attention on twitter. i'm including this tweet from some nice man named shawn who said, megyn, you're a delight to watch and gave a stoic performance after your slipup with governor huckabee's name. i thought it was stoic too. heart of a 12-year-old boy. welcome to "hannity." this is a fox news alert. tonight, the immigration battle between the president and republicans is growing more contentious by the day. president obama vowing yet again over the weekend to take executive action before the year's end despite serious warnings from republican leaders in congress. now, fox's own ed henry he's traveling with the president. he's in beijing, china. and he joins us now with the very latest on this battle. ed. >> reporter: well, sean, after that midterm drumming it's no surprising the president is on an eight-day stop here in china then wrapping up in australia next weekend. bottom line, the president was hoping for a warmer welcome, he didn't necessarily get it at the first stop here in beijing.

a couple of state-run newspapers running editorials slamming the president reminding him of his lame duck status. clearly a message that's being sent from the communist government here back to the obama administration. one of those editorials saying, "u.s. society has grown tired of the president's banality." bush who dared to do everything and obama who dares to do nothing, come from different parties but have the same destiny." now, white house officials are obviously trying to shrug this off as mere propaganda. the president focusing on this trip on maybe getting some wins on the world stage. he's having so much trouble back home, he announced expanded visas with the chinese that could get more businessmen and women as well as tourists back to the u.s. spending money, try to boost the economy. he's also working on a broader trade deal with asian countries while he's here. but bottom line is he has to get any trade deal through that new republican congress. and those republican leaders are

furious with the president for saying despite talk of cooperation that he's going to bull ahead with unilateral action on immigration reform. they're also upset that in this cbs news "face the nation" interview over the weekend, the president again appeared to not really get the election results by suggesting his real problem was messaging, not his actual policies. listen. >> we've got to sell it. we've got to reach out to the other side. and where possible persuade. and i think there are times, there's no doubt about it, where i think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we're trying to do and why this is the right direction. >> now, remember that big white house meeting late friday between the president and vice president biden, democratic and republican leaders over the agenda coming out of the election results. at one point republican aides insist the president privately cut off the vice president out of frustration on the

immigration issue. democratic aides familiar say that's being overplayed in fact the president was expressing frustration with speaker john boehner not with the vice president. either way, this shows that behind closed doors there's a lot more tension over the president's push for executive action on immigration reform despite all this public talk of cooperation. sean. >> ed henry in china tonight. thank you. yesterday president obama doubled down on his intention to use executive action on immigration before the new congress is sworn in before the end of the year. take a look. >> i've got legal authority to make improvements on the system. i'd prefer and still prefer to see it done through congress, but every day that i wait we're misallocating resources, we're deporting people that shouldn't be deported, we're not deporting folks that are dangerous and need to be deported. so, john, i'm going to give you some time. but if you can't get it done before the end of the year, i'm going to have to take the steps that i can to improve the system. >> so are you saying here today

their time has run out? >> what i'm saying to them -- actually, their time hasn't run out. i'm going to do what i can do through executive action. >> here with reaction fox news contributor, fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. and the co-host of "outnumbered here," katie pavolich. we have a lot of laws on immigration. the president wanted another law, but congress didn't go along with it. >> correct. >> we have co-equal branches of government. separation of powers. >> got it. >> does he have the authority he says he has? >> no. unconstitutional. and the ends do not justify the means. and he can't say, well, listen, i need to get this done. i've waited long enough so i'm going to do it by executive fiat. i'm going to ignore the constitution. i'm going to ignore the statutes on the book, which are not enforced to begin with and say everything's okay. it's going to force a constitutional crisis. it's bad for america.

it's bad for government. it's bad for divided government. it's bad for the balance of power. it's wrong. >> a constitutional crisis, jonathan turley says constitutional tipping point. >> of course. >> i agree with both you and jonathan turley. >> yes. >> so the next question is, impeachment. are republicans going to take the country down the road of impeachment? >> no. >> i doubt it. so the president what? he takes congress' authority away? >> maybe they'll come up with a weak lawsuit in order to stop that type of action, but it sends a signal to young americans especially. we were talking with katie about that. that you can get away be basically anything without any cost. and if the constitution means nothing, rip it up. >> talk about politics. you're a liberal democrat. sorry, you are. i'm sorry you had a tough night the other night, pat. seriously. i believe this election was a repudiation of this president. so my question to you, politically that he's going to stick it in the republicans' face?

