alan colmes, with us, host of the alan colmes show, author of, "thank the liberals for saving americah fox news contributors. jim what is your guest? are veterans not just that interesting to the american people? >> i think veterans are interested by the american people. the mainstream media can take them or leave them. if it involves hurting president obama or obama administration, they don't want that. an example of where the heart of the media still is in the sixth year of the obama presidency, last week on "nbc nightly news," they did a big feature, cynthia mcfaden, valerie jarrett, white house advisor the she is not news. she is important person but they treated that segment on valerie jarrett like they were star-struck teenagers, so wonderful and powerful, so close. kind of thing you see in first week of administration but six years later still doing that. valerie jarrett's reported split called ambitions back home in illinois. she is getting a big run-up, meantime there is no room for the veterans and va scandal and all the deaths. that is not on the media agenda. jon: alan, yo

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jim pinkerington and alan colmes, thank you. jenna: we're going to turn to business new as well.ten-free products are creating a multi billion dollar industry to feet a lot of gluten concerns. this despite increasing numbers of health experts questioning the real legitimacy of a gluten-free diet. what should we all know about this? dagen joins with us more. how much has this business really boomed? >> in terms of the overall u.s. foods sales of products labelled gluten-free. these are foods like yoeg you tell that may have been glount -- gluten-free before the sale, now it's selling more. some people have a legitimate disease called siliac disease that's an auto immune response to eating gluten that can damage intestines. it's less than 1% of the population. you throw in people who have gluten sensitivities, that is about 6% of the population or roughly 12 million people but a recent survey found that a third of americans surveyed, that would be about 100 million people overall if you extrapolate the numbers, are avoiding gluten so a lft people are jumping on this food fad for no

joining us now is jim pinkerington and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and author of laing- thank the liberals for saving america. there is understandable relief that he's safe but he is coming under harsh criticism from those who served saying he laughed, and even put others in harm's way. >> i think susan rice really ought to give more thought to what she says on television. they googled the rolling stone article you mentioned or any number of other accounts of bergdahl, it's pretty clear that he's -- looks to me like a deserter or trader or both and why president obama would give five terrorists to get him back is beyond me. the headline on cnn this morning is fellow soldiers call bowe bergdahl a deserter, n a hero. "the washington post" is tough this morning. >> do you think that matters if he's supposedly a deserter or a trader? >> i'm glad you got benghazi in there. look. we should be celebrating his freedom. gtmo, we have people sitting in gtmo without due process for years. if this leads to further release and a closing down of gtmo, that's good. if this releases to

joining us is jim winkerington for the american conservative magazine, alan colmes host of the alan colmeso with us, he's the aut offer of thank the liberals for saving america, both are fox news contributors. jim, when we think about how this story started out in the white house with the president there flanked by bowe bergdahl's parents, clearly the white house wanted the story to be big. they just didn't know it was going to be big in the way it has become. >> i think it proved they have a tin ear when it comes to patriotic issues what military service is. to the contemporary, and i emphasize contemporary left, deserting your post is like getting an incomplete on homework. no big deal. they didn't think it was a big deal and as chuck todd said last week, they were just shocked. genuinely surprised that the reaction was so against them. jon: was he worth it cover, you have a problem with that. >> i have a big problem with that. we got out of harm's way an american p.o.w. that's not even in question that we should even -- that's separate from the issue of whether or not he was a deserter

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joining us is pim winkerington and alan colmes. both, of course, fox news contributors. and alan, what happened? did the media get caught by surprise? >> i think brit had it right there. the media take their cue from their fearless leader, president obama, but i will tell you this, back to george bush, if george bush played golf 175 t president obama has, the media, including this weekend, here he is off this weekend as iraq is falling apart, the president is in california fundraising and talking about climate change, of course, and playing golf. that is, according to cbs news, the president -- this president plays seven times -- golf seven times more than president bush ever did and the media would be killing president bam over that and they're giving obama a pass >> do we have to talk about the number of days bush took on vacation? this is an absurd argument as if president obama playing golf is caused by what's happening in iraq. he got on a -- he acted like tom cruise in top gun, declaring mission accomplished in 2003, the status of the agreement ended on 2011 meanin

