two busts, not admitting a mistake, but instead, maintaining, quote, the idea put forward by charles krauthammer and others that president obama returned the churchill bust or refused to display the bust because of antipathy toward the british is completely false. reaction from charles in a few. >>> is the british press playing favorites when it comes to president obama and governor romney? one media writer says yes. mediaite notes londoners criticized him for so-called gaffes during the visit. but rothman says the fourth estate there has been much more forgiving to president obama. when he gave the queen an ipod containing among other things, audio of two of president obama's speeches, some in the u.s. labeled that a tad bit egocentric. but the guardian gushed, clearly a lot of thought went into this gift. mrs. obama broke with your remain by touching the queen and the telegraph read, renew ago touching relationship. when the president tripped over a toast to the queen at a state dinner, a guardian columnist sympathized, quote, nobody was hurt. nothing was damaged. the whole thing was an utter

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karl rove disagrees with charles krauthammer. so do i, your humble correspondent. we have interesting facts on how the presidential vote is shaping up. >>> i think it's bad for the presidency. he's opining and telling people how it ought to be done. >> shouldn't president bush help the republican party win back the white house? dana perino will help us out on that. >>> also tonight, lou dobbs on whether the obama administration even knows where billions in taxpayer stimulus has gone. >> windmills from china, electric cars from finland. >> caution. you are about to enter the no-spin zone. the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. who would win the presidential election if it were held today? that is the subject ofhis evening talking points memo. last night charles krauthammer predicted president obama would win if the vote were held right now. >> he's got a two-point edge in the popular vote. it's almost inconceivable that you would have that strong an excess in the overall vote and lose in the lec electoral colle. >> howeve

charles krauthammer joins us from washington. where am i going wrong, charles. >> you left out one factor in roberts' decision. i ta agree with you that part of the reason he wanted to uphold the law by all means and he went looking for this relatively flimsy dodge was that he is a conservative and conservatives do not like to overturn major pieces of legislation. that is true. but, if that were the case, how come that didn't apply to the four other conservatives on the court? the difference is that roberts is a chief justice. and i think what you are overlooking is the sense that he he has of his institutional duties as the chief justice of the united states. he says part of his role as maintaining prestige and standing. he thought, mistakingly in my view, but he thought that by overruling such a sweeping piece of legislation that had been discussed in the congress for a year and a half, and duly passed, he would be exposing the court to the charge from democrats, we already heard intimations of t from the president and from, of

charles krauthammer on deck. will rally.harles krauthammer will have a new poll on that after these messages. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. new poll from marist college says 74% of registered voters under the age of 30 support president obama. just 20% are romney people. joining us now from washington is charles krauthammer. before we get to the mafers college poll. 2% of blacks support romney. i think the number is 28% of hispanics. 20% of under 30. looks like the president is going to win in a landslide. >> well, not really. i think if you are going to compare the turn-out. particularly among his strong constituencies like african-americans, like hispanics, and like the young it, will probably be depressed. look, particularly let's start with the young. you know, what do they know? that's why they are young. they don't have to know anything. they voted for obama in 2008 and now we have about the same ratios. it's the older people who have wisdom. i mean, the younger the embodiment of the idea of hope over expe

charles krauthammer on deck. getting food stamps under the obama administration? what is the why behind that? charles is going to answer that question, we hope. moments away. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. in the year 2009 food stamp program cost the federal government $17 billion. last year food stamps cost 76 billion. 17 to 76. an as strong no, ma'am call rise under the obama administration. what does this tell us? joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. i don't think this is all economic. you know, obama administration is going to say bad economic times, recession kicks in, people need the food. you know, going from 17 billion to 76 billion, come on, something is in play here. what is it? >> well, look, you are clearly ride. we haven't had a qualming of the -- quadrupling of the people hungry in the can you hu. that's what it was meant to be. liberalism which believes that measure of success of government is how many people are, quote, unquote, helped. sort of loo

he did write an update to his blog of a learning he was wrong but our friend charles krauthammer didn'tion. >> why would he return it in the first place? >> he replaced it with a bust of abraham lincoln, which i'm sure if it had been the other way around you guys would have been -- >> you guys? >> you guys, the conservatives, would have been on him for replacing a good american president with an english man by winston churchill. and you take a good american like abraham andtioning him. >> you know, speaking he has a hof brother, and he was living in like a hut, do you know when he went and visited him, how much do you think president obama gave his brother? >> here we go. >> want me to tell you? don't you believe they should donate to somebody living in poverty who is related to you? >> sean. >> i'm asking. how much do you think president obama gave? >> i don't know the circumstances. i don't know the circumstances. >> not a penny. >> to his brother? >> not a penny to his own brother. nothing. zero. >> sean? we are going to talk about his kenyan brother now? >> i did not. i brought up u

