factor. thanks for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly and please remember that the spin stops right here. we're definitely looking out for yo you. breaking tonight, president-elect donald trump and governor mitt romney right now wrapping up a dinner that is causing heart burn for millions of trump supporters. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. we got pictures of the president-elect having dinner with mitt romney and reince priebus. they're eating at a hotel in manhattan. the romney meeting may be the most controversial yet for the president-elect on a day when he allowanced e chain khou as his pick for transportation secretary and stephen mu chin. that has folks asking if donald

trump is betraying the folks that elected him since these are not the outsiders that trump promised. ms. chao is married to mitch mcconnell. former house speaker newt gingrich with join us on this. he is not happy with the romney sitdown but first peter doocy is live. >> reporter: the president-elect picked a place just a few blocks away from here for his big dinner with mitt romney. it's the french restaurant john georges which is inside another trump property and which has three michigan stars which is just about as fancy a restaurant there is in new york city or anywhere on planet earth. then though john george is surrounded by secret service right now, we've seen pictures trickling out from inside. they showed trump holding court, saying something why mitt romney

and reince priebus listen intently. prebui prebui p p preb torched the 2012 nominee for being disloyal during the primaries. the loudest argument against romney as secretary of state has been made recently by top adviser kellyanne conway who you can see is not at the dinner but believes that grass roots supporters will be in a advertise zi if he brings romney in. since we couldn't hear any of the substance being said at thee could tell how the meeting went could be on twitter. retierds general david petraeus and mad dog maddox has earned instant social media prize from

the president-elect. trump has not been saying much if anything about mitt romney and romney has not said anything about the man who could soon become his boss when he becomes the leader of the free world since their initial meeting last week. megyn? >> thank you. john george is very fancy. it is true. our next guest warns that a secretary romney would leave mr. trump's supporters feel betrayed, suggesting that president-elect trump should get up every day and begin by looking at his campaign promises. he owes his presidency to the people who believed in him. not for the ones that had contempt for his as a candidate but now adoor him now that he's going to be president. you call this potential appointment of mitt romney as secretary of state a huge mistake and even outrageous. to those who say all right, you

know, donald trump knows what he's doing, this could be a counter balance to some of the more, you know, hard liners in the administration he's creating, how do you justify those comments? >> well, first of all, president-elect trump can pick anyone he wants. he's going to be president. if he picks romney, i'll support him because he has the right to build a cabinet he wants to have. but as long as we're discussing the possibility, i think it's a disaster. i think first of all, romney is not like the team of rivals around abraham lincoln. none of the team of rifles opposed lincoln in the general election. romney fought against trump every single step of the way and fought against him with really vicious language. if you look at the things that romney said about trump, you'd have to say to yourself, why would you believe him? i mean if he comes in now and says all of those mean vicious things i said about you, i didn't really mean it.

give me a break. this is not the same -- >> let me challenge that. >> sure. >> even kellyanne conway said some vicious things about donald trump, you know, very vicious is too much of a stretch. but she attacked him because she was a ted cruz supporter. >> of course. >> that kind of thing tends to happen, they're both republicans, they come together after the election, mitt romney and donald trump, reportedly donald trump had a lot of respect for the way that mitt romney ran capital and they had a mutual friend who tried to broker the alliance according to an interesting report today in the "washington post". >> he favors mitt romney. they're very close personally. reince priebus is very close to r ryan aez when national committee chairman during the period when romney was the nominee. there are a lot of different

things going on here. i'm only suggesting that when you have potentially a rudy giuliani, an ambassador bolton, a wide range of people you could reach out to, to decide that the person -- if you go back and play the tone, the hostility, the contempt of the romney speeches -- these were all speeches. >> you're right. >> it's pretty hard to imagine. >> he went after trump harder than anybody. >> why would trump believe that romney is going to be trump's secretary of state? i know he wants to be secretary of state but my hunch is he'll turn out to be romney's secretary of state. >> we're going to see because this is their second meeting and we're told that their wives also met tonight. you had a couple -- first about this critique you have for the president-elect and then i want to talk to you about the advice you have for him. you said his biggest misstep in the three weeks since he won is the tweet on twitter about the wide spread voter fraud in this

