montel williams joins me. you won't want to miss it. people are openly speculating there could be an alien super structure. from hip hop rapper to clergyman to globe trotter. joe i have simmons and his wife drop by. i brought a tiger and a leopard into my studio. that is not the beginning of a great joke. watch how i react to a large predatory cat. it's real sweet. let's kick things off on the "topical storm." when jack frost is trying to steal your credit card, come to me. this is the "topical storm." at a basketball game a young woman named sally had the chance to win a quarter million dollars. all she had to do was sing a half court shot. -- was sink a half court shot. let's see if sally does it. sally, she is so pretty. her halloween colors. it falls out of her hand. fall short of half court. it was so awful. the team should confiscate money from her. i have seen zoo animals play better than that, sally. s that's right. yes. that was just a half-court shot. the pros can sing them from much further like michael jordan. watch. beautif

montel williams has covered mass shootings before. he wrote i speak for a living and i don't know what to say anymore. i'm done with thoughts and prayers it many hard to explain how i feel to those who haven't spent as much time with victims of mass shootings, mostly kids at schools, as i have. >> i think about those who have suffered this way over the last three, four, five years. and the victims who have to relive this all day. we have to talk about it and do the news and present it. but don't we know we are terrorizing some people who have to live through the wounds they are dealing with 15 years say columbine and other thing that happened. that's why i got so angry. i was at a loss for word. when you see what the "post" or "daily news," prayers, they go out to everybody to survived this. we should be saying prayers of thank you to the police department in san bernardino for doing the hard work and they are still doing the work. prayers aren't enough. kennedy: when we talk about these thing we are trying to come to grips with where

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. >> you are facebook friend with montel williams?: he was on the show and we argued about gun control and he posted it to his twitter page. nearly every type of pet except for snakes is aloud on airplanes if a passenger had medical documentation saying they need their animal for emotional support. flight attendants are growing alarmed at the number of fliers faking disabilities to bring their dogs and cats on planes. this drives me so insane. i don't mind having dogs and cats on planes. but people who lie on go on ebay and get the jackets for their pets and the fake letter from their brother-in-law who went to medical school in the dominican republic, it's madness. >> i'm so torn with this. i understand that people with ptsd need these service animals. they kind of get screwed in this whole thing. people don't believe they have this medical issue. but if i had a get, i would be very interested in doing something like this myself because if you don't have a license that says you need it on your lap, you have to put your animal underne

i thought montel williams this morning put it perfectly when he talked about this sort of culture of television, that pulls the voter, the listener, into this new world. that's what trump has ostensibly done, very effectively, and it changes the way we do and perceive politics. >> but experts like yourself and e.j. can analyze this all day but ultimately it is up to the other individuals running for that gop nomination deciding how they can attack donald trump. i'll play what jeb bush said to chuck todd refusing to say if he would support donald trump if he gets that nomination. listen in. >> let me ask you this. are you going to be able to support donald trump if he's the republican nominee? >> chuck, he's not going to be the nominee. he's not a serious candidate. he's an entertainer. these are dog whistle proposals to prey on people's fears and consume the news. it's not a serious campaign. >> it doesn't sound like you can support him if he is the nominee. why not say it? >> because it is not going to happen. i will support the republican nominee and i'm working hard to make sure i

neil: montel williams made this a cause celebre because he's a celeb. line at shutting down the va and said veterans have a need to go to a place where only veterans are cared for, and despite some of the cases that you hear of abuse or stupidity, there is a camaraderie among doctors who know vets and vets who know the doctors and should not be jettisons, what do you think of that? >> we at concerned veterans for america have a plan, the fixing task force that we rolled out. what we propose doing is turning the va integrated health care system, the brick and mortar hospital into a government chartered nonprofit and giving every veteran the choice to use private health care with va benefits. what we feel it will do is force the current va system to improve, force it to compete with the private sector and give it to the incentive to achieve. i don't think that camaraderie and things like that are ultimately what drive veterans's use of the va. it's the only health care provider, the only choice they can have. and also too, they have serious service connec