philips sonicare. >>> charles krauthammer once wrote a column about the most important person of the tury. time magazine had chosen einstein, the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked churchill, the statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm over religion. that might explain why he traded a medical career to a one-way ticket to washington, and while once here his eyes locked on to a wanted ad in the new republic. >> i showed it to my wife and i said why don't you apply. and i said how can i apply, i've never written anything and i don't know anybody. she said you write it and you hand deliver it. that day at my office at the imh i get a call. i'm mike kinsley at the new republic, why do you want to do this? you are a doctor. >> kinsley was looking for a managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. >> was there something during the phone call that made you want to bring him down. >> he was a psychiatrist and he had no writing samples and we arranged for him to come to lunch and there he was, in his wheelchair. and we hit it off right away. >> well what d

back with charles krauthammer.ou did not start out as a conservative. you tended to be a little left of center. what made you say, whoa, this is not where i need to be? >> well, let me just say i'm not the first to make a migration. there was a certain ronald reagan who started out as a democrat. this is a well troden path. you know the old adage, if you're not a socialist when you're 20, you have no heart. if you are still a socialist when you are 50, you have no head. i acquired a head over many years, but, i mean, it really isn't that complicated. i never had an efif any, a moment where the skies parted and, i said, my god, i have been thinking the wrong way. what it really was is this. i was a great society liberal. i believe that society -- a good society, a decent society had an obligation to help the least among us, and what i thought of as a liberal, when i was a democrat in my 20s, was that a great society in the war on poverty was the way to go about to do that. what changed me is very simple. i'm olympic

charles krauthammer is right. if we don't take a leadership, our counsel row has a rich history of doing that. and look how many years we issues and so many countries had problems and our country helped to make the situation better. this president is leading from behind and passing the buck. he handed syria over to putten and iowa ran, letting it go. and iran are not our friends. we cannot trust them. look at history here. it is recent history and it is not history way back when. iowa ran are building a nuclear bomb. everyone knows it. and republicans and democrats and the whole world knows that. >> i think what you say is true, if we step away from countries like iraq, we may be so manied like abandoning the cause. iraq kicked us out. that's what iowa ran was. >> iran doesn't want us there. >> iran was building a nuclear weapon before barak obama graced the national stage. >> we know the sanctions hurt the government and they are eased now and iowa ran is continuing to enrich uranium despite the deal it made and

. >> coming up, best-selling author and commentator charles krauthammer.hat really matters to him this thanksgiving weekend? well, he'll just ask him when we come back. side-by-side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. that's one smart board -- what else does it do, reverse gravity? [ laughs ] split atoms? [ flo chuckles ] [ whirring ] hey, how's that atom-splitting thing going? oh! a smarter way to shop around -- now that's progressive. call or click today. zoo know my next guest. as long as the syndicated conservative column. did you know that charles krauthammer wasn't always into politics? he wasn't always a conservative. that's right. he is the author of the number one book on the "new york times" best sellers list "things that matter." great to have you here. thank you so much. we see you always with these very strong and bold and clear, sometimes edgy comments about politics. there's a lot more to charles krauthammer than politics how did that become such an interest to you? >> well, you know, part of the book is about the things i find el

. >> coming up, best-selling author and commentator charles krauthammer.t really matters to him this thanksgiving weekend? well, he'll just ask him when we come back. [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd. ♪ [ male announcer ] the parking lot helps by letting us know who's coming. the carts keep everyone on the right track. the power tools iroduce themselves. all the bits and bulbs keep themselves stocked. and the doors even handle the checkout so we can work on that thing that's stuck in the thing. [ female announcer ] today, cisco is connecting the internet of everything. so everyone goes home happy. zoo know my next guest. as long as the syndicated conservative column. did you know that charles krauthammer wasn't always into politics? he wasn't always a conservative. that's right. he is the author of the number one book on the "new york times" best sellers list "things that matter." great to have you here. thank you so much. we see you always with these very strong and bold and clear, sometimes edgy comments about politics.

