laura is next. we will see you back here for an important breaking news friday night. ♪ >> laura: the subject of tonight's angle. what we have seen over the past seven months at the mueller investigation reveal as lot about how big government can end up becoming a threat to representative democracy. and the more we look at the web of clinton and obama loyalists who burrowed in to mueller's office, the more obvious it all becomes. there were a number of highly influential and powerful people working inside the obama administration. who were not only horrified about the idea of donald trump winning the presidency, they were intent

on preventing him from being elected by any means necessary. and if that meant applying for a fisa warrant based on a phony dossier in order to spy on the campaign, maybe they would do it. and if it meant deploying the entire mainstream media apparatus into death con one mode, hyperventilating with russian collusion 24/7, they would do it. and today if it requires floating a piec specious store that the president has early on set dementia. they would do it sources later parretted and then retracted by major news organizations. they dual that, too. if it means propagating the idea that don trump jr., jared, and the president were in some conspiracy with the old kgb to throw the election? no problem, whatever it takes. as the former mueller investigator peter strzok put it, they needed an

insurance policy to stop trump. going on to reference a meeting in andy's office and why is that significant? well, here's the chairman of the house judiciary committee, bob goodlat. >> andy is presumably andrew mccabe, the deputy director of the federal bureau of investigation. this text is very troubling because it suggests that they are doing something. they have a plan to take action to make sure that donald trump does not get elected president of the united states. in the highest levels of the federal bureau of investigation. >> laura: now, this entire investigation, these texts, all of it, this has become a complete farce. they have an unlimited budget. they have unlimited staff. they have basically an unlimited term. mueller's team can stay on the hunt forever how long they want. it's insane. the founders never envisioned that a separate office inside the executive branch could hire a bunch of

agenda-driven investigators in search of a crime by the head of the executive branch. i mean, if congress wants to get rid of the president, they have a way to do that. it's called impeachment. that's their constitutional prerogative. but this deal with mueller is now just totally out of hand. and at a minimum, a few things need to happen immediately in order to at least stabilize the situation. first, deputy fbi director andrew mccape must be fired, period. he allowed strzok to be the lead investigator of the russian investigation after he had been a key player in the ultimate exoneration of the hillary clinton email investigation. and, remember, he helped comey soften the language of his non-indictment, indictment of mrs. clinton. and there is a lot of other things about strzok we won't go into now. you all know them by now. and whether mccabe actually cop spider with strzok and went to the fisa court to surveil the trump campaign, that's really important, too. and that also has to be

investigated. but a separate ground for firing mccabe for cause may be the meeting strzok references in his text messages, the thing that we just referenced. because, if true, mccabe actually took part in a discussion or actual planning, who knows, to subvert trump's campaign or maybe if he was elected his ability to lead the government as president of the united states. that text message could be the smoking gun. and as for bob mueller himself, indeed, he has throughout his career served hits country with honor and distinction. but that doesn't change the fact that right now this investigation he is heading has become irreparably tainted. as the "wall street journal" just put it, the man who should be most disturbed by all of this is mr. mueller who wants his evidence and conclusions to be credible with the public. evidence is building instead that some officials at the fbi who have worked for him

may have interfeared in an american presidential elections. congress needs to insist that its rights as a quo equal branch of government exists to discover the truth. now, i'm not calling for mueller to be fired. it's tempting but i'm not. but, at the very least, he needs to put the brakes on this investigation. at least pause it for a bit. i agree with what alan dershowitz said on my radio show this morning. it's time for a respected, independent expert to come in and thoroughly examine the individuals conducting this probe and fire anyone inside who even a hint of an appearance of a conflict of interest. that's all it should take. that's how high the stakes are otherwise, the public confidence in the mueller operation will and should collapse under its own weight. these endless revelations of bias. and that's the angle. joining us now for reaction in new york is john bolton,

