everyone. thanksgiving is my favorite of the year. mark steyn is in for tucker next. ♪ ♪ ♪ mark mar ♪ >> all right, good evening, everyone. and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. that's the sign you will see over there for second. i'm brian kilmeade i will be filling in for tucker. it's 2016 since hillary clinton's defeat. excuses keep on coming. hillary clinton appeared today to talk about what happened. she is on a book tour, i had no idea. she had a whole array of reasons for her loss. today she put it on new person, obama. >> when you run to succeed a two term president of your own party, you have a historical head wind blowing against you. it is a challenge. if you are both the candidate defending a lot of

the areas of agreement but also putting forth an agenda for change, which is what i tried to do, it is often difficult to get the second part of that message through. >> brian: right, because you didn't say anything different from president obama so how do you run on the word change? today wasn't the first time clinton pointed fingers. if you had an email for every excuse you had you could fill annual entire private server. >> the use of my email account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. they covered it like it was pearl harbor. if you look at facebook, the vast majority of the news items posted were fake. there is all these stories about, you know, guys over in macedonia who are running these fake news sites. i inherit nothing from the democratic party. comey was more than happy to talk about my emails but he wouldn't talk investigation of the russians. i also think i was the

victim of a very broad assumption i was going to win. >> brian: did i not know she was a judge on the voice. i don't know if that chair turns. clinton used today's appearance to talk about more than just her defeat. america has a large number of white supremacist who have made common cause with the president. >> i think there has proven to be more white supremacists and white nationalists than i wish there were in our country as we saw tragically in charlottesville and other places. and they have made common cause with the president's agenda out of their own mouth that he is someone that they are counting on to promote us. it. >> brian: clinton expressed doubts whether she could ever possibly be friendly toward president trump like she was in the past. >> i said we all need to give him a chance. and we all need to support our president. we have one president at a

time. and i have been very disappointed in the way that he has conducted himself. >> after this is all done, do you see becoming friendly with him again? >> i don't know the answer to that question, hugh. >> brian: i do. i'm going to go with no. dan bongino was a former secret service agent and officer. very nice man. former campaign regional director and this both join us now. robin, the problem was president obama. president obama replacing a third term popular president who got over 50% when he left. that is very hard when you run as an agent of change. do you buy that? >> you know, i can't ignore do go in waves. it happened with george w. bush. after 8 years of george w. bush i thought we were destined for change. i thought she had quite the road ahead of her with trying to paint herself differently than president obama. and really she did not do a very good job of that.

she did the best, i think, that she could, but her campaign still, i still insist to say that it lacked soul. i had the privilege of meeting her several times face to face. she was always warm and ingratiating. once you got her in front of a camera she just fell flat. she never seemed to resonate with the people. it just was lacking that soul. she failed to tap into that wave of populism and anger. donald trump did capture that and so did bernie sanders. >> brian: i think george bush was charismatic. even one to one interviews didn't resonate. if you are going to run as an agent of change you have to say something different from the person that you are changing from. she ran the same thing that president obama ran on. she never said he was wrong here, he was wrong there and i will be different here. right? >> well, yes, brian, that's

because she sat in front of focus groups and changed their position by the day. you know, she would lick her finger and see where the wind was blowing. robin said he had the privilege of meeting her. i had the privilege of working with and for her as a secret service agent. my take away was the exact opposite. i found mrs. clinton to be the most deceptive human being, manipulative political person in a position of power i had ever met in my entire life. it wasn't so much that she was a liar. it was that she did it and she deceived and manipulated with such ease. you know, i spoke out against her and, believe me, this was not something that i took lightly. i never attacked president obama personally and never. we i disagreed with his politics but he was very genuine and nice to me personally, mrs. clinton is a fraud. if the people out there knew the mrs. clinton i knew, they would have a far different take. and the fact that she is trying to up end an american election where president trump was elected, you may have not have liked it but she is trying to up end it with this nonsense on what

happened tour is a disgrace. it's a disgrace to herself and the american people who picked someone other than her. >> brian: robin, i read donna brazile's book i found it fascinating, cover to cover. no doubt about it they took the african-american vote for granted. there didn't seem to be any push for any local radio. there was no push to go with the yard signs and person-to-person interaction. it was all about analytics. about a bunch of 30 something-year-olds who thought they knew it all. >> you know, and i'm personal friends with robbie mike and i worked with him in south korea o south carolinae primary of this campaign. the entire first section of the book what happened does dedicate to the mistakes of the campaign. her own personal mistakes that she does own up to where you are exactly right. they got too much into the weeds. into the analytics. they surpassed the flyover states. the middle america votes. we took those for granted. there were a lot of mistakes. granted, it's -- the book is a complete assessment of

