i think that is what megan kelly was talking about. and it's true for 75 years the santa at the macy's day parade has been white. and that is because for 75 years we were majority white. we are not going to be majority white in this country. >> the original slate article to me was as equally silly. the original author was saying that this character was white and it ought to be a penguin. i contend to you that he is whoever you wish him to be. there are jewish santa clauss and all of this is much ado about nothing. and santa claus from the 1800s was also a smoker, a drinker and binge emotional eater. >> what did santa claus ever do to you? >> he was good to me. when we discover that he doesn't exist are we supposed to have this crippling distrust of older white men with beards? >> listen, i don't think it's ridiculous. because obviously we are talking about it. it struck a cord with a lot of people. and to say the original article was trying to say, listen, even little black kids need to be reaffirmed that santa -- that santa could be l

are on trial over the death of a local homeless man for months now there's been video showing how kelly thomas was beaten and tasered by officers before his death the latest on the case later in the show. it's monday december second four pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r t well topping the news this hour a federal district court in san francisco is hearing the case today a woman who has been fighting to remove her name from the terror watch list for over eight years now it's a list that's easy to get your name on but almost impossible to get your name off of stanford university ph d. student ruhani. eager to hear what was boarding a flight home to malaysia from the san francisco international airport in two thousand and five when authorities arrested her they told her that she was on the terror watch list now eventually mrs abraham was allowed to travel again but her student visa was revoked and she was not allowed back in the us now lee evidence that levied against her is unclear. at this point and the government argues that revealing that information would j

what ghantt doesn't know, is kelly campbell is lying. >> kelly started at loomis fargo in 1996.tractive, dirty blond hair, and an attitude that drew him to her. she and david got to know each other when he asked to have a cigarette. if you let me have a cigarette, i'll let you be my friend. i don't need anymore friends, but yeah, you can have a cigarette. he liked that attitude. >> after she leaves her job at loomis fargo, they kept in touch. >> kelly would talk with david after she left loomis fargo and it was during these phone conversations that the idea was planted in david's mind. the idea was planted in kelly's mind with conversations with steve chaim chaim pers the previous summer. >> he has a big heist on his mind. >> steven chambers was a burly man around town in gastonia, lincoln county, involved in various scandals in the past, but he was always looking for the next thing to do. he was the one who came up with this idea. he had known that kelly had worked at loomis fargo and that she knew the ins and outs of the building in working there. in 1997, he said, do you thin

however, kelly's controversial stop and frisk policy may be his lasting legacy, but kelly stands behind and predicts it's here to stay. >> stop, question, and sometimes frisk is a practice. it's a tool that exists throughout law enforcement. >> reporter: you know, the main criticism is that people were being frisked for no reason. >> so people say oh, 670,000 stops in new york city. it amounts to less than one stop a week per patrol officer. >> reporter: his successor is william bratten who also served as the police commissioner under mayor giuliani. he has made it clear changes are on the way. you may have heard him say with increased supervision. >> training and leadership change that we'll lass be able to very quickly address the concerns about stop and frisk. >> i'm going to stay away from responding to that. >> reporter: but clearly you hope that the way your policies were carried out will stay in place. >> no, i just hope the city stays safe. >> reporter: his next move? besides writing a book, he says he has something else in the works, but he's trying to keep that under wraps unt

welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. at this hour, two student victims have been hospitalized. one, a girl, is in serious condition. the gunman is dead, believed to have turned his weapon on himself. earlier students were seen pouring out of the high school with their hands up. video shows them being patted down while nearby schools went on lockdown. the shoot er asked for a teacher by name. when that teacher learned he was targeted he left the school in hopes, we understand, that it would encourage the gunman to leave, too. the shooting comes a day before we mark a year since the newtown school tragedy. earlier, i had a remarkable conversation with six family members who lost loved ones on that sad december day. you will hear from them a little later in the show. >>> also in the news tonight, is santa claus real and what does he look like? hide the kids, mom and dad. spoiler alert. apparently we ignited a controversy the other night in a segment about an essay that argues santa should no longer be portrayed as a white m