former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. fox news contributor, and a recovering lawyer. and here in washington richard good stein, a democratic strategist. >> and also recovering lawyer. >> laura: lawyer all recovering lawyers, isn't that sad. richard, let me go to you first. where am i going wrong here. >> this is alice in wonderland. sorry, laura, i have a loft respect for you. the fbi is number one donald trump's election. rudy giuliani put on pressure on comey to put out that letter 11 days elevate election which he had no business doing and he didn't disclose to the public the way in which the russians were trying to tilt this election, july 5th. remember went against the fbi rules. that, to me, is kind of the fundamental way in which i think you are misrepresenting. >> laura: july 5th press conference by comey, you think that helped trump in the end because it was a non-indictment indictment? >> the fbi director should have either said we have got the following charges or

done nothing. that's their practice. that's what their policy calls for. >> laura: i actually agree with you. i don't think he should have done that either. the fundamental question about this probe is, just given the fact that it's so high stakes, just to have it guy peter strzok weissmann, jeanie rhee they didn't just vote for obama. but when you are someone who worked for the clinton foundation. when you represented ben rhodes as jeannie rhee did. text message how she is defying the president. you are not just a democrat you are defyin deadversary. john bolton, your thoughts on this as a former attorney and watching this from the outside. bob mueller has stellar reputation. republicans built it up and so did democrats. >> well, i think that it doesn't really matter what bob mueller's reputation is before he becomes an independent counsel.

because i think the entire concept of independent counsel is so fundamentally flawed. that you inherently have investigation turning into exactly what this has turned into. i think i think deputy attorney general reserve stein, however, is the one who is not doing his job because he demonstrated to my mind utter obliviousness to this mail that is surrounding the mueller investigation. seemingly unable to look at these examples of bias by peter strzok and many, many others. and connect them to what's happening in the investigation. so, when you combine that with the fundamentally unconstitutional nature of an unrestrained independent counsel, i think we are seeing the destruction of the reputation of the justice department and the fbi. i'm an alumnus of the justice department. i have worked with fbi

investigators in a number of capacities over the years. i am just thunder struck at what i have seen in the past six months coming out. >> i don't know, you know attorney general mukasey is the one who said only banana republics does the winner go after the loser, you know, so, look. >> this time the loser is going after the winner. that's even more remarkable. >> no, no, no, no. there is this talk still about independent counsels going after her -- again, it's 13 months sinces election. >> i'm against an independent counsel to investigate her or anybody else. >> right. but you will agree, will you not, that strzok, who is not a lawyer. he didn't actually put his name on the document, james comey, who is a lawyer, went to a very distinguished law school, laura did. he is the one responsible for everything that went forward, so i think this is

kind of a big misdirections as the noose is tightening with all due respect around the president and people close to him seeing one misdirection after another. i think we will see more of them until either mueller gets fired or he says what he is going to come up with. >> here is a fundamental fact. more than one person can commit wrong doing. i think james comey so badly bungled the clinton email investigation that donald trump should have fired him on january the 20th. he would have been fully justified and nobody would have said obstruction of justice. it's a tragedy that he didn't fire him. but, in the course ever the email investigation, as we now see from the emails that have come out, we have got people who were so biased against trump that it seems to me almost inescapable that their bias affected their judgment. this is where rosenstein's testimony yesterday was so bad. because it's as if he is saying i'm not going to connect bias to outcome, which is clear, i'm going to insist that they say in

meetings that the fbi, we should not indict hillary clinton because otherwise donald trump would be elected president. that never happened. i think what strzok and others did was move comey, if he wasn't already inclined to do it conclusion there was no requirement for -- that's fundamentally wrong. >> laura: hold on right there, guys, because we also tonight learned more about former fbi director's comey's decision to characterize hillary clinton's emails as just extremely careless, rather than the statutory language which would have been grossly negligent. just tonight fox news obtained a copy of comey's actual draft letter that exonerated clinton. richard and i were just talking about it. it shows the phrase grossly negligent was deleted in more than one spot. so, perhaps, you know, more alarming is that the draft shows comey originally was going to state it was reasonably likely so that hostile actors had actually

