i'm bill o'reilly. always remember the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight with two weeks to the midterms, we're getting warnings that a new law has opened the door to possible voter fraud. in a critical senate race that could decide the balance of power in congress. welcome to "the kelly file," everyone. i'm megyn kelly. it was roughly 16 months ago when the democratic governor of colorado signed the first of its kind new election law. a set of rules that literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to collectors in what appears to be an effort to do away with traditional polling places. what could go wrong? critics say these new laws open

up opportunity for voter fraud, and they allege they were pushed through the state legislature in a maneuver to keep democrats in power. all of this and much, much more has just been documented in a brand new film called "rocky mountain heist." i'm going to show you the trailer, then michelle malkin here. watch. >> the republican party is controlled by a bunch of bigots. >> many of these people are multibillionaires. >> the only way the bigots are going to learn is if we take their power away from them. >> if they can utilize our money to basically accomplish their social agenda, that's a great thing for them. >> if you think you know colorado, think again. >> a shop owner in colorado now facing jail time after he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. >> they made new rules. they changed the rules, then they exploited those rules. there's a war going on. >> they want to tell me what doctor i can go to, what health plan i can have, that is the war

on women. >> they've passed legislation that's been anti-gun, anti-family, anti-energy development. >> citizens united productions presents -- >> the colorado state flag is still flying flag here at least for now. >> they're fundamentally changing our culture here in colorado. >> we need to legalize marijuana nationally. >> this is a community of people who like to smoke weed, have a good time. >> i self-medicate. >> i'll tell you what, we win colorado, i get four more years. >> the weaknesses include arrogance. >> being a survivor, what would have been different if i had been carrying the weapon that i was licensed to carry that night? >> statistics are not on your side, even if you had had a gun. >> that's why we have the whistles. >> if you think you know colorado. >> new york mayor michael bloomberg made controversial remarks about colorado. >> you don't know hick. >> the same backwards thinking in the same rural western areas.

>> educate the idiots campaign. really insulting stuff. >> what the hell is going on here? who is this person? where did they get that kind of money? >> michelle malkin hosts an all-star cast. >> it all started here in colorado. and the colorado model could be coming to your state next. >> if they can do it in texas, republicans are doomed. >> fundamentally transforming the united states of america. >> rocky mountain heist. >> joining me now, michelle malkin, host of the film, "rocky mountain heist" and david bosse, president of citizens united which produced the nim and went all the way up to the u.s. supreme court to fight for the right of companies like his to make their voices heard in politics. welcome to you both. michelle, great to see you again. i know our viewers have missed you. now we know what you have been up to. you are the host of this film, and it's about colorado and how it's turned from red to more and

more blue, but it's about so much more than colorado. tell us. >> yeah. you know, i've been a resident here of colorado now for six years, and i didn't know the story about how this cabal of wealthy, liberal, progressive billionaires and millionaires meticulously planned to take over a once red, red meat state and turn it blue. we did this film and citizens united and david bosse have been absolute warriors in this fight to make sure that there is sunlight, sunlight is always the best disinfectant, we owe citizens united so much in this and the fight that took place merely to get this film out in itself is a ivictory. a victory for conservative political speech. one of the most important points here is that what happened in colorado can happen in the rest

of the country. that's what's so important. that's the message we're trying to get out. >> explain to the viewers in a nutshell what the democrats did, because the state was leaning very red. red meat republican red, and more and more it is turning. you say it's not an accident, and it boils down to some hypocrisy you allege and the democrats purporting to be so offended by a lot of money from rich fat cats into politics. >> yeah. the hypocrisy reeks, it smokes, it burns because you have these people that have paid lip service to transparency and informing the voters, and it was the gang of four, jared paulus, tim gil, ruck bridges and a very cryptic wealthy medical device heiress pat stryker who also worked behind closed doors and used a lot of shady nonprofits that have all these noble

sounding names that have progress, transparency, progress, while they were plait plotting to take over the state legislature. what we feature in the film is firsthand testimonies from some of the victims. have veteran republican lawmakers who had the political rug pulled out from under them. traditional sleepy races, schoolboard races and state legislative races where hundreds of thousands of dollars from unknown donors were poured in these races to target them and turn the legislature blue. >> and that's how it started at the state level sort of from the ground up to try to change the political makeup, red and blue color, of the state. here's the sound bite from the movie, this is sound bite number three that speaks to the money issue now taking place in progressively blow democrat colorado. watch. >> turned out it was an intern that the leftist think tank had working for them.

