charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story. his journey from md to the pulitzer prize, how he overcame a devastating accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion. you were a little reticent when we started this project. what's your thought about all this? >> i don't like it. >> [ laughs ] full disclosure -- i've been trying to convince charles krauthammer to sit for an interview for some time... secretary kerry on the hill today talking about... ...not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the day. >> i suspect there's gonna be another twist he

joining us from washington is charles krauthammer. i want you to pace yourself is. i know you are staying up late. you will be back with you as 11:00. who is likely to challenge trump tonight? >> nobody. i don't think it makes sense if you are in the back of the pack. what you want is to it clear the field so you get a shot at trump later on. it's of no advantage to you to go after trump. even if you succeed he might come down a point or two. but you aren't going to gain personally the other guys willlz gain. >> let me challenge now. >> of the gang up will be on cruz and rubio to clear the way so you get a shot at the big guy. >> see, look, if you take on trump, you being any of the eight contenders and again there are nine people on the stage so it's very hard to look in on anybody. if you take them on and you get on social media, you are all over the place. so even if you don't do well in the debate and get a lot of face time in the debate, if you take trump on that's all it's going to be everywhere. so you do get recognition. you get upside by taking him on, am i

it would not matter if i were abraham lincoln doing the debate krauthammer will say negative. it would not matter if i was... well jennings bryant because they say he was great but unfortunately we don't have any tapes, but it would not matter who i was they have their critique written before the debate takes place. they dishonest. >> because they disagree with you? >> it is good when i fire them. it make me feel good. second all, it takes away credibility. you have to fight for your sell. that is a problem with our country we do not fight for ourselves. we are not respected as a country. if they critique me and i thought they were right, i we not be upset bring it. when you do something great and they try and be little you? you got to fight. >> after the break the panel reacts to donald trump and "new york times" were gauges in self editing, was the paper trying to protect president obama? why has abc given a booster rocket greeting to the new "star wars" film? feel a cold coming on? new zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 4

thrump no dip thong in krauthammer. i suppose you want to know my loser. >> go ahead and get to your loser. >> a lot more seriously. unfortunately, again, i'm going against my feelings here b.b. netanyahu went up against obama and he lost. and it damaged his relationship to the point where we saw just this week that the administration is an unprecedented way was eavesdropping on him and on his government. >> and your winner? >> well, my winner is president obama. he had a pretty good year legislatively and in deal-making as charles mentions, the iran deal, something that was a huge priority for the administration, probably their top foreign policy priority. and and after a long delay, he got that through. >> and last new year's he said we are going in the fourth quarter. big things happen and republicans might not like to hear it but republican once the hill didn't stop him. >> they didn't. they didn't stop him in any number of other things, too. immigration. he got the climate change deal. he notched a number of things

if i were abraham lincoln during the debate, krauthammer will say negatives. >> we will look at the cnn debate and the coverage of marco rubio and crazy -- ted cruz and mrs. -- bernie sanders improperly obtained data about hillary clinton but. it be opportunity out? all the real reason why a network is going gaga. i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz". donald trump is still driving the campaign debate, still leading big in the polls and smacking the media around. in the only face-to-face interview we sat down at trump tower. >> donald trump, welcome. jeb bush went after you and now he has an ad beating up on you and thinks he can revise his campaign by attacking you. >> i thought he was weak in the debate. he open badly. he closed badly. he had a couple of soundbites that were given to him by his people, i guess the pollsters. he hit me a couple of times and i hit him back much harder and the ad puts his part in not my part which is dishonest. look, he is a low energy person. he is a weak person. and, honestly, that is not what we need. we need someone that is strong and can get th

