megan kelly threw one of the first punches back in 2013. >> what's it like to be one of the most hated men in america? >> and the hits keep on coming. the washington post says, a lot of people don't like ted cruz, how come that's with him? and how about this headline. >> there's nothing like the warm embrace of the plain stream media. >> cruz told megan kelly on fox that's exactly why he's special. >> if you are lookin looking foa candidate embraced by the washington elite i ain't your guy. >> cruz's outsider status and his appeal to christian evangelicals, a majorities of the republicans who participate in these caucuses are evangelical. and rocket fuel that can take candidate deep into the nomination process. there is perhaps nobody in america who knows more about iowa politics than david gepson. he keeps tabs on the hawkeye state though he serves as the director of the paul simon center. what's going on with ted cruz in iowa? >> i think ted cruz is starting to hit the sweet spot. he's picking up support from ben carson's supporters who are evangelical and are leaving carson because

. >> reporter: after that first republican debate donald trump said of moderator megan kelly >> you could see blood coming out of her eyes and wherever >> reporter: even in the rally this week, he used arguably sexist language when he responded to a woman protester >> that's a very weak voice. a little louder. we can't hear you, darling >> reporter: on the latist clash on hillary clinton he comes from a different place. he has blasted her for making a false claim about him and i.s.i.l. >> he is becoming i.s.i.s.'s best recruiter. they are going to people showing road accident videos of donald trump insulting muslim. >> donald trump is on video and i.s.i.s. is using him on the video to recruit. it turned out to be a lie. she is a liar. >> reporter: and on that charge many republicans agree. to them hillary clinton is a figure to be despised. in other words, while some americans might describe donald trump's approach as degrading, for him this is the language of victory >> hillary is not a president >>> cleaning up the river, inside the effort to clean up a river that runs through the natio

i showed up the 1st day to go into confinement and i had gone on the megan kelly show and expressed to me in my great relief of the obama administration's effort to send me the federal prison for up to two years. i had gotten inside a judge they gave me this confinement. and so i've been in the prison rap. but when i checked it -- in the confinement the 1st thing he said to me was, you would have been better off of federal prison. i said why is that. because it's white-collar prison. all nonviolent offenders were running in the business executives and mayors and doctors who defrauded medicare. you can play chess because they have activities director. and i go, what about here. no, thisno, this is a whole different class of people. and as it turns out, the confinement center is a kind of halfway house, a place were essentially hardened criminals who have served there terms were almost serve there terms transition back into society. suddenly i found myself in a row about the size sleeping with 120a hundred 20 convicts one drug smugglers, coyotes, on drivers, rapists, the whole gamut. rec

more we're going to have because of copy caps that are inspired to >>> it's the kelly file with megan kelly. >> among the wounded yesterday, an environmental engineer who works in the conference room. she was shot once in the hand and twice in the stomach but survived. we spoke to her husband. >> she just returning from the restroom and heading to the conference room, that's when all the bullets started flying through. they started hitting her, going above her head. then she and a few other people then ducked down themselves and you know crawled them into the bathroom. then she realized she was bleeding. her jacket had blood hole through the jacket and she was bleeding. her friend told her that there was a couple who was with ski masks shooting at the people until they found out, and then they know who these people are. they all work together on the same team. and this guy is working there for five years, with the same team. nothing unusual. nobody ever suspected anything unusual. that's what i'm hearing from her and some of her co-workers. she is crying still, she can't believe that her be

. >> reporter: after that first republican debate it was said of megan kelly >> you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes or wherever >> reporter: even during the rally this week he used arguably sexist language when he responded to a woman protester >> that's a very weak voice. go a little louder. we can't hear you darling. >> reporter: the latest clash seems to come from a different place. for three tray straight days he has blasted hillary clinton for making a false claim about him and i.s.i.l. in her debate on saturday night >> he is becoming i.s.i.s.'s best recruiter. they are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit. >> reporter: donald trump has even started imitating her >> donald trump is on video and i.s.i.s. is using him on the video to recruit. it turned out to be a lie. she is a liar. >> reporter: and on that charge many republicans agree. to them hillary clinton is a figure to be despised. -- despised. >> hillay is not a president >>> kentucky's new government has ordered the names of county clerks to be remo