>> this is what's amazing to me. not only what peter's saying which is disregard for the idea we should have law as though we were a banana republic where i can do whatever i want, they can't stop me. but it is what we don't talk about the mainstream media. i watched all the shows yesterday, sean. no one talked about it will upset the republicans, it's going to be poison, no, this is going to blow up the country. three months ago, four months ago when we had the crisis with the unaccompanied children at the border combined with isis and then finally ebola, american attitudes on immigration have changed dramatically in four months. >> prop 88, oregon, legallicens. 70%. >> this is -- it's going to blow up the country. it's not only a huge crisis -- what's interesting is there's not been enough polling on this because a lot of the mainstream media doesn't want to touch it. but the numbers exist, even democrats are split. overwhelmingly the country

believes he does not have the authority to do this, nor should he do it. >> right. >> and this is -- by the way, they can do some things. come january they've got the pursestrings. they can shove -- >> prop 88 oregon liberal state. >> uh-huh. >> would give legal driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, shot down 70%. >> overwhelmingly. >> overwhelmingly. so, the president can't do it. normally if the president does something that would bring the country to a tipping point, the first thing people would say is impeachment. i don't think it's going to happen. i don't even -- i don't think it's wise politically for it to happen. what do republicans do? >> touch on something pat just talked about. a column last week on election day for the hill talking about will republicans hold president obama accountable? because they haven't been able to so far because they haven't had the senate. now they have the house and senate to hold him responsible. they have the power to fund some of the programs he wants to put forward. they have unions they can work with and border patrol and i.c.e. to hopefully turn

president obama's ideas on this thing. the bottom line is the president doesn't care about the constitution in this aspect. he's flagrantly violating article 1 when it comes to illegal immigration. he just doesn't really care -- >> he hasn't enforced immigration law. >> no, he hasn't. >> the president has basically where he written obamacare five different times. maybe more. the president hasn't enforced welfare laws in this country. and he made recess appointments when the senate was in recess. >> when you have a republican electoral mandate and the reaction of the united states is i need to go the other way even though the people have spoken out in a way that repudiates and rebukes this president on every issue including immigration -- >> peter johnson -- i just want to say because this man is a raving narcissist. >> me? >> no, not you. obama.

>> this is your president, pat. you're saying he's a raging narcissist? >> he's a raging narcissist with no grip on reality. what he's been doing which is that i'm king and i can rule like king and the republicans i have to say before lay down for him. mccain, graham, all laid down when he did the -- >> the president can't have it both ways. >> now they've got to stop it because this will destroy -- >> now here's an interesting tidbit. >> they should have used in the election and they didn't. >> they ran against obama and it worked. can't really second guess a winning strategy. >> well, the president can't have it both ways though. the president deliberately delayed this action for a year when he had the power to do it. if he has the power to do it, why did he delay? and now he's saying, well, republicans their time is up. it was an election issue and now he's saying -- >> what are we to make of biden apparently in this meeting on friday says to john boehner how long do you need -- >> do you know why he did that? obama cut off joe biden when he

asked the question because president obama has no interest in working with congress despite saying on national television that he does. he wants to go -- >> the vice president knows in order to change immigration policy as was done by ronald reagan, it needs to pass both houses of congress and then be signed by the president. >> peter, i'm going to tell you, if the republicans go along with comprehensive immigration reform, conservatives like me are going to be angry. i'll tell you why. every time we're told spending cuts and tax increases, you always get the tax increase and no spending cut. with comprehensive reform, you're never going to get the border secure -- >> what must happen first is border security. >> right. that's exactly why -- >> then you can have comprehensive immigration reform. whatever form that takes. but first secure the border. >> that's exactly why the president wants to do it with executive action before the new congress comes in in january. he doesn't want to go through congress. he wants to do it that way. >> i hate to shut you up because i love you to death.