after a the debate charles krauthammer and i had our own back and forth over trump. charles believes the man is unqualified to be president and says some of trump's statements are, quote, nonsensical. i see things a bit differently. donald trump understands the anger sweeping america today. it and is tapping into that anger. he is not really concerned that much with policy right now. he is running on emotion. his campaign strategy has been brilliant. but if you take what he says literally, he can be a frightening guy. i see many of his statements as over-the-toptÑu rhetoric designed to get him votes, not necessarily in stone policy pronouncements. that's my job as analyst to alert you as to what i believe is going on. ther'g that strikes majority of the population at largeu2 as outrage just apeel to the the more conservative hard right if you like the phrase base that is heavily influences the outcome of primary caucuses. so, i would prefer to see these as fact particular call moves, but they can be very dangerous. what he said about muslims and let's don't delve in

joining us from washington is a man who does charles krauthammer. so, before we get to that i know you want to comment on the debate i just had with dr. goolsbee about planned parenthood, go. >> because this incident reminds me of the instant reaction after the tucson shooter, remember the one that went to a shopping center, shot terribly wounded the congresswoman, killed a 9-year-old girl and within hours the explanation was that this jared loughner had been influenced and driven to kill by the, quote, climate of violence that had been aroused by none other than sarah palin. and people then cited her website where she talked about the targeting of certain democratic districts for winning over to the g.o.p. and said that kind of language influenced him. of course, it was obvious from the first hour the guy was a paranoid schizophrenic. anybody could see it. you talked to any of the witnesses who had known him in the past were afraid of him. the guy had this notion that the government was using glamour to control -- grammar to control his mind. he ha

after a the debate charles krauthammer and i had our own back and forth over trump. charles believes the man is unqualified to be president and says some of trump's statements are quote nonsensical. i see things a bit differently. donald trump understands the anger sweeping america today. it and is tapping into that anger. he is not really concerned that much with policy right now. he is running on emotion. his campaign strategy has been brilliant. but if you take what he says literally, he can be a frightening guy. i see many of his statements as over-the-toptÑu rhetoric designed to get him votes not necessarily in stone policy pronouncements. that's my job as analyst to alert you as to what i believe is going on. dan rather,aw+/ h0 frñ so Ñ= "

yulely pace, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> the rubio/cruz match last night was the highlight of the evening. but what's so interesting is what it led to today. rubio was willing to take a hit on an issue he knows he is the least popular with. with the gop electorate. but he did it in order to be able to ask one question. of cruz. which is always a danger in the debate. a, you're giving up your time. and b, you have no idea what he's going to say. but what he elicited from cruz was the statement that he had never supported legalization. that was a mistake as was exposed in this unbelievable questioning that you did today. because when you asked him that, he had no answer. he pretends now that he did that in order to kill the bill. but it's clear from the record that he said at the time, repeatedly, and not even in congress, but even in the meeting at princeton with one of his old professors, robbie george, that he wanted to pass the bill but wanted instead of citizenship, legalization. the fact that he said he never supporte

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joining us from washington charles krauthammer. before we get to our discussion you have breaking news here. $28,500 was apparently deposited in syed farook's bank account shortly before he and his wife massacred the 14 people and wounded 21 in san bernadino. we could -- do not know who deposited the money in the bank. i trust the authorities will find out. this is far more than two cranks in an apartment house in california. so, where am i going wrong on my talking points? >> no. i thought your talking points were right. and on this issue of the $28,000, i found it very odd that the fbi director said a couple of days ago and then obama repeated last night that there is no evidence that there was some kind of larger conspiracy or outside or a network from from the outside. how did they get the money? this guy is a civil servant. he didn't have the money for the vests. he didn't have the money for the assault weapons. they obviously had help. now we learn that there are some at least fox is reporting that he had some contacts, elect

charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story. his journey from md to the pulitzer prize, how he overcame a devastating accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opini.

