joining us brit hume. they say this was the program which was authorized by the lawyers within the federal government and signed off on by the cia lawyers as well was carried out by 40 to 50 cia analysts, contractors, et cetera. now we've got thousands of troops in harm's way, many of whom had nothing to do with this. they went to serve after. and we release this on the heels of having released it years ago. it's not new. now these men and women, their lives are in jeopardy for something they didn't do, they didn't authorize, but somebody, all the democrats namely on the senate intel committee, think it's important because -- i mean, i guess the president says it's important to admit our mistakes over and over and over again. >> this is extraordinary, megyn. there are several things here, some of which have already been touched on. but remember this document, yes, it is officially because the democrats have the majority of the committee, a committee report, but all the republicans declined to participate i

brit hume. keep thinking that mitt romney may run, you know, richard nixon lost to kennedy he came back, he wins in 68. i think romney may do it isz specially the polls way out. what say you? >> certain things, there are as a political reporter you watch for whether you are trying to figure out whether some prominent politician is running for office or some other office for that matter. romney is doing for he campaigned for the republican an democrats in midterm election. is he out in public appearing on it v programs enforcing his views and also doing things you would never do. i have had my turn and now it's time for somebody else. of course, mrs. romney has said of the romney family and presidential campaigns that we are done, done, done she was very much eager for her husband to win that election. and deeply disappointed when he didn't. and so she is clued in politically. she wouldn't be saying that if she thought he were running. now, look, i think it's possible to imagine some scenario in

joining us from washington, brit hume.first clip deals with hair cans being treated fairly. >> this country is at its best when everybody is being treated fairly. it is particularly important for people to feel like they're being treated fairly by law enforcement and police because the consequences when they're not treated fairly can be deadly. >> but that's just a pie in the sky. life isn't fair. countries aren't fair. people make mistakes. i don't know where he's going with that. >> well, there's an overall problem, as i see it, with the president's analysis of this situation that includes these african-american men who were killed in encounters with the police. i think it's this. the president is looking to change things so that this won't happen again. but his entire focus is on one side of the occasion. that is, on the behavior of police which undoubtedly could be more improved. they could be more effective and skillful in dealing with minorities that they're protecting and policing. he never talks about the pathologi

so the brit hume show would be not quite centrist, but right leaning but definitely not as far right as the average republican. he would, his show would be about like a susan collins speech, the maine senator who some conservatives called her a rino, say she's not really conservative. i would call her a right-leaning moderate. >> host: what's the methodology or the math that you use to develop your scale? >> >> guest: oh, okay. well, that's kind of involved, and if i can pat myself on the back, it took a lot of work. it took -- i was, basically, a statistics major as an undergrad. that technically is called mathematical and computational sciences. but then that training alone would not have been enough to do the method i did. there were some courses that i took in graduate school, and i used those courses. it was called maximum likelihood estimation. so it's a technical term. but it's something you learn in the second or third year in a economics department, maybe the first or second year if you're in a statistics ph.d. program. so i was proud to say i actually used some of the thing

brit hume, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center. syndicated columnist george will. fox news political analyst, juan williams. brit, do you think protesters have a legitimate complaint as they march across the country in arguing about police targeting minorities and about grand jury's prosecutors protecting the police. >> yes. but i would take issue with the term targeting. i don't think that's been very well established. but look, i don't doubt that police departments across the country could learn to deal more skillfully with the minority communities they serve. i don't think there's any doubt about that. on the other hand, what strikes me about this whole controversy s you hear it in the remarks of the president and in the remarks of his attorney general, utter lack of sense of balance. they talk about police departments and the need for reform. do they address at all the pathologies within these african-american communities where a amount of crime, disproportionate amount to the size of the population are committed? no. do they t

it has to be consistent, and i agree with brit hume. i think you have to say the president knew that this man's life was in danger and made an attempt to save him and we should say that's the right move for the american government. >> before the raid, hillary clinton was talking this week about the use of smart power in american foreign policy, and here was part of her explanation of smart power. >> showing respect even for one's enemies, trying to understand and insofar as psychologically possible empathize with their perspective and point of view, helping to define the problem, determine the solutions. >> congresswoman harman, do we need to respect our enemies and to empathize with their point of view? >> well, i think we need to respect those who live in the middle east who are devout muslims and who think that our policies are wrong. no, i don't think we have to respect members of terror groups ever. i think we have to have harsh policies against them. i just want to add one more thing about the hostage effort, and that is the gemny