. >>> so do you think megan kelly will be comment taiter, the debate coordinator as they called them,'t know what they call them. welcome back. >> good to be back. >> were you here yesterday. >> moderator. >> moderator. >> thank you. >> hi, lauren. good to see you. good day, it is tuesday, december 15th, we are ten days from christmas, 2015. >> i have nothing done. it still doesn't feel like christmas. >> i have nothing done either. >> that is our situation, what about you? lets talk about the the weather today, we will be calling this is wind of change, one out of ten in weather by the the number. we have a few stray cloud, but that is only if you aring out, right now. temperatures will fall, and, you can see on radar just a few little drips and drops around, and some cloud as

. >>> it's the kelly file with megan kelly. >> among the wounded yesterday, an environmental engineerin the conference room. she was shot once in the hand and twice in the stomach but survived. we spoke to her husband. >> she just returning from the restroom and heading to the conference room, that's when all the bullets started flying through. they started hitting her, going above her head. then she and a few other people then ducked down themselves and you know crawled them into the bathroom. then she realized she was bleeding. her jacket had blood hole through the jacket and she was bleeding. her friend told her that there was a couple who was with ski masks shooting at the people until they found out, and then they know who these people are. they all work together on the same team. and this guy is working there for five years, with the same team. nothing unusual. nobody ever suspected anything unusual. that's what i'm hearing from her and some of her co-workers. she is crying still, she can't believe that her best friend who she worked with being shot and killed. nobody comprehend

. >>> so do you think megan kelly will be comment taiter, the debate coordinator as they called them, i don't know what they call them. welcome back. >> good to be back. >> were you here yesterday. >> moderator. >> moderator. >> thank you. >> hi, lauren. good to see you. good day, it is tuesday, december 15th, we are ten days from christmas, 2015. >> i have nothing done. it still doesn't feel like christmas. >> i have nothing done either. >> that is our situation, what about you? lets talk about the the weather today, we will be calling this is wind of change, one out of ten in weather by the the number. we have a few stray cloud, but that is only if you aring out, right now. temperatures will fall, and, you can see on radar just a few little drips and drops around, and some cloud as well. we have 61 degrees, and, 17 miles an hour sustain wind ape 7:15 your official sunrise time. temperature will fall today. we will go down and bounce backup again late this afternoon and then tonight, we will have clearing skies and 44 degrees. so once again, a seven out of ten, in your weather by the

i don't care about megan kelly but i would not apologize. she should probably apologize to me but i don't care. >> reporter: while he maintained front runner status. the democratic field is much smaller with hillary clinton fighting off bernie sanders. hillary clinton's campaign trail to get dramatic turn in october. >> i lost more sleep than all of you put together >> reporter: the democratic front runner testifying in front of the house committee investigating the benghazi tragedy. the clinton campaign called it a political witch hunt. republicans insist it is not about clinton what about getting answers. another heated battle over planned parenthood funding. a series of heavily edited undercover videos prompted a house oversight hearing. the group behind the videos claim they showed planned parenthood employees negotiating the sale of fetal tissue for profit which is illegal. >> the outrageous accusations leveled against planned parenthood based on heavily doctored videos are offensive and categorically untrue >> reporter: some congressio

. >> best new artist, courtney barnett, james bay, sam hunt, torey kelly and megan trainor. >> torey lly is so good. >> i will go for weekend. i cannot feel my face when i'm with you. >> weekend, a lot of great songs. >> dave warren, nominations are all out now. >> keep us updated. >> find out how many taylor swift got, how many nominations because i want to congratulate myself. >> hey, "good day philadelphia". >> explain to me. >> trending stuff on twitter. >> but they can be snacker i buzz feed. >> they do a lot of different lists about things. >> yes good this one they did a year enter list because we are rounding out the year. >> some of the worst things that have happened over last year. >> someone tweet had you made buzz feed. >> i said cool. >> then i saw it was for. the top things white people ruined in 2015. >> that is the name of their article. >> yes. >> that is us. >> buzz feed posted this list and sadly we are on it. >> there we are, apparently, number 18, it is dabbing. >> yes. >> tweeted out rip dab 2015 to 2016. he killed it. sue serio in the dab there. >> yes. >> that

