Fox News host Brian Kilmeade told Jesse Watters that he believes media coverage of the impeachment inquiry is making President Donald Trump’s supporters more convinced to support him.

“None of this stuff has panned out that’s why these polls don’t move on impeachment, the people just don’t trust what they’re hearing anymore,” Watters told Kilmeade on Watters World Saturday.

“If you have a chance to travel the the country … go to Oklahoma go to Nebraska, go to Texas — they’re not following it. And so they don’t get upset, they’re not changing their mind. In fact when they view it, it has made the Trump supporters more determined. it made the ambivalent Trump supporters more determined because they see unfairness to it,” Kilmeade said.

Watters posed a similar question to contributor Deroy Murdock, asking “Trump being besieged 24/7 by all of this stuff, do you think that’s what hardens their allegiance towards president?”

Murdock said he believes it does, saying “they see him being victimized over nothing, over a call that might be a little bit unusual but nothing illegal or impeachable in the view of increasing number of people we’ve seen since the impeachment hearing started support for impeachment has fallen.”

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Comedian Louis CK, who is touring again two years after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment, told more of his trademark, boundary-pushing jokes in a comedy club in Israel.

According to the New York Daily News, the comedian was lamenting the public scrutiny that comes with living in his hometown, New York City, during a Thanksgiving night performance in a comedy club outside Tel Aviv. CK, who is Jewish, joked that he would prefer to live in the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, but with a major caveat.

“I’d rather be in Auschwitz than New York City,” he told the audience. “I mean now, not when it was open.”

The comic also addressed the sexual harassment claims that he masturbated in front of other female comedians, which conceded did happen. And then he chose to make light of his victimizing of the women, sarcastically cautioning his audience not to repeat his behavior.

“If they say ‘yes,’ then still don’t do it, because it’s not popular,” he snarked.

Per the Daily News, CK got a rousing round of applause during his set, despite his joke invoking the Holocaust.

National Review columnist Victor David Hanson accused House Democrats of trying to impeach President Donald Trump for “thought crimes” because military aid to Ukraine was delayed by the White Hose — for nearly two months — but was not ultimately canceled.

Speaking with Fox News’ Ed Henry, Hanson reprised his argument from his most recent column, where he argued that the president’s opponents are basing their case against him on things he might have talked about but never actually did.

“It’s not against the law, at least it wasn’t under the U.S. Constitution, to think something,” Hanson told Henry. “If I want to think about speeding at 80 miles per hour and I talk about thinking about it but I actually don’t, I’m not guilty of anything other than harboring a bad thoughts.”

He went to analogize Trump’s conduct with Ukraine to that example.

“Trump may or may not, we don’t really know, the evidence suggests he didn’t, think about delaying aid and that aid was delayed. But it wasn’t cut off. Maybe he thought about cutting it off,” Hanson said. “That’s not a crime. There was a context about it and he didn’t force the firing of anybody in Ukraine, and he didn’t interfere in the sense that the Ukrainians stared an investigation at his prompt.”

This latter claim by Hanson is belied by reports that Ukraine was, in fact, set to announce an investigation at Trump’s behest on CNN on Sept. 13th, but that move was abruptly abandoned after the aid was released.

Henry likewise pushed back on Hansons’ first point, noting that, just this week, impeachment testimony revealed two Trump administration Office of Management and Budget officials had questioned the legality of the White House withholding the aid, even temporarily, and that they ultimately resigned in protest over the move.

“It wasn’t just a thought,” Henry pressed. “It may have only been days are a couple of weeks, but the aid was held up.”

“It’s not against the law to hold up aid,” Hanson replied, without acknowledging that he was no longer talking about what Trump thought, but actually did. “Every president, every administration has the right to examine, cross-examine, think, double-think about the aid for a couple of reasons. Maybe they thought it was corrupt. People have suggested that Ukraine couldn’t be trusted until they had verification the new president was reliable. Maybe they thought Donald Trump was too sensitive about giving aid to anybody. All of these are legitimate reasons to delay or to interrupt aid, but the bottom line is he didin’t cut it in the end.”

In fact, presidents cannot legally withhold Congressionally-approved foreign aid for just any reason, such as they are “too sensitive” about the issue.

Hanson also did not address the chronology of the aid’s delay and release, which Trump critics have claimed reveals the president’s guilt. According to the New York Times, Trump had learned of the whistleblower’s complaint about his actions regarding Ukraine by September 9th, two days before the date that the White House finally allowed the $391 million in aid to be freed up. Also, by early September, a bipartisan group of Senators had begun to formally ask questions of the Trump administration about the withheld aid, noting that if it wasn’t released by the end of the fiscal year on September 30th, the money would be nullified.

“If you’re going to convict people of thought crimes for considering cutting it, what would you do if you said, ‘Well, [President] Barack Obama never gave them legal aid and a lot of people died because of that?'” Hanson said, making a false comparison between unrelated situations. “We’re not impeaching Barack Obama for that. That’s his prerogative as a president to say, you know what, ‘I’m not going to give any legal aid to the Ukrainians. Heck with them, hell with them, I don’t care about giving them lethal aid.’ No Republicans said ‘Oh my God, we’re going to impeach the president, he didn’t give him lethal aid.'”

In fact, the Obama White House advocated an official policy of not providing lethal aid, one that Congress also agreed with. As a result, there was never a circumstance where Obama could improperly leverage Congressionally-appropriated aid to Ukraine for personal, political reasons, which is exactly what House Democrats have argued Trump did.

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In a rollercoaster ending to the annual Egg Bowl rivalry between Ole Miss and Mississippi State, a last-second score by Rebels’ WR Elijah Moore that looked like it would send the game to overtime ended up costing his team the game when he drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike penalty for a TD celebration where he pretended to pee like a dog in the end zone.

With just four seconds left in the fourth quarter, Moore had caught a short pass near the goal line and plowed through a Bulldogs defender to score, cutting Mississippi State’s lead to one, 21-20. But Moore then scrambled around the end zone on all fours in celebration and subsequently lifted his leg to simulate a dog urinating, which instantly drew the referee’s flag.

The resulting penalty pushed Ole Miss’ extra point attempt back 15 yards, and when Rebels kicker Luke Logan sailed his PAT kick wide right the Ole Miss players were stunned at having snatched defeat from the jaws of a possible overtime victory. And the bizarre “dog pee” ending quickly began trending online.

This Egg Bowl ending was INSANE

Ole Miss scored with 4 seconds left and had a chance to tie the game with the PAT.

After a flag for the excessive celebration moved the PAT back, the kicker missed wide right and Mississippi State held on to win the Egg Bowl 21-20. pic.twitter.com/z4U7c8JukQ

— ESPN (@espn) November 29, 2019

After the game, Ole Miss coach Matt Luke said he was “disappointed that it happened” but went easy on his star receiver, Moore. “That’s not who he is,” Luke said. “Elijah’s a good kid. He just got caught up in the moment.”

Matt Luke and John Rhys Plumlee’s reaction to Elijah Moore’s celebration in the endzone. pic.twitter.com/DV8TFFMI1G

— Samaria Terry (@samariaterry) November 29, 2019

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