election. why is that so bad when hi asserted that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for a couple million illegal votes. >> there's no proof that there were a couple million illegal votes. there's a new standard now, he's about to be the president of the united states, the leader of the planet, the most powerful person in the world. and as a standard of calm accurate -- i'm for him tweeting. i think tweeting is for effe effecti effective for him. but i think he needs an editor and on occasion somebody needs to say to him, maybe not this one. and i thought -- it's not that one tweet but it's what it signals about the lack of self discipline and the lack of focus that i think as president he has got to acquire. because the world has to have a sense of reliability that when donald trump speaks that there's a certainty and an accuracy that they can count on every single day.

365 days a year. and that's a big challenge. >> right. the gravity of that office requires, you know -- >> right. >> it comes with a lot of responsibility. let me ask you this. you've been there. you were part -- you were the head of the contract with america when the republicans took over the house in 1994 and so you've seen a president come into office and govern and reach across the aisle and get things done and you were part of that. you talking about in this fox news piece that reasonableness will be the death of trumpism. reasonableness. explain what you mean by that. >> sure. washington has a whole range of reasonable things. the culture of the foreign service is a disaster. but reasonable people know you can't fix it. the civil service and the veterans administration is corrupt, filled with people who don't do their jobs, filled in some cases with people who literally have criminal records. but reasonable people know you can't really reform the civil service. you go down this list. we know the congressional budget office is a joke. its estimates are a total

disaster. it was totally wrong about obamacare. reasonable people know you have to use it because it's the only thing we have. you go down the list of reasonableabl reasonables and every reasonable statement moves you to selling out and keep the swamp full. it doesn't drain the swamp. when i became speaker i shocked the city. at my first speech on the friday after the election i said that i will cooperate but i will not compromise. i had been elected to do the things in the contract with america, ai've been elected to balance the budget, elected to reform welfare and i cooperated to the get it done and i thought bill clinton and i did a get job. i wasn't going to compromise on our goals. donald trump has a contract with the american voter which he outlined brilliantly at gettysburg. he has the vision of a new deal for african-americans which he outlined in charlotte. if he's going to get those things done, he's going to have to be unreasonable with the city

which is a swamp because the swamp doesn't want to be drained. nobody in washington is running around please come in here and change everything. they're saying how do we slow him down. the pentagon, the term for the political appointees is the summer help. the summer help wants to do something. well, they'll be gone soon. that is true across the whole city. >> speaker gingrich, great to see you. >> good to be with you. thank you. well a striking display of red, white and blue from military veterans and their families as the national debate breaks out over flag burning. and in one particular instance, the removal of a flag from a college campus because it was upsetting some of the cupcakes. reaction on that in moments. plus, big news when it comes to president-elect trump's cabinet and what's being zpriend as a lightning strike effort to repeal obamacare. breaking news on the ohio state university attack as investigators turn up new leads on a possible terror link.

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breaking tonight, we're watching the president-elect, his soon to be chief of staff and gof more mitt romney as they hold a dinner meeting in manhattan. this is the second meeting when mr. romney and the president-elect. we'll see if they say anything when they leave. are they striking a deal? are we looking at the next secretary of state here? we'll bring you the news as it happens. mr. trump started his day with a controversial tweet recommending criminal punishment for flag burners, write quote nobody should be allowed to burn the american flag, if they do, there should be consequences, perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail with his signature exclamation mark. the tweet comes after a series of incidents after college campuses askrosz the country where the flags have been torn down, stomped on or burned in the days following the presidential election. more than 1,000 veterans and their marched at this college in protest after the