wand fur megan kelly will be moderator, it is on cnn. she won't be there. she's probably thankful. >> unless she has been hired away from fox. >> we don't know that could be our breaking story. >> okay, you get to that chris. >>> president obama is assuring americans that we can win in the fight begins isis. that the coalition against isis is gaining ground. >> as we squeeze its heart we will make it harder for isil to spread its terror propaganda to the rest of the world. >> president obama making those remarks from the pentagon, yesterday. he said air strikes and special operations forces are taking back territory from isis or isil as he calls it in iraq. some republicans have criticized the obama administration for not coming up with a updated plan against isis especially in the wake of the terror attacks in paris and, of course, san bernardino. maybe he needs to come out every day and talk about air strikes. >>> meanwhile a new associated press poll shows more americans now support the idea of using ground troops to defeat isis. 41 percent of americans

, so we can talk about things that aren't classified, but he discussed some of these things on megan kelly's show but he was actually investigating one of many organizations that are under the overall radical islamic movement and as he's pointed out, the name of it means society for spreading faith. it's an islamic global proselytizing movement with followers in over 200 countries. not everybody is a radical islamist, but it should set off bells and whistles to wake people up that when a relationship is seen from the middle east quarterly in 2005, it says groups at a local osques and doing a few local missions, the officials invited star recruits in pakistan for four months of additional missionary training. representatives of terrorist organizations approached the students at the center and invite them to undertake military training, unquote. a cue s include 1995 attempt. a guy named john walker lind and richard reid, the shoe bomber, and 002, portland seven, 2006, airline bombing plot. 2008, barcelona plot. those are just some of the ties that they have had with terrorism. global nstitute,

afraid to pick a fight with the media, and making controversial comments about fox news' anchor megan kyn kelly or mocking times' reporter with a disability. it is the reality tv effect on t the campaign trail. as primary heats nup 2016, the media circus will continue. the voters will have the last word on trump. >> yes, we are just getting started with 2016. up next on "reliable sources" the panel of top editors. i will ask them what was the toughest decision a they had to make this year, and what stories deserved a lot more coverage? the answers are right after t s this. ♪ (vo) some call it giving back. we call it share the love. during our share the love event, get a new subaru, and we'll donate $250 to those in need. bringing our total donations to over sixty-five million dollars. and bringing love where it's needed most. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> welcome back. without a doubt, 2015 has been all about the donald trump show. trump's incendiary comments about first mexican immigrants and muslims and some journalists kept him in the headlines. in fact, so much so that media

. >> that's started with megan kelly going after him.dential? . stuart: do they want that man in the oval office? >> all right. reminds me of the statesman; right? he has the one quality that's great in a statesman, which is adhering to his word and not dying to political correctness but the other one. does he have the temperament? and i think a lot of people do have that question and as you point out so astutely, i think this is a different game, and i think people are sick and tired. men are sick and tired of being feminized, they're tired of it all and the political correctness is not going to win. that playbook the democrats have, they better toss it. liz: i also think the pocketbook issue is very important for voters and that isn't being talked about very much but people think donald trump is more likely to have a successful economy than hillary clinton. and that is really big. >> that's a great. stuart: how about are you on this program every tuesday? >> only if you want me to be. i haven't been asked, but if you want to make me a

. >> his campaign has said out loud, listen, we get more pop from sitting in a studio and megan kellyd whoever it is from being on the ground and that may be wrong. it may doom them eventually, but they believe they can go more broad with their media. >> the contrast with chris christie. if they're a new hampshire voter and you see chris christie in the state all the time spending every last second of every town hall and he has really, to his credit, he has turned himself upside down which is the hardest thing to do in politics. and the contrast of marco rubio, if you're the voter. i want to vote for the rubio guy who is never here. if i have chris christie here saying, i'm here all the time. >> he's our guest just ahead. >> it leads to the question, at least in my mind, what is the strategy here. looking towards the middle of march when you have a bunch of states going off and in two weeks, march 8th. >> waiting for people to leave. >> here's the problem. you have to pick a state. chris christie did that and he picked new hampshire. other people have picked new hampshire, as well. bu