o'reilly and krauthammer got into it. >> he's going to say whatever he thinks is going to put him over the top to win. but he's running as a rogue candidate. he's getting people whipped up so that they will like him because their emotion and his emotion coincide. >> when someone says things you admit he doesn't mean, whether he's doing it entirely for effect that one ought to go back and say that's just politics. it is politics, that's true, and it's done to some extent by other politicians, but i think it ought to be called for what it is, demagoguery. and unless you're going to stand behind what you saw and say i mean it, it's rather surprising you would think it's perfectly okay. >> i don't say it's perfectly okay. i say it's a brilliant strategy. i say that there's some worthiness to exposing a corrupt system. >> but when discussing how politicians use the power of emotion, mainstream media icon ted koppel took things a step further and compared donald trump to a murderous dictator. >> he and mussolini have this sort of arrogant approach in which they say very little in terms of su

o'reilly and krauthammer got into it. >> he's going to say whatever he thinks is going to put him over the top to win. but he's running as a rogue candidate. he's getting people whipped up so that they will like him because their emotion and his emotion coincide. >> when someone says things you admit he doesn't mean, whether he's doing it entirely for effect that one ought to go back and say that's just politics. it is politics, that's true, and it's done to some extent by other politicians, but i think it ought to be called for what it is, demagoguery. and unless you're going to stand behind what you saw and say i mean it, it's rather surprising you would think it's perfectly okay. >> i don't say it's perfectly okay. i say it's a brilliant strategy. i say that there's some worthiness to exposing a corrupt system. >> but when discussing how politicians use the power of emotion, mainstream media icon ted koppel took things a step further and compared donald trump to a murderous dictator. >> he and mussolini have this sort of arrogant approach in which they say very little in terms of su

o'reilly and krauthammer got into it. >> he's going to say whatever he thinks is going to put him over the top to win. but he's running as a rogue candidate. he's getting people whipped up so that they will like him because their emotion and his emotion coincide. >> when someone says things you admit he doesn't mean, whether he's doing it entirely for effect that one ought to go back and say that's just politics. it is politics, that's true, and it's done to some extent by other politicians, but i think it ought to be called for what it is, demagoguery. and unless you're going to stand behind what you saw and say i mean it, it's rather surprising you would think it's perfectly okay. >> i don't say it's perfectly okay. i say it's a brilliant strategy. i say that there's some worthiness to exposing a corrupt system. >> but when discussing how politicians use the power of emotion, mainstream media icon ted koppel took things a step further and compared donald trump to a murderous dictator. >> he and mussolini have this sort of arrogant approach in which they say very little in terms of su

first went to read something and charles krauthammer has written that i will ask my dad to read this section from the end of the prologue we right there is good news one president has left a path of destruction one can rescue as. the right person in the oval office can restore america's strength and reach new power and leadership to defeat any reason and keep us safe but it will not be easy their difficult decisions to be made and a little time. we face grave challenges before the right leaders have brought us through as charles observed is one of the yen during eras of history to give the most hardened atheist talked said it should have produced great many to match the moment a revolutionary colony giving birth to the greatest:or of political thinkers ever jefferson and adams hamilton washington franklin the crisis of the 19th century brings lincoln and fdr. livy on another hitch point we need a president for this moment in the must choose wisely. now i will ask my dad to read about another duty that we have. >> as citizens we also have a duty to protect our ideals and freedoms by s

i'm not going to go down the hallway running the charles krauthammer george wills. i said to myself, why don't i try to talk to these guys and learn about a side of america have never seen. and so over eight months i absorbed what i'm going to call the ideology of the criminal underclass. i had gone into confinement but having seen the shawshank redemption and i thought, well, these are all guys who will consistently profess they are not guilty, but what i found i was most most of them have a somewhat different and more interesting view that we are guilty comeau we did do it, but we are the small. the big criminals are out there at large. the big try and the system never goes after the because they run the system. the great emperor alexander had heard there's a pirate out of the ocean molesting the she's -- molesting the season rating ships. he said where you get this crazy idea of rating ships and taking people stuff? and the power goes to my got from you. i have one ship and theythe form of pirate. you have all navy and the whole army. because yourbecause your acc

