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with hateful, incendiary rhetoric. his bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. and he has to keep sort of upping the stakes and going even further. >> clinton also reiterated her widely discredited claim that isis is using trump as a recruiting tool. here with reaction, a fox news contributors joe trippi and deroy murdock and the author of "the amayous code" attorney david limbaugh. deroy, these feuds have been fun whether they're trump against republicans or trumps against hillary now, but it takes two to tango. i thought hillary's response to trump was sort of rather dull and generic, you know, hateful, incendiary rhetoric. does it make any difference to him at this stage? >> i don't think it makes any

difference right now as far as primary voters. in fact, if hillary attacks trump, that will probably push him up even higher among the gop elect tore et. but it is not for the nomination but for the presidency. next fall if it's trump against hillary clinton she'll have the opponent she wants, a white man, male, who has a lot of money and she can attack him as uncaring, sexist billionaire. the gop has to give serious thought as to where this party is going to be if he's our standardbearer and he'll be taking that sort of incoming from her and it will be easy for her to demonize him and go on to win the presidency with disastrous consequences that you only can imagine now. >> just to pick up on that point, joe, deroy is right, but isn't it also the case that whoever is the nominee, even if he was the nicest, sweetest pussycat in the world is going to be demonized by hillary's people as a hard core vampire

capitalist, evil white man, sexist, war on women. that applies to marco rubio or whoever is the nominee, doesn't it, joe? >> there's going to be plenty of that going both ways between whoever the nominees are. both parties are going to be doing that to the nominee on the other side. so i don't think -- you're right that whoever opposes her is going to get hit hard, but the other side of that is whoever's the republican nominee will be hitting hillary just as hard. so i don't think that matters. i do think right now in terms of the primary, though, both of them are being helped by this feud. it's not just trump that's made a little stronger necessarily with gop voters as he goes into these primaries and caucuses, but obviously hillary clinton, the "des moines register," that's in iowa talking to democratic voters there. that's who she's trying to reach right now. and being in a fight with trump helps her as well. so right now it's a win-win for

both of them. >> david, wouldn't the argument for trump then be that if you're going to -- the media are going to be all-in for hillary and there's going to be a barrage against whoever the nominee is, and you've got to have a big enough candidate who can kind of bypass them and punch through them. on the numbers, isn't trump already doing that in a sense? >> absolutely. and that's why i disagree with joe that it's a win-win. i think it's a win-lose. it's a win for trump if he doesn't go too far and get too cute. but hillary says she deplores what he's doing. actually, she relishes it because it gives her an artificial opportunity to go after trump as a sexist. but she's outthinking herself because playing the gender card does not make her look good at a time when national security is foremost on people's minds and she wants to portray him like a bully like she can't stand it and she can't fight with the big boys and she's worried about

being a woman. this is all going to backfire on her. it won't hurt trump at all because it's fabricated. trump's just messing with her anyway, talking about the bathroom. he's just trying to get her off her game and she doesn't have much of a game. >> you're right, you do get the feeling that he just injects this stuff to kind of get inside her head in a way. a look at tht poll. this is the new cnn poll. look at the numbers in this. we've got trump at 39%. he's basically got twice as much as the next guy, ted cruz, and ted cruz has basically got twice as much as the next fellas, that's carson and rubio. and christie is at 5%, rand paul at 4% and not a sign of the so-called front-runner jeb bush. how many people are still going to be in this race at midnight on new hampshire primary night, deroy? >> oh, i think it will probably start whittling down pretty

quickly. these people -- apparently ben carson i just heard this afternoon is having trouble trying to figure out how to pay his staff. he had a trip to israel planned and perhaps south africa and that's been canceled. i want to point to a different poll which is the head-to-head between hillary clinton and some of these republicans. in a recent poll, she beats donald trump by ten points, 40 points trump, 50 points hillary clinton. marco rubio is the only republican running against her that beats her. i disagree with something joe trippi said about how he would be demonized by hillary. i'm sure they'll try to demonize whichever republican. you can taken marco rubio as a cold hearted insensitive billionaire who is plotting to make his friends richer and poor people poor. here is a guy who just paid off his credit card debt very recently and is much closer to the average american in terms of income and economic circumstances. it will be hard for them to

