this is why even if congress reads charles krauthammer and says, ooh, good idea.re shamed into signing this thing for political reasons we have with barack obama in the white house who is not going to sign a repeal of the bailout provision of the law. >> first of all, you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you've got democrats up for re-election. you're going to vote for a bailout of these, the fat cat insurers. i'm not sure any of them will support that. you will get huge majorities in the house . and i'm not sure obama can with stand this. this will be a huge issue for him. if in the end you don't do the bailout and, as you say, the premiums skyrocket, what that means is with high premiums, the young and healthies will drop out more. that's why it's the death spiral. i'm not sure there is any way this can be stopped. even if it's not, imagine what a campaign this will be and how much it will hurt the democrats. if obama exercise it is details now, what's he going to do next year after he's lost the senate? >> charles, great to see you. >> pleas

charles krauthammer is number one author. the bailout looks like it is going to happen at this point. >> what they call adverse election if you don't have enough young and healthys to subsidize the older and the sicker in these exchanges the insurance are going to lose a ton of money. the numbers are way down the percentage of the young and healthy is so low if this continues there's no reason to think otherwise. the insurers are going to be out a huge amount of money. in the monstrosity called obamacare allows for your tax money and mine to bail out the insurance. i think it would be a good time for the gop to pass a one-line legislation repealing those two provisions in the bill that would be a moment of truth for obamacare. >> if we don't bail out the insurance companies then the risk pool they don't get saved from their bad risk pool. that is when the law starts imploding they are not going to provide insurance for free next year premiums are going to go up. what are we left with single payer the government steps in to ta

go like pro. . >>> continuing now with charles krauthammer once again joins us from washington.ek president obama said. this. >> the men and women of the intelligence community, including the nsa protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people. they are not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls or read your emails. >> so do you believe that, charles? >> i would say that it is generally true. i'm not sure it's 100% true people are human. you often had v. a bad apple. we know about snowden. snowden is the guy who uncovered the keys to the kingdom. misused information and one way or 00 other helped it get into the hands of the chinese and the russian secret services. so, we know that there can be bad apples there. i would just say though, been around for 10 years. i haven't heard of any egregious cases of someone having their stuff listened in to we know what happens. eastern europe, places like cuba. when they listen in, there are consequences. they call you and you lose your job. your kids are harassed. there is all kinds of stuff. is the

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and charles krauthammer has no details on what could turn into a multimillion dollar bailout for thensurance industry, on "the kelley file" right now. >>> and breaking tonight, controversy over an execution in ohio now getting attention around the world after complaints the convicted murder suffered too much in his final moments. welcome to "the kelley file" everyone, i'm megan kelley. she went missing in 1989. her body was found in the woods near a local creek. her throat had been slit and she had been raped. it took ten months for prosecutors to get their first real lead in connection with her murder. a -- claimed that his mother-in-law had murdered her. he described details only the killer would know. he was charged, tried and convicted. and in 1994, he was sentenced to death. yesterday that death sentence was carried out. maguire was injected with a mixture of drugs that took 24 minutes to take effect. the maguire family is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit saying the execution violated his constitutional right not to be punished in a cruel or unusual way. and the maguire fam

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stoddard and charles krauthammer. a.b. start us off, is it a surprise?ad a busy night. >> i was surprised at the injunction. i thought if it was going to happen, it would have happened earlier. i do think that this is problematic, even though the administration said if they sign an exemption, they are exempted. i think at this point they are not certain they still won't be fined. it is in -- it is not happening in advance of obamacare. all of these debates took place way in advance of this law becoming a reality. now it is real and people have been hearing about it nonstop since october 1st. sticker shock. doctor shortages. not the right hospitals. losing coverage and everything that you thought you could keep. this is going to be, i think, politically very difficult for democrats if this drags on, because they'll have to defend it going into an election year when the rest of obamacare is so unpopular. >> the recent numbers 2.1 million but forbes magazine did an analysis of those who have lost their insurance as a result of the new restrictions in obamac

and an ardent conservative charles krauthammer, we thank you for being here.to recommend what is a blockbuster bestseller already. it makes the book so compelling. walter mondale, henry jackson, how can yu 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. andthe evidence of what the great society of the war on poverty which i had believed in in my 20s d 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. there are some

