>> that's true. but i think this is a -- i am digging this now. this is a good look on you. >> thank you. i am telling you, it works. >> better than the liberache meats the urban cowboy look. >> laura, you are the best. >> laura: jimmy, thank you. buy tickets for jimmy's night of comedy. follow me on social media. and a lot of you are asking for photos from the texas a and m game that i was at over the weekend. my daughter goes there. and here it is. this is what we look like. it was before the loss, okay? we were in a good mood at that point. not such a good mood afterwards. jesse watters and the gang take it from here. [ ♪♪ ] >> jesse: welcome to jesse watters primetime.

tonight. >> you do understand that the democrats are no longer in a position to say anything, right? you can talk until the cows come home. nobody wants to hear what you have to say right now. >> jesse: how much more can the democrat party take? >> when trudeau told president-elect trump that new tariffs would kill the canadian economy, trump joked that maybe canada should be the 51st state. >> jesse: trump taking over canada. while the sitting president is lost in africa. >> dam you are hitting me with political questions right now. are you proud of the president? >> get out of my face. >> jesse: the primetime redemption tour. mario lopez is here. >> what does this tell you? [ cheering and applause ]. >> jesse: plus, let's go. >> shey, get the.

[ bleep ] up. >> jesse: biden pardoned his son and went on an african safari. the press found him in angola. >> mr. president, why did you change your mind in pardoning your son? >> jesse: what is biden really doing in africa? we have a special report on that later in the show. whitehouse sources tell tmz that biden decided on the pardon months ago. but was just lying about not pardoning hunter to make himself look good before the election. explains why hunter was walking around malibu this summer like he knew something. >> how are you holding up? >> great, man. >> are you expecting a pardon, is that something that you can answer on. all right, sir. i am a fan, you fought the good fight. >> reporter: they knew that hunter was going to be pardoned

the whole time. that was the plan. if he got in trouble any democrat president would get him out of jail. biden just changed his mind over thanksgiving dinner and suddenly told his staff it was time to end all of this. that's spin from the biden camp. they said he was worried that trump would get revenge. why would he be in a vengful mood? maybe because biden almost got him shot dead and made him rot in jail. now they are saying, look, of course he was a liar. he was going to pardon him the whole time. >> do we believe that they were going to let him go after their son? he is leaving the stage. this is not a donald trump situation where he could come back and run for the president. he is done. joe biden has played by all the rules that people told him we had to play by. he has done at all. so good for joe biden and good

for hunter, i would say. >> jesse: obama democrats are saying he could have done it differently. >> people will understand his act as a father but not as a president. and one of the things that confused me, anderson was just as a tactical manner, wouldn't it have been better to pardon a whole bunch of people that deserved pardons as part of a pardon gesture. just to throw this out here alone and hop on a plane to africa on a sunday night, it was just handled poorly on top of everything else. >> jesse: it was a joe biden clean up job. the democrats knew that the pardon was a clean up job. they are arguing over timing and tactics. they are like, of course he was money laundering, but i don't like the way they lied about it. deep democratic fissures

stilling into the public view. man has a thing for voyeurism, like his son. democrats are complaining behind the scenes that joe looks egotistical and stubborn. he was supposed to be a defender of democracy and now democrats think he sacrificed the party's moral high ground. listen to john stewart. >> finally! democrats have a moral perch from which they can judge without shame, hipocracy or nuance. >> president biden has pardoned hunter biden. >> at every turn, democrats keep getting caught creating a purity test for a system they can't pass themselves. rules, loopholes and norms.

