jon: see you back here in an hour. jenna: "outnumbered" starts right now. >> this is "outnumbered." i'm sandra smith. here today, andrea tantaros host of "kennedy" on fox business kennedy also from fbn, elizabeth macdonald and today's #oneluckyguy we welcome back the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor john bolton. and he is outnumbered. welcome, sir. >> glad to be here. glad to be here. >> kennedy giving you appropriate -- >> you made moustaches cool by the way. >> thank you. happy to take credit for that although tom selleck might dispute it. >> but that is coming back. but you did make it cool. >> it's a busy news day. we want to get right to it.

on capitol hill white house defending their nuclear deal with iran as the clock is ticking on congress's 6-day review. -- 60 day review. secretary of state john kerry is trying to win over weary lawmakers. so many sticking points on both sides. the major ones, timing of lifting sanctions. billions that soon flow into tehran's coffers. plus lawmakers demanding more details on the timing of those inspections. there has been a lot of confusion in recent days after secretary kerry said anytime, anywhere inspections that the president had promised were never on the negotiating table. >> to those who are thinking about opposing the deal because of what might happen in year 15 or 16 or 20, remember, if we walk away year 15 or 16 or 20 starts tomorrow. to those who are thinking about opposing the deal because of what might happen in year 15 or

16 or 20, remember if we walk away, year 15 or 16 or 20 starts tomorrow. >> we've gone from the mantra of no deal is better than a bad deal. now we've gotten to the point where well, you have to accept this or else it's war. the mantra has changed dramatically. and all i can say is after reviewing this even even in a cursory fashion, anyone who believes this is a good deal really joins the ranks of the most naive people on the face of the earth. >> meantime hanging over all of this, the fate of four americans being held in iran. critics want to know why their safe return was not part of this deal. "the washington post," petitioning the united nations to help secure the release of post reporter jason rezaian. this as the journalist begins his second year of captivity in

one of tehran's most notorious prisons where he has endured months of harsh interrogations and solitary confinement on trumped up espionage charges. his health deteriorating. meanwhile we see this testimony john kerry's testimony continuing in washington. we'll continue to monitor that. we're hearing ambassador bolton skeptical lawmakers including marco rubio who was just speaking moments ago. where is this going to go? >> well unfortunately think this deal is going to happen. the best that congress can do, even if there is veto overriding 2/3 majority in both houses is stop obama from lifting american sanctions. they can not stop the deal. and so i think this is a lesson, not in congressional politics but in why national security has to be the center of presidential debates. the president controls the pace of this. the president's cut the deal. the president's going to get this deal put in place. >> andrea ted cruz, says

because of this iran deal jihadists will use our money to murder americans. john kasich you will have buyer's remorse over iran deal. lindsey graham believes the iran's deal supports terrorism. the critics are mounting by the day. >> i don't know how they think this helps president obama's legacy, i really don't. two days ago iran east supreme leader said, quote, we vow to defy the united states. when they asked kerry, about that, he said it is very disturbing. more than disturbing, says this deal is null and void before they ink it and put it through congress. we rubberstamped them getting the bomb and handed them 150 billion. for 150 billion have we gotten a few hostages for that? are they really poor deal-makers in the white house or is politics driving this. >> i wouldn't kerry negotiate

out of a parking ticket. i am afraid i would end up with a life sentence. i think this is idealogical problem. this is the not first time we've seen it in the united states. franklin roosevelt was once told don't trust stalin. he will make commitments and break them. franklin roosevelt i just don't think stalin is that kind of a man. i think if i give him everything i can think of, ask nothing in return, after the war he won't annex anything and will work for peace and democracy. franklin roosevelt can say that you can easily imagine barack obama saying you can trust the ayatollahs. >> let me ask you this. what happens let's say congress does get the 2/3 override and congress doesn't approve, rather the american part of this deal, what happens to the rest of the deal? what happens to the rest of the world if america doesn't participate? >> the rest of the deal goes through. that is why these side agreements -- >> does it not matter if congress -- >> it matters we will not lift the sanctions which triggers

another clause in the deal which applies iran to abrogate its responsibilities. theories of the world felt iaea reports in december it can't find military dimension to the iran's program then the security council will vote to lift sanctions. you emembers will lift theirs immediately. people are racing to tehran to ink deals. chinese will invest billions of dollars in iran's petroleum production and refining industry and all those frozen assets will come free. >> reuters is reporting iran is price tagging 50 oil projects in the country, 185 billion bucks is at stake for iran to andrea's point. how can the snap-back sanctions come back on if iran cheats when you have so many businesses then pouring into iran? >> it's a critical point you're absolutely right and the iranians have calculated that. these sanctions are never coming back on.