. >> charles krauthammer talking about a dope flaw in the obama website.ld doom the entire system if it is not fixed soon. >> insurers cannot figure out who has signed up and what subsidies they are entitled to because of back end issues they have not worked out yet. richard fouler host of the richard fouler she. and blad blake man tomorrower deputy to george w. bush. richard, i will start wu. you heard charles krauthammer call it a train wreck because the back end issues don't allow the insurers to determine who is designed. >> i think there is issues with the website and figuring out the back end side. but folks who have already enrolled as of december 31st they are getting health care. we have fixed it for some folks and the white house will make sure it is fixed for the other folks as well. the affordable care act is more than a website. it is making coverage better and you know, opening up the flood gates for folks who get health care. >> these are the words from the administration, they are the ones who put out the warning and it was jim angle who fo

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charles krauthammer joins us. charles, what's this business about he's going to change washington and all this gridlock business. >> he says he's going to change article 1 of the constitution that says that -- this is how they do it in venezuela, cuba and other places. he shows it on twitter and he says i will rule from the pen. what makes it sort of pathetic is that it sounds like a tough threat and it is unconstitutional. it's not how you ought to beat the president of the united states. but in the end, there's very little he can do. what's interesting is he said the same thing in 2011, this was a speech he gave in nevada. it was announced by the white house as the we can't wait tour. and it was one statement after another, i'm not going to wait for congress to act, i will do x, y and z. in the end it didn't work, because in the end, the only things a president can do with a pen, executive orders, are fairly limited. with one exception, that's epa and using the epa to shut down entire industries. that power. >> t

charles krauthammer sees a lot at stake because of this now. >> you have got a train wreck coming. i think it'sing if to come out slowly. i. the deadline is mid march. if they don't have this in place in mid-march all hell will break loose. bill: steven hayes, fox news -- contributor. what did jim angle find in these administration documents yesterday about obamacare concerns within the administration? >> the administration had to file document with the department of health and human services to justify its awarding of a no-bid contract to build a back end of the obamacare web spiept. the part of the website that delivers information that consumers input into the website and spits them out to the insurance company. cgi, the company responsible for doing that hadn't done an adequate job. you had congressional testimony that the back end wasn't still built at this date. so in submitting these documents to justify the awarding of a no-bid contract, the administration made some stark claims about the status of the healthcare law saying the program in total could be jeopardized if the b

calling charles krauthammer a liberal, tom coburn or liberal, scott walker liberal, chris christie a liberal because they didn't believe we should shut down the government? the government shutdown strategy was about the stupidest strategy imaginable. you could see that coming, that disaster coming. as my professor said like a freight train out of the mist, slowly coming your direction about to run you over. no. you could see it for four weeks. no. i mean, come on. get out of the way. that is what krauthammer walker and myself for saying and they didn't do it. i talked to somebody that was, we will just say he played pretty big role in this strategy. i went into his office and i said dude, what were you thinking? you just thought wrong. your problem is and this is what krauthammer said, the crisis. he said these guys think this makes them look more manly or something. they don't realize it makes them look like idiots. and i said to this guy, this would he like the coach of the dallas cowboys. deciding when it was fourth and 31 instead of hunting they run the quarterback sneak. maybe y

stoddard, associated editor of the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles?esentative johnson you would think that these are scare tactics which generally means being afraid or pretending to be afraid of something which isn't a problem. this is a huge problem, and bringing up target makes precisely the argument she doesn't want to make. target is in deep trouble precisely because of a security breach, and according to the experts, i mean, i'm not an expert, but i go by what they have told us who look into this, this system, which is open to everyone, millions apparently, have used it, is a gateway to irs, dhs, other agencies, and if that is not working in terms of security, then it's a disaster waiting to happen. you know, she says this is an attempt by republicans, opponents, to bring down obamacare. well, if there are problems of this magnitude, perhaps it ought to be brought down. number one, it -- it's got adverse selection. it's financially unstable. second, as we heard earlier in the show, there's no connection in the back rooms still between the health

krauthammer, charles?ink this is not rocket science. christie is now hostage to the truth. if he told the truth and he had no knowledge of this, it will hurt him. if he didn't tell the truth, and we will know it for sure one way or the other, if he did know about this thing, he's toast. it's rather simple. now, if he didn't know, if what he said was trow, there are two ways in which he's hurt. i don't think either of them is fatal, especially because we have three years to go until the presidential election. the first is the competence issue. it did happen under his watch, and, remember, whoever runs in 2016 will be running in the wake of and against the legacy of obama who showed incompetence as an executive and was the bystander president. he didn't know about the irs. he read about the a.p. scandal in the press and who knows, maybe he didn't even know there existed an obamacare website the way he talked about it, so you want to run as a competent executive hands on. this isn't going to help christie in

