kathy griffin seemed to encourage a mob to rise up and hurt these boys. name these kids.names. shame them if you think these fers wouldn't docks new a heart beat. names please and stories from people who can identify them and vouch for their identity. thank you. hollywood film producer jack morsi wanted the boys killed maga kids go screaming head first inthats first into the wod chipper. in case anyone wanted to get started on project. twitter which claims to have a policy against violence stood by silently as this all happened. in case you think. the abuse was bipartisan. it wasn't just left vs. right. it was the people in power attacking those below them. as a group. plenty of republicans in washington were happy to savage the covington kids probably to inoculate themselves from charges of improper thought. bill kristol asked his twitter followers to consider the contrast between the calm dignity and quiet strength plaintiff phillips and the behavior of maga brats who have absorbed the spirit of trumpism. and then when the actual facts emerged kristol quietly deleted hi

. >> so many people like kathy griffin, kevin hart, all these great comedians, amy schumer, it's beenreat. >> for the rest of the haters -- >> i think people should get on stage themselves at least ten times, see if you end um being a two movies, number one come dis. it's a lot of work. it ain't easy. >> this was a lesson to be learned. >> can't stay out until 7:00 and go do a set. she'll learn. >> we have all been there. >> you have. >>> we are used to see kristen bell and damien chazelle make us laugh, but now they're making us dax's sweet birthday gift. >> what you would recommend getting someone very special, like yourself, for their birthday? >> i would, please, please, please give them love and support for 11 years, two beautiful baby girls. >> you're crying too! >> you sit down, young lady. we have heard enough of your questions. >> i love you. >> that emotional moment on today's "ellen" was short lived. yesterday, dax turned 44 and kristen gave us the scoop about birthdays in the household. >> it's your birthday until you decide it's not your celebrate. >>> now to the bloom's

. >> reporter: kathy griffin tweeting "i want names ", and alissa milano saying red hat is the new whiteyone pounced on it and had an immediate reaction. the more information we got the more our positions changed. >> reporter: tonight we widen the lens, taking you inside a longer video showing you a more nuanced picture of what actually lid led up to that standoff. it all started january 18th. as two separate marches converged on the nation's capitol, the right to life and indigenous people's march. by the afternoon, a small group of indigenous people perform a ceremony along the reflection pool, but think are ney are not. >> before you started worshipping totem poles -- >> reporter: a small group can be heard shouting at the indigenous marchers, in this now removed facebook video. roughly half an hour later, the young black israelites turned their attention to the white students. >> look at these damn crackers. >> reporter: later identified as covington catholic students from kentucky. for more than an hour, the black hebrews continued to hurl insults at both groups. >> bunch of incest

[applause] these two loss one - - alyssa milano and kathy griffin with their drooling hate and compassion they led the charge branding them racist why do we let fame excuse people for being t20? the plague is famous and we don't admire that. but then on the status to excuse their own jerkiness muttering. the third culprit is twitter. in the traction machine with face-to-face contact platform where antagonism is its own reward and let's not forget. [bleep] this was brought to you by identity politics it is a power struggle between the oppressor and the rules are dictated by the entertainment complex and the crackpot culprits who accosted the teens? they are delightfully eccentric. the final culprit is your own eyes perk you cannot trust them viral videos are designed to trick them they are called viral for a reason they are highly contagious and will make you puke i initially fell for the wrong event by trusting my own beautiful blue eyes. i was fooled and i am never fooled never rush to judge yes i was at brunch at the time but no excuses. but if i can fall for this then we all can. the b

and kathy griffin, retracted. jetion * aslan said have you ever seen a more bunchable face than this kid. he has not retracted that. >> that's correct, and he's going to get sued next week. an abc commentator, he's made false statements about these kids, refused to retract it and he did it interspersing it how we should love each other consistent with the christian tradition. michael rapaport did a crude rap image against these kids. he's on a netflix show on how we should avoid bullying of kids, and here he is bullying kids. there walking a headline out that the kids appeared in black face? that's incorrect. they are going to get sued. the "new york daily news" will be sued. jesse: from my limited understanding of the law, it's a high bar, the slander and libel. you have to show malicious intent, knowingly that something is wrong and defamatory. it doesn't always work in court. are you confident that you are going to be able to secure judgment? >> in this case there is a unique exception. when there is defamation