nobody should be under illusions here. once they go, they're gone forever. in the deal itself in two separate places it says iran's position if any of the sanctions come back in whole or in part, iran is relieved from its obligations under the deal in whole part. so if the u.s. sanctions don't come off iran's free on the nuclear side. i believe what they will do, year, 18 months, when the assets are unfrozen, when all the deals are inked and money is flowing they will say the failure of the united states to release its sanctions justifies us getting out deal. i'm not worried. john kerry said 10, 15 years start today. today is already started. iranians are violating the deal as we sit here. that is their pattern. that is what they have done on every significant agreement in the nuclear area they have come into. the deal is falling apart in front of us and we're here trying to justify it. >> no release of the hostages. >> and no release of the hostages. at minimum we could have gotten that. disgraceful to think someone would vote for this.

>> it is an american diplomatic waterloo. >> gosh. growing concerns about the threat from isis and influence that the terrorists are having on americans here at home through social media. fbi director james comey was asked at an aspen security forum if the group is bigger threat to the homeland than al qaeda. he said yes and wept on to say this. >> the threat that isil presents, poses to the united states is very different in kind, in type in degree than al qaeda. isil is not your parents al qaeda. it is a very different model and by virtue of that model it is currently the threat we're worrying about in the homeland most of all. >> as house homeland security committee michael mccaul reportedly said during a separate speech we're losing the war against isis and it is being brought right to our doorstep. new poll numbers show while majority of americans broadly approve of the military effort against ice shirk it comes to how well that military campaign

is going only 30% say that it is going very well cr fairly well. the poll also showing nearly half of people say that they're concerned that the u.s. military action in iraq and syria won't go far enough. ambassador, we've seen fbi director comey testify and release reports over and over again. we're vulnerable. we're losing the war. they're recruiting faster than we can kill them. they're encrypting websites we can't get into. yet we have 1000 fbi workers trying to figure out what caused the motive shooting in chattanooga. are our priorities completely misplaced? >> yeah. i think is something that law enforcement has got to do a much better job. it would help if the president focused on this two. isis as superb ability to use social media to reach people in distance countries and talk to young people in particular, to recruit them. i think that is what we'll find chattanooga is. i think garland, texas was

another example of that i'm afraid we'll see a lot more but second their ability to bring people into syria and iraq, train them and release them back to their respective countries where they can conduct activities both terrorist activities and more recruitment. >> it is interesting al qaeda did not have social media. usama bin laden didn't have facebook and twitter. he said in 2004 or 2006, that social media, he wish he did have it. >> i bet he did. did you see his porn collection. >> after the fact. shouldn't the government be on you know really high alert because of that? >> yeah. i think the number of threats is rising. i think it is almost inevitable we'll have more attacks. and i think the lackadaisical attitude at the white house leaves us very vulnerable because we're going to see, i'm afraid we'll see an attack with the tragic result as we've just seen in chattanooga and only then we'll respond. >> how important is that rhetoric though? it is almost daily we're hearing reluctancy of the white house to call a spade a spade and

identify a terrorist act when they see one, for sensitivity reasons i guess. is it important that we hear the white house acknowledge this more than they currently do? >> absolutely. this is what presidential leadership is about particularly in the national security field. to identify for americans what threat we're facing and what we're going to do about it. so when you see these polls about support for military activity against isis but not thinking it will go too well, it shows the people are out ahead of their political leaders. >> i have a question about terrorism. when do you define it as terrorism? when is it just a lone wolf psychopath, you know, who is depressed and suicidal and when is it act of terrorism? >> i think you have to look at it in the context we are in a war. the terrorists have declared war against us. this is year 15 of the war if not longer. i think it is correct to say some of the people who commit terrorist acts, perhaps this individual in chattanooga, have

mental health problems i'll put it that way. those are the people isis is preying on. these are the people who are most vulnerable. it is not that mitigates the crimes they commit. isis is using their own weaknesses to exploit them. >> all right. we've got to move on. stunning new details about the irs tea party targeting scandal. a hearing is going on right now on a report that found targeting is indeed possible due to poor agency oversight. so how widespread is the problem? and whether americans are still at risk. plus, you got to see this. donald trump heading south to the border. yep, he is there today as tensions increase daily between him and the republican party. and he is reportedly now considering a third party run. wow. the potential fallout and how his rivals should handle him. right after the show catch more from the couch on the web. it is called "outnumbered overtime." we don't have tom selleck. we have a better moustache. i hope geraldo isn't watching.

