weapons of mass destruction. >> that is it for us. thanks for watching this special edition of "the factor". i am bill o'reilly and please remember, the spin stops here we're definitely looking out for you. good evening, everyone and welcome to a "the kelly file" special, what is ailing america, i'm megyn kelly. the 2016 race for the white house getting under way, we're hearing more and more about what's wrong in america and in need of being fixed. from the economy and jobs to race relations and poverty, from distrust of some media, so disgust with some political leaders. tonight we take it all on and we start with a remarkable story shaping up right now tonight on the campaign trail. it is now been almost five weeks since hillary clinton declared that she is running for president, and she has yet to do a single major media interview. how many times have we had to say it? she's not answered questions

about her e-mail scandal, that plot thickens tonight, i have that for you in moments, her charitable foundation support for the iraq war, her record as secretary of state, and tonight we add something new, there is breaking news that hillary and bill clinton have earned a combined $25 million in just the last year but giving roughly 100 speeches that's a lot of money per speech. and another $5 million for mrs. clinton's book. $30 million at least for a candidate complaining about income inequality. and so far she is wildly unavailable to answer any questions about any of it. put together the developing details on the clinton cash windfall trace? >> just got the disclosure form 15 minutes ago and are scanning the clinton's various assets up to $200,000 per speech bill clinton up to $700,000 and we

have confirmed from those 100 speeches you talked about, the clintons took in $25 million over just the past 16 months. add the $25 million to the $5 million that hillary clinton made in her book "hard choices" and the clintons already make more than 99.9% of the population. the clintons also listing the number of security investments and life insurance policies worth millions more. remember hillary clinton does not have to disclose personal assets like homes, cars or federal retirement plans, and other assets in stocks and companies only have to be disclosed within a broad range, not specific numbers. experts say the disclosure forms are intended to guard against conflicts of interest or potential conflicts. they are not meant to establish a candidate's net worth. although, the clintons wealth will come up in the campaign considering she is positioning herself as a champion for the struggling middle class. the clintons are moving up the

financial ladder as well. in her last disclosure hillary clinton declared she and her husband had made at least $16.7 million in 2012 that of course was before she hit the speaking circuit. the clintons' effective federal tax rate in 2014 was 30%, that tax information, by the way, is not part of the financial disclosure form but the clintons are clearly trying to get the information out there as a way of pointing out that they pay taxes on earned income not invested income though the clintons have been criticized for giving highly paid speeches for key players in the financial industry hillary clinton, by the way, claims they were dead broke when they left the white house in 2001 the same year they made roughly $12 million. megyn? >> trace, thank you. in poll after poll when americans are asked what ails america, their number one complaint is dissatisfaction with government and this clinton controversy captures some of that. as she continues to dodge the

media, a growing number of voters think she is dishonest. and remember as we get these reports about her income mitt romney talked with reporters all the time and he was still repeatedly hammered on the tiniest of his financial details. >> when you say you left bain to run the president clintons why was your name still on these documents and why didn't you clear this up sooner? weren't you concerned at some point the filings would become public and people would see your name is still on the filings? >> suggested you might be guilty of a felony governor romney what is your response to that? >> joining me now, fox news digital politics editor. i guess to quote harry reid romney didn't win, did he? >> he didn't. that interview he looked like he'd rather be taking a beating from evander holyfield than talking about that but he did it just like jeb bush stood out in the hallway in reno, nevada,

and let people pelt him with stones. >> sat with me for a lengthy interview, answered every question i gave him, even though he was at risk to himself. >> i think i heard something about that. the fact is for politicians, of course they don't want to answer questions, of course they don't want to be obligeing and hillary clinton has demonstrated she's pioneering a new way to run for president, or maybe it's an old way, you don't run at all, you stand for office. you clear the way, you have wealthy friends, you have influential people you have control of a party apparatus that is tightly held and you don't even run. you just stand and say, i'm here, and i am prepared to be your president and you just make sure nobody gets in your way. that's not exactly progressive. >> it's not just wealthy friends, obviously, the clintons have a lot of dough, averages out to about $250,000 a speech these speeches 20 minutes long some of them. must have been a hell of a speech must be like a real -- >> it's really good. >> right? >> magic tricks.

