charles krauthammer and i will analyze. >>> my point is that he should not be playing golf with men and women in uniform are still getting killed in afghanistan. >> i know the pressures of the job, and to be able to get outside and play golf with some of your pals is important for the president. >> former president bush disagreeing with monica crowley and sticking up for barack obama. monica will be here to respond. >>> also tonight, is america a mean country? and controversy over may brand-new book, "killing jesus." 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. president obama, the tough guy. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. speaking at the united nations today, the president was very clear that he believes the u.n. has been wimpy when it come to confronting situations like syria. mr. obama saying to the world that the tyrant assad is a child killer who violated human rights laws. >> u.n. inspector s gave a clea accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin

charles krauthammer and i will analyze. >>> my point is that he should not be playing golf with men and women in uniform are still getting killed in afghanistan. >> i know the pressures of the job, and to be able to get outside and play golf with some of your pals is important for the president. >> former president bush disagreeing with monica crowley and sticking up for barack obama. monica will be here to respond. >>> also tonight, is america a mean country? and controversy over may brand-new book, "killing jesus." 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. president obama, the tough guy. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. speaking at the united nations today, the president was very clear that he believes the u.n. has been wimpy when it come to confronting situations like syria. mr. obama saying to the world that the tyrant assad is a child killer who violated human rights laws. >> u.n. inspector s gave a clea accounting that advanced rockets fired large quantities of sarin

charles krauthammer.sure to be here. >> give me your reaction to what happened today. this phone call between president obama and the new iranian president rowhani, spoke about iran's nuclear program. negotiations are now on-going. but it seems to me given three things that any movement here is likely to be unfruitful or at least at the disadvantage of the united states. first, that the supreme leader, ayatollah hoe main ee wants u.k. weapons, the second, iran like all those regimes lies, and the president got nothing first in exchange for the phone call. your reaction? >> i think you're exactly right. what we are seeing is an unseemly swoon, and it is pretty transparent what the iranians want to do. it takes 250 kilograms of 20% enriched uranium to build a bomb. the iaea, atomic agency, reported back in august that the iranians have 186. they are on the threshold, they're on the horizon. they can see the finish line. what they need now is time and they need a gullible west to give them time. if, for exam

charles krauthammer said the same thing.he mother ship of the american conservative movement, "the wall street journal," has written an editorial. in it, they, too, warn against conservatives running into fixed bayonets, talking about how ted cruz and mike lee have been more interested in saying exactly what we have been saying and what house members on the hill have been telling us all along and conservative champions have been saying all along. this has never been about defunding obamacare and shutting down the government. it's been about ted cruz getting on cable tv more, as the "wall street journal" says and expanding his mailing lists. he's been called out. he's been ex posed. i for one am very glad the conservative movement from tom coburn. is he a rhino? if he is, i want to be one. krauthammer? count me in that group. scott walker, paul ryan? these people locked themselves into a little, little room. it's a room that the people jammed inside that room, they don't carry majorities, not in presidential campaigns, not in

and then charles krauthammer on president obama versus tyrant assad. >>> the o'reilly factor, the number one cable show for 13 years running. >>> the feds have indicted another man in the boston marathon bombing and the widow of the slain terrorist also still under investigation. here now is who is charged in this latest thing? >> the two were all friends of the suspect bombing's roommate. >> and they all went to ask college together? >> yes. >> so you've got two kiz zach stans. >> they face deportation because they said, listen, we're not going to fight it. they waived it. >> they have been in prison all this time. >> but the other guy got out on 100,000. >> he's on home arrest. >> his mom is watching him. >> his mom is watching him. >> what they did was after the feds raided the room, the college room, dzhokhar, they misled and hid stuff for him and didn't tell him. >> they made false statements. >> according to the government. >> correct. this is what is alleged. and the other two, in fact, removed items, disposed of them. >> so they could do heavy time on this? >> 25 years plus. beca