and you just called the president a raging narcissist. >> he is. >> i agree. >> we all agree. >> he's also a radical -- he's a radical idealogue. i guess you'll be at the white house christmas party as usual. >> once again i'll be right there head of the line. >> coming up next tonight on "hannity." my exclusive interview by the way with rush limbaugh's attorney. the legendary radio host is now taking legal action against the democratic party. we'll tell you why later this hour. but first tonight -- >> a lot of speculation about him. i occasionally fuel the speculation by saying i hope he wins. i think he'd be a very good president. >> president bush 43 hinting that his brother, jeb, hasn't closed the door on a presidential run now that the midterms are behind us, well, political pundits on both sides of the aisle are now looking ahead to 2016. we'll check in with jed die and steven hayes. and speaking of president bush,

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welcome back to "hannity." so in the wake of the republican tidal wave in last week's midterm elections, is it no surprise that the attention is now quickly turning in 2016 and the gop field of white house contenders is now beginning to take shape. now, possible contenders number one, jeb bush. take a look at what his brother, former president george w. bush,

had to say yesterday about jeb in 2016. >> there's a lot of speculation about him. i occasionally fuel the speculation by saying that i hope he runs. i think he'd be a very good president. i understand the decision making process pretty well. and i know that he's wrestling with the decision. >> moving on to the undefeated wisconsin governor scott walker, did he hint at a run for the white house when he said this on nbc yesterday? >> i said my plan was for four years. i've got a plan to keep going for the next four years. but, you know, certainly i care deeply about not only my state but my country. we'll see what the future holds. overall i believe governors make much better presidents than members of congress. >> lastly, dr. benjamin carson, the release of his documentary this weekend is fueling major speculation that he may be first in terms of being a 2016 gop candidate. now, i asked him that very question when he was on the program last week and he did not rule it out. take a look. >> are you running for president?

>> i'm watching very carefully what the people want me to do. >> i'm just teasing. i've asked you before. i know you'll tell us when you're ready. >> here with reaction to what looks to be the very early stages of the 2016 gop field from the weekly standard, fox news contributor steven hayes and the co-host of "outnumbered," jededia. you're going to be the libertarian, rand paul, maybe mitt romney, maybe christie, conservatives, maybe ted cruz, maybe conservative governor and fourth category conservative governors with good success stories. >> i would actually love that. i would love to see the contrast in the party. look, we already did moderate. we did john mccain. and we did mitt romney. and guess what happened? both of them didn't inspire conserve voters. they didn't inspire a lot. a lot of voters on the right stayed home. so i would love someone that unified the party. i would love someone to get the conservative wing excited, the

libertarian wing excited. >> is there any one person that stands out? >> i like scott walker because he seems to overcome what seem insurmountable -- and i think he awakens a lot of young people turned off by big republican candidates. ted cruz is out there, i'm not a huge fan of jeb bush because of things like common core. i think that's a huge issue. i'm a former teacher, i'm a former dean, i cannot stand common core. i think that's a big concern for conservatives, moms and dads sitting at home, immigration is going to be a key issue. that may be a problem for him as well. i'd like a strong libertarian leaning conservative that speaks conservatism like it's their first language, not their second language and can inspire people. charisma, personality and ability to inspire, all of that matters. that's how you get elected. >> steve. >> yeah. i think that's right. that's a good sense of where the republican party is today. and the three candidates or