nina easton, and charles krauthammer. charles?ll, listening to that excerpt from ed henry, you would think that's the campaign speech of someone running against barack obama. obama is indicting the four years, the five years he's been president. he said the rich have done well. everybody else has stalled. inequality has increased. the four years, the five years are his years. essentially, he's saying my job now is to undo what i have done in the five years of my presidency. it's hardly sort of a ringing call to arms. i'm sure they now have tested all of these words, inequality, opportunity, all this stuff, to see which ones resonate with the focus groups, but i don't think it's going to help him in any way. as for, you know, the agenda he has, if you heard what robert gibbs says, he's given up on being the great uniter, the charismatic president who would bring america together. and now he's simply trying to hang on for quite small achievements. which i think in his own eyes means that he's a failure. >> nina, to charles' point ab

let's bring in our panel, syndicated columnist, george will, juan williams, and charles krauthammer. >> i don't think the president is right about that. iran and russia have demonstrated that you can sway, you can change the course of the war without an invasion of the size and scope which we had in iraq. they have decisively altered the course of the war with weaponry, financial support, and essentially by keeping out all the powers. so i think this is sort of obama's explanation for syria. he says, i couldn't have done anything. i think he's quite wrong about that. and i suspect he knows that as well. but doesn't want to admit it. >> juan, on race, the president is quoted as saying, there's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me, they don't like the idea of a black president. now, the flipside of it is that there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me, who give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because i'm a black president. your thought on that. >> i think that's probably right. the question would be whether or not he's speaking

stoddard and charles krauthammer. your thoughts, charles? >> well, there wasn't a lot in the speech, of course, he's playing a very weak hand. i was impressed by the fact that he delivered it with conviction, because again, there and wasn't a lot in it. i would call it the chestnut speech, there were so many old chestnuts that were shown it was almost embarrassing, he brought out stuff, he tried last year and that went nowhere with minimum wage, with this idea of extending unemployment insurance. when he repeated guantanamo, which is a cause he gave up on himself years ago, you knew he sort of run out of ideas. what i was surprised he didn't do is to do an overarching theme, the one that actually worked for limb in the 2012 election of this being the party of opportunity, he talked about it, but it was not an overarching theme, if he had pushed that button at the beginning as a way to remind people that that is the core idea, he has in terms of economics, and as you said, i think the most important element of the speech with regard to foreig

charles krauthammer sounding off on what he calls the real issue behind unemployment benefits, entitlement. >> now is not the time. 4 and a half years recovery at least as defined by the administration itself. it is not the time. if not now, then when? european level of unemployment, chronic unemployment subsidized. the fact is if you subsidize apples you get more apples. oo you subsidize unemployment you get more of it. that's what economic studies show. we will accept the short term but foenl you build into the bill an unwinding. it isn't an entitlement it is a way to help people temporarily. that would be a good solution. >> krauthammer goes on to say most americans want to work keeping the handouts going would have the opposite effect. obamacare opposition reaching a new high. 68 percent of voters are against the requirement that every american be covered by health insurance. last week 61 percent say healthcare would decline because of obamacare. they dodge questions of how many young people have signed up so far. >> i can tell you the demographic data hasn't available yet. er i know t

and there's still other people saying and charles krauthammer with a great idea of other things we can do in terms of extending the three months. but instead of just giving people three months of pay, say i'll give you this, but in turn end it. listen. >> so i think what the republicans ought to do is to recognize that it's becoming an entitlement and they would oppose that. on the other hand, it is still tough times and unemployment is relatively high. and if we were to count the people who quit looking, it would be 11%. so i think what they ought to do is to say we'll accept the short term, the three months, but only if you build into the bill an unwinding of this so it has an ending, so we all understand it isn't an entitlement, it is a way to help people temporarily. that would be a good solution. >> the comments there are wise and i think charles krauthammer expressed compassion. susan collins in terms of job training, the note there is great, it would be a great practical implementation. but i think many people feel the one thing that, a was promised, and, b would really help is

but there are some, including charles krauthammer, who say you know what? of the plan. >> the bill was written deliberately to force employers to kick people off their plans so that would be the only way to get the subsidies. in fact, what it tells you is that none of this is an unintended side effect of the creation of obamacare. the purpose of obamacare was to destroy the relationship between the employer and the employee and getting health care and that's exactly why millions of people are being tossed off and millions more will be as the larger employers start tossing people off later in the year. >> he's talking there about larger employers who have got more than 50 employees, you've got to provide or you get into big trouble. with target, if you have less than -- if you work less than 30 hours a week, you're considered part-time. now they're saying, go to the exchanges. they're trying to spin it by, well, only 10% of target employees have used this in the past. but some employees are really furious about it. in the meantime, the company comes back and