stephen hayes, tim carney, mara liasson, and charles krauthammer.getting word from capitol hill that there are negotiations under way to accelerate the timetable to finish the continuing resolution to fund the government and that there are active conversations going on to yield back the balance of the 30 hours in debate that may be even, calling up the resolution tonight, which would be a big deal. we're monitoring that as we speak. first, steve, you have some other news about the -- how things are shaping up here and the possible effort by republicans to avoid a government shutdown. >> right. expanding on what we talked about last night with house republican strategy and also what ed henry reported earlier, in a house republican whip meeting just now, the basic outlines of a plan are this -- the house will pass this weekend a debt limit hike with what they're calling a christmas tree attached. it will be a tax reform trigger, it will be entitlement reform, it will be a one-year delay in obama care across the board, all of that attached to this debt

and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. >> well, i think he made the most coherent case he has up until now, for action. i think he will have zero action from the public. but i am glad he laid it out the way he did. there is one contradiction, which is why us, people ask? he talks about international law, standing up for decency on the international humanity? and yet, there is not one country, except for france, standing up with the idea. so that makes a sham that this is somehow a statement by all humanity of nations, which he calls them, which i believe is a fiction. in fact, the only reason that the french are with us on this is because syria and lebanon are former colonies that were given to france after the first world war. and as in west africa, the french will act in places that they were the colonial power. so this is an expression of french nationalism, not an expression of french altruism. remember, the democrats excoriated bush for acting in iraq, when it had almost 50 allies. so i think it is the core issue and i'm not sure he addressed it in a way that will appease

like to see him on the couch with charles krauthammer and he could explain this to us better. is he delusional or just an abject liar? you the way, he is not to be believed. >> he is also an md himself. >> he is an eye doctor but he cannot see. week,his column this david points out that russian cooperation in ridding syria with chemical weapons has been a goal of u.s. policy for t beauvue road years. finally working thanks to the promise of military force. the u.n. is on board. >> the press is up on fire about how terrible and weak obama is. actually, he is getting an outcome that is pretty good. it has the russians involved to disarm syria, putting the attacks. our threat of force is a big factor. come on, everybody. it is not pretty watching the way the process works, but the result is not bad. >> you are arguing he is lucky? >> sometimes you make your luck. outcomes,u talk about the only one that matters is are we going to rid him of chemical weapons? the answer is absolutely no. there is not a chance in hell of this happening. it prevents a u.s. attack, yes, it will keep u

. >> charles krauthammer who last night was on special report.charles krauthammer said, where was ted cruz in 2009 when the republican uh s were fighting t kill obamacare? go down the list of conservatives, neocons, realists, people in the middle on the republican party, people on the right. ron johnson, tea party guy. a week ago everybody said this is a republican civil war. this isn't a republican civil war. this was ted cruz and a handful of republican senators, some of whom want to get elected to president 2016, against the world. >> what's your point? i say that facetiously. >> it is civil war. >> there is to a certain degree. all the folks you named, ted cruz could give a rat's patootie about them. this is not his audience. he's not worried about them. >> what's he worried about. >> it's not a question of worry. it's speaking to a constituency that elected him, partly, that reinforces him nationally. you saw it re flecked in the poll numbers. when you look at the full faith and credit of the united states being in jeopardy. with the america

we're stronger and i think charles krauthammer as well as anybody else would recognize that congress working together with the president makes us stronger and sends a very clear signal to damascus, tehran and beyond. >> victory in syria means that assad can never use chemical weapons again. >> victory in this targeted effort means that he is degraded from being able to do it again, and he is deterred from doing it again. ultimately resolution of the wider conflict, that's an issue for syrians to resolve. we will continue to support the moderate opposition in ways that the president has already laid out to the country. so we will resolve -- help them resolve it, but that's theirs to resolve. we have a very narrow issue here. that we need to address. which is the use of these dastardly weapons which have not been used against our guys in nearly 100 years. we want to make sure that continues. >> the debate goes on. i appreciate your time very much. >> thanks, david. >>> we want it turn to the fight on capitol hill where the president is trying to convince even skeptical members of his o