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smoking pot at him. [ laughter ] apparently all sour campus over there doesn't have a great sense of humen it comes to his ona sass nation. >> reporter: in north career arc it's no joking matter. the government has called the film an act of terror and intolerable. sony pictures now find itself in the worst crisis in its history after company internal files and e-mails were hacked by the same group in recent weeks that made headlines in the gossip pages, before moving to the threat of violence. despite halting the film's release, sony pictures puts out a statement saying that they stands by the movie and the right to free expression for their filmmakers. but the crisis could have wide ramifications for the much i-making industry. >> studios by nature are very risk averse and are risk managers. so what the result of what has happened to sony is probably going to make them take a second or a third or fourth look at their projects to detect if there is anything that is potentially controversial or sensitive to partys who would have the the ability to do something. >> reporter: what started as

. >> brit hume is senior political analyst. good morning to you. have you back after a long weekend. the president, this is a priority. he made it first bit of business after the thanksgiving holiday. what do you think about it? >> much of what the president says about this problem is seems to me unexceptional. he talks about breakdown in trust between law enforcement and people trying to serve particularly in inner-city communities where you have heavy concentrations of african-americans and where crime, the way the crime rate tend to be high and that by itself is a perfectly reasonable thing for a president to address. and perhaps what will come out of this is some sort of consensus on policing techniques and so on that will help to improve the situation in cities and urban areas across the country. however, the president's whole body of words he uttered since this whole situation in ferguson erupted, i don't believe he ever said anything in the whole body, ever said anything to suggest that michael brown was in any way to blame for what happened

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>> brit hume mentioned this yesterday. let's roll that tape. >> the players who are the ones responsible for this program, were not not any of them interviewed by the committee. as mark caisson said to me a few minutes ago, he said look, why don't we just decry when rolling stone did it. and that was a report that comes out without ever having consulted with the people accused here. they didn't do that. >> good point. >> very good point. take both sides of the story, fair and balanced and let's hear from the other side as well. you -- zero died, zero dismembered, zero jumped to their death. all of them got hot meals, many of them prayed five times a day. 9/11, ft. hood, boston marathon, none of them will play soccer with their kids anymore and i'm okay with all of it. i remember right after full name, we were scared, america was -- we weren't sure what the next attack was going to be. we were looking over our shoulder everywhere we went, see something, say something, you saw somebody take a picture of a building, you repor

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poverty and insurance against the business cycle, charity can focus on much more nimble and targeted and humenowistic things. >> as they would say, charity is not about money, it's about action and brotherhood and love. you can't substitute that. that requires a lot of money. it requires so much more money than during the great depression. there billionaires who have billions that they are looking to do something with. >> they want their name out. >> for there was not this bureaucracy, they step in and nax too. >> if you talk to food banks in new york, they are really worried about cuts to food stamps and private money and automatically flushes in. that's the capital that has spill over effects and rich social networks in the neighborhoods and many of the networks no longer exist because of the rise of the welfare and regulatory state. you would survive if there was not all the government. they would leap in. i think it would. people are resourceful. examples after the civil war. free from slavery recently. they created the two-parent family systems and had a network of mutual aid organizatio

gets his first guitar, often bringing it to school as the presleys move to memphis, and he attends humes high, attracting attention singing a sexed up version of "can i waltz with you". >> we were like kind of the first underground sneaking down to the black shows that were segregated. and when he went out, he didn't go out to promote black music, he went out to do what he liked. >> i think it was more of a bluesy thing. so obviously, the blues of the delta of mississippi where he was born and raised we know that that was part of it. >> one, two, three -- >> in '54, the new beat gets a new name. and the first rock star is born when elvis meets sun records producer sam philips. >> sam always knew, he said if i can get a white guy that sings like a black person and has the feeling of a black person i can make a million dollars. and had e said i got him when it elvis. >> he used a not so subtle sex appeal that makes elvis the pelvis different from the rest. >> elvis was one of sam's proteges as i'm sure you know. he and arroroy orbison, johnny . elvis showed us what women were looking for i

