applications, be very careful when you pay your taxes and make sure you pay all your taxes and follow the rules and the laws, et cetera. the other thing to learn here is we have dual justice systems in america, uranium one, phony russian dossier, that is the story tonight. thanks for being us with. lawyer a laura is next. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is one of the busiest fridays in recent memory. we will methodically break down everything you need to know about the mueller sentencing memos, all the cohen, manafort and comey news in just a moment. we plan to get to other stories tonight. kevin heart withdraws from hosting the oscars over gay remarks he made a decade ago. is the pc culture killing entertainment and comedy? raymond arroyo will show us more of the repulsive toys of the

season in friday follies, everyone needs a laugh tonight. and how weed is taking over every part of america. we begin in talking about the real push for legalize did medical marijuana and how that turned into pot being delivered to your front door on demand. i'm going to take on the lefty law maker pushing for this new delivery service. first, this is a fox news alert. alright tonight bob mueller's special counsel team and the southern district of new york have delivered three court filings that we're going to tell you everything you need to know about all of these filings, shedding light on the mueller case and the sort of risk that could pose to the president. there's so much reporting surrounding these releases i wanted to go straight to the panel. former us attorney joe digenova, david cats and byron york.

fox news contributor and president trump 2016 campaign manager, corey lewandowsky a man who overlapped with paul manafort on president trump's team. joe digenova to watch the reaction on the other networks tonight you might as well thought that donald trump came out in a hammer and single t-shirt and said i'm actually a russian operative myself. what did we actually discover? let's start with the cohen filing. again the recommendation for his sentencing which is coming up next week. >> what we learned was that there is no evidence, again, of russian collusion with the trump campaign, and certainly nothing with the president personally. we learned that michael cohen is a, kind of a rather uncoop laos individual who sought to enrich himself through the campaign and did some pretty sleazy deals after the campaign. in fact there is no suggestion whatsoever that the president

did anything wrong. committed any crimes, or certainly had any contact with russia. a lot of hype, a lot of sound, a lot of noise, a lot of drama, but no substance, in terms of the president of the united states. >> laura: now someone jumped on this part of the special counsel's filing on michael cohen, without including the last part. we're going to just read it to the end. you can make your own conclusions as to why some media organizations are leaving it off. quote the defendant also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals to reach the campaign. for example in or around november 2015 cohen received the contact information for and spoke with a russian national who claimed to be a trusted person in the russian federation who could offer the campaign political synergy and synergy on a government level. cohen however did not follow-up on this invitation. byron york that's just one of the small little pieces of

information about russia that is being seized upon by people like, i think maggie haberman and others, russia is here, russia is here, nothing happened with that. >> and it didn't happen with several other contacts or alleged contacts between russians and members of the campaign. we don't know who this russian national was. we don't know what was going on. clearly michael cohen wasn't very interested. he was still interested in a trump tower moscow thing. i will tell you though i think what's going to come out of what's happened today is an i have vote from talking about russia to talking about campaign finance violations. i think that's in the michael cohen stuff and that's where he goes. >> laura: we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. david i want to go to you. this is the kind of over the top commentary we heard just about that one russian contact that was never followed up on. let's watch. >> synergy sounds collusiony.

i think it's a harvard business term for collusion. >> it's a hollywood term for collusion. >> this goes back to why this is politically damaging for the president. >> you think this could stick. >> i think this could stick, yeah. >> laura: collusiony, the new york times is coming up with new adjectives. i love it. >> there is something called conspiracy, the thing is whether cohen or trump officials were in league with russian officials. now that has to be proven yet. >> laura: david hold on a second. if that call happened, and we assume it did, there's nothing wrong with it. i mean you don't think russia or china or saudi arabia is trying to get into contact with all these campaign officials? you bet they are. always trying to reach out and make contact. if a call was made in 2015 november there's no crime dlchlt what's the crime? >> well there is a law which prohibits foreign contacts. and all of these campaigns are

very well aware of what the legal ramifications are. >> laura: what law are you talking about? >> a presidential candidate and also, it's a press did he know shall candidate cannot accept help from foreign governments. if there was help from a foreign government. >> laura: there was no help. there was an offer by an individual who claimed that he was trusted who was basically swatted away by michael cohen. >> well supposedly. >> laura: big deal. >> supposedly cohen. >>. >> laura: cohen, not cone. >> supposedly michael cohen continued with those. >> laura: that's a different person. >> there is going to be inquiry into the trump tower. that's what they're interested with, with michael cohen, and if he gets sentenced for three or four years there's going to be a rule 35 down the road where he will get a chance to help. >> laura: he was described as not a cooperating witness, the southern district of new york basically kicked him to the curb. the special counsel's office said he was more helpful. that's not what what you're talking about.

