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let's take it step by step. if you use any intoxicating agent, your goal is to leave reality. you're not satisfied with your current state of mind, you want to get high, buzzed, blasted, whatever. some adults can handle that on occasion, others cannot, so it's literally russian roulette, but in the hands of children can be devastating. according to research by the society for the study of addiction, teenagers using marijuana before the age of 18 are two to four times more likely to develop to psychosis. and the latest study by that organization says that nearly 23% of seniors in american high schools right now admit to smoking marijuana recently. that's an incredible stat. so why is this all happening? one of the reasons is because pot legalizers have made the drug glamorous and the media has played along. celebrities like snoop dogg, miley cyrus, and others flaunt

their association with marijuana. and very few speak out against it. now more bad news, combine the drug aspect with the internet. according to a report by the american academy of pediatrics, 75% of 12 to 17 year olds in the usa have cell phones and virtually all of them text. 33% of teenagers send more than 100 text messages a day, and 66% of teens say their parents have imposed no rules regarding texting at all. here's a kicker, study by the university of winnipeg in canada says students who text more than 100 times a day are 30% less likely to be ethical or principled in life. are we getting all this? young people in america are combining drugs, alcohol, and high-tech to build false lives to run away from reality. in china, young people are encouraged to compete, be disciplined, to live in the real world. not here. and again, there are very few voices speaking out against drug

and tech abuse. this is an epidemic that will lead to a weaker nation. and anybody who tells you differently is lying to you. and that's a memo now. top story tonight, reaction joining us from massachusetts, dr. keith ablo, a psychiatrist. here in new york city, carl hart, author of the book "high price." all right. kids and pot. you don't recommend that, right? >> of course, not. i don't recommend kids taking alcohol or smoking tobacco. >> any intoxicants at all, bad for them. >> that's right. >> we have common ground. >> absolutely. anybody who can think would agree with you. >> thank you, and i appreciate that. texting, you know it's an addiction. it's going crazy. you're aware of that, right? >> no, i'm not aware that it's an addiction. >> you don't think texting is an addiction among some children now? >> it depends how you defin addiction. >> they are compelled to do it, have to do it, have a machine in

their hands all the time. >> you are compelled to do this show. >> i get paid to do the show. >> exactly. >> it's not a compulsion, it's a business decision. >> you get paid to do it, there's a reason for you to do it. it does not disrupt what you're doing. sompt >> so if you had a son or daughter -- >> i do. >> teens? >> that's right. >> if they are texting more than 100 times a day, you don't have a problem with that? >> i have a kid in an ivry league institution, he's a teenager. my main concern is how he does in school. he texts quite a bit, but also gets all as in school. >> i don't know if you want the whole child to develop, not just academic. >> precisely. you just said it. >> i don't know if the texting is leading to that. dr. ablo, you see it differently. i see a coming storm here, tsunami building with the drugs, soft drugs, the pot, and the high-tech abuse. i think it's abuse. kids texting 100 times a day, that's abuse. go. >> absolutely.

this is a perfect storm. we've talked about this, bill. i've written about it, you've written about it. bottom line is, any time you attempt to exit the real world in favor of a fantasy land where your emotions aren't troubling to you, there's a price to pay for that. those are called addictions. texting, the incessant use of facebook, the use of marijuana now, which parents, by the way, they are caving. they are telling their kids, oh, it's just marijuana, oh, you just sell marijuana? >> i don't know how many parents would do that. >> they are. >> look -- >> they are. >> we all know there are permissive parents, but i still believe in this country they are a minority. i believe parents don't want their kids involved with intoxicating agents. most parents, responsible parents. there are parents addicted and irresponsible, but let's stay on the texting and the games, because the study shows from winnipeg, interesting study, that the parents, they are lost here with the texting. they are not really on this, and