school at first decided to lower its main flag to half-staff following the president-elect victory. and then removed it all together because of the distress, the distress that the flag was causing on campus. trace gallagher has more from our west coast newsroom. >> when president-elect trump suggested flag burners lose their freedom or citizenship, he never mentioned this college by name by the school in western mass is the focus of the latest flag debate. it was the day of the election when they lowered the school's main flag to half-staff in reaction to the toxic tone of the election. two days later the flag was burned, an incident that remains under investigation. the flag was replaced until the college president ordered that it be taken down all together, but not as a political statement, he says. watch. >> the symbol was raising the temperature of the controversy,

that disagreement in getting us away from the underlying values that we wanted to discuss. >> it did promote discussion and it prompted a protest by hundreds of military veterans in what they called a show of solidarity and respect for the flag. it was also a show of support for people's rights with one military vet telling a local boston tv station, quote, they took down the flag, they have a right to do that. i'm here to defend the right to do that. but i want them to understand how bad it hurts me. hampshire college isn't alone in the flag battle. the day after the election student protesters at american university in d.c. burned several american flags with one student shouting that this is a representation of america and that we are going down in flames. at brown university, hundreds of flags set up as part of a veterans day ceremony were not burned, instead they were ripped up and tossed away. the student who posted the video you just saw called it a very

sad day. megyn. >> trace, thank you. joining me now with moore, david wool attorney and donald trump supporter and julie ra zin ski. great to see you both. we'll get to the legality of president-elect trump's proposal in a minute. let me start with you julie about the nonsense that we're seeing now. the flag is now too disruptive and traumatic for these cupcake to function on the college campuses. this is the state -- honestly this is what made me wrote the book "settle for more." they can't function in the face of the flag now? the flag has to go to accommodate the few who it happens to distress. really? >> i read your book over the weekend and it was great to get that plug in. >> thank you. >> secondly, i agree with you. if you're distressed over the american flag or really over anything, including the burning of the american flag which is legal, you need to grow up and

that goes for both sides. if the sight of the american flag hurts your feelings so much that you can't focus on your studies, maybe you should think about doing something else other than going to college. >> you should never leave your house. there are flags everywhere. >> not only that but you probably see things on a daily basis that upset you. if you can't handle it, you should probably stay home. >> you should function in the face of adversity. let's put aside the notion that the flag is adversity. let's accept the dean's statement that's a traumatic event for the students to see it. you have to function in the face of it. this is one of the things you have to learn on the campuses. david, to julie's other point, there's nothing wrong with the veterans coming out saying wi, don't like the flag, here's a thousand of them.

take this. you know what it stood for in my day? sacrifice, people wh kwent out there to fight for your freedom. they're saying to us it means something else. >> trump said no one should be able to burn the flag and he's absolutely right. the supreme court in 1989 decided that burning the flag was somehow protected free speech. you burn anything else you go to jail. the flag, it's fine. and you know americans and the americans that put mr. trump in office are so fed up with this garbage climate where it's cool to disparage america, cool to burn flags, cool to hate cops and the military -- >> the problem with your argument is that little thing called the first amendment. >> here's the thing. there's going to be a newly constituted supreme court and my gisz is the whole issue will be revisited and if it is, look out. i suspect it will be reversed. >> this is justice kennedy's opinion in texas v. johnson, the supreme court case made very

clear you can burn the american flag. here's one line that sums it up. it's poignant but fundamental that the flag protects those who hold it in contempt. julie? >> well first and foremost if you want to elect people, put people in the supreme court, guess who supported the right to burn the american flag? justice scalia was one of the people in texas v. johnson that supported the right to burn the flag. secondly and more importantly, donald trump wants to jail people who burn the flag or deprive them of citizenship? >> she was wrong. that is the las refuge. >> it's not happening. >> not at all. >> here's the thing -- >> not having the first amendment, we happen to love it a lot. it's kind of important. >> prosecutors could deal with this on a different level because this is happening at schools, like buildings could

