. >> fred: thank you. >> seth: thank you so much, fred. >> fred: thank you. >> seth: give it up for fredcheers and applause ] our first guest tonight is an emmy-winning journalist who hosts "anderson cooper 360" weeknights on cnn. he is the co-author of the "new york times" best-seller, "the rainbow comes and goes: a mother and son on life, love, and loss," which is out now on paperback. please welcome back to the show our friend anderson cooper, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: welcome back! >> thanks, good to be here. >> seth: so this is so much fun. last time we were here, you were talking about how interesting it was writing a book with your mother. >> yes. >> seth: you wrote it over e-mail a lot. >> yes, i did. >> seth: you did? >> my mom and i don't actually like see each other, so. [ light laughter ] no. it was just easier that way. >> seth: but now you are doing press together. >> we did press when the book first came out. my mom turns 93, actually, at the end of february, so -- >> seth: it's amazing. >> yeah, it is. [ cheers and applause ] and, and it's weird, thoug

>> fred: yes. [ laughter ] yes.mbers, and i think that's going to change for next year. >> seth: okay, great. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: well i can't wait for next year's nailies. thank you so much for being here. fred armisen everybody. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest tonight is an actor and comedian you know for his work on "saturday night live" and in films such as "horrible bosses" and "we're the millers." he stars in the sitcom "son of zorn," which airs sunday nights on fox. he can also be seen in the upcoming film "the book of love," which hits theaters and video on demand this friday. please welcome back to the show our very good friend jason sudeikis, everybody. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: hi buddy! >> hello! >> seth: so good to have you back! >> hi guys! [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: so they're very excited. they're very excited to see you and they -- i'm excited to see you because you -- >> very liberal use of the applause button, by the way. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah, we went -- it's bee

hi, fred. >> fred: hi, how's it going? >> been good, how are you? seth: now, you grew up in new york. >> i did. >> seth: we were talking backstage. >> yes. >> seth: and you were saying how much new york has changed. >> it has changed a lot. i mean, it's always changing. i think that's the -- both the you know, the quality and tragedy of the city. because you know you have like your favorite whatever shoe lace store, and suddenly it's a starbucks. i feel like that you know -- it's definitely -- >> seth: it's very hard to keep a shoe lace store open these days. [ laughter ] with the rents in new york, it turned out that one of the first things to go were the shoe laceries. [ laughter ] but here's my question, because you have a two and a half year old. >> i do, yes. >> seth: so she's going to obviously grow up and spend time in new york. >> yeah. >> seth: and are you worried that you're going to turn into one of those people that's like, "new york's changed, it wasn't like this before." >> i already am one of those people. >> yes, i am. i'm like a bit

how are you, fred? >> fred: great. [ cheers and applause ] thank you.ng up with you. i always like to talk about the many interesting things in your life and things that maybe the audience doesn't know about you. one thing is you were saying backstage that you love april fool's day, it's coming up. >> fred: love it. >> seth: but you have -- you have a very unique april fool's tradition. >> fred: i do. i paint my neck black. [ light laughter ] >> seth: why? >> fred: because that's how i fool people. i walk around, so they think that my head is separated from my body. [ laughter ] so i just go on trains and stuff with my neck totally black. no one really says anything. but i can tell that they're very, like, "oh, something has happened." [ laughter ] because i kind of move my head a little bit. >> seth: oh, do you do that? >> fred: yeah, so it kind of looks like -- [ light laughter ] it's silly but my dad did it and his dad did it so i wanted to. [ light laughter ] >> seth: yeah, i guess -- wow. i'm trying to think -- wouldn't it be easier just to wear li

>> fred: yeah, i -- [ applause ] >> seth: give it up for fred armisen, everybody. a very funny comedian you know from his time on "the late late show." he hosts "the craig ferguson show", which aires week days on sirius xm's comedy great channel. please welcome back to the show our friend craig ferguson, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> oh, this is so -- this is so nice to be here. >> seth: it's great having you back.e >> it's really nice to be here and see how "late night" progressed. and it's all coming along great. can i just say, fred, it's so good to see you. >> fred: hi. [ light laughter ] >> i don't know if i entirely agree with your analysis on march madness, but that's not what i'm worried about. i'm worried about the size of your microphone. you see the size of that? it seems a little stubby. [ laughter ] you see it? i think they're short changing you. microphones used to be longer. that's like a little amputee microphone. [ laughter ] >> fred: yeah. yes, thank you! >> yeah! [ laughter ] that's fred armisen. that's not just anybody. do you know wha

