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i will analyze with ralph peters, david hunt and charles krauthammer. >> voter i.d. why would we want to get obama do we need some special i.d.? >> bill: why is it the civil rights industry talking about black-on-black crime. we will tell you you tonight. i too want to tell everyone that i'm sorry that this happened. >> bill: george zimmerman wants the state of florida to pay some of his legal bills. outrageous or justified? is it legal will testify us. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm boiler. thanks for watching us tonight. what president obama should do about syria. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. this man, syrian dictator bashar al assad is a war criminal, a mass murderer and a baby killer. by using poison gas on syrian civilians which is against the geneva convention, asatisfied is now responsible for thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths. according to the humanitarian group, doctors without borders. so there is no question that assad must be held accountable. if you

so what does charles krauthammer think about that? e with him last night. >> so, charles, let's begin with the reality that hillary clinton can have the democratic nomination for president in 16 if she wants it; what happens then though? i mean, how do the republicans block a woman with a built-in constituency that pretty much vote for her no matter what? what do the republicans do? >> well, first of all, let's remember she is not exactly invincible. she was the anointed one before barack obama ce along. she was also inevitable in 2008. didn't really make it i think the republicans simply have to put up a good candidate. i think the republicans have the stronger argument. the country hasn't really done very well under obama. there is no great joy about what he has achieved. he has a lot of liability. she escaped some of them but not all of them. but if you put up a field and look at what the field is going to be. we have got very attractive senators, rubio, rand paul, we have got young dynamic governors like chris christie, jeb bush, t

also tonight, charles krauthammer on children getting high on marijuana lou dobbs reporting on my cut backs because of obama care. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. why the debate over stop and frisk is so intense, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the privacy of americans under siege, high tech makes it easy to spy on us. and intrusive policies like airport security patdowns are tremendous inconvenience. and then there is stop and frisk. nobody likes being a prisoner in their own neighborhood. but in some places that's what's happening. but the police are not the guilty parties, criminals are. last weekend in chicago, another 6 people shot dead, 28 others wounded, including a 7-year-old boy. the windy city has turned into afghanistan, so far this year, a 8 children and teens have been murdered. chicago has lost control of the situation. the violence is centered in the poor black neighborhoods and it's the same in most other american cities. here in new

news contributor steve hayes of the weekly standard and syndicated columnist, fox contributor charles krauthammer. charles, you had time to digest and listen to our reactions. my more thoughts on this action and where we stand? >> my astonishment has only increased here. it is not about forensics. who cares about the details of the attack. we are way beyond the theatrics. you know, i grieve for the dead children, hundreds of thousands of others who died from weapons. and we -- we are, i think, beyond even the military strategics in this. i would have opposed a limited strike because i think it is not what you want to do. you wouldn't do a strike that will affect the battle that's happening in syria today that's tilted against the government. at this point what's at stake is the word of the united states. and that overrides everything, can you imagine we talked about the jubilation, we heard about jubilation. in damascus, obviously, in iraq, russia and imagine the demoralization, not just among the rebels looking up to the sky and looking for assistance, but among all the states in the region who

charles krauthammer, a pulp pulitzer prize winning conservative columnist says cruz belongs to the looney bin. "and this is krauthammer, this is nuts. every physical showdown has rebounded against the republicans. those who fancy themselves tea party patriots fighting a sold out cocktail swilling establishment are demanding yet another cliff dive as a show of principle, and manliness. but there's no principle at stake here. this is about tactics. if i thought this would work, i would support it, but i don't fancy suicide. it has a tendency to be fatal." as for manliness, the real question here is sanity, nothing could better revive the fortunes of a failing, flailing fading democratic administration than a government shutdown where the president is portrayed as standing up to the gop on honoring our debts and paying our soldiers in the field. wow. also in the "washington post" today, michael gershon, a former george w. bush speech write are says cruz views this as the last stand against obama care, a conservative alamo instead, it would be a little bighorn. cruz bids to become a custer fo