and i spoke with him. he said, i keep seeing all these people coming into our offices. the democratic leadership from the legislature, these rich guys that are coming in, the trial lawyers keep coming in and afterwards i clean up the room and i'm seeing these documents and i was scared to death. >> one document parent's arrogance and even contempt he had toward voters. plans for an educate the idiots campaign. the memo states the afl-cio would be tasked to educate the idiots and clearly labels one so-called idiot group minorities. >> explain what we're seeing there, michelle. >> yeah, well, this is how these progressive architects and engineers talk about their own constituency behind their back. it's not just conservative and constitution loving republicans who should be offended by it. this is how they strategize. and you know, they don't just demonize their opponents, this

is how they talk about their own people. educate the idiots. those were documents that were obtained. coda, which i mentioned in the film, which is colorado democracy alliance. this is the infrastructure, this is the vast network that's been formed not only as a result of the gang of four's collusion in colorado but at a national level, the sort of sister organization, the democracy alliance is considered the new center of gravity for influencing elections, ballot boxes and policy fights all across the country. it's happening in texas and virginia and maine and everywhere and people need to know about it. >> that's the question i have for you, david. so as somebody who went all the way up to the supreme court to fight for corporations' first amendment rights to be heard and that decision in your favor has opened up floodgates in terms of money and politics, how can you be critical? people say that's hip o critical for you to come out and criticize the money in politics,

state and federal. shouldn't you be out there defending this? >> megyn, i have no problem with people spending money and making their voices heard. what michelle uncovers in this film and our director and writer jason meeth did a tremendous job of working with her. it really uncovers these four individuals who really used the dark shadows to hide in. they didn't want transparency. personally, i don't care about whether or not they spend money in politics. i do care that they attack me for what we do, and then they're the hypocrites in this issue. >> because little by little, if they maintain control, gain control of the state legislatures, the power then rises up and they start to gain national prominence in federal positions. michelle, i want to ask you this. this news about this change in the colorado voting law, which took place under democrat controlled, you know, legislature and government, is

it really as dramatic as they say? can you really move to colorado -- visit colorado basically for 21 days and on day 22 register to vote on voting day, online? >> it is as bad as they say. and who's saying it? well, election officials here in the state of colorado. the el paso county clerk right here in my backyard has been warning about it. the secretary of state scott gessler. and here's exactly why the citizens united film "rocky mountain heist" is so important. we mention this in our film. we talk to state legislators who knew that this was happening, new who knew this was part of the plan, the model, the blueprint to put through these so-called reforms that are supposed to enlighten and inform everyone and improve the voter situation to be used and exploited specifically to affect

elections particularly when they're close. what do you get when you combine the chicago way and the colorado model and the rocky mountain heist, this voter fraud frankenstein which is perfect for hollywood and what they want when elections are close and they're just coming up in a couple of weeks, aren't they? >> she's just as fiery as ever. the denver heir has not -- boulder, she's still going to bring it. david, good toy sue, michelle as well. "rocky mountain heist." check it out. we mentioned at the top of the show how the colorado senate race is neck and neck right now. in most new numbers on critical races that will decide the balance of power in washington and how exactly is that looking as of today. plus new controversy over democratic campaign flyer that uses the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, as a get out the vote strategy in georgia? brit hume is next to talk about what's really behind this message.

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police officer is white. tonight one democratic group is using that tragedy as part of the get out the vote campaign. this is a page from the controversial flyer distributed by the democratic party of georgia. another page shows two children with signs that read "don't shoot" a phrase that became a rallying cry of protesters in ferguson. and it goes on from there. brit hume is our fox news senior political analyst. a clear reference to if you don't get out and vote in georgia, you're going to -- you're at risk of winding up just like michael brown in ferguson, missouri, and the democratic party of georgia stands by that. we reached out to them. and they said, look, this is the fight for the right to vote and for every vote to be counted as part of our state's history. and they say our democracy is stronger when more people participate and we see what happens to places like ferguson when voices are silenced. >> that's ridiculous, and it's a

very crude piece of literature. very crude. i can't imagine it will work, but you can see what's happening here, megyn. the democratic party has got nearly everything lined up against it in this upcoming election. and the one thing many believe that could save it is another turnout miracle of the kind that the democratic party was able to mast and the obama campaign was table to put together for the 2014 election. that's why you hear the president with the soundbite you played earlier talking about how he really isn't in this election, his policies are in this election. these people have supported him. he's trying to personalize the election to appeal to the people who turned the out in such numbers for him in 2012 so that they will do the same this time. and people have said, well, it was stupid for him to say that. well, it might turn out to have been stupid, but it wasn't done in my opinion inadvertently.