the distance between the democrats are reveering and the ones they use to when they need to, use the loop holes, but use it to help the people. >> jesse: democrats never had the moral high ground. they just talked about having the moral high ground. while they were spying, lying, bribing, you name it, they did it. but stewart is right about this. they were not getting dirty to help the people. they were doing it to help themselves. some democrats are tired of all the pearl clutching. saying what is the point of holding the moral high ground. it is time to stop playing nice. democrats think they have been playing nice this whole time while they arrest us, bribe kids and spy on parents. a faction of the party wants a pardon palooza. they are lobbying him for pardons for jack smith, fanny willis, laticia james, even

dr. fauci. why would he need a pardon if he didn't do anything wrong? well they have done a lot wrong. they know it, and we know it. and they are trying to get away with it. you don't get to abuse power and beg for blanket pardons. they are for those that have served some time and maybe deserve a second chance or are related to the president. other democrats are like, you know, there is a lot of other people not named hunter biden with tax and gun charges. they could use help too. >> he used the power to pardon more sparingly for people who are not his son than you would expect from a democratic president. if you are going to do it, don't just do it for your son. there are a lot of sons and daughters that could use the relief. >> don't stop at hunter biden. pardon the 40 people on death row right now to get them off death row. pardon the 3,000 people who are

in federal jail for trumped up marijuana charges. pardon them so they can get back to their communities and contribute to their economies. >> jesse: how democrats went from biden is not going to pardon his son because no one is above the law to free serial killers, i don't know. but there are reasons that society has consequences. consequences keep people from hurting other people and hurting themselves. listen here to our colleague charles payne. >> my brother is getting out of jail on friday. my brother was among the first 100 crack addicts in america. at least first 100, 200, in the hood when he told us about crack and how great it was. i had not heard about it before. i kind of don't want him to go back to jail. because he would stop by my aunt's house. and he lives away from here. and he didn't have shoes on in the middle of winter.

i give him $100 a week. that's how bad it is in there. no one gets a nickel. i know he is safe and captured. but what is happening with the biden -- and this is the ultimate sign of elitism, of just sort of entitlement gone a muck, that democrats are riled against for so long -- it is a slap in the face to everyone that joe biden gets to do this. >> yeah. >> it really is. >> jesse: hunter's liberal privilege kept him out of trouble his whole life. and he never learned from his mistakes because daddy was always there to save him. while he was saving his son buying crack, millions of poor americans buying crack never got saved. they were put in prison for decades because joe biden was tough on crime. those americans had a lot less crack than hunter was holding. that makes democrats sick to their stomach tonight. biden was never a rule of law

guy. look around. if he didn't like a law, he would break it. he has been smacked down by the courts more than anyone. his family doesn't pay taxes, but you do. and he takes your tax money and spends it on migrants and calls you a bigot for saying that is not fair. see what he is doing here? he is claiming the moral high ground, when he is really trying to import voters. biden says that the laptop was fake and pardoned his son for everything that we found on it. everyone is waking up to the fact that this whole presidency was a lie. you were intending to do this all along which is no problem. but it doesn't make you less full of it. you understand that the democrats are no longer in a position to say anything right? you can talk until the cows come home. you are whistling into the wind. no one wants to hear what you have to say right now. i am talk about your party. because when you pardon your son, going back on your word,

telling the american people there was no way that you were going to pardon him when everyone and their grand momma knew that you were lying, and now you have confirmed what people believed that you lied about the thing that you said that you wouldn't do for your son -- >> jesse: are any democrats proud to say they are a proud biden democrat. does anyone want to be associated with joe biden at this point. it is an open invitation to come on this show. come on this show and tell me you are a biden democrat. why you are proud, give me one example. i don't think that biden is getting a library. no donor is going to give this 82-year-old failed president money for a library. what are they going to get out of it. biden is going to have to store his papers in his garage next to his corvette. this is a problem and an opportunity. it is their chance to break from the big guy.

it is already happening. joe just lost chuck todd. >> you read the biden transcript, and that is beau's widow. >> yes. and he turned her into a crack addict. and this is all happening in 2017, 2018. and joe and jill biden were so concerned about their family they decided to run for president. >> yep. >> i just -- so when you talk about the word selfish, it is almost like the word doesn't -- their decision to run for president put the entire democratic party and the united states of america in the position that it is in now. >> jesse: really, chuck? really? chuck todd is disgusted now, when he doesn't have a show any more. everyone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop he was saying was russian. lying about pardoning hunter was the last straw for chuck todd, he didn't say diedly when biden

made the american people broke. he had enough when biden made a liar out of him. so where does the democratic party go now? clinton has been me tooed, barrack is in hiding. what is next? there is a struggling for the soul of the democratic party. frances buckley says how they can pull the plug from the higher class and reconnect with americans. the party would have to abandon the message that their opponents are bigots are stupid. and they would to wean themselves from the serotonin rush from thinking they are the anointed ones. they would have to give up on the idea that they alone defend democracy.