everything, that factored into this, which there was a lot that factored into it. but, you know, i think she does take credit for her mistakes. but, in the end, the message was basically that she was embarrassed. she felt like she let her supporters down. that's why she stepped away from the public eye for quite a while. and is just now making sell books. i want to point out something, brian brian. i hope the point of selling these books is not to try to push chelsea clinton to run. please don't do it. >> brian: i know. dan, do you believe the democratic party is turning the page when you see kirsten gillibrand stepping up and talking about her husband and see others not rushing to her side. she got book of the year by some clubs. i don't think she is winning over people, dan. i don't see any conversion here. >> you know, brian, i have lost elections. i lost a tough one in maryland. you know what? you move on. nobody likes a sore loser.

everybody hates sour grapes. -lost an election they called the race three days later. i will never forget someone calling me and saying move on, move on. don't bother with these lawsuits just do it. that's what we did. you know, listen, i know democrats aren't going to take any advice from me i'm a conservative republican. she is not the hill to die on, the clintons. let her go. it is time to throw them overboard here. they are not genuine people. i can make the case to you strongly having been around them and knowing them far differently than others, maybe including robin. i'm not sure. they have been the most destructive force in american politics in the last 50 years. nobody close to them. they have absolutely disseminated america's faith in government by everything they have done. it's really a shame and it's time for the democrats to unmore themselves from the clintons. >> brian: al gore i have never been in more awe of him. he had his heart broken. he went away. john mccain said i blew it he kids about it.

bob dole goes on letterman and people had a warm feeling for him then. it's the way you lose, not if you lose that wins people over. bush 41 is another great example of that people thought he was a failed president. not in retrospect. thanks so much, guys. rob and dan, great work. happy thanksgiving but we are not done. newly court documents reveal fusion gps the company behind the infamous trump dossier made payments to at least three reporters in 2016 and 2017. todd shepard is an investigative reporter at the washington examiner. thor halverson directly linked with g.p.s. he will tell you about it in a second. first, to right now to the story that broke in the washington examiner. three reporters say -- who have wrote things against donald trump on the payroll from g.p.s. what does this mean to you? >> well, brian, first of all, the documents that we

looked at, it shows that these journalists were paid in a contract manner. i can't negligencely say tha --necessarily say they weren the payroll. as to whether or not the stories they have written about donald trump, were they negative? what we really know they have been writing about russia related activities and they have been writing about the house intelligence committee. it's this last part that concerns the investigators and attorneys for the house intelligence committee. especially, you know, how much did they use their influence and their leverage with other journalists in this town to plant stories about the dossier supposedly. and, again, as you mentioned, some of those payments began, let's say, back in june of last year. so, that would be about the time that the court documents also reveal that they were sending christopher steele the british spy who assembled the dossier, that they were sending him out to pitch the dossier to media companies all along -- all in d.c. and up in new york city. >> brian: what does this mean to you? you know fusion gps.

they did some work on you. >> yeah. important clarification. fusion g.p.s. was hired to smear me and to smear a group of us who were whistle blowing about a venezuelan corruption case. a group of criminals in venezuela hired fusion gps so that they would then smear us. they created a dossier. smearing us. they did one on me personally smearing me. they took that dossier to the "wall street journal." it did not work. the reporters there would not bite. ultimately they found an out-of-work report ken silverstein in washington. he took their money and took what was in that dossier and published a fake news story. what fusion gps does is create fake news. they get paid to smear people. and the fact that the house investigators have actually found these three journalists have been paid, they should unredact that i should note that just because it's in their banking records doesn't mean that there is not a whole bunch of other journalists that didn't get paid in cash. i have no doubt that they have also paid journalists in cash. it's what fusion gps does.