listen in particular to syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> this is sort of amateur hour. when there were the first attacks six months ago or if you like when we had the current attack, he should have immediately called in the congress. the way prime minister britain called into parliament. told the world we're going to do x or not do x. >> joining me, john fawn, a columnist for national review magazine. good morning to you. an important morning as everyone takes a look at this. a lot of talk. not a lot of action. some critics saying president obama should have acted a year ago or before against the assad regime we knew had chemical weapons. is time our friend? is time his enemy? >> well, congress right now doesn't look as if it's going to give the president the authorization he wants. i doubt if they don't give it that he's going to go off and do this unilaterally against the wishes of both the congress and the american people? >> why not, john, if he says he knows he has the authorization and ability to do it without congressional approval? >> because that would mean an

stoddard and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. les, we've got some more information about the shooter and the shooting. >> okay, i think right now it's an open and shut case as to what was behind this. the report that we -- that you talked about, this incident on august the 7th at a motel in rhode island. he was hearing voices, auditory hallucinations. he had a sense there were three strange people who are obviously imaginary trying to shoot waves through his body preventing him from sleeping. he changed the motel rooms three times. this was a man who was clearly having a psychotic episode. probably a paranoid schizophrenic. clearly was somebody who needed psychiatric help. what's so interesting about this is the police -- he called the cops. he needed help. 30 years ago the cops would have brought him to a psychiatric emergency room. he probably would have got antipsychotics and would have been hospitalized for a couple of weeks. that's the way it was done in the '70s when i practiced psychiatry. but today, that doesn't happen. th

my goodness what a price and your thoughts on that and charles krauthammer's as well. what did he have to say? >> a month ago, there was a war criminal and putin was a piria h for covering in the un on the poisonous gas attack. and because of our our president is. he steps in now and instead of a piriowa aircraft h he is a partner of peace and now in a position to lecture the united states of america. >> can you imagine that a week ago this conversation would not have included the thought that somehow the assad regime would survive. it locks like assad will be in power but more than that, he is now joining the ranks of those speaking and lecturing and talking to the president about this. and there he will stay. and that is how to get back in the dynamic. if it were not so disturbing in terms of american pour in the world and the potential loss of it. it would be a fascinating look at the dynamics of power and how easily they shift and one person's move on the chess board can change who has the pour in the situation. you have assad doing his own comments about the unite

juan williams, columnist with the hill, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles?we heard what he said last year, it would change my calculus. he took possession of it. he drew the line. the idea that there is this abstract line drawn in 1925 by the protocol, the geneva protocol that passed in that year, is preposterous. he refers to the international community. it doesn't exist. it is a fiction. liberals are always thinking about the international community. what's the community of interest between russia and the u.s. that agree on nothing, particularly not on this, or the united states and iran, britain, and others. there is no community acting in concert. it is nations acting in their own interest. and obama is trying with a sort of slip of language and with a clever formulation to pretend that this isn in his creation, the line is his, and also the line drawn by the international community, but he adds onto that also by the congress. so now he wants to imply it isn't him who has made this ultimatum essentially, it is the congress, and it has to live up to its o

ab stoddard, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. guess that's the biggest question. people wonder in you go in with some limited strike, all of the uncertainty that surrounds that of other things that can happen. >> well, i think that's one of the reasons to the resistance to the plan because as outlined by the president, it has really no objective of any importance. they say this is a demonstration strike, a shot across the bow. a shot across the bow is a warning if you don't stop, we're going to do something real. obama says openly this is one shot, then we go home. so i think you've got to ask yourself yes, but the other guys have a vote on when the war of the opposition between us stops. and what happens if hezbollah responds by raining rockets on israel or attacks a u.s. ship? what happens if syria does, if iran attacks american assets or attacks israel? and the worry a lot of people have, given the mumbling, hesitation, zig zags of obama's policy up until now, which is entirely incoherent, do you trust him to be the one who wi