>> here we go! then i met a young intern -- seriously, what could he possibly be talking about that is worth in some cases $500,000? i realize he was president of the united states but what i've been told he likes to talk about his charitable foundation i don't know if i'd pay him half a million to talk about that for half an hour. the question for you, however, you have a piece today that talks about how you reap what you sow, press corps, and what we're looking at right now with hillary's campaign is the obama white house press strategy on steroids. explain that. >> that's right. what hillary clinton has done is if you can't beat them hire them. she has hired to her all of the people a lot of the people who helped defeat her in 2008 and their strategy which is don't answer questions, don't have actual interactions with people do youtube videos do over the heads of the press, don't interact and just put this sort of canned goods out there. i called it spam where you just push it out there and say this is what it is and when

reporters say we want to talk to you, we want this say i'm talking to the lady that eats the fruit loops in the bathtub, not you. hillary clinton, just as politicians always do the first one makes it bad, next one makes it worse. hillary clinton is giving the press what they asked for, which is by not getting up on their hind legs and barking loudly about barack obama shutting them out, lying to them on some occasions, and generally disrespecting them. now they find themselves without the ability to apply any leverage to hillary clinton and she's given them a big -- >> i like that, right. if i ever get to interview her, i hope she begins the interview that way. i'm rubber you're glue. i'll work on it before the interview. so she sees a proven media strategy and she pursues it. i'm not going to say anything i don't care i'm not answering your questions, but more and more questions continue to arise and eventually eventually she

will sit with somebody she will. and just tonight we had more questions raised about her e-mails, do we have the sound bites? listen to this former deputy head of the cia came out, he spoke with hugh hewitt today, mike morel, and talked about the likelihood of mrs. clinton's e-mail server being hacked and accessed by foreign governments. listen. >> as a professional matter do you believe that at least one or perhaps many foreign intelligence servers, services have everything that went to and from that server? >> so i think that foreign intelligence services the good ones have everything on any unclassified network that the government use, whether it's a private server or a public one. they are that good. >> so that's a yes. >> and his counterpart at the defense intelligence agency michael flynn, told me about a month and a half ago he also believes that the chinese at least and others have likely hacked into that server.

somebody's going to have to ask her about that at some point. >> and if you're covering hillary clinton and you're not putting it all through the prism of this you're doing it wrong. until she answers the questions, she doesn't deserve coverage on whatever narrative that she and every other politician would like to put out every day, she has to answer things about what matters first before she gets to put her spin out. >> otherwise the press continues its co-dependency, which you outlined nicely. great to see you. >> you bet. >> just wanted to try it out, kind of fun, it's friday night. we are also seeing new damage for the credibility of the media tonight after abc anchor george stephanopoulos admitted he gave $75,000 to the clintons in just the past couple of years, including thousands in recent months and failed to divulge it even as he was covering the clinton foundation on his broadcast. geraldo rivera says abc fired

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hits with problems for brian williams at nbc, the debacle over a rape report at "rolling stone" that turned out to be false, now a new scandal involving abc news anchor george stephanopoulos. yesterday stephanopoulos acknowledged that he failed to disclose $75,000 in donations to the clinton charitable foundation. today, he apologized. >> over the last several years i've made substantial donations to charities, those donations were a matter of public record but i should have made additional disclosures on air when we covered the foundation and i believe directing donations were a mistake, i should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. i apologize to all of you for failing to do that. >> the problem for stephanopoulos he is the former clinton white house spokesman and he aggressively challenged recent reporting that raised questions about the clintons and their foundation. while his boss at abc say they are satisfied with his response

a growing number of media critics are asking why there wasn't a bigger investigation or penalty involved here. geraldo rivera is a fox news senior correspondent and host of "geraldo rivera reports" and howie kurtz is the host of "media buzz." geraldo and your story in one second first i want to start with you, howie. last night you were on felt this was an egregious breach. today he came out and did a vocal apology, is that the end of it should it be? >> not by a long shot. because george stephanopoulos underestimated the boast explosive nature of giving that money to the clinton foundation and the negative reaction that it's created that he had to give a fuller apology, but also abc taking this way too lightly, rushing at a statement of defense, the network telling me today it's determined george stephanopoulos was in violation of its policy on disclosure but no discipline no penalty, and he will continue to lead its 2016 presidential coverage under a cloud, in my view.