infiltrated hillary's server but that was also taken out. so, look, senate investigators tell fox news now that they expect strzok is the one who really made all of these edits both to the grossly negligent language and about the infiltration of her email searcher? richard, i want you to address this infiltration of the email searcher because this gets serious. this is classified information that could have been taken by a foreign actor, and this was hinted at a couple years ago when we were talking about this. it was said at the time it was likely that a foreign entity did manage to penetrate her system because it didn't have the security as one of the guys who testified even though g mail program. >> indulge me, your viewers need to understanding what the statue says. whoever having information of national defense through gross negligence or let's say simple mindedness

information delivered in violation of anyone of his trust should be fined or imprisoned. do we think that hillary clinton delivered the information on her server or let me con crass donald trump being in the obama office with the russians giving them, that's where the simple mindedness comes. in giving themselves that we got from al qaeda through israeli sources about using computers to blow up airplanes. and, therefore, tipping off iran. >> within that same statute. ains. >> laura: he is the president of the united states. if something is classified in that case, he would make the argument. was he unclassifying it ambassador bolton, i'm four sure how is that is apt in this example when we're talking about thousands and thousands of emails that were deleted and a computer system that was maintained completely contrary to the gins of how state department documents and other materials should have been

stored. nevertheless, richard makes a point. the accusations about president trump and the russians behind closed doors and that one meeting. >> ticked out out u.s. president? >> then move to impeach him on those grounds. that's up to you. if i had proposed doing what she did at the state department i would have been fired. that's the example of different standards applying. let's come to the statute in question because you only talked about a piece of it. it's very exrensly statute. clear espionage where someone intends to give information to foreigners. it comes down to gross negligence. why is it there? because being that careless can have exactly the same effect of transmitting sensitive information to an opponent. >> you glossed over the word deliberate. >> let me finish.

>> laura: ambassador. >> comey's speech is where he said we're not going to follow that standard. that's where he was fundamentally wrong. >> laura: why edited it? if -- they are editing that document for a reason, because they wanted to reach a particular conclusion biewrg a presidential election year. they did not want to put a statement out there that by any lawyer's understanding, it certainly was mine at the time, would indicate that mrs. clinton violated the statute. like any military guy. >> it was a fit of candor that they corrected. >> excepts she didn't deliver anything to anybody. stevif a thief goes into your home you are not delivering the goods. ainsley ains no, no, richard, if a military officer leaves a computer on a table that has classified information that he took home without intending to give it to anybody, he can be prosecuted under that statute. he is not delivering it to the thief but it gets taken. he permits it to be taken. that's the statute and how it's read. this is fascinating. this is going to be going on

for a long time. great sparring partners richard and john. what's behind the republican tax reform? wow, stay with us.

>> laura: i should have seen it come after he appeared on our show a few weeks ago.

marco rubio is now support for the g.o.p. tax bill until he gets an increase to the child tax credit. but, maybe it's a joke. some are saying it might be an old campaign grudge, no, causing him to seek a huge legislative achievement for the president? come on. >> here's a guy that buys a house for 179,000, he sells it to a lobbyist who is probably here for 380,000, and then legislation is passed. you tell me about this guy? this is what we are going to have. >> this is a guy that hired $200 million. if he hadn't inherented $200 million do you know where trump would be right now. >> i watched him repeat himself five times four weeks ago. >> i saw you repeat yourself five times five seconds ago. >> i watched him. >> i watched him melt down on the stage like i have never seen anybody. >> five things, everyone is dumb. he is going to make america great again. we are going to win, win,

win. >> senator, please. >> the line is around the street. >> laura: it worked really well. bad blood, no. we didn't get into the small hands debate. weren't those the good old days. former white house press secretary sean spicer help me out, my friend. first of all, thanks for being on the show. >> congratulations, it's been a while. >> laura: what's going on with rubio? >> we haven't had comprehensive tax reform in 31 years. when you have a 52 seat majority, everyone is looking for their opportunity to get their issue highlighted, their issue addressed. at the end of the day, marco rubio is going to be a vote for us. he is not going to let this moment escape us. and he understands how he like a lot of other senators making sure voice get it done. >> mike lee partnering. >> corker,. >> corker is one that i would probably say is gone. our lawyer this is what i like about what president trump does. he forces everybody to put