something that charles krauthammer and myself and other conservatives have been saying for a long time. you know, they get their money, ran their 30 second ads. got their mailing lists. now they got the entire house republican caucus angry at them. >> are they being surrender monkeys if they say that? >> i'm sure ted cruz would tell you it's only other people don't shut down the government to defund obama care. they are surrender monkeys but he's not for some reason. i love what bob corker said. bob corker said i may not have gone to harvard but i can count. ted cruz went to harvard, he didn't take a math class. the ivy league doesn't teach math because how could a poor country boy like myself or bob corker, a poor country boy like myself or bob corker from the foot hills of tennessee know how to count to 51 but a harvard and princeton guy didn't? don't they teach that at harvard any more? >> you can choose to take it. >> the backlash from their own party was so strong they reversed course and now accept the fact that funding for the law is off the table for now. >> look. shutdowns are

. >> let me draw a little charles krauthammer.act that this country is worried about the feelings of overweight kids as opposed to kids going to bed hungry. we live in a great country god bless america. i think the program is well intentioned. what is a bad report card but a stupid letter? this is a fat letter and you can't sugar coat reality. get the pun? make a kid feel bad here is my fat letter when everybody knows that. >> how what the if the parents is fat how does that make them feel? congratulations? by the way i like obese kids because they can't chase you? >> >> that's a good point. we live in a society. >> you probably taunted them, didn't you? >> no, no. i'm terrified of little kids. they want to stop bullying in the schools. they go out of their way to weigh the kid and point out he is fat. does that make any sense? this is stupid. with a capital s. if you believe the kid has a medical problem that his weight or her weight is now infringing on the health, then you send a medical letter home. to the parents directly per

. >> charles krauthammer slammed assad's responses calling him one of the great liars of all time. >> he is very smart extremely sophisticated. when you watch him you get the sense of insincerity and the warmth of a guy of terrorists and al qaeda types. he infiltrated it with a terrible ideology. he is the one who channelled all of these elements that we de griez sincerely. he is getting the blow back of the people he invited. he was completely comfortable as long as the task was to kill americans. he is treating him like a great statesman. a months after he ordered an entirely criminal chemical weapons attack killing 1500 people and he did it without any calms whatsoever. i say he's a brilliant diplomat and a criminal at the same time. >> the latest on the mass shooting at the washington navy yard. workers will return to work today just three-days after 12 of their co-workers were killed. new details about the gunman aaron alexis. he had two cryptic messages etched into his shot gun. better off this way and my elf weapon. this as the va says he made several visits to the emergency ro

charles krauthammer and i will analyze. >>> my point is that he should not be playing golf with men andomen in uniform are still getting killed in afghanistan. >> i know the pressures of the job, and to be able to get outside and playol

rejoining us from washington, charles krauthammer. had he hear about defunding obama care. is that going to happen? >> it is not going to happen. it is absolutely not going to happen. obama is invested in this. it is his signature achievement for democrats. it is an historic achievement. it is their road to national health care. it passed the house. it passed the senate. signed by the president and supreme court upheld the constitutionality. they are not going to give it up. what might happen, what might happen is that it could be such a catastrophe, so many americans could be hurt by it and then begin to really strongly oppose it. right now they're opposing the idea of obama care. not so much the reality. >> what do you think -- >> that could collapse on its own. >> since nobody knows what it is, including me, i mean, i just don't know what it is. i tried and tried and tried to figure it out. i know the nuts and bolts, but how is it going to affect me, you, other folks, working people, retired people, i can't tell you, so what -- because you're a medical doctor. i don't kn

charles krauthammer said last night this was one of the oddest presidential speeches ever delivered. s. >> that's what makes this one of the most odd presidential speeches ever delivered. here's a president who urgingly addresses a nation on all channels to call for a pause, assuming that the nation does not -- call for a pause on something the nation does not want to do in the first place. this is almost unbelievable. i think obama sees this as a way to negotiate, to pause, to draw it out and after a couple of weeks inspections, negotiations and there will not be a vote in congress, there will not be a strike and we will not have the removal of weapons out of syria. >>gretchen: i actually think this thing will go away. unfortunately it is kind of like the benghazi situation. if you keep saying the story is over, don't need to discuss it, then may be the story is over. i think syria is going to go back to in-fighting and the countries will fall off. >>brian: in benghazi, the president went to las vegas and never wanted to talk about it again. when mitt romney brought it up, he got bla