and nothing exemplifies this notion more than the case of kelly thomas thomas was a thirty seven year old mentally ill homeless resident of fullerton california who was savagely beaten for more than thirty minutes by multiple police officers the incident was all caught on surveillance camera the footage shows police officers taunting thomas and beating him first with their fists and their guns they also tase him throughout the assault at least four times you can hear thomas call out that he surrenders to stop beating him and toward the end he pleads for the help of his father. sadly his plea fell on deaf ears only five days later thomas died in the hospital from his injuries specifically the mechanical compression of the store x. rendering him unable to breathe. now just to give you an idea of how extensive these injuries were take a look at this before and after photo of thomas again to warn you this image is disturbing. happened two years ago yesterday finally mark day one of the trial for the police involved former fulton officer manimal ramos has been charged with second degree mu

kelly. here to chat and sing for us r. kelly from the sony outdoor stage.candal" guillermo diaz will be with us. and we'll have music from jake owen. our first guest is an emmy and golden globe-nominated actor whom you know from "star trek: into darkness" and "sherlock 2" you can hear him give voice to a hobbit-broiling dragon in "the hobbit: the desolation of smaug," which opens in theaters december 13th, please welcome benedict cumberbatch. welcome. how are you? >> very good. very good. >> jimmy: i have to tell you, that before -- calm down, you animals. wow. justin bieber level. >> yeah. what have you been feeding them in it's crazy. >> jimmy: they want to eat you is what is happening. one of the ladies here, took plea days off from work. to come here. drove by herself. >> is she going to have a job when she comes back? >> jimmy: she has a job. no friend, but she has a job. then after shot she is driving back up to san francisco by herself. sadly, alone. >> where are you? put the window down. drink lots of coffee. thanks very much. >> you're welcome. >>

for months now there's been a video showing how kelly thomas was beaten and detained by police officers before his death. the latest on the case later in the shower. it's monday the summer sack and five p m in washington dc and the camo pattern and or watching her knee while starting off the news this hour in federal district court in san francisco with hearing the case today of the hand with in fruit or move her name from a terror watch list for over eight years now less than even the teacher name on it almost impossible to get off of stanford university phd student raw honey over at me not him if he was boarding a flight home to malaysia from the san francisco international airport in two thousand five when authorities arrested her they told her she was on the terror watch list. when angelina says even he was allowed to travel again understood ninety was for the first in the cell was revoked. i knew what's the evidence loving answer is unclear at this point and the government argues that revealing the information that put her on that list would jeopardize national security. and if ind

they answer to kelly not federal agency.rted as many as 16 planned attacks. didn't you have to step on toes taking over counter terrorism from federal agents that always been responsible? >> well, everybody was not happy. but that's life. you have to be able to break some eggs and do the thing that you believe is right. >> the former marine with both a law degree and master's in public administration has come to symbolize the 21st century crime fighter. but some of his policies have also sparked a national debate. >> i think that it's a violation of our rights. >> muslim leaders called for federal investigation after undercover cops were sent inside mosques to conduct surveillance. and kelly has become the face of a police practice commonly known as stop and frisk, which critics say is often abused in minority neighborhoods. in october the commissioner who had come to brown university in rhode island to discuss policing policies, was taunted by protesters and finally heckled off the stage. >> we're here to tell you, it's goi

and nothing exemplifies this notion more than the case of kelly thomas thomas was a thirty seven year old mentally ill homeless resident of fullerton california who was savagely beaten for more than thirty minutes by multiple police officers the incident was all caught on surveillance camera the footage shows police officers taunting thomas and beating him first with their fists and their guns they also tase him throughout the assault at least four times you can hear thomas call out that he surrenders to stop beating him and toward the end he pleads for the help of his father. sadly his plea fell on deaf ears only five days later thomas died in the hospital from his injuries specifically the mechanical compression of the store x. rendering him unable to breathe now just to give you an idea of how extensive these injuries were take a look at this before and after photo of thomas again to warn you this image is disturbing. and although the tragedy happened to him. years ago yesterday finally marked day one of the trial for the police involved former officer manimal ramos has been charge

we are definitely looking out for you. >> i'm megyn kelly and this is "the kelly file." with the president's new effort to save his health care law. pl plus, what's the new push to defend the president from this now infamous broken promise. >> if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. you can keep your plan. >> and breaking developments in the rape case against a star quarterback heisman trophy contender. >> unfortunately sometimes one-night stands happen. >> and this marine may have saved a half dozen lives when he fell on a grenade. why doesn't the military want to give him a medal?