their cards on the table. you know with everybody is. cunsd assistant trump. didn't want to work with him and subvert a lot of jeend radio. down to the end big take away i look at horse trading how important that alabama seat was. how important other majority is what this comes down to is we have 018 if chuck schumer is the leader, we are not going to be having a debase how much tax peaking sure the president maintains a majority in the house and senate is curable to keeping the president's john mccain in the hops suffering from treatment and what it does to your body and thad cochran is ailing. he is the senator from mississippi. remember the republicans rushed in there to save off that chris mcdaniel cochran 76 years old. time to get a younger person in there play that game of

moore was a mistake. maybe cochran was a mistake. could have a younger, more vibrant senator in there as well. plays both ways. >> right now we have to concentrate on getting 50 votes tax bill so american people can enjoy the fruits of it. >> laura: what about paul ryan next year he says last year is that because he sees a republican wipe out. >> i want to stop you right there. this story was a political story. president called paul ryan and say hey i need you to be partner of mine and drive the agenda forward. paul comes forward and say i want to say. i have committed to getting this agenda done. paul ryan at heart is a policy guy who finally sees a republican senate and republican president and knows he can achieve some of those policy goals that he has worked hard on so long. one of the traps that we as conservativeconservatives have p getting into any time politico or "new york times" throws out quick bait run around and presume it's true. paul called and said he is committed to staying. >> laura: you think there is

no truth to the rumor. >> everybody in public office or anyone who has been around this for a long time thinks about when they are going to get out. >> laura: i thought about it like a couple weeks ago. every night. no, i'm just teasing. >> it's a grind. politics is a grind and is he a guy who has done it since he was 25 years old. >> it takes a toll on your family. he has a lot to be proud of. he sees the next few years as opportunity to get lifelong policy goals. minority leaders. >> laura: are they getting closer now? >> i think everybody understands that the president has an agenda republican base is highly supportive of. they want to work with him. job as someone who an outsider and disrupter. is he starting to learn that some of these folks.

>> laura: can't fight everybody at once. this is a big win for this president and country. >> i know you know omarosa. i know her a little bit from the white house days. and the big deal today she was on good morning america and she had this to say. let's watch. >> as the only african-american woman in this white house, as a senior staff and assistant to the president, i have seen things that have made me uncomfortable that has upset me that has affected me deeply and emotionally that has affected my community and my people. and when i can tell my story, it is a profound story that i know the world will want to hear. >> laura: she is going to be leaving the white house on january 20th. it was a big focus of the white house briefing today. they never talk about omarosa but today like why is she being paid through january 20th? what is it like $1,500? what is going on there? any i object sight? >> i don't. bu -- anyinsight. >> i don't know. >> laura: why was she hired?

does she have any qualifications to work in the white house. >> i mean, look, she was very loyal to the president. >> laura: she campaigned for him. >> and i think the president brought a lot of people who wanted to fulfill his agenda. and that's his prerogative as president-elect at the time. i wish her the best. but i don't -- i'm not really sure. >> laura: she has a story to tell. did you see any part of her story? >> i don't. >> laura: give me something here. >> look,. >> laura: she is a very charismatic person. colorful. big personality. i kind of like that. some people can't take that. >> i will let you leave it at that. >> laura: do you miss it? do you miss the rush? i mean, it was exhausting. because i talked to you through the a lot of that time and it is a 19, 20 hour day. >> seven da days a week. >> laura: never sleep. dual you get any of your privacy back.

>> a little. i was proud to help the president move his agenda forward. i lowfd being on the outside. i loved being able to be supportive from this thing. it's a definitely a lot less stressful and so i look forward to doing a lot of the other opportunities. i have a book coming out. >> laura: i know. i'm excited about your book. >> good. >> laura: do you think this we're when we look back at it objectively this year will be seen as a successful year for this president, given where the economy is, given where consumer confidence is. >> yeah. >> laura: deregulatory efforts. >> i do. especially if we can get this tax reform done. a lot of the things done in terms of regulatory measures to peel back to get business booming again and get people hired. all of those economic indicators. housing starts consumer confidence is going through the roof. i think when people look back objectively, two years, five years, 10 years, they will say this was a real economic power house of a year. president's policies and initiatives that really got the economy booming again. key came in and people mocked us talking about 3%

growth. now we are on the path to that's become the baseline u. >> laura: he needs to get the credit for that i think he will. we need happy voters going into 2018. >> we do. >> laura: sean, great to see you again. >> thank you. >> laura: i can't wait to read your book is there a backlash against the me too movement? >> ronna mcdaniel met with the president today. dew points to know what they