prospective candidates you laid out sort of have the base covered. you have jeb bush who's probably would be considered the establishment candidate. you have scott walker who's both friendly to tea party but acceptable to the money republicans. and then you have ben carson who would be sort of the ultimate grass roots, you know, long shot to be sure. but conservative candidate. and i think between those folks you have half a dozen others who make this what's likely to be a strong field. and i would argue that the republicans are likely to end up in the 2016 cycle with a handful of candidates, maybe more, who will end up being better candidates than mitt romney was in 2012. >> where does rand paul, where does ted cruz fit into your mix? >> i think they're both running. i think they're both planning to run. i think scott walker's running. i don't know about jeb bush. but certainly rand paul and ted cruz would appeal to the -- >> my bet is jeb's running. i have zero doubt he's going to run. let me move onto this. the architect of obamacare gave

a speech october 17th. wasn't revealed -- here's what he said. this is the guy that wrote the bill. he said the bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the cbo did not score the mandate as taxes. now, if cbo did score the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. so it was written to do that. and in terms of risk related subsidies, if you had a law which made explicit that healthy people pay in and that sick people get money, it would not have passed. lack of transparency's a huge political advantage. and basically call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get this thing to pass. and i'd rather have it than not have it." here's my take on this. this is the most obnoxious -- he basically orchestrated this whole bill was a lie meant to be deceptive, meant to manipulate people into -- and meant to be as confusing as possible so they can pass what they knew otherwise it would never get

passed if they told the truth. >> exactly. they've shoved it down everybody's throat. now there's another supreme court challenge with respect to the subsidies. this administration has had to wake up every day and on a whim essentially rewrite this bill. it's not constitutional that they're doing that, but they're having a blast doing it because people are saying hold on, i no longer have my doctor, i no longer have the insurance i was promised. all these promises they put out there in order to get people to say, okay, barack obama's on our side. he's going to fix the health care system. well, it was a budge of lies. and now we're finding this out. and americans found that out throughout the country, which is why democrats lost big in 2010 and now. >> hearing this directly, steven, i'm looking at this, this is the architect of the bill admitting that the entire process of getting this passed was all predicated on manipulating, lying to the american people because they knew they couldn't get it passed any other way. but they know better, so they're willing to use those tactics because the ends justifies the means. >> it was built on a foundation of falsehoods. what i find striking beyond the

obvious admissions that jonathan gruber's making in these statements is how many times have we seen this happen where somebody -- a key architect of obamacare or the president himself or one of his top advisors has had to go back and basically acknowledge that the criticism from conservatives, from obamacare opponents, had been right all along. i mean, what jonathan gruber said isn't remarkable because of its substance. that's something you were saying that conservatives in congress were saying at the outset as they argued against the passage of obamacare. that was one of the key arguments. he's merely acknowledging that they were right. and we've seen that on, you know, if you like your plan you can keep it, if you like your doctor, the rates, the premium increases, everything. >> the young and healthy going to pay for the sick, the elderly and unnsured. he admits the whole thing was a lie. a tortured -- >> that's why obamacare is still so unpopular in the polls. and it's why republicans would be absolute fools if they don't start this congress by going after obamacare where they can.

>> hard. >> and going after it hard. >> i agree. >> and also have your own plan. have an alternative. be able to articulate something -- >> they need to make the president veto this. >> if you're opposing something and you can't go to the american people and say here is what we have that is better, then you do look like the party of no. you need to be able to say this stinks, you know it, your premiums have gone up, options have gone down and here's what we have as your solution. that's the winning ticket. >> good to see you both. appreciate it. next tonight on this busy news night on "hannity". >> the republicans are going to hate me for saying this but i think the issue of this election was still the first black president. i really do. >> oh, bill. him and other left wing sore losers, they can't come to terms with the fact democrats lost so terribly in the midterm. so what do they do? they keep playing out the worn out race card. we're going to explain how that liberal tactic is backfiring big time. and later tonight in a "hannity" exclusive, rush limbaugh's lawyer is here to explain why the outspoken radio talk show host is now threatening to sue the democratic national campaign