and a lot of journalists don't want that "on the record." so they want it in cash. this is a massive scandal. the mainstream media knows that there are negative repercussions. this is why this must all come out. this all be unredacted there must be more and more information about who is getting paid. what are they getting paid for. >> brian: thor, i can tell you are fired up. todd, this is part of the negotiations, wasn't it, before g.p.s. came to the table to speak to the house intelligence committee. they were so reluctant to come out. maybe this was part of the negotiation. i will admit there are reporters but i will not tell you their names. that, to me, is not something the intelligence committee should have the right to do. we need to know. >> well, the house intelligence committee from these documents, again, it looks like they intend to fight this in the last second. i asked josh levy who is an attorney for fusion about the payments made to the journalists. they said, look, we never pay a journalist to actually do a story but we do pay journalists to do some contract investigating. and it never really ends up,

you know, they never write on the stories in which they investigate. but i think, mr. halverson alludes to some very serious issues here about conflicts of interest. look, conflicts of interest don't have to be disqualifying for a journalist. but if you are a journalist and you work for fusion on, let's say some entirely separate project and then you are reporting on the house intelligence committee in september of this year, in october of this year, when it's entirely about fusion gps, you owe it to the -- to your media consuming public at the bottom to have a disclaimer that says i have made money from fusion gps in the past. >> that is what good journalism is. >> brian: we do have breaking news to go over. thanks so much. fusion gps. we have to find out a lot more about that. we will realize the russians are loving this because they played both sides effectively creating confusion and distrust in america. guys, thanks. have a great thanksgiving. thank you. ♪ here we go. a fox news alert, this just crossing. two new accusers have come forward with allegations against minnesota senator al

franken. the two women spoke anonymously to huffington post separately. they don't know each other. they say that franken groped her one said franken groped her while posing for a photo in 2007 at an event in minnesota. a women's political caucus. the other says franken grabbed her buttocks in 2008 at fundraiser and suggested a bathroom rendezvous. senator franken responded to these allegations saying this it's difficult to respond to two anonymous accusers and yorm those events. talks will continue to follow this story because, ladies and gentlemen, it is not going away. meanwhile, straight ahead, they have been searching in russia but they should have checked philadelphia first. up next, details on a real election scandal. plus, we will show you the election movie-like scene of a north korean defector escaping the country for south korea. does he make it? ♪ ♪ when you have a cold

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♪ ♪ >> brian: all right. donna brazile may have bashed hillary clinton in her new book from cover to cover. but, she allied with the former presidential candidate on one thing, believing last year's election was rigid. here's what brazil had to say yesterday. >> my personal views that it was not a legitimate election. >> so it doesn't count? >> chris, remember, i'm the campaign manager of al gore in 2000. and where, as you well know, the supreme court decided this election will always have asterisk by it.

>> brian: really? the whole book has hillary blew it. instead of donald trump it involves a democratic congressman bob brady under investigation right now by the fbi for allegedly, get this, paying a political opponent not to run against him. ethan behrman and dana loesch join us right now. they are both on the radio and extraordinary at that dana, for you, unbelievable? saying he paid his pont $90,000 not to run. maybe he didn't do it, but his campaign did. and now the fbi is looking into it. >> yeah. well he is imindicated in this. brian, you will good to be with you and happy birthday thanksgiving to you and everyone out there. demi moore the other individual who was challenging brady for this seat, he is alleged to have falsified some of the accounts to the fbi which you never lie to the fbi. that's one the most common charges that they bust some of these politicians and politicians lying to the fbi

and did he that that seems to be common for the course. if you can't win, then you have to buy your way or have to steal. we did see that in the democratic primary with certain caucuses and primaries and super delegates, brian. so this i'm into the surprised $90,000 to pay someone to not challenge you? where is the left on this as well? it seems like moore was disenfranchised an opportunity to challenge an statement guy. >> brian: we don't want another country infiltrating our election we got that we don't want another party candidate we got that this is one election. do you worry about a trend? do you think this is an anomaly. >> i do see it as an anomaly. this is horrible. there is no defending this activity whatsoever. he should be absolutely held to account. if he is found guilty in a court of law should pay the fullest price that our law allows. however, that was the 2012 election you know what donna brazile was talking about was the 2016 election. what we're all forgetting about this while we are

talking about the democrat in philadelphia. we have the former republican chair of the colorado republican party who is under indictment as well for voter fraud. there is a republican here. we really, brian, i can't say this enough and by the way happy thanksgiving to you both as well, can't say this enough, we can't take our eye off the ball, russia has been intentionally coordinated attacking us on the internet, our infrastructure, our voting system, we can never forget that. i don't care if you are democrat or republican. that government is unfriendly to us. so, let's not just make this into a democrat and republican debate. we have to keep our eye on hot actual enemy is here. >> brian: dana, i'm sure you agree with that we don't want to focus on this one pennsylvania election. >> no, i know. >> brian: if we can possibly pull politics out of this and focus on what russia did. we have to put a stop to this. if russia can do it, china could do it. my goodness north korea could do it? >> you are absolutely right. i'm wholeheartedly against it that's one of the things we know that russia wanted