i heard people say, well, it's always all about him. that's his vanity. i don't think it was his vanity. i think it was a calculated move. it's a sign, to some extent, of desperation. but this is where we are now. >> how much of this has to do with this memo by democratic pollster cornell belcher who write in "the new york times" stressing african-american turnout. the surge of african-american voters who came out in 2012 was critical and that if it doesn't happen again, this could be a disaster for the democrats. >> i think that memo is right on target, and i think that was a smart memo. and i think it's true. i think that it does show a certain contempt in a sense for african-americans because you notice that the message on that flyer was not vote for x or vote for y or even vote democratic.

it was simply vote. and the democrats put out literature like that safe in the knowledge, they believe, that if these african-american voters who were appealed to by this sort of stuff will vote, they'll almost certainly vote democratic and there you are. that's what they're trying to do. they're trying to hype or pump up the turnout among african americans and other minorities because they desperately need that to try to save their party's stand in the senate, their position in the senate. >> cornell belcher's memo said if the black vote does not turn out, he predicts crushing democratic losses across the country saying that the democratic party needs to get the black party to the polls, in particular, georgia, louisiana, north carolina and possibly arkansas, this flyer came out in georgia. and, you know, we've seen candidate after candidate, brit, trying to distance themselves from president obama including in these states to the point

where al sharpton -- the president was speaking with al sharpton on his radio show, and he asked him about these attempts to distance himself from barack obama and here's how the president responded. >> it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the republicans will use that to try to fan republican turnout. the bottom line is these are all folks who vote with me, they've supported my agenda in congress. >> and so, you know, how much of that -- that's true, isn't it? >> yes. it is true. it is true. and if -- look, look at the situation in georgia. you're trying to get african-americans in an off-year election in which turnout is typically low and interest is especially low and it seems especially so in this particular one to turn out to vote for some white woman of a privileged

background for the senate. so you're not going to be able to do that by saying look at this nice white lady here. this is the way the democrats look at it. they're better off if they say, if you don't vote, you're going to have ferguson here. >> you're going to get shot down in the street. >> these people are all about me and i'm all about them and we're joined together by our united position an all these issues and the rest of it. nrd, vote for them, they help me. >> right before i let you go, republicans taking the senate and if so, how many seats? >> i wouldn't guess at the number. but i think the great likelihood is that they will, but i don't think -- that they will take the senate. i don't think it's guaranteed. the turnout miracle, the democrats, it's a longshot, but it could happen. >> and they know how to work that machine. with those critical midterms just two weeks from tonight, by the way, what's driving these reports about desperate

democrats? we're here next with new numbers. and the political blunder in the fight against isis as the terror army posts a video that appears to show it has acquired even more u.s. weapons and ammunition that we may have delivered right to their doorstep. >> there was a video that seemed to show isis fighters with one of these bundles. >> i actually don't know if that was one of the ones dropped and whether it is in fact and the contents of it are in the hands -- we just don't know.

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like most questions that we deal with as policymakers, there aren't simple answers. >> she has, in fact, voted with the president over 99% of the time. what does that mean to people in new hampshire? that means she was the deciding vote for obama care. >> she seems like a perfect politician to me. scott brown and jeanne shaheen clashes tonight for the debate for the senate seat in new hampshire where the president's popularity once again an issue in this race. with the midterms just two from tonight, this is when we really put him to work. so let's go issue by issue. let's start back at the beginning of the term and the issue to close guantanamo, just answer, would you just answer? >> as you and mr. hume were talking about, doesn't exactly help that the president said he told her to say that. i told the democrats to go say they disagreed with me, but they really agreed with me, they're lying. that's helpful.

