with us our barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes. are you terrified. >> shaking in my boots. can i say one thing? it's fascinating that we are still getting all crazy, jane fonda makes conservatives crazy, still. >> bill: poster girl. >> she still drives you nuts. >> you like her, right? >> i happen to like jane fonda. >> bill: do you think she is a great thinker. >> i don't know about great thinker i happen to agree with her. >> bill: don't laugh, crowley. >> how do you define a great thinker? >> bill: right here. i'm looking at one. >> excuse me i don't mean to laugh. >> bill: you see she is not a great thinker. >> other than dr. crowley. >> bill: you admit that she really doesn't know what she is talking brvettle i admit she has good points. >> bill: okay. what was the good points she made in the diatribe about the republic candidates. >> interesting word. privatizing social security would be a step toward getting people into a much more insecure place for retirement. >> bill: it's their own choice. >> in the beginning. that's a s

let's talk about it with our news watch panel, alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show.r and writer for the conservative magazine. newt gingrich has gone onto say that the sit down on the couch with nancy pelosi is the single dumbest thing he's ever done. i imagine when he sat down on the couch he wasn't thinking of a presidential run. >> apparently not. gingrich did it, the video is there. all he can do is apologize for it and as they say, move on. we are seeing the birth of a new political art form, if you will. these videos that fly around from cellphone to cellphone to ipad to computer to tv, and become and forth, it's become a major factor in this election. jon: there are four candidates, ace understand it, who are using snippets of that same video, alan to try and take on newt gingrich and try to damage him because, you know, well like the line says -- go ahead. >> i believe newt gingrich knew back then he was going to run for president. it's too bad he has to runaway from nancy pelosi as if the two sides can't occasionally agree on something as scientifically vali

you can call any mta officer or employee to speak to the board as alan colmes about any matter. that is within your jurisdiction at any time. the other part of what is commonly called interference with administrative affairs is the distinction between action by an individual member of the board and the board's action, so board members make a decision only as a body. an individual board member does not have any policy-making authority. individual members cannot exercise the powers of the mta board. and, of course, when the the board asks and exercises its power at a notice meeting, by means of a vote. any questions about any of that? president nolan: this year, we are looking at like a $22 million deficit in the budget. how does that fit in in terms of the board of supervisors? what are our options? >> director, as you know, the past five years, we have always had a budget deficits, and the way we have addressed it is by either not hiring or enhancing our revenues. as long as we do not go to the board to ask for more money, we are ok, and we usually have to do that. president nol

feel like, remember how they mock, hannity and colmes.o you know they would have, they would have alan colmeso say that they had a democrat on the air. you don't feel like you are being relegated to that, just so we can say we have a democrat, we have juan williams or mara liisson on status? >> williamss no, i mean i.thh question would be again, are you sooehow making legitimatt an illegitimate news organization. first and foreeost. >> smith: yeah. >> williams: .if they didn't have me, they'd still be the number one cable hannel, i don't think i'm the key to cable channel. >> smith: you, you, you, i want to ask you this question about fox then i'm going toomove on to the, to washington post and some other things. do you believe tte faii and balanced sllgan is appropriate or applicable to fox? do you believe that as a news organization? >> williams: yeah, but i think it's provocative, i think it is intended to antagonize their opponents. >> smith: but ii it accurate? >> williams: it's accurate ii you are talking about the news. >> smith: right. >> williams: .parr of the day. >> smith: so the b

joining me now to discuss it alan colmes of the alan colmes show and mike gallagher a syndicated radiot and fox news contributor. you've got to love it, i think i am but they are telling me they are not. hello, barac president obama. tell me why this is a good idea. >> i love watching mike's reaction. 3600 united states citizens have been arrested by ice through what they call their secure communities program. more than a third of those happen to have spouses or kids, meaning it's affected 88,000 families. so when we go around arresting american citizens and it affects american families when peace people are falsely arrested i would think a conservative so-called family values guy like mike would really support to help this family. laugh, be smirky about it. this is a terrific thing that we should be doing to not falsely arrest america's innocent. megyn: go ahead, mike. >> it's bill kwrapbt. brilliant. we need to develop phone lines for shoplifters. bank robbers. >> bank robbers? megyn: hold on alan. megyn: everything that is -- this sums up perfectly the obama ideology about illegal i

uma: joining us now is alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and brad blakeman former deputy assistanth. gentlemen, welcome, great to see you today. alan i'll begin with you. what do you think of the strategy that mitt romney is playing out at this point. do you think it will serve him well? >> i think it will serve him well, anything he's doing in eye ways unexpected than what he's done in new hampshire. newt gingrich is pledged to running run a positive campaign but he's taking shots at mitt romney. they snipe at each other. he's going after who his likely opponent will be and i think he will be the nominee coming up. uma: you see that newt is getting a little worried now that he's slipping in the polls. we see a candidate backtracking a bit and going after some of his opponents, specifically mitt romney. >> he certainly is. the candidate who said he was going to take the high road has veered off to the low roads. his ads are the attack dog while his personal appearances, his lofty speeches are about taking down obama. the candidate needs to stay positive, his ads can be a little mor