>> that's the question you know if he's too conflicted to do the debate how is he not too conflicted to head up their election coverage? >> you know the behind the scenes story on why stephanopoulos very quickly bowed out of abc's republican presidential primary debate is the network was in the nature of losing that debate but if that principle applies, how is it right for him to interview presidential candidates perhaps including hillary clinton, former first lady with whom he worked. it just re-enforces doubts some people had about george and, you know i like him, i've been dealing with him for 20 years, he's a savvy guy, but in this case he exercised really poor judgment and now he's handed his critics all this ammunition about his essential fairness as a journalist. >> politico has a piece today that talks about his donation corrodes much of the journalist credibility stephanopoulos has worked to build. you have a different take on

this. you say you were fired by abc for doing the same thing with much lower dollar amount>> 30 years ago 1985 after 15 great years, i was fired by abc and the official reason was a $200 donation i gave to the nonpartisan mayors race in new bedford, massachusetts. a family friend was running for mayor, i wrote a check. >> that was to a candidate, which was different. >> directed to a candidate, but again, in a nonpartisan election. i never thought anything of it, then the local newspaper ran an article about it abc news heard about it and it came at a time unlike george stephanopoulos was at odds with my boss at the time the legendary president of abc news the man who hired george stephanopoulos ironically. so we were fighting we were at lagger heads, i had gone public about a story that he had spiked relating to the kennedy family and their relationship with the marilyn monroe and the murky circumstances, the mob, her

death, et cetera. >> used it as an excuse? >> totally used it as an excuse and they said this is the rule the rule is you know we have to apply it to everybody, even you. i was really in a terrible situation. and it was very ironic to me that that was 30 years ago and $200 this is much more money. i like howie kurtz, like george stephanopoulos pleasant talented man, wonderful family but this is you know the problem with giving this kind of money to the clinton foundation them specifically is that it has the possibility that he is paying for play that he is giving this money to ingratiate himself to a former employee. >> he wanted to help fight aids which he said the donation was for, he could have done that through any charity. >> absolutely a million ways to help the aids foundation. >> and just in the runup to the presidential election. >> it stinks that's why he is in trouble. >> what do you make of it howie, should he be disqualified at this point?

doesn't look like abc news is going to do anything. most of the mainstream media likes george stephanopoulos all three of us on this panel like george stephanopoulos but on the other hand this is a breach and it's a pretty severe one, and if i had made some donation to you know the jeb bush education foundation somehow i feel like the outcry might be a little greater. >> let me put it this way, if he is not disqualified from being, really the face of abc news' political coverage if he's not disqualified abc has given zero indication that will happen these questions will dog him, especially because hillary clinton is undoubtedly going to be the democratic nominee. here's a small example, on his sunday political talk show this coming sunday mitch mcconnell is the scheduled guest. if stephanopoulos conducts an aggressive but fair interview with the senate majority leader how many people in the audience are going to be wondering, would he have been as tough if he wasn't a former democratic operative, all of this is going

to continue to swirl around him. >> why do you think he did it geraldo? it's reckless. he said look it was public it was on the foundation's website, but you know very well the viewers watching him on gma or the weekend show aren't going on to the website and looking at proactively examining donors to foundations. >> the problem was the way he went after the author of "clinton cash," he was so aggressive that when you look back on that interview, it's not like a bull dog investigative reporter it's a partisan a political partisan he is a defender for the clintons for whom he once worked. i think he's become a terrific journalist great pundit also great political operator during the time he was in bill clinton's ear during the early '90s, so i think that for him to do this it creates a great deal of hubris and i think he'll be in a tough spot trying to shake this off.