. >> kathy griffin retracted. jesse: and appearing on "the daily show" here is what he said on his question have you ever seen a more pensionable face? he has not retracted that. spirit that's correct and he will be sued next week and matthew dowd retracted he is an abc commentator he has made false statements about the kids and refused to retracted and he did it with segments how we should love each other consistent with the christian tradition. he doesn't retract he will be sued michael rappaport did a crude chrn.mi image against thes he has refused to retract he is a hollywood actor talking about avoid childhood bullying kids and here he is bullying kids and then new york daily news put a false headline that they appeared in blackface that is totally false. they will be sued the new york daily news will be sued. jesse: my limited understanding of the law it is a very high bar of slander and libel you have to showw malicious intent and knowingly something is wrong and defamatory but that doesn't always work in c

i don't know if kathy griffin have apologized yet. >> a lot of people made some big statements to say ramses getting political. >> donald from nominating for an award. he has been nominated for three golden raspberry awards which celebrate the worst performances throughout the year including worst actor for death of a nation, fahrenheit 11-9 and another award for fahrenheit 11-9. those are awards in documentaries. milania trump receiving a nomination as well as kellyanne conway. folks responding on social media, one person saying it is trump derangement syndrome, another saying i generally like that they have a sense of humor but counting trump, milania and kellyanne conway as actors in a documentary has nothing to do with film. it is all just a joke but i get the people who run the awards are not voting for donald trump. heather: trying to make their political statement in the way that they can. the time is 27 after the top of the hour. we take you overseas, tensions flaring in the middle east was a military uprising foiled in venezuela. aaron cohen on the growing crises around the w

kathy griffin had this week yesterday. "the reply from the school was horrible. i want names.hame them if you think they won't go after you online, think again." as us as was suggested by jonah, a derangement syndrome? >> here's what it shows to meet. the short video on twitter which was only 30 seconds. i watched a two hour video and here's what i have realized. america has a heart problem. it is not a republican or democratic problem, what this video shows is where we have a heart problem. we don't see each other as people. we see the labels that we carry come he is wearing that hat or he happens to be native american. one country coming together to form a more perfect union. we have to figure this thing out very quickly. this is not what our founders wanted at all. >> ed: when you look at what are supposed to be responsible media organizations like "the washington post," look at this headline. the catholic church's shameful history of native american abuses. let's take a story that is already wrong and that has been misunderstood and let's pile on the catholic church someho

and kathy griffin back in the news, calling for the high schoolers, their names and addresses to be publicly released. doxed. and sadly the vitriol did not end there, rosie o'donnell calling the kids horrible, smug, and other names. actor patton oswald calling the kentucky teen a privileged little [bleep].. calling him a mocking, condescending, disrespecting a-hole. and on "the view" a moment of truth. why did they do it? let's listen to joy behar. >> many people admitted that they made snap judgments before these other facts came in. but isn't that, we just instantly say that's what it is based on what we see in that moment, and then we have to walk stuff back when it turns out that we are wrong. why do we keep making the same mistake? >> because we are desperate to get trump out of office. that's why. >> sean: just imagine becoming so deranged everymp minute, second, hour of the day with trump rage and hate that you smear a young teenager over a smirk a and he is wearing a "mae america great again" hat. imagine being so angry with the president of the united statesn that you actively try t

kathy griffin posted a tweet begging people to dox the kids at the pro life march just to make it easier to find them. i assume not bring them chocolate chip cookies but to harass them. how is that not using twitter to harass and threaten and, with the prospect of violence in the air, some commentators immediately moved to just all out dehumanize these kids, like cnn's anna navarro, she called the covington students a wipes. miami must be so proud. molly o'reilly the editor of the lefty the rag common wheel tweeted you don't let your kid we're a maga hat and ghetto fended when they get taken as a racist. ed beck and father james martin were the worst. they were using these innocent students to advance their own anti-trump animus on twitter. my feelings about the covington boys are unchanged sins the first reporting and boys should not have been permitted to wear maga hats if they were representing the school. what? okay. can't have any political feelings it if you're a student. that's interesting. well buzz feed reporter anne petersen revealed herself when she tweeted this picture of the

the wildly unfunny trump haider kathy griffin, she posted a tweet talking about doxing the kids. how is it not using twitter to harass and threaten and with the prospect of violence in the air, some commentators move to all-out dehumanize these kids. like cnn's ana navarro in a now-deleted tweet, she called the covington students that are a hyphen wipes. miami must be so proud. a tweet saying you don't let your kid wear a maga hat and then act offended. others were the worst. they were using these innocent students to advance their own anti-trump animus on twitter. father edward tweeting my feelings about the covington boys are unchanged since the first reporting. boys should not have been permitted to wear maga hats if they were representing the school. what? okay. you can't have any political feelings if you are a student. buzzfeed reporter revealed herself when she tweeted this picture of the covington high students next to brett kavanaugh. shocker. one theme of the conversations over the past 24 hours, how deeply familiar this look is. it's a look of white patriarchy of cours