let's bring in a former democratic adviser and cohost of the morning meaning that we enjoyed greatly during this election season. how are democrats feeling after this pardon that was just decided. >> they are not feeling good, jesse. when you have steven a smith, and john stort going after you, you have a problem. this was the cap stone to what has been two years of political failure on the part of joe biden as the political leader of our party. you know, democrats have believed for the last nine years since trump rose in bed rock principles. no man is above the law and the institutions of this country and the people that work for them are good and honorable. and joe biden just knee capped right out from under us both of those principles. and now, you know, no doubt that donald trump will likely issue pardons to friends and others. he will say, hey, those people were convicted and attacked because of me, because they

support me. and he is probably going to do reforms to the department of justice and the fbi, and democrats are going to scream what are you doing? he is going to say, even joe biden thinks that those institutions are corrupt and the people there are corrupt. and this is all politics. and it puts the democratic party basically in handcuffs as it deals with donald trump. >> jesse: you said this was a cap stone to -- i don't know what you said, a failed presidency but the last few years have been bad. are you a biden democrat? >> i am a proud democrat. i think that the party has a real problem as it heads into the future. it is not seen as authentic or trustful. >> jesse: so that's a no. >> that's a big no. >> jesse: do you know any biden democrats? i invited the entire country if you are a biden democrat, come on the show and defend this guy? >> it is getting harder and harder to find. senators are saying things. the grass roots are upset. it is hard to find anybody

because they feel like going back to last year when everyone saw joe biden declining his mental acutety, and they were told all is well. and then we have the debate -- >> jesse: let me interrupt you because no one watching on tv thought that. you didn't need to hear from biden insiders all was well. you could see that he was not well. why did the democratic party carry that lie ahead? >> look, i mean some of us were saying over a year ago that it was an issue that the party needed to bring to the forefront and debate. and they were so -- their trump dearrangement system, they were so desperate to defeat him, that the biden people said, we did it once. we did better than anyone thought. we can talk about why that was. but they said look, we can do this. we are the only ones hack do this. and the party was so afraid of having a debate and actually you know putting ideas forth that they rallied around him.

even though the voters saw he was declining. >> jesse: you made a great point. when you have lost john stewart, and steven a smith as a democrat, you have a problem. >> you have a problem. >> jesse: talk to any biden democrats, they have an open invitation. >> thank you. >> jesse: thank you very much dan. is trump serious about taking over canada. and mario lopez, ahead on primetime.

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>> jesse: there is one thing that biden is consistent about. no matter where he is or what he is doing, he looks lost. here is the president in africa. [ ♪♪ ]

>> biden might look confused, but he is getting very comfortable. he might not come back. >> they are like core relatives. we should stay longer than we should. >> jesse: here is the reason that biden is in africa. he is building rail lines that connect minus to little african kids can dig up the minerals we need for the green new deal. to have subsidized electric cars that no one wants. yeah, that's why he is there. he ruined his legacy in america. so he is trying to make one in

africa. an african trip probably matters more to biden who is searching to establish a legacy in africa than africa who is preparing for his successor. but they are done with biden and they are ready for trump. and trump is acting like president and getting results. >> those who are here committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people have been a harm to our country, i want to sit down and hear the plan on how we are going to address them. i would love to sit down with the border czar and hear his thoughts on how we are going to address those who are harming our citizens. in the era of cancel culture, no one is afraid to be honest about the truth. well cancel me. because i am going to protect the people of this city. >> jesse: venezuela's president who trump was tough on in his

first term wants a "new start", he says. looking to create a win-win situation with america if trump let's in venezuelan oil, they are going to take the migrants back. russia's currency is tanking. putin might need a cease fire more than you know. and over in asia, trump says he is not going to let japan buy american steel companies. u.s. steel will always be american made. trudeau made a pilgramige to the united states after the tariffs. he said that he could be governor instead of prime minister. justin trudeau laughed nervously. but trump just posted this.