that's not the part you're talking about. i want to go to corey on this h heard this time and again, collusion, collusion, collusion, that iing trying to affect the election. i have no doubt there were a lot of countries that were trying to effect our election, no doubt in my mind, i would love to know what china was trying to do. i keep going back to the same thing, how is this russian collusion something. >> laura what people forget is barack obama was the president of the united states. his intelligence community was tasked with making sure that no outside entity the interfered with the outcome of our election. no one talks about it. donald trump was a private citizen. he had nothing to do with the integrity of the ballot process or how the election was going to be admin verdict that fell under the obama administration, clap percent and comeys of the world. there was no -- >> laura: the word conspiracy was thrown around in major american newspapers, the word

conspiracy was used, over and over again, conspiracy with the russians. >> michael cohen had nothing to do with the campaign, he wasn't a campaign employee, he didn't have a campaign email address. he was a trump organization employee of which literally he was 24 miles apart from where the campaign was. he couldn't make decisions on behalf of the campaign. >> i think we should note mueller has not charged anybody, cohen, flynn, manafort, papadopoulos, gates, nobody has been charged with taking part in a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. >> laura: the washington examin examiner, michael cohen applied about dealing with russia. but trump didn't. i think we have an interesting full screen. i want to read this for digenova. there's a same erring media narrative that this would prove trump has also lied about his

dealings given his repeated claim throughout the campaign and into his presidency that he had nothing to go do with russia. but even the liberal slate in late november said, in the strictest sense, none of these denials appears to -- these statements serve to mislead people about trump's attempted deal with russia and cohen, past contacts with the russian government. maybe there's more to learn in the special counsel's investigation and maybe there's not. but if trump ties to russia amounts to a business deal that fell flat in which he was not forthcoming about, liberals and trump opponents should brace themselves for another round of those pa ngs of disappointment. i thought that was a really good piece. the russian collusion or conspiracy, when i see the word conspiracy out there today, journal lifts who know better it's absolutely disgusting. because they will either don't know the law on -- >> i think it's very important

to underscore what byron just said. not a single charge in any of the crimes that mueller has brought involve a condition i by conspiracy by anybody in the trump campaign or trump himself to deal with rugs, russian governmental officials, russian business people, russian political people, russian comedians, russian grocery store keepers, nothing involving a criminal conspiracy, in fact all of the allusion to michael cohen's attempts or attempts to get at michael cohen by russians are simply described as things that happened. they are not described as parts of a crime. so the notion that there was some sort of conspiracy described in today's multiple pleadings, is false reporting of the worse kind. it is hopeful reporting. it is anticipatory reporting but it is not actual reporting.

>> laura: alan dershowitz has weighed in tonight as well. he was on with tucker earlier, david i want you to react to this. let's watch. >> the report set out a circumstantial case based on all the lying that's taking place, a circumstantial case for arguably political sins. but i don't see any crimes. collusion itself is not a crime. using information, given by russia to wikileaks would not be a crime. unless the campaign participated with wikileaks in the hacking itself. and there's no evidence to support that. >> laura: david. where is the crime? >> well that was. >> laura: the russia crime. >> that was one of the things that mueller was trying to find out from manafort. i think one of the reasons why mueller says manafort is in breach is because he thought there were two things that manafort knew about and wasn't telling the truth about, consistent with mueller's other evidence. one of them is whether manafort

had contacts with wikileaks with trump intermediaries are russian i wanted immediate area it's, that was the allegation. the other one is the trump for youer meeting in new york city in 2016 with kushner and donald trump jr. that's what mueller thinks manafort knows more about, that's why he says he's in breach. >> laura: i understand that. rudy juliani came out. >> that's not in any of the pleadings. that is not in any of the pleadings. >> laura: it's not in the plead sglgz what david just said is not anywhere in anything that was pleaded today. >> well, that's -- you can say that it's speculation but you wonder why is mueller saying that there's a breach? there is a long under seal pleading that was filed today. there's also a lot of re contacted pleadings that were filed today regarding manafort. you have wonder what is mueller saying the breach is about? stay tuned. >> it does appear that mueller is still angry at manafort for all the lies he told about his