charles krauthammer warning republicans to be careful with this move. here's what he told special report last night. >> no rational republicans want this. the entire history of shut downs in the opposition is the one that takes the hit on obama care the republicans are winning. they are winning every where. even the labor unions are up in arms on obama care. why would you want to step in the way. the oldest adage when the other guy is committing suicide get out of the room. they ought to let this sail through. the continuing resolution, in other words the bill to fund the government is a success for republicans because it includes the cuts that are in the seek que sequester that obama wanted to do. the republicans have been trying to get for years and years. so let this pass and then if you want to have another struggle over this start with the debt ceiling and try to get what you can. >> "fox & friends" will have continuing coverage of this show down. >>> washington has wall street reacting stocks continue on a downward spiral for a third straight sess

. >> you heard charles krauthammer say there's a shift in the middle east which is driving the unitedtes out of the region with any kind of credibility. so that seems to be a danger to me to this country. do you see it that way? >> i see dangers of where. i don't -- >> but let's just focus in on this danger. you got babies being gassed. >> if we launch missiles, if we miss like clinton did in libya, what good does that do? if we kill him, is the new group going to be an improvement? we don't know that. >> we have to deal with them. but i don't think you basically put your finger up and go we can't kill adolph because stalin is going to take over, which is exactly what happened, by the way. >> but assad is not adolph. hitler was moving through other countries. >> but it's the same mentality. no one knew in 1938 the extent of the third reich's evil. and right now you've got a guy using poison gas to kill civilians. you know iran is up there trying to develop nukes. you know other bad guy arabs if he has the gas, hezbollah has the gas. so i think there is a parallel here and i think if t

in terms of the strategy, charles krauthammer among the many who say not now, not here. >> no rationalrepublican wants to. i'm not even sure the irrational republicans want to. the entire history of shutdowns, the opposition is the one that takes the hit. on obamacare republicans are winning. even labor unions are up in arms against obamacare. why would you want to step in the way. the oldest adage in politics. when the other guy is committing suicide, get out of the room. >>steve: what it all comes down to is it comes down to this. there is going to be this vote tomorrow, harry reid needs 60 votes to go forward. they haven't even talked about the bill yet per se. this technical thing called cloture. once he gets 60 going forward, all he needs is a simple majority. once they get 60 on wednesday, then all they have to do is a simple majority and they'll go let's take that defunding thing out. and they could easily do that because the democrats have 54 votes. so that's what ted cruz is trying to do, trying to say stop, let's not vote on this right now even though it's a bill he supports.

bill, i have always admired you and charles krauthammer. you are wrong about cruz's motivations.what we leched him to do. i respect that but the majority of texans would like to see obamacare re peeled. right? best way to go about it is at the heart of the debate. got to win both houses and the presidency. steve from california. bill, you made fun of the teacher found with heroin who got the job back. i know the tragedy of drugs. it is not funny. my daughter is an addict and lost everything. your letter deserves a serious reply. i mocked the system. putting an addict back into the system is madness. as for your daughter and other addicted people, i feel sorry, but addiction can be overcome. don't give up. beth from indiana. bill, there is no need to worry that writing "killing jesus" will send you to hell because there are so many other reasons for you to go there. not the least of which is that you place your faith in the catholic church. all i can say is i feel sorry for you, beth. i hope you will come to realize that jesus is not fond of hatred. ron filmore, texas. those conde