click or call. >>> from the world headquarters of fox news, it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. >> people had to resign this week after a vicious attack on a conservative woman, sarah palin, but that resignation did not seem to get a lot of attention. they did a little checking. it turns out when rush limbaugh made a derogatory comment about sandra fluke on the subject of birth control, the mainstream media covered it 32 times in two weeks after the comment was made, yet when martin bashir said on his show that sarah palin was a good candidate for vile disgusting slave punishment, we'll leave it at that, guess how many times the same networks covered that? joining me now, he performed a study, brent, how many times did they cover it? >> it's not hard to count them. it's zero. no coverage whatsoever. it's so bad that you don't want to even say what it was. and i'll tell your audience if you don't know what it was that he said, imagine the most disgusting thing imaginable, and that's what he said should be done to sarah palin. it was 100-fold more serious than anything rush limbaugh

welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. at this hour, two student victims have been hospitalized. one, a girl, is in serious condition. the gunman is dead, believed to have turned his weapon on himself. earlier students were seen pouring out of the high school with their hands up. video shows them being patted down while nearby schools went on lockdown. police say the shooter asked for a teacher by name. when that teacher learned he was being targeted, he left the school in hopes, we understand, that it would encourage the gunman to leave, too. the shooting comes a day before we mark a year since the newtown school tragedy. earlier, i had a remarkable conversation with six family members who lost loved ones on that sad december day. you will hear from them a little later in the show. >>> also in the news tonight, is santa claus real and what does he look like? hide the kids, mom and dad. spoiler alert. apparently we ignited a controversy the other night in a segment about an essay that argues santa should no longer be portr

this thing happened many times in kelly thomas' past. joining us is kelly's father ron. we appreciate your being with us, we realize this is the first day of the trial and some early statements from the defense is your son should not have been seen as some sort of harmless figure, a homeless guy, but i'm sure would you dispute that. >> kelly indeed was not homeless at all. he suffered from schizophrenia, a mental disease. he always had my home, he had board and cares he lived in for years. a skit phrenic would much rather be outside. he was more of a -- he wanted to live outside, as bad as that sounds, heartbreaking -- >> i'm certain it is, for a family of someone with mental illness. but the argument that he wasn't a harmless figure in the community, he was known, his mother had taken a restraining order, he had a previous incident where one of the officers was familiar with him. was he a violent person by nature? >> he wasn't violent at all by nature. he did have an incident about 18 years ago. and i can't explain why he did what he did. but indeed he did it. and there

on this case the final words of kelly thomas is kelly thomas before you and i was conscious we're dad dad dad those words really engrained in kelly thomas' father's brain and he talked to me last year right after the announcement that a civil rights lawsuit was being filed against the city of fullerton let's hear from them. you know talk this type of thing if you want you to rest patrol talk and you don't teach this you know this is just brutal murder that's all there is to i think everybody needs to be concerned of are copied off like that and murder somebody right iran thomas is himself a former orange county deputy he was actually hoping for more severe charges against these officers however before the trial started he said he is very confident that justice will be served and ramona the defense attorneys for the officer say that thomas was a schizophrenia and he had multiple run ins with the law and he has a prior conviction for assaulting his grandfather with a fireplace poker his own mother solder restraining order against him after he held her by the throat during an argument he

kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kramer. >> i thought you were stuck. >> and production assistantck mine. >> i have so many. >> which one did you pick? >> um, i don't want to go first because mine is so silly. ♪ grandma got run over by a reindeer ♪ >> she had hoof prints on her forehead and incriminating paw prints on her back. >> we had the him on our show. ♪ grandma got run over by a reindeer walking home from our house christmas eve ♪ ♪ you can say there's no such thing as santa but as for me and grandpa we believe ♪ >> i have a confession here, i know there are people who agree with me on this. but it is not the most popular comment opchristmas morning. i find a lot of christmas music depressing. when you live far away from your par aren parents and where you grew up, if you watch two of the characters that play prisoners came up with this song. this is my obsession. you must watch this. ♪ single bells jingle all the way silent night, holy night ♪ ♪ oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh ♪ >> i will tweet that and it is catchy and happy and bright. >> my song wil

and nothing exemplifies this notion more than the case of kelly thomas thomas was a thirty seven year old mentally ill homeless resident of fullerton california who was savagely beaten for more than thirty minutes by multiple police officers the incident was all caught on surveillance camera the footage shows police officers taunting thomas and beating him first with their fists and their guns they also tase him throughout the assault at least four times you can hear thomas call out that he surrenders to stop beating him and toward the end he pleads for the help of his father. sadly his plea fell on deaf ears only five days later thomas died in the hospital from his injuries specifically the mechanical compression of the store x. rendering him unable to breathe now just to give you an idea of how extensive these injuries were take a look at this before and after photo thomas again to warn you this image is disturbing. and although the tragedy happened to. years ago yesterday finally marked day one of the trial for the police involved former fulton officer manimal ramos has been charge

>> tonight on "the kelly file." >>> breaking tonight a "the kelly file" exclusive. we are getting our first look at new warnings from physicians that obama care may end up putting your neighborhood doctor's office out of business. doctor's offices across the country are learning just what they are going to get paid or reimbursed by the feds going forward in medicare payments in particular. some physicians have gone so far as to warn patients that they may not be able to keep the practice going. dr. doug wiser is president of the national spine and pain centers, the largest private pain management center in the country. want to tell the audience i know you and of your practice because my ex-husband is one of your partners. i receive your e-mail and your particular warning after you saw what the feds are reimbursing you for your practice and procedures which include fancy things like sticking needles in people's spines. tell us what the cuts are and why you are objecting. >> thanks for having us. basically medicare is looking for ways to save money on physician reimbu

good morning, kelly. >> good morning to you as well. as president obama prepares to meet today with leaders with the high-tech industry to discuss ways of improving healthcare.gov there were new concerns to talk about how secure the site is. some republican lawmakers say the navigators are a weak link in an already questionable chain of security. they claim navigators don't undo undergo a security check. >> the so-called navigators don't follow the rules the union has for insurance people. the idea that they are bonded they are identified, they are finger printed, anything that would cause you to know they are not felons and identity left perpetrators simply hasn't been done. >> congressman darrel issa there also adding they are not even required to show a copy of their driver's licenses referring to the navigators. white house press secretary jay carney pushes back against republican claims. >> this is just one more data point in the republican obsession with sabotaging obamacare. all navigators must have 20 hours of training. this is

welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. reporting from los angeles tonight. in less than 48 hours health & human services secretary kathleen sebelius will be back in front of congress. she's expected to be grilled on a new report that she didn't have a single one on one meeting with president obama in the three of and a half years leading up to the roll-out of obama care. how can that be? the white house slamming the report saying the president and secretary sebelius have had countless meetings. but so far refusing to provide any dates, times, or topics. why is that? marc is a fellow at the american enterprise institute and former speech writer for george w. bush. do you buy it -- countless? >> maybe. they have to put out the information. jay carney was in the press briefing the other day. he said lots of meetings happened that aren't on the record. i had two yesterday. that's not true. every meeting the president has is recordied. there is something called the white house diary. there is a room called the outer oval where the secretaries and personal aides a