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welcome back to "hannity." now last week we showed you a bitterly partisan memo released by the naacp that made no mention of the historic election of numerous black republicans. now many on the left are following the naacp's lead and simply choosing to ignore overwhelming gop support for candidates like senator tim scott and congressional candidate to-be mia love. instead those same liberals are claiming the midterm elections were just about racist conservatives sticking it to the first black president. watch this. >> the republicans are going to hate me for saying this, but i think the issue in this election was still the first black president. i really do. i think it was still resentment about his winning re-election. and it was just those people who came out to vote wanted to prove to the rest of america they were right all along about how much

obama sucks. >> all right. here now to respond the deputy press secretary for the republican national committee, raffy williams and brian benjamin. raffy, good friend with his father, juan. and he's a rock star. he's on the right side of the issues. let me ask you, do you think this had anything to do with race this election? considering the country elected a black president twice? can you really make -- isn't that a silly argument? >> i don't make that case at all. i think it was about my party not having a clear message as to why we should be re-elected. the republicans say we're against obama and the democrats said we don't know what we're against. >> democrats ran from obama. they didn't want to admit they voted for obama. >> i agree. it was bad. i don't have a good answer for that. >> isn't the reason those candidates felt that way is because the country perceives and understands that obama's policies have failed? if he was a great success, they would have said i voted -- i love him, come campaign for me. >> polling is not doing that well. but again, the democrats, my party, we have to have a clear

message as to why our progressive values work. >> okay. nobody ran on obamacare. nobody ran on the stimulus. >> they should have. the deficit's down. >> exudes me, when he took office the debt was $10 trillion. now it's almost $18 trillion. he gave us $8 trillion of debt. >> our budget deficit is decreasing. let's not get into -- >> he has accumulated almost more debt than every other president before him. >> because george w. bush -- >> oh, stop whining. >> come on. by the way, health care inflation because of obamacare is going down. >> raffy, what do you think? >> that's so ridiculous. he promised we could keep our health care plan, we liked it, that's not happening. keep our doctor, not happening. obamacare admitted today was a fraud. it was something they were doing out of opaqueness instead of being transparent to convince america to buy along for it. their policies failed for the past six years and that's why they were rejected at the ballot box tuesday. people are looking for a

brighter future, a way out, looking for freedom zones, school choice, repeal obamacare. >> there's one other thing. they use the race card in states like north carolina and georgia. and in past elections i would argue probably worked. it didn't work this election. now we've got the president he involves himself in three high profile cases, the cambridge police acted stupidly, trayvon would look like my son and him and eric holder involved themselves in ferguson, missouri. and all indications are the grand jury's not going to indict the officer because of the testimony of black individuals that were eyewitnesses to what took place in ferguson, missouri. and now supporters are offering rewards for the killing of darren wilson, the officer in that case. what do you make of the president being 0 for 3 in high profile cases? >> you know, i think race is a very touchy issue, but when the president's weighed in not going the way he thought it would go, thought they were clean cut cases that ended up not being

so. he's not awarded in his policies -- >> that's a point. black americans are doing worse off under the president's policies. he's 0 for 3 in high profile cases. 0 for 3. >> hold on. the republican party did not run on anything this cycle besides -- >> they didn't have to. >> every democrat voted with obama. but no, you should. you should run on what you believe. what are you going to do for this country? the republicans did not do that at all. >> but they didn't have to because things are so bad. and this was obama's policies. you know, you say -- you make these statements like the deficit's reduced. he's given us almost -- from george washington through george w. bush he's accumulated as much debt as all of them and you don't give him any responsible. >> i don't give him all responsibility. he inherited two wars. >> it's his presidency. >> you can't unresponsibly unwind wars.

