charles krauthammer will weigh in on that. arles rangel gets contradicted of think -- ethical violations. of think -- ethical violations. illegal immigrants can gç@ooo >> bill: in the stossel matters segment tonight we asked our friend john to look into the airport security and report back to us. what do you think? >> i agree with ann. if not the airlines some private security company. in israel they had government run security. they gave it up in '95 because government is clumsy and does everything badly. if you have private companies, they have to compete with each other. if they suck, you can fire one. >> bill: maybe 500 people are dead by the time. look, the reason they do this at the t.s.a. >> they don't want to kill their customers. >> bill: i understand that the reason they do that at the t.s.a. and they have the federal apparatus in charge of security is the federal apparatus can access other federal agencies. they can get information faster. they are all tuned in, you know, supposedly to the same system of washing. tha

we appreciate it charles krauthammer on deck. t bush gain agnew found respect by talking about his book and other things? charles will answer that question. moments away as we continue from >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. let's bring in fox news analyst charles krauthammer from washington. so you are watching president bush all this week and tonight on the factor. overall assessment of him? >> i think what's remarkable is that this return to the limelight has shown us why he was once so liked. and i think the reason -- people forget that opposition to president bush originally was the very light, early in his presidency. there was some resentment over the resolution, of course, the election against al gore. but he wasn't hated. what was so interesting is that and then he won again re-election against john kerry. he was a likeable guy. what happened was when the war in iraq went bad, when we had the scandal with abu ghraib. the policies were so difficult and searing in their results, there developed a very widespread hat

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let's get thoughts on the possible contenders in our 12 in 2012 field from syndicated columnist charles krauthammergood evening, charles. >> hello, bret. there's a lot of candidates, but there's a theme. one of the lessons of the midterm election there's charisma only gets you so far. we tried it. no one since reagan had more sheer star power than obama in 2008 and it propelled him to the highest office. two years later the results were in and they weren't pretty as the electorate clearly stated on election day. he may give a great speech, but he cannot govern, which is why in 2012 it's shaping up to be the year of the steady, the stable, the competent. now, this is not to denigrate the role of ideology. any republican candidate has to offer a coherent conservative alternative to obama's hyper liberalism, as do most of the 12 you just interviewed, but in 2012 star power may be no great asset. the way i see it, after the obama letdown this could be the year of the down-to-earth, the steadily competent, the downright dull. it was said of the political hero of my youth, senator scoop jackson, that he

for "the weekly standard" henderson for the "the washington post" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> this is a huge elm bare -- embarrassment to the administration and is a blow to having the tears tried in civilian court. this is a guy involved in a plot and his defense was that he was an errand boy. he was a dupe. he had no idea what was happening. but that was undermined by the one count on which the jury found him guilty, which was conspiracy. conspiracy as the judge explained explicitly, he was asked to come in and explain the law. conspiracy is defined as knowingly, willingly, being part of a plot. so obviously he knew he was involved in a plot which undermines the entire defense. and, yet, he is acquitted on 280-plus charges. what this demonstrates is two things. number one, in principle, we should never have these people who are acting as illegal combatants in a war against the united states, a jihad that osama bin laden had declared openly in 1998 to kill americans everywhere in the world ought not be treated like ordinary americans who have these high protectio

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, charles, your thoughts?> when you have to appeal to the magna carta, you're pathetic. his defense is he couldn't afford a lawyer. what what is he indij innocent? he has place in dominican republic. he just doesn't have a defense. the only issue now is level of punishment. won't be expelled and probably get reprimand. why he didn't settle it months ago i don't know. he thought he'd run out the clock or dodge it in some way. a sad photonote on iconic career. >> bret: the full ethics committee will meet thursday and this is the next phase to go over sanctions. what are the possibilities here? charles mentioned he doesn't think it will go the full expulsion from the house. >> it doesn't look like he will get expelled but there will be a letter that he will admit wrongdoing. mr. rangel did not have to invite the trial. he's so full of bluster and made a huge scene unnecessarily. charles is also right when you are drowning, the magna carta cannot save you. this is the least of the democrats' worries. monday after

nina easton and charles krauthammer.e agenda is this because january 1, the taxes go up. >> lame duck session are wildly overrated. they don't usually do anything more than they actually have to. sometimes they do less than they have to. but i think they have to act on bush tax cuts. there is obvious agreement. they have to agree to cut tax cut, including for the wealthy. >> bret: despite the back and forth from the white house and the president and axelrod. >> it's all game-playing. he will have to do it. it's in his best interest. what the president doesn't understand for his re-election, you know who his best friends are now? republicans. the thing he needs more than anything else is a strong economy. the last thing that will help the economy is raising tax cuts on the people who invest in start-up and create more jobs. they have to do something about a budget, because spending for the government expires and they'll extent it one way or another. then there is the doc fix so doctors don't have a drop in medicare. >> th

and columnist charles krauthammer. >> this is the final hammer in utility of our negotiation. the farce began when the clinton administration concluded the frame wok agreement, in which the deal was they would freeze and dismantle their plutonium program for the goodies including the two nuclear reactors, where a lot of economic support. the problem is that there are two ways to develop a bomb. plutonium or uranium. we assumed all they had was plutonium. in 2002, our negotiator in pyongyang was told they had separate uranium progress. they denied it over and over again. so we had no idea. now we discover they have, as you said, vast facility, thousands of machines that look quite modern. this is not something that was done overnight. they had a parallel program while they pretended under the clinton and the bush administration to be dismantling or holding back on the you plutonium program. this means they were not stopping at all on the development of nukes. i think we will reflexibly return to negotiation. the reason this is revealed because what they want is another farcical

let's start with the trade deal and the lack of it on this -- charles krauthammer and let's start with the trade deal and lock of it on the trip. >> the president walks out to a stage and walks out empty handed he has a failure on his hands. this is becoming a ritual. this is incompetence and experience and arrogance. handed a treaty by the bush administration. it was done. he wanted to improve on it. so far, he has nothing. the e.u. has a treaty, which is going to make it difficult. it will open up the market and it will remain closed to us. this is a pattern with obama. he thinks he can reinvent the world. with iran he decides he has a silver tongue and sweet talk anymore a deal. he is humiliated over and over again. russians, he gets nothing. middle east, he proposes a ban on jewish construction in jerusalem, which is never going to happen. what does it do after 17 years, it destroys any chance of negotiations. again, combination of he comes in, i'll reinvent the world. i know everything. arrogance. and the result, he gets zero results. >> bret: a.b.? >> it's a huge disappointment f

first, george will, charles kra krauthammer, others have made this point -- >> conservatives. >> they've made the point they're not common sense, not using intelligence. there's no reason to be doing body searches of 6-year-old, 12-year-old girls traveling to louisiana visit their grandparents. we're not talking about profiling but to not stop them but use it to apply our defenses to those most likely to cause us harm. here's the second concern. it feels like from this administration that we're playing a defensive game in the war on terrorism. yes, we need to harden our infrastructure, but if you have a committed terrorist willing to give up their lives, you look at the past patterns. we got lucky with the bomb in times square. we got lucky with the cargo packages, lucky with the underwear bomber, that the devices didn't go off. luck is not a strategy. we need to be routing out these networks. we need to be killing these terrorists. i think the american people, when they see an administration worried about reading miranda rights to the underwear bomber. they worry when they see an admini