alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show.y bruce, radio show host and fox news contributor here to continue to discuss. brings up so many questions how to prevent lone wolf terror attacks, people are worried about so long. we've seen attacks brought about here in the united states. just recently over the past week we've seen this fallout play out over the senate intelligence report as it related to enhanced interrogation techniques by the cia. tammy, does something like this justify the need for sometimes bending the law, perhaps some people say breaking the law in the interest of public safety? >> number and you don't have to break the law in order to do what you need to do to get the information you need. sometimes that will make certain people uncomfortable. some people say imprisonment is torture. you have to have a perspective and uniformed agreement about what torture is. but when it comes to getting the information we need, it can be pretty obvious. like the decision to let americans who left to go to fight with isis r

joining us now with their scorecards, a look back at the biggest stories alan colmes host of "the alanmes show" and tammy bruce radio talk show host and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. hard to believe we're at the end of 2014 already. give us your media hits and miss. >> not enough coverage of the kardashians. i think we needed more of that. don't get enough front covers of tabloids. how about the fact that the afghanistan war ended over the weekend and almost nobody talking about it, with a yawn after 13 years of the war is literally declared over at least combat operations. very little attention. we overcovered ebola. we got all scared and this would take over and infect so many thousands of people. thankfully it did not spread as much as we thought. health care and success of obamacare got enough coverage and how many people are doing well. economy rebounding. the unemployment rate is low. in fact where mitt romney said it would be at the end of his first term. i don't think that got enough coverage either. jon: tammy? >> i'm sure tammy agrees with you. >> i think big

the angel is anderson cooper, the ass is alan colmes, no surprises, joseph is joseph, i'm the virgin mary and her is bill o'reilly in the manger. got to open that last door, what's the prize going to be. what? oh, it's geraldo's mustache! oh my goodness. oh, yeah. oh. that is -- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: that is nice. a little warm for that, i got to say. all right, bill and i are going to fix the world tonight. and folks i got to tell you, the world needs fixing. look at this map from today's "usa today", okay? the democrats are taking over the country. six months ago this map was all reds. that's not the most frightening thing i saw today. check out this front page. and i'm not talking about peter o'toolee, look at this headline, right there. court to oversee wiretap program. the bush administration caved. they are going to the courts for warrants before they wiretap. that's just what the terrorists want. terrorists love our judician system. of course the democrats are crowing. here's what new senate intelligence committee chairman j rockefeller said. this announcement toda

joining us alan colmes, host of "the alan colmes show." radio talk show host tammy bruce. both of you. talk about the way this has been covered in the media. tammy, you say that this is, well, the op ed piece that you wrote suggests for president obama and his cronies, everything is political and everything and everyone is a pawn. do you think they're taking advantage of the situation? >> well look, there is a foundational issue here not even about race relations, is about poverty. it is about generation of young men and families like michael brown's family really have had no hope. since the president was elected of course we've had unemployment rates even, are worse for communities of color. you have got in some districts here in country over 50% unemployment rate for young black men. in missouri, at least nationwide, 36% for young black men. this kind of imagery keeps people from asking i think directly, why have our lives not gotten better? why is the condition of our communities not gotten well? this really does help facilitate a distraction from what the real issue is

joining us now, alan colmes, host of the allan combs show -- alan colmes show, tammy bruise is also with bruce, is also with us, fox news contributor. is there a media role? >> only about us covering it. we have to cover the demonstrations, the actual story. the people who are protesting deserve coverage as well in addition to what the main story is. but to say that the rhetoric of the people who are protesting is responsible for a dastardly act, the tragic killing of police, is playing politics and absurd. jon: but when the media point up the folks streaming through the streets of new york city chanting what do we want, dead cops -- >> that's horrible. that's horrible. but is the media supposed to not cover it, supposed to be quiet as if somehow by covering bad speech which is still protected under the constitution that somehow is responsible for the killing of cops? there are going to be bad actors that happen. you don't shut down the media or demonstrations because some crazy person might react horribly. jon: what should the poll constitutions be saying about that? they generally like

alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show. and radio talkshow host and fox news contributor.ay okay, the magazine got the facts wrong but still a bigger story at play here. >> her ex-roommate coming out now saying the story is true and some who know her safe even the magazine got some of the facts wrong, rolling stone did not that it, they made a lot of mistakes, but a liar, go after her because we have statistics that show one out of six women or so claimed a victim of rate or sexual assault. we cannot ignore that and should not try to make women victims because one person and what they did or did not do. jon: even that statistic is under fire. >> i don't know who is saying it is not accurate. why make this a left-right issue. some conservative online sites have done. the publication that broke it, it is not exactly the publication. jon: i think the woman seen a few things it is a left-right issue. >> i am a feminist. violence against women is epidemic portions. fighting to get more women to report. cannot even if no kurd or did not, it really is about left-wing media, mains

alan colmes, mike gallagher, syndicated radio show host. both fox news contributors. let me point out before we get started that the president refused to call on anybody in the front row. now, if you have covered these things long enough, you know that those are the major network correspondents for the white house. he did not call on any of them. i also believe he never called on a male reporter today. could that be a snub for the networks not showing immigration -- >> i think it was payback. it was reported that president obama and the administration was furious that the major networks did not give primetime air time to his immigration reform address, so maybe today was payback because it seems very peculiar that he wouldn't call on any of the major networks or any men. >> was it payback to men? >> where is the men's activism? >> i don't know if it's gender-related, but it's interesting he did not come on the front row. >> he wanted to give the opportunity for those that -- >> maybe all year they call on the same people, and maybe he wanted to give an opportunity to