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targeting scandal. the focus today, an eye-popping new study by the government accountability office showing political bias when it comes to audits at irs still quite possible. fao found that the irs kept shoddy records how it picked groups for audits and let freelancers audit the decisions. the president's daily show appearance where the president dismissed entire issue. >> the truth of the matter is there was not some big conspiracy there. they were trying to sort out these conflicts demands. you don't want all this money pouring through not-for-profits but you also want to make sure everybody is being treated fairly. the real scandal around the irs right now it has been so poorly funded that they can't go, they can't go after these -- >> but that is recent as well. >> they can not go after these folks who are deliberately avoiding tax payments. >> and there is more. just yesterday a conservative watchdog group releasing emails

it had obtained through a request under the freedom of information act. now the documents show the apparent targeting did not just hit small tea party aligned groups. but, large mainstream ones as well including the u.s. chamber of commerce. now here is the thing sandra. you know, one out of four what the gao found, one out of four non-profits that were audited in the year that was studied they didn't have a reason why they audited. there is no documentation. there is no approval from upper management in doing audits. one out of five from audits came from referrals from people in congress. >> the administration still hang its hat on the fact there is no specific examples? >> in this report. >> in this report. lack of specific examples i think is going to be a problem but big question how will this impact obama's legacy. but this will also have big impact on hillary's run as well,

right? they will all target this. >> andrea, what do you think? the president coming out on "the daily show" does it feel like he was front-running this? does this feel like the most toxic hit to his legacy the irs scandal? >> if you look back at polling from last spring, irs was first scandal to really hit. that is when his poll numbers started to go down. that is what really triggered it. but in his own words, emac, days after the irs scandal broke president obama held a press conference and promised to get to the bottom of it. he basically was outraged and said this was a huge problem. so for him to say now that somehow nothing was happening he is speaking against his own words. he is contradicting his own rose garden press conference. and also i don't like what he said but how it wasn't funded. remember is this is the same irs that has 80,000 employees and has enough money to teach its employees how to line dance. remember those videos? >> also the same agency last year awarded $62 million in

bonuses. had 1200 agents dedicated to obamacare alone. yet somehow they can't pick up the phone and offer basic customer service? >> right. >> they can willy-nilly run all sorts of audits on conservative donors and tea party groups? with this structural flaw, there is no oversight. so people who have the built-in biases can target whoever they want. >> open secret in the irs that a small group of people handle the non-profit situation. be real, the groups want to work on taxpayer nickel. getting back to political issue ambassador i think every president practically since fdr or administration officials have been tempted to use the irs to go after their political enemies. do you think this is a this is, andrea i asked is worse hit to the president's presidency, yes found the administration was complicit yes he tried to squelch the political opposition

in the run upto his election? >> i think he and his administration have been giving signals for year since citizens united and before, they don't like the outbreak of free speech in the american public. people around the country should understand the culture of bureaucracies in washington. they don't get memos saying target the tea party. people like lois lerner who used to work at federal election commission, for example, in that bureaucracy say these people are doing things we don't like. so there are no smoking guns in the sense of memos directing it but it is part of what they know they need to do to get their betters approval. >> justice department officials talking about putting them in prison right? >> the story so well on very beginning reporting on the fox business network. bottom line the biggest problem there is no real change in the irs. >> or v. aor anywhere else. -- va. >> such a scary thing for the american people to have this going on. next up, the white house in a new push to close gitmo.

how likely is it that detainees there could return to the battlefield. what it means for the president's legacy. donald trump traveling to our southern border in texas to highlight his contentious comments on immigration and border security. wow that is a big story. why the republican presidential candidate, is fielding talks of a potential third party run. stay with us. ♪ n. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength. i'll take that. yeeeeeah! new ensure active high protein. 16 grams of protein and 23 vitamins and minerals. ensure. take life in.

