my thanks to charlie, to roger ailes. you, our viewers, for making the fox news channel number one for so many years and for trusting us night after night. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." >>> tonight, a former army official says key intel about terror groups in iraq was ignored by u.s. central command is here in a "hannity" exclusive. and an ap investigation reveals that smugglers were trying to sell nuclear material to isis. >> they'll never accept me because i don't believe in political correctness. >> dr. benjamin carson under attack from the mainstream media, but he refuses to back down. >> i can twist myself into pretzels trying to fit into their silly box or be who i am. >> he's here tonight to respond. plus hillary clinton's server scandal grows. ed henry has

you knew who was going to ask what questions. >> yes. >> rose: this was a roger ailes organized debate. >> well, he was, you know, he is the chairman at fox news. but roger had nothing to do with the actual debate prep or the questions. nothing to do with that. >> rose: each of you prepared your own questions. >> absolutely. >> rose: . >> we did it out of a bucket. there were six buckets an each of us had two buckets, for example, immigration and terrorism, i had, and socialists i had. but then in addition to your two buckets we each had a few dan account-- candidates that we had to ask a tough elect ability question, that was the opening round. we had to go through the ten guys up there and come up with the toughest question we could on why he was potentially unelectable. either in the primary contest or if he became the nominee, in the general election contest. that's how the question to trump was borne. i was thinking if he becomes the nominee and hillary clinton is likely to be the benj cratic nominee, what is she going to do. how is she going to come at him. and that's really why

roger ailes had to intervene. megyn celebrates the second anniversary of her show this month as she continues to lead the 2016 election coverage. here is a look at some memorable moments of her at work. megyn: in your op-ed, you write, "rarely has a u.s. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many." but time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong in iraq, sir. you said there was no doubt of saddam hussein having weapons of mass destruction. who are you to potentially endanger the lives of those individuals who may have been in around the shelling? >> i did not say it was illegal. megyn: it is so much bigger than that. you could have murdered somebody with those bombs. >> and we didn't. but actually the people that were conducting the war in vietnam did murder people. megyn: does that make yourself a murderer as well? on the subject of iraq, very controversial, knowing what we know now, would you have authorize the invasion? >> i would have, and so would hillary clinton. and so

work for roger ailes.d of fox news. they brought him in because walter mondale kicked reagan's butt in the first debate. they were worried about re-election. and we write the whole sequence, what roger ailes did and it plays into reagan's mind and what had happened. andrea: more bill o'reilly right after this break. ♪ i brought in some protein to get us moving. i'm new ensure active high protein. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength. i'll take that. yeeeeeah! new ensure active high protein. 16 grams of protein and 23 vitamins and minerals. ensure. take life in. harris: so much fun having bill o'reilly. the new book, "killing reagan." we loved what you had to say leading up to debates between carter and reagan. >> thank you, harris. i appreciate that. harris: congratulations so far on brand new book. will you stick with us online? >> online, yes. can't wait. harris: stay right here, "outnumbered overtime,"/out numbe red. click on overtime tab. happening now starts right now.

charlie: it is a special relationship between you and roger ailes? he takes a lot of credit for giving you the opportunity. he gives you more credit because you are the one who is our -- who are upfront. define the relationship. megyn: he is absolutely a mentor, also a friend. he is my boss. we are not equal. but i depend on him for sane,ship and seeing -- honest advice. he will give it to me. never with respect to news conference. everybody thinks that roger ailes is a political operative. that is all bs. never once in my 11 years has he told me how to cover storage. -- a story. but he does give you advice on your personal life, on who you are and how you are transmitting on television, like even down to little things. when i first started, he would say, it was to rapidfire. take some pauses. slow down from time to time. he was right about that. this x-ray vision into your soul, and he has a way of knowing what you need. if you need to be built up, he can do that. if you need to be checked on your ego, he can do that. many greatso stories, war stori

and roger ails made that decision. what the other networks did was their business. but i think we proved we will be tough on both sides. so i think this is on the network's should rs. you tell me. >> when rance preibus made this deal. >> these are journalists who possibly had a leopard leaning view of the world. >> when becky did this thing about the 70 cents on a dollar for women, that is explicit ly false. >> incredibly partisan. >> why was it insulting? >> what is our cause? >> why did you put a price tag? that's what i love. every time she says that, then the time i play with my children, it's not worth anything because there's not a dollar amount attached to it. >> it's this assumption that, you know, women only care about how much they pay. it's important. i like money. money is great. it's not the only thing that's affecting women. >> what do you think is going to happen next. here, you tell me, we've got -- fox news tells me it's going to be tough on both side. >> the dnc is controlling their debate. >> if you step outside of their debate, the ones that they