there's a lot more to charles krauthammer than politics. most people probably don't know you're really into baseball. how did that become such an interest to you? >> pat of the book is about the things i find elegant and beautiful in life. i write about chess, baseball, space. i write about a lot of things. in fact, my original intention, governor was to write a book there's more to life than politics and do nothing but those kinds of things. in the end, i decide i couldn't really do that. and it's for the same reason i left medicine when i spent seven years in my younger days to become a writer and be involved in political discourse. and the reason is that in the end, politics, however grubby it is and grasping, it can be very cynical and manipulative. for all that in the end, everything, all the lovely things in life, the high elements of our culture, all of that depends on getting the politics right. and those societies where they get the politics wrong, everything else dissolves. and that's sort of why i changed my career. and it's also

charles krauthammer has some comments that might surprise you. we'll hear those comments coming up. ♪ >>> what is going on? >> finally i understand some music. election day 2016 is more than two and a half years away but it is never too soon to make predictions. if the election were held today. governor chris christie would be neck and neck with hillary clinton. does hillary have what it takes to be in the white house and win the white house? i have my doubts too but charles krauthammer has some bold remarks. >> i think the status she enjoyed with democrats is semi devine. it is not a correlation, it will be a worship service. >> it will be weak, if they decides to run, which i think she is likely going to, i think she will be a rather weak opponent and republicans will have a good shot at the white house. >> i agree and disagree. which i don't. let's go around the table. we'll start with you. >> well love, charles. brilliant. i disagree. i think she'll be a good candidate and have a boat-load of money and exceed any numbers with money. and when

charles krauthammer reacts. did the obama white house quietly pass a rule giving unions a huge tax break under obama care? that investigation is next. later, a bus full of kids so out of control the driver had to call the cops. wait until you hear who wound up in trouble. >> [ bleep ] focus on what you're doing. what if you hit somebody? you think it's [ bleep ] funny, look at me like a man. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying activ

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boesh and thank you again, charles krauthammer. [applause] thank you very much. >>> now on your screen is the cover of a new book by john shaw to jfk and the senate pathway to the presidency. first of all mr. shaw and is the anniversary of the kennedy assassination. was it a benefit to publish your book at this time or did it hurt? >> i think it was a mixed blessing. on the other hand, there is a tidal wave if interest in candidates that came out on the 50th anniversary. and because of that there is an avalanche many of which deal with the assassination, so it is a very crowded feeling to answer. in a perfect world i might have come at this at a different time, but the book was ready to go and of my publisher wanted to go with it now so i feel good about it coming out now. the thing about kennedy is that he seems to be interesting at all claims. he is one of these characters that is a public figure that a year from now, five years from now there are so many unanswered questions about his presidency, about his political career that

charles krauthammer reacts. did the obama white house quietly pass a rule giving unions a huge tax break under obama care? that investigation is next. later, a bus full of kids so out of control the driver had to call the cops. wait until you hear who wound up in trouble. >> [ bleep ] focus on what you're doing. what if you hit somebody? you think it's [ bleep ] funny, look at me like a man. you want to grow up and be a man? look at me like a [ bleep ] man. ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat all that. it doesn't? [ male anner ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. oh, what a relief it is! >>> from the world headquarters of fox news, it's "the kelly file" with megyn kelly. >>> well, for several weeks now we have seen reports about unions complaining over a new obama care tax that is reportedly pricey. we are trying to learn if this administration has quietly passed a rule giving unions a very big break on that tax. tr

charles krauthammer live with an interesting new explanation of what really went wrong with obamacare. plus, a new warning from surgeons tonight. >> we just don't know. >> they don't know what plans will be available, what services will be available. no one knows what will happen january 1st. >> dr. novak is here in a "the kelly file" exclusive. and a special message from mistletoe madison. wait until you see how she's doing two weeks after she was told it's better to beg than to work without the proper paperwork. >>> we start tonight with a breaking update from a school shooting in centennial, colorado. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. at this hour, two student victims have been hospitalized. one, a girl, is in serious condition. the gunman is dead, believed to have turned his weapon on himself. earlier students were seen pouring out of the high school with their hands up. video shows them being patted down while nearby schools went on lockdown. the shoot er asked for a teacher by name. when that teacher learned he was targeted he left the school in hopes, we understand,