fred: great to see you. >> seth: and one of my favorite things about having fred here is we catch upp to. fred is such a busy person, which is why i'm so impressed with this. despite working on this show, despite working on "portlandia" -- you have so many things going on. yet you watch so much television. >> fred: everything. [ light laughter ] >> seth: and i sometimes worry though that you're just saying that to impress people. >> fred: not at all. i watch everything, i love it. >> seth: so i heard you saying backstage that you watched every second of march madness this weekend. >> fred: i sure did. [ laughter ] every second. >> seth: and that surprised me, because i know you not to be a sports fan. >> fred: but march madness i just love. >> seth: so what were some of your take a ways this weekend? >> fred: i think st. louis is doing great. they're really like like -- [ laughter ] they're -- i think, you know, as far as defense goes, i like their strategy, as far as, you know, just kind of laying back a little bit. and i think the first quarter, they really sort of like -- they wer

how are you doing, fred? [ cheers ] >> fred: great.. >> seth: always such a pleasure to have you. >> fred: thank you. >> seth: and one of the things i love about having you here, fred, is we get to talk about stuff -- stuff that's going on in your life. i will say i do have this thing in the back of my head that's telling me that you sometimes say things just to impress us. things that are not true. >> fred: that's not true. [ laughter ] >> seth: everything you say is a true thing? >> fred: absolutely. >> seth: okay, well, you know today, basically brexit was put into effect. i heard you backstage saying that frexit was starting. >> fred: that's exactly right. >> seth: what is frexit? >> fred: well, i'm going to no longer have long island be the rest of the united states. [ light laughter ] so i'm pulling long island back and there's a way to do it, physically, where i'm -- >> seth: 'cause, you're from long island. >> fred: i'm from long island. so instead of pulling the entire island back, i'm going to strip away the whole west side o

fred knew the laws, but he just thought they were ridiculous. fred was quite reckless.nk he had a sense of a danger. one day he leaned over and tried to kiss me. i was frightened. because i was frightened somebody would see us. >> there is people here. >> it's fine. >> then i heard something else that made me realize how risky it was to be gay. i had seen these men, and i said to tom, who are they? and he told me that that was the mutaween, religious police. and he said they enforce all the religious laws in saudi arabia. they patrol the streets. he said they are dangerous. and he told me about a young filipino guy who had been walking along the street, and the mutaween had stopped him. they assumed he was a homosexual, so raped him. >> took him and raped him. can you believe that? >> then he offered me some advice about living the whole gay lifestyle in saudi arabia, the do's and the don'ts. he said, you know, if you have got anything on your phone, make sure you delete it in case the religious police stop you and they ask to see your phone. the golden rule is not to d

fred: i think you do.ou: you told me throughout what a splendid fellow paul ryan was and i'm still waiting for you to tell me what the hell he ever succeeded at. fred: he was a good chairman of the house ways and means committee and he's the architect of the bill that will come out. lou: fred barnes, steve forbes. appreciate it. please roll the video. these snowboarders trading fresh powder for molten rock. this -- look at that. okay. we show you a lot of crazy, silly death defying mad stunts. this is in the top five. dust storms kicking up from the ash. all of it comes with a small price. the skis were destroyed. the skiers somehow were not. that's what we call a happy ending. president trump ready to move on to tax reform after speaker ryan lou: joining me to discuss the *'s agenda and the political rap if i kaigs of obamacare. byron york. byron: thank you, lou. lou: the president was gracious beyond measure saying speaker ryan should stick around. this should not be a mark on his resume. but he is witho

fred fleitz, great to have you, fred.is is a very quick, unexpected move, to move under the 11th marine expeditionary force into syria at least for a battery of howitzers to be the assault on raqqa. fred: the world knew obama did not have a serious policy. his policy was to do as little as possible and kick the problem to the next president. isis can't be defeated on from the air. we know that from history. we are going to need ground troops. but they cannot be just american. it's important if ground troops go in, we need nato troops. it's sort of a coalition. lou: it may need to be a far more robust -- fred: we need substantial country tbriewtions nato. and they have an incentive to do this. the refugees are going primarily to europe, they have to solve this crisis. lou: we listened to nonsense spewed from washington, d.c. about how they are defeated for a good part of past 8 years. it's come to naught. we know many of the generals have not had the acumen, talent and vision to carry out a successful plan or there would b