paint him as an uncaring plutocrat. to go into a fall campaign without wearing the richie rich label that always gets thrown at republicans. >> there's a bit of a problem in that that you already detect in some of these polls, joe, that marco rubio is approaching a kind of a ceiling. he's having difficulty getting past 10 to 12%. how strong a candidate is that? >> you're sitting here with trump and carson and cruz. just all the outsiders adding up to 60% and rubio and the establishment barely getting into the high 20s if you add them all up together. i'm not disagreeing that it would be a different attack than the one deroy thinks hillary would launch against trump, but there's no way that these two -- look, the two nominees are going to go after each other. that's what's going to happen this year. i don't think there's any doubt about it. and rubio doesn't have --

there's nothing to go after rubio on? i don't think so. so that's not going to be the problem. the problem is rubio still needs to get the nomination somehow, and right now the person that's moving is ted cruz. i mean, you ask me what we're looking at, first of all, look, i've been there when somebody was at 38% nationally. his name was howard dean. we were ahead in iowa right now, almost the same path that trump is on. and we didn't come in first there. somebody, you know, moved and the person right now who is moving in iowa is ted cruz. that's the person, if i were the other candidates, that you got to start watching. rubio, if cruz could win iowa and then you're going to have a fight in new hampshire. if christie finishes ahead of rubio in new hampshire -- i'm not saying wins, i'm not say taking second, but if he finishes ahead of rubio, rubio's got some big problems.

deroy's favorite candidate might not get there. >> since you brought up your guy, howard dean, that was the famous example in 2004. everyone thought they'd go for the insurgent, the outsider, then he did his "i have a scream" speech and iowa was kind of it. and the republican establishment, david, has bet that it's 2004 and that howard dean is going to self-destruct and the party will wind up picking the john kerry figure, whether that's marco rubio or somebody else. you think that's going to happen? >> no. i hope cruz surges and continues to do well because he's my guy. but the establishment continues to misanalyze this. this is the old paradigm they're looking at. this isn't going to be a class warfare. nobody's going to care whether marco's the son of a bartender or john kasich is the son of a mailman. we have existential threats. all this stuff about nicety

nice, who cares? we're about to lose our country. and we're concerned with what people are capable of doing now, how they got where they are. they are all capable. >> it's going to be more than a soft focus ad to take care of all that. thanks a lot, guys. merry christmas to you all. >> merry christmas. >> coming up, former governor mike huckabee is calling out hillary clinton and the democrats for blaming others instead of confronting radical islam head-on. he'll be here next. and later, senator rand paul is going after his republican rivals by attacking the records of senators ted cruz and marco rubio. rand paul will be here with more as "hannity" continues.

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all you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you. the media is pursuing ratings. this is a legitimate news story. i think that, you know, it's up to the media to make a determination about how they want to cover things. >> what you're hearing from some of the republicans, most particularly mr. trump, about muslims is not only dangerous, it's shameful. and if you go on arabic television, as we have, and you look at what is being blasted out with video of mr. trump being translated into arabic, no muslims coming to the united states, other kinds of derogatory, defamatory statements, it is playing into the hands of the violent

jihadists. >> here with reaction to that is 2016 republican presidential candidate, former governor mike huckabee. who put out an interesting tweet the other day to hillary clinton saying if muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, why would offending them boost isis recruitment? yeah, there seems to be a kind of disconnect here, doesn't there? >> there really does, mark. it's interesting. but hillary also said that they're playing all these comments of donald trump. nobody can find those. i think it ranks right up there with her getting shot at when she was going to bosnia or right up there with saying it was the video that caused the actions of the terrorists in benghazi when in fact she knew that wasn't true either. hillary has a long history of saying one thing that just can't be verified because, quite frankly, it just isn't true. and here's another one. nobody's been able to find those tapes in arabic that she says

she's been watching. why doesn't her campaign release them? >> right. if nothing else, you think that they could have persuaded al arabiya or some other network to actually make an anti-trump video at this point. what's going on here? because we -- after these terrorist atrocities in paris and san bernardino, the president says, oh, it's just the media pursuing ratings. at the same time we have the president saying it's nothing to do with islam. we have john kerry standing up in paris saying there's no islam to see here. hillary clinton, it's nothing to do with islam. david cameron, it's nothing to do with islam. francois hollande, nothing to do with islam. and the public seems to be not buying it, to put it mildly. >> mark, how could they buy it? every time one of these terrorist incidents happen, the terrorists first shout allahu akbar right before they pull the gun or blow somebody up. it's ludicrous to suggest that there's no connection