thanks a lot, boss. >> talking about how the democratic party in colorado was referring to its own voters as, what was it, imbeciles or idiots? idiots. >> they meant that in the nicest possible way. they really wanted to help. and the very fact -- just to look at it from the larger perspective, the very fact that scott brown is within striking distance in new hampshire where he shouldn't be, he shouldn't be there. he was not going to have a chance, 20 points back, he's a dead letter, not going to happen. the fact that jeanne shaheen is getting laughed at when she made that statement and she knew it was a patently silly thing to say and the landscape is not a real good one for democrats. >> she maintains a lead in all of the polls which reminds me barack obama had a lead in all those polls in ohio on election night in 2012 and everyone said romney had a fighting chance, no, he didn't. obama had a lead in all the polls on election day going into election day and that's what

shaheen had. anything can happen. what's the most important race in your view? >> the next most important race is down in georgia. that's got to be the one, because when we talk about how democrats can stay alive, what they've got to do is suppress republican turnout. they got to do the same thing to david purdue, the republican nominee down there that they did to mitt romney and get cranky conservatives to stay home. they don't like perdue, stay home, he's an outsourcer, he's a romney guy. >> get black voters, they think that will help them. because that's the party that just released the ferguson ad we just showed. >> you get a two for one effect, they force it into a runoff, then if the senate is hanging in the balance, the president and his party can push $100 million and every organizing for action, volunteer and employee across the country into that state to try to win it. that's the reality. but i would say this, and this is my bet.

i'll make a bet with you, counselor, about what we'll be talking about two weeks from tonight and i'm already getting the goosebumps, already getting excited about it. two weeks from tonight we'll be talking about north carolina because that's going to be the bellwether state, where kay hagan and tom -- thom tillis. he's had a good october. the race is tied. that poll closes early. how it happens in north carolina will tell us what happens across the rest of the country. >> can't wait. looking forward to it. see you then, chris. thank you. chris is one of those guys who knows like county by county by county every single state. you remember election night 2012, right? remember the long walk down the hall? in fact, they just set up outside of the studio, they just set up those desks right now. it looks just like it did in 2012. in any event, moving on. president obama brought in someone to manage the ebola crisis, what exactly has ron

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from the world headquarters of fox news, it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. >> so the man now in charge of america's ebola response officially begins work tomorrow. but already we're hearing ron klain is planning to skip a congressional hearing on ebola. and then there's already talk in washington about the next job mr. klain has lined up at the white house. what exactly is being done about the ebola problem, you know, the one he was actually brought in to manage? chief correspondent ed henry reports from the white house tonight. ed? >> megyn, the bottom line is, as you say, ron klain hasn't even started this job but people around him, around this white house are already speculating about what his next job will be

after being ebola czar. he's already faced questions about why he hasn't hit the ground running. he was hired friday, will officially start here tomorrow. he'll meet with the president, other top advisers. they say inside the white house it takes time to get going, and he will hit the ground running. politico is quoting democrats saying klain wouldn't have taken this ebola job without promises of something bigger down the road. there's speculation he might replace john podesta. so i pressed josh earnest, what about focusing on this crisis right now? >> why are people around the white house speculating about ron klain's future? shouldn't number one be take the job and worry about ebola? >> it is the number one priority. mr. klain starts tomorrow. mr. podesta continues to focus on the important job he has to

do around here. >> he went on to say the stories were off base. the president and the ebola czar here ron klain will be dealing with all of this and they're showing signs of improvement, the crisis is easing a bit, but clearly it's not over yet. that's why there's pressure on klain to get going. >> ed, thank you. as we watched the botched response to this deadly virus, my next guest says we're getting a real lesson in government bureaucracy, a showdown between the federal vision of president reagan versus president obama. watch this. >> government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate sinister entity that is the root of all our problems. you should reject these voices. what a contrast between those two men, and in the same way

isis and its growth in the middle east has called into question these two big philosophies of government, those of the left and the right, if we become less interventionalist, if we retreat a bit, will we be safer with a more robust foreign policy a more assertive america. this ebola crisis, you believe, has shined a light on the same distinction between the left and the right when it comes to big government. >> you know what's interesting is when you have president reagan in office saying that government is the problem, american trust in government rose because they saw that a smaller government at least domestically and a bolder government internationally could be a better government. now we have a president with almost limitless space in government giving that speech in april or may of 2013 telling people to believe in government. and what we have are serial