>> fred: and to what end? the island. [ laughter ] to the -- he >> seth: that's not what i meany mean? it's the end -- >> seth: but why are you doing this?land [ laughter ] >> seth: okay. t. to montauk. >> seth: all right, thank you so much. much thank you. [ applause ] >> seth: our first g academy award-winning actor who's starred in iconic films like "the shawshank redemption" an starting april 7th you can see him in the new movie "going in style." >> willie, how's it goin'? >> where the hell did you get that thing?mp in the basket. >> who the hell do you think i am, e.t.? basket! >> i'm not getting in no bloody basket! ♪ >> she's gaining on us. >> flour, flour. give me the flour.♪ >> seth: please, welcome back to everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: how are you? >> i'm good.that on the set of this film you spent thti the getaway car. >> yeah, i -- maybe, day and a half.>> yeah. [ light laughter ] >> seth: it -- was it comfortable? >> they spent a lot of time and effort making it as comfortable as p

i don't want fred having fun. >> steve: okay. but he can have some fun. >> jimmy: fred is at work.er nutter for sounding like an over-dubbed curse word in a tbs movie starring samuel l. jackson. "say what again, i dare you, i double-dare you, fluffer nutter!" ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, "la la land" for inspiring us all with your heartbreaking but beautiful story. i'm sorry. [ laughter ] ♪ thank you, "moonlight" for inspiring us all with your heartbreaking but beautiful story. [ cheers and applause ] there you have it. those are our thank you notes. we'll be right back with samuel l. jackson. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ do you always put cheez-it grooves in your sandwich? of course! they're chips. chips...plus sandwich: equals the perfect lunch. ooooh...don't forget the pickle. it's kind of a big dill. cheez-it grooves. chips made with 100% real cheese. [crunch!] dang right it's a chip. to help provide access to cleanh water to womeng and their families in the developing world. we can be the generation remembered for ending the global water crisis once and for all. ♪

fred, you gotta be on that, man. name that perfectly describes your appearance, while also giving zero clues as to what you're actually made of. [ laughter and applause ] red velvet cake. >> steve: it's human blood. ♪ >> jimmy: that's it, fred. that's it. perfect. ♪ that was perfect, fred. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you magnets, for being so damn attractive. [ laughter and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i feel like we do it to every joke now. [ light laughter ] have fun. you're allowed to, yeah. please, we need it, we need it. ♪ >> jimmy: no, fred, i don't need that! [ laughter ] >> steve: you said have fun. >> jimmy: i know, i know, i know. i don't want fred having fun. >> steve: okay. but he can have some fun. >> jimmy: fred is at work. the audience can have fun. >> steve: audience can have fun. you got to be clearer, dude. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, fluffer nutter for sounding like an over-dubbed curse word in a tbs movie starring samuel l. jackson. "say what again, i dare you, i double-dare you, fluffer nutter!" ♪ >> jimmy: thank you

fred: i think you do.iting for you to tell me what the hell he ever succeeded at. fred: he was a good chairman of the house ways and means committee and he's the architect of the bill that will come out. lou: fred barnes, steve forbes. appreciate it. please roll the video. these snowboarders trading fresh powder for molten rock. this -- look at that. okay. we show you a lot of crazy, silly death defying mad stunts. this is in the top five. dust storms kicking up from the ash. all of it comes with a small price. the skis were destroyed. the skiers somehow were not. that's what we call a happy ending. president trump ready to move on announcer: your daughter is having trouble learning french. do you: "a," hire a tutor... bonjour! announcer: "b," enforce a "french only" rule at home... j... announcer: or "c," watch some foreign films. [man and girl snoring] when it comes to parenting, there are no perfect answers. but that's ok, because you don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. teens in foster care

fred?us any more reporting when you get is. thank you so much. >>> the man accused of jumping a fence and getting close to the south entrance of the white house while president trump was inside will face a federal judge tomorrow. the secret service says 26-year-old jonathan tran of california had two cans of mace and a letter for the president in his backpack. cnn's ryan nobles has more from washington. >> yeah, fred, the suspect in this case, 26-year-old jonathan t. tran, is currently in custody awaiting a monday arraignment hearing in federal court. he's facing a serious charge after being caught near the south portico entrance of the white house just 200 feet from president trump's bedroom window with a backpack. if convicted he faces ten years in federal prison. his brother says before the incident tran was in a low place having just been laid off from a job at an electrical engineering firm and was living out of his car. his attempt to get into the white house, while ultimately unsucce