i also think that if you look at charles krauthammer's book we talked about, "things that matter," one of the things he talks about is the big question, why are we here if what are we doing? what is next? what's w after this? is this life all instead of all those big questions are things that matter to people. they're not talking about hollywood and politics, but really that base -- who you are in your biggest and most important question that awful us ask sometime in ourant life.ask, >> andrea, is it a good sign fos our country? >> i think people are so hungry for something more edifying and something more hopeful. so 24-hour news, it's more negative than positive. we do positive stories on the show. but iso do think people are huny because there is so much of the other. there is so much smut out there. there is so much crass material. when people see a message of o hope and they startth to see the biblical stories which are truly amazing, it makes them feel good. they're hungry for it and they're not getting it in the schools. they're not getting it in elementary schools up to univers

joining us from washington fox news analyst charles krauthammer? rise of people who are not religious in america, does that signify anything? does it mean anything? >> i didn't see much of a rise in those graphs. there was a tiny increase in the numbers of those who are unaffiliated. i think that's more of a statement about the church, perhaps, than it is about atheism. i saw the lines about atheism and ago no, gnosticism, united states by far is the most religious country in the west. it's not each close. i don't see any eruption of atheism upon the land. >> but they are very aggressive, vocal, well-funded and they target, you know, this year the -- since they got their kicked in the department stores by me, primarily, now they are targeting little kids, in money society and south carolina. saying don't you dare sing o come all ye faithful or we will come in and sue you. what is the reasoning behind that? i mean, do you think he they are going to get more recruits doing that kind of stuff? >> well, look, i think you have got to draw a distinction

charles krauthammer live with an interesting, new explanation of what really went wrong with obamacare. plus, a new warning from surgeons tonight. >> we just don't know. they don't know what plans will be available, what services will be available. no one knows what will happen january 1st. >> dr. novak is here, in a "the kelly file" exclusive. >>> and a special message from mistletoe madison. wait until you see how she's doing two weeks after she was told it's better to beg than to work without the proper paperwork. >>> we start tonight with a breaking update from a school shooting in centennial, colorado. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. at this hour, two student victims have been hospitalized. one, a girl, is in serious condition. the gunman is dead, believed to have turned his weapon on himself. earlier students were seen pouring out of the high school with their hands up. video shows them being patted down while nearby schools went on lockdown. police say the shooter asked for a teacher by name. when that teacher learned he was being targeted, he left the school in ho

tomorrow the full hour of charles krauthammer. >> is there really people? >>> president obama looks for high-tech help for his glitch-filled website while his poll numbers continue to crash. that plus democratic senator joe manchin joins our senate seat. this is special report. >>> good evening. i'm bret baier. president obama is bringing in a high tech executive with experience to fix his massively flawed health care website. but rebooting his administration's badly damaged reputation might need more long-term help. we have fox team coverage tonight. jim angle in the bureau with growing outrage over the prospect of the government penalizing you for not staying in shape. but we begin with ed henry with executive action many feel was long overdue. good evening. >> good evening, brad. it was 80 days after the botched rollout that the president turned to a microsoft executive to try to help dig out, why is why this president has lower approval ratings than bush during his rough second term. >> as president obama brought in top executives from google, amazon an

charles krauthammer. >> lucky me.macare delayed a year. but haven't republicans been pushing for this all along? we're going to ask charles krauthammer, fox news contributor and author of "things that matter," number one across the board on all the book lists. charles, what do you think about this? we have harry reid who is saying this is actually going to be a great push for democrats come 2014. nancy pelosi seems to think it will help as well. is that possible? it's not what the polls are saying from the people. >> as a republican, i would say be my guest. they're either whistling by the graveyard or pretending. it is clear the democrats in congress really are in danger, who really have a tough race, are scared to death. they're running away from obamacare. i saw today of one report, gallup report said a majority of the uninsured oppose obamacare. the whole thing was supposedly as a way to help the uninsured. this is a loser and it will get worse 'cause this isn't a matter of rhetoric or argument. it's a matter of f