to get involved in our elections. we know that they wanted to have some sort of influence. so far the doj and fbi have not verified anything that was in the dossier that's been going around. that they have had an entire year to look at and verify. and this is why, brian, i'm so against anybody for political gain conspiring with the kremlin through a firm and stashiating a fisa warrant on a private citizen based on nothing more than kremlin gossip. that's why i have taken a very strong vocal stand as long as with you and some other individuals. you are right. it shouldn't be about party. that's why democrats and republicans alike should come together at the thanksgiving table in a moment of unity, brian, and say that was bad what fusion gps did. >> brian: i thought i was told by experts not to bring up politics. back to politics because we are on television. ethan, do you believe that this election needs an asterisk like donna brazile just came up with chris matthews and said. >> i don't know that we need to go that far. i want to add to something

that dana was just saying there. we know how bad the russian hacking is. fusion gps, that's not hacking. that is political pay. that is money going under the table to somebody who may be dirty. we don't know all the details of that. but the hack something legitimate. the hack something concentrated and con concerted attacks. don't forget in 2011. >> which is why i wanted the dnc to let the fbi investigate. they refused to do that. >> brian: get your head around. this they don't need the server. >> brian: get your head around this for a second. you know that the facebook ad and things. you believe that they hacked into the election for donald trump. do you also believe that possibly fusion gps lured the clinton camp through them into russia because they promised that they knew things about donald trump that would blow up his campaign isn't that virtually the same thing if that indeed was the case which we are about to find out, i believe? >> well, i don't see that as

the same thing. first of all, what we seem to be missing in the conversation about fusion gps is the main person there is from one of our closest allies, britain. and the mi-6 spy agency. >> brian: is he a free agent. is he not representing the british government. >> free agent now but had a great track record before this dossier. don't forget we had actionable intelligence from him in previous dossiers. so this isn't all bad. >> not been verified. >> well, the previous stories that happened, no, some of them have, actually. but the deal here. >> no, actually they haven't. no, the doj and fbi have not verified those. >> okay, well, we can debate that separately. if there is something dirty that happened with fusion gps. i have always supported getting to the truth and holding people accountable and if that is the case, let's find out and hold people accountable. >> brian: all we know is that paul manafort can't leave the house. that's all we found out in a year.

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brian brian it's been two months but the nfl cannot pull itself out of politics. amp the anthem protest across the league and been going on the last year and a half. the nfl has been considering keeping teams off the field during the thad matta. the plan is having a powerful critic not having

the team show up and having the sidelines empty. that is president trump, pretty powerful guy. he tweeted this out this morning the nfl is thinking about a new idea keeping teams in the locker room during the national anthem next season that's almost as bad as kneeling. when will the highly paid commissioner finally get tough and smart in the issue is killing your league. speaking right to the nfl and to you. brent mchenry a former espn host and contributes to the federalist and joins us right now. bret, first off, the nfl's idea, do you think the president is the only one who doesn't like it. >> no. i don't like it. not only is this disrespectful to the integrity of the american viewer who consumed the nfl. it's flat out ignorance to think you can solve dissension by burying. it roger goodell country over a beloved sport because he hasn't done anything like other leagues. no suspensions no, new rules. he could have gotten out in front of it, yet, he did nothing. from historical perspective, players weren't required to be on the field until 2009,

until the league saw a marketing opportunity. they wanted extra cash. so, the u.s. department of defense gave them $5.4 million from 201 2011 you to 14 and national guard 2014 to 2015. you tonight accept money and disrespect the armed services. you can't do both things at once. i think you have to look at the timing here. the tweet from president donald trump could be tied to jerry jones unflattering video. >> brian: what do you mean. >> the unflattering video came out about jerry jones last week when he threatened to sue the nfl. that was a four-year-old video. the timing was a little interesting from roger goodell and the nhl if you think about it given all the details that were leaked about this contract he now wants. that happened with jerry jones. now, this week jones says he is dropping the lawsuit against goodell but he has the most powerful man in the united states tweeting that he disagrees with goodell's stance. >> brian: jerry jones and