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lawmakers from both parties have concerns that those prisoners could return to the battlefield. government statistics say 18% of gitmo prisoners re-engage with terrorists and total of 185 former detainees. that's quite a bit of math there. but guantanamo bay very expensive to keep open. wouldn't it be less expensive more cost effective, reduce the size of government if we moved them into american prisons? >> nos, absolutely not. look, they're there for a reason. i think mistake has been buying this argument that somehow the very existence of detention facility is recruitment tool for al qaeda and isis. if gitmo was closed tomorrow they would simply find something else. keep the people, keep them there as long as war on terrorism lasts. to interrogate them, if possible try them for terrorist acts. i don't think we have anything to be ashamed about gitmo. it is a model facility.

ridiculous frankly how well-suit you had it is for the prisoners. >> yeah. >> i think this is pure ideology on the president's part. >> i don't disagree it is pure ideology. worrying about blowback isn't a reasonclose get moye but i think there are a number of reasons to close the facility. it is funny six 1/2 years later the president is still sort of toying with the idea. what should we do with all the people? should we empty them out like jellybeans from a box back into the middle east? >> we shouldn't trade them for potential trader and desserter. you say whats the irs biggest scandal, i would say the bergdahl trade or benghazi. that is indefensible. even kirsten powers said on the couch there is no rhyme or reason why he would have made the trade but for ideology. if you will have them at gitmo i have to say, try them. don't just keep them there and let them play soccer on the brand new soccer field. the president tried to empty them in fed ral prisons. remember who was opposed to it?

the democrats. they don't want these guys in our backyard because they heard from their constituents. i say i agree with the bam does door, keep it open and keep them there but try them. >> it's a camphor illegal combatants. he should use his pen and phone to extol virtues of of prisoner of war prison. we had a terrorist attacks on african embassies before gitmo. so i mean, i think that undercuts idea it was a recruiting idea. we had terrorist attacks before gitmo was launched for this purpose. >> good point. >> the president suggested, and ambassador, is he trying to push this through to secure his legacy? >> i think this is part of the recognition of cuba too. i mean he said he wants to close gitmo to end the war in afghanistan and iraq. that is part of it. i fear he not only wants to close the detention facility, he

wants to give guantanamo bay back to cuba i think would be a huge mistake on his part. >> what would cuba do with it? >> probably turn it into tourist area for people that want to spend money forecast slow regime. do you know every hotel in cuba is owned by the army? so all the tourists going down are funding the cuban army. great work people. >> donald trump taking u.s. presidential campaign to the u.s.-mexico border. he plans to hold a news conference there this afternoon as a union representing border control agents announced it is canceling its plans to be a part of that event. trump was supposed to meet with its members. his visit comes after he ignite ad controversy with comments on mexican immigrants, calling them criminals and rapists. more recently he angered many republicans with a remark about senator john mccain's war record. the republican national committee and a number of gop candidates have repeatedly criticized him for his rhetoric.

now trump is reportedly considering a third party run. he tells "the hill," the chances he will do so absolutely increase if the rnc is unfair to him during the primary season. so, ambassador, he is heading down to the border. what do you think's going to come out of this this afternoon? >> i hope he maersks it in and out safely for everybody's sake, number one. i think the fact that his poll numbers have soared indicates there are a lot of people who are responding emotionally to someone who is not a conventional politician who says what he thinks, isn't going through previously digested talking points. i think there is a real hunger for that. i noticed that myself when i was thinking about running. unfortunately i don't have donald trump's wealth so i eventually didn't do it. but i think his biggest mistake, there is a lot you can talk about, but the biggest mistake he is making from his own point of view intimating the possibility of a third part run or independent run.

that should be verboten. kennedy will be happy to know i looked at it, but would you support rand paul against hillary clinton, i said unequivocally yes. because, as bad as he would be on national security he would still be better than hillary. want to run for the republican nomination, you have to take the oath. that is you will support the nominee. >> seems a lot of politicians are responded to donald trump these days, especially gop candidates having to answer for donald trump including senator lindsey graham. he responded to donald trump giving away his cell phone number with this. ♪ ♪