joining us now is charles krauthammer. the rise of people not religious in america. does it mean anything? >> i didn't see much of a rise in those graphs there was a tiny increase in numbers of those unaffiliated. that is more of a statement about churches than it is about atheism. i saw lines of atheism. they were flat the united states is by far the most religious country in the west. it's not even close. ask i don't see any eruption of atheism upon the land. >> they are gresive, vocal, well funded and they target. this year, the, they got their butt kicked independent stores by me, primarily, now, they're targeting little kids in minnesota and south carolina saying don't you dare sing oh come all ye faithful or we'll sue you. what is the reasoning behind that? are they going to get more recruits? >> well, i think you've got to draw a discity, between militants that want to stick a finger in your eye and put up that stupid sign in times square. i don't think you're going to get a lot of people walking by that sign saying i think i'll give up god this, is a small gr

joining us now from washington to analyze, fox news political analyst charles krauthammer, the authorthings that matter, the number one "new york times" best seller now available on audio book cd. charles, i am looking here at a list in my mind, in my hand, i should say, of some of these new taxes and fees. of course, we know about the individual mandate that's going to tax -- that's what the supreme court said put a tax on people who don't sign up. but you have also got taxes on medical devices. you have got a medicare payroll tax. in all, you have got 20 new taxes in obamacare, nine that have taken effect this year or next. what -- what are all these hidden taxes and fees coming for? what is it going to do for anybody? >> well, how do you think sandra fluke gets her free contraceptives? remember all the free stuff people are getting in the free mammograms? the free preventative care, the free everything? nothing is free in this world. what obamacare managed to do very cleverly when it was selling itself is to hide all these taxes. there are a trillion dollars in year as the ones you

what does charles krauthammer say?well, i would say that they are completely wrong because they are using the usual liberal yardstick for what's a good or successful productive congress, meaning the number of pieces of legislation passed. it has no relation to good governance. in fact, it probably has an inverse relationship to good governance, the more you pass, the worse it probably is. and surely, the job of the opposition to oppose. if you are looking at the obama agenda, particularly look at what obama did in years 1 and 2. obamacare, the stimulus, he tried the cap and trade. radical reforms. if you are a republican or a conservative and you think this is the wrong way to go, then success is stopping that agenda. and that's why. >> that's what john boehner said. >> that's why they have been very successful over the last four years. >> hang on. john boehner in fact said that this year. this year john boehner, speaker of the house said, don't judge us by how much we pass, judge us by repeels, by efforts to repeal. h

. >> coming up, charles krauthammer with his take on what went wrong with obamacare. plus, a follow up on real spirist christmas. an update on mistletoe madison. you've got to see this, still ahead. >> hello, megyn. we sent thousands of boxes so far and have thousands more to go. >> had a nut shell explain how it's going to work the president maintained you'll be able to keep your doctor. >> short answer is that there is no evidence anybody is going to able to keep their doctor. nobody knows rules we don't know rules as providers. come january 1st it's going to be hard with the promises and the things has is doing. >> you talk about how access is gooding to become the problem. what do you mean by that? >> it isn't enough to give someone a card. what we want to try to do is lower costs and increase access. problem we're seeing already as everybody knows is that simply put, people don't know if they're covered well on provider side wesh don't know if the card people are coming in with is valid so what is that is going to do is restrict access. it's looking like very few

charles krauthammer is here. best seller things that matter. charles, it's quite an amazing trick to meet only 20 -- 26% of your goal and still to be able to call it a major success. >> well, considering where they started from which is zero percent of their goal, but it's rather comical how democrats are desperate to blame the failure on the web site and all the cancellations and all the disasters around obamacare and inside of obamacare on the republicans who, if anything, have the cleanest of hands, having opposed it from day one, having made the arguments way back two, three years ago. on exactly why it would go wrong and precisely the way it has. it's rather -- it's a bad sad, i think. democrats ought to be able to come up with a slightly better story. blame it on the tsunami maybe or global warming. >> one of the things i -- i think it was a poll about a month ago that during the obamacare web site make confusion at the beginning, there was a report said a lot of people thought that obamacare had already bee