. >> kelly mcnaughton is a game player. she runs schemes. >> i have two blonds, when i get real stressed out jackie and courtney, i call them the blonds, i lay between them and hold their hand when i'm stressed out and i tell them about my problems and they sit there and look beautiful. >> she seems to be manipulate weaker inmates into things. she is not small. she has a good size to her stature and that goes a long way. she just has a way of talking inmates into doing things she wants them to do. >> she might be in control of her fellow inmaptes in the dorm but not always in control of her temper. >> i was mad because i was put in the hole for nothing. i turned to the wall and beat the -- out of my mind. like blood everywhere. >> how long ago was that. >> like five weeks ago and it is still really bad. >> she also finds other ways to take the edge off jail. the problem is they all violate the rules. >> we have beer hidden and cigarettes. it is a party. everyone else makes the worse, i don't know why. i was taught in 2004 h

verizon. >>> from the world headquarters of fox news it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. >> there was a vicious attack on sarah palin but the resignation didn't get a lot of attention. the media research center did some checking. when rush limbaugh made a comment about sandra fluke, a former law student who testified on the subject of birth control the main stream media covered it 32 times in two weeks after the comment was made. when former msnbc host martin bashir said sarah palin was a good candidate for disgusting punishment, guess how many time it is networks covered that? joining me now brent bozell. he performed the study. how many times did they cover it? >> it's not hard to count them. it's zero. no coverage whatsoever. it's so bad that you don't want to say what it was. i will tell the audience if you don't know, imagine the most disgusting thing imaginable. that's what he said should be done to sarah palin. it was 100-fold more serious than anything rush limbaugh ever said about anyone in 30 years on his show. yet 32 stories, which is a tsunami on rush limbaugh, nothing

kelly is at the scene. the govenor gave us a lot of new information. is the govenor still there and the police commissioner still there assessing the scene? have they left. they both have left the area where the press conference has just been held. but police commissioner kelly just gave a few remarks off to the side and did say that there were 63 people in local hospitals that were taken to the hospital. 63 people taken to hospital and four fatalities and we know that more than 100 people were on this train. 11 critically injured. and we are still kind of looking at the scene as the responders walk the tracks and continue to try to figure out what exactly happened here. >> one question that bass put t to the govenor was there any one unaccounted for. we saw live pictures of the divers in the water certainly looking for people. and i hope i'm clear on this. gogovenor seemed to say they weren't looking for anybody else or there wasn't anyone unaccounted for. i'm not exactly sure. it looks like somebody else is getting ready to speak right now it might b

to cross-talk the year two thousand and thirteen i'm joined by my guest in washington kelly vlahos she's a journalist at antiwar dot com we also have medea benjamin she is a co-founder of code pink an alter of drone warfare and we also have kayla williams she is author of the book love my rifle more than you young and female in the u.s. army and she is also a truman national security project fellow all right welcome ladies to cross talk are you know in my view kelli i guess i'll take. surprise you and hopefully not your viewers because i'm an avid reader of antiwar dot com your favorite story is legit snowden tell me why. yes well i think edward snowden has he's ushered in a new era of independent journalism along with taking the end of the information revolution to on charted extraordinary heights i mean it's ongoing he the leaks that he is response of all four have spawn stories that revelations about government spying u.s. government spying every day every day there are new revelations about what the government has been doing in the shadows for the last thirteen years and i think what

well i have to agree with kelly about snowden i just came back from europe and. he is considered a real hero there i would say on the worst side would be congress it's just been an awful year with gridlock nothing being passed on immigration and even basic kind of reforms around gun control the budget fights leaving everybody bloody and battered so i think for the u.s. government in general it's been a bad year ok ok well can you give me a person that you like outside of the two that you mentioned at the sort of the program and we give me a little bit more optimistic ladies ok. i actually have been fairly pessimistic about this year is well i've been extremely disappointed both in congress and in the international computer community writ large about our inability to take any any concerted action to address the humanitarian crisis in syria or to seriously address climate change even though we've been seeing some really terrible storms when i was on hurricane sandy so on and so forth we have environmental degradation that is causing major problems and no move in si