as charles krauthammer said, to do a cliff dive, prove your manliness and to work on breeding resentmentwhat i said, what actually thinking republicans would say. instead of saying you're a rino because you don't want to shut down the government and give president obama -- no, there are some of us who would actually like to win back the white house before we die. >> right. >> and this gets us further away from that. the sort of resentment that ted cruz plays on, may help him grab headlines, marco rubio may be wanting to shut down the government because he has to get as far away from immigration reform as humanly possible, but az i've been saying here and on the show for years, we've got to worry more about these individuals stirring up resentment so they can raise more money and get more attention, get more headlines and start worrying about the overall brand. how do the exchanges they worry about. a lot subsidized by mandatory spending already. i don't understand this notion to lead people down a path, lead republican vote ers also hurts e party because you have, you know, people listen

charles krauthammer, a pulitzer prize winning conservative columnist -- that's what we call them when we agree with them -- says cruz belongs to the loony bin. and this is krauthammer, this is nuts. every physical showdown has rebounded against the republicans. those who fancy themselves tea party patriots fighting a sold out cocktail swilling establishment are demanding yet another cliff dive as a show of principle and manliness. but there's no principle at stake here. this is about tactics. if i thought this would work, i would support it, but i don't fancy suicide. it has a tendency to be fatal." as for manliness, the real question here is sanity. nothing could better revive the fortunes of a failing, flailing, fading democratic administration than a government shutdown where the president is portrayed as standing up to the gop on honoring our debts and paying our soldiers in the field. wow. also in the "washington post" today, michael gershon, a former george w. bush speech write are says cruz views this as the last stand against obama care, a conservative alamo. instead, it would

charles krauthammer, i think is he a little bit out to lunch on this. you know, and it's fine to criticize the president and say there are things we should have done differently to lead up to benghazi. hampering his efforts saying that he should wait for a politically more hospitable environment to go after criminals who attacked the united states to killed our people? >> laura: steve, unfortunately the facted that the country was mislead sphoor weeks after the terror attack which even our friends over at cnn admitted anywhere special last night mislead, misstated lied about the cause of the attack. >> the benghazi accountable review board completely dismissed that. >> laura: when they claimed that this was the result likely of a protest because of a video and went on for weeks when there was never a protest. >> protests around four or five other. >> there was no protest that night in benghazi. that has been shown. i will ask you one more question, steve before you go. >> embassies completely understandable with that. >> laura: it was a lie. that's why.

what is happening here, our president as charles krauthammer observed, has backed himself in the corner and wants the military to get him out of. it to me the consequences of doing nothing for now, are less threatening. nalthough krauthammer said retribution is not a valid purpose. but a strategy purpose of removing the assad regime might be. he argued one point in time u.s. stand off systems could degrade the military and wall street journal why not a military strike to take out assad himself. >> may i answer that? >> because assad is a monster and a thug and murderer. kerry is right. but he is charcoal gray and al-qaeda is black. if the alternative is a rump stay of syria and division of syria and islamist in damascus with chemical weapons. is that better for us or israel. charles krauthammer is america's most brilliant columnist. he thinks that get rid of assad. and i think better to cope al-qaeda on the ropes. >> many thanks to tom bevin and ralph ports. appreciate your insights. >> just the beginning of our look. and what is happening in the unite the nations and what is happening

. >> joining us to weigh in charles krauthammer. we talked this week on the special report panel about this reluctant president really in every statement he made, sense of reluctance, to get involved, number one. number two, the outlay of how limited it was going to be. now this announcement that he's going to pause essentially, wait for the debate, and vote in congress on september 9. they get back at 2:00 p.m., september 9. >> i think it is astonishing the way that my colleagues have described it. but the most astonishing thing is the lack of any urgency. as you say, congress will be back in a week. he says, i can strike in a day or a week or a month. as if he is a judge handing down a sentence. and the execution can be any time in the future. will is a war going on. do you think everybody is going to hold their breath, hold their arms? step aside until obama decides when he wants to go to congress? look, i think he should go to congress. i think it is absolutely necessary. but he has done no preparation. what they should have don

we want to get to mika's must reads and start with charles krauthammer.de of war is receding why the giant snooping programs. if al qaeda is on the run as he innocently assured the nation throughout 2012 why is america cowering in 19 closed down embassies and consulates, boston put on an unprecedented full lockdown after the marathon bombings and from somalia to afghanistan why are we raining death by drone on violent extremists. every target amazingly a jihadist. this policy and purpose is why an evacuation from yemen must be passed off as a reduction in staff, benghazi terror attack must be blamed on some hapless egyptian. american individual grapher, why the ft. hood shooting is nothing but some loony army doctor gone postal. it's about leadership. the word play is for policy embedded in confusion and ambivalence about the whole enterprise. this is not leading from behind this is not leading at all. this new closing for pakistan in lahore. >> if he had that in time for press he would have added it to that list. they say it's separate from the 19 other