the best new artist nomination, courtney barnett, james bay, sam hunt, tori kelly, and megan traynor. >> good category. >> let's go to record of the year. >> record of the year. ladies and gentlemen, the nominees are -- really love by deangelo and the vanguard. uptown funk featuring bruno thinking outloud. >> that's a good category. >> blank space. by taylor swift. can't feel my face by the weeknd. >> song of the year. really good category. >> my favorite personal category. >> okay. >> this rewards the writer to the song, right? >> which is my favorite. nominations are "all right" "blank space." "girl crush by little big town. "see you again." "thinking out loud." by ed sheeran. the year. >> wow! >> all 365 days, alicia! >> the entire year. it goes to -- well, not -- the nominees. . i'm getting all excited. it's the wrong day. all right. shakes. "to pimp a butterfly." "traveler" by chris stapleton. "1989" by taylor swift. and "beauty behind the madness." by the weeknd. >> every time you look at the categories, it's so hard to choose. you like one and that one. why is song of the year

megan hughes has more. as they did in 2012 ter sandyhook. indiana mom kelli robinson bought herself a second firearm. "i'm a widow with a severely autistic child that i'm going to protect with my last breath." according to the fbi more americans had gun background checks last friday than any day on record. that wawathe same day a shooter killed three people at a planned parenthood clinic in colorado. "people are scared." history is also repeating itself in congress- by three votes the republican controlled senate failed to pass gun control legislation that would apply background checks to gun purchases online and at gun shows. nats "the amendment fails" and by an even greater margin, the senate voted down an amendment that would stop anyone on the fbi's terrorist watch list from walking into a store and purchasing guns... sanders: just because it is not an easy problem to solve doesn't mean that we shouldn't do everything we can. rubio: "i think the left often pivots to gun laws /it's never been shown that these gun laws are effective republican presidential candidates blame democrats for politicizin

megan hughes has more. gun store owners say sales are booming just as they did in 2012 after sandyhook. indiana mom kelli robinson bought herself a second firearm. "i'm a widow with a severely autistic child that i'm going to protect americans had gun background checks last friday than any day on record. that was the same day a shooter killed three people at a planned parenthood clinic in colorado. "people are scared." history is also repeating itself in congress- by three votes the republican controlled senate failed to pass gun control legislation that would apply background checks to gun purchases online and at gun shows. nats "the amendment fails" and by an even greater margin, the senate voted down an amendment that would stop anyone on the fbi's terrorist watch list from walking into a store and purchasing guns... sanders: just because it is not an easy problem to solve doesn't mean that we shouldn't do everything we can. rubio: "i think the left often pivots to gun laws /it's never been shown that these gun laws are effective republican presidential candidates blame democrats for politicizing trag

megan. they were supposed to be fighting a fire in lanham. instead they were fighting each other. now they face assault and obstruction charges. two from landover hills say christopher kelly and jeff miller physically forced them out of the home last week. the fight basically boils down to a turf war. >> to have a situation where fors are arguing or fighting or tussling over a fire scene is just absolutely unacceptable. >> a new maryland law makes it a felony to assault firefighters while they're performing their jobs. >>> attorneys on both sides met with the judge behind closed doors yesterday. at least one more private session is planned. porter was the first officer to go on trial for freddie gray's death but the trial ended in a hung jury. the next trial for officer caesar goodson is scheduled to begin in three weeks. officer goodson was driving the police van that was transported gray. >> freddie gray's death has brought new attention to detainees suffering injuries in the back of a police van. it's not the fit of its kind. they have sued departments over the years alleging they've been hurt ore these. the department is making some big changes. >> training of the off

this is producer kelly may with her parents, joe and sandi and brothers andrew and michael. >> and sarah sonic and her uncle carl. >> producer meganes and producer jeff field with daughters and wife. >> mom, joann, brothers dan and jim and rose, of course. >>> and my favorite field producer, samantha hoenig with her mom, dad and sister aj. and this is my husband and my grandma. we decorated the tree. did all that. if you're watching grandma, love you. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >>> we have to talk a little bit of weather. bottom line is worry sitting outside right now in new york city, midtown manhattan, not wearing a coat. >> you're like the toughest one here. >> i know. all right. to talk about the weather where you are as well, here are the femp temps. 61 in memphis. eastern part of the country, two more days of warm weather. we will cool down eventually by monday. the west, you're cooler. 45 in dallas. the forecast through the northeast today, warm. for the time of year, it is warm. 68 d.c. with scattered showers. tomorrow we warm up even a little more. lot of places back up to 70 degrees. pretty heavy rain across pa