failures, the veterans administration scandal, the secret service scandal, healthcare.gov, the inability so far to give americans a straight story about what ebola might mean for them. so what we're seeing is the reality of what president reagan said in 1981, government is the problem and we have to view everything it does with a great deal of skepticism both at the level of the lowest bureaucracy and the so-called experts. >> how does ebola show us that? because the white house would say, look, we have two cases here, two nurses here who actually contracted it. those have been addressed, are being addressed. it didn't spread beyond that so far. so i imagine they think the system is working. there are a few bumps in the road but the government is handling this. >> the system is working until we're surprised by the next failure. that's really what's happened here. there's pervasive mistrust for a good reason of the government's response so far in part because of its inability or refusal to

do the basic things, the most basic of which would be a ban on any nonessential travel to the ebola-infected countries of west afri africa, which also make assurances which are completely baseless. >> on our show he came on and i pressed him, you don't need the double gloves, you don't need to cover your head, you don't need to cover your shoes, no, it's fine. then yesterday they change their guidelines, yes, cover your head, wear double gloves, cover your shoes. i shouldn't have come that realization before dr. frieden. but why am i asking the cdc about this before they come up with it on their own? >> liberals tend to believe that nature is predictable, human behavior is predictable, things happen the way the experts perceive them to happen and the insight is that nature is wildly unpredictable and human behavior is unpredictable and the nature

of government, the nature of society is that we tend to be surprised by events. so we have to engineer our responses accordingly. people are debating, what should government do. let's ask ourselves a prior question, megyn, what can government do and then organize our activities accordingly. are we really equipped to effect live i monitor, screen and track passengers, about 150 passengers a day coming in from these west african countries? i'm not sure we are. >> that's why really they don't really trust the tsa to do it anyway and they want people to sign forms and they've limited the travel into five different airports. it's getting closer and closer to a travel ban by the day. they would say big government did nota"ñ%ñ fail. they would say healthcare.gov is a problem, but they thing obama care is a huge success. they think that the state department they stand by hillary clinton's handling of it, the irs they thing that was a nothing-burger, not a smidgen of

corruption. you can go down the list where the two visions just ne'er the two shall meet. >> americans are getting a short and upsetting course in just which vision is proving to be right. someone wrote recently about how the obama administration is just constantly being surprised by that. they have a plan, they think something is working and again and again things blow up in their face. how is it that this president who believes in government didn't know what was happening in the veterans administration? how is it that we didn't know that we had a secret service that was unable to guard the white house, some of its core functions? we're not talking about the question of its politics or even of its policies. we're talking about the ability of huge bureaucracies that are poorly overseen, poorly managed and poorly staffed to do their basic tasks. >> do you think as we watch these democrats running from the president because the president had struggles when he was

re-elected but re-elected in record numbers, do y think it's this issue that's depressing poll numbers with his own core? isis, all of this, what is it? >> it really is a perception of a president who doesn't have any handle on his own administration, a president who is always being surprised by all sorts of events. a world in which things seem to be blowing up and which we're always reacting on the defensive a day late and a dollar short. and americans are taking note of that. that's reflected in what appears to be a wave building up against democrats in the next couple weeks. >> good to see you. >> good to be here. >> new question tonight in our fight against the terror army known as isis and whether this group is a lot bigger and even more dangerous than we previously knew? ollie north on what's happening now near our embassy in baghdad.

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breaking today an embarrassing moment in our fight against isis as the terror army claims to have gotten its hands on even more u.s. weapons and ammunition. supplies that we may have delivered directly to their

doorstep after an air drop meant for kurdish fighters missed its mark. colonel oliver north is author of the book "counterfeit lies." so the pentagon is saying, look, if it happened, it was only one of 28 that was dropped and that's not too bad. that's a pretty good record of success, they said. >> well, that's okay if you're an admiral sitting in a big plush chair in the pentagon, but if you're the guy on the ground that needed those supplies and they're now in the hands of isis, that's not success. >> it includes rocket-propelled grenades and so on. is this one of those thins where if we had more of a ground presence we could have been more precise or no? >> well, i've looked at that footage right now that you've got on the screen, and clearly the parachute is one of our precision-guided parachute, a cargo chute dropped out of a c-130 if you can believe the pentagon. but the fact that it went off target is a great propaganda video for these guys. i look at the other footage that