failed comedian kathy griffin, you know the one with a decapitated head of the president, called for him to be doxxed, and in other words, give out his address, the contact, so that puts a threat on his life. alyssa milano tweeting the maga alyssa milano tweeting the maga hat is the new white hood. congressman saying i'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of teenagers being able to wear make america great again hats until we can figure out what is going on. what? they assume to be poisoning young minds, he said. after receiving serious blow back for the attack on the first amendment, the congressman said, oh, i was only joking never mind. he wasn't joking. this is just the same thing they did less than 48 hours prior with the buzzfeed story two days prior. naturally, all the statements we just showed you were based on what was a short video clip with no context and without any kind of investigation, just an overwhelming rush to judgment hatred because probably the kid was wearing a maga hat. however, additional video when it became public, painted a much different picture. fir

we got kathy griffin to do stormy daniels and kellyanne conway. variety of nasa astronauts and john gemberling from "broad city" and neil and myself. >> seth: that's fantastic. did you -- is this true that when you were young you actually read the nixon transcripts? >> yeah. >> seth: what brought that about? >> my parents had like a little book shelf in the hall. when you entered the house -- it was always the strangest place to have a book shelf is, like, on the way out of the house. >> seth: yeah. >> and there was a large volume of the nixon transcripts and i was like, 10 or 11, and i had heard about nixon, he was this crook and all that. and i was like, "i want to read them." and so, i would take them out and i would sit in the living room and i would just read through the transcripts, and i found them hilarious. i thought, "this guy is so insane, you know?" just like racist and foul mouthed and i was like, "this guy was the president? this is impossible." this could never happen again. [ laughter ] >> seth: how has your trump evolved over the

so-called comedienne kathy griffin wants personal information of young men to be publicized so they arehave been. twitter didn't take that down. reza aslam, posted that the young men had punchable face. not taken down. social media has been taken over by trump haters. the mainstream media eagerly jumped on board. disgraceful. that's "varney & company." ♪ . stuart: we come back a little. we were up nearly 300. now we're up 260. that is a 1% gain. we will take it. check out these four dow stocks. ibm, united technology, proctor & gamble, boeing, all of them up sharply, all of them helping drive the dow up. ibm and utx, proctor & gamble, up on earnings. boeing on trade optimism, actually. how about those big tech names? all of them were down yesterday, all of them except facebook up today. facebook is a loser. down a dollar at 1.46. the rest of them up. >>> to the shutdown, what have we got here? jack hough, senior editor, "barron's" magazine is with us now. let me tell you this, jack. this is coming at us here. kevin hassett white house economic advisor says growth for the overall economy

. >> sandra: kathy griffin, the comedian, was one of those saying names these kids so they can pay theeted out. it was really something to watch all of that coverage unfold. governor mike huckabee, good to see you this morning. did you have a final thought? i didn't want to cut you off. >> mike: just that i don't think there are consequences. i'm talking about significant painful consequences to write big checks to these kids. it will keep happening but it will stop when people have to be responsible. we teach kids that. be responsible and own up to what you have done and pay the price. we need to start having these folks pay the price for what they are doing to these kids. >> sandra: serious discussions to be had. governor mike huckabee, thank you. >> mike: thank you, sandra. >> eric: oversees turkey vowing to hold an international gro of the murder. looking to hold the conference accountable. . details on that straight ahead. which i used to offer health insurance to my employees. what's in your wallet? and the army taught me a lot about commitment. which i apply to my life and my wo

kathy griffin. despicable individual talked about how their names should be named.hese are children. these are sons and daughters. they went out there to march for life, to do something they believed in and they did nothing but stand their ground and just wait for their bus to come. why are we -- the one thing interesting to me in this whole story. it was precipitated by anti-semitic, group that started chanting at these individuals. all the folks in the media have left those folks off. no condemnation of them. >> sandra: when you watch the interviews these kids gave. they're kids. >> they are. >> sandra: we'll leave that there for now. ask about the white house press briefings. we asked hogan gidley on this program about the press briefings and the fact we haven't seen sarah sanders deliver one so far this year. the president weighed in shortly after that interview said he basically told her not to bother. the reporters are rude to her in that room. she gave an interview on "fox & friends" this morning saying i talk to the press every day. i just wonder from someon