i could get roger ails to give me your check and you could have mine and that's not going to happen. want your job. you do a great job. >> that's kind. and do you know what, i'm going to reciprocate, i don't want yours. you do a great job. >> thank you. >> for two guys -- >> a couple of beat-up old jocks that did pretty well. that's the great part of america, that's what it is and that's what we need to keep advocating. >> you got it. ed rollins, always good to have you here. thanks very much. >>> a professional slack-liner taking his sports to new levels. get this, a 33-year-old daredevil suspended over a slack line suspended over a colorado lake with hungry alligators. who knewhey had alligators in colorado. he maled it out alive but he warned anyone watching not to try the stunt at home. doggone it, i was going to do it, too, thank goodness he gave us that warning. >> me, too. >> i'm guessing they had to bring in the alligators special for this spot. that was thoughtful. >>> and a professional mountain biker giving everyone a taste of what it's like to ride one of the serious, mos

he told roger ailes to tone down the pro trump rhetoric. can look at it as a way of damaging trump because carson and trump along with carly fiorina are three of the outsider candidates. so murdoch's tweets in a certain way can be seen as trying to boost carson at the expense of donald trump. >> he is known for not holding his tongue or at least his fingers when it comes to writing on twitter. >> i do think a lot of this is about his genuine admiration for ben carson. i think what we're parsing here is the word real. and it is fraught, it is definitely controversial. this is reflected on the broader series of things about his admiration of murdoch. has it caused a little explosion tonight? you bet. it's also of interest to me that this is a president who has always had a slightly different racial experience and racial narrative, even if his own books from a lot of african americans and so i think that this is a -- this peels back a little complex window in our society right now, not only on how president obama has been bounded in some of th

ed rollins: appealing to me if i could get roger ailes to give me your check and you could have mine, with that, too. that's not going to happen. lou: you had me nervous there for a while. ed rollins: i don't want your job, you do a great job. lou: that's kind. i'm going reciprocate. i don't want yours either. do you a great job! [ laughter ]. lou: for two guys -- ed rollins: beat up old jocks, that's the great part of america, that's what it is, we need to keep advocating. lou: you got it. ed rollins, good to have you. ed rollins: thanks so much. lou: a professional slack liner taking support to new levels. suspended above a colorado lake filled with hungry alligators. who knew they had alligators in colorado? he made it out alive but warned anyone watching not to try the stunt at home. dog gone it! i was going to do it too. ed rollins: me too. lou: thank goodness he gave me the warning. that means they had to bring in the alligators special for this spot. that was thoughtful. >>> and a professional mountain biker giving everyone a taste what it's like to ride one of the scariest mos

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. >> roger ailes and rupert murdoch and everybody else who runs fox news, their left-wingers. you can't trust them. we have to throw these communists out. and reince priebus, the head of the rnc, he's a left-winger too. he needs to be fired. and that's who ted cruz thinks could put the moderate back in moderator. that's who ted cruz thinks should be moderating the republican primary debates from here on out, for balance he'll be there alongside sean hannity and rush limbaugh. now, rnc chairman reince priebus, what do you think about that? now, actually, somebody really did ask reince priebus what he thinks about that. watch this. i find this just astonishing. >> this is what he said maybe should happen in the future. i want to get your thoughts on it. >> how about a debate moderated by sean hannity and mark levin and rush limbaugh? now, that would be a debate. >> i think he's right. you strive to get to a place where the people that are doing the moderating are going to put on a fair show. >> reince priebus, chairman of the republican party, wants the republican party debates

posted by roger ailes. >> great american heroes. bill: there is new evidence revealed at the marathon 11-hour hearing on benghazi. welcome to our newest colleague here at fox news. >> i'm abbey huntsman in for martha maccallum. she admitted she'd told her daughter and husband that the assault in benghazi were the result of a terrorist attack. >> you have said two officers were killed today in benghazi by an al qaeda-like group. then you had a conversation with the egyptian prime minister. you told him this. we note attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. it was a planned attack, not a protest. you knew the truth. but that's not what the american people got. >> if you look at the statement i made i clearly said it was an attack and i said there were some who tried to justify it on the basis of the video, congressman. >> calling it an attack is like saying the sky is blue. of course, it was an attack. >> we were in a position of trying to make sense of a lot of incoming information and watch the way the intelligence company t