>> still has to explain why, why that charity, why during those years. there are lots of ways to give if you wanted to give. you're like the most generous person i know and it didn't have to be that charity while she was gearing up. in any event, we'll probably hear more. after months of protests across the country, president obama today went to the political memorial in washington to share his own thoughts. up next a closer look at law enforcement under fire.

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contact your health plan for the latest information. as we take a closer look at what is ailing america, one of the answers to the question has recently been all over your tv screen months of protests aimed at police departments, some of them based on stories that were not true some based on long simmering frustrations and much of it fuelled by pundits and politicians who weren't always giving cops the benefit of the doubt. >> we can't continue to frame law enforcement and the police forces in america as simply a bunch of good natured people and there happen to be a few bad apples amongst them. >> my son, we said look if a police officer stops you, do everything he tells you to do don't move suddenly don't reach

for your cell phone, because we knew sadly it could be misinterpreted if it was a young man of color. >> when will law enforcement condemn police to shoot and kill unarmed members? >> too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement, guilty of walking while black. stains the heart of black children who feel as if no matter what he does he'll always be under suspicion. >> you thought you'd sweep it under the rug, you thought there would be no limelight. >> joining me now, ricky kluehman host of "in the line of fire," which airs on investigation discovery this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, not for nothing, but also a personal inspiration to me. it was your book "fairytales can come true" that led me down to a path eventually that got me in television. you've met two of my greatest inspirations the past couple of weeks. >> listen i always like to say i'm the person who convinced megyn kelly to go on tv and that

gets me more points than anything else. >> it's true i went to see her give a speech she had a rock kick butt legal career and now this is personal for you, because you wound up falling in love having a fairytale marriage, which you still do with the man who's the police commissioner of new york city bill bratton. he is back here again, and you have taken issue with the way that police are being portrayed and you're actually doing something about it. >> i had an inspiration to do a tv show about medal of valor winner winners, medal of bravery winners, that there are police officers all across this country in cities and towns, they run toward danger instead of from it. they want to help people. it's not a job, it's not even a profession, it's a calling. and that all of these police officers who feel that way in small towns or big cities are being painted with the same

broad brush that they are said to be brutal they are said to be racist they are said to be corrupt, and it's because of a few very bad, very unfortunate, very tragic incidents that should have never happened where cops have acted badly, but that the rest of the police are now really under fire in a way from the public and the media. >> so commissioner bratton just had to release this week instantly videotape of a police shooting it was a black man who was shot by the police because he was attacking a police officer with a hammer. and mr. bratton came out and said look here it is you can see this is the perpetrator going after the police then he runs screen left and the cops come after him and shoot him. look he's trying to hit the female cop in the head w with a hammer does it then gets shot. twitter lights up another white cop kills a black man, this is outrageous. he has to release this immediately to say, people he was trying to attack a cop with

a hammer. >> not only that this was a man who had gone on a rampage of attacking other people in manhattan with that hammer. >> it's like a presumption of guilt now against the cops. >> i think it has become a presumption of guilt, and one of the things that happens when the presumption shifts is you have to put information out to the public to be able to let that presumption shift again, because one of the things that we do know is that the pendulum swings across this country about attitudes, not only about police but attitudes about law and order. so back in the '60s, into the '70s, there were protests against police about brutality, about racism and then for a long time things were calmer. after 9/11 certainly in new york but i think in most places throughout this country, then the police became the heros. i remember two police officers coming in shortly after september 11th when i was anchoring at court tv and they walked in to give me a

particular thing i had asked for and when they walked in the entire newsroom got up and applauded and it was really a miraculous moment and now we're back to the '60s or '70s where suddenly all cops or maybe it's not so sudden maybe it's been building for a long time but all cops are being painted with this brutal image. so when i was inspired to tell the story of sergeant one of the three medal of valor wins in this documentary "line of fire," that when i wanted to tell his story was when my husband was the police chief in l.a. and i saw the story on the news and hector feliciano goes running into the line of fire. >> play the tape while she's talking about it. >> it's a standoff at the mexican consulate and a maniac truly a maniac has his arm around a woman, who happens to be pregnant he is dragging her out of the consulate, and they