the president agree a lot. you sense there might be coordination there between the two and the video is doing something inappropriate that he wished didn't go away but has been out there for while. the nfl wants a way out of this. however, they have the union, brit, i contend if roorge goodell says you know what? if you don't stand you are going against my decree you deal with the american people. is he really doing it to save himself. i think in a way do you think he is taking a bullet for the union who will not agree to stand in the middle of the season? >> at this point it's so late it would appear that way. we're getting into the last portion of the season. and this could have been done just like adam silver did with the nba. there wasn't an official rule. but he came out in front of cameras, in front of the media and said no one would be kneeling. they have not had that issue. i think a lot of people don't necessarily agree with players wanting to take a stand. there are other ways to do that fashion statements. >> community involvement which we have seen a couple examples of.

doing it during the anthem is just creating division and a lot of people want to respect the military and it's tied to that. >> brian: only 11 players taking a knee or sitting or staying in the locker room. hopefully gradually they get rid of this. nobody is happy about it a lot of people won't be watching it on sunday bringing us to one game for the first time ever the redskins are hosting a thursday game on thanksgiving. and the problem is the name redskins. they say it's disrespectful to native americans. the polls say a different story, right? >> absolutely. let's look at facts and not fetal. in 2004 the anninberg public policy center conducted a poll of 800 native americans 90% of whom had no issue with the name. and then "the washington post" conducted an interview just last year with similar results, nine out of 10 native americans said it wasn't a big deal. so, i think what we need to focus on is thanksgiving. we should enjoy a good meal. shelter over our heads and

football. and we can't. i think the more offensive thing here, brian, is, sorry to say for you up in new york is the giants only from two wins this season. that might be the offensive thing on the field. everyone else needs to relax and i have been around the redskins. i have seen them give tuckerys away every year. been out in the community. that's what they represent to the washington, d.c. area. not anything offensive in my opinion. >> brian: hopefully people will follow your lead. just enjoy football. have some family. don't talk about politics or maybe don't even bring up the redskins or no one bring up the giants for tall people that might be insulted. great seeing you. >> great sewin seeing you too; >> brian: defector escaping north korea with a hail of bullets. he gets hit with five bullets. hello mom. amanda's mom's appointment just got rescheduled - for today.

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>> brian: all right. dramatic new video shows this payroll lus escape of a north korean soldier defecting to south korea. watch this. the defector is driving a jeep on the north korean side when he breaks through the barrier and heads to the border. he eventually runs the car into a ditch and bolts over to the south korean side while soldiers fire at him. but just barely getting there and getting shot at least five times and she say about 40 shots rang out. one of the north korean soldiers chasing him briefly crosses the white line, marking the territories between north and south. he realizes he is in the south and he panicked that soldier take as couple of steps into the south and retreated. this infrom a red camera shot you are about to see shows the defector just over a wall separating the two countries. two south korean troops crawl over to him and grab him in to safety. they didn't know if they were going to get shot. harry is the director of defense studies at the center for national interests and one of the few who probably understands why a north korean soldier would risk everything to get to the south.

and what they were up against. how rare is what we just saw, harry? >> brian, it's pretty rare. i mean, keep in mind, usually most people who are trying to defect from north korea, you know, to freedom, essentially, go from to china essentially. so, for somebody to actually cross the dnc, i mean, think about it. this is an area that's usually riddled with mines, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are in this area. tanks, heavy machine guns. this is an area of the world you don't run across. it's pretty astounding. >> brian: here's the problem. i got these numbers from our brain room here. 881 defections this year in 2017. last year 1418. so considerably down under this leader. the problem with going to china is that they catch you in china, they send you back to north korea. correct? if they catch you in south korea, they leave you in south korea. right now this north korean soldier struggles for life because is he full of infection. they found a lot of stuff in him, including some tape

worms that are about 12 inches long to show what he has been eating. is he down to 130 pounds. as he struggles for life, there is no fear of him going back to the north, right in the south will take him? >> right. brian, i think of it this way. the north korean and south korean border is the modern day equivalent of the berlin wall, essentially. this man was willing to risk his life to get to freedom. and we have to think of it also this way. his family, if he does have a family in north korea could also be in tremendous jeopardy. sometimes as many as three generations of somebody who commits an act like this are going to pay a very high price. we don't know what's going to happen to him, to his family. also, the reports of what is he going to go through he will face deficits in terms of nerve damage. they almost had to amputate his arm. what he was willing to sacrifice it really shows you what an elite north korea soldier was willing to do. he was willing to risk his