business dealings in ukraine. this whole condition stan citizen kilimnik stuff, it had to do with making all that money over there and not reporting it to the us. >> laura: kilimnik was one time russian guy, no such thing as one time, once you're the in, you're always in. new york times, there was manafort not telling the truth about the russian ukrainian guy. nothing to do with donald trump or collusion, and maybe paul manafort should go to prison for a long time, but this has zero to do with russia trying to interfere with this election, working with donald trump to do it. zero. >> laura, paul's crimes preceded his tenure at the trump campaign by a decade. we've seen the mueller investigates ors taking those crimes. >> laura: you weren't even into this current narrative.

>> they have no jurisdiction here. the mueller team is not here to look at crimes that were committed ten years prior to the trump campaign. >> laura: why did trump hire manafort? why the heck it did he hire manafort. >> because they did. >> laura: he was the gold standard. >> he was still doing things on the fax machine, which was the way to do it in the 1980's. you have to remember when paul manafort came to the campaign, it's when ted cruz was winning delegates. >> laura: they were worried. >> they were concerned about a floor fight. >> laura: you weren't enough to handle it? >> that's what they say. [ laughter ] >> i didn't believe them then, i don't believe them now. >> laura: this is like a time warp going back. byron, manafort, stone. 70s, going back a long way. >> who knows. >> laura: okay. joe i want to touch on this issue of the campaign finance issue. because i think that's the

toughest here for the president and clearly the one that's going to give him the most angina overnight. michael cohen and it's laid out in the pleading today, michael cohen does say or the prosecutor's say as he confessed to in august, allegedly that trump directed the payments to the national inquirer and to stormy daniels, 150,000 and 130,000 respectively, with the coordination and direction of individual number one. that's what the pleading says. you the kind of see it there. now that's a violation of the campaign finance laws. that's the allegation. and you look at a statute, can't use a company to make donations to a campaign. they slipped it through the llc. can't do it. what are your thoughts on that tonight? >> well, according to the former chairman of the federal election commission that was not a violation of the federal campaign finance laws. now the use of a corporation

would be. but you would have to prove that donald trump knew that the corporation was being used to do t it was not illegal for donald trump to allow his personal funds to be used to pay hush money. paying hush money is not illegal. the question is, was it done to further the campaign or was it done to prevent personal embarrassment and to keep it quiet? that is actually, makes it impossible to prove a crime. either one of those scenarios is possible and therefore a jury would have to guess at. that not only that, there is no evidence that the president of the united states ordered that it be paid through a corporation, which is what would make it illegal. the payment itself would be per perfectly proper. >> laura: well if it's disclosed. you're saying it's proper if it's not disclosed. >> there's no way the president has any disclosure. >> laura: if it's meant, and this is what cohen pled to, i

believe, correct me if i'm wrong, that it was meant to influence the election. >> it only has to be disclosed if it was a personal campaign contribution by the president. if it is paid to keep the women silent, this is not a -- because he doesn't want to embarrass his family, that is not a campaign contribution. >> laura: the trump team versus what cohen is trying to say to try to get less jail time. they're going to say he wants to get less jail time. he has to do something, he has to pasfoist some of the blame t trump. david which is what the commentators were concluding on the campaign finance aspect. watch. >> the big news tonight is not about michael cohen or paul manafort, it's about one person, donald trump, for the first time you have federal prosecutor's essentially saying that donald trump committed a felony. >> but this is the first time that federal prosecutor's are

accusing the president of the united states of having directed a crime. >> what they say is michael cohen's two campaign finance felonies were directed by a person named as individual one, that person is donald trump. that means that donald trump also committed two felonies. >> no. >> laura: david two felonies, is that what the statute says? >> i think joe has a pretty thin read for the president to hang his hat on. i think if there really feels an intention and if that money was paid and if anything that michael cohen says ends up being true that that's a huge problem. and there's also, as you i think suggested there's a failure to disclose. there's a reporting violation. senator edwards was prosecuted, he was at quid but he was prosecuted by the obama justice department as you will recall for, you could argue personal, there were two different inferences, yes he was found not guilty but certainly the president's dream is not to go to a jury trial and be found not guilty. >> he would want to head this off long before that.