to cross-talk the year two thousand and thirteen i'm joined by my guests in washington kelli vlahos she's a journalist at antiwar dot com we also have medea benjamin she is a co-founder of code pink and author of drone warfare and we also have kayla williams she's author of the book love my rifle more than you young and female in the u.s. army and she is also a truman national security project fellow all right welcome ladies to cross talk are you know in review kelly i guess i'll take. surprise you and hopefully not your viewers because i'm an avid reader of antiwar dot com your favorite story is legit snowden tell me why. yes well i think edward snowden has he's ushered in a new era of independent journalism along with taking the end of the information revolution to on charted extraordinary heights i mean it's ongoing he the leaks that he is response of all four have spawn stories that revelations about how government spying u.s. government spying every day every day there are new revelations about what the government has been doing in the shadows for the last thirteen years and i think

to cross-talk the year two thousand and thirteen i'm joined by my guests in washington kelli vlahos she's a journalist at antiwar dot com we also have medea benjamin she is a co-founder of code pink and author of drone warfare and we also have kayla williams she's author of the book love my rifle more than you young and female in the u.s. army and she is also a truman national security project fellow all right welcome ladies to cross talk arjuna and review kelly i guess i'll take. surprise you and hopefully not your viewers because i'm an avid reader of antiwar dot com your favorite story is legit snowden tell me why. yes well i think edward snowden has he's ushered in a new era of independent journalism along with taking the end of the information revolution to on charted extraordinary heights i mean it's ongoing he the leaks that he is response of all four have spawn stories that revelations about how government spying u.s. government spying every day every day there are new revelations about what the government has been doing in the shadows for the last thirteen years and i think what'

welcome to kwoez kelly. i'm megyn kelly. as the obama administration say it is website is greatly improved new reports point the to a major flaw. the part of the system that's supposed to deliver customer information to insurance companies, you log in your information and they deliver it to the insurance companies to get you insurance -- still doesn't work. that mean s many people may not be able to get coverage and others may think they have it and will find out at the hospital they don't. while the administration officials defended the improvements they claim they made to health care.gov the number two republican in the senate lashed out in an online chat with voters and is getting national attention tonight for this. >> i think the current administration the has take en lying to a new level. to me, that's the one thing that i find most aggravating about what's happening in washington these days. particularly about this administration which is a lack of accountability. and the willingness to mislead people or provide them

kelly is next. >>> thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the kelly file segment tonight, twoics including obamacare. the first one however is a concern that crime may be moving into the legalized industry. megyn kelly is here at 9:00 right after the factor. what's the pot mob thing? >> so colorado expblrks got a little frog, huh? >> yeah, i do. >> jumped from my voice to your voice. >> i'm going to charge you extra for the 1-900 service that apparently i'm providing live on the air. in colorado pot is legal even january -- already medical pot is legal they went in there, even though it's not legal at the federal level. the feds have said we are going to use it 0 states alone using for medicinal purposes. if organized crime starts to get involved or some drug cartels starts to get involved and they apparently although they are not specifically confirming that believe that's what's happening in colorado. they raided 10 separate facilities, including distears and a bunch of homes. no one got arrested during the course of these raids, but there is one guy hector diaz who is a col

that's from our producer kelly -- excuse me, director. she is getting in my ear right now. she is right! lots of clear skies out there right now. looking good. the arctic air is settling in. the temperatures now only in the 40s outside. 45 right now in santa rosa. 47 in san jose. and 49 degrees in san francisco. throughout the afternoon we'll see clear skies going to stay a little chilly and then clear and cold tonight. freeze warnings going up all around the bay area except for san francisco. and then by tomorrow the middle of the day we'll begin to see a few clouds and maybe some showers developing late in the day. but that cold arctic air continues to dive into california right now. behind that, just beginning to develop. we have an area of low pressure that's going to drop into the bay area. that will likely be the system that brings a chance of showers and maybe some snow down to about 1500 feet in some of the north bay mountains. temperatures around the state looking at 40s and 50s into the central valley. so cold there and cold in the high country about 28 in lake ta

