering all of my questions. >> thanks, kennedy. kennedy: yes. it's a fast mating story and, you know -- fascinating story

and redemption for anyone is possible. >> thank you. ken south carolina coming up, government sucks! according to a new gallup poll, that is. americans say it's been the worst problem for seven years running. how is it so bad? i will break down obvious in my memo, after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ over the last 100 years, lincoln's witnessed a good bit of history. even made some themselves. makes you wonder... what will they do for an encore? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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kennedy: oh, mercy, there are a lot of problems mt. world right now, and it seems we can't escape the comical health spiral of -- hell pile of inflation, crime and relentless hostility. people see it, they live it, and when asked to rank the single bigest issue plaguing us, guess what the number one answer was with according to gallup? abortion? now, just -- no. the economy, stupid? no, only 1% listed that as -- 12%. dissatisfaction with the government is the biggest whopper of them all, 232% of

people who bothered to pick up the phone said government was too big, too powerful and too intrusive. everything that government touches turns to crap, and it's raining turds. even the ancillary or problems that didn't make the grievance podium can be traced back to too much government or just horrible policy. the government shut down the economy, then paid people to stay home and buy things that weren't being made. help ethos things became more -- then those things became more expensive. so the government spent more money in the form of ppp loans and other corruption-heavy handouts. with the government, free government money that people were getting, they started leaving the work force, and the warm bodies left were able to demand much higher wages, and they passed that on to consumers through higher prices. with all these people sitting on the sidelines, they couldn't pay back student loans, so the president waved his flaccid wand, loaded up the cash cannon with an executive order and

tried to make student debt disappear. it was a slick and easily challenged midterm ploy for votes, and it kind of worked. but now courts having to unring that bad bell which never held schools accountable for jacking up tuition with nothing to show for it. because people always complained about government being the source of hair problem -- a valid and easily proven complaint -- why do we keep voting in the idiots who make no bones about stealing more of your money and giving you a new list of worries for next year? people talk a big game about being sick of the two-party system, but when it comes time to grow a spine and deweeny the power alls, dumb dumbs keep voting for the same numb skulls. i feel your pain, i share your frustration with government, but i beg you to sprout the nards and the courage to either run for office yourself or run these bums out. if you can't be the catalyst for change, you have no one to blame

for yourself -- but yourself, and next year you should be at the top of the list of our biggest problems. and that's the memo. you want more reason why the government is terriblesome if the fed if wants -- once again raising interest rates to tame inflation. that may be beyond their control. even still, lawmakers barely avoid ising the shut idown by reaching an agreement on a funding bill. will anything change come 2024? the party panel is back, stephen l. miller, douglas schoen, katherine mangu-ward. katherine, i will start with you. in terms of how government has made things worse, what tops your list this year? >> i mean, it's so hard to choose, but we can start with budget process. i mean, my american college student the, myself included, learns this the hard way, you don't do your best work on a group project when you wait until the week before christmas break to try and slap it together. and and congress does this every time. they wait until it is past time

to do a budgets, past time to figure out interparty conflict that they are just struggling through every single day, and then fight about whether or not to do a continuing resolution. it's a terrible way to run a country. and there's no sign that that is going to change. i don't blame americans at all for saying the government is the problem. i welcome them to join me in the dark, dark place where i have been for a long time. kennedy: yes. but it's a dark place, yet it's the an honest place, and we have a a lot of dishonest brokers in washington, stephen, who are forcing this issue just as katherine laid out. why would we ever expect that to changesome you know, if the same people are holding on to power for decades and decades and decades, that the -- we're giving them a mandate to just keep doing what they're doing which is i screwing the fiscal pooch. >> yeah. i mean, the republicans are going to take this one on the

chin from kind of the, you know, the grievance monsters and conservative pun punditry. this was really last minute budget deal was like joe biden's parting christmas gift to the country right before congress changes hands and gop takes the house and continues to do the same bad policy that joe biden is already doing. kennedy: doug, let me ask you this, is it unfair to blame government for all of our problems? >> no, not end when government operates -- not when government operates the way this one does and previous governments. i mean, we used to run, kennedy, in the '60s and '70s government satisfaction in the 60-70% range with both democrats and republicans agreeing. now we have total polarization, total chaos, paralysis and, quite logically, citizens of all world views -- myself included -- believe that our

government is failing us. kennedy: well, the government is failing us, doug. i mean, it is the unfortunate reality. and, katherine, i'm sure you can enumerate all of the areas of our lives where costs have gone up yet outcomes have gone down. and, you know, there is a direct correlation between the government getting bigger and heavier-handed and things like health care and education and housing. and now you see people who can't aboard their student debt and homelessness has exploded. >> that's right. almost everywhere where costs have gone up dramatically, especially prior to this current round of inflation, those are the areas where government is the most involved. i always find it kind of fascinating when people say, look, i found a market failure because college is expensive. we've been subsidizing college, causing administrative bloat, and then we wonder why it's so