remember, texting -- texts can be erased right away, so you literally have to be following your kid around to know what that kid is doing and the interaction. therefore, the children are bold now. the children are doing things -- >> of course. >> that you would never do on the telephone, because you might be overheard. >> this is the trojan horse, because even the people who can identify this as a huge problem are using texting. you can say they are using it less, but they are still on the drug, and we're going to find out that this disempowers people. it deposits them in a virtual world where their feelings don't need to have integrity, where their intentions can be the same as a pot smokers, nonmotivational, looking for the next high. >> and you say to that? >> well, i don't know what to say, because -- no, no, hold on. >> let me frame it, though. i think we're becoming a weaker nation because of all of this, particularly under 30. under 30 is going to have to take over some day, all right,

and they are lost in this world. >> bill, let's -- let's slow down. let's think about the last three guys who occupied the white house. they all smoked marijuana in their youth, right? the last three guys, and -- >> not chronically. one didn't inhale and the other -- >> hold up, hold up. you didn't believe that when he said that. >> i believe everything the president's telling me. bush was an alcoholic and dealt with it, and obama, we're not exactly sure how serious he was involved, but as i said in the talking points, some can handle, but some cannot. >> that's exactly right. >> the prevalence of this is overwhelming now, so you're going to have a lot of causalities on the battlefield. >> that's not true. let's talk about the statistic, the data. in 1978, recent number of marijuana smokers in the 12th grade, it was 37% of the 12th graders said they smoked marijuana recently. today that number is down to 22%.

>> not the number i just gave. >> well, your number is wrong. your number is wrong. >> take it up with the national institutes of health. >> i am a council member on the council of health. your number is wrong. i'm telling you it's 22% of seniors who smoke marijuana in the past month. that's a fact. >> i doubt it's the fact, because we don't get this wrong, these researchers. >> that's wrong. >> we'll call them again and tomorrow i will say yes or no. go ahead, dr. ablow. >> look, the doctor has it wrong. bottom line, this is not 1978. 1978 people weren't carrying cell phones. they weren't using facebook. they weren't depositing themselves on youtube and being surprised by being arrested after beating somebody up on youtube. wait, this is the real world, i can get arrested for this? i thought it was all fun and games. we are weakening our young people because we are suggesting to them it's okay to be high all the time. it's no surprise that we now have a government --

>> i don't know if we're suggesting that. >> i think we are, because we're saying have a facebook account, use marijuana, text, and by the way -- >> there isn't enough condemnation -- the difference between not condemning and encouraging. by the way, dr. hart is correct, 23% of seniors in high school that say they are smoking marijuana on a regular basis. that's a lot. that's a lot. would you say that's a lot? >> it is nowhere near the 37% we saw in 1978 to 1980, so i'm telling you that we need to make sure we keep this in perspective. >> all right. all right, good debate. thank you. next on "the rundown," why so many liberals are okay with the drug culture while conservatives are ascant. welcome back. how is everything? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier.

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continuing now with our lead story, is america becoming a weaker nation because of pot and internet abuse? joining us from washington, mary katherine ham. all right, i'm generalizing here, but primarily the left embraces the drug culture to some extent and that goes back to the '60s and vietnam era, traditionalists and conservatives, more skeptical, people like mary katherine are the exception. it's not a really black and white issue like obamacare. there is some bleedover, but let's begin with the left. what is it about the drug culture, the internet culture, that's so compelling for some of them? >> well, i don't think it's compelling, but i think if you start to arrest their children and give them records and put barriers in front of their futures and careers, i think people say wait a second. as you said in the previous segment, this is soft drug use, why are you arresting and giving this kid a record, especially

minority kids disproportionately. >> only dealers, juan, there's no mass arrests of users. they get a ticket, juan. >> i don't think that's right, bill, and i think lots of people fear for their children. by the way, you should know, it's not just liberals -- >> people fear for their children so they want to make drugs more available. let's legalize them so they don't get a rap sheet. >> i didn't say more available. i said, listen, the kid gets out there -- by your own definition, gets arrested, suddenly has a record, all sorts of things that would inhibit his or her progress in life. >> it's almost impossible, the records are expunged when they are juveniles. you know what the game is here. this is not a crime that is actively pursued by district attorneys. all right. i'm just going to discount that argument, juan. mary katherine, you're more sympathetic to this drug culture and internet culture world, but do you not see it is going to weaken the country? >> look, i think anything that's