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alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes show, mike gallagher is a syndicated radio talk show hostnd, gentlemen, always good to talk to both of you. thanks very much for being here right before the christmas holiday. alan, is this really a national crisis that the attorney general needs to involve himself in? >> el, yes, you have an 83-year-old woman in wisconsin who's voted all her life, but now they're asking for a birth certificate she can't find, and it's going to cost her $200 in order to do it, or people who live so far away from the motor vehicles department that it's a burden for them to actually go. i'd like to know why it is democrats always seem to want to fight for voter enfranchisement, republicans for voter disenfranchisement. there's a piece in the journal today in which the real issue is whether or not we want to expand voting rights or contract them, and what is the political motivation from those who want to contract the voting rights? why are they doing that? >> wow. is this about politics, mike galler if? >> wow. let me tell you something, the argument that vote

alison: let's debate this with alan colmes with the alan colmes show.ndicated radio host. gentlemen, welcome. alan let me start with you. you heard the present, he said he asked for it back we'll see how the iranians respond. have you satisfied with that. >> yes. he did not say pretty please, he said, we tried dip phroep diplomacy. the one guy who had it right on the stage was ron paul. you want to go to war over a drone snow didn't say pretty please, he tried diplomatic channels, and that's exactly what you do. listening to bachmann and perry and romney, would you start a war over this? of course not. i want to know what their plan is, other than saying obama got it wrong, what is the right course? i didn't hear one. alison: maybe mike will give us the answer to that. mike, what is the administration supposed to do about this drone. >> the administration is supposed to demonstrate leadership. >> what does that mean? >> i'll tell you. if you're going to use ron paul as your litmus test, ron paul doesn't want to be at war with anyone. >> he's right. >> y

alan colmes, the host of the alan colmes radio show. loved every second of it. >> can't get enough. carlson, fox news contributor, made a dub of the dvd. >> i did. bill: maybe not. >> i'm watching it horror in slow mo. >> playing it in my head. bill: what do you think about this? >> rye vealing speech. bill: how so? >> the president revealed himself ignorant and truly left wing. i'm not into hyperbole. do you really believe, this is the case obama is making if we had higher taxes on rich we wouldn't have 17% real unemployment rate which we have now? do you think republicans are responsible for the current economy and obama's economic policies have had no effect? this is ludicrous. this is a last-ditch attempt to save a failing presidential campaign. >> he is being accused class warfare. what he is doing is pointing out class warfare. let's not accused pointing out class warfare on the other side with practicing class warfare. he is correct. i can't get an answer to the question, if low tax rates create jobs we have the lowest tax rates since harry truman where are those jobs we were

alan colmes is the host of the alan colmes radio show. good to have you here. >> hey, martha.eaning to that. newt gingrich is closing the gap a little bit against the president. >> this poll may be a lagging indicator and these are fluid. this is what i think we know, if this election is about republican dan dates and their ideas and plans and background, history what is they said before, it is over, obama wins. if this election is, it ought to be about the last three years, and the fruits of the obama ideology and what his administration done and hasn't done he will get creamed. this is really simple. not complicated. it is politics. make it about obama. to the extent election is infighting of republican party, what republicans believe, bad, bad, for republicans. martha: very interesting. tucker you're basically saying they're going about it all the wrong way. >> it is about obama. martha: alan, part of that, alan, is just nature of the political beast because they're in the nominations fight right now. they're going at each other and making it about each other, right. >> i'm

he were president moments away. p@ó >> bill: in the impact segment tonight monica crowley and alan colmes did you like that. >> very nice of you to give me the translation. >> bill: back and forth. >> only one that won't come see you is dick cheney. he avoid the of the draft, too. >> bill: cheap shot. i didn't cheap shot clinton ever. >> quite substantial and i urge people to go to bill o'reilly.com. i saw the whole thing very very good. >> bill: very wonkish though. >> lot of wonkish stuff in it but you and he sparred very well. >> i thought it was outstanding, very thoughtful interview. you extracted so much information from him. i have never seen that kind of interview with bill clinton, ever. what i also found interesting couple of things talking about bowls simpson and the long-term debt problem what i thought he he missed was he real opportunity to say look when i was president we had a balanced budget in large part because of newt gingrich and the republic congress that put real restraints. >> he wasn't going to say that. >> no. he he could have talked about the fact that he did pr