>> o canada! yes, it is an ai generated image if you were confused. canada, a 51st, and 52nd state would be double the size of the united states. gobbal up the oil, timber and tech and bring home every metal at the winter olympics. while trump is at it, he should buy greenland too. don't make it a state. we don't need more stars. make it northern puerto rico. he attended a memorial service to pay respects to three fallen florida officers. and this weekend he is going to be visiting paris for the first mass at notre dam since is burned down. they are sending jill biden, the sitting president. she sits with her legs crossed. one of the biggest moves that trump has made since you elected him happened last night. he issued a warning to the whole middle east where american hostages are held by hamas.

"everyone is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently inhumanly in the middle east, but it is all talk and no action." if the hostages are not released prior to january 20, 2025, the date that i proudly assume office as president of the united states, there will be all hell to pay in the middle east. and for those in charge, who perpetuated these atrocities against humanity, those responsible would be hit harder than anyone has been hit in a long and storied history. release the hostages now. why biden has not said the same thing, no clue. mike pence says, finally someone threatening hamas instead of israel. the reason trump is moving at a

rapid clip is because he has a lot of big ideas and only about two years to get them done. after that democrats could take back the house and block his moves, probably impeach him for the third time. doesn't matter what is for. there is not a second to spare, a former councillor to president trump and a fox news contributor. it is almost like you are covering a first term. >> yes. >> jesse: just in this president-elect term. what is going on. >> it has only been four weeks since he was located but president trump has sprung into action and shares the urgency that americans feel about security, affordability, these foreign entanglements and he has great joy on the job. it would have been enough for donald trump to say i am a twice elected president, the most resilient person in american political history, but he is using this transition time to take action on things that americans gave him a mandate to do. >> jesse: have other presidents done this? >> no.

no including him in 2016. i want to make clear because i was his spokesperson at the time. we made clear there is only one president at the time. obama is the president now. we have not had a president in four years. we need him back. we want to pretend that the biden harris administration never happened. biden has not said a word about the border, he has been on vacation for half the presidency. i think the other thing people should be excited about is information. if you want to know what biden is doing, you would have the press secretary lie to you. he is on the peloton or doing pilates. trump says, open up your phone. he is going to continue to communicate with us. >> jesse: it is like a direct injection. >> everyone sees it at the same time. >> jesse: he wants canada to be part of the united states. do you think that's strategy on tariff talk or is that a real concept? >> when i say i love it, i don't

mean making them the 51st state. they would be a revenue raiser and the other thing that trump has introduced into the tariff conversation is to use it as a tool in and of itself and also to negotiate and compel and incentivize behaviour. he talked about criminals and drugs not goods and services. we have had an absent president and vice president. people are excited to have one. and the other thing is, we had to wait for people at a george cloony fundraiser to tell us that joe biden is not all there s when you want to know what president trump thinks, he is going to notre dam, he is going to talk about u.s. steel. we have a 5,000 mile border with canada. so people have been focussed on the southern border. you are going to hear about the

northern border. >> jesse: making trudeau governor is something that we could strive for. go birds, baby. >> go birds, headed to the super bowl, jesse. >> jesse: suspicious activity in the new jersey golf club. the fbi is investigating. be right back. for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life.

[ ♪♪ ] >> jesse: something strange is happening in new jersey. a athlete of unidentified drones are flooding the skies. even trump's golf club. people are seeing up to five at a time. >> i can see three drones just in this view. there is another one over here and another one back here. that's five. >> jesse: the drones are flying in formation. but we don't know who is piloting them. and now the fbi is getting

involved. the new york bureau is asking the public to report back any information citing multiple drones and fixed wing aircraft. they are hovering over sensitive areas. some were flying over a reservoir. one local drone expert says you don't fly drones over critical infrastructure like that. it raises concerns over every citizen. people who man aircraft in the sky. and they are not operating some tiny toy from radio shack. one local says, all somebody needs to see is the size. you are not buying them off amazon or a hobby store. asked if he believes they are military grade, absolutely. so why this part of new jersey? maybe it is because there is a military base operating there. and if you go 20 minutes, electrical to bedminister. remember, thomas cooks threw a