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charles krauthammer on deck. food stamps under the obama administration? what is the why behind that? charles is going to answer that question, we hope. moments away. well hello, welcome to hotels.com. summer road trip, huh? uhuh yep uch let's find you a room. at hotels.com, you'll always find the perfect hotel. because we only do hotels. wow. i like that. nice no. laugh... awe uch ooh, yeah hmm nice huh book it! oh boy call me... this summer, we're finding you the perfect place - plus giving you up to $100 at hotels.com >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. in the year 2009 food stamp program cost the federal government $17 billion. last year food stamps cost 76 billion. 17 to 76. an as strong no, ma'am call rise under the obama administration. what does this tell us? joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. i don't think this is all economic. you know, obama administration is going to say bad economic times, recession kicks in, people need the food. you know, going from 17

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. >> we will hear from charles krauthammer he will talk about how the economy will effect the election from here on out. >> right now it is time for the weather update by maria molina. >> haygood morning heather and patty ann. good morning. we are continuing to see the warm temperatures across the central plains. we have been seeing them into the triple digits. right now 87 degrees in kansas city 89 in the city of st. louis. feeling the warmth out there. we will see the heat wave breaking down cooler air off to the west continues to push eastward. otherwise further off toward the east 72 in the city of rail leigh north carolina. 104 kansas city, 101 in dallas. 86 with high temperature with sunshine. get out and enjoy it. it will knotted be lasting for too much longer. we have the heat across parts of the planes in plains into the midwest. heat warnings into wisconsin southern minnesota into georgia. a large area of the country that is going to feel heat index values over the city. it feels muggy as you head into the evening hours. somehows across the great lakes into interior portions

. >> >> bill: charles krauthammer up next. some were mad that he predicted president obama would win the election if the collection were today. the doctor with thoughts on colorado next. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, when we last left charles krauthammer there was this. >> bill: if the election were held tomorrow, who would win? >> obama. because if you look at all the polls, he averages 2 point edge in the popular vote. it's almost inconceivable that you would have that strong an excess in the overall vote and lose in the electriccable college. >> bill: charles joins us now from washington. i bet you got a lot of reaction to that. >> i did. but i feel like a presidential candidate. you quoted me out of context. i then continued to say the election is not being held tomorrow and it's going to be held in november and then romney was going to win and i gave the reasons why that's true. i have seen all over the internet people saying i predicted obama is going to win. >> bill: no, no, no. today, we didn't do that. th

. >> dana: we have a thought from our good friend charles krauthammer who addresses those three points tax returns in bain are a distraction. the real issue of the campaign is precisely what obama said. that is precisely at the center of this. free interexcise, capitalism, american society. this enfa analysis on governmentbe -- emphasis on government and the all that is good with america is wrong with the obama vision and that is what romney ought to attack and what the campaign ought to be about. >> dana: that is our charles krauthammer. eric? >> eric: the best thing that ever happened to mitt romney is friday's speech where president obama went there with the business, antibusiness speech. what he did, he took taxes off the table, took bain capital off the table. took ncaap off the table and brought the focus back to business, the economy. >> bob: the entire weekend was dominated by republicans asking him to return his tax returns. not about what he said about what obama said about business. about his tax return. haley barbour on down. >> greg: good point, but also it speaks to the m

pat buchanan, juan williams and charles krauthammer. pat, what do you think?a great deal, 46% of the voters are undecided about the president of the united states. he is at 45. if you watch the president lately, i think no doubt romney has been badly hurt but he is depreciating the prime asset, he has come down off the pedestal and he sounds like david axelrod on a bad day, attacking romney on bain capital an things like that. he is ceasing to be the nice guy that everybody thought he was. he is depreciating the assets. but some folks want to see one poll romney in the lead. >> bret: to pat's point, obama campaign spent money and time going up on ads early now. trying to paint governor romney negatively. if you are the romney camp, you look at polls like this and you say there hasn't been much of a move over the recent weeks. despite all of that deploying of assets. >> i think that is right. the problem for the romney camp is they look at not only this poll but they look at polls that have, focus on the swing states. they do see that this attempt by the obama