even if congress reads charles krauthammer and says that's a good idea house republicans and even ifshamed into signing this thing we have barack owe babb ma in a white house who is not going to sign a repeal of the bailout of his law. >> you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you have democrats up for reelection. you are going to vote for a bailout of these fat cat insurers. i am not sure any of them are going to support that. you are going to get huge majorities in the house. i am not sure obama is going to with stand this. this will be a huge issue. in the end if you don't do the bailout and as you say the premium sky rocket, what that means is with high premiums the young and healthys will drop out even more that's why it is called the death spiral. i am not sure there is any way it can be stopped. even if it is not mraj what a campaign issue this will be and how much it will hurt the democrats because if observe exercises the veto now what's he going to do next year after he lost this? >> good to see you. >> pleasure, thank you. >>> a winter blast hitting much

. >> bill o'reilly, charles krauthammer. >> yes. >> we have got like the cast from the five.athered tonight to ring in the new year. >> i love that from our family to yours. we are ready to bring in 2014. >> this is the first time for you times square. throughout the night get your impression of everything and what you think of the moment here as we bring in '14. >> a time not to be missed. would he see wish you all a happy new year. thanks for joining us.n >> see you real soon, everybody. bye-bye. back to the five. >>> no dancing. welcome back to the five's county to 2013. many plan to wipe the slate clean and kick bad habits and start anew. i think we should start with kimberly -- >> how many do i have? i'll try to resist the temptation to become one with bob. >> what does that mean? >> people say oh, we think you love bob secretly. >> she does. >> do you make resolutions, kimberly? >> i don't feel that i should, because if i break them or -- give up what? my godiva chocolates with the caramel inside, i don't want to do that. >> and you don't want to give up your number one

george will, charles krauthammer.sconnect george from where we are and where people think we are? >> the people are right. the two-thirds that think the economy is not good. the recession began in december 2007. since then, we have added 13 more million americans in the country and have 13 million fewer jobs. we have lowered the unemployment because more and more workers are no longer counted because they're not looking for work. if the work force participation rate today was as high as when the recession began, it would be 11%. it wouldn't be called recovery at all. >> this congress did not move forward kirstin on 55 tax cuts, didn't renew 55 tax cuts for individuals and businesses. you heard that one person talk about seeing his check get a little smaller for the take home. more and more people this year will see that same check getting smaller. >> right. well hopefully they'll pick it up in this new congress. tax cuts are one of the things about the congress. there's no certainty they do them in a longer term plan

now, this is why even if congress reads charles krauthammer, and says, oh, that's a good idea, and evene senate democrats are shamed into signing this, we still have barack obama in the white house, who is not going to sign a repeal of the of his law. >> first of all, you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you've got democrats up for re-election. and you're going to then vote for a bail-out of these fat cat insurers. i'm not sure any of them are going to support that. you're going to get huge majorities in the house. and i'm not sure obama can withstand this. this is going to be a huge issue for him. in the end, if you don't do the bail-out, and as you say, the premiums sky rocket, what that means is with high premiums, the young and the healthy will drop out even more. that's why it's called the death spiral. i'm not sure there's any way this can be stopped, but even if it's not, imagine what a campaign issue this will be, and how much it will hurt the democrats. because if obama exercises the veto now, what's he going to do next year after he's lost the senate? >> ch

charles krauthammer piering on special report and says it is all about bailout. >> reason they are not going to have to go into a death spiral getting a lower number is because they get the bailout. they can keep the rates the same and you and i pay millions of dollars that would compensate for a program that is completely out of whack. that's why republicans ought to pass within a week or two right now a provision to abolish the bailout then you will see the insurers in a different way. if they have to do it honestly and have to raise the premiums you are going to hear them scream. >> we will see. other news new jersey governor chris christie set to deliver his annual saturdtate of the st address today in the midst of two separate scandals. he is facing tough questions over the use of super storm sandy relief fund. federal officials are investigating whether christie improperly used $25 million federal dollars to produce these tourism ads that feature he and his family. the governor is also under investigation after his staff orchestrated traffic grid locks on the george washington br