drone over butler. they are grounding drones over the military base or golf club until after christmas. but this is not the first time we have heard of something like this. a recent report detailed mysterious drones swarming a virginia air base last december. why? nobody knows. we are demanding answers about what is going on up here. the feds don't have a great track history with unknown flying objects. ask the chinese and their spy balloons. if you are watching at home, please sit down. i am going to give you news that is going to show you. according to a new congressional report, the coronavirus most likely leaked from the wuhan lab, and social distancing was based on zero science, and masking. take a moment. let that settle in. it is only something that we have been saying for three years. why did it take that long for congress to figure it out?

that's why americans want to shake up our country's health institutions. we can't trust them to be honest. not only did the nih lie to us, it doesn't respect our money. under the biden administration, the nih spent a billion dollars studying racism, studying racism, a billion dollars. this country doesn't trust the science because scientists ended up being a bunch of woke liars. so we are ready for real change. i don't think that fauci can put this off. [ ♪♪ ] >> okay, robert. okay! >> jesse: he doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. and he wants to take the rest of the country for a walk with him. he is putting together a growing coalition of supporters including the former health commissioner and the obama cdc

director who put in this wall street journal report that they hope he succeeds in his quest to make america healthy again. it is hard to eat healthy here. it takes time and money to make a healthy lifestyle and not everyone has the ability to do that. we need a system that rewards both farmers and shoppers for growing and eating healthy options. they suggest we use the food stamp program to incentivize healthy purchases. that means no more soda vouchers. crack down on ultraprocessed foods in the school lunch program. we don't want sodium in the products, and slap big warning labels on high calorie products like they do in other countries so you know what you are getting yourself into. it is going to be a tough task. the food and pharma lobbyists

are going to the be aal. and so is gillian michaels. how are you doing, jillian? >> i am doing great, jesse, how are you. >> jesse: i am doing pretty great. feeling insecure seeing rfk pulling up like that. for his age, that is pretty impressive. >> i have faith new. >> jesse: i can do 14 overhand pull-ups, and then my arms fall off. >> i am impressed. >> jesse: thank you. i wanted an excuse to brag. what could leading by example do to inspire the country? >> it begets trust. you practice what you preach. you don't just talk the talk, you walk the walk. otherwise it is just noise and everyone knows that. >> jesse: do you want to slap labels on food -- i mean is this big brother are we getting out

of line here? >> here is the thing. it is not that we should be slapping labels on food, is that big food essentially funds the research to tell you that processed grains and high fructose corn sirup is better for you than meat, and they demonize eggs. so if we look at the surgeon general in the 70's, when they told you smoking kills, it was pretty effective. we should do that with bad for you food and stop allowing the toxic trad of big food, and big ag, all those guys, big pharma to utilize the system against people. and rig the narrative. >> jesse: we are not shaming people. we don't want to get into this conversation. because a lot of people want to know how you work out and what you eat. >> we are not shaming people at

all. we are simple providing transparency for them. and it is not a nanny state. no one is taking away your french fries. the idea is to make the french fries better for you so they are fried in something like beef tallow instead of fake fats and seed oils. for me, i don't eat that stuff. and i have the luxury of not doing so. but most americans don't. and that's why they need systemic help and that's something that i believe in my heart that rfk is planning to deliver. he will get these poisons and this garbage out of the food and he will root out corruption in our government agencies. >> jesse: i believe it in my heart too. because he believes it in his heart and you can tell how much he believes it. and if he ever comes for the fries, trump will probably be impeached. that's the third time but who is

counting. ji jillian, good to see you. what is mario lopez's problem with primetime? we are about to find out. [ ♪♪ ]