hard to send your kids to college. same thing, as you say, with housing. and i worry about the sectors of the economy that have previously been somewhat protected because there is so much overreach now because everything is subject to emergency powers. i don't want to see sectors that have actually, you know, made life better for people wind up many that same, in that same circumstance where government meddling makes life worse. kennedy: yes. and we're seeing that a with a number of things. and, you know, there are senators and lawmakers, even the president who are so happy to put everything under the government umbrella where, you know, once again i hate to be repetitive, but it is, it's raining turds. well, speaking of government gridlock, former president trump may be losing a little steam among republican voters. his biggest threat, florida governor ron desantis. oh, boy. the two florida titans released the kraken. two major polls in two days,

they are proving just that. today's "wall street journal" poll showing desantis beating trump 52 to 38. that's a drug -- drubbing. the former president is promising a major -- oh, dear god -- a major announcement tomorrow. yeah, this is the ad for it. this is real. this is really happening. can anything turn his campaign around in it's interesting, stephen, because not a lot of people talking about the former president right now. what advise would you give him? [laughter] >> don't come out in a homelander costume tomorrow, because that's what it appears his superhero ad was going to be. far be it from me to give gop voters advice, but any candidate looking at jumping in in 2024 and looking at their internal polling hovering around 3-5% that a doesn't want trump to be the nominee should probably

reconsider. trump won in 2016 by splitting a plurality of votes, meaning 8, 9, 10 candidates took a hair of the votes, and trump waltzed over them. what polling is showing that voters probably won't go for him again. there's kind of a handful of people considering jumping in the race, and they should maybe want to reconsider that. kennedy: yeah, i think they should all reconsider, because anyone who wants to be president is crazy. [laugher] >> nobody should be president. kennedy: not one person. you're absolutely right. and if they are president, it was it should be nominal. it should be with, like, a super tyneny, slunk shrunken calvin coolidge. doug, what accounts for this desantis surge? >> well, i think trump has gotten some of the worst publicity recently that he has ever gotten when it be january 6th, the documents or other unrelated issues to his personal

business holdings in new york, the conviction of trump organization in the new york case. so i believe that he's down but not out. i mean, desantis the has a clear advantage, that's for sure, but he's new, he's untested, and trump still leads among core of republican activists, the very conservative voters. so i would not count the former president out by any means. kennedy: katherine, would you count former president out? do you think it's too early? i mean, obviously, like this is the our sport. this is what we love to do. we love talking about these things, and, you know, these hypothetical match-ups. one day they will become reality, and it's crazy how quickly this stuff changes from today to day can. but are we investing too much in these polls? >> we are mississippiing too much many -- investing too much in these polls. say it with me.

early polling does not give us very much information. i love a horse race as much as the next girl, but we don't, we don't know anything. it's so early. all these polls do is get everybody in a tizzy. we should do our darnedest to ignore them. we will fail. that's all right, we are only human. but, honestly, if you want to get really involved in a horse race, like, two to the track. -- go to the track are. life will go better you take up betting on the ponies. kennedy: i love the ponies. it's one of my favors thing about "the crown," it's how much the queen loved horses. and she loved horse -- touching them and smelling them, and it was a little kinky, but, yeah, i get it. >> which queen are we talking about? kennedy: the queen who recently passed. not camilla. >> okay. kennedy: the queen consort. >> okay. god rest her soul. kennedy: stephen, do you think my daughter who's a senior in

high school, do you think she should bo to college? >> no. kennedy: why? >> just -- do you want to foot that bill? colleges aren't going to exist many three, four years anyway -- [laughter] around for liberal arts, humanities, journalists. kennedy: oh, that's really -- >> no more herbal -- -- [inaudible conversations] kennedy: i love it. >> she's just going to turn on you. kennedy: oh, yeah. that happened, like, four years ago. >> she's going to start spouse spouting marx and gender -- kennedy: she lives in new york city. by the time new york city kids get to college, they're like -- blah, blah, blah. yeah, all right. >> yeah. kennedy: i would out one of her teachers right now as a marxist, but that would be doing that person a favor, and i'm not to going to do it. party panel, thank you so much. always good to get -- >> thank you. kennedy: you're all stunning americans. stephen, doug, katherine, well done.

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musk has yet to reveal. jack also insists there was never any political motivation -- that's funny -- or hidden agendas, even funnier. but as justin bieber once sang, is it too late now to say sorry? here with me now editor at townhall.com, fox news contribute e katie pavlich. great to key you -- to see you, katie. >> great to see you. kennedy: does that mea culpa ring hollow to you? >> well, it rings hollow in the sense that he's trying to argue that there were no political reasons why these things were happening. obviously, with all of e-mails and traffic that we've seen behind the scenes, we know that's not true. twitter obviously was run by a bunch of liberal activists, so i think it's more interesting to look at the bigger picture when you read through basically what he wrote about what happened to twitter. and if ceos across the country can take a some lessons from him in the sense that he says, look,