joining me now, alan colmes and mike gallagher. so that's what hillary clinton is going to say in her upcoming book, that it would be hard for americans to swallow this. so, alan, she came out kind of in favor of it about a week ago. which one is it? >> i don't speak for her. but in her book, she was positioningclearly as a moderate. morris davis was on my radio show last night. he said we have to release these prisoners at the end of the year because of the end of the war. the fact that we got something for five of them is actually a good thing. >> she knew politically when she wrote the book how difficult this would be for americans to stomach. but in denver she doubled down and defended it. so the fact is democrats are playing right into the narrative that this is going to be a really, really tough issue for them to overcome in november. congratulations, susan rice, you now by doubling down have given every republican candidate a campaign talking point. and if democrats don't run from this, they're going to pay the price. >> but

time i personally think radio stations should put at least one of the great liberals like it's or alan colmesor any number of people out there who are good put them on instead of a c. plus or b. minus or deep plus conservative for your damn station ality have some courage shake it up it's time to move forward that's one of the biggest handicaps we have but i'm not here to make a long speech and i apologize. the one person at this point who is a guiding light and a shining star for diversity in news talk radio call it liberal call it progressive or just call it intellectual is a guy that i first met a number of years ago when he was a well known progressive thinker and writer and dabbler in radio he came to me with his wife louise for advice they wanted to start a radio show i gave them some advice and then they said something to me that i never forgot they were going to invest their nest egg their retirement fund. to get this thing off the ground. that's how much they believed in it and he's gone on to be at this point the most important progressive talk show hosts in america and i hope there

alan colmes and katharine ham. both are fox's contributors, good morning to both of you.om the daily news often. but there it is in print. they do not hold back. >> no, i think there is a reason for that. there are pretty serious security concerns. let me separate this from bergdahl's actual record. entitled to a trial the way that works in the military justice system despite evidence against him we see coming up but on the security angle, this isn't just coming from critics, you don't have to take my word for it, the state department has had a concern in writing before about the ability to keep terrorists in place, people we have released from gitmo. many senate democrats say i am excited about this briefing because we did not get it before this and due to the great reporting at ""the daily beast," we have them in 2011, 2012 as was a cabinet member with obama. there are some serious issues that are not political in nature. >> was looking at a piece of information there was a person in the libyan city who was released among the 500 or so release from guantanamo bay pride

hundreds of conservative talk show hosts that are presenting very anti-obama messages, and i think alan colmesothers are left in america today. so i think it really depends on the medium -- bill: so you're, let me cut through this -- >> bill is right -- bill: i'm going to cut new this. so you're talking about the irs on the radio, that's your point, right? >> well, i'm saying that the irs story, i don't feel, has been covered, and i do feel that the president has been perhaps put forth by many media outlets in a positive light but not overall with all of the negative stories or the negative situations that have -- bill: what do you think of that, ro? >> the irs thing, though, is about to explode because here's the problem. when you find out that five out of six computers actually had their hard drives crash, whose hard drive crashes in the modern era? and the irs is only holding its information for only six months when they require us to hold our information for seven years? to leslie's point, people hate the irs, so the irs is going to get run over here. bill: we've got some breaking news, bu

alan colmes joins us. jack kemp. both of which are with me now.e american number. >> if you look at a ppp poll which slightly leans left. saying people favor mccain on iraq compared to obama. you look at things issue by issue and people often tend to favor the president. >> this is a repudiation of the presidents administration. the co-author says while people do agree with the president on some issues specifically the president is losing the political debate as the public does not view him as a leader and the issues people care about the most. the economy, jobs, obamacare, security homeland and national security are the things people feel most vulnerable about and feel this president has led the worst on. the average in the polls is still hovering in the low 40s. bill: overall you mentioned it, 41% approval, right around the lowest we have seen. the point brit hume is making is if we just withdraw from the world, they will like us. >> w we're sending soldiers. bill: military personnel. you disagree with that? should we not send folks to baghdad t