>> former president trump escorted by dana white, and they rise inside t-mobile arena to pay their respects to the former leader of these united states of america. donald trump is a massive ufc fan. he has wan watching fight nights at home. >> jesse: when donald trump entered the t-mobile arena last year, the crowd went wild. but behind trump there was a familiar face. access hollywood's mario lopez. so we sent a reporter over to interrogate mario lopez. >> johnny from fox. you are walking in ufc with trump. >> no i was walking with dana

trump. i didn't realize i was part of the whole thing. i am buddies with dana white. that is my guy. >> reporter: how is the country doing? >> dam, you are hitting me with political questions right now. are you proud of the president? >> get out of my face. >> jesse: thankfully johnny didn't xreetly burn our relationship with mario. -- completely burn our relationship with mario. he is here to return to be the prince of christmas. star of the new film once upon a christmas wish, mario lopez is here. how are you doing? >> i didn't know that was your guy right there. i was on the red carpet having a good time. >> jesse: he was hitting you with hard questions on the carpet. >> i don't want to alienate anyone. >> jesse: that's very smart. you could have hit him. that's fine with me. >> i try not to be violent. >> jesse: i say that to anybody. just hit johnny. when you are doing these red carpets, you have been doing this for a long time.

do you know the people that you interrogate? >> i pretty much try to have a good time and a conversation. and they end up divulging more stuff than they want to. i don't try to get a sound bite i am a fan of entertainment, tvs, movies, and music. >> jesse: you listen. >> i listen. >> jesse: and just go like this. >> and they end up talking and i am there to celebrate them. it is the golden globes, so nobody had lost yet. >> jesse: he is always at the golden globes. black tie, black shirt. >> i mixed it up. i keep it pretty -- i either go bow tie or neck tie. >> jesse: i didn't think you knew how to tie one. but i am very proud. you are wearing something different in a couple of days. you are lighting the christmas tree here? >> this is a bit of a tradition. probably about a decade to light the tree at rocka fella centre. i have been doing it almost -- about 10 years and i shoot my

show access hollywood out here. >> jesse: do they give you a switch? >> they do a countdown and your mayor comes out and does the flip. and it is a whole thing. but i am a southern california boy. >> jesse: you are freezing. >> i am kenny from south park. just bundled up. >> jesse: ear muffs tomorrow? >> i am the most bundled, the only one coming from la. >> jesse: any time christmas season rolls around, i turn on tv and there is lopez. >> new york post had a funny headline last year. the king of christmas, but i will take it. i am there. with kids, i know you have family. i am in that wheelhouse, and i am proud of the way that the movie turned out. >> jesse: tell us about the movie. >> once upon a christmas wish, thank you jesse it is debuting on great american family, and it is my first with this company, and i thought what better reason to celebrate and have my family

in the film. my wife is with me. we met on broadway in new york. there she is right there. one of my sons, dominic is in it. he does a great job. steals the film. and i play the mayor of this small town in long grove illinois which i hear that your executive producer is from long grove. >> jesse: i didn't even know that. i don't know enough about my staff. >> they embraced us. i found a christmas list that i wrote in the fourth grade. and i come upon it and the stuff starts coming true. and the magic happens. >> jesse: the whole family gets paid. >> there is singing and dancing. >> jesse: like the bidens. >> not quite. great american family, i am proud of the way it turned out. >> jesse: do you like working with your wife? >> i have a radio show that i do with on with mar wro for i heart and she is my cohost. every day, i don't know how healthy it would be for the

relationship. but it is fun. >> jesse: she is like a host over at gma. a lot of days off. >> she will come and sit in for access daily, the daytime show i do as well. and so we get along great. so far so good. >> jesse: everyone check out the christmas movie. he is lighting the tree here. going to put a santa hat and come down the chimney in a few days. mario lopez, you have permission to smack johnny across the face next time. >> johnny, i am coming for you. >> jesse: more primetime, straight ahead.

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you keep saying mario wrong. it's pronounced mario. mario. whatever. cliff from marion north carolina, i think all the biden democrats left the country. you mean like the one that lives in a castle in england? tim from birmingham, alabama,, now that hunter has a clean record the democrats should run him in 2028. can from williamsport, pennsylvania,, if we take over canada i called dibs on the circular bacon. canadian bacon, that's right. pat from trail city south dakota, you can decorate for christmas before thanksgiving. i'm already drinking for st. patrick's day. that's the right idea. i'm waters and this is my world.