not in moderation can be a problem. does that mean it has to be outlawed, no. >> moderation for children, you think there's a moderation of using intoxicant -- >> yeah, yeah, your parents. >> moderation is you use it once in awhile. like a jelly donut, you have it once in awhile. >> you can do that. >> you can do that? >> i use one of them several hours a day and i'm perfectly healthy. when people look at this issue, the drug war, look, all right, all right, all right, do we have a system that is working efficiently -- >> you're both taking it to the criminal justice area, and that's not the issue here. mary katherine, you've got a baby, you want that baby to be smoking pot? is it a he or a she? >> oh, god. >> it's a she, and i would rather she not smoke pot. >> 13, 14 years old, smoking in moderation? >> i would rather her not smoking weed, that doesn't mean it has to be illegal.

>> why would you not want -- answer my questions, mary katherine. >> i'm answering the question by saying it doesn't have to be illegal, i can step in and handle things. >> mary katherine, you're babbling. you don't want to engage in this conversation. >> i'm saying clear words and making an argument to you. >> you're babbling. i asked mary katherine why she wouldn't want her 12 or 13-year-old child to use marijuana, whereon mary katherine punted and started talking about issues in a general sense. i'm going to ask you, juan, you have children, as well. you don't want them using pot 12 to 16, do you? >> of course, not. nobody would. >> why, why? >> because i think it's damaging. >> how? >> even studies have shown to their cognitive skills, because they are developing. their minds are still developing, they are still learning discipline and how to acquire skills and how to apply them. >> you agree with me, that -- >> by the way, bill, it's still illegal -- >> wait.

all right? juan, you agree with me that a mass usage of a soft drug like marijuana is going to weaken the country, it's going to hurt children. you and i are on the same page, right? >> yeah, but i would say that too about alcohol, i don't want them smoking cigarettes. >> absolutely, no problem with that. all right, mary katherine, what do you want to say? >> i want to make the point that in the current regime and if pot were legalized, under both regimes it would be illegal for children and harder to get for children if regulated by the state. when i was in high school, people would buy weed because it was easier to get than alcohol, which was harder to get. >> in our beginning stats coming in from washington and colorado, and colorado just started this. >> we'll find out more, go ahead. >> that's getting blown out of the water. blown out of the water, children are able now -- >> what studies do you have on this already? >> the stats are coming out. dui is up in washington state, availability is up in washington state, use among school children is up in washington state. these are initial findings

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becoming quite clear that the democratic party will run this year on income inequality. >> we do want to make sure that this recovery leaves no one behind, that we deal with economic inequality, so we have

to admit, and we do admit that the worst legacy of this great recession is the crisis of long-term unemployment. >> joining us from washington, fox news senior political analyst bret hume. so the election of 2014 is 11 months away, all right, about 11 months away, and the democrats are in trouble with obamacare, and they may lose the senate. it is possible, and i don't think there's any chance of them taking over the house. do you agree with both of those assessments? >> yeah, i do. >> okay. now, the democratic party and president obama have to find a way to counter obamacare, to get that out of the public view, and the way they are going to do it, as where we stand tonight, is by saying, we the democratic party are going to solve this problem of income inequality. that means we're going to give the people who don't have a lot of money in america more money. is that going to work? >> well, it may work to some

extent. we've got unemployment insurance up for a consideration, further extending it, and we've got the idea of raising the minimum wage out there, both of which could discomfort the republicans to some extent. but consider this, bill, and it was implied in part in what you heard gene sperling just say, one of the reasons why they want to extend unemployment on what they are saying is an emergency basis is that four and a half plus years into this recovery, unemployment is still so bad that it constitutes an emergency and that it must be remedied by extending unemployment compensation benefits for, what, the fourth or fifth time. >> yeah, it's 99 weeks now, and it would extend it out from 99 weeks. . it's been extended beyond 99 weeks a couple of times, and moreover, let's extended, republicans saying let's do that, okay, we're ready to do that, but let's pay for it. and democrats are not interested

in that and they are not saying this will be the last time. and if you look at minimum wage and the whole broader picture of income inequality, that has deteriorated during the obama years, so the president is now hoping to resurrect his party's political fortunes by saying he's going to fix problems that have either occurred or worsened under his administration. >> the only way he can fix them, you know, i don't think he can fix them at all, but the only way to do what he wants to do and the democrats want to do is to boost taxes, and every time you boost taxes on the wealthy and the corporations, that slows the economy down further. and so it looks like this is just a vicious cycle. this is a catch-22, hume. remember heller, joseph heller? >> absolutely, remember it well. bill, your point is well taken. you can also do it by borrowing more money. >> oh, my god. are we really going to borrow more money? >> this is why this issue is not exactly the silver bullet.