i think roger ailes is great from fox but i go home and i watch it and i say i'm going to watch myself. who wouldn't do it? then i see the pundits coming, these highly paid guys. and they say they didn't like it and i was good in the first debate. and they said for 28 minutes i didn't say anything at the end. i wasn't asked any questions. i wanted to say but it was so dishonest. so for the first two hours everything was me. it was either question to me. these guys are honorable guys. stand up. they are rich guys. these guys are loaded. that's why they are in the first row. of course i was hurt in the theater the fourth rows with us. so they won out and they do this thing on television. i'm saying i can understand it. my doctor says that every single polling organization they all say you one. but on the "cnn" debate, it was two hours. a two-hour debate. it was two hours and they made it three hours. it was a two-hour debate when i got there. don't ruin my story. it was a two-hour debate and then a day and a half or two days before what happened is it was in variety and hollywood with po

posted by roger ailes. >> great american heroes.aled at the marathon 11-hour hearing on benghazi. welcome to our newest colleague here at fox news. >> i'm abbey huntsman in for martha maccallum. she admitted she'd told her daughter and husband that the assault in benghazi were the

"fox news", roger ailes back when he was in the nixon white house had proposed or signed off on a proposal for something called gop tv which was an early "fox news." nixon couldn't raise the money so it never happened and then he met murdoch and murdoch said sure we can do this but they lost $100 million a year for roughly five years before they made any money so you could say hey sean hannity lost them an aggregate of $400 million. isn't that a terrible failure cracks after the fifth year they caught an audience. air america when they declared bankruptcy to think they have gone through 16 or $17 million over a five or six year period. not a lot of money for a national radio network. particularly the win the business model was leasing radio stations. so i think being undercapitalized was the biggest sin. there were management problems and there were some programming issues that i disagreed with. i thought they were creating programs or more like television and radio and there's a real big difference in those mediums. i think the real big problem was they were --. >> host: in several of you

fox news, roger ailes back in the nixon white house had proposed or signed off on a proposal of gop tv which was an early fox news. nixon couldn't raise the money so never happened. then he met murdoch and murdoch said sure let's do this. they lost $100 million a year for roughly five years before they made any money. you could say hey sean hannity lost them. in the aggregate may be $400 million. isn't that a terrible failure. while no after the fifth year they start making money and now they make a lot of money. when they declared bankruptcy i think they had gone through like 16 or $17 million over five or six year period. not a lot of money for a national radio network particularly one part of the business model was a net radio station. so i think being undercapitalized was the biggest thing. there was a management problem. some people in management should not have been there. there are some programming issues that i disagree with. i thought there creating some programs are more like television and radio. there is a a real big difference in those mediums. i think the big problem --da

in '88 we had a great team; roger ailes, lee atwater and myself provided some of the toughness and the response. and it allowed him to talk in a positive way. what happened in '92, i think, is that he was expected to do both sides of that, and it really just didn't work. >> how much of the time was spent on policy and how much time was spent on re-election focus? general domestic policy and foreign policy? >> i was in the white house from 1989 to march of 1992. and even though you do political things in that period -- the president would do some fundraisers and would during the re-election cycle of 1990 went out and campaigned for some republican candidates -- i can tell you that probably not enough time was spent on politics. and the president -- just take a look at what was happening simultaneously. the dealing with the soviet union, dealing with saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait, the negotiation on every one of those pieces of domestic legislation i talked to you about by a president who would invest personal time meeting with rostenkowski over two dozen times, meeting with congre

led by rupert murdoch and roger ailes. i came on as a reporter 17 years ago. to everyone past and present at fox news, happy birthday. >>> tomorrow house republicans will meet to select their nominee for speaker. current majority leader, kevin mccarthy considered the front-runner and has the support of outgoing speaker john boehner. jason chaffetz and daniel webster are also running. webster was endorsed by the house freedom caucus. the full house vote will happen october 29th. we'll have full coverage tomorrow. >>> the senate has passed a $612 billion defense policy bill. the president obama has promised to veto. president is unhappy with the measure increases defense funding while congress refuses to add to the domestic spending budget. >>> foreign countries are getting important information about people living here in the u.s. maybe even you. but it is not from hackers. it is from the irs. correspondent rich edison tells us how that works. >> the internal revenue service is sharing u.s. taxpayers' personal information with other governments. at least 34 cou