. ♪ hammer time kennedy: krauthammer. how will president trump enforce the order? >> you will ask him, is he a muslim. here is a guy truck says will come out and kill people. i think chris stirewalt has the answer. he suggested everybody coming through la guardia, and jfk could be forced to eat a ham sandwich. kennedy: last night i proposed this. what are you going to do, load them up with sodium pentathol and force them to draw a mohamed cartoon while asking them to eat bacon? never mind the mathematical impossibility of finding, tracking and cataloging 1.2 billion muslims. how do you explain to businesses and university that rely on foreign workers and student that the large resource pool is about to dry up indefinitely and how about keeping billions of dollars in travel revenue off the table for hotels and mom and pop shops that benefit from visitors. and god help you on the way back from puerto rico. they are still flerk out all the details. here is trump meeting with a group of advisors. >> i'm a strong believer in christianity and religion. >> don't try to fr

today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> well, first of all it's not surprising that we spy on other leaders, what is surprising that obama announced publicly after the merkel scandal that we would cease doing that to close allies. so apparently we did for close nato allies. but apparently made just a few exceptions, one of them is the leader of turkey, erdogan, not exactly a savory character and the other one was a close ally of democracy, an elected lead anywhere netanyahu. you could understand that, if there were reports that israel might launch a preemptive attack in 2011 or 2012. that would perhaps be a national security reason. but this was not about that. this was long after obama was re-elected. long after it was obvious that the israelis were not going to conduct a surprise attack. this was about trying to get through the congress the iran agreement. that is not a validated quote unquote national security purpose. this is a way to win a battle with congress. and they knew that this was not something you're suppos

steven hayes, charles krauthammer who we all love, but he goes after them and people are, like, i don't know if i want to listen to the media pundits out there. it's almost a conflict that donald trump is creating. >>> it's a constant war. looking back at the democratic campaign, hillary clinton has had had very testy relations with the press. this time was supposed to be different. a lot of it relate to the e-mail scandal. why do so many people believe the press is in the tank for her? >> there's always an assumption there's a liberal media bias, so hillry is a democrat, so it must be this media bias. but you are correct, whatever ideological rules are ever at play, the press loves to jump on the clintons. anything they do becomes big news and gets fine-toothed combed and anything she does is not going to go underneath the radar. she didn't like the press. she never will be one of those john mccain let's get on the bus and ride the bus together. >> in fact there was a couple months whether she gave no media interviews. the clinton foundation as well, but eventually that story started t

charles krauthammer says he is totally detached from reality. >> obama is still trying to convince us that we are winning when it is obviously not true. when you have to resort to statistics the list of people whom we have killed as if anybody has any idea who they are is reminiscent of the strategy of the war but we lost the war because it is not engaged in losing and winning a war. >> they set up their caliphate 18 months ago. he's doing a little bit more of the same. he's still tone deaf and detached and doesn't understand we need to change the strategy. i was really hoping today he would realize something needs to change. it's a little bit more of the same and it's not been working. a oo a former national guard soldier facing decades in prison for plotting to kill americans on soil. he plead guilty of targeting an armor rein hopes of hitting 150 people. they were plan to go travel overseas to fight for isis. they were busted on facebook. >>> another accused isis fighter who says he was only trying to scam the terror group. mohammed alshenowi says his contact with them was only to

charles hurt, political columnist for the "washington times" yogi drethen, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. voting in an iowa caucus is not like stepping into a polling booth somewhere else. it's an involved process. >> that's the standard company line. it's plausible. we have no idea, we're not sure who those are in the polls up to 30, 40% for trump. given the record i've had and others have had in predicting the trajectory of the trump campaign in this one i think i'll reserve judgment for about five weeks. >> charlie, i think it was howard kurtz who broke the news that donald trump would be spending $2 million a week beginning next month. we learned in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, that's a change. >> we talked about it on the plane. talking about the attitude. and that's very much what he represents. people around here lament the sort of coarse nature of the discourse around here and they want politics to be more mannerly and people to get along and do things in a bipartisan fashion. but he has tapped into something. people around the country don't want that. they want somebo