[laughter]. >> kennedy that's brilliant. i never liked lindsey graham so much in my life. i thought that took a great deal of humor. it was a perfect response to donald trump's immaturity. i thought it -- no. i know you know the story because you read my book cover to cover. courtney love once gave out my phone number on stage. it was a big hassle and i had to change my number. >> you loved every minute of it. >> i feel graham ace>> did you get any interesting calls? >> unfourth natalie i did. i still am. courtney, leave me alone, baby. anyhow couple things here, fantastic response. number two quickly about the border you will never be able to seal it. that is emotional response and impractice call -- impractical one as will. that is great visual for donald trump. >> he is doing things other candidates have not done before. the gop is hungry for a candidate not a milquetoast guy

who is afraid, or gal who is afraid of the media. only way republicans have any chance of winning this election is to dominate anyone go beyond the media, go right to the people, say the things that aren't pc, not afraid. if we don't get a real conservative in there, really has no fear, i think the country is gone. >> donald trump is a real conservative? >> no, i'm saying in the mold of, i don't want to say i'm endorsing trump. i'm saying the style he is using i don't really care what the media thinks of me, don't care what anyone else thinks of me, some candidates need to find a little bit of themselves in that. >> two things americans are worried about, national security and economic growth. now looks like economic growth is taking a back seat, right? jeb bush was talking about economic growth. now the focus is really on national security and the border. >> i will say that inspirational video by lindsey graham, next time i give my phone number to a

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the first president to tour a federal prison and some of these -- >> i think that is one of the things he did right. >> i know that. some of the men that he commuted their sentences, one of them was selling 12 pounds of crack. now that is not for personal use. right? >> well, it depends if he is a cocaine baker sometimes you need more of those ingredients than you think you do so you have bulge upat places like costco. >> he is not a cocaine baker kennedy. >> he is not a cocaine baker but sometimes we use anecdotal evidence to prop up fallacies that all the people should be lumped into the same category. there will be stray person here or there. i don't know stories of every single person how long they have been in prison and long that happened. i do know in this country we have prone criminal justice system there. is great disparity in sentences for things like crack versus cocaine for a long time. a lot of lawmakers on both

sides, like rand paul rick perry, working in the senate and in their home states to remedy that problem, which is now a wonderfully bipartisan issue. >> by reducing sentences to put them out on the streets are you basically legalizing the drugs ambassador. >> no. that is part of the point. the entire effort to reduce sentences and release people is based on ignoring history. i was at the justice department in the reagan administration had we worked to put sentencing guide lines in place and congress approved them and the reason was up until then had federal judges who were social engineering. get a defendant in front of them. be convicted or plead guilty and judge would give him a lenient sentence because they felt sorry for them or would help rehabilitate them. in fact the sentencing guidelines were intended to correct the problem of excess sieve judicial discretion t was right in the 1980s and right today. one reason crime had been going down people were in prison. that is where they deserve to be when they committees crimes.

you're not doing society any favor by ignoring the guidelines to reduce judges discretion. >> right. sandra, we see it here in new york city. i noticed quality of life deteriorate under bill de blasio. he came out and says wants to get rid of bail. he wants people to walk free even if they committed a felony. this is really, really ludicrous. >> a lot of people are scared about this. warning come from two republican lawmakers, obviously a very scary warning. tough to see how this kind of release wouldn't reward drug traffickers wii you're pointing out. there is not a lot of, i guess a lot of other suggestions on the table how to reform the prison system in this country. who is offering the best alternative here? who is offering -- >> you know who that is? prison unions are so incredibly powerful. they buy politicians and have absolutely no incentive to improve their conditions. why the two nutjobs broke out of prison. >> i don't understand why felons with more serious crimes are

swept up in this release. i just don't get that. >> that is part of the problem. i tell you the story when some japanese officials in the 1980s came to visit federal prisons. they looked around at one in washington state, so you have heat? so there is relative, relativity here on what constitutes harsh conditions. there are not harsh conditions in federal prisons, period close quote. >> issue of priorities. when you start to look at where the democratic party is going, not really the party of kennedy and clinton anymore. it is this progressive party seemingly the party of crunchy abortions and crime, really defending the criminal. not a good platform for 2016. >> criminal justice reform is. >> it is oldie but a goody. you remember this one. not me on a treadmill. a shrimp. the government spending your hard-earned tax dollars to find out how the metabolism of this little create you are works before you put cocktail sauce on him and dump him into jambalaya.