charles krauthammer, his uniquely american story. his journey from m.d.d a life that matters. hello, i'm bret baier and i hope you'll enjoy watching this fox news reporting special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel and probably know his position on most issues but we bet there is a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist and even occasional baseball

charles krauthammer has written a fantastic book, come pielation of the columns and, plus, a marvelous introduction. i know one thing is that compilations never sell. charles' book is number one on amazon and will debut as no. 2 in nonfiction on the "new york times" best seller list this sunday. [applause] he's ahead of john grishman and bill o'reilly and rush, you name it, charles. charles was born in new york city, raised in montreal, went to mcgill, and after that, he was a commonwealth scholar at oxford; then went to harvard medical school, and he was a psychiatrist practicing for three years with the chef resident in massachusetts general hospital. briefly, went to work for president carter, was a speech writer for vice president mondale in the presidential campaign, and i got to meet him when he came not new republic in early 1981, and at the time, the new republic, if i may say so, was -- it was the golden age. charles was there, and mike kensley and rick and what was interesting about it, at least to me, is that you had a group of people who had different ideas and frequently f

you can get charles krauthammer here on the five at 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> as much as i love charles, he's a panelist on that show, it is closing after next week. you said to take a shot. >> he has been on 30 years. >> but it is closing. it is down. >> that says more about pbs than charles. >> charles likes to rain on parades. >> there is no styming him. >> and you have a final comment on that, greg? >> all i know is i think there should be a metal band named thauj -- krauthammer. >> it would be awesome. a german band. like slayer. >> i beg you, wi-fi guy, wooi make wi-fi work before i have a conniption. >> and i had to listen to it. >> and the germans have great movies. >> and next, because we are just getting started, football hall of famer jim brown had high hopes for president obama when he campaigned for him in 2008 but his hope has turned to disappointment and he'll tell why. >>> and shocker on home land, was it a good or bad ending to one of the lottest shows on -- one of the hottest shows on tv. we'll have more. stay here. ♪ [ female annou

doug, charles krauthammer's assessment, is she going overboard?i think charles is basically right. the real concern i would have is that the republicans offer no ideas of their own and no alternatives to obama care and they could get all of the benefit that the issue could advise and did in 2010, but bottom line tis it a huge, huge problem for the democrats. >> what about the republicans falling in a trap, dee, doe. is that a possibility? >> no. unless we bail on this. i mean, it is it a gift that keeps on giving. the republicans should be gleeful and we are. i can't believe we are giving a gift and terrible policy. we have the democrats bailing on obama left and right. no one can sign up, and the website is still a problem and then you have all of these people saying look our policys are tripling and state legislators trying to pass laws so their folks don't have to take obama care. >> hold on, dee- dee, stan green burg long time pollster and democratic advisor said not so fast to republicans, because in his polling, what he foundine in battlegro

i'm charles krauthammer. welcome to this fox news special presentation of "firing line." for 33 years and over 1500 episodes "firing line" set the gold standard for public affairs television. when it went off the air 14 years ago and william buckley, jr., signed off for the final time the show was the longest running news program in television history with a single host. for more than three decades, buckley sparred with presidents, politicians, and cultural icons from across the american spectrum. as a result, "firing line" was appointment television. inside the beltway and out. a true original that inspired commentators from both sides of the aisle and television programming from sunday mornings to weekday evenings right here in the realm of cable news. tonight we are pleased to bring you an episode from july 6, 1967. it marked the first of several appearances on the program either recently sworn in governor of california ronald reagan. only six months into his first term there was already speculation that governor reagan might have his eye on a higher office. as was the

and an ardent conservative charles krauthammer, we thank you for being here.are pleased to recommend what is a blockbuster bestseller already. it makes the book so compelling. walter mondale, henry jackson, how can you be associated with such people, given your conservative philosophy? >> i'm glad you asked. lou: and you never dreamed i would. and wasn't like the lord spake to me. it is quite simple. in my 20s, i was a democrat and then this is a road that has been traveled by many. and what happened was i was in my 30s and i began my writing career. and the evidence of what the great society of the war on poverty which i had believed in in my 20s and 19, the evidence of what the effects were. and it wasn't money wasted, it was part of the communities and the people who were meant to help. lou: when it comes to your rationality, not always conservative thinkers and advocates come about how have you preserved that. >> i think that when thing people do is credit this is good or bad. in some ways to make your once a liberal, i understand the intent of liberalism.