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here's charles krauthammer's reaction to that statement. >> think about this. you're the secretary of defense. he's the president, he's sending 30,000 more troops into battle, and three months later, secretary of defense realizes that obama doesn't believe in the surge or believe in the war or believe in his own actions. how can a commander in chief in good conscience do that? i do think this is an indictment of the president that rises above everything else he's done in his presidency. >> i'm going to start with our most recent author of the panel, who has a book coming, do you think that robert gates is breaking any new ground here, or confirming what a lot of people just suspected all along? >> first of all, since president obama keeps saying pakistan, i'm going to refer to him as the commander in chief. so we learned that president obama -- you can't blame a leopard for his spots. it speaks to a fundamental discomfort that president obama has had with american power all his life. he's cultivated a mindset that the united states is the goliath that needs to

one person who could certainly agree with that is charles krauthammer. >> in 2008, obama said regan was a president who was historically consequential in a way clinton was not. what he meant is regan changed the course of american history and clinton played small ball. when obama came into office, if you look at his first state of the union, extremely expanse frb, extremely ambitious. he sounds like a president who realizes he's not going to get it done. now he's playing small ball. he's being a clinton, not a regan. >> and brit hume htells us how e really feels. >> he's talking about his presidency. after four years of recovery -- this is his recovery. this is the recovery he promised. he's saying after four years it's worse. i have never heard a president do that in my life, get umin the middle of the presidency and announce all of the things have gotten worse since he got in office. he didn't put it that way, but you think about it, that's what he was saying. >> last night, during the five's fox news chat, you had a similar observation early on in the speech. >> it was when he was re

stoddard, and charles krauthammer. ds around the words used in the documents, as they're hiring a new contractor, charles, is pretty stunning. >> it is. i love the way it's downplayed as, you know, a back end problem. makes it sound like a running back with a sprained gluteus maximum. this is the essence of the system. the healthcare.gov, the sign-up, communicates with the insurer. and right now, what that document was saying, in alarming tone, is because the back end wasn't constructed, there's no way to communicate either accurate or any information about who the person is and if that person is insured. as a second result, there's no way to determine what the actual subsidy is. right now, the insurers are guessing at the subsidy, so all of this is on the honor system. and it could be wildly off. if they undershoot, the insurers are going to go bust. if they overshoot, the government is going to be stuck with a huge bill. but the fact is no one knows what's going on. when you have a system as complicated as this, milli

charles krauthammer will tell us. >> you'll actually see, like, sounds potentially, like -- >> you cans? >> yeah, sometimes. >> can you hear

charles lame, and charles krauthammer.ve, what about this whole back and forth about the pen and the phone and what's going to be said and what won't be? >> we have heard it all before. remember, the president did this back in 2011 after republicans took over the house of representatives. the white house declared, we can't wait. we're going to do these things that the republicans, intransient republicans in congress won't allow us to. that's how we're going to govern. the problem for the president is he doesn't have much to point to ing terms of real accomplishments in congress. and number two, politically, it's hard to enough how this is going to help him. the republicans who ran and won in 2010 are the ones who will be up in 2014, the senate democrats we have talked about so much in red states, are the ones defending their seats. does the president of the united states think in effect, declaring congress irrelevant is going to help them help them? i don't think it's likely to have that effect. >> dan pfeiffer, senior adv

let's bring in our panel, ninak charles krauthammer. >> that last statement was made about a meeting on the 3ert of march, 2010. that's three months after obama announced the surge in afghanistan, so think about this. you're the secretary of defense. the president is sending 30,000 more proops into battle, and three months later, the secretary of defense realizes obama doesn't believe in the surge or believe in the war or believe in his own actions. he doesn't believe in petraeus. he hates karzai. he thinks the war isn't his. how can a commander in chief in good conscience do that? i remember saying here on the night of the president's speech in which he announced the surge and immediately announced the withdrawal, and then for the four years ever since, he never spoke to explain to the american people why the war, why the surge was important. he now has the lowest public approval of any war in modern history. because it had no leadership, but i think this is a shocking revelation. i assumed that he didn't believe in this war from his own actions. but here's from somebody sitting wit