. >> time for look who is talking fox news senior political analyst brit hume says the meeting with al sharpton seriously damages his reputation. >> sharpton has a very checkered history. the famous bra lee case was a terrible injustice against a prosecutor. he is in arrears on his taxes. i think the guy is politically radioactive. i don't p understand why the president would link himself so closely with this guy. i think in terms of working class voters for example i can't image that doesn't hurt the president or his party. >> today president obama's immigration action takes center stage as they get ready to grill homeland security. the hearing coming after they blocked a budget bill to provide amnesty to millions. the big question is what is the real cause of amnesty? william lajeunesse can does the math. >> the white house says what are the benefits is the earned income tax credit. that is a check worth millions of dollars. the number is 4 million went from the illegal immigrants who are not entitled. is the president's plan a net gain or net drain sfr here's what we do know. 50 per

some thoughts now on the politics of this moment and looking forward, senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. >> just two years after president obama's remarkable re-election in the wake of economic conditions that would have spelled defeat for any other politician. his party finds himself in a hole for which recent actions may make it difficult to escape. democrats point to their standing with minority groups and especially hispanics. but democrats have been losing ground with white working class vote evers for years and the process seems now to be accelerating. blue collar votes are now part of the electorate. president obama got 40% of the blue collar white vote in 2008, that dropped four points in 2012, and his party got two points less than that in the recent mid temples. so the first thing mr. obama does after the election is to grant legal status to 5 million immigrants. the president is condemned the looting and arson that broke out when a grand jury declined to indict the policeman, but mr. obama has never said one point suggesting that michael brown was in any way

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brit hume on earlier saying this is the same thing. >> right. look at a little slice of it.y to betray michael hayden, the former cia director as a liar. in what universe is it a fair process you spend all this time and all this money and malign a man's reputation like that and don't even call him up? and don't even quote him? >> she says she couldn't do it because the justice department investigation into these people. >> not michael hayden, not the top level guys. and the investigation ended at some point and then they didn't go back and talk to him. so i think kirsten's right to disaggregate the substance from the process. >> why couldn't she go? why couldn't dianne feinstein and these others go to the cia and operatives and ask them what they say? >> so what their answer is what you just said is they couldn't because they were under investigation. that's been a little bit debunked. i suspect they didn't do it because they feel that the cia has lied a lot and that the cia has an interest in lying and protecting themselves. and that they, you know, they probably felt were

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>> brit hume called the timing of this inhe c ehe ca ehe ca eh inexplicable. they could be trying to get this off her desk or changing the narrative. the last time democrats were screaming about this, they were winning elections. they defeated tom delay's electoral map to take the house with this exact discussion. are they trying to return to that? >> i think so and i think the fear is that if it's delayed and she's no longer heading the committee, is this dropped altogether and then will she be held accountable by some members of community that you didn't handle this correctly? this is a promise, remember, barack obama has been talking about it for a long time. my key point is the justice department investigated this. they found no criminal charges. they filed no criminal charges. why are they doing this now? and the issue here, people keep saying this is the wrong time. they should delay this. when is it a good time to release it? >> never going to be a good time. look in the 1970's. i talked to k.t. mc far mand -- mc farland right now. you had a similar sit

but as bret hume put it, it was lip service. by the way, racial profiling it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong. but there's no evidence of racial profiling in garner or brown. >> maybe it's a giant coincidence -- let's be clear. the people out in the street aren't protesting because de blasio's egging them on or president obama's egging them on. they're out in the street protesting because they saw a video with their own eyes of a white cop killing an unarmed innocent black man in the street -- >> i get that. why isn't that about police brutality? that i would get. >> it is. >> but black lives matter. and changing it into a black/white thing takes it to a place that is not justified by the facts. garner's own family says it's not justified by the facts. the police chief who sent those cops out there in staten island is black. the sergeant in control on the scene was black. the evidence does not support that that was a black/white thing. >> there is nothing to support that this individual officer was acting in a racist way when he

a top hume ab rights -- human rights official called it a criminal conspiracy and demanded those responsibleuld face punishment for the penalties. those names in the report include president bush, vice president cheney, the attorney general, cia officials and legal advisors john rizzo and john yu. but the president expressed little appetite for prosecuting but looking forward. >> my goal is to make sure, having banned this prak is as one of the first things i did when i came into office, that we don't make that mistake again. >> reporter: the department of justice has not pursued cases, saying in a statement that after review by prosecutors, add miss ishl evidence wot -- admissible evidence would not be sufficient to convict. >> i don't think it is likely anyone will be prosecuted, not because they can't be prosecuted, because it is rather toxic if such cases are brought. >> reporter: while here in the u.s., those names in the senate report are protected from prosecution but what about overseas? >> it is possible that some of the individuals who are implicated by the torture report could be