catch fire, reckless endangerment, vandalism charges and they're simply not doing that. >> wouldn't be specific to the flag. great to see you both. so my next guest thinks it's disturbing to see the flag desecrated but disagrees with the president-elect's suggestion. professor, good to see you. none of us like to see the flag burned. apparently some people do. but i think most reasonable people don't like to see that. but yet banning it says something else about us that would be for more disturbing. >> it's a curious notion. the flag represents our collective rights and you hardly honor it by abridging those rights. the first amendment has never been amended. it has never been reduced. it's served us so well since the founding of this republic. and the suggestion that we should now amend the first amendment because of what on average is about five to seven

flag burnings a year i think is rather reckless. the question is do you want the government in the business of criminalizing speech. those people that want to allow congress to do it have got to think about the implications of that. you know, many of the trump supporters were very concerned about a clinton administration. you shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the democrats. you shouldn't, because you have power, just hand more power to this government like this is the last president you're ever going to see. >> didn't we just get through an election where donald trump was placed in office in part because he said we need to toughen up as a society, we've become to politically correct, you should be allowed to offend. that's part of being an american. this is part of that. it didn't just apply to liberals or conservatives. it applies to everybody. >> right. and you know you saw the first amendment in your clips. hundreds of people came out with flags explaining to these students what they really mean. what that veteran said was very moving. when he said they have a right

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make of that what you will. we're keep you updated on the breaking news. stay tuned. my understanding is that the house of representatives has scheduled yet another vote toads to take health care away from the folks sitting around this table. i don't know whether it's the 55th or the 60th time that they are taking this vote. but i've asked this question before. why is it that this would be at the top of their agenda. >> maybe because there was no republican buy-in when obamacare was pushed through. that was president obama almost two years ago mocking republicans for trying to repeal the law that upended health care for millions of americans but also granted it to many others. but now it looks like the gop may get the last word. reports surfaced that the gop is working on what's described as a lightning strike bill that sets an expiration date for

obamacare. that effort will likely be spear headed by congressman tom price. and a lawmaker who tried for years to dismantle obamacare and got specific about how to do it. so how is this going to work? in a moment we'll speak with trump transition team member anthony scaramucci and matt bennett. but first to trace gallagher who talked to some of the top experts in the country. >> congressman price, an orthopaedic surgeon by trade says his mayor complaint about obamacare is it puts the government in the middle of the doctor-patient relationship. price introduced his own legislation to repeal and repiece the affordable care act in each of the past three sessions of congress and his plan now serves as the basis for the health care proposal unveiled by house speaker paul ryan. the main points of price's plan are to offer six tax credits so people can buy their own insurance on the private market to expand health savings accounts allowing people to use

pretax dollars to pay for health care and to give the states federal money to help cover people with existing conditions who cannot afford private health insurance. we just spoke to a conservative health policy adviser who thinks tom price is on the right track. watch. >> what's important is that tom price is a guy who has really worked hard to build a case for replacing obamacare with better reforms, been constructive in that debate. i think he'll be constructive in the role of hhs secretary should he be confirmed. >> chuck schumer thinks price's nomination process could be a bit rocky. >> when it comes to issues like medicare, the affordable care act and planned parenthood, congressman price and the average american couldn't be fut apart. >> schumer adds that republicans will rue the day they tried to abolish obamacare. but many republicans believe acting on obamacare within the

first 100 days with a lightning strike bill would be a big ticket victory. kevin mccarthy cautioned that it might be best to start by repealing the affordable care act which gives congress time to replace it. >> thank you. joining me now with more, anthony scaramucci and matt bennett. matt, let me start with you as the democrat on this. so the idea is that preexisting condition coverage will continue, but the thing that funded that, that made that possible under obama care was the mandate that required everybody buy in, including the young healthy people which they kind of weren't doing which led to the problem. so this plan that congress price presented says well we'll still cover the preexisting conditions but you're going to get a tax credit. and wait stand by. here's mitt romney. >> enlightening, engaging.