shows the hand grenades. those are not u.s. hand grenades. we don't make that kind of pineapple grenade. haven't for a long time, world war ii, in fact. but the fact is a mistake was made, the pentagon said they initially destroyed that parachute. remember that? that was yesterday. what can we believe out of this pentagon and this administration? >> in the meantime, we're hearing more activity around baghdad. i know you've been sounding the alarm on this saying we need to keep our eyes on baghdad because that's the golden prize for isis, that's what it wants. today there were mortar attacks 500 meters from the u.s. embassy. this isn't the first time this has happened but what do you think is the significance? >> kobani is a prize for isis. they can't capture baghdad but they can hit our embassy. and there are people with boots on the ground, not at the pentagon, who are convinced that isis is preparing a complex assault on our embassy, meaning suicide vehicles, suicide vests,

the same tactic, by the way, used in fallujah, mosul and ramadi. they're former republican guards officers. they know baghdad. they've infiltrated over a thousand fighters into baghdad's sunni indianeighborhoods. what we're seeing are the probes and the rehearsals and the reconnaissance for a major attack that will be preceded by an attack on najaf coinciding with the holiday that commemorates the death of his grandson. >> do you think that it might happen within a number of weeks, by november? >> there are people on the ground with whom i communicate almost every day. several have assured me that that is their major concern. i can understand why it would be. because baghdad's embassy surrounded by a concrete wall is big and maybe the biggest in the world, but you put enough

explosives up against it, you will have an enormous hole. what you can then do is flood a lot of people into that embassy. you don't want a repeat of saigon 1975. >> but the iranians won't let that happen. they won't let baghdad fall. >> let's play out the worst case scenario. they attack kabbalah or najaf which are major shiite sh rins. the so-called relish ya are all shiites. they fled south and southwest to get to those two places then isis leads the attack into the embassy. they're not going to be able to capture baghdad. it's too big, even with 40,000 fighters. but it will be a major propaganda victory. if it happens november 3rd, the next day in america, we have, oh, yeah, that's an election. >> colonel oliver north. thank you, sir. >> better news next time, i hope, megyn. >> absolutely.

a watergate legend passed away tonight, james rosen. that after the break. will that be all, sir?

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deep throat early on. tonight bob woodward and carl bernstein say ben bradlee had the courage of an army and they loved him deeply. james rosen joins us by phone. james, ben bradlee was watergate, you've written a book about watergate but he was about so much more than watergate as well. >> that's right. ben bradlee helped bring newspaper reporting to a kind of zenith in the 20th century before watergate with the publication of the pentagon papers. they were at the tip of the spear in that fight to publish this massive archive of the history of our involvement in vietnam, and they were backed up by the u.s. supreme court in a big way, then, of course, with the watergate scandal, ben bradlee really was a unique journalism figure in journalism. he was close to power. he'd been a confidant of

president kennedy. but he was someone who challenged power and someone who exercised power like no one else of his time. >> was he a partisan guy? >> for sure. there was no doubting that ben bradlee existed on the left of the ideological spectrum, but he was an establishmentarian. he stood for standards and excellence, but he was, as i mentioned v friendly with president kennedy. they had a kind of boozy schmoozy friendship which bradlee recounted in his 1975 memoir "conversations with kennedy." when richard nixon became president, he could not imagine that he had a particular fan as the executive editor of "the washington post" in ben bradlee, but none the else ben bradlee stood for fairness and accuracy in journalism. >> "the washington post" has a piece tonight, nothing pleased bradlee more than nailed the

corrupt, pricked a narcissist, felled a climber and really told it like it was. what a great tribute, and we can only hope that someone will say something half as kind about us, james when our day finally comes. thank you for being here. >> thank you, megyn. but first, coming up on "hannity" at the top of the hour? >> do you want more outsources of jobs? if you like it vote for your democrat. i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm... everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.... can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. i had tried to do it in the past.ng with chantix.

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last night i wasn't here at my anchor desk because i was co-hosting the broadcast and cable hall of fame awards. the folks at media bistro caught up with me and found how i found the courage to leave my career in law and take up broadcast news. courage came from one thing and one thing alone, misery. i had a job in tv that i didn't really like. when i hear someone complaining about tv, you don't know what you're talking about. there are people that go to work at 8:00 in the morning and don't leave until 8:00 and sunday is an expected day at the office. if you're not there you have to call up and apologize, give a reason. in tv, that's the exception and not the rule. i learned a lot at the event. robin roberts is spectacular and gorgeous, very tall. the man who created comedy central is himself very funny. and i, as it turns out, am not.

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