. >>> still ahead, charles will, charles krauthammer and george lane. and your pick for the lightning round. but first south africa after nelson mandela. >>> thousands were turned away today on the final day of viewing the body of nelson mandela. about 50,000 were able to file past the casket, the former south african president will be buried on sunday. >>> fox news spent the week there trying to figure out if mandela's hopes an dreams are coming true. here is senior foreign affairsr >> south africans turned out for the last day to say goodbye. some had to be turned away due to the high numbers. >> for what he has done for me, i'm so glad i've seen him. >> his legacy is huge. he led and won the battle against the hated apartheid system and established a democratic constitutional government and mandela known by the tribal name of med evena brought more to south africans, especially blacks. >> he was in the forefront of those who fought for freedom. >> reporter: this is the first home nelson mandela lived in after leaving rural south africa in 1941. the a

. >> and there you have charles krauthammer who believes that the president has fallen victim to hisn equipments. that is his signature achievement. and this as a new abc washington post poll shoes president obama with the job approval at this point. kristin powers, great to have you both here with us. >> let me start with you. do you agree with charles krauthammer that the president is a hostage to obama care and that it eclipses everything else and he can't get anything else done? >> it seems hard for him to get a head of it. it seems like every time he has partially solved a problem another problem comes up. partially solved and the problems never actually get completely solved. and i think that this is going to continue to go on for sometime. and who even knows what other new system coming out about it. we can't predict that. it seems like every time we break out the newspaper. it is obama care. and so as long as that is going on it is an albatrosz around the president's neck. >> the numbers are proving it. let's put a number of them on the air, when asked about the handling of o

charles krauthammer joins us. what's with these numbers they're rolling out?out as trustworthy as soviet numbers on production of steel. they have dribbled out numbers meant to sound impressive and hide the real truth. they tell us about the millions who went on the website. one-third of a million who supposedly enrolled. they haven't enrolled, they put stuff in their shopping cart. none of them have reached the cash rag ster. they're going to show up at their doctors' offices the first of junianuary and discover whet or not they are enrolled. the 100-year-old definition of enrolling for health insurance is you send the check in for your premium your first premium to your insurer, you are then enrolled and you are insured. nobody has sent a check in. we have no idea how many are enrolled. because of what they like to call the back end problem which makes it sound like an obscure arcane problem, the back end problem is the information about the so-called enrollment, the stuff that's supposed to happen at the cash register has not reached the insurer. the insure

george will, kirstin power, charles krauthammer. >> in the second half of the 20th century, amazingly the moment called forth the man. the united states was martin luther king who had one great advantage that mandela did not have. martin luther king could connect aspirations to vocabulary of the natural rights philosophy of the declaration in which he could say our racial practices are discourted with our practices. mandela didn't have that fall back on making his achievement remarkable. what could have been algeria, a simmering war became a peaceful transition of circumstances. >> you heard remarks about mandela. he referenced him many times and says he's an inspiration to him. you wonder if there are leaders out there like mandela to be had. >> mandela is in the category of martin luther king, jr. those type of people don't come along very often. there's many remarkable things about him but in particular when you consider how he was treated as a captive and comes out. for 18 years of captivity he was allowed to see one person a year 30 minutes, send one letter and receive a letter e

and that's his thing. >> charles, thank you as always. and krauthammer'sk things that matter still a huge best seller all over the place. let's check it out for christmas. crowley and colmes on whether americans will change their minds over obamacare. and, later, horrific mauling by a black bear near orlando florida. >> she is in severe pain. >> how old is she? >> i can't tell. you know, she is so bloody, i can't tell. >> those reports up ahead. vo: it's that time of year again. medicare open enrollment. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. buit never hurts to see if u can find bettoverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care la open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purchase, every day. i break my back around here. finally soone's recognizing me with unlimited rewards! meetings start at 11,