life. >> brian: harry, give me an idea what's going on inside north korea. if the people are that unhappy, if they are suffering to that degree, is there a chance north korea can solve this problem themselves or is the government so insulated there is no chance for a civilian army to rise up? >> the challenge here, brian, is that the north korean machine tightly controls the country. the people are sarved. they don't even have enough food to eat. this north korean soldier, there has been reports that he might have even been under malnutrition. this is one of the top lying units that this soldier was probably involved in to be that close to the border. so the north koreans have a very tight control over the country and the populist. so if you are starving, it's very hard to sort of launch a mass revolt. the outside world is permeating north korea. this apparent soldier wanted to see south korean pop videos and pop music. so he was aware of the outside world. it could permeate into society and change that society. >> brian: real quick, we know things have to change

and whoever was the president was going to have to deal with this and this president certainly going at it and focused on it he is not doing strategic patience. we know that the 13 chinese companies have now been sanctioned by our country for dealing with north korea. we know the president talked for 90 minutes with vladimir putin who reportedly is increasing trade in north korea to supplement what the chinese aren't. do you sense there is something that could change? is there hope on the eve of our thanksgiving? >> i think so. the president has the right strategy here keep the sanctions up. the north korean economy is only worth $14 billion. it's the size of vermont. if we keep the pressure on. we can critically damage that economy. we night not be able to stop their nuclear missile programs we can contain it as much as possible. the president is doing a good job on that. >> brian: hopefully use the leverage to get neighbors involved they do not like our military presence in the area. only way for it to go away is for them to no longer a threat. harry, thank you so much. have a great thanksgiving. >> you too.

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>> not only tweets childish and embarrassing. trump is a thug and wanna be dictator and lashes out at anyone who isn't sufficiently obedient. >> this other news president trump continues to feud publicly. [boos] >> mr. trump i know you are upset but maybe now is not the time to be implying that

someone's kid should go to jail for what their dad did. >> brian: as you can see late night comedy is all one note anti-trump. more like lectures in comedy. it hasn't always been like that, too. some are getting the sense that things are about to change. one of those people is comedian michael loft tuesday. executive producer of kevin can wait on cbs. he admits he voted for trump. >> i have a confession to make. and i voted for donald trump. [cheers] >> i did. the whole like election thing, people -- you had to be like embarrassed about it, right? who are you going to vote for? i don't know. it's tough. tough this year. i don't know. [laughter] >> tough call to make. i don't know. you are not going to vote for that maniac? oh, no, no, no. and then you pull the curtain and you are like click, trump. okay. crazy. >> brian: it's funny but that's exactly what happened. michael joins us now. michael, i watch you on the

loftus party.com and i see that, and i'm wondering, you are very successful standup. you are respected by everybody. did you pay a price for that position? >> you know what? i don't think i have yet. and people keep -- i'm starting to get scared. because everybody is like what you are doing is really brave. it's really brave. i'm like i'm honestly just trying to tell jokes. i'm just being honest like i don't want to live in a socialist america. i love this little crazy experiment we have got going on with the 50 states. so, yeah. you have to act like you didn't vote for trump for the longest time. i'm like what are you going to do? i voted for the guy. there you go. penny for a pound. >> brian: michael, you are laughing, that's why the polls are all wrong. no one was honest. they said the russians must have rigged. this this can't be true. we watched the crowd show up. they said those people aren't going to vote. but they actually did. but you also said something interesting to me yesterday. you said things are beginning to change. why do you think things are

beginning to change after one year in office? >> first of all, none of the gloom and doom is coming true. i mean, if you watch like msnbc, you watch some of these other news shows, and it's like every day is the end of the world. and they are just like can you believe what he just -- i have never ever in my life, this is -- and these people who are anti-trump, their lives have to be just so miserable. they have to think this is it. this is it. boy, i tell you what. come over to my side. i'm sleeping like a baby. >> brian: right. because, you know, people are investing. they can afford the two drink minimum. a lot of times one and a half drinks that you need to be successful as a comedian. numbers don't lie too. jobless claims are down. market is soaring. if you talk to anybody who is a contractor. their voice mails are filled every day. now is president trump solely responsible for that? no. is the world collapsing? no. did he go on 12 day trip and impress about every world