it's an honor to be with fred. what i'd like to do is maybe booring a little bit into the weeds for lack of a better word. discussions of the administration, i don't know how those will end up, but what i'd like to do is focus on the issues of today. the deal is in place, meetings are happening, decisions need to be made and the united states needs to be actively involved in those discussions and i'd like to talk a little bit at the end on some of the what i would call the long-term deficiencies in this deal. fred alluded to some of them. the duration is probably the most concerning. it's limitations are sun setting of conditions on the nuclear deal. and to any ballistic missile sanctions by u.n. and then that happens at eight years and at five year, there's an end on conventional arms embargoes to iran, so one of the concerns is that iran would emerge in later years after tarting after ten years, particularly after year 15, it could end up with very robust nuclear weapons capable tility, where it could produce the

thank you so much, buck and fred, good to have you guys here. let's get to another one here, democrats pouncing on the allegations of the wiretappiing what if president is right? what if fred and buck are right and he was wiretapped by the obama administration? what does that mean? it's not good. on any level. we've got it next. hey gary, what are you doing? oh hey john, i'm connecting our brains so we can share our amazing trading knowledge. that's a great idea, but why don't you just go to thinkorswim's chat rooms where you can share strategies, ideas, even actual trades with market professionals and thousands of other traders? i know. your brain told my brain before you told my face. mmm, blueberry? tap into the knowledge of other traders on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. trish: jumping in on president trump's claim that the obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 election, they say the whole thing is made up. indeed, top democrat chuck schumer is actually accusing the president of spreading rumors and false information. h

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fred served in the u.s. national security positions for 25 years at the cia, dia, department of state and the house intelligence committee staff. during the administration of president george w. bush, he was chief of staff to john bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control security. he was the staff expert on the iranian and north korean nuclear programs and briefed key national intelligence estimates on these issues to committee members. after he left government in 2011, he founded and served as director of the langley intelligence group network, the news and forecasting services. he has published numerous articles in the various journals and newspapers and published the book "obama bomb, a dangerous and growing national security fraud". let me turn it over to fred. >> thanks, jim. it's a pleasure to be back to discuss this urgent national security issue and it's very humbling to be on a panel of some of america's leading experts on this issue. i mean, jim, you've written extensively on this issue

fred, you've got to brace yourself.n at the lat levels this one will be enforceable. these district court judges issuing these tros right now, what they're doing is going outside the forecorners of the executive order. and the issue in the appellate level and up to the supreme court is do these district court judges have the authority to look outside the document itself to try to impute the discriminatory intent that they need that. >> that's right. >> that will prohibit a president from issuing this type of executive order. i don't know if they can do that, fred. in fact, i don't think they can. >> avery? >> look at the case law that says that they absolutely can. you can't look at historical policy without looking at all the evidence. every federal court and federal appeals court to date has said look at what he said. in fact, they quote donald trump in an interview with anderson cooper where cooper says look at, is this a battle between the west anise lam? not radical islam. he says i can't sort it out. you've got to

and that is dwindling very quickly, fred. >> all right. and we heard president trump saying tax reform, perhaps that's next, somewhere within that 200-day window. we will see. all right, suzanne malveaux, thank you so much, appreciate that. >>> so the bill's failure came 24 hours after the president's ultimatum to house republicans to move forward with the vote. but now the president is blaming democrats, as you saw with suzanne, for being shortsighted. >> we didn't quite get there with just a very small number of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were viewing phase i. but when you add phase ii, which was mostly the work of secretary price who was behind them, and you add phase iii, which i think we would have gotten, it became a great bill. premiums would have gone down. it would have been very stable. it would have been is he strong. but that's okay. but we're very, very close. and again, i think what will happen is obamacare, unfortunately, will explode. it'

god bless the honorable fred mr. son and i thank you, chairman, for this opportunity to be able to have this building now be a legacy to his great service and being a great attorney and lawyer for this country. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: mr. barr leta reserves. mr. johnson. mr. johnson: thank you. withhappened 34, years ago that question that everyone keeps asking, what did the president know and when did he know it. the words of yogey beara, it's deja vu all over again and people are asking that question and it rings more loudly today than it did back then in 1973, 1974. what did the president know and when did he know it about a lot of issues. the issue of the affordable care act and whether or not you are going to repeal it and replace it with something better or are you going to repeal and replace it with something worse. what did the president know and when did he know it? because it's clear now to everybody who has had the opportunity to look at this offering that the republicans have put forward, you