whatsoever. now, that doesn't mean that every muslim is a terrorist, but look, here's the thing i don't understand. if presbyterians or baptists or methodists were engaged in terrorizing people by blowing up the finish line at the boston marathon or going into an office christmas party and shooting the place up, we wouldn't pretend that all presbyterians, all baptists or all methodists are doing it. but we would say there are some presbyterians that now have had many, many terrorist acts. why can't we say that, that it's applicable to muslims? i think it's because the democrats seem to be more interested in protecting reputation of islam than they do protecting americans, and that ought to be troubling to anybody who is going to be a voter and care about national security. >> eventually, it's who are you going to believe, me or your own lying eyes argument. as you say, when the guy's standing on the table yelling allahu akbar opening fire on you

like the ft. hood guy did, like the guy in the rock music concert in paris, there is a pattern here. and we could have an intelligent conversation about the actual causes, but hillary would rather just say, oh, this huckabee guy, he's a racist for even brig it up. that seems to be their approach to it. >> nothing to do with racism whatsoever. i have friends who are muslim, we all do. great respect. and the muslims i know are highly offended and, in fact, they're outraged that people use their islamic religion as a means of murder and mayhem. so i just think that what hillary and obama and john kerry all ought to do is recognize that there are people who are muslim who are jihadists, who believe that their purpose on earth is to kill everybody that doesn't agree with them and

isn't interested in establishing a caliphate and pushing us back to the 7th century. i'm not interested in going back to that uncivilized time and i don't think the rest of the world is either. let's be honest and say we're not going there, we're just not going there. >> tashfeen malik, this terrorist mail-order bride in the san bernardino case, she gave a fake address. you can't look up what she said on facebook because it would be insensitive and breach privacy. yet at the same time perfectly law-abiding americans going home for christmas, grandma has to take her shoes off, submit to a pat-down at the airport. when you're going around iowa, do you get the sense that the voters have had enough of this? >> people are so angry, mark. it's so evident. there's a visceral, visible, vicious anger. and it wasn't helped by the republicans throwing in the towel last week and giving the democrats everything they wanted

for christmas, and all the republicans got was a lump of coal in their stocking. but i do think there's a sense of duplicity with our government. look, obama says we can't look at the social network and the social media of people like the shooter because it might invade her privacy. well, i'm sorry, she's not an american citizen. she's not entitled to the constitutional rights of privacy. besides that, if i go and apply to be a server at applebee's, the hr department will check my social media to see if there's anything on my facebook or twitter account that causes them to have alarm. i'm telling you something, i think it's ridiculous that you import somebody coming here who has clearly been radicalized and has, as we now know, an intent to murder americans but we don't want to invade her privacy so we don't look at those things in social media, but we take more care somebody serving food at applebee's than we do someone

coming here from pakistan or saudi arabia? mark, that's nonsense. >> yeah, that's right, senator. the chicken salad comes with more scrutiny than u.s. residency. that's the insanity of the world we live in, senator. -- governor. thanks a lot, mike huckabee. and a very merry christmas to you. good luck on the campaign trail in iowa. >> thank you, mark. merry christmas. and coming up, senator rand paul. getting my senators and governors mixed up. but rand paul has been calling out his 2016 republican rivals and pushing back against the president's agenda in washington. and later the legendary pat boone, neither governor nor senator, will be here to put us in the christmas spirit. you totaled your brand new car. nobody's hurt, but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three quarters of a car?

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welcome back to "hannity." 2016 presidential candidate rand paul has been busy on the campaign trail. and in the united states senate

where he's been pushing for immigration restrictions in the wake of the paris and san bernardino terrorist attacks. and recently, senator paul has been slamming his republican rival and congressional colleague marco rubio for missing key votes in the senate. joining me now to explain is the man himself, republican candidate for president and kentucky senator, rand paul. good to see you, senator. traditionally, you're on the libertarian end of the republican party. and traditionally libertarians tend to be more relaxed about immigration than perhaps conservatives do. what's the rationale for immigration restriction from your philosophical perspective, as it were? >> you know, i think there's a mixture of feelings on immigration within libertarian and conservative circles. and i don't find that there's a real consensus. but i do think if we're going to defend our country, it starts with our borders. ever since 9/11 i've been