it has -- there's downsides to these things, and the mere presence of them is issues on democratic tongues is confession of failure by the president and his party. >> but that's a pretty sophisticated analysis from a guy that wears a pocket hanky, you think the folks are going to get that? hey, i'm going to get more money if i vote for this guy. >> if you're out of work still after four and a half years under obama, you may recognize that, bill. that's not something that goes unnoticed. >> no, i know, but it's a matter of, look, do i want more money, or do i want to blame the president and try to get the system changed, and i think they are going to go for i want more money. i could be wrong. >> maybe so, but at the same time some of these people are going to be feeling the effects of the health care law, which have been largely negative, and look where it takes us. what are the two main things, the big things, that this president did? one, of course, was he passed his big stimulus package, which was supposed to fix the economy.

well, at this stage, they are still talking about emergencies, emergency conditions. >> that didn't work. >> that failed. what was the other thing? >> obamacare. >> that was, of course, his health care reform plan, health insurance reform plan, and so far the rollout of that has been a complete and total political, as well as policy, disaster. so that's what -- these are the underlying conditions of this election and you might be able to get mileage out of raising these two questions and put republicans on the spot, but i don't think it overcomes these larger questions. >> brit hume, everybody, plenty more ahead. carl rove, hillary clinton's shadow presidential campaign, that sounds kind of ominous. rove will spell it out. next, waters, the best of. he created a lot

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segment tonight. a report says hillary clinton has a shadow campaign in her quest to become president of the united states. i'm not sure what that is, but carl rove joins us now from austin, texas, with some illumination. so what's this shadow deal, mr. rove? >> well, it's hyped a little bit, but there is some interesting news in that hat hi clinton last summer was briefed by some democratic operatives associated with a lobby firm, a government affairs firm that they briefed her on deadlines, how much it would cost, pitfalls, legal requirements, and so forth. second, she and her people had to work out an arrangement between two competing super pacs, each of which wanted to be her blessed super pac, ready for hillary, which has been now designated to do sort of list building and take contributions of up to $25,000, and a super pac, priorities usa, which will take the big donors and do the

media. but she can't coordinate with these groups when she becomes a candidate, but since she's not a candidate, she's able to have her people work out arrangement how they are going to operate. >> let me slow you down now. duey square is a boston based political firm, our pal maryann marsh works for them and they have a long history with mrs. clinton. if she decides to run, which i believe she will, they'll get hired. they are doing all the leg work now so they have everything ready. the two super pacs that you mentioned, what they do is raise money, just like you do for the republican candidates with your pac. that money, how is it given to hillary clinton, so when she becomes an official candidate, as you said, she can't have direct contact with them. how do they get the money to her? >> well, they can't get the money to her directly. priorities usa would spend the money it raises on advertising on her behalf, apparently, in the primaries and general election. the other one, ready for

hillary, though, could sign a list agreement, having built this list of names of people who are supporters of hillary, they can rent or sell that list of names to hillary so she has a ready-made e-mail list. >> how much money do you think both the republican and the democratic contenders are going to need to run for president in '16? >> well, we had in 2012 a billion dollar plus campaign on behalf of president obama and slightly less than that on behalf of mitt romney and my suspension is we'll be looking at those kind of numbers again in 2016. >> about a billion dollars if you want to really do it right and you have to cover all the bases with a billion. how many people -- hillary clinton, i think, could raise a billion. do you agree with that? >> i suspect so, though the rules are changing. so much of the money could come from, you know, $5 and $10 gifts from large numbers of people. >> like president obama did. >> right. that's going to be driven by events or persona or message,