have people running for cover. i mean people are fleeing the consulate, and hector has to make a split second decision of can he save the hostage, can he take a shot while all of these other people around when does he have the ability that moment that quick moment to be able to save this woman's life. i will never forget seeing that as long as i live on the news. i went to his valor ceremony and it was the first time that he was reunited with this woman whose life he saved. and she called him her angel. and i will never forget it as long as i live. so i said i want to tell that story. so i want the viewers to understand this is on investigation discovery, and it airs sunday may 17th at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >> that is correct. >> "in the line of fire," inspiration to me and you might consider her book too, "fairytales still come true." >> at least on kindle. >> beautiful story about a

strong fierce female lawyer that goes out there and kick some bums then goes into tv gets this big job at court tv then love comes. in the form of bill bratton and she's still kicking and i love it. good for you. love your strength love your story. >> thank you. >> 9:00 p.m. investigation discovery, sunday night. some of these police protests go hand in hand with the sense race relations in america are getting worse right now. up next hear what mrs. obama said about that controversy just this week when rich lowery joins us next. >> the folks who cross the street in fear of our safety the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores the people at formal events who assumed we were the help. [plumber] i need to be where the pipes are. so i use quickbooks and run my entire business from the cloud.

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americans show race relations are getting worse. in remarks to graduates at the historically black tuskegee university this weekend, first lady michelle obama told the audience no matter how much you accomplish some folks will only see you for the color of your skin. >> and my husband and i know frustrating that experience can be. we've both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives. the folks who cross the street in fear of their safety the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores the people at formal events who assumed we were the help. and those who have questioned our intelligence our honesty, even our love of this country. and i know that these little indignities are, obviously, nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day, those nagging worries that you're going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason. the fear that your job

application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds. >> rich lowery is a national review editor and fox news contributor, and you listened to that and said it was off key and, "characteristically self pitying." what do you mean by that? >> first of all, i'm not a black woman, so full disclosure. >> thank you for that. >> there's a lot about the speech that i liked, but this passage in particular and the things around it i think, were off key. she's focusing on really minor slights and insults, some of which are inadvertent, and this is a person who's at the top of our national life she graduated from princeton, she graduated from harvard law school she has celebrated almost everywhere in culture for her beauty poise, and public spiritness what does she have really to complain about? >> a lot, if you listen to that speech. and she went on to say, as potentially the first african-american first lady i was also the focus of another

set of questions in addition to those subjected that other first ladies were subjected to saying was i too loud too angry, too emasculating too soft too much of a mom, enough of a career woman. i hate to tell her, but those same questions have been asked about many of the former first ladies. does anybody remember what happened to teresa hines cary and hillary clinton? many of those questions were asked. >> i went back and looked at the favorable/unfavorable ratings and nancy reagan was much lower than michelle obama, so she's playing into this nefarious notion there was this racist resistance to the obamas in 2008 when i think everyone of good will in the country putting his politics aside was delighted at the symbolic step the country was taking by electing the first african-american president. and she comes into -- >> fringe few who weren't, they don't represent the heart of america. >> you look at her, she comes

into office with a 68-18 favorable/unfavorable rating and still after all this controversy she's married to one of the most controversial guys in the country, her approval rating is still in the mid or high 60s. >> when you listen to her, it did not sound like somebody who is as be loved as she is on the cover of "vogue," march 2009 "vogue" with the caption "the first lady the world has been waiting for." you point out she's the fifth most admired woman on the planet just below queen elizabeth, yet up there really sounding victimized in particular she looks back at that magazine cover of her shown with the big afro and machine gun, but it was a magazine article defending her. >> right, it's a new yorker cover that's meant to spoof her critics and make her critics look like they are nuts. what she was talking about in the speech although she didn't use the phrase trendy word microaggressions these inadvertent insults or acts of