frustrated. the 20 hijackers who came here all came through the legal immigration system. and i've asked repeatedly was anyone ever fired for doing a bad job? did we ever change the rules? are we vetting and screening people better than we used to? and i don't think we necessarily are. in 2013, two iraqi refugees came to my home town, bowling green, kentucky, and they proceeded to try to buy stinger missiles even though one's fingerprints were already in the database for being oen a bomb fragment. i don't think we're doing an adequate job. this has put me in opposition to marco rubio because he's stopped me at every point from trying to get more border security. >> yeah, back in 9/11 basically those young saudi men filled in joke applications. that the form said address in the united states, and they wrote holiday inn, america. and in response to that, the government created this huge new

bureaucracy specifically designed to prevent that happening again, but you get the sense from tashfeen malik's immigration application that, in fact, the same thing is just going on. it just costs more money to let all these people in than it did before. >> and one of the interesting things is when you go back to 9/11, the 20th hijacker, the one we caught, mos ourks i, he came here on an immigration program. all the paris attackers they were also french citizens. i do think the visa waiver nations are a danger. what i've been advocating is i don't want to stop travel, i think people should go through global entry. this is a program that already exists. what you would do with a background check, the same way we do for frequent flyer program, that's the very least we can do. but if we continue doing the visa waiver program we are going to be attacked again. we're going to be sorry that no one listened to me as i tried to

have better security for the country. >> so you're concerned basically about muslims who happen to hold french passports, british passports, german passports, australian passports and can basically come and go as they please? >> yeah, but it's not muslims. i'm concerned about terrorists. and they happen to be radical islamic terrorists, yes, but what i'm really concerned is that we look and screen those who would come and attack us. if you're a french businessman or woman, christian or muslim, you're known to us and you travel back and forth for business all the time, by all means let's continue that. but we have to have scrutiny. if you're a 25-year-old guy who just came from algeria last year and you have a french passport, we can't just let you come on a plane and come visit. >> so that gets very close to some of the reforms they're trying to make now, where they're saying if you're in the visa waiver countries but you

happen to have itsevisited syri sudan, countries like that in the last five years, you don't qualify for visa waiver. is that good enough for you? >> here's the problem. we've listed four countries but saudi arabia's not on the list and 16 of the 19 hijackers came from saudi arabia. so frankly, i am concerned about people originating out of saudi arabia and whether they're friend or foe. so i would apply to everyone. i would apply global entry to everyone. i think if you're a known traveler and you're a businessman or woman, apply and getting global entry, then you can come and visit. if you won't apply, you won't do the background, we continue take random visitors. i know that will be a hassle for some people. once it gets started and it's done, we'll at least have some scrutiny. it bugs me to death that legal immigration is how they're attacking us. most of the attacks over the past 15 years have been legal immigrants to our country. we're not screening who comes to our country. >> you've been critical of marco

rubio. let's take a look at this campaign ad you've made of the -- his rare appearances and multiple non-appearances in the body you're both a member of. let's take a look at it. >> you keep missing votes on the senate floor. 43% of the votes. i know you say you're campaigning for president. ♪ where in the world is ♪ marco rubio >> a lot of these votes won't mean anything. they won't pass and even if they did, the president would veto it. >> the other day you got up on the senate floor and you said federal workers who don't show up should be fired. ♪ where in the world is ♪ marco rubio >> now, all the senators running for president managed to vote on this hideous budget bill. you, bernie sanders, lindsey graham, ted cruz, but no marco rubio. is there a reason for that as far as you can see?

>> it may have been the most important vote of the year, but certainly the largest spending bill of the year and, yeah, i think if you are being paid by the taxpayer you should show up and vote. so i think this is a big issue. and i think for him to say he's only going to show up when he thinks it's a close vote, i don't think that passes muster. i think really that he ought to just resign or probably give us payback because he's not really earning his pay at this point. but yeah, this spending bill was something that was horrendous. it was $1.1 trillion spending bill. it busts the budget caps and really it also shows, though, that the complicity on deficit spending, both parties deserve some blame here. that's what i've been saying all along. the right wants military spending, the left wants welfare spending, but in order to get what they want, the right has to give the left welfare spending, then everybody gets what they want except for the taxpayer who gets stuck with the bill. >> yeah, the bipartisan conspiracy against the american

people. rand paul, good to see you. merry christmas. and good luck in iowa on the campaign trail. coming up, legendary entertainer pat boone is here next to get us in the holiday spirit and to tell us about his new christmas album. and later sean sat down with actress kimberly williams-paisley. we'll show you the interview. that and more as "hannity" continues. ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my bottom line. what's in your wallet?