yet last night conservative columnist charles krauthammer accused the president of being whiney in hitting. >> look, it's rather unseemly if you are the commander in chief, the leader of the free world, and the most powerful man on earth who could reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his command to get so whiney. >> you know, if the president was really whiney, why would he give a presuper bowl interview to this man? take a listen. >> on a personal note, the president told me man-to-man in december that he would do the interview, and he has kept his word. i saw him at the kennedy center celebration. he doesn't have to do the interview. he knows it's going to be a tough one. and he is coming in anyway. so we're happy about that. >> why would he if he is whiney, why would he give that man the presuper bowl interview, bill? >> first, i want to point out this will be the third interview that bill oh really has had with president obama. bill press has not had one. so if there is any favoritism here, i get accused of playing favorites with fox news. >> don't be whiney, bill. just tell us w

here's charles krauthammer's take. >> everybody in america tries to create a log cabin story. this is her log cabin story. the problem is, i think it was larry who said, if you're going to create a narrative, that's perfectly okay, but make sure it's a real narrative. and she says her problem is a lack of tightness. it's an odd word. it's really a lack of truth. >> so what is it with democrats and the truth? do their paths ever cross, bob? >> what is it about democrats? >> all right. >> is that what you just asked me? >> wendy davis made a name for herself when she did a filibuster on the abortion bill on the texas senate floor, and not we're finding out her past may be nothing -- >> not nothing. she said things, she exaggerated her situation in a trailer park. i understand that. >> one. >> and part of her education was paid for by a wealthy husband. two. beyond that, and if those are indictments for somebody's entire career, i find that a little bit difficult for me to accept. if that's the case, very few politicians would stand mustard to that. i don't think -- most of the p

stoddard and syndicated columnist and author of the best selling book "things that matter" charles krauthammera.b., let's start with you. lik split over trade, and harry reid is saying i don't want to move it forward. >> well, as you know, they are getting very scared in the democratic party about what's going to happen to the senate and whether or not they will lose majority in the senate, and there's a lot of talk about moving resources around and trying to save the vulnerable senate democrats that they have now to retain control. this fast track issue is very toxic in the party, as you know. all of the lie i don't know's share of the groups, outside groups on the left are putting enormous pressure on democrats not to do this, and they are not interested in anything right now. their own constituents, their own democratic supporters in labor, at home, are worried about obamacare. at this point with the economy not set to just be a total game-changer by november, they don't want to -- they don't want to take on anything that would muddy the message about income inequality and fast track would

steve hayes and elise viebeck and charles krauthammer. steve?think what is particularly discouraging is the fact that the united states fought so hard in those towns and others in western iraq to win free dom for the iraqis alongside the iraqis and sunni tribes and now that is basically gone. what we saw over the last couple of days is just a culmination of a long build-up of fighting from the current version of al qaeda in iraq. and you've had a series of complex suicide bombings leading up to this. some two dozen suicide bombings in october in western iraq by this group, according to the author tative subject on these matters and it is a long series and this has been coming for quite a while. >> elise, is there a sense that the administration is dealing with this in any way, shape or form, is capitol hill engaged on this? >> well certainly the administration is quietly sending many weapons to the iraqi government in order to combat this rising tide of al qaeda in the west. but there is bipartisan opposition on capitol hill and skepticism, fran

kirsten powers, and charles krauthammer. is this vote today, steve, about consolidating the primary calendar and really having the rnc take more control over it. what about that and how it's going to play? >> well, i think there's a pretty good argument for doing that, particularly if you look back at the way things unfolded in 2012. and to a certain extent, how things unfolded in 2008. obviously, the extended primary calendar in 2012 led to some bloody debate fights that the republicans didn't want to see happen again. this, i think, helps -- it won't eliminate that, but it helps to probably make them somewhat less bloody or at least less extended. moving the convention to earlier in the summer, i think, does a couple of things that would probably be beneficial to republicans. one, it shortens the time more. two, it gives them access to general election funds earlier. republicans won't be in a position where he or she has to in effect defer playing defense or defer trying to find himself, as mitt romney did, this time becau

john, julie pace, and charles krauthammer. julie, you were in there today.is interesting to see the different tone and what they're saying in reaction to all these democrats signing on to this iran sanctions list. >> absolutely, because the white house spent a lot of time talking to democrats and republicans on the hill. the president, the vice president, chief of staff, spent a lot of time trying to get the lawmakers to not back the sanctions bill. they really feel like if the hill moves forward with the sanctions, the iranians could walk away from the table. if they walk away from the table and negotiations, the only option they see to stop the iranians from building a nuclear weapon is military action. they also say, hey, senators, remember when we tried to get you to support military action in syria, you weren't happy about that. we would have to come back to you again. >> at 77 votes, that's enough. >> the white house could be in a situation where they have the negotiations happening on one track and lawmakers on the hill passing something that would be