. >> bill: in the impact segment tonight monica crowley and alan colmes. you like that. >> very nice of you to give me the translation. >> bill: back and forth. >> only one that won't come see you is dick cheney. he avoid the of the draft, too. >> bill: cheap shot. i didn't cheap shot clinton ever. >> quite substantial and i urge people to go to bill o'reilly.com. i saw the whole thing very very good. >> bill: very wonkish though. >> lot of wonkish stuff in it but you and he sparred very well. >> i thought it was outstanding, very thoughtful interview. you extracted so much information from him. i have never seen that kind of interview with bill clinton, ever. what i also found interesting couple of things talking about bowls simpson and the long-term debt problem what i thought he he missed was he real opportunity to say look when i was president we had a balanced budget in large part because of newt gingrich and the republic congress that put real restraints. >> he wasn't going to say that. >> no. he he could have talked about the fact that he did produc

with us now our barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes. how do you see this threat thing here? >> what is she polywalnuts pelosi. trying to do this to -- this is speaker vs. speaker. remember spy vs. spy? this is speaker vs. speaker. actually i do metaphorically politically. >> bill: it was pretty nasty though. >> polywalnut. so here is what i think is going on. first of all, he yes, would she like to take out newt gingrich? of course, she hated his guts. a lot of people in congress really loathed newt gingrich when he was speaker. that includes republicans who have serious problems with him and his leadership. what i think is more important here, this is sort of the subtext of what she is doing. she is trying to resurrect the wars of the 1990s where gingrich is right in the center. he was a hot rod of controversy. this was the war surroundings the clintons, the wars in congress. contract with america and so on o. she thinks by doing this even though she had to back off of it because under the ethics rules she can't present anything in the

we have alan foams. alalan colmes, and richard lowry. lot of hand wringing. >> we left with a whimper not with a bang there. was no shock and awe at the end and there was no president landing in a tom cruise type flight suit with a mission accomplished sign that was manufactured in the white house. it was a very different set of circumstances, and imagery than we had when right after the beginning of the so-called shock and awe we saw what president bush did. this is a gradual scale down of the war. we are out of there because we could not get the immunity for our troops. this was the bush timeline. we continue stay even if president obama wanted us to. we continue get immunity to protect our forces from possible legal action. jon: rich, focusing on the coverage, again the media seemed to be stressing the uncertainties that lie ahead, and the constant arguments that this war created. >> jon, i think that is appropriate. obviously it was a devisive war and i think the hand wringing unfortunately is appropriate. we are going to have an arg

megyn: joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, alan colmes and mike gallagher, a syndicated radiox news contributor. all right, guys, thank you for being here. let me start with you on this, alan, actually, because there's a piece in "the washington post" calling this unbelievably disgusting and disrespectful. does he have any sort of a point? >> i think the point is lost in the insult to poor kids and families who are in poverty, and the idea of equating poverty with crime, i think, is a mistake. i understand the larger point he was trying to make, and this is what newt sometimes does. he's very bright, he's got a great dialogue going, but he sometimes overstates in a way that misses the larger point. the idea that these kids are automatically criminals because they're poor or the family is poor, they're somehow inclined toward crime, i just think it would have been much better if he didn't state it in quite that manner. i think he made a big mistake. megyn: wow, something really scary is going on behind alan. >> there's yelling here in the newsroom. megyn: i don't know what's go

joining me now alan colmes host of the copes combs show and mike gallagher syndicated radio host and news contributor. well, well, well, you don't often see the president come out and say, oh, yeah? and he doesn't usually talk about his accomplishments in taking out al-qaida operatives like that, alan. what do you think. >> why should he have to respond to these kind of ridiculous charges. this goes along with he's not from here, he's not one of us, he's a muslim, he doesn't love america, he doesn't care about the country, he wants to appease. he apologizes for the country. they take him out of context and it's not true. i thought his answer, straight to the point says it all. you can criticize him on a lot of things. i don't know how you go after him for having killed more al-qaida members than the previous administration. getting osama bin laden, something the previous administration continue do. i don't think it's an area where his opponents ought to be focusing his arguments if they want to go after him for the purposes of winning an election. megyn: that is an interesting point.

joined now by alalan colmes who is the host of the alan colmes radio show and tucker carlson the editorr and fox news contributor. did you buy that, alan that he didn't know how add it was? >> he didn't know how bad it was. the bureau of economic analysis which all administrations use that came out with new numbers, the commerce department came out with new numbers the past july showing the gross domestic product was much worse than we thought. this it was information by nonpartisan groups. he did say it was terrible, almost as bad as the great depression. so we knew it was bad and then we found out that it was even worse than that. those are not conflicting points of view. the attempt to make him into some kind of a live is not accurate. martha: the real estate group released news today that they have been miscounting for the last five years, tucker. there is some evidence that things are worse than we thought. >> we new it was like the great depression but we just didn't know it was bad, really bad. these guys are making it up as they go along, clearly. their economic message, like th

joining us now is alan colmes, and rich lowry. media talk more about paul. >> i don't agree with the the premise, he's in every doe bait. i've had him on my radio show a lot. i've seen a number of segments, how the media doesn't talk about ron paul while they are talking about ron paul. people know who he is. if you are following this stuff -- that is one of reasons he might be doing well, people do know who he is and he resonates with a good percentage of the republican election threat. i don't think he'll get the nomination, antiwar, league lyle drugs, a series of positions that are too libertarian for the republican party. here we are talking about giving him media attention and we're giving him media attention. jon: might they go to ron paul. >> i think all the polls show cain's people are going to go to newt gingrich. on the merits you look at his standing in the polls, the fundraising he's doing, the kind of organization he has on the ground, and he is not getting the media attention commensurate with awful those things. the