>> laura: today's upset election in alabama, tuesday's upset election in alabama has given democrats a rosy vision of a return to glory and i understand that. that's led a let tha plethora of pundits predicting utter doom for 2018. >> you are watching this 170-year-old institution swiftly marching itself toward destruction. >> can a divided really more

than divided internally competitive and internally angry combative republican party, can it win in 2018 and 2020? >> right now in the republican party, there are people who are trying to recruit similar types of candidates in senate races around the country. this is a recipe for disaster. >> laura: here's a larger issue for the g.o.p. and let's think about this really carefully. mitch mcconnell is really smart and wiley in so many experience. is he looking to kind of in some ways exploit the embarrassment in alabama to maybe knock out viable populist candidates elsewhere? there are no roy moores but they are populist so they conflate the two? i'm thinking of people like kelli ward in arizona, danny in mexico. nevada. we have got to think about this. this is where the populist need to be careful and smart because it's not enough to have just a few national

figures to support you. no, no. you need money and need allies within the mainstream g.o.p. to survive just like president trump did. kelli ward, remember, tried and failed to beat mccain but, i'm telling you, she is a much better candidate now than she was then. so trying to tag her as far right as the "new york times" attempted to do today is absurd. she would be a fine general election candidate. and the party needs more strong, smart women. joining me now to discuss this, exclusively is rnc chair woman ronna mcdaniel. she huddle you had up with president trump today and this is her first interview since the election in alabama. ronna, how are you. >> great to be here. thanks for having me. >> laura: merry christmas. what's going on here. the alabama race was a real body blow for the republicans. no doubt about it but for the republicans to elks trap plate that and say okay, any populist candidate in a place like lears arizona, particularly kelli ward for jeff flake's seat vote no.

can't do that because it's going to be another roy moore is that fair? >> that's not fair. alabama is unique, special elections in and of themselves are unique. you can't extrapolate anything from them that's going to be a bellwether in 2018. only one candidate on the ballot. so many circumstances that go into each special elections. candidates do matter. do you need good candidates. we need to let the voters make that decision. the voters don't love washington coming in. >> laura: mcconnell. >> we learned that with president trump voters wanted to decide their own fate and who their nominee is going to be. then we are going to have to work together as the party. we need to be swimming in the same direction if we're going to win elections. >> laura: wrote a piece in foxnews.com. it was a stark warning for republicans. he said republicans must pass tax cuts this year. continue the economic growth. and they need to spend january, he said, developing a new strategy capable of changing current patterns

and maximizing their chances to keep the house. they have continue to crease their senate majority by five or six, he says, and so they will be strong enough to really hold that majority in 2020 when those numbers are going to look more difficult. do you agree with that analysis. >> i think newt is right on and the rnc is right on track to do those things. we raised record money. just announced a new record in november. already in 18 states. nobody can compete with our data. our ground game. we have more people on the ground than ever before. we are also doing outreach to communities that we haven't been in before. we have to start showing up and having a conversation and talk about the things we have in common. i think newt is absolutely right. we are going to compete for house seats and keep a majority. at love senate seats. the map looks good for us. >> laura: what did the president say if you can share some of his thoughts that were not private. what was his mood like. >> it was great. we talked about 2018. we had the christmas party at the white house.