i enjoyed it very much. i was impressed by the remarks he made on his victory night. by the way, it's not easy to win. i know that myself. he did something that i've tried to do and was unsuccessful in accomplishing. he won the general election. and he continues with a message that brings people together and his vision is something which obviously connected with the american people in a very powerful way. the last few weeks he's been carrying out a transition effort and i've been impressed by what i've seen in the transition effort. the people he's selected as members of his cabinet are solid, effective capability people. some of them i know very well. nikki hailey and i go way back. she's an outspoken strong powerful leader. tom price is someone who actually came to my office before he ran for senate and we spent time talking about health

care, expert and solid thinker in that arena. jeff sessions is someone i knew through my campaigns, helped me early on. distinguished record in the senate. many others. long list of people. impressive individuals. america's best days are ahead of us. i think you're going to see america continuing to lead the world in this century. and what i've seen through these discussions i've had with president-elect trump, as well as what we've seen in his speech on the night of his victory as well as the people he's selected as part of his transition. all of those things combined give me increasing hope that president-elect trump is the very man who can lead us to that better future. thank you. [ inaudible ] >> governor, who paid for dinner? >> what a difference. what a difference a year makes.

in march of, well, 2016, myth romney just savaged donald trump right before the third fox news debate that we held at the detroit theater in michigan. romney's original home state. and tonight wu heard a very different tone. as so often happens in politics. i want to bring back in our guests here and just switch the topic up, guys, because i want to talk about obamacare, but myth romney sounds very different tonight than we've heard him sound before. and the question is whether that is a prelude to a cabinet appointment in your view for him. >> a good question. look, myth romney is a class act. he's been comporting himself that way since the election and it's no surprise that he's making himself available too the president-elect. despite the fact that as you point out he made very very clear what he thinks of donald trump, what he thought of him as a candidate and what he thought of him as a potential president. but he's a guy that believes that if he can help the country by serving secretary of state,

he should do that and i commend him for it. i can tell you this. a lot of democrats are rooting for him to get the job because he's a stable and known quantity and i think that would be a good face for us to the world. >> so the argument is that myth romney could go in there and be the good cop as opposed to the bad cop elements already chosen by team trump, meaning the guys are rough and tumble, ready to shake up feathers and romney is a little more stable. but you heard newt gingrich's objection to him, rudy giuliani and kellyanne conway. does he have a chance in your view? >> he has a chance because he wouldn't be at the dinner if he didn't. but what i love about governor romney, he is an unbelievable organized guy. he would do a great job inside the state department which needs a lot of work. we've misplaced $6 billion. having said there, there are other candidates that are being looked at. he's really taking the process

very seriously where he's looking at it the way a ceo would and he's bringing on five or six really well-qualified candidates. what you saw there, though, i just would say if we were back in the day with instagram and twitter and we saw what william suh ward said about lincoln, it was more difficult than the words that romney mentioned in march. they're both great americans and we need to unite as a party but also as a country. >> all right. we'll hold our obamacare repeal and replace discussion for another night. there's a lot going on there too. we'll see what tom price does if he gets confirmed as hhs secretary. thank you both. breaking news on the attack at ohio state university next. don't go away. score? i wanna see if it changed. credit scores don't change that much, do they? really?

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at ohio state university by suspect abdul razak ali artin. 1 is people were injured in this i a tack and now isis has claimed responsibility. mike tobin has the latest. >> reporter: or tin was a consumer of isis problem gan da. this ie korgd to an investigator speaking with fox news. also there are growing indications he had self radicalized. he mentioned things like a boiling point. has praised an war al awlaki. he became an icon of would bes online. the attack came less than a month after the department of homeland security warned of a growing threat from home grown attacks on soft targets in public gatherings. what stands in contrast to the

warning is artin himself. he was concerned about the um imagine of muslims, particularly here on campus. he was a good student. neighbors said he was a good kid from a big family. they're flabbergasted by what happened here. the somali community just held the press conference tonight. the slol somali community trying to put as much distance between themselves as they could and artin. megyn? >> well shortly after the osu attack, former vice presidential nominee kaine was quick to condemn gun, tweeting, deeply saddened by the gun violence at ohio state this morning, praying for the injured and the entire buckeye community. then an internet talk show host seemed to make it a race thing, tweeting so white police officer shot and killed the black somali stabbing suspect in ohio is being paraded as a hero. that's interesting.