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>> more "outnumbered" in just a moment. first let's get to jenna lee with what is coming up the second hour of "happening now." jenna: hi there. next hour civilians taking charge of security in the wake of the deadly chattanooga shootings arming themselves to protect unarmed servicemembers. is that a good idea or a recipe for disaster? we'll get into that. bizarre tale of classroom love affair how the recent marriage may save the former 12th grade math teacher from prosecution. we'll explain that. he swam rough mile in rough seas in the dead of night to rescue four stranded fisher american one at a time. a coast guard hero risked his life to save theirs. he joins us live. happening now at top of the hour, sandra. >> thanks we'll be watching. the federal government passing your tax dollars in a way you might not expect or maybe you totally expect this. this is a production of shakes spire, mid-summer night's dream

without the playwrite's legendary boring words. the feds investing $100,000 for the wordless shows. national endowment of the arts along with virginia state agency funding numerous productions for the theater. a "wall street journal" review saying quote the latest shakes fire fashion at least in the washington area invite to feast of language, serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins with a few gyrations thrown in. another federal government spending gem. $125,000 for the university of kansas to study adjectives perceived as sexist or racist. like how the word good can mean different things when used to describe a man versus a woman. now, ambassador you're a very good man. >> well, thank you. you're pretty good too. >> oh -- that is so sexist. why do you always have to go

there. you demean me with your kindness. this is very bad way for the government to be spending money. no wonder some people are becoming libertarians. >> let's start with the easy one first. the national endowment for the arts should be abolished. i think it is wrong for the government to spend money on art which is purely a matter of taste. so that saves what, 125 million a year right there. on these studies, i live close to the national endowment national science institute and i'm sure there is a lot of good work done there but there is a lot that is clearly ridiculous. i think if people focused on this you could find lots of ways to shrink the government. >> these are always fun stories and pretty much anecdotal and not even a fraction of a drop in the bucket of government waste. you have so many programs that redundancy alone that is responsible for so much government overspending. but it is pretty fun to folk fun at the ridiculous. >> and talk about grunts, grimaces and guy races which --

gyrations you can see for free if you go to the right apartment on saturday night. i will give kennedy's apartment out later over twitter that adds up. if you look at all the numbers that is the argument, right? this is a drop in the bucket. only 100 grand. if you tally them all up it does get pretty full. >> it does add up. >> it shows attitude of people making decisions that they're so frivolous so out of control, so unsupervised so indifferent what people look like when people say what do you do foreyour day job. >> i do a. >>tives. >> shakes. brought art form to expunge english from the whole world all together knife a theory on this omitting words allows them to finish shakespeare plays in half the time they often require and we're often used to with a shakespearian play. is this about short attention spans? is the government trying to accommodate we have no attention span for the arts? >> it is also about a group of people saying i have got this

one memorized. i don't need the words. i've got it scrolling in my brain. >> of course there is a small problem because the only thing we really have from shakespeare are the words. the production is just somebodies imagination. you don't know for sure in the globe theater what it looked like except for the words he wrote. those have been eliminated. it is not just shakespeare without words. it is shakespeare without shakespeare. >> what will they have smartphones for "romeo & juliet." >> sounds like, hello, where are you. >> or robots play soccer and robots do shakespeare without words. >> i like where he is going with this. i love spit balling with ambassador bolton. >> you're good at it too. >> thank you. remember carlos danger, aka anthony weiner? the married former congressman stepping down after a crazy sexting scandal. he has a new job, besides making it up to his wife for the rest of his life of course, find out what he is doing for scratch next.

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gig. the top crisis firm hired anthony we upper to fix posts. and the congressman who had a sextings scandal. the jury is out on that one. ambassador, what do you think of anthony weiner as a crisis management. he didn't do great on his. >> i think we reached the bottom of the show here. i guess you could say someone with that much experience with crisis management has advice to offer. what do you have to use? do the opposite of what he said. >> he lied and insulted the people and by the way, he tweeted out. he used twitter to tweet out graphic photos of his genitalia.

and that is astonishing. and what is he going to do. you think your crisis is bad just look at what i went through. >> i tell you what he will do. he will be living in the white house if hillary is elected. >> oh, boy, him and bill together? >> you got to give it to the guy, he kept his wife to his side. >> he kept his wife by hillary clinton's side. >> i used to do pr crisis management. first rule don't make the story worse or don't lie. he said it wasn't me i was hacked and we found out yes, it was you. and he lied about how many woman there were. it got worse. >> and so obnoxious and insulting the reporters and

elected officials, right, ambassador? >> much like the clinton white house in the 1990s. if hillary is elected there will be a job for him. see it already. >> he was taking fedellity lessons. >> he was in shark- nado. he was going to play a central command center operator which is also we'red. he is in front of a lap top with a headset. will you watch it with popcorn on the edge of your seat? >> i will spend as much time on shark nado. 1 and 2. >> oh hell no. can you do that again? >> oh, hell yes. we are staying right here. we are back on tv tomorrow at noon eastern.

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