i don't think that argument works. >> that's why we're going to be looking at that edwards case. the j us sis department in that case meaned forward on that too far. and if the president can make the argument that this was a payment to avoid personal embarrassment, and frankly donald trump could say, i've been paying off women for years, long before i ever started running for president, this actually makes a lot of sense. >> laura: well this is what the new york times leads with, in their main coverage of this today. prosecutor's say trump directed illegal payments during campaign. so it's involving two women, mcdougal and stormy daniels, 150,000, 130,000, one payment made to buy the rights to karen mcdougal's story from american media and the other direct payment. you know what i go back to? the question is somewhat related here. but why hire michael cohen? again i don't know michael cohen. i talked to him like once or

twice. but why is michael cohen working at all for donald trump? i mean why is he in a position of any authority? i don't get that. >> he was trump's fix it guy for over it ten years. >> well he didn't do a very good job. to byron's point if there is a pattern here of the trump organization making payments to entities or individuals over the last ten or 20 or 30 years and no one knows that this is a nothing. this is michael cohen trying to plead out to something he has either a history of doing in the past or we know has transpired in the past. we'll find out if that's the case. this is michael trying to save himself because it looks like he's going to go to to jail for north of four years. >> laura: this is in the southern district's filing today, it sums up the kind of guy michael cohen is. we're in washington, there are a lot of sleazy people in dc. this is amazing. cohen committed four distinct federal crimes over a period of several years. he was motivated to do so by personal creed and used his

power and influence to deceptive ends. the crimes were marked by a pattern of deception that permeated his professional life and was evidently hidden from the friends and family members who wrote on his behalf. this is going to be one sided because it's coming from the prosecutor. i'm an old defense attorney so i'm very weary of you prosecu r prosecutor's, but you have to rely on him to make the case against the president. joe digenova you rely on a snake like michael cohen, happens in mob cases, you rely on criminals to give up the goods on john ga d.j. y. >> first of all they're not going to be making a case against the president of the united states no matter what their evidence is because the justice department has ruled that you cannot indict a sitting president. they ruled twice on that once in a democratic administration under bill clinton and once in the nixon administration. but it's very important to realize what the prosecutor said

in those pleadings. they said that michael cohen violated the law, and that he was according to them was instructed by number one, the date to make the payment. they didn't say that the candidate told him to make illegal payments. they were very careful, not to say that the candidate instructed him to violate the law. it's a very, very important part of the pleading. they have not alleged that the president of the united states violated the law. they've alleged that michael cohen did. >> laura: yeah well again i think the president not being charged is different from what the democrats are hoping for, perhaps. it's for the president to be dealt with in the us house of representatives and the us senate. let's watch. >> and they can do that. >> where is this gonna go? it's going to go, it seems to me, with the president being indicted, or at least up to that point. and it's going going to go congress taking on a very serious and very, very

appropriate investigation. and you might call it the opening days of an impeachment. >> i think what this, the totality of today's filings show the house is going to have little choice the way this is going, other than to start impeachment proceedings. >> laura: byron. >> i think a lot of democrats will tell you that as of today they now already have enough to go forward with that. when michael cohen pleaded he said he had made these payoffs at the president's direction but that was just michael cohen saying. that now they're gonna say you have federal prosecutor's saying the president committed two felonies. >> laura: the weight of the justice department. >> there you go. that is going to be enough. and so i think there's gonna be a serious number of democrats, they're still a month away from being sworn n. a serious number of democrats who say the case has already been made. >> michael has no credibility. we're seeing he made $4 million from corporations who wanted access to donald trump and saying michael didn't do anything.

