welcome to red eye. i m andy levy in for greg gutfeld who is learning the hard way he shouldn t have spent the night in bangkok. now we go to mike baker for a pre game report. diligence, because our government is not allowed to torture anymore. what is coming up on tonight s show? thank you, andy, and happy new year to you and your family. thank you. coming up on tonight s show, a story that pits the media s god given right to engage in stupid behavior of americans to legally own weapons. and why a french government minister with a hard to pronounce names is up in arms over hate speech. we will take turns butchering her name and then talk pretentiously about god s existence. and what did john boehner say to harry reid when the two met in the capitol building after the fiscal cliff deal? regardless senator reid is probably too old and inflexible to comply. all that and more next. happy new year to you as well.
higher taxes on the rich are unconstitutional unlike our supreme court here in our socialist paradise. we are wall lowing in irony. we are absolutely wall lowing. andy, we have so much more, but i am out of time. really? yes. sorry to hear that, man. you sold that. he did. i believe him. mike, see you at the end. coming up, you are cold as ice, willing to sacrifice our love. not a story, a text greg sent me on new year s eve. let it go, greg. anyway, what is left to say about kim and ye? as usual, as long as it rhymes. it don t matter.
andy, is that the young man who always talks to gutsman and complains all the time and never smiles? she is a fan otherwise. that s what i m talking about, and that s what she is talking about. thanks, mrs. baker. i think the senior citizens in this country want you to lighten up. it is not going to happen. let s get to the half time report, shall we? half time, well, let s see how we are doing. frankly it looks like paul is at the top of the class this evening. primarily because i am agreeing with everything he is saying. thank you, sir. the congressman, i gave you a pass because i was told by our research staff down here that congress is gradeed on a pass-fail system. pretty much. be nice. your mom is one of my constituents. that s very true. thank you for disclosing the secret location.
andy, is that the young man who always talks to gutsman and complains all the time and never smiles? she is a fan otherwise. that s what i m talking about, and that s what she is talking about. thanks, mrs. baker. i think the senior citizens in this country want you to lighten up. it is not going to happen. let s get to the half time report, shall we? half time, well, let s see how we are doing. frankly it looks like paul is at the top of the class this evening. primarily because i am agreeing with everything he is saying. thank you, sir. the congressman, i gave you a pass because i was told by our research staff down here that congress is gradeed on a pass-fail system. pretty much. be nice. your mom is one of my constituents. that s very true. thank you for disclosing the secret location.
we have been suffering. here i have an average consumer basket of goods. you can see the increase has been astounding this past year. we have the yacht gas which frankly is starting to piss me off. and it is not going to get any better as i understand from fox business news. it just constantly goes watch that line. and i won t be taking as many trips as i thought. thankfully they haven t increased as much as i expected. and we ve got staff over here. staff costs are killing me this year. have you had to layoff any of your staff, mike? well, i told bill that he needs to stop hanging around the house. he has been expecting fame and he doesn t do much for me. other than that, i managed to keep everybody on. don t you prove my point then as a rich guy you keep people employed. mike never hired me as staff. he just gave me a staph