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impact to small businesses. the dccc's reprehensible defamation of mr. limbaugh is shocking and inexcusable. moreover it is -- joining me for an exclusive interview to explain what is actually happening, rush limbaugh's attorney, patty glaser, is with us. patty, how are you? >> hi. i'm good, sean. how are you? thank you for having me. >> well, thank you for being here. this is about comments that he made on his radio show, the dccc took those comments, they sent it out in e-mail blasts so that they could raise money off his comments. and then they also as i understand it they set up a website to boycott and for people to sign onto a boycott of his advertisers, correct? >> it's all correct. i want your viewers to be able to make their own judgment about

how wrong this was. this is what rush said on september 15th. >> i actually have the tape if it will make it easier. i can play the tape if you like. >> could you play the tape? it would be great because i want people to hear what was said. >> you bet. we'll play it. >> consent must be freely given. and the absence of no does not mean yes. how many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it? i'm probably -- let me tell you something. in this modern -- that is simply -- that's not tolerated. people aren't even going to try to understand that one. >> so that's the quote in question, right? >> actually, goes even further and says we have got to reprogram the way we raise men. rush says that. >> right. >> he says that and then what happens is he's quoted by the democratic congressional

campaign committee as follows, "we knew we had to take action after limbaugh's reprehensible rant excusing rape on college campuses. in case you missed it, limbaugh actually said no means yes if you know how to spot it." i mean just unforgivable. it's black and white. needs to be no hyperbole. there needs to be no stretching. rush's comments were deliberately taken out of context for apparently political reasons by people who should know better. this was not an irresponsible blogger. this was a democratic congressional campaign committee made up of people we've elected to congress. shame on them. >> let's talk about the law and if you're a public figure the standards are different. rush is a public figure. what is the law in terms of it's

a higher barre that he has to reach. and how you would go about it. there's also precedence as i understand from the ninth circuit there was a decision. why don't you explain the legal aspect of it. >> let me do it in two steps. one, let's talk about the ninth circuit opinion. there's precedent in the ninth circuit which clearly says you cannot take words out of cont t context, rearrange them and have it purport to be something it's not. can't do that. that's not okay. that's actionable. that's defamation. question about a public figure. with respect to rush being a public figure, no question he's a public figure. does that mean you can do anything you want and say anything you want and put words in his mouth that didn't come from his mouth? absolutely not. what do i have to demonstrate because he's a public figure? i have to show malice. could it be any clearer what the malice is? i don't think i need to explain that to people watching the show. it is a deliberate effort to

mischaracterize. >> i agree it's malice. i agree they purposely took those comments out of context. i agree with everything that you're saying. and it's interesting they didn't put in the quote you added to that. so where do you go from here? have they responded to your initial letter? >> well, the initial response, which we heard today was accusing rush of being the bad guy without any substantive response to, wait a minute, you didn't tell the truth. you have a responsibility to tell the truth. they don't do that at all. first they said they didn't get my letter. well, we have proof, proof, evidence that they got our letter at 11:35 this morning washington, d.c. time. i happen to be in los angeles. so we know that's not true. and then they don't deal with the substance of it by acknowledging that they never say, oh, we made a mistake.

we want an apology. we want a retraction. and we want it as broadly disseminated as the irresponsible defamation was broadly disseminated. sean, if you can just give me one more second. the one thing i want to emphasize that we live in a democratic society. and it is so damaging, whether it's republican or democrat, happens to be the democrats who did it this time, the republicans i'm sure do it also. you've got to be more responsible. you can't maliciously attack people, their freedom of speech. and you certainly can't put words -- irresponsible to put words in the mouth of someone that were never uttered. in fact, the direct contrary was uttered. >> if you get the retraction and the public apology, which you asked for in the letter, does that mean lawsuit goes away? or is that just the first step? >> that's going to be rush's call. i'm just a lawyer.

but that's going to be rush's call. >> i'm not going near that. all right. thank you. you know what, it's a serious issue because i think you're right. and as somebody that works in this business, this happens all the time. and in this case i believe they so crossed the line. it's going to be very interesting to see this work its way through the courts. i think they're going to be surprised. anyway, thank you. appreciate it. >> sean, thank you. coming up next tonight here on "hannity". >> should we expect that more troops may be needed before this is over? >> you know, as commander in chief i'm never going to say never. >> all right. it appears president obama's finally starting to listen to america's top military leaders. coming up next, fox news military analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters, he'll join us in a rare in-studio appearance about mission creep and more. that's all straight ahead. well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe.

