let's bring it up with our media panel, alan colmes, host of the alan colmes radio show, nationally syndicatedx news and tammy bruce fox news contributor. we missed the actual announcement because we were in commercial break. i want to play that for our viewers now. lindsey graham makes it official. >> i'm lindsey graham and i'm running for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] jon: hard to know the size of the crowd. there they sign pretty boisterous. >> a couple of dozen people earnings so, alan colmes, what about the coverage of the race so far and particularly lindsey graham's entry into it? >> it is interesting watching what he is saying. he is running as the most pronounced war hawk. as you pointed out with bret baier i'm not sure the public wants that with how many years of war. he also said that not today a few weeks ago if you want to join isis i'm growing to get a drone i will kill you. he is talking about killing americans. interestingly as well he talked about entitlements. how will that sit with the rest of the pubs. talked about the environment and entitlements. w

alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show, nationally syndicated on fox's radio.my bruce, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. >> we're on overdrive already. eric: absolutely. just a few hours ago. interesting tammy "washington post" this morning saying is stashment favorite. he is more conservative than most people thought. he has gotten rust off. that is good review from the "washington post." >> shocker. >> liberal media. >> let me explain why that might be happening. they want him to be the nominee. >> conspiracy. >> you would agree. you would agree. i think liberals want bush to be nominee in general. >> no. >> when you're looking at that kind of a matchup, who is it hillary can beat, some of the latest polls she beats two people ted cruz and jeb bush. same thing happened to mccain. call it the john mccain syndrome. the media treated him fabulously through the primary season. moment he became nominee, they turned on him. he was shocked suddenly he was treated badly. get him as nominee and turn on him. eric: the scorpion will sting you and kill you?

i'm not sure where you can get more tapes of that alan colmes interview.forward to joining both of you on your radio show. >> thank you. >> i'll have a bigger audience than he does. >> tgif. >>> some are calling the punishment for a michigan woman involved in a fatal bike crash unusual. missy nelson distracted by her phone last fall when she hit and killed a 35-year-old woman who was riding a bike. nelson will spend 90 days in jail two years on probation and during those two years she is banned from using or even owning a cell phone. interesting punishment. trace gallagher live in l.a. with more on this. >> the victim in this case was a mother of two riding on the right hand side of the road wearing a reflective vest and helmet doing everything right. 23-year-old missy nelson was distracted by a ringing cell phone when her car swerved, hit and killed 35-year-old jill beilich. nelson pleaded no contest. the judge decided a lot of jail time wasn't the answer. he ordered she speak to young kids about the dangers of distracted driving and said she cannot own o

let's bring in alan colmes host of the "alan colmes show." good to have you here. we watched the van crawl across the country. we watched the chipotle moment with the sunglasses when she was out supposedly pressing the flesh with i iowians. now they've picked a good spot. >> it's not typical on the trail. >> across the water. >> that's where they're going to do this. what do you make of it allen. >> it's an unusual choice. >> on a saturday afternoon. >> i'm not sure why she is choosing roosevelt island versus central park even washington park. as a new yorker i know the territory. i've lived here all my life and been to roosevelt island twice. >> is it a security reason? >> maybe. i don't understand why that was chosen. >> i tell you why. it's a controlled setting. they could limit access to whoever they want. it's a pretty back drop. this is endemic of the clinton campaign. controlled and secretive. why is she pushing the reset button after six weeks? because things haven't gone great, martha. the press fire wall around her has crumbled. things like this free trad

. >> joined thousand by rich lowry and alan colmes. alan alan dr. wave saying things and pointing fingers without exactly saying who he's pointing the fingers at. but here's what i take take away from what he said. he basically talked about people about pushing the war on women and people pushing the race divide in this kuchb.country. i position about the democrat he can national convention the war on women issue which worked very well for them in that tile. and then all the cases we've had across this country that seem to have very quickly become about race issues you know to the expense of the facts in some of the cases that we've been talk about in recent months. what do you think? >> i think mr. carson does point fingers and he's the worst possible messenger. he wants to see us doing that, get a mmirror. this is a guy who called problem a psychopath. when clarify, he called him a liar. he said obamacare is the worst thing that's happened since slavery. if that's not stoking the flames i don't know what is. ben carson is not the person for the me

joining us is alan colmes and tammy bruce radio talk show host and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. >> i'm going to win but let's just go. jon: this segment in part comes from a piece that was written on "politico" which suggested ... >> by a bush speech writer ... jon: that suggested that basically voters collectively roll their eyes at anything that the clintons have done, any shenanigans they may have been involved with. the title of the piece was scandaled only make the clintons stronger. the republican plan to defeat the clintons is doomed. it's time to go easy on her. >> after killing vince foster and bill clinton killed self people in arkansas, what's an email scandal. you can't call everything a scandal and hoping something sticks. she is out there giving positions on key issues like universal voting and opt out. that's what the press should be paying attention to, not some of the stuff the media loves to glom on to. that open ed piece is very interesting. >> it doesn't seem there is much of anything that sticks to either clinton. >> i saw that piece

alan colmes, host of alan colmes radio show, fox news contributor.p former spokeswoman for president george w. bush. a lot on our plate mercedes. we're number one. we contacted the white house looking for the poll specifically which president is referring to there. there is one poll called reputation institute. had us number 22 behind brazil and singapore. i don't know where does this come from? >> i think the president lives in this idealistic cocoon where he is more concerned about trying to please his european friends as opposed to coming up with the best approach to how to lead in the world and how to really be involved in this process. let's take his comment about the fact that he said about we're partnering with those with mutual interests. i'm sorry, i don't see mutual interests with the communist dictators in cuba where they're suppressing cuban people as opposed to president obama who basically not even dealing with the cuban dissidents. i think he is plainly wrong. he must be living in a bubble. bill: alan, russia, china isis -- >> russia,