charles krauthammer has a different take on the news of the day. which is why we like him.ay he issued a warning to the republican party to back off the weiner situation but, why? charles joins from us washington. why should the g.o.p. back away. >> i wouldn't presume a warning. it was a piece of gratuitous advice. reason is the oldest fliewl politics. when the other guys are committing suicide. get out of room. don't get in the way. lesson here is from the clinton years. clinton had something like the weiner trajectory except it was pro longed one. he lied about it at first a few months later he then made a confession then what happened the republicans decided to seize on this and overreach with impeachment and then also with the star report. they thought they really had the divoodz on this guy and it turned out that public was profoundly angered with clinton at the beginning, especially the lie. then when it looked as if the republicans were exploiting it it cynically public perception changed on that. the lesson is simple. these scandals speak for themselves. there is no

and charle charles krauthammer. >> the first problem with this is he cites at the press conference the idea what we are seeing in may is basically the gas prices are the most prominent head wind. that is the way he put it. but if that is the case, the numbers don't bear him out. it may put the best month in terms of gas prices from january through april, you saw gas prices successively rise and some cases spike in february, average gas price rose 40 cents. gas prices around the country. you had strong unemployment numbers. 200,000 jobs added per month in the time period. in may, however, you saw the gas prices decrease by 20 cents a gallon. you have 54,000 jobs added. the numbers don't add up. he is not identifying with people. that he took shots at him for doing this and then he called at it blip. he is talking about this like it's professor, talking about the jobs like theoretical instead of a practical way that people live their lives. that is part of what we are seeing in the poll. >> bret: kirsten, it comes with the announcement that austan goolsbee, key member of the president ec

and sindcated columnist krauthammer.ite political pieces you can't imagine something like today. people would say that is too far a jump to make. it happened. >> it did happen. you were there last week and the line you used, certainly had an expression of disbelief. on your face. for good reason. we have to look at this, remember what he did today was plan "b." it was after denials didn't work. we went to contrition today. it's not clear if it will work or not. it's not over yet. we have photos out there, that are apparently x-rated, explicit, e-mails. all of these things will come out, i feel certain, because practically everything comes out these days on the expect. one way or another. >> bret: he says he didn't do anything illegal and didn't violate his oath of office to the constituents. >> used to be, maybe it's way back, but if you did something horribly inappropriate and wrong and was embarrassing to you and the family and the political party and even your country, you would resign as a matter of honor. now congre

. >> many people in the mainstream like karl rove, charles krauthammer, i have great respect for theml model of great name i.d. before you start out, whole lot of money and you've held public office before. herman cain is just the reverse. guess what's happening. the american people aren't looking at it from the traditional model. >> you think that's true this time around? >> i think that's true for some people. and i think there is a new model both from a tactical standpoint in terms of the new media that you can use but there still are fundamentals, you still have to raise a lot of money and have a good organization and have to be able to win those key states in order to cross the finish line. i think her man caman cain has messages, very enthusiastic and has a very strong following but i'm going to say you'll have to win the votes at the end of the day if you want those people to come along with you so rather than talk about those folks, i would rather hear a lot more about specifically what these candidates are going to propose to focus on economic growth and bring our country bac

charles crowd hummer -- krauthammer, is a 20 when he did not take my candidacy very -- seriously. not get the memo that i was not supposed to run. i am running. i am running. the reason i am running is because this nation has become a nation of crises. we have a moral crisis. we have an economic crisis. we have an energy crisis. we have an immigration crisis. most of all, we have an efficiency of -- a deficiency of leadership crisis in the white house, and we are quite a change it. i did not get the memo. one of the reasons that i have been inspired to answer this call has been because the american people that i have talked to and the ones that i have listened to are tired of this national nightmare that we are on right now. this economy is not growing. we have a lot of problems. i do not have time to go through all the things that i would do. let's talk about one of the biggest crises that we have, this economy. what would be one of the first things that i do as president would be to ask the united states congress to give me a bill would contain the following elements in order to