steve hayes, charles lane, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. not only has no one lost their job but no one lost a paycheck. >> look, this is a definition of how to conduct a stonewall. for all the weeks after benghazi, remember, weeks that took us past election day, all administration answers to all questions about the benghazi fiasco were well, we can't talk until the investigation, waiting for the arb. then you get the arb report and then everybody afterwards says well, it is all the arb report. what did it say, responsibility stops at the assistant secretary level. these are people that botched it and they will be put on leave. stage three is now where the new secretary of state looks at this and says essentially these people were not responsible or they don't really carry any accountability. they're back on the job as you say without ever missing a paycheck and no one is held responsible. remember, earlier in the show you had the secretary of state hillary clinton testifying earlier this year that she wants the law changed so that she shoul

steve hayes, ab stoddard, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles?it is about time. the administration has tried to run from benghazi but can't hide. i think it is curious the timing of this leak about the charges being filed against the benghazi suspects. we have known who they are, obviously journalists have spoken with them in the open for days, weeks, months. i would say better late than never. but it does remind me of the critique of the clinton administration after the attack on the uss cole when we sent the fbi to investigate in yemen, there was resistance by the authorities. we were then pre9/11, looking at the law enforcement paradigm, treating it like a crime instead of like war. i'm glad we have sealed indictments, but the question is if we have the intelligence, we have cia on the ground, we have our producer out there, why haven't we snatched them, interrogated them. the answer is that this administration from the beginning decided to do everything that the bush -- to undo everything the bush administration had done, so we've had no inte

steve hayes, kirsten power, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. les, what do you make of this very unusual decision to close 21 embassies and consulates. you can see on the map in 17 countries across the middle east, north africa, asia, and now the state department issuing a worldwide travel alert through august. what does it say about the state of al qaeda? >> well, tells us a lot about the state of one of the great policy initiatives launched by the president, when the entered the presidency, made the tour to istanbul, to cairo, indonesia, in which he opened his hand and called for a new era of mutual respect with the muslim world. now, this is a product of it four years later. we have this unprecedented shutting of embassies. remember, there's no need to shut down u.s. embassies in christian lands, this is only in the muslim world. obama had assumed because of his history growing up in indonesia because of the senity meant towards islam, he was denouncing abroad all things having to do with bush that america would as obama has been saying, its s

charles krauthammer. i came to washington to work for broadcast properties, which were owned by "the washington post." the former executive editor len downie was in the newsroom as katharine graham's granddaughter announced jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, wasas buying the paper. >> she read a statement in which she made clear he strongngly subscribes to the journalistic values of "the washington post." >> let's take off the pundit hats. give me your personal reaction. lois, you wrote a fine piece for "politico." >> thank you. my first reaction was shock. i was home, working. i got in the car, and went back to the office. it was a little bit of sadness, and then i thought maybe this is a od thing. maybehave tried everything. the model needs to be blown up and ybe jeff bezos will bring a fresh eye. >> colby, who would have thought the grahams would give up the newspaper? >> i was the last person to think that. this is the second time "the washington post" rocked my world -- the first timime was in marc,

as gingrich has said, as charles kra krauthammer has said on the government shutdown idea.by what we're not. we have to be defined by what we believe and what we are. >> i think robert's slightly wrong. he's right about the makeup of the general primary voter. but chris christie in a field of five doesn't have to get more than 31%, 32%, to be a very viable candidate. and there are still, i believe, 30% of those republican voters who will vote for someone who's rationale and has a chance to win. >> coming up on "morning joe," from the new film "the butler," we've got willie with cuba gooding jr. and rocker turned actor lenny kravitz. later, the role of religion in our often hectic lives. faith on fridays. first, here's bill karins. >> this is chamber of commerce they call this weather. from the great lakes, ohio valley, through the northeast. let's take a look at the tropics. we know the weather's common in the lower 48. there's a tropical storm erin, our fifth storm of the season, but it's way out here in the atlantic. it has hostile conditions out ahead of it. not a concer