and we'll have to see how that plays out in 2015 and 2016. >> is there anybody on the republican side capable right now of raising a billion dollars to challenge? >> well, we don't know. and look, i'm not certain that just simply saying i am a woman is enough to raise you those kind of figures. that was her selling argument in 2007 and '08 and it didn't work out so well. look, i think we're a long way from knowing exactly what kind of a compelling -- >> it didn't work out so well because it was trumped by first black president, come on. first woman president, that's an attractive magnet to a lot of democratic women voters, no doubt. >> it's an attractive magnet to a lot of women voters, period, but i'm not sure it's sufficient to win. remember, 52%, 53% of the population were women in 2007 and '08 and we had roughly 11%, 12% of african-american, yet the woman issue was not sufficient enough for hillary. >> i know, but i think that's

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back in the book segment tonight, very bad things happening in iraq, syria and other parts of the middle east. remember that president obama said al-qaeda was on the ropes, but al-qaeda has now constituted itself there, joining us now, charles krauthammer. >> well, there are extremely bad decisions to pull out in 2011. why are we negotiating right now

in afghanistan, an agreement to leave behind a residual force? so we can arm and train the afghans, so we have a special ops base and so that we can moderate and mediate again the government and its opponents, which is what we should have been doing in iraq. >> what we have been told, and both sides, republicans and democrats acknowledged this, was that maliki, and joe biden who was trying to do this negotiation and leave a residual force, couldn't, because any u.s. military person charged with a crime was going to be put into the iraqi system, which was insane. and they wouldn't bend on it, and that is why we wouldn't leave residual force.

is that valid? >> no, that story is rubbish, a cover story for the fact that obama approved a residual number of americans who would stay behind, it would be about 3,000, which would be useless, the group would be defending itself. and instead of numbers like syria, ten or 20,000, which our commanders had recommended, the iraqis understood we were not serious. >> so that is a kinard, they just threw it out, the president wanted to get out of there with everything. but didn't his advisers, and certainly you and i said it, if you do this this is what the result is going to be. and now we see our prophecies are coming true. mr. obama certainly had to know that that was possible. >> look, i don't know what he knew, but i knew it, you knew it, others said it was absolutely obvious. and most interesting of all,

"the new york times," which is not exactly a right wing rag had a front page article just yesterday saying it is the vacuum created by obama, by the united states, in leaving nothing behind. nothing behind. that has invited in al-qaeda and created the resurgents. remember, iraq has no air force, one of the duties would have been for the u.s. to stay, to train and to put together a new air force. instead, iraqi air space is controlled by whom? by iran, instead of us. we have no base of operations for intelligence. we have no way to do counterinsurgency. the war was won, al-qaeda was defeated. and the worst part of it, we would have had influence on maliki, as we did when we were there, as a way to work with the

sunnis, as we did -- >> you have to tell the audience one of the reasons for the civil war is that maliki and baghdad is treating the sunnis poorly, thus you have all that chaos. >> when we left, iran stepped in as the leading power, and its pressure was left to go with the sunnis -- >> i don't see the iraqi armed force's being able to throw al-qaeda out at this point. so al-qaeda builds its strength in the center, northern part of the nation, iraq. and then al-qaeda goes into syria and causes trouble in lebanon, right? is that the way it's going to be? >> al-qaeda is already in syria, and the border between iraq and syria has been effectively erased. what we have to do now, and this is tragic, instead of using our bases and the forces we had in iraq, we'll have to reconstruct

something like that in jordan, which will be the rest to go. jordan, right now is looking at a frontier with iraq and syria dominated by al-qaeda. and it will be the target. so we're going to have to re-do, reinvent the wheel and establish a presence in jordan as in iraq. but three years later, we're going to have to start supporting the rebels in syria who are not islamists, we are already late on that. but that is our only hope. jordan on the one hand, and the non-islam is rebels in syria on the other. it is a mess, and the reason, the evacuation that obama ordered. >> all right, charles krauthammerer today, protecting your health, which is the most anyone have occasional constipation,

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