we had a lot of rnc members at the white house. is he jovial. he is ready for 2018. is he always looking to help people's lives be better. and is he focused on tax cuts. we need to pass tax cuts. we just put up a website paycheck president.com. he is for increasing wages. getting more jobs and sending more money home in people's paychecks. >> laura: the rnc official that quit for roy moore. you guys should have supported roy moore in the end. >> we had 1 out of 168. overwhelmingly the rnc members understand our role at the rnc isin is to be the political arm at the of the white house. and the alabama wanted to keep that seat. we always said let alabama decide. we knew these allegations were deeply concerning. they were incredibly troubling, at the end of the day, alabamaians made their choice. >> laura: the president said, i know a lot of republicans are glad he is not here, but just for my agenda, i wish we had that seat. that's a pragmatic way of looking at it i know it

horrifies a lot of republicans but that is true. losing that seat is a blow to the republican party. >> yeah. he always said these allegations are incredibly troubling and concerning. and disqualifying if they're proven true. >> laura: he has even conceded the election yet roy moore. >> i don't know. >> laura: riding his horse to the next seat? i'm not sure what's going on. >> i haven't kept up to date on that. >> laura: i ask on my radio show. >> i will ask tonight. >> laura: write in on cards yes i will write 10 bucks or 50 bucks, they write a note. what's the number one thing people. >> right now i'm getting a lot of merry christmas cards which is great. i always look at them for you, it is tax cuts. we have to show that we can pass a big agenda item and govern with the majority. they want to see people -- they want the congress to support the president. >> laura: isn't the latter really important support the president's agenda? >> support the president's agenda 100 percent. we hear it all the time at the rnc. it's part of the reason we

are having such record fund raising. >> laura: how do we become the. >> if every election we write off california and new york certainly. how do you change that dynamic? >> we will be in california and new york this year because of some of the congressional in place. we have to do that with small strides. we had an office in detroit. open for three years. never shut it down. we have to start showing up blue states. i was a chair of a state that nobody thought presidentially. we won it for the first time since 1988. >> we can replicate that across the country. we have to put resources in and put our message in and show up and stay. >> laura: showing up. going into hostile political areas. when trump went to detroit that black church. he has to do that once every couple weeks. >> he went to detroit and flint. >> laura: would you advise him to continue to do that. >> absolutely. >> >> laura: continue that push into minority areas that can be helped by economic

reform. >> he is talking about skilled trades. he is talking about jobs. >> laura: he has to go there. >> we need to show up and give our message because republicans have been be a sent so lock. that's the focus. >> laura: is he telling you to drop your maiden name. >> there are three reasons why i have emphasized mcdaniel more. my kids see their mom a lot less. their name is mcdaniel. they deserve for their mom to be exercising this. this is the dumbest story. we have way more important things to talk about. >> laura: it's kind of funny. i like both names. >> i have them both. using mcdaniel more because i have three people at home supporting me and they deserve. >> laura: merry christmas. we can say that again. and allegations of bad behavior brought down two more members of the media this week, reasonna. this time with a crucial difference. we're going to explain ♪ ♪ ♪ do you need the most trusted battery this holiday? maybe not.

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♪ >> laura: can a man's career now be trashed with just an accusation of sexual misconduct. the bar seems to be getting a bit lower, lower and lower, this week two more powerful men have fallen from grace at least temporarily. ryan lizza from the new yorker and tavis smiley suspended by pbs. in both cases the specifics of the accusations of sexual improprieties were not made public. no names, no stories, no

nothing. both men say the relationships in question were consensual. smiley went on forceful counter attack on a video posted on facebook. >> pbs overreacted and they lost a sloppy investigation. it is clear this has gone too far. i, for one, intend to fight back. >> laura: so have we reached a dangerous tipping point in the me too movement? is this the start of a serious push back for men and maybe women, too. let's turn to wetvn news. wenty, let's start with you, i can't stand men who do this in the workplace. i think it's fow it's foul and . i don't like accusations made years later with no ability for an individual, man or woman, to defend themselves. that's really, i mean, i know tavis smiley a little bit. i have known him casual friends for like 20 years.