. >> nicole, i follow fox news contributor brit hume, and he tweeted out a couple days ago millions in the u.s. regularly thank u.s. military members for keeping us safe, maybe it's time to do the same for our cops. retweet if you agree. >> that is so great. as a matter of fact, one of the mornings down on wall street, you know, i am a patriot. i thank our servicemen and women every single day, hung an ornament on our tree with the flag and gave a little speech to our kids. i work in one of the places that is a scary place, right? it could be a place that people are interested in being involved. there's so many people out there, police officers. i was out there thanking them and thanking them for them protecting all of the people here in the u.s. and we've had so many problems here in america, abroad, at home. when i look at all that's been going on, all the tensions that have been escalating, it makes me so sad and so infuriated at the same time. and every headline that comes out only puts fuel on the fire. and i really need -- nothing really good has come out of this except for mayor

that isis has shot down a warplane in the raqqah province according to the syrian observatory for humehts. we do not know what country the plane came from or the status of anyone on board. we will, of course, bring you any new details as they come to us. >>> we also have another report just in to cnn from the st. louis post-dispatch. a teenager reportedly has been fatally shot by a police officer in berkeley, missouri, just outside st. louis. this is a suburb right next to ferguson, missouri. the newspaper's website says a crowd of about 60 people has gathered at the scene there and a number of police officers are also there. but no one is officially commenting yet on the shooting. it's just past 2:30 in the morning here, berkeley, as i mentioned is right next to ferguson, remember, ferguson is where michael brown was shot and killed by a police officer in august which is sparking national debate on police treatment of unarmed black people. so now this report that an 18-year-old reportedly shot there next to ferguson, missouri, police have not yet commented but we'll keep pursuing answ

brit hume joins me now. good to see you. the numbers are not good for the president on his handling of ferguson. he seems to have found a way to displease both sides. >> yes, he has, megyn, and i think part of the problem is, you know, the president convenes, for example, this big gathering a tt white hou ining today to discuss this issue but he's really talking about one side of this issue, which he clearly believes the failures of police departments like ferguson across the country to deal with african-americans who they must confront in their police work. and you don't hear -- there's nothing that this president has said since this happened, this terrible thing happened back in august and this young man was killed by a police officer that suggested that young man was in any way responsible for what happened to him. the emphasis between the president and especially his attorney general has been basically, we need to reform the police department. >> right. >> look, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having a white house

britt human hume was on the show saying this is the same thing, there's only one side of the story in. >> this report goes out of its way to portray michael hayden, the former cia director, as a liar. in what universe is it a fair process you that spend all this time and all this money and malign a man's reputation like that and don't even call him up and don't even quote him? >> she says she couldn't do it because of justice department -- >> not michael hayden. not the top-level guys. and the investigation ended at some point and they didn't go back and talk to him. so i think kristen's right -- kirsten's right-o to disaggregate the process from the substance, but the process i think was clearly a travesty. >> why didn't she go? why didn't dianne feinstein and these others go to the cia and the operatives and the people who ran the program and ask them what they say? >> so what their answer is, you know, what you just said, which is that they couldn't because -- for -- because they were under investigation. that's been a little bit debunked. i suspect that they didn't do it because t

the thing about being hume season we have a very hard time acknowledging what's going on inside our ownds. we're full of all sorts of unconscious biases, and that can make it incredibly different to learn from experience. i'm not here to give you a psychology 101 lesson on continue in addition. i'm here to be your investing coach. i mention all this because it's important to remember you need to approach all the stuff empirically. what do i mean? at my old firm i consumer sentiment a box of old trading tickets in my closet. i'd scrutinize them looking for mistakes patterns of wrongdoing that needed correcting and much more rarely for patterns of success that needed repeating. these days i don't have a box anymore and people don't have the hard copy slips anymore, but i have the entire record of my charitable trust, which you can follow along with at actionalertsplus.com. we can keep track of trades and all my bulletins explaining my reasoning for buying or selling a stock before i buy it totally contemptoraneous contemporaneous. like i said, i analyzed the last five years of research fo