stoddard of "the hill" and charles krauthammer. the "washington post" pulled the cartoon, but is not planning to offer a formal apology. a.b., what do you think? >> i think the world knows, everything it needs to know about this, about this event. pulling the cartoon is an acknowledgement that it wasn't the right thing to do. ted cruz has used his daughters in political commercials. which is pretty rare. but it's still not appropriate for the media to exploit, make fun of, include children in any kind of cartoons or criticism. or even good, well-intentioned jokes, really to include the children of politicians, it's off-limits, it always is and it really, even in the age of trump, we hope it continues to be. >> steve, we've seen uproar with regard to candidates and even the president and his two daughters. his children go to a nice private school there were charter school groups and scholarship groups that were saying why shouldn't all students have the chance to go to those schools. there was an uproar over that. >> there was an up

krauthammer would saying negative. >>> and media interest in last night's debate surges after bernie sanders improperly obtains data, but he quickly apologizes. will the press tune out this debate once again. >>> plus the explosion of "star wars" hype. the real reason one network is going ga-ga. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." donald trump is still driving the campaign debate, still leading big in the poll. in his only fate-to-fay, he sought down at trump tower. welcome. >> thank you. >> jeb bush went after you in the debate, he now has an ad. he seems to think he can revive his campaign by attacking you. >> i thought he was weak. he had a couple sound bites giving to him by his people, i guess his pollsters. he hit me a couple times and i hit back harder. look, he's a low-energy person, a weak person, and honestly that's not what we need. we need somebody who's strong who can get things done. >> you choose your insults very carefully. again and again you say hillary clinton doesn't have the strength and stamina tore president. >> umpts i'm not talking about age. >> are you

. >> charles krauthammer mtalks about him running as an inpen department. >> it may have to do with the fairness and may have the option of leaving. i suspect his ego would restrain him from running a a third party if he doesn't win the nomination. it will be a lot harder than i thinks. there will be a bar an invisible bar. that will be the ross perot number of 19d percent. that will be his mark on history. i don't think he likes to be seen as a loser. he the republican nomination is his shot and that's what he wants to go for. >> just denied a second request to block syrian refugees from entering the state of texas. p nine refugees are expected to arrive today. others arrived monday. they called it speculative hearsay. they don't want them because of security concerns after the paris attacks. >> we should not admit one syrian refugee. i took a lot of abuse from the u.n. crowd about it. i said no one, no the women, not children, nobody, because as we saw in san bernardino, women are just as capable of being razz calized and participating in the murd murder of folks. >> another request f

for the "weekly standard," amy walter for the cook political report and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> on the story about the meeting with journalists and him saying that this is all hyped up, you know, he didn't see it on cable. i think i wasn't there. but i think of course i wasn't there, but i, to me he was being sarcastic. he me, this is a sort of way of dissing, showing condescension. to the rabble. after all this is an interview he gave january 23rd of this year. as do you think if the media sometimes overstates the level of alarm people should have about terrorism? barack obama, absolutely and i don't even blame the media for that. what's the saying? if it bleeds, it leads? you show crime stories and local newscasts, because that's what the folks watch. >> this is obama essentially saying, well, you know, the reason people are upset about this, is because it's been hyped on television and they are not as cool intelligent and far-seeing as i am. this is his usual professorial condescension. the fact that the "times" took it out, i'm not quite sure if they saw it as s

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stoddard of "the hill" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. a late poll coming in from new hampshire showing trump at 32%. commanding lead there next in line rubio at 14%. almost 20 points back. and you can see the list as you go down there. now the a.p. is reporting that trump is scheduled to make a visit to jordan at the end of this month. of course you know they've been taking in millions of refugees from that region and a lot of folks are abandoned there as they can't survive in their hone countries at this point. >> what do you make of this this poll has been taken over a number of days, it comes in the wake of comments by trump. it's been repeated across the board by democrats and republicans alike all standing in line to repeat it. it seems like the american public is okay with a lot of what the public has been saying. >> shannon i'm amazed that so many people are surprised by the remarks from donald trump. we've had seven years of a president who has not taken islamic, radical islamic terrorism seriously. we've had seven years of a pre