i think he is telling the truth. my gut, tavis, he is really ticked off. is he mad. now a consensual relationship in the workplace is tantamount to sexual harassment. what's your take. >> the thing that stuck out to me when tavis was talking about. he kept on talking about consensual relationship. that's great if he had one. but the allegations from pbs, they talked about multiple relationships. and that's what's interesting. >> laura: how about multiple consensual relationships? you can't have those? i thought it was free love generation now can you do what you want. >> you can do what you want. not just one person. several. >> laura: how is that harassment? >> this whole notion of due process. due process is a legal term. when we are talking about employment. that does not go into the realm of the employment agency. >> wenty, in the name of justice though, you can't just be charging men and having secret investigations with people who may have had consensual relationships with them. maybe he is telling the truth. here's my problem. we are seeing a rash of this. this feels like a revival of

the crucible. i hope arthur miller is getting residuals in. this i have a guy i worked with years ago robert, a great character actor on a show called i zombie they suspended him for multiple sex abuse allegations. today they cleared him of all those charges. is he back at work and on the set. that's how it should work. he was almost driven away entirely. his name, the reports went throughout in variety and the holiday reporter. his name was tarnished as a result of this. i worry when you have dead people now being charged. >> laura: who is dead getting charged. >> samantha fox charged david cassidy who has been dead for two weeks with sexual groping in the 1980s. >> laura: 1980s? >> we have to take a breath and figure out what is legitimate here. i worry there is a fever in the air. and that men, particularly those in the public eye are susceptible. >> that is the court of public opinion. i do think that's the downside. the downside is even if you

are proven innocent. the court of public opinion has already judged you and hard to get -- >> laura: i think it will start happening to women too. women in positions of authority and bosses. women are going to get burned by. this there are a lot of people who will not hire women not because they don't likes working with women but because they are afraid. i think men and women, perhaps, are going to be afraid to operate in the workplace because of these kinds of charges. years later if you have a meeting behind closed doors. >> you don't know. >> laura: i didn't say. this i don't remember. >> 30 years ago in an elevator you bumped me and i felt awkward about that. >> it's not about that. making sure we conduct ourselves in a professional manner. >> laura: yeah. >> i think if there is smoke somewhere there may be fire we have to investigate that. >> i don't mind puritanical. just make sure you act like a puritan in how you conduct yourself. >> laura: what did she say. >> a member that had cleavage went down to the floor and that was

invitation and other democratic women were not happy. >> that was completely wrong. >> laura: how you conduct yourself. how you carry yourself. doesn't say anything. >> it does not say anything. >> laura: your dress suspect to your pubic bone? >> i see that coming out of some of the schools. >> i don't think the way you dress should invite any form of shawlt. sexual assault. >> laura: there are some micromini skirts. we are pushing it. >> it does say to the man certain impression how a woman views herself and ditto what a man wears. if i come in wife beater shirt and jockey shorts. >> i would think you are hot. >> laura: come on, paul ryan says we should have more kids because we have to support social security. we have to do our part. what's the fertility rate in the united states? how many kids are we having? 1%. >> beneath 1%. >> laura: that means we don't replace our

population. >> just barely. social security is constructed so that the new generation sustains the old. if you are only have one kid and have you two parents that's a problem. that's what paul ryan is saying. weave need more kids. >> go ahead and take a dig at the republican party while i can at the end of the day a lot of millennials are not having kids because of our social structure as it stands right now. today anniversary of sandy hook. people who are dying. people don't wanting to have kids. >> because they somebody's retirement they can't afford it. >> laura: guys, by the way, the christmas grinch arrives in nazareth. we will explain. we will explain. woyour insurance company won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. we're on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you? well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it.

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>> laura: before we go, can you believe christmas is just 11 days away? i thought it was three weeks from now. you got a race to get your shopping done. i found almost no shopping. you can pick up my book, "billionaire at the barricades: the populist revolution from

reagan to trump," and you can always reach me on twitter, facebook. share your thoughts about tonight's show. especially the question of, should we be having more cards to pay for social security? shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team up next. see you tomorrow. >> shannon: thank you so much. here is what we have coming up tonight. breaking news tonight in the growing tension between the g.o.p. and the fbi. a top senate republican conference the fbi with a copy of the draft statement on hillary clinton email investigation filled with deletions and edits that critics say prove fbi officials water down the findings even more than previously thought. we'll walk you through exactly what happened. plus... >> when you look at this missile, this is terrifying. it's absolutely terrifying. >> shannon: with the trump administration site to unveil its national security strategy next week, general jack keane is here to analyze just how tough trump can get with iran and