what do you think of the back and forth between charles krauthammer and juan. >> what many happeningit isn't just voter i.d. they are restricting early voting. they are restricting days you can vote. they know it will be aimed at people who will vote democratic. in pennsylvania where there is voter i.d., the majority leader of the house said it's to help romney win. that they admitted it. there are very few understand kent of voter fraud that takes place at the voting booth. most of it happened in absentee voting. absentee or when you register to vote. >> i think that's ridiculous. the north carolina laugh is common sense. you have to show an i.d. to get into this building. you have to show an i.d. to vote. they are reducing the number of days for early voting in north carolina. but they will increase the number of sites and increase the number of hours because the goal is to keep the total hours available for early voting exactly the same. we are in new york, which doesn't have no questions asked early voting the way north carolina does. so carolina is more liberal than new york so

juan williams with the hill and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer.here's no appetite for the u.s. getting involved in syria? >> i think that's right. part of the reason the president hasn't felt pressure to actually do in syria what he did in libya. when he made comments about libya, estimates by amnesty international and others of the death toll were around a thousand and the president gave what was i think impassioned moral case for leadership. he went on to say when leaders like the united nations and united states speak out and say things that aren't followed up, they're empty words and their words lose credibility. that's exactly what we're seeing here as you suggested, a year after the president declared red lines, we haven't done anything. we have proof that the syrians used chemical weapons, the administration has acknowledged as much. this may be another instance of that, even a bigger instance of that. yet there has been no real consequence. the president warned of enormous consequences. there have been no consequences whatsoever. >> juan,

first, here is charles krauthammer. >> what i'm concerned about is what we hear, leaks from the white leaks are, we're going to have a limited two or three day campaign, drop a couple of bombs, we will make a point, then retire from the field, because from the reports i read and what i heard, they explicitly say this is not intended to alter the strategic balance or course of the war. if that's the case, we should do nothing. >> eric, if it is not going to alter what's going on in syria, if it is not designed to hit assad or his palace, why are they leaking these anonymous leaks? >> again, let me preface this with i am absolutely pro-military. let me give you back and forth of my 15-year-old son last night. 2:00 in the morning came in, he is going to be in trouble for that. talking to him, said we're going to attack syria. he said why. i said because they used chemical weapons on their own people. he said why do we care about that? because they use it on their people, innocent people die, we have always been the watchdog. he said what about benghazi, i said you mean libya? he said yea

charles krauthammer speaks about the american policy in the middle east. >> the only constant in all of this is obama as a candidate, as a senator, decided we should be out of these wars. we should be out of the middle east. he repeats it over and over again and pretends it is true. and that is the constant, we're not in iraq or syria, we're getting killed in libya. we're not doing anything. all the other actors are in play, the iranians, hezbollah, we are irrelevant. >> so that is one person's point of view. but it is not just democrats who wanted out of the wars or let's get out of the middle east. i mean, isn't this what a lot of people have said they wanted? >> sure, charles is brilliant but wrong. obama has not made us irrelevant in the middle east, he made us irrelevant around the world. we're not relevant in russia or china. look, he has screwed up the foreign policy. i am not even sure what his foreign pocy is, we draw a red line for syria that they cross twice. >> do you know what your foreign policy is? what is your alternative foreign policy? >> in what respect -- >> i lis

last night on "hannity" syndicated columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer says it isthey gave more specific details about the targets on the outskirts of damascus. they won't disturb dinner in damascus. this is really astonishing. they come out with all of the details. they basically say we are not in. they announce we have a coalition the british and the french. everything falls apart. the british parliament was in complete humiliation. it shows the administration that cannot even organize a three party coalition. >> all of these developments in the middle east have israeli leaders on edge this morning. they are officially deployed their iron dome defense citizen they are handing out gas masks. israel concerned it could become a target, too. connor powell has the latest. >> they continue to prepare for the possibility of a u.s. military strike in syria. there is a possibility it could be from syria or iran in israel. prime minister said yesterday that israel has deployed additional iron dome missile defense units to the northern border with syria. there are at least