offensiveness. you hear this word a lot on college campuses. two problems with it one, it's not just one set of people that experiences insults. all of us throughout our whole lives we suffer little indignities, little humiliations we've all been bullied or picked upon or rejected or underestimated. >> many of us have been pulled over by police in our cars even when we weren't speeding many of us have been followed around the department store, it's not just a skin color thing, sometimes it's a young woman thing. whatever. there's no denying there is racial profiling by some in the country and i'm sure she has been subjected to it. >> yes, again, look at the trajectory of the country, we've gone from slavery, great national shame, to jim crow another national shame, to the thing we're really complaining about here is people occasionally being rude or making innocent but offensive mistakes. that's an enormous trajectory of progress. look michelle herself, i think,

properly understood has a great story to tell. she has a very powerful story about her father that she told in the 2012 convention about his debilitating illness, struggles to go to work every day because of that's what he considered a dignified man, his duty to himself and to his family and he makes it possible for his daughter. he just had a high school education, i believe, to go to princeton, to go to harvard. that is the american story, that's why this country is so glorious and that's what she should have been telling those kids. >> rich it's great to see you. thanks megyn. there was a new poll out this week showing the number of christians in america is falling. and our next guest explains what that means for this country.

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christian foundation to our nation and not everyone agreed with it but everybody benefitted to it. providing a common understanding of what's right and wrong. it gave a compelling reason to do what is right, but then about 50 years ago we tried a secular experiment that said let's try to be good without god, without religion and i suggest that's been a dismal failure. you know somebody said socialism works until you run out of other people's money. secularism works until you run out of other people's faith. as we see this decline in the number of christians and the diminishing of their influence, i think we're running out of faith and we're reaping the consequences as a nation. >> that's fascinating. that's a good quote. so i mean, how does it manifest in how we treat each other, who we idolize, what we choose to put on television and watch. i hate to sound like i'm about 200, but half naked girls, seriously, it's really in your

face everywhere you turn you try to raise a kid in a g-rated world and you can't, because the world seems to be r-rated everywhere. >> that's right. it's friday night, let's talk about sex and how this impacts christianity and society. look for thousands of years, christianity and judaism have taught that sex should be between a man and a woman and a marriage relationship. and any deviation from that not just gay marriage but adultery premarital sex, unbiblical divorce is wrong and has consequences. as a culture and individuals we can reject that but we also experience the consequences of that rejection. here on fox news we're always talking about the societal cost of the breakdown of the family. pregnancies, unwed moms absentee fathers, that is an effect. i know what people are saying out there. they are saying pastor are you saying we ought to start teaching morality from the bible and the schools? that's exactly what i'm saying. you're a supreme court junkie

megyn, you know this but in 1844 the supreme court in the gerard case said and i'm quoting almost word for word one may not the bible, especially the new testament be taught in the schools as divine revelation where are the purist principle for morality found more than in the new testament. we say, oh we've evolved from that in our legal thinking. i suggest we deinvolved away from that and we're reaping the consequences. >> i'm feeling terrible. i thought we were going to blame this all on kim kardashian now you're talking about premarital sex, gay sex, i feel like i'm going to have to go confess. i'm guilty of one of those. >> you did that to mike huckabee a few weeks ago, didn't you? >> it's always great to see you. thank you for your thoughts tonight. >> thank you. next on how america has forgotten to be civil. that's it. whoa! what are you guys doing? we're making sure

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we had a fun time during the break. hardly a day goes by without some media story about bullying people being mean downright rude. in a survey a couple of years ago, the pollsters found we're forgetting the basics like please and thank you. jan is here with thoughts on that. our senior meteorologist. she's done some research on this. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. and you're welcome. i've got four words for you, penn stated rush hour. uncivil behavior everywhere abounding. incredible. pushing. the new york city transit system has an advertising campaign of

