bush's staff, brad blakeman. thank you for joining us.seemed like you have a statement about this. it's very difficult if you are a lowly representative. >> it is a relationship that is not that dissimilar. he's want to do the opposite. he's going to keep them at a distance. and i think that the president is partly to blame. ashley: that is true. that really has kind of defined his presidency. >> he is campaigning on the theory that we are irrelevant. and i think that they are going to run away with this guy. we will start to see it more and more as we reached labor day. ashley: we see guys with guns on top of huge trucks and this is kind of the video that we have been seeing from overseas and clearly a small police department who is out of their depth. and there is a vast difference in here is a guy who is in command and control and he's treating people with the decency and respect that they deserve. ashley: sometimes they tend to get the sense that it's against the enemy. and we do have someone different and charge and how to get to thi

joining me middle east expert, fox thousand contributor, lisa daftari and brad blakeman is with us asell. tough to see the juxtaposition. it is on "the daily news" today. the president's response on golf course five minutes later. picture next tote parents crying. such a short time frame that went by. lisa, what does it look like to people? >> just regardless of what side of the political spectrum you fall on, this is just a display of disrespect towards the family and the country. imagine if ceo of a company that had just tanked or something awful happened? you come to the podium and make a statement and go on to have a vacation. the question here is why did this president become the ceo of a country he doesn't care about? >> brad, someone said to me when you see pictures like that, makes you feel like the person who is charge, our president is not worried so i have to. that he is sort of not taking the situation seriously and that makes me worry. because the guy in charge is not worried about it. is that fair? >> it is fair. perception is reality. what a president says is important

for more on this, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president george bush, also a professor and a radio talk show host, thank you for joining us here on this lovely saturday. t tough numbers for the president. there are his critics who say a lot of this is all his fault. then supporters who say he's not the one to control it all. brad, let's start with you. your thoughts on just how much the president can control. >> well, i think the lead-in into the story, congressman peter king was right. that is that the president should have foreseen what was happening around the world and presidents are supposed to prevent crises, merely respond to them and not respond well and still a lack of confidence to our allies. and there's no fear to our enemies. so president obama has missed the opportunity to lead. and therein lies the problem. he has to rally our allies and do the right thing before it reaches a crisis stage, no matter whether it's in russia with the ukrainians, in the middle east, around the world america is looked to for leadership. and when we're not there, bad things happen.