fred: i agree with all of that.n leaders, and i have never seen one like this for a couple reasons. president trump was not looking for a new friend. he didn't want a pal or a chum. this was a foreign leader he wanted to do serious business with. you notice at the news conference there is happy talk about what a great leader the next person is. there was none of that. there was no happy talk. the president was pushing his agenda. his trade agenda, this military buildup agenda, and it was a huge difference from what we have seen in the past. lou: merkel had a look on her face i think told the complete story. she was on her heels. she did not understand certainly that the president would be quite as aggressive as he was, and he certainly was, and i have to say the american people are getting used to this president. it's fun to watch. fred: my favorite moment in the news conference when the president looking at merkel said, you know, there were negotiations before on trade with germ negotiators and american negotiators

fred: a couple years ago they had a video of a nuclear strike on washington. north korea's re ijams a criminal regime that's all about extortion. it's doing when lidge rant things until it gets its payoff. this was a cycle of 20 years that started with the clinton administration. we need a decisive president who can put together -- lou: china is directing north korea, they subsidize and support them. this is looking very, very bad at this point as the president said in his tweet, and kim jong-un is obviously irrational. so where does that leave us? there are no platitudes and no phraseology that will change kim jong-un's mind. fred: the policy of the united states in the east in was leading from behind. we weren't leading at all in asia under president trump. i think we can have an improved a90's against north korea but it will still be tough. lou: more disturbing news out of chicago. police are searching for as many as six men who are suspected of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and it was streamed live on facebook. more than 40 people were watching th

>> hi, fred, that's right. after that series of tweets yesterday morning where the president made unsubstantiated allegations against president obama, allegations that have been denied by the former president and others the white house was asked repeatedly by me and my colleagues to provide some evidence to back up the president's claims. instead of providing evidence or proofer, we got this statement this morning from white house press secretary sean spicer. i'll read part of it. he says "president donald j. trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into russian activity the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016." fred, that statement goes on to say that neither the white house nor the president is going to comment further until the oversight is conducted. it's convenient. you have the president delivering these unsubstantiated allegations, not offering any proof, the white house bein

fred ryan. fred has served as a reagan foundation chairman for 22 years. prior to his chairmanship, he served in the reagan white house from 1982 - 1989. after that he served as president reagan's first post white house chief of staff. i know of no other person who has spent more time and effort working on behalf ronald and nancy reagan over the years than fred ryan. fred would never brag about that fact, but it but it is a fact. so i will break for him. ladies and gentlemen, if you would please time in welcoming to the stage, mr. fred ryan. [applause] >> thank you for the kind introduction. our special guest tonight has been to the reagan presidential library several times. the first as an owner of a major league baseball team. then, as governor of texas. he was back as a candidate for president of the united states. back as as president of the united states to dedicate air force one at the library. been here is a former president of the united states and is the author of a popular book, precision points. tonight he is back as an accomplished painter. we

let's get to fred for the very latest. fred you yourself were caught up in these protests, huh? >> reporter: yeah, absolute lichly. we walked along with the crowds in central moscow and could see how many people were being arrested in that demonstration. it seemed as though the police had what i would call was a no tolerance or zero tolerance policy. anybody who chanted against the government or a sign got arrested. we got pushed around while we were trying to do some reporting from the scene and that was really one of the things we did see a lot of. turnout was a lot bigger, but a lot of folks hauled into the vans and detained, many not released yesterday. >> speaking out against vladimir putin has become a deadly thing. what's the latest on alexey navalny who led the protests? >> he was taken into detention before he could make any speech. the latest is that he is still in detention and in court and tweeting from court, also trying to start a live stream, of course he wants to get released today but it's unclear whether he will be released under disorderly conduct, so he could

i met up with fred while he was undergoing dialysis.ys tries to stay positive despite his health taking a scary turn recently. you see, just several months ago, he was at the top of his game playing football with the stanton steelers. you can see him here in an earlier video. >> it just came like natural to me. >> reporter: then in december, his mother says a routine physical revealed he had high blood pressure. when a headache followed, she took him to nemours a.i. dupont hospital for children. there he was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease known as fsgs. his kidneys were barely functioning. >> i was scared. i mean, a lot of emotion. you just want answers and sometimes you don't get the answers you want, you just kind of have to pick up the pieces and move forward. >> reporter: fred now spends three hours, three days a week at dialysis. often with his family including little brother noah by his side. melissa nicely with the hospital says activities like opening day help to reshape a kid's experience at the hospital bringing somethin