an an osu staffer allegedly posted on facebook asking others to find compassion for the suspect. dana loesch is the host of dana and i me ki konst is the host of the filter. let me start with you on tim kaine. in his defense we've seen so many of these mass, you know, violence incidents on college campuses, involving guns and many things. but to get out ahead and call it a senseless act of gun violence when it wasn't and to not more forcibefully withdraw that and apologize for it and make clear he was very wrong. >> senator kaine could not have rushed to judgment. should have waited on the facts. as should the police who ended up shooting someone who aligned themselves with isis.

if there are with guns at the scene it would have been much more horrific. >> did you say the police needed to exercise more self control? >> the fbi trains in situations like this, they want to make sure that the attacker is ie live so they can question him. >> not when he's sticking a knife into 11 people. then you want him dead, right? >> there's a lot of training into this, find a way to injury them, harm them, knock them down so you can question them. >> that's not how the training goes. >> no. >> i haven't seen her at any of the training scenarios i've gone through. this insane idea that well if this guy had a gun it would have been much worse. statistic thially that's not tr. i would spend the rest of your show going through all of the

mass shooting incidence underst accidents -- >> you're not going to monologue over me. you have no idea what you're talking about. the officer is a hero. he would have gone through a ton of more people had a good guy with a gun not shown unap and acted. we got to stop the gun free zones and i'm glad to see indiana state legislature taking a step towards this. >> can i respond in. >> go ahead. >> a country like japan where there's .6 ghun owners and here in america -- let me finish. completely different scenario. we have 88.8. we've had three mass shootings if the last three years. -- let me finish. >> hold on. i'm going to give you the last word, dana. >> the bottom line is we have --

in areas of this country where there are stronger gun laws we have fewer shootings. that's a fact. >> no it's not. >> but even when you have the gun laws, you've got the guy with the knife and the car. i know he should have questioned him while he was sticking the knife into people's throats. got it. if it would have been me i would have been glad to cops showed up. >> amen do that. remember in 2009 obama commissioned a report from the c cbc. >> ladies, it's always a pleasure. very feisty. i mean we have to laugh because it's either laugh or cry. i was just talking about this yesterday. we see this all of the time in today's day and age. and today this appears tobs terror despite the fact that many people don't want to admit that. and tomorrow could be something else. we pray it's not the case. we're also tonight tracking

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hi, love you. hi, hi. oh, hi. hi, nice to see you. >> like to welcome from "the kelly file" on fox news, megyn kelly. >> thank you. >> "settle for more" is really about overcoming adversity, and actually you can embrace it and understand it is an opportunity toe grow and get stronger. >> ladies and gentlemen, megyn kelly from "the kelly file." >> love you guys. thank you so much. thank you so much. goodbye. love you! thank you, ladies. thank you so much. we had a great time there, a great time. thank you, kansas. and our "settle for more" tour continues tomorrow right here in texas. we will be at fort hood on thursday, friday at the villages, monday in d.c. want to leave you with this. mary catherine writes t book was incredibly captivating, funny and moving. i feel so inspired to settle for more, too. that means everything to me

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. speaking of stirewalt, there's a great story about stirewalt and yours truly in a bar in "settle for more," which you should buy right now. by the way, who is your favorite guest? @megynkelly, as we salute the heroes at fort hood tomorrow. >> this speaks of to incompetence. they can't keep the president-elect to keep from making a fool of himself. >> is it time to drain the media swamp? >> he looks foolish. >> the latest attacks from the alt radical left mainstream media are outrageous. laura ingraham and ari fleischer are here with reaction. >> i will not disappoint you. >> then president-elect trump made specific promises to you, the american people, on the campaign trail. how does he plan to keep those promises? vice president-elect mike pence will join us in studio with more. all of that plus ainsley earhardt and florida senator marco rubio are here. "hannity" starts right here, right now. >> welcome to "hannity."