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welcome back to "hannity." president obama made a shocking remark on "face the nation" yesterday when he said he would not rule out sending more u.s. troops to iraq. take a look at this. >> should we expect that more troops may be needed before this is over? >> you know, as commander in chief i'm never going to say

never, but what, you know, the commanders who presented the plan to me say is that we may actually see fewer troops over time because now we're seeing coalition members starting to partner with us on the training and assist effort. >> now the administration is saying the troops that we have september to iraq are not combat boots on the ground. remember back in september the president promised not to involve a u.s. force in a ground war. >> i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. after a decade of massive ground deployments, it is more effective to use our unique capabilities in support of partners on the ground so they can secure their own countries' futures. and that's the only solution that will succeed over the long-term. >> here now in studio fox news military analyst lieutenant colonel ralph peters. by the way rare in studio. good to see you. appreciate you being here.

so 1,500 more. obviously mission creep as we see from that. and then we got the president, i don't know what's worse, mission creep or collaborating and having secret correspondence with the iranians over isis. i'm not sure what's worse. >> well, let's start with mission creep. mission creep is inevitable when you creep into a mission. when you try to make war -- >> you sound like yogi berra. >> far more genuine. when you measure war by teaspoonfuls and enemy is splashing buckets of blood all over the landscape, you're going to try another teaspoon and then a tablespoon and then maybe a big bucket and then ultimately helicopters on the roof of the saigon embassy. the cardinal advantage of being a super power is super power. when we must intervene

militarily, we should whack those suckers with a 2 x 4 between the eyes. everything you got. that's how you save american lives. that's how you accomplish the+f do you ever feel maybe it was the wrong decision? >> no. my regret is that a violent group of people (co#ñ2meec ris again. this is now kind of plus. and i put in the book they need to be defeated and i hope we do. it's -- i hope the strategy works >> the president, 4,000 americans gave their lives, many more lost limbs many suffered severe injuries. the president watched every city

that american troops fought fall and did nothing. not a thing. didn't lift a finger. >> yes. hypocrisy on the left has been horrific had bill clinton deposed saddam hussien he would have been celebrated on the left as the greatest liberator since abraham lincoln i'm disturbed about this letter our president sent. he betrayed our allies and and strain. but above all, the folly of asking iranian shia to go in and combat sunni militants that is like sending the kkk to ferguson, missouri to calm things down. >> does he know the difference between sunni and shia?

>> i'm not sure the president cares. i'm not being flippant about that. clearly he's only concerned about domestic politics. in that clip he ran there are soldiers in there now aren't wearing athletic shoes and sandals we have boots on the ground. by doing it incrementally, we're allowing enemies to train upvíc beat us >> condy rice said the world is not listening to us. and the president hasn't dealt with that issue either. and the iranians published a plan to eliminate israel. not a peep out of the administration about that. >> worried about a bad nuclear deal with iran. but sean, without being partisan, would you trust a united states led by barack obama?

>> is that rhetorical? the answer is obvious.6$+n my take on him, pat godell says he's a narsissist. this president had been indoctrinated. he's never shown inclination to be adjust and be pragmatic. >> you're right. he is an idea log we're fortunate if it is superficial in his heart of hearts i don't believe he believes in anything. >> he's not up to being a junior representative from pudunk. >> coming up, the question of the day as we continue, glad

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