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♪ i'm swimming and i'm jingling bells swell ♪ ♪ i'm out swimming on a shiny surfboard for a sleigh ♪ ♪ is it really christmas in l.a. ♪ >> is it really christmas in l.a. that's a real ear worm i think as that's known in the business. once you hear that you'll have it stuck in your head all day. that was legendary singer and

performer pat boone getting into the spirit with his new song "is it really christmas in l.a." off his album "the true spirit of christmas ". joining me now is the man himself, pat boone. you did something incredibly difficult on this album because basically you did an album of entirely new christmas songs. and it's kind of hard to do that after "white christmas" and "have yourself a merry little christmas" and "it's beginning to look a lot like christmas" have all been written. was it difficult? >> i didn't write the songs, of course. i think, mark, i've recorded more christmas songs than anybody except perhaps bing crosby. >> right. >> but a man showed up in my office. he was about 78 years old, paul alter. he had created television shows like "what's my line" and so many other big shows.

very creative guy. he had written -- he loved christmas. he's like irving berlin, jewish, but loves christmas. and he had 21 new christmas songs, very creative. and some of them quite touching. and i said, i'll record them. so i recorded 21 new songs of christmas. this is one of them you're hearing. and it was fun. it doesn't look like christmas in l.a., but there's also "little drummer boy next door," the guy that gets a drum set for christmas and drives you crazy or the fruitcake that nobody wants and passes it to every member of the family. and it comes back to the person who made it. it's really creative songs. plus the true spirit of christmas is a lovely song written by a friend of mine named peter murphy. "the true spirit of christmas" is, of course, the one whose birthday it is we're supposed to be celebrating. so merry christmas, mark. >> thank you for that, pat.

that's true. is it really christmas in l.a., you're actually wearing your swimming trunks for a large part of that video. and is that you or is it done with cgi? did they get a body double in? because -- >> no. >> a lot of us once we start getting up there in years don't want to be doing topless scenes in our music videos. yet you're in there in the swimming pool and sunbathing and all the rest of it. >> yep. sure, i'm in very, very good shape. always have been. in fact, my christmas gift to myself is a new right knee. i just got a new right knee so i can get back on the tennis court. no, that's me in the water. >> yeah. >> and in the buff and i'm, as you can see, i've kept myself in pretty good shape. >> yeah, you have. what is christmas like when you're in a showbizy family? because your daughter ended up

marrying into rosemary clooney and jose ferrer's family. so i think notorious liberal george clooney is your daughter's mother-in-law's nephew, if we're going to go down into that i'm my own grandpa territory. >> yeah. >> what's it like? and of course, rosemary clooney was in the film "white christmas." >> she was. >> do you have a big tradition of musical christmases in your extended family? >> definitely. first it started, of course, with ours. four daughters and christmas i have -- i don't know, several thousand feet of film and tape of our christmas mornings. and we always sang. and we'd have a devotional before we went to the stockings and the tree because wethe kids what christmas is really about. but the presents were there. then when debbie married and we married into the ferrer/clooney

family, we got to celebrate many christmases. and we sang and celebrated royally. and, of course, with rosie herself, we really felt close to bing. i knew bing. but it was really getting down to the -- to what the entertainmeentertai entertainment industry really considers the core of christmas. c-o-r-p-s. >> yes, no, and the famous line from citizen kane, tell us what that song's about. >> it is. i find it very, very intriguing. this guy paul alter wrote that song. you don't know till the end that it has to do with a sled that he's been -- that he remembers from his boyhood. and he makes the point that sometimes we put our hopes and dreams on the wrong things, and

t things that meant most to us as a child we should have stayed with. and of course, that was really the point of "citizen kane." he had everything in the world but happiness and what he longed for most was that simple boyhood sled, rosebud. and that's what this song's about. i sung it in personal appearances. it gets quite a reaction from audience. >> that's quite something to hear that, pat. thanks a lot for telling us about the album. your knee looks great, by the way, in that video. so it was well worth the money. and it looks fabulous. thanks a lot, pat boone. coming up, sean sat down with kimberly williams-paisley to talk about her career and country music and her new movie. we'll show you that interview next as "hannity" continues.