. >>> so tune in tomorrow night or set your dvrs, brit hume is here. the > facebook.com/thekellyfile. we are posting our interview we just did with the football player benjamin. he was awesome, wasn't he? follow me on twitter. let me know what you think. thanks for watching. . >>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. the suspect in monday's west virginia shooting rampage found dead. after a day-long manhunt, police try to piece together everything. but they say jody lee hunt died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. it's believed he killed four people in separate shootings, one victim had filed a domestic violence case against hunt last month. >>> and eric holder planning to announcees to help end racial profiling by law enforcement. holder meeting monday with community leaders and officials in atlanta. they discuss ways to build trust between police and community members following the shooting death of unarmed black teenager michael brown. meantime, president obama wants more cops wearing body cameras. he is proposing spend

and a map named brit hume sent me to durham with an open mind and report the facts as you found them. i found a lot of facts and none was helpful to the accuser's story. i went on the air and started to report details, details that were potentially exonerating for the defense. people started to come out and say she's biased. she's biased against the black victim. she's biased against a rape victim. she's anti-rape victims and pro white defendants. this is a sampling of what i reported at the time. >> from 12:05 to 12:15 on the night in question, nine phone calls, nine. that is the time period based on the accuser's allegation so far. we believe -- what's happening? this is the first time we have heard there was semen inside of this accuser and belonged to someone other than the men from at that house. someone other than a duke lacrosse player. she was only given 60 seconds to pick somebody out. they had the photo up for 43 seconds. when time was running out she said that looks like him, sort of, i'm 90% sure. that's the problem is looked at this case by assuming guilt and trying to fi

reagan and wyman go on to list other, alexander fox, crow man, lva, hume orothy tree, howie chamberlain and celina royal. larry parks.ns this document struck me for several reasons. times said several including in his memoir that he at r pointed the finger anybody. you can see here he quite clearly secretly did that. and are other documents the scantiest of evidence. and i believe that this information shows a different reagan, different from popular easy going president who sort of takes a kind liviu people. >> yes. >> you see reagan here naming people who are his opponents in guild. and he's, of course, benefitting personally by bringing his to the attention of the fbi. what's also significant, he offers no real evidence. seemed to they follow the communist party line. so -- >> he became a favorite of hoover's. he did. reagan is president of the screen actor's guild. his tenure, the fbi had wide access to guild records on dozens of actors and actresses who had no idea that of their guild was making this information available to the fbi. hoover was . edgar suspicious of ronald reagan b

brit hume on that. >> what boat did the pilgrims come over in. >> the nina, santa maria. >> that waser columbus. >> how much do you know about the pilgrims? >> what are you

. >>> so tune in tomorrow night or set your dvrs, brit hume is here.in the meantime go to facebook.com/thekellyfile. we are posting our interview we just did with the football player benjamin. he was awesome, wasn't he? follow me on twitter. let me know what you think. thanks for watching. i'm megyn kelly, and this is "the kelly file." >>> welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert, residents and store owners in ferguson, missouri are trying to rebuild tonight after violent protesters have left dozens of businesses completely destroyed. and tonight in a special "hannity" investigation we want the destructive demonstrators brought to justice. now, take a look at the faces right there on your screen. our producers have obtained this from the st. louis county police department. they are the mugshots of the men and women over the age of 18 who were arrested last monday and tuesday in ferguson, missouri. now, the crimes they are accused of range widely. they include unlawful assembly, arson, burglary, possession of stolen property, trespassing and inter

martha: here is brit hume on the one-sided nature of this report. >> they had the last two years whenhey could have interviewed the players in this. as mark said a few minutes ago. why don't we just decry when "rolling stone" did it. a report that comes out without consulting the people who are basically accused here. martha: in terms of congress, they came forward as if these were new revelations that come out of this report. the gangs of 8 according to the editorial in the "wall street journal" assembled by the former directors and the deputy director of the cia. they say it's untrue that they gave varnished detail to this gang of 8. they said at the type we asked, do you have everything you need to move forward with this program. >> that raises questions about what the motive is of putting it out long after this whole thing was vetted. then this report which didn't interview any of the people involved. despite the secretary of state and the joint chiefs of staff and former intelligence directors republican and democrats. our allies who see people put at risk because of this. this i

brit hume is fox news senior political analyst. good morning. good to have you here. >> hi, martha.rtha: how about the timing on all this? >> i think it is inexplicable frankly. dianne feinstein is it driving this. this is republicans on the committee, they're the minority of course now, are not for the release of this report and i think they dispute its findings, many of them do. it is a massive document as has been reported. dianne feinstein has long been considered congress's true grown-ups. not releasing a report to lay bare practices may still be ongoing and therefore need to be exposed and changed. these practices were discontinued long ago. discontinued basically while president george w. bush was still in office. so it has been a long time since we've been doing any of this. so the need to release this document with a lot of gory details at this stage of the game is hard to find. it is just inexplicable to me. martha: and it raises the question, as kt mcfarland brought up earlier, is this a case of burning down the barn on your way out? >> well, you know, that with it seems