he's a serial liar, we know he led to congress, he pled guilty to that crime. he was lying to prosecutor's and he wanted to save himself. if the democrats think they're going to move on impeachment on the president of the united states on the word of michael cohen they will see the repercussions in the ballot box in 2020. >> michael cohen is the lawyer that trump chose to represent him just as manafort was the campaign chairman he chose. >> laura: two bad choices. >> this is a lot of trump's own making. >> laura: it doesn't mean he committed a crime. making bad joument judgment in whom you've hired, we've all hired a lot of people we regret believe me. >> one of the people we haven't heard about is the national inquirer head. if you believe that mueller is smart enough, this is not his first rodeo, to put in clues and not put in clues, how about the things that aren't in there? how about the fact there's no discussion about the fellow at

the national inquiry. >> laura: what about him until. >> probably because he's working with investigators. other people have been left out or minimized or except redacted or under seal who are probably working and providing a lot of corroboration to the investigation. >> laura: i've got to say i'm not seeing that i hear what you're saying it but i'm not seeing it so far. joe digenova, we can sit here all night and speculate about this. >> the one person who is worrying tonight is tony podesta and the other person is gregory craig because that's where the cooperation has been. they're finally looking at a democrat. it is tony podesta's failure to file as a foreign agent and gregory craig's failure to file as a foreign agent. that's what they're looking at. >> laura: john roberts, joe, has, reported that, that in fact that was part of what was in those redacted portions, referencing those two. >> right. right. >> laura: jonathan turley spoke out earlier today about what the

special counsel now is going to be trying to do anew with michael cohen. let's watch. >> it's clear with cohen that this is not the end, for cohen. they are dang bling out what's called a 5k11 letter which is basically a cooperation letter. they come back repeatedly and say you don't have that letter. so what they're doing is essentially turning this into a canned hunt. they're going to hit him with a sentence. the only way he's out of that cage is if he tells them what they want to hear. that is concerning to me h here is a guy who is obviously cooperating fully, they say he's credible. so what else did they want him to say? >> laura: it david, i have to get on this. this is why people, sorry, really dislike certain prosecutor's. he has given information. he's been interviewed seven times, by special counsel i think at least. and you hear what he said there?

they're trying to get him to say what they want him to say. paul manafort has been sitting in solitary confinement. the most hardened criminals in the united states are not in solitary condition final want. he's only out two hours a day because he hasn't given them what they want him to say about trump t i find this to be appalling, everyone watching the show should realize us prosecutor's do this every day, not the solitary confinement but they turn the screws on individuals, people that don't have as much money as these individuals to fight it. people are petrified, they don't want to spend the rest of their life rotting in jail. it's a tool and tactic and sometimes it's for good. did you nick with the manafort deal i find it repulsive what they've done with him. >> i'm a federal criminal defense attorney right now. one of the great things for your viewers that this trump incident, whatever you want to call it, two years of trump have shown the nation is that our

federal criminal laws are in great need of reform. >> laura: it's a nightmare. >> this idea they're going to squeeze michael cohen, maybe they'll tell him the truth but the fear is maybe they won't. they'll give him another shot after the sentencing of three to four years they'll give him a rule 35, which is the way the federal prosecutor's say he's cooperated with us sins his sentence sebastian gorka, now you should give him a reduction. the witness facing three or four years probably getting a stay of surrender during that. he provides information and how do you judge the credibility of that? it's probably not credible. >> laura: i want to say again, very interesting, where is the russian pollution and. >> the thing to remember about cohen and manafort are special cases because they're the ones who committed big personal crimes in their businesses. they were both basically convicted. >> laura: financial crimes. >> of evading taxes in large sums. that's what they're gonna get the jail time follow. >> laura: get the mob for tax

evasion, wire fraud, 1001 statements et cetera. >> a false statement. we have one guy who has gotten 30 days, another guy whose gotten 14 days. >> laura: and hue ma abedin and cheryl mills have nothing, they've gotten i am the munt. >> andrew mccabe has been lying and hasn't been prosecuted. i'm no fan of paul manafort, let's be clear. he's treated worse than he will chap oh. they've done this to paul because they want to be after the president. bob mueller and james comey go back 25 years together. it's political in nature and we deserve better from the justice department. >> manafort was found guilty of obstructing judgment. >> laura: solitary confinement. >> the fact he was detained if he was trying to tamper with witnesses while he was out on bail. >> let me tell you what's outrageous. >> laura: solitary confine want?

