howard: and we're back with ben domenech. it's very disturbing. i think that we all know that the new york times and papers like it, you know, check with their leftist colleagues when it comes to whether or not they should run something from a conservative voice. but in this case, if this is actually what happened -- and i do believe bari, and i trust her when she says this -- this is totally inappropriate. now, ott credit of the employee in question, bari says they resisted this suggestion, the idea they ought to check with senator schumer. but if this is the way that they're approaching their op-ed page, it really raises questions about the kind of opinions that we're actually getting. we all know what happened when tom cotton tried to run an article about, you know, defending the idea of serving in national guard to police our streets when we were in the midst of the riot that happened last summer and the backlash that followed. really explains how out of step, how out of touch "the new york times"' opinion section really

editor-at-large spectator host of the ben domenech podcast on fox news radio.ow we got here and the solutions to it. >> yeah, education is on people's mind. crime is on people's mind. the border is on people's mind. the economy, inflation and, yet, the last two weeks, bret, we have been talking about probable cause, searches of homes in florida and now special masters, yeah, the politics of it, this is a good environment for republicans as long as they're talking about the issues that november voters care the most about and i don't think it's the weighing and balancing of probable cause. >> bret: yeah. the thing about the education situation, obviously impacted by two and a half almost three years of covid policies, ben, and we have now the announcement fauci leaving before the end of the year. a tweet by the minority leader in the house dr. fauci lost the trust of the american people when his guidance unnecessarily kept schools closed, businesses shut while obscuring questions about origins of covid. he owes answers. he will be held accountable. whether he lea

let's bring in our panel ben domenech editor-at-large spectator of the ben domenech podcast on fox newsold ford jr. former tennessee congressman and co-host of "the five." okay, ben, what do you make of all of this. we are obviously waiting for this magistrate down in florida about the affidavit. really that's the next shoe that drops. >> it is the next shoe to drop but i think unfortunately we are now through the looking glass in so many different ways when it comes to our consideration of this issue. unfortunately, i think that no one can have any confidence that we are going to be receiving a true picture from the fbi from the department of justice about the nature of the way that all this played out. unfortunately, i wish that we could have confidence in these institutions. it's something that i think is deeply important for the american people. but, after all the years of the experiences that we have had under president trump, seeing the way that the fbi and the department of justice acted towards him, i don't think that anybody can have confidence that they are going to receive th

ben domenech editor-at-large spectator and host of the ben domenech podcast on fox news radio and leslieaken up in court in florida tomorrow saying, quote: appointment of a special master is unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interest including national security interest. leslie, what about full transparency given the presidential nature of this raid? >> well, full transparency when you have a special master obviously is going to occur, but if you have full transparency and you are involving witnesses and there could be witnesses that are not only tampered with you about whose lives could be threatened or even harmed when you are talking about agents whose names could be revealed, especially if those agents are under cover. that certainly is problematic. if we want to talk transparency, then let's talk about a couple of things. in my opinion, a raid is what we did with usama bin laden. not this secondly, when we talk about transparency, the national archives asked forever these months ago. this wasn't like, you know, oh, you know, we are not going to tell any

ben domenech joins us this thursday morning. ben, good morning to you.nvestigations in the raid? >> you know i think that's a good question. i think that certainly when it comes to his supporters the energy that you see in response to something like this is tangible. they are angry. it reminds them about the way that he has been persecuted and they view themselves as being the kind of people who could be in his shoes. you add 87,000 new irs agents, for instance, and you have to wonder how are they going to be used? are they going to be auditing people on a political basis as we saw under the obama administration even though people like to try to sweep that under the rug and i think that that certainly helps the president in terms of coalescing and consolidating the support that he has among republicans. even those republicans who might not list him as their a number one choice going into 2024. at the same time though i do wonder if it could hurt republican chances in november, simply because the vast majority of independent voters obviously care less abo

ben domenech is with us to offer professional and intelligent analysis. musk influence the republican party? >> well, i think he could have enormous influence if he really wanted to use it. right now he's kind of playing footsie with the party which is something that elon tends to do. but i do think his analysis of being for the left flank of the republican party and the right flank of the democratic party is a position of diminishing return especially considering that, you know, elon is not someone who's run away prosecute kind of -- from the kind of culture war issues at least in terms of his opinions on twitter and the like that typically is identifying of that kind of middle, centrist position. i do think it's going to be very interesting to see how he reacts to a potential sea change in washington has coming up this november. we have two very excited, very energized portions of the country, democrats and republicans are going to see very high output in terms of the level of turnout across the country. and that's going to have an enormous impact many s

fox news contributor ben domenech joins us now to react. ben, great to see you this morning.comeback, that his approval rating is up. but, when it comes to the voters in these democratic races, the candidates seem pretty worried about joe biden coming and showing up in their district or their state. >> yeah. i think he is about as popular as sticking a hot dog in a beer. good morning this is one of those situations where you want to have joe biden around in your state because we all know that even if he is less unpopular than he used to be, which is basically, you know, the thing that the media is spinning in his favor over the past couple of weeks. he is still is going to be a drag for a lot of these candidates. is he going to be someone who is played up by the republicans in a lot of these districts and states. and people are going to, you know all the different things happening in america that they view as being negative on the candidates here in ways that they won't be able to escape as much. we all have those relatives that we might prefer to not have to invite to a part

that's one of the reasons ben domenech tweeting this out an underrated aspect of the biden administrationity is just how terribly this cabinet has performed at messaging. basara, mayorkas, granholm who we just heard from them. yellen. best performer is tony blinken, you have a problem. >> they are not saying the whole story talking about financing, solar panels, own a house and have financing on solar panels and want to sell the house, you still owe the money on the solar panels. good luck sell your house when you a $20,000 solar panel bill. >> brian: great point. the president, unlike president obama and president trump they were the best messenger. joe biden is not best messer is jerry. >> steve: he used to be. >> brian: never thought great motivational speaker he is always angry. needed people below him to push him up and help him out. ronald reagan, bill clinton, they could speak for themselves. this president can't get threw the teleprompter. he never really was that strong. remember, when he was vice president, the first four years he was supposedly in his prime. gaffe after gaffe a