welcome to "the kelly file." i'm martha maccallum in for megyn kelly. this is a journalism project designed to fact check statements from elected leaders. after 12 months of sifting through half truths and spin they decided this was the winner for what they call the lie of the year. >> first of all, if you've got health insurance, you like your doctor, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. nobody is talking about taking that away from you. if you like your health care plan you will be able to keep your health care plan, period. if you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too. if you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance, period, end of story. >> period, end of story. remember those in politifact saying the president's promise was impossible to keep and it was a hit to his credibility. ed henry is our chief white house correspondent. good evening. >> the bottom line is politifact say says it's been used to calm nerves but there is no way he could have kept the promise. the plans weren't something p

i'm kelly wright. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> topping the news this hour for you, an american military veteran detained in north korea finally released. coming up, a live report on 85-year-old merrill newman's grueling ordeal and his emotional trip back home. >> and the family of nelson mandela speaking out for the first time since the legendary leader's death. their emotional public statement coming up next. >> plus, we're marking 72 years since the attack on pearl harbor prp we'll have a live look at the memorial ceremonies and discuss how the lessons we learned that day still resonate as we fight the war on terror. >>> but first, a fox news alert on the release of a u.s. military veteran from north korea. this is video of 85-year-old merrill newman arriving back home in san francisco just a short time ago. he was released yesterday after being detained in north korea for more than a month. shortly before boarding a flight to the u.s., newman spoke with reporters about what he was most

i'm kelly evens.at your screens you'll see we're now down for three days in a row for the dow. looks like that'll be the same for the s&p 500. here's a look at how we're finishing. we were back and forth. now all three indexes finishing in the red. dow 103 toints to 15740. s&p 500 shedding a little more than six points for 1775. we'll talk about whether that 1780 mark was significant. nasdaq, the outperformer all day, still turning negative as we headed into the close shedding five points and, in fact, closing below 4,000. 3998 the level for that index. cnbc contributor and street.com columnist mr. herb greenberg. our very own seema mody. simon hobbs. great to have you with us. herb, what's the signal here? how much should we read from another late day selloff and now a three day losing stretch in these markets? >> i think you can read into this being a market that people don't -- there's no news. as people are talking about, they're locking in profits. i don't think people know what to do. they're al

truman national security project fellow all right welcome ladies to cross talk are you doing review kelly i guess i'll take. surprise you and hopefully not your viewers because i'm an avid reader of antiwar dot com your favorite story is let it snow to tell me why. yes well i think edward snowden has he's ushered in a new era of independent journalism along with taking the end of the information revolution to on charted extraordinary heights i mean it's ongoing he the leaks that he is response or responsible for. spawn stories that revelations about how government spying u.s. government spying every day every day there are new revelations about what the government has been doing in the shadows for the last thirteen years and i think what's different about the snowden leaks. in contrast to what bradley no child chelsea manning has done for the information revolution and wiki leaks which are very important up until now and still are but what he has done is he is changing the minds of americans about the importance of their privacy he has taken the issue of privacy government surveillance an

we have the kelly, core group of kellys on this christmas eve.uys, dan, i know it's hard to talk about the market when we feel like we're in the middle of a concert. >> she's fantastic. >> the movie of the year to see is "20 feet from stardom" the documentary of her life, perseverance, being a backup singer for all those years, that is something to remember going into 2014. keep it going. keep it going. >> exactly. >> investors can learn from that. >> that's right. >> so many people i see brought their children or grandchildren today, sort of in the holiday spirit getting ready to put out cookies for santa. >> that's true. >> i would also know while a lot of people don't know darlene love she's not a household today as she once may have been, this is someone ha is not in the rock and roll hall of fame that a lot of people want in the rock and roll hall of fame. this is not a nobody. >> yeah. >> people were saying the best known unrecognizable name or something to that like you know the voice even if you don't know her. santa claus coming to town.