stephen hayes or charles krauthammer but he goes after them and suddenly the people are like, wait, i don't know if i want to listen to the media pundits. it is a conflict that donald trump is creating. >> constant war. >> looking back at the democratic campaign, hillary clinton has has very testy relations with the resolution and it was supposed to be different from 2008 and a lot of it goes back to the e-mail damage dallas so why do so many on the conservative side believe the press is in the thank for her? >> there is the assumption there is a liberal media bias so hillary clinton is a dome so it must be the bias. you are correct, whatever rules are at play, the resolution loves to jump on the clinton, anything they do becomes big news and it is under the radar. her people are honest about not liking the press they will not be a john mccain get on the bus and ride together for thousands of myles. >> there was a heard of two months where video dave no national tv interviews and slow avoided the press. the e-mail scandal was a lost aggressive digging by major news organizations, the

today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. ash carter made a statement that isis is not contained tucker. different than what his bosses said. >> that's true. it's a revision of current policy and so is our plan to retake ramadi of course that was in effect in u.s. control up until may. the only point i would make is the obvious one to those who say this can be done with the help of sunni tribal fighters, the iraqi army, the u.s. government spends untold billions training the iraqi army over a long period of years. and they by all accounts melted away in the face of the isis assault in may. on that city. so where's the difference? what have we learned? what would we do differently next time to prevent that from happening again. that's the missing piece. i didn't hear anything about in the hearings, it's not enough to say it will be bet they are time. it's important to explain how. >> he talked about iraq and syria and the need for u.s. forces to be there, to have more involved presence, but he also said today we're going to ha

however, you know charles krauthammer, right? you know charles. >> i have no respect for him whatsoever. he's biased. i appreciate my defense. >> no, no, i was defending your campaign, not your policies. >> he's totally biased. >> you don't have the policy chops, and other people feel the same way. you don't have the policy chops. >> i think i do. i think i do. i know just about as much about the policies as anybody. >> that's what i told him, i told him that your campaign is brilliant, and the results are right there. but they don't think you have the policy chops. now, are you going to tell me tonight on this program that you don't say stuff just to get to the emotion of the voter? i know you do. >> i'll tell you that right now, i don't. i'm doing the right thing. i bring up subjects that are important. i bring up illegal immigration. i got hit so hard with that. if i didn't bring it up, you wouldn't even be talking about illegal immigration. you wouldn't be talking about it. >> so you're telling me, you don't do this to whip u

joining us from washington is charles krauthammer. we have breaking news here. $28,500 deposited in syed farook's bank account shortly before he and his wife massacred 14 people and wounded 21 in san bernardino. we do not know who deposited the money in the bank. i trust authorities will find out. this is more than two cranks in an apartment house in california. where am i going wrong on my talking points? >> your talking points were right. on this issue over $28,000 i found it very odd that the fbi director said a couple days ago, then, obama repeated there is no evidence that there was some kind of larger conspiracy or outside, net worth from the outside. but how did they get the money? this guy is a civil servant, yes. he didn't have money for the vest, for the cell. they had help and we learned fox is reporting that they have contacts and the people from outside of the country. of course they had help. whether an organized conspiracy with instructions written down is a different question. but at every turn, every turn, to administ

we have charles krauthammer. also a high school football coach under fire. he prayed to god at the end of the games. another coach chanted to buddha. only the christian coach got suspended for his prayers, and he's here to react. >>> check it out. 9:00 p.m. thanks for porter is facing several charges, including one for man slaughter. the jury spent about 16 hours deliberate, but still jurors couldn't agree and now a possible retrial looms. the "new york times" reported that secretary of defense ash carter used a personal e-mail account for government business. saying carter used the account when he first sta