>> that i don't agree with at all. >> i would sank the push for solitary confinement. i find it, i don't have words for it. who gets solitary confinement any more? >> it's been an appalling display of bad supervision by federal judges as well who are permitting this. we shouldn't let them off the hook. let's remember there's no russian collusion that's been proven. what really matters is how this investigation got started. what was the role of brennan and clap pir and comey and sally yates and when we have a new attorney general who i hope will be bill barr a superb nominee, one of the first things he should do is appointment a special counsel, if mr. huber hasn't completed his work to investigate the genesis of all of this, go where no crimes were committed by anybody in the trump campaign involving russian collusion and yet somehow the intelligence community of the united states was used as a

weapon of federal law enforcement. it's one of the most disgraceful performances. anybody cares about freedom ought to care about that in spades. >> laura: we've got to get to comey. he came out and testified on capitol hill behind closed doors. transcript coming out tomorrow. his lawyers were pulling him back. big shock. but i want to get your thoughts on what he said. we have a number of sound bites. go through them in the right order before we get to the attorney general. he spoke about what he perceives to be an ongoing series of attacks from trump on the justice department. i think we have it. let's watch. 9th . >> we're getting it. it should be coming any moment p everyone ready for christmas? it's coming. what do you want in your stocking something joe you get co coal all the way. >> thanks. >> the president attacks on the justice department broadly and the fbi are something that no matter what political party

you're in you should find deeply troubling and continue to speak out about, not become numb to attack the rule of law. >> laura: well the president of the united states is speaking out follow the rule of law as well, david. he's speaking out for the idea that when you file for surveillance on an american citizen you reveal that the research provided was actually ginned up and funded by the individual campaign's political opponent, hillary clinton, that was not given to the fisa court. one of the many abuses james comey & company are responsible for. >> we should not be so ready it attack federal judges, in their independence and unbiasedness that is a great jewel. >>. >> laura: i'm talking about the -- >> you're claiming the fisa judges. >> laura: fisa judges have been unhappy. one has been very unhappy with it. >> they had things to go from. the fisa court i think has done a good job in this. >> laura: if someone was coming at you, david let's talk about,

a lot of people listening aren't lawyers. if someone was coming after you, they wanted to get you and the research was funded by someone that was your mortal enemy, sworn enemy in business or law and that wasn't told to the judge, do you think you would be upset? i think all of us would be upset. it's tainted evidence. it has to be looked at with a grain of salt. >> you've never had a guest who believed more in the exclusionary rule. >> laura: you don't sound like it. >> i'm a criminal defense attorney, if there is tainted evidence it the shouldn't be used. it shouldn't be the fruit of the poisonous true but i don't buy it. >> they leaked classified information, took the reporters stories and used them for verification in the second application. the first fisa application unlike 98% of them was actually denied and the judge stepped off the bench and called the second fisa judge and said am i reading

this correctly? they're looking to spy on an american citizen for political purposes? and the first application was denied. >> laura: i want your comments on this about trump's pick for the next attorney general. it likely raised some eyebrows in trump world today. >> i like and respect bill barr, i know he's an institutional lift who cares deeply about the integrity of the justice department. i'm sure he will use the standard career resources he has to judge what he should and shouldn't be involved in. bill barr is a talented person who was a good attorney general the first time, i liked him very much en this. i think he will serve the justice department well. >> laura: what do you think of the president listening to comey praying barr tonight. trump saying wait a second, get chris christie on the line. i'm just teasing. >> what comey is doing what he usually does, he uses sank at this money as a weapon. in his particular case it's very

unbecoming. let's remember james comey is a disgrace did fired fbi director because he violated the law, he violated the chain of command inside the justice department. i really don't care what james comey thinks about anything. and i sincerely hope that when the new attorney general takes over, one of the first things they do is get a draft indictment of james comey for leaking classified information, leaking information to the new york times, leaving third parties to leak information. i think his performance as both a director and as a former director is a disgrace. let me just tell you from my conversations with people inside that building now, they are embarrassed by comey and everything that he's done sins he was fired. and before he was fired. >> laura: i just want everyone to know i never want to say i'm a great institutional lift. >> one last thing the behavior

of the justice department in this whole investigation, they have slow walked and stonewalled every step of the way. >> laura: i wonder why? you all were fantastic. thank you for being with us on a very busy night. we have to have fun now, right? raymond arroyo is next. you will not believe it!