how you should behave on subways. have you seen this? >> no. >> no spreading. men actually taking up a couple of seats with their legs. >> right. >> and actual signs that tell people to make room for the pregnant ladies and the elderly. like get up silly! >> they need to be told that now. i see in new york city it's not just new york but you give the taxi driver an extra tip. give them an extra good tip. they don't even say thank you sometimes. you're showing them i want to give you a reward for a nice drive. whatever. nothing. it's just like, get out. >> i think people are too rushed. we live in new york and it's all about, next cab fare. so get out while the getting's good. we're parents. i'm trying to instill in my children please thank you, good behavior. >> look in the eye. >> you know what we are inundated with this all of the time. people are so disconnected. i was at the playground a couple

of days ago where one kid was misbehaving. and the parent was like -- and i went up to the little boy and said behave yourself. she saw that out of the corner of her eye, what are you saying to my child? you're doing this all day long. >> i'm a witness to this too. i've been to the playground many times with our kids. and she will go rebecca demore than than -- demornay. >> i think it starts with the parenting. especially nowadays. >> i don't let my kids get away with it. to adults or to children. i stop and look them in the eye, say thank you. introduce yourself. it doesn't matter. but i think you're right about the devices. we feel disconnected. we have our own world on here. what did you think of my last

segment with dr. jeffers? >> i think we need to replay it. >> just in the future between the two of us. >> people assume one thing. really the truth is janice have been open about the fact that we slept together. actually we slept. >> after we braided each other's hair and had a pillow fight. >> i was asleep. that explains a lot about how i woke up in the morning. >> in my dreams right? yes, it happened. >> we've got to go. it's friday night. i lost all control. >> what? >> good to see you. after looking at a list of things that could be better in america, up next a story that will make your day. will make your day. just stay calm and move as quietly as possible. no sudden movements. google search: bodega beach house.

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at&t's network has the nation's strongest 4g lte signal. we spent the bulk of this hour looking at what's ailing america. we wanted to end on a brighter note. a young man and his flag. trace? >> megyn, peyton robinson is a senior in south carolina on the bed of his truck flies the american flag. when he got to school on wednesday morning, a school administrator said he had a problem with the flag. saying people complained so without asking the school they simply took them down. peyton said he was aggravated. listen. >> i would understand if it was a confederate flag or something. i wouldn't do that. but the american flag? that's our country's flag. i have every right to do it. >> but word got out and peyton robinson got big-time support. dozens of students and community

members driving to the high school with flags flying on their cars and trucks. one person counted 70 vehicles. listen. >> i fought for my country. when i hear you can't fly our flag my blood runs red. >> the school was simply worried that the flags might block the views of other drivers. although the highway patrol said they're perfectly legal. >> i was talking earlier, you know it kind of hurts a little bit when your patriotism gets called into question. >> but because of the peaceful patriotic protest, the school will now allow the flags to fly, as long as they do not block the view of other drivers. backing off a little bit there. >> good move. trace, thank you. this time last week i was telling you that we were going to have an exclusive sitdown with jeb bush. and tune in monday night.

if you missed monday night, you missed the news. that we made with jeb bush. now i tell you that on monday night we will have a setdown with governor chris christie. and you might want to set your dvr lest you miss the news. go to twitter at megyn kelly, and go to facebook.com/the kelly files. i'm taking your thoughts. i want to know what you think is interesting, what you want to hear from governor christie. i'll use that as i prepare for the interview. the feedback has been quite interesting. so let us know what you think. thanks for watching, everybody. have a great weekend. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." live from america's news headquarters. i'm patricia stark. blue bell creamery is laying off more than a third of its work force, following a listeria problem with its ice creams.

750 full-time and 700 part-time employees are losing their jobs. the texas based company's ice cream was linked to three deaths that prompted a total product recall. blue belle is now in the process of cleanup and repair efforts. its production plants remain closed. the death of b.b. king being blamed on a series of small strokes. king's physician and coroner attribute the strokes to his long-standing battle with type ii diabetes. he won 15 grammys and was inducted into the blues foundation hall of fame and rock 'n roll foundation. he was 89 years old. now back to "hannity." welcome to the special edition of "hannity." race relations in the obama era. in 2008 america took part in a hi