i got pushed around. i allowed activists to come into the company and to make these arguments that we should be censoring information, and hay did. and then everything started to fall apart because we couldn't keep up with what we had set ourselves up for. and actually when he gives solutions to moving forward as we're hearing a lot about regulation on capitol hill and saying things immediate to be done to rein in big tech and issue regulations on a federal level for social media companies, he's saying, look, we have to give power back to the people, back to the user, and the mistake that twitter made was building tools inside the company to control information rather hand building tools for users to control information themselves and to decide how hay wanted to use the platform -- they wanted to use the platform. it's interesting to read through what he wrote, and i think people watching should take some lessons about not allowing your company to be taken over by a bunch. of woke activists -- kennedy: they be never like you. you will never appease them

the -- >> exactly. kennedy: there's no way that you can move hair agenda forward firely. they -- firely -- satisfactorily. it's really convenient for him to say now, but he was the ceo of a company that was valued at time for billions of dollars and, you knowings or all we knew about him was that he was drinking salt shakes which was just, you know, salt, water and lemon juice, and he would walk to work 5 miles, and he wouldn't eat until friday. it's, like, buddy, grab a sandwich and grow a pair -- >> a caveman. kennedy: you know, it's like for him, it wasn't hem, service me. yeah, it was you and it was them x it was political, and i do think he committed perjury in 2018 when he sat before congress under oath and said that twitter wasn't shadow banning people. they were, and it wasn't just one way that they were doing it. that's one of the things we've learned in the twitter files. they had, they were developing on fly a number of tools and a

number of ways of suppressing voices. you are absolutely right, it should have been just between the user and the person following them. >> uh-huh. well, and look, you know, they will say -- he were lying. they were lying to the public. they were not following the guidelines they were pout --9ino users. they were imp presenting new policy on the fly that conveniently went one way on the political spectrum. during election season they were saying he were trying to prevent interference in elections. but the bigger issue is, i think is, yes, they shadow banned conservatives, censored information, but who was behind that and who were they partnering withsome the federal government. kennedy: yes. >> the fbi was working with them. and so when congress takes this up,st not just about regulating big tech which i think hay don't have a lot of experience with and could go very poorly -- kennedy: and government is run by -- >> but the fbi --

[inaudible conversations] kennedy: yes, it was the fbi, dhs all meeting with twitter to suppress speech. that's what finish. >> and that's the issue. kennedy: amen. all right. thank you, girl. topical storm is next. >> great to see you. kennedy: great to see you too. brand new kennedogs on deck.

kennedy: a new study shows the average adult has five people they can count on or zero if you're a lakers yeah, it's the junk squad that a drops the ball, and this is topical storm. topic number one, oh, yeah. the makers of the fortnite video game being sued for making it too addictive and causing kids to waste their childhood. luckily, those kids have plenty of extra lives. it's happening in the communist stronghold of canada where parents claim their game-addicted kids have drained their bank accounts to pay for virtual currency. in other words, they're suffering from withdrawals. yeah. the lawsuit even cited one addiction specialist comparing fortnite to cocaine except instead of getting high and scoring, they just get the high score. meanwhile, the kids who play as female characters are technically heroin addicts.

kinky. temperature topic number two. the first member of the bts boy band is has reported for duty in the south korean military, and now his life really is dynamite. yeah. there's gin. what a cutie. oldest member shaved his head for military boot camp although these days he goes by the name animal mother. that's fun. he was greeted by a large banner specifically welcoming him to the military. al all, he's a valuable asset because with just one glance, he can literally melt an enemy's heart. that's why it's been announced that he will report to a front line unit on the border with north korea, and all this time i thought he was tough one. actually makes sense. he's been dressing to kill since 2013 and on the other hand, he's so fly i assumed he'd join the air force. space force! topic number three. now let's put the news on pause

to watch a video from pittsburgh, pennsylvania, of a mischievous dog getting tangled up in christmas lights. i could watch it all day. oh, buddy, who among us hasn't been there? teats up, rolling around on floor next to the tree, maybe a little nog involved, struggling to free himself from the clutches of christmas cheer. he just wanted a closer rook at the lights but -- look at the lights but, clearly, he was barking up the wrong tree. a a -- talk about a bright idea, buddy. i also like to get lit at holiday parties if you will, and i think you will. chino coe says this day was pretty ruff, but at least he got on tv. in fact, chico hasn't bonn this viral since the time he ate a dead raccoon. and no matter what the critics say, this is still more of a christmas movie hand diehard. and you mow it.

topic number pour. you made it, best part of the week. it is time for our brand new kennedogs. why not show hem off on the tv? tweet me photos, videos, a description of your pups using the hashtag kennedogs on twitter. let's get to it. here is rob and roe scene's pooch marley. marley loves going to sleep but not for too long because she likes watching the kennedogs. she's a cutie pie. next up, elizabeth's pup bandit. bandit's getting ready for christmas with his santa toy. that's exciting. and here's hank's dog, oba and teddy. i don't know, oboe? he likes to steal things. oh, and look here, it's clay's grand dog roman. oh, roman's a cutie. love the hat. up next, gabriel's dogs marcus and oliver. labs and frenchies can make the

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