. >> laura: it's friday it's not just cohen, manafort, blah. it's friday follies. today's topic, kevin heart bowing out of the oscars. a classic disney song nixed at an eye have i league university and again the second installment of the grossest toys of the christmas season. joining us now, all the dee pales raymond arroyo. complet xheeld yen kevin heart was set to host the academy awards, what happened there? >> the academy wanted and abc wanted just what they did in the case of row san bar, row san

bar. what controversy followed they ran for the exits. let's go back to 2010. this is a bit of kevin hart's act of the you see what abc knew they were getting into, watch. >> one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay. if i can prevent my son from being gay, i would. every kid has a gay moment but when it happens you have to nip it in the bud, you have to stop it right there. hey, stop, that's gay. quit. no. >> heart also wrote similar tweets. over the years abc and the academy that had to know this. they fired a director a few years back for making an anti gay slur on twitter. you will remember why they probably hired heart, he's a beloved african american performer in the age of oscar is so white and because of what he said at the mtv music awards, he decided with the nfl neil letters and he told the president, quote, trump suck it.

the academy loved the trump bashing edgy heart until the community started pushing back on social media, calling him homophobe bick b. anti gay and they reached out to heart, watch. >> i got a call from the academy and that call said kevin apologize for your tweets of old or we're going to have to move on and find another host. a tweet in 2009t it was the past. i passed on it. the reason i passed is because i addressed it several times. >> he said i'm not going to apologize. he eventually collapsed and did apologize. abc and the academy awards did not learn the rosanne, barr lesson, when the pc dogma moves in and makes demands on you, stand firm. you can't kole laps and throw your talent overboard or academy. the lane for comedy is going to

go narrow. give them an option. >> wasn't it last night from jerry the seinfeld when he was on? >> we have another clip. watch this, it speaks to -- comedy is dangerous. >> laura: in the clip of kevin heart, he sounds like he's like a self caricature, it's comedy, you don't believe what he's saying, he tries to make a fun moment o i understand how people say that's not -- i get it. the idea that that's the way he feels, of course it's not the way he feels. >> watch this, seinfeld. >> i do this joke about the way people need to have -- just identify their cell phone, i need to have it with me because people are so important. well they don't seem very important the way you scroll them like a gay french king. and they thought what do you mean gay? what are you talking about gay? what are you saying gay? what are you doing?

what do you mean? and i thought, are you kidding me it? >> this is the problem p everybody is so sensitive. we need our foibles lampooned so we can laugh together. >> laura: done rickless, would he be able to perform today. >> rickless wouldn't leave the house. >> laura: gary seinfeld won't go to college campuses, humor is dead. the pc police are striking fear. even the sweet little disney song from little mermaid. [ music playing ] ♪ ♪ [ music playing ] >> you won't see that any more. the tiger tones at princeton sing this, their routine is to bring a girl up, they sing to her and invite another audience member to kiss the girl. they're no longer performing kiss the girl.

they were written up in the princeton paper and she criticized them saying this is a hetero normative attack on women's rights to oppose the romantic and sexual liability taken by men >> laura: is she supposed to write a consent form up on stage? >> that was the heart of her complaint, no consent. can i stop for a moment? this is the romantic and sexual liability taken by a crab. the crab is trying to convince the guy to kiss the girl so she can get her voice back. >> laura: i have a question. they want to ban fun, does that mean george michael's old song we want your section. >> that should be banned completely. >> laura: we have to go through music on mtv and nicks it all off. >> we need to invite the lady's to sing kiss the boy you won't have any problem with consent, i promise you. last time i introduce did you to

the popular toys of the season. they are nasty and gross. i found two other toys. these are real. these will not be on the arroyo kid's christmas list. the first is called doggy to do, the product says if the pop plops when your turn comes you get a part token and the most part tokens win the game. the game maker goliath claims this promotes responsibility. i think it glory identifies crap. i don't need a game like this, you know why? i have the home edition of this, it's called made the pop machine, i don't need the game. do we have time for the other toy? we don't. >> laura: yes we do. >> okay. it's called is not it. not snot, you wear glasses with a sticky strand of snot and pick

up a colored booinger. why would you ever get this game for a child? they play with all manners of ex kreegsz, they don't need an snot it game. >> laura: one of my sons would love it. >> my advice break out the kleenex and play uno. my great grandmother taught us the game black javenlth that's a game you can play right up until you die. >> laura: were you like a rock 'em sock 'em robot? >> i loved that. >> laura: battleship. >> the same idea as the pop game you shove swords and you get getty -- the pc police don't come up with games. >> laura: whoever came up with these games they had to be doing the shrooms we're going to talk about in the next segment. the pot heads coming up.