and syndicated crumbist charles krauthammer. i won't mention your book, we do all the time. >> it's still out there. >> what about the president and his repeated efforts to calm the nation. >> i think there's a level of resolve, there's a level of effort to relieve anxiety and to communicate the toughness that people want to see and i think he's been slow to do that. and i think it's also hard when you're trying to take a measured approach. you heard senator mccain. people are scared, they want decisive action, it's a complicated problem and strategy and when you're playing from behint when you've underestimated the threat it does little to soothe people. >> the criticism is he's not saying anything new, judge. he's not moving the ball, changing the strategy. >> i'm happy to be with my friend david. about the only thing i agree with him on is that this is a complicated issue. the president does not present any strength. the president does not prengt any strategy. the president does not present any comfort. every time he gives on

the "washington times" david drucker, for the washington examiner and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what in the world is going on with ben carson? >> what we heard are the death rattles of his campaign. sitting in his basement in maryland giving a couple of interviews to major outlets. making pretty firm statements about -- >> we're going to kick this thing up. >> staffers being overpaid and staffers needing to be replaced and not doing things right. after it gets out there. he tries to take it all back. you can't take those things back. you know he's -- shed what, 15 points in the national polls? since he peaked in late november. is doing even worse if you look at the iowa polls. and you know ultimately he failed the commander-in-chief test. wasn't helped by the terrorist attacks. also wasn't helped by i think the attacks from donald trump. the commander-in-chief question is the thing that i think really -- >> david what do you see happening on the republican side of this race? it's been seen by many as the year of the outsider, trump, carson, fiorina. we've seen fiorina and carso

however, however, you know charles krauthammer, right? you know charles. >> i have no respect for him whatsoever. i have no respect for him -- i think he's a very pious -- >> you should watch the debate i had with him about you last night. >> i did. and i appreciate my defense. >> i was defending your campaign -- he doesn't think you have the policy jobs. and other people feel the same way. you don't have the policy chops. so when you say -- >> i think i do. i think i know more about policy than just about anybody. >> and millions of people are coming to you and you're winning. and that's what i told him. i told him that your campaign is brilliant and the results are right there. but they don't think you have policy chops. now, are you going to tell me tonight on this program that you don't say stuff just to get to the emotion of the voter? i know you do! >> i'll tell you that right now, i don't. i'm doing the right thing. i bring up subjects that are important. i bring up illegal immigration. i got hit so hard with that, and if i didn't

charles krauthammer will analyze for us. >> we have experienced so much hateful language, hateful speech. >> planned parenthood saying that criticism of its selling baby body parts has led to murder. any have a -- any validity to that? >> are these boys naughty or nice. >> it depends on the day. >> also ahead watters out with the folks shopping for the holidays. >> a perfect

koppel and krauthammer both say trump has no specific solutions to terrorism and the economy. but hissing nomic success in business shows both leadership and cunning. i am 16 and i want to say thanks for the great prices at the christmas store. my dad is going to love his presents. thank you. just finished your book, hitler's last days, and believe it is possibly your best book. awesome show with miller in las vegas. loved every second. tickets were great. christmas gift for my two daughters. excellent, genie. they gave you tickets to vegas. no, no, this year. that's right. they give you a prechristmas gift. right? we have three shows already on the board for 2016. and tickets to make christmas gifts as genie attests. los angeles, march 12th. fairfax, virginia, may 7th. and we are leaving tickets for harry reid to that show. and connecticut june 18th. billoreilly.com will take you to the box office. tickets to who wants to be president of the bill o'reilly show. the tip of date, i'm lucky to get a break around christmas. i have four books on my night table. house of the rising

we have charles krauthammer. also a high school football coach under fire. he prayed to god at the end of the games. another coach chanted to buddha. only the christian coach got suspended for his prayers, and he's here to react. >>> check it out. 9:00 p.m. thanks for watching, everybody. i'm megyn kelly. this is "the kelly file." >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm leland vittert in baltimore. a hung jury tonight in the freddie gray trial. the judge declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a decision on officer william porter. he faced up to 25 years in jail if they convicted him on all four counts. gray died from a massive spinal cord injury suffered in police custody. the jury deliberated for 16 hours before telling the judge they couldn't reach a unanimous verdict on anything. within minutes demonstrations broke out. police arrested two. police allowed