>> great question, kelly. the fed when it looks around at broad marketplace, they see how strong it can be. there are also other parts where unemployment rate is below 1%. there's some counties in and around the back bakken formatio north dakota where they see growth the fed would like to see. driven by technological change, entrepreneurship that doesn't have anything to do with the fed's balance sheet. >> we need fraccing in every 50 states, is that what you're saying? >> we need change like that in all 50 states. that's what the fed would love to see. they know there's only so much they can do to try to generate that sustainable growth. >> it's interesting to me. i talked to a couple job placement people heading into today's report. i'm still hearing the same song from them about the skills gap and inability -- of folks out there trying to find jobs but not being able to be matched up because of skills problems they can't -- employers can't find the people with the right qualifications for the jobs they want

welcome to the program kelly think he is having its oppression. yes as i was explaining it to be kenyan the program kelly day you make that known fossil dc current decision to back two years ago. at the time i believed you were teaching in the school of optometry a uc berkeley. you know and also at the same time working for the hill giant search engine company google. and why that should make that yes that those allen's david archer after graduation to deny that these opportunities at lambert took a lot of wonderful colleagues and amazing projects that these two faces when i got to shed the use of the constitution and now on. i think it ended up accomplishing a lot and was very happy in that regard the latter had to tweak of the true sense of pure joy and peace now's working you know there is this internal struggle and feeling less less pay and the sounds are hearing and the less that's called to something else. and that's what happened when i meet a screeching still i don't think i can change that i would say that i still check this upcoming chan

welcome the to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. also tonight -- big news breaking tonight in the case of major with jason brezel, the marine who may lose his career after trying to save lives on a base in afghanistan. we have a verdict in the case. plus -- >> health care, obamacare is a good thing. >> the new health care push by michelle obama. wait until you see what she told al sharpton today. 40 million holiday shoppers may be getting ripped off at this moment. new warnings about one of the biggest computer hacks in history. breaking tonight, big news in a major 11th hour change -- yet another one -- to obamacare. in what's looking like a last ditch white house effort for health care coverage for some of the millions of americans who have been booted off of the plans they had and liked thanks to the president's law. with four days to go now until the deadline to enroll for obamacare coverage, we are talking monday. you don't enroll by monday you don't have coverage in the new year. news leaked about how the administration has de

we're -- meg yin kelly. her response to santa being a color other than white. >> kids at home santa is white. we're just debating this because someone wrote about it. >> jon: see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. now, unfortunately for miss kelly for fox her spram televised. -- her program is televised. and people who saw the segment or read about it expressed an opinion that what she said was wrong and defensive and oddly definitive for a discussion of a fictional character and (bleep)ed. people thought it was like really (bleep)ed up. that was actually the economists take on it. [ laughter ] but on friday miss kelly took to the airwaves to clear things up. >> in kicking off a light hearted segment i offered a tongue and cheek message for any kids watching saying that santa, who i joked is a real person whose race is identifiable is white. an offhand jest is now a national firestorm. humor is something we try to bring to the show but sometime it's lost on

>> that's right, kelly. there's a couple different factors that could help boost a number of ipos in 2014. first, american investors have seemed to regain their confidence in chinese ipos after what was a seven-month drought, seemed to be due to questionable accounting firms as chinese firms. second is stellar performance of chinese ipos this year. qunar, sungy and montage and 500.com is up more than 100%. we could see upwards of a dozen chinese companies list next year if investor sentiment and strong market continue in 2014. they expect chinese pipeline to be primarily in on demand software and i.t. space with focus on companies trying to capitalize on chinese half billion internet users. like baidu sina and youku have been focused on. all names are up this year as they try to penetrate chinese internet base and less weary of investing in chinese internet. but still skeptics say chinese accounting practices is still a concern. >> with public offerings from names ranging from twitter, hilton potbelly activi

welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. we first told you last night about the 11th hour change to the signature legislative achievement giving some americans who had insurance cancelled thanks to obamacare an exemptions from the so-called individual mandate. the penalty, the tax. that's at least the third major obamacare delay this month alone. all done by presidential proclamation. all done without congressleal approval. now the press corps is asking the president how americans can have confidence in this law if the chief executive keeps changing it. watch. >> you talk about the issues with health care but there have been other issues. misinformation about keeping policies, extended deadlines, postponements, a new waiver that hhs announced last night. how do you expect americans to have confidence and certainty in this law if you keep changing it? >> i have said before this is a messy process. sometimes when i say that people say, well, a, yeah, it's real messy and, b, isn't the fact that it's been so messy some indicatio