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jonah goldberg, fox news media analyst and host of the media buzz howard kurtz and of course charles krauthammerd i want to play some sound we got from kathleen sebelius. she was having lunch at a restaurant around the corner and we hurried over with the camera and here is what she had to say about the pending inauguration of obamacare at mid -- midnight tonight. >> are you confident of people getting coverage? >> i'll thrilled we'll have millions of people that for the first time will have health security. it should be a great new year for families across america. >> do you anticipate any hiccups or how will you hanle that? >> i'm sure there will be some issues. people change plans every year and these are private and private markets and there are millions of people who change their insurance coverage every da day. >> so let's look back at the number one story of 2013, your thoughts. >> i marvel how pony happy kathleen sebelius is, it is so sincere how excited she is about all of this. this was, i would argue, the biggest domestic policy lie in history from a sitting president, how obamacare wo

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thank you again, charles krauthammer.[applause] >> when it comes to metal landing, the district surpasses anything that is in excess of 1.2 billion pounds to the server is that it takes it the number one producer in the history of the u.s. >> they want to keep them sharp. a blacksmith was an important job. they can't see very well. they probably blasted the last time they were here. when they're drifting in that they were doing a technique called scaling. they want to hear that as they're coming in all around them. this sounds like a hollow sound, there is loose material. they can't see that very well, but it sounds funny. that's a negative tool since curt scaling all that pair work in hardcover stealing the loose rock back down the nice solid but refer they start all over. starting to believe that they too hold for safety like this. that's the proper way for safety. our natural instinct is to halt unlike this. give them a target. hardly anybody around. that type of energy that puts you out of bed. if safeway was to hold

charles krauthammer will show us next what it means. are we safe? are we as safe today as we were a week ago? >>> plus, a new poll shows americanss with health insurance think obamacare is making their coverage worse. one of the key architects of the law is here to answer the charge coming up. plus, howard stern, a grand dad, and the moonlight bunny ranch. wait for this one. and ah, so you can see like right here i can just... you know, check my policy here, add a car, ah speak to customer service, check on a claim...you know, all with the ah, tap of my geico app. oh, that's so cool. well, i would disagree with you but, ah, that would make me a liar. no dude, you're on the jumbotron! whoa. ah...yeah, pretty much walked into that one. geico anywhere anytime. just a tap away on the geico app. the energy in one gallon of gas is also enough to keep your smartphone running for how long? 30 days? 300 days? 3,000 days? the answer is... 3,000 days. because of gasoline's high energy density, your car doesn't have to carry as much fuel compared to other energ

they act like it's a nuclear code and we can't know about it charles krauthammer is here to talk aboutming up. but, first, i want to talk to you off-the-record. it's about congress. congress won't like this one. but i bet you will agree with me. i will go off-the-record right after this break. >>> okay. let's go off-the-record for a minute. and at the risk of losing lots of friends on both sides of the aisle on capitol hill. let me tell you what really bothers me. and it should bother you. oversight means oversight. an act of directing work while it is being done. it doesn't mean after the fact. but that's how congress and the white house are treating it. it is 100% true that president obama and secretary sebelius are responsible for obamacare and its rollout. all those that voted for obamacare are up to their eyeballs in responsibility for this debacle. congress, it's responsible for oversight right from the get-go. congress should have been scrutinizing each step of the way since obamacare was passed in 2010 so that the obama administration toed the line and didn't inflict us with th

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we are thrilled to welcome back one of our favorite people here on "the five," charles krauthammer is with us for the hour. "the new york times" best-selling author is here to talk about all of today's hot topics with us starting with this most fascinating new admission from barbara walters about president obama. >> you made so many promises, we thought that he was going to be -- i shouldn't say this at christmastime, but the next messiah. >> notice she said "we" thought he would be the next messiah including herself. she also explained why she thought hope had faded. >> the whole obamacare or whatever you want to call it, affordable health act, it just hasn't worked for him, and he stumbled around on it. and people feel very disappointed because they expected more. >> and then she topped it off with this about why the president didn't make the cut for her most fascinating people this year. >> i thought that there were people who were if not the president, a little more interesting. >> all right. since we are very hospitable, we'll start with our guest here. charles, i wanted to ask y

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