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pretty good. how's it going with you? say man, you got a joint? >> no, not on me, man. >> it would be a lot cooler if you did [ laughter ]. >> laura: first we were just told that it was gonna just help people coping with serious illnesses, then we were told it was just to relieve pain. then we were told it was for legal adults. and no worse than alcohol. now colorado surprise wants to take it to a whole new level. frustrated by the more moderate plotting legalization. democrats are emboldened. they want to pass a bill to be allowing pot delivery right to your front door. to debate it is representative jonathan singer democrat and a sponsor i have a marijuana delivery program, luke for the

group smart approaches to marijuana. jonathan why make it easier for folks to get their hands on pot? >> well thanks for having me on. in 2012. the voters said marijuana was going to be legal, constitutional and reg grade similar to alcohol. now we see people going up on craig's list delivering marijuana to people's doors and not caring what's on the other side of the door, is it a kid, adult? we don't know. it's time to take it out of the shad does and regulate it like alcohol, are make sure we licensed our drivers, get them tracked by gps and make sure we're not selling to kids. >> laura: legalization has not eliminated criminality in the marijuana trade in colorado. you're aware of that. lots of investigations, prosecution's, marijuana being groen illegally, being shipped out-of-state illegally. we have that mine northerlies inconvenience that it's still a federal crime, is it not? you want to make it legal to facilitate an ongoing federal

crime with the delivery of pot to the doorstep. >> it's more important to stamp out a black market. >> laura: it's not stamped out with marijuana in general >> we're not fully regulating it like we should be. >> i'm from colorado, lived in colorado my whole life. we've seen the black market thrive in the quote unquote legalize did state of colorado. colorado is the number one exporter of black marker marijuana. we have the international cartels buying houses and turning them into grow houses and shipping them out-of-state. there's a major impact in the black market when you legalize it, it doesn't go away. what we're not talking about, the real issue is that today the owner of marlboro and of phillip morris all holding major mega billion dollar tobacco company bought a $1 billion stake in marijuana. >> laura: it's a money issue.

john boehner used to be against legalizing weed, he comes out, i've had a change of chart, i've evolved. how much money are you making on the pot company that you're a consultant on? let's disabuse ourselves of the notion this is all for regulating and we want to make everything safe. this is about big money. if there weren't billions in this, representative singer, we wouldn't be talking about it. it's a little money making operation. i'm a catholic but you have to look at who is funding this and why and maybe ask the question is it good for especially young people who are using this in greater numbers today because of the overall legalization push, trying to younger and having more problems as a result. the young developing brain, it's a disaster to start smoking pot at an early age. >> that's where we're going to agree. this is not for kids unless your's talking to a doctor, this is not something that kids should be having. in terms of the 340i7b, john

boehner supporting this. the billy ran was supported by a listen bra tear ian republican. >> laura: of course, they think that amphetamines should be -- >> if everything happened in a vacuum, great. if smoking a joint didn't affect people on the road, but it does. there have been moms on this show whose daughters died from a marijuana impaired drive. >> laura: how would it work on the delivery? play it out for me. you would go on kind of a, like an uber style website for or your app just for pot? or uber drivers could also themselves just deliver it? i'm not following how it would work. >> first of all, impaired driving is incredibly service. i've been to the funeral of a friend of mine who lost a step daughter to an impaired driver who was impaired with alcohol and marijuana, our laws aren't

strong enough around. that it works just like uber. ubereats, you dial somebody up, you have a licensed gps tracked person who makes sure this isn't getting into the hands of kids. >> all the states that use, youth is up 45% is it and up. laws laid with the best of intentions still had horrific impacts, we're talking about apps, technology, until you innovations that the big toe back co. industry is involved with. >> laura: i want to have you back. spreading christmas cheer in a very unique way, well it's the next last bite, next. we've been helping you prepare and invest for retirement since day one. why would we leave now? ..

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