leader? yes. do we love all his tweets? no. michael, do you sense that comedians are beginning to say we are on this is not the way it used to be? carson used to be an equal opportunity offender. for a while letterman was, too. leno also used to go both sides. >> well, i think the television market is getting smaller and colbert and kimmel and some of these guys they have just like -- they are just like we are just going to go after the anti-trump people and keep them watching. they literally aren't really doing jokes anymore. than just making like mean-spirited observations. and the guy who i feel sorry for is fallon. like jim mall fallon is just trying to do a fun show and because he didn't go after trump, people are like whoa, aren't you on board with this guy? and he is like i'm sorry, i treated him like a human being. what was i thinking? that was wrong headed of me. >> brian: he did apologize for saying just that. that's how bizarre he was. i normalized him. yes, he got the nomination

and he became president. how dare i treat him with respect. >> yes. and so now it's like painfully obvious. usually what the comedians i like, the guys that i respect. they usually like defend the underdog and when you have got, you know, kimmel and colbert and everyone else going at donald trump, it's just not interesting and funny to watch somebody -- it's the same tired stuff oh that orange-skinned guy. the umpa loompa i want to defend him. i have more fun as a performer. >> brian: let's help the american people now. we are about to have thanksgiving together with extended family and some strangers and some close friends. would michael loftus recommend we talk politics at thanksgiving? and, the new trend possibly of charging a cover charge for thanksgiving because it's not cheap. would you go for both -- number one, would you talk politics and would you charge a cover? >> i would not -- i would never recommend talking politics unless you go all

in. unless you just decide to have a free-for-all. you know, say something bombastic, you know, like trump was the best president since f.d.r. and take off your clothes and roll around on the table. i mean, have to get weird. stay away from politics on turkey day. let's have a nice dinner and let's not do the cover charge. come on. >> brian: okay. >> that's mean-spirited. >> brian: and you are a happy guy. coming out in los angeles. kevin can watt wait loft-us. thanksgiving. you too, man. the big holiday weekend means travel, football and parades, will the weather cooperate? the forecast next. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember.

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star in the parade are being blown up on the streets of new york city right now. so will the weather cooperate for the parade and allow underdog to fly? fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, which means you must salute him when you see him in the hall will tell us. rick, what's going to happen? >> so i used to live right underneath where they blow all those balloons up for years and years. and like 300,000 people go in the you were west side for that event and you can't get anywhere. so you probably want to avoid it i will tell you what, weather right now is great. but, chilly out there. not that bad. tomorrow morning it's going to be a different story. really cold air. cold air is going to move on in. 37 degrees at the beginning of the parade. about 37 degrees at the end of the parade. if you are flying right now, still some delays in newark. that is kind of always the case. but, brian, that is the only spot in any airport across the "u.s.a. today" that has any kind of delays which is really spectacular for the wednesday. it's cold behind the system that's moving here towards the northeast.

so feels like 32 here in new york. but 26 in chicago. 13 in international falls. go throughout the evening, don't expect to see any more delays. tomorrow weather is looking great. pacific northwest a little bit of rain, a little bit of mountain snow. florida kind of central florida a little bit of rain. that's it. and then we will just go forward here to sunday. and show you what that travel day looks like. i mean, kind of the same story. >> brian: a lot of travel. >> good travel. the weather is good. >> brian: rick we will watch you "fox & friends weekend" 6:00 to 10:00 unless you want to get started up earlier. have a great thanksgiving. >> me too. >> brian: be sure to tune in it tucker i will see you on "fox & friends" tv show and brian kilmeade radio show. check out my book andrew jackson miracle of new orleans. you want to get it signed go to brian kilmeade.com. if i end early don't worry i have a wide shot. i will look in the shadow. meanwhile that's it for us tonight until unless have you something else for me to do. sean hannity's show is about

to get started. he wants me to tell you and later he will relay it to have a happy thanksgiving. thanks so much, stay safe, and most of all, thanks so much for watching and what making fox news number one. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of hannity. democratic scandals. i'm jeanine pirro in tonight for sean. the bad news keeps piling up for liberals. the detroit free press, the hometown newspaper of congressman john conyers is now calling for him to resign. this comes as the house ethics committee has launched an investigation into congressman conyers after he admitted that his office paid out $27,000 in taxpayer money. this harassment complaint from a former staff. and just breaking