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you got to get that. i'm friends with your husband. >> i know, he sends his best. >> and friends with your father-in-law. he's a country music mega superstar. you're a hollywood superstar. the story of how you met is amazing. you got to tell that story. >> well, brad saw "father of the bride," the movie years and years ago. that's on repeat now. >> can i just say -- i said to brad, every guy in america was in love with you in that movie. >> aw. >> and he really was, which is the best part of the story. >> he stalked me a little bit more than anyone else. so he won. but yeah, so he saw this movie with his girlfriend, and then she broke his heart and he wrote these great country songs out of his heartbreak, and then seven years later he swears that it never happened before. he woke up one day and said i should call the girl in that movie. >> it just hit hip. >> just hit him. >> i don't know. i believed him. and i asked him if he wanted to be in a music video.

>> i talked to the cutest guy. you're totally going to . >> is that when you did, i think it's called a fishing song, right? >> yes. >> you're in the video. it's one of the funniest videos ever. >> yeah. i'm going to miss her. >> he decides he's going to go fishing and you get pissed off and throw him out of the house. >> yes. yes. >> so was it love at first sight when you met him? >> pretty much. he won me over, i think his humor and intelligence and his talent. >> yes. that is what i say about brad every time. his humor, intelligence, good looks, he's got it all, which is

annoying because everybody wants to be a country music star. >> yes. i don't. >> you don't? >> i have no talent for that. >> maybe in my next life. i just love it. i just can't explain it. i'm in radio tv and the most powerful form of communication is music. >> you look at people when they're watching brad sing. they cry, they haf. the range of emotions is fascinating to me. >> i'm sure people laugh and cry while they're watching you. >> liberals cry, hopefully. everybody knows you from "father of the bride" you've been a hollywood star since you're young, and have two kids. now involved in "alvin and the chipmunks road trip." >> yes. and tony hale is fantastic.

he plays kind of the bad guy. >> in one movie you play the part of the -- >> dave seville's girlfriend. our relationship is getting serious they're not sure where they stand. i have a son who is awful to them. i don't really know that. but yeah. he's a jerk to the chipmunks so they really want to break up this relationship so they set off on a road trip to do that. we're in florida and they're in california. >> so you can't give it away. does it work out in the end? >> it works out in a way. not the way you'd expect. there are twists and turns everywhere. >> that is what makes movies fun. it's funny. i became friends with kevin sorbel. he makes faith-based films and i know roama downing and mark burnett.

they make great movies. the movies now that people crave are like these family movies, and they're cool and funny, some are faith based and others aren't. they do well in the box office. it's hard to understand why hollywood holds on to what doesn't do as well. >> hollywood made this movie. it's a great family film option for the weekend. we had adults in the theater, we screened it for my kids and 150 of their friends and they had fun. >> was it hard being a mom and being married to a country star and being an actress? is it hard? >> it's great. i love every bit of it. >> being in the bus is tough. >> the bus gets smaller the longer we're on it. and the gear we have to bring. and now, less because they're

older but we pick and choose when we go out. brad is fine with us not coming out all the time. >> so alvin and the chipmunks. it's a honor to meet you. i met brad and now i met you, i know why he loves you so much. he brags about you every time. >> thank you. >> there is more "hannity" right after the break. stay with us. i'm mary ellen, and i quit smoking with chantix. i have smoked for thirty years and by taking chantix,

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7:00 and 9:00 p.m. eastern and again, christmas day at 10:00 p.m. that is all the time we have now. merry christmas. see you after the holidays. but "on the record" is next. tonight, "on the record," donald trump is here. the 2016 g.o.p. front runner continuing to dominate nearly every poll. a new cnn poll out today has donald trump way in the lead. 21 points ahead of any other candidate. once again trump's words getting in some hot water. the latest a word used to describe hillary clinton and 2008 loss to hillary clinton. some people calling that word vulgar. 2016 presidential candidate donald trump is on the phone to go "on the record." good evening, sir. >> good evening. >> i have done a little research on it as well and jeff greenfield who is a political analyst for abc, cnn, and cbs, and also the term was used on npr in a