donald trump is not a true conservative and that's why he's upset with the charles krauthammers of the world. >> carrie, on the grounds that he's not a true conservative, they went on about nothing conservative about him and there's no telling about tomorrow. >> he's been completely inconsistent. this man is incredibly slippery. he says he's not a traditional politician but he is every inch a politician. he knows how to follow social media and that's why he's winning because he knows how to exploit media and, to be honest, the social media is feeding out of their hands. it's pretty unfortunate, from my perspective as a conservative, if the republican party actually wants to win, donald trump would be a disaster. he would be a disaster for republicans because of how he speaks about women, a disaster about how he speaks about latinos. so if republicans actually care about winning in that poll that you just showed, donald trump would actually lose. >> yeah. and howard dean, you've been watching bernie sanders longer than any of us up there in vermont. there he is now having seeing that po

charles krauthammer talked about this on the "kelly file." they know gun control is not the solution. they have the strictest regulations in the entire world. gun control is what the left is talking about right now. it's not what the american people want to hear and it's a distraction from the fund mental issue. >> and the right is talking about immigration and refugees. that's not going to solve the problem either. you've got to give free base to either side. >> two-thirds of americans say that they think the refugees shouldn't come from at least that was the number a couple weeks ago. can't imagine that number has changed in favor of the president. chuck, emily, appreciate it. obviously a lot more debate after the president's talk. thank you, guys. >> thanks. >>> terrorists are crossing our borders, texas continues leading a multistate fight against the obama administration's executive actions on immigration. texas solicitor general joins us live coming up. is even better during red lobster's ultimate seafood celebration. with jazzed up new

today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. ash carter made a statement that isis is not contained tucker. different than what his bosses said. >> that's true. it's a revision of current policy and so is our plan to retake ramadi of course that was in effect in u.s. control up until may. the only point i would make is the obvious one to those who say this can be done with the help of sunni tribal fighters, the iraqi army, the u.s. government spends untold billions training the iraqi army over a long period of years. and they by all accounts melted away in the face of the isis assault in may. on that city. so where's the difference? what have we learned? what would we do differently next time to prevent that from happening again. that's the missing piece. i didn't hear anything about in the hearings, it's not enough to say it will be bet they are time. it's important to explain how. >> he talked about iraq and syria and the need for u.s. forces to be there, to have more involved presence, but he also said today we're going to ha

. >> you are often there with george will and charles krauthammer. senator mcconnell: they know a lot more about it. >> thanks for being here today, mr. leader. \/[applause] >> thanks for coming in. thanks for coming in. [applause] we have some family members. my sister bonnie and my neice grace are here from ethiopia. grace is 10. >> all i want for my birthday is to get out of town. so if we could expedite that process. >> mr. speaker, you said in 2016 you want to have a big year and want to be the proposition party and not the opposition party and you made comments to a local paper that you want to be more involved in the micro issues of policy and governing. now that you are speaker, some sort of narrow or tax reform gets done in the next year or so? the speaker: i like micro policy and speaker's job is more micro than macro. i said i want to find a way of balancing that. specific question on tax reform, that has to be one of the crown jewels. we have to show the country how we get this country out of neutral and jobs growing and wages growing and

here's charles krauthammer and tucker carlson who makes a stupendous observation. watch this. >> i suspect, though, that his ego will not -- that would restrain him from running as a third party. assuming he doesn't win the nomination. because he's got -- it's going to be a lot harder than he thinks. and there will be a bar, sort of an invisible bar. and i think that's going to be the ross perot number of 19%. i don't think he would come anywhere near that in a general election. and that will be his mark on history and i don't think he likes to be seen as a loser. >> i find this hilarious, the concern about him running third party. too late. he already is running as a third party candidate. he rejects the most basic elements of republican orthodoxy on economics, on foreign policy, the donor class in the republican party hates him, maybe more than obama. the head of the republican party denounced him personally on television yesterday. donald trump is not running as a republican. which may be part of the reason he's leading. this is a message to republicans. the aci