these things have been going on long before the obama ministration. number two, this is a bunch of lawyers. i think it's a bad idea. >> ben stein is a lawyer. so you are lumping. i havbeen in practice for a very long time. >> i think charles payne hit on the big picture issue going on here, first, responsible. it's not a polical statement. it's not an anti-obama statement. it'sust now if you have a problem, it's not your fault. >> we keep hearing more and more, every week, we talk about the news the common thread is that somehow a person is a victim. >> right. >> people with minimum wage deba how es someone get into a position to be an adult and have skills to have minimum wage. what do they do to hurt themselves? >> bravo, bravo. >> this is a political -- >> wait a sec, adam. >> he continues to say stuff li like. this is a political story. the trial bar, these are not like regular old lawyers. these are one of the biggest activist groups in the democratic party. they have been doing this in the securities area. >> they are hitting up the states that

reestablishing the old sophi soviet empire, and claims a crisis in ukraine could have been avoided had obama ministrationeen paying attention, joining us now. judy miller. this administration appears in each one of these crises that suddenly erupts to be surprised, unprepared, blicose in th the extreme, and impotent. is that a misread of this what administration is doing in foreign policy. >> i think it is is accurate, lou. you were paying more attention to ukraine i the fall of last year than the administration was. i was there we could see this crisis coming at us like a eight train, i came back, i could not interest in the administration in figurg out how to stop putin from pressures the ukrainians into walking away from the deal he agreed to sign. lou: ukrai is strategic piece of real estate. natural gas pipelines, transversehe, crane to europe. europe the ukraine itself dependent on russian energy. how can people be in this situatn? it is just unthinkle, european union has been slow to act. they have you know perhaps the administration, obama administration can be cricized for beieing inept, t the e

month, we to the fiscal year 2015 budget -- we will see the fiscal year 2015 budget and how the obama ministrationplans to handle these cuts to the fence -- administration plans to handle these cuts to the defense. future debates about the of the u.s. national defense and what the united states will try to do. debate overhe strategy and resources, there are very important opportunities various u.s.on alliances, both bilateral and how to move towards more trilateral or to move away what spokef called a hub and model in which the united states is at the center of everything the model in which the united empower its to allies and partners to stand shoulder to shoulder on some of these security issues. the key aspect here is conveying are seen -- alliances as dependency things. because the united states is a great power and a relative military superpower, they often hear the rhetoric -- i often hear the rhetoric, others are wr free riding off u.s. security. the case of this in japan and korea -- they are attempting to play larger roles in these alliances. that is a welcome thing. this helps to convey

you writes that played a role in her decision to accept president obama, many please for her to join his it ministration and take over the state department. guest: she dodged him a few times. went out to chicago and they sat and she said no and he said to think about it and sleep on it. calls aed his fault -- few times. what eventually happened was he offered it to her, and she said, let's talk conditions and called him back one morning and that was a sign. the way she explains it is, if she had been president-elect, and she had asked president -- senator obama to serve for her, she would have expected him to do it. she has a call for public service. she is a politician, but this is something she really believes in. >> there are more details to delve into from the new book, what her role was, what her responsibilities were, what she took credit for, what she did at the state department. we will get into that here. but howard is up first in pennsylvania. a democratic caller. caller: good morning. i think the to say middle-class class, which i consider myself a part of, whether you are a republican or ind

ministration. many presidents have continued the constitutional conflict with congress over the power to send troops. most recently wrote last fall president obama and congress were at odds over u.s. intervention in the syrian civil war. although he denied is oblation to do so, to his credit, mr. mr. obama became the first president since franklin d. roosevelt to recognize the constitutional right of congress end of the american people to have a say in whether to send their children to war. more than a dozen wars in untold hundreds of skirmishes overseas involving u.s. troops, all of these operations, congress says the other issue formal declarations of war but five times in our history, the war of 1812, mexican war, spanish-american war command the two world wars. presidents have on their own send the nation into all the other wars, in a clear violation of the constitution does he. george washington was the first president to do so. unfortunately he set a precedent that many other successors have often use recklessly, unlike those successors. washington went to war, thousands of american citizens were clearly at stake. president washington esta

you writes that played a role in her decision to accept president obama, many please for her to join his it ministrationake over the state department. guest: she dodged him a few times. went out to chicago and they sat and she said no and he said to think about it and sleep on it. calls aed his fault -- few times. what eventually happened was he offered it to her, and she said, let's talk conditions and called him back one morning and that was a sign. the way she explains it is, if she had been president-elect, and she had asked president -- senator obama to serve for her, she would have expected him to do it. she has a call for public service. she is a politician, but this is something she really believes in. >> there are more details to delve into from the new book, what her role was, what her responsibilities were, what she took credit for, what she did at the state department. we will get into that here. but howard is up first in pennsylvania. a democratic caller. caller: good morning. i think the to say middle-class class, which i consider myself a part of, whether you are a republican or independe

the casino is scheduled to open in mid 2016 all stop >> coming up, the obama ministration will announce the formation of new climate hogs -- the obama administration will announce the formation of new climate hub. they are rolling out in seven states. the closest will be in raleigh, north carolina. >> that is a hotspot that jackie has been talking about all morning long. you'll have that ice, that's no, that accumulation. you can see that on the roadways. it is still pretty thick. then, of course, the graphics are there. are commuting,ou moving right along three gaithersburg, we have icy conditions reported in leesburg and around route seven. westbound was treated. we are back over to autria and jummy. >> at 4:57, tv fans are mourning the loss of a tv after who played the shopkeeper and little house of the prairie. he died of natural causes after battling pneumonia. doc.ayed nellie osan and >> we will be