but so did the president of the united states and so did holder with us now alan colmes fox news contributor and avowed satanist. and former nypd detective. go to you, harry you make sense you have had strong words for at sharpton. you have said he has blood on his hands. defend it. >> he is catalyst for this whole thing occurring. all started in ferguson. he was in ferguson. started it. decided he was going to start a little fire there and then threw a little gasoline on it and when things started to get rough, he moved out new reverend al sharp tont great omnipotent one he thinks he is why didn't he go there and stop them from burning down the half the city free throw flame on the fire and use that fill his pocket? s. >> bad stuff happens jump on the garner bandwagon. like there hasn't been any pattern all these things. >> 125th street. >> all the golden oldies. >> it matters. right, alan? >> it's consume la detective. what happened in ferguson as was just pointed outs in last segment is cumulative. what happens happening in new york with eric garner is cumulative. absolutely dispeck kibbl

. >> what do you make of the comments of some of our guests tonight, alan colmes, kirsten powers, sayingifice our values in defense of our country, you don't make that trade-off? >> you have to put things in the context of the times. and those very same people who say they would not sacrifice their values would probably be the very first people to go looking for a cia agent or a soldier or someone in the military to protect them. you have to -- we didn't know. we didn't know where the next attack would come from. we had to do things that were very desperate at the time because they were desperate times. >> one of the cia operatives spoke to our own catherine her ij and said you don't understand the frame of mind we were in. folks who had been given legal authorization from the d.o.j. he said we were watching these guys behead american citizens. he said we would watch video every day of the 9/11 attacks and see these poor people being forced to choose between gettin÷ burned alive and jumping to their deaths. that's what we had in our head. that's what we were worried about and were trying

alan colmes, good to see you, sir. as we see growing protests and threats against police, why isn't president obama saying he believes the country is less racially divided than when he took office? plus, protesters taking to the streets at this hour for a second night after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old. mark furhman on why the rhetoric does not fit the evidence in this case. and why the national conversation about race and policing is not being based on facts. and a week after the u.s. government blamed north korea for that cyber attack against sony, why many security experts are saying they still aren't convinced kim jong-un is the culprit. in my world, wall isn't a street... return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is w

alan colmes, good to see you, sir. as we see growing protests and threats against police, why isn't president obama saying he believes the country is less racially divided than when he took office? plus, protesters taking to the streets at this hour for a second night after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old. mark furhman on why the rhetoric does not fit the evidence in this case. and why the national conversation about race and policing is not being based on facts. and a week after the u.s. government blamed north korea for that cyber attack against sony, why many security experts are saying they still aren't convinced kim jong-un is the culprit. (cough, cough) mike? janet? cough if you can hear me. don't even think about it. i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. yeah...but what about mike? he has that dry, scratchy thing going on... guess what? (cough!) it works on his cough too. what? stop, don't pull me! spoiler alert! she doesn't make it! only mucinex dm packs 2 medicines in one pill to relieve we

alan colmes and brad blakeman. alan, is this true? do you think hillary is getting farther away from the democratic party? >> ed rogers is a republican operative now a lobbyist who worked for president george w. bush. interesting piece in the "times" yesterday that the real person n hi are you has to look out for -- hillary has to look out for is the guy from virginia, jim web, a senator, a vietnam hero and was against the war in iraq. hillary voted for the war in iraq. but there is a populist movement in the democratic party that may challenge hillary clinton from the left. leland: is it better for the republicans to be running against hillary rather than running against somebody like lir -- likeelizabeth warren? >> we want to sit back and look at the fight in the democratic party. the clintons have been on the public stage for 30 years. when they left the public stage they cashed in on their to later. they are book didn't do so well. those democrats in 201 dem -- tn 2007 and 2008 said she was inevitable and she got bested by a commu

alan colmes joining us. gentlemen, thank you for being patient.nk this leads us now? >> it empowers them to act out further against americans understanding they have a president they can deal with. north korea says we will give back the americans if you send a cap and officer to us, now cuba? it is all these other concessions as marco rubio pointed out that are inherently beyond the policy of this president, blindsided the government by doing it. this and the terrible message to those seeking to do us harm and those we're trying to influence. >> i don't understand what marco rubio was saying, talking about both sides of his mouth saying we need free and open trade, we need more democratic cuba that is what open trade does. i wonder if they would like to go and explain to the family did not want to release. a man that was a small cell with two other prisoners. this is an opportunity for us to open up trade good by not having could cuba were not a dictator, where her the people of cuba. this situation where cable open anyway, it is exactly the right

joined now by alan colmes and a fox news exhibitor.y assistant to president george w. bush. will try to get a couple of minutes before we had over there. i know you thought this is a good thing, correct? >> i am sick of people like john mccain and lindsey graha graham. having been there for a few years, he knows what he speaks. martha: why now? >> because it is finished, he is ready to go. we found out how the cia lied. the fact the torture did not work, with her about things like beatings. went far beyond that which was already reported bid people talk about transparency in how the obama administration has been criticized for the lack of transparency. here is your transparency. martha: they received approval and went back to the department of justice several times to make sure they have the approval. they have never found a reason to press any charges against any of the people who carried out these techniques. where do you stand? >> this is propaganda i the senate. absolutely. a report from the senate you would in for a report would b