laughter) >> i expected this from liberals but i did not expect this from a conservative like charles krauthammer> i'm not sure why the horse has to be in the most upper-class hoity-toity olympic event ever invented. it's unnecessary. they're running for the presidency. >> how dare you, sir. (laughter) dressage is not hoity-toity it is froufrou. get your facts straight. (applause) well, folks, the people, the working people love dressage. (laughter) well, folks, to prove that dressage is for joe sick pack i got down and dirty in the blue collar world of velvet top hats. jim? >> stephen: to prove that dressage is the new american pass time, i headed to hawthorne hill in long vally, new jersey, to meet with former olympic-- olympian and coach of the 2012 u.s. equistrian team michael barisone. (laughter) (applause) >> michael, thank you so much for having me. >> it's a pleasure to you have here. is there a problem? because-- am i getting shadow on my face here? is this better? >> stephen: wow, dressage. just like i pictured it. horses and everything. >> okay, i'll lose it. thanks very much. michael,

charles krauthammer says if youre are asked that you have to accept. you have to because if you. didn't, youn' would be letting your country down. that's krauthammer. krauthammer predicts if you are asked you will accept. what do you think about that point of>> view? >> i'm not even talking about the whole process and i respect him. >> bill: would it be disrespectful if you for familyes reasons, personal reasons, would you consider that to be -- would you trouble you that your country calls and you can't answer the call? >> ins hate being in the no spin zone. i willn just say to you that i really tried not to even comment on the whole process. i really believe mitt romney deserves to have a process where the rest of us sit here and talking about it and giving opinions or by process of elimination making his choice different. >> bill: answer this if you would. that has to be a consideration for everybody. everybody who is in elected office if their country calls and asks, right? you have to. >> look. i have never been in that position. obviously i'm being very respectful of the pro

and even conservative commentator charles krauthammer was dumbfounded.mmer says: "unbelievable, it's beyond human understanding. it's incomprehensible. i'm out of adjectives. all the man has to do is say nothing, nothing at any of the stops on the trip." romney tried to get back on track last night. at a fundraiser, he told guests that he will return a bust of winston churchill to the oval office, something the president removed shortly after he took office. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. earlier we told you about the announcement of another special session in annapolis. and in our question of the day we are asking if you think there should be a special session to expand gambling in m? maryland?michael writes on facebook..."good. the state needs the money." money." but robin writes...."special sessions are being abused and taxpayer's money wasted." wasted." a mixed response on this question go... to... fox- baltimore dot com .../ tell us... what you think.../. sound... off... thru... facebook.../. send... us... a tweet.. at foxbaltimore.../. text

. >> i want to salute charles krauthammer for his eloquent advocacy for making more available and accessible mental- health. it was easy to get mental-health treatment as it is to buy an assault weapon, this would be a lot better country. 2/3 of all deaths and in this country, murders, and all the guns. you are -- invve guns. you are 11 times more likely to be murdered in the united states than in japan, six times more than in germany. we have accepted and control and in this country since 1934. fully automatic weapons, machine guns, have been banned t. you cannot bring a weapon into the capital of the united states, where all these pro- gun. and cancel heroes, these john wayne wannabes -- pro-gun heroes, these john wayne wannabes, from the halls. >> what about this show? you want to bring a concealed weapon on this show? >> god, i hope not. >> if you want to move this economy forward, working families need a helping hand. >> to raise taxes on 1 million small businesses. >> senators dick durbin and john thune. this bill fa in e house, but they have to look busy. >> because they -- the democr

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. >> >> bill: charles krauthammer up next.hat he predicted president obama would win the election if the collection were today. the doctor with thoughts on colorado next. this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll never sit. but i bought a dress! a toast... ...to the capital one venture card. fly any airline, any flight, anytime. double miles you can actually use. what a coincidence? what's in your wallet? [ all screaming ] watch the elbows ladies. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight, when we last left charles krauthammer there was this. >> bill: if the election were held tomorrow, who would win? >> obama. because if you look at all the polls, he averages 2 point edge in the popular vote. it's almost inconceivable that you would have that strong an excess in the overall vote and lose in the electriccable college. >> bill: c

>> well, as kirsten and rick both allude to, you know, columnists were pretty-- charles krauthammer andeorge will sort of made the arguments has roberts declared this to be the biggest tax increase in the history of the universe and obama has to wear it and a lot of be observers noted the polls show by 15 or 20 point margin the people of america still oppose obamacare as a thing, and if the next four months obama's defending it, that's a negative for him. so, how does this change the way the media cover the race for president, kirsten? >> you see i'm move the camp being upheld with a best case scenario. everybody has a position, if it was struck down, he wouldn't have to defend it. it's part of the debate not voting on 6% name it as a top issue, but still a part of the debate. no way that obama can get away from his central issue and the media look, are on his side, on this for the most part and saying that they're going to say now that it's constitutional, game over. >> jon: up next, another historic moment for the media this week. . >> this is no accident. this is no coincidence, it i