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us as is julie, host and correspondent from the "associated press" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammerresident talks tough saying he is canceling operation bright star. it's been canceled for a number of years now but he doesn't cancel the $1.3 billion we give to egypt. much of that money has already gone away. tucker, is he out of leverage here? >> i have to say, in his weak defense, it's a tough situation because you don't know. it's very volatile, you don't know where it's going to go. in the end, u.s. interests are paramount. there's no reason to stake out more ground than you need to except on the human rights question. i was really struck by the short shrift he gave to the burning of christian churches and christian homes. less than half a sentence. imagine a scenario or country of usa aid had mobs burning mosques. do you think the president would devote more than half a sentence to that? yes, he would. by omissions like that, it did seem to me his sympathies lie with the morsi people and i think fundamentally, that's bad. >> we get back to this question of the aid, julie, much o

let's bring in our panel, kierston powers, and charles krauthammer. >> technology just changed everythingember the debate over whether saddam used poison gas, yes, he did, no, he didn't. now we have the video which is overwhelming in its emotional power and increases the pressure on the governments like ours, especially ours, to intervene and stop people from doing this terrible thing. doesn't change, the basic context, is toppling the assad regime. and what do you do if you get it? a regime that is worse? >> you are not a proponent of intervention -- >> they are horrible, but the question again, i'm merely saying, it may be good to topple the assad regime or not. i'm merely saying the weapon we should use is o-- the final thig i would say is intervening in iraq in 2003, morally justified, remove attend counterbalance to iran, that had consequences. >> kierston? >> i don't think it has to be whether or not we're overthrowing the assad regime. and i do think we disagreed about this before. but i see the united states as a force for good in the world. and someone that people turn to when th

constitutional matter is the author of the blarand new book, "things that matter", our good friend charles krauthammergood to see you. >> good to be here. >> thank you very much. >> the president does not have the power to u nxt inunilateral authorize stopping a threat to the nation. >> now he can be as hypocritical as he wants because he is not up for re-election. remember, there is no surprise here. when he did the libya operation he didn't consult with congress either. suspending a piece of obamacare here and there, suspending the immigration laws this is a man for whom the constitution is a suggestion nothing more. >> what do you make of having telegraphed basically everything that we are going to do here charles? >> i find it staggering. in fact just a few hours ago. they gave even more specific detail about the targets on the outskirts of damascus, i mean are they going to announce the times that the bombs are going to fall so that they won't disturb dinner in damascus. they come out with all the detail, they basically say we are going in and then everything falls apart. it showed the administra

i want more people like charles krauthammer. i don't want more people like bill krystal.tein right now. oh, i'm sorry no time, sam, sorry, say hi to your mother for us. go, sam. >> i agree with your point. it's just funny to me because when you say he doesn't have to throw rhetorical bombs to succeed, he's going on "cross fire," which is like the basis of throwing realthetorical bomb. your point is valid. just because he has a history of being grandiose and divisive doesn't mean his point yesterday was wrong. >> coming up on "morning joe," the killing machines. the atlantic's mark bowden explains how the drone program is testing the limits on american power. and christine quinn joins the table. running to be new york's next mayor. >> she and anthony weiner don't like each other. you can talk about her policies, i'm going to talk about anthony weiner with her. >> no. >> no, i am. >> i want to talk about animal rights with her. i'm curious. >> i'm going to talk about anthony weiner. >> okay. here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> i think joe's going to lose tha

stodda stoddard, and charles krauthammer. >> obama has done a lot of retreating, not all of it in thee of terrorism, but he thought the bush administration had overextended us, got us out of iraq, left no presence behind. getting us out of afghanistan after a surge which he then immediately announced there would be an end of and we would be leaving. he's closed 20 somewhat embassies because of threats in the air. he did nothing about the attacks in libya. you know, america is not very much respected in the world. as a consequence, obama used to talk about guantanamo and sins of the bush administration, torture and all this stuff as the recruiter of terrorists. the biggest recruiter of terrorists is american weakness. what bin laden said, people will go with the strong horse, not the weak horse. that's what's happened under his stewardship. >> look at the latest fox news poll on the president's approval ratings ovary sent months and you can see how it has taken a drop since august of last year. ab, what about this? >> i think there are a lot of reasons for that. i think the president c