and then charles krauthammer. what you do make of this? the deputy national security advisor telling npr essentially if congress doesn't give the authority, he has no desire or inn toentention to use it. >> clearly he ducked that question. it is a feeling and atmosphere here in the beltway that congress may well say no. the president has been losing ground on this debate. today was no exception. the reporter questions were skeptical. the answers were long winded with a digression into kosovo and rwanda. why shouldn't lawmakers whose constituents are against the intervention, why not divert it? he did not have a good answer. >> if you do a head count, this is not passing. >> i think he is barrelling into a crisis of his own making. by the time he steps to the podium on tuesday night, we will not see any change in opinion in congress. it is already baked in and largely because howie mentioned the ten days of pandering. the red line. no, i did not draw a red line. it is a world's red line. i will go to war, but not too punitively. what is int

let's bring in our panel, jonah goldberg, kirsten powers and charles krauthammer. jonah, what now? a bunch of guys on the hill this afternoon and the reaction -- i asked exactly that question. and the consensus answer was, hell if i know. it is a mess. it's like the civil war in "game of thrones." a lot of factions. winter is coming. no one knows exactly what to do. i think boehner is locked into a -- has to have something in the c.r. to appease the conservatives. my colleague at "national review" reported that ted cruz has been lobbying house republicans very aggressively, which has got a lot of people in the leadership quite upset. and i think that basically no one knows what it's going to be. i think what boehner has in his back pocket is this idea of getting this waiver from obama care for a congressional staff in there to make it at least a very difficult vote for republicans not to get on board with. it's a good political vote. >> just so everybody's on the same page here, today the senate. ♪ed -- voted 79-19. senator majority leader harry reid put the funding back into the b

. >> i was going to point to what charles krauthammer said last night. he's a psychiatrist. he has some fairly substantial experience on this topic. this is him about losing the ability to deal with people who have psychiatric illness. >> one problem that we have, 50 years ago, if the cops are out on the scene and you told them all that, they would have taken you to the emergency room. and as a psychiatrist, i would have been on duty, and i would have committed him for two weeks of treatment because that person clearly was having a psychotic episode. but today because of this idea of civil liberties, which i respect, we don't do that a anymore. and we have people at large who can be dangerous. >> so what do you make of that? he agrees that it's wrong to incarcerate somebody against their will even if because they're mentally ill, they refuse it be incarcerated. >> well, he's talking about people they bring in now on crimes. what i was referring to are people who are already in mental institutions in california who are just released and went out on the streets. and then they

brit human, tucker carlson, a.been stoddard, associated editor of "the hill" and of course, charles krauthammerreid says this only delays the inevitable. is he right? >> he may be. the measure has come to the senate what. he intends to do is strip out the provisions to de-fund obama care and send the bill back to the house. he probably can do that, and in order to try to block him from doing that ted cruz finds himself and his colleagues who support him in the position of trying to stop consideration of a bill that they actually want to see passed as it is. it's allowed all these republicans who are afraid of a government shutdown to vote against cruz and company, and in effect give reid what he wants and send it back to the house, and to some extent he's let them off the hook. that's where we are. >> a closure vote tuesday morning. any way the republicans can cobble together 41 votes on this. >> no, no. the republicans don't want to shut the government down, the republicans who think obama care is so unpopular that it's a really potent issue for them that they are on the offense on heading int

charles krauthammer and i will analyze. >>> my point is that he should not be playing golf with men andgetting killed in afghanistan. >> i know the pressures of the job, and to be able to get outside and play golf with

brit hume, tucker carlson, mara liasson and charles krauthammer.r, sorry you didn't get your own shot. brit, what about this? >> i didn't think it was possible for there to be any kind of escape from the corner into which barack obama has painted himself. but this may be it. if this can be done, if this is feasible, if the u.n. can some way find a way to detect and get control of these weapons or some process by which that can be started, what does that do? first of all, what did the president say originally he wanted his military strike to accomplish? it was to rob bashar al assad of his ability to use chemical weapons. this does that. without firing a shot. >> this is a big "if" though. talking about securing massive -- >> i agree. there's no doubt about that. and may not prove feasible. but the process of getting this -- this delays everything. the president said in that interview with chris that, i don't want to change the calendar of debate. the calendar debate has already been changed. harry reid was going to have the initial vote on this on