charles krauthammer on deck, charles krauthammer on deck, why when you run a business, you can't settles why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wifi included. comcast business. built for business. >> president obama and evil, i address dollars the subject last night in my memo bill o'reilly.com. last week on "special report" charles krauthammer pointed out the president is allowing evil to run wild in the world. he joins us now from washington. so we all know this is true and the other people disagree with you and me. they are uninformed, whatever. so is evil growing? >> it's gone pretty much unchecked. but now the why of it the why. president obama doesn't want to confront evil. why not? >> well, i think it starts with the fact and you just go back to the series of speeches he made after being sworn n 2009 when he went abroad.

charles krauthammer on deck, why won't president obamaintr confront evil? les is next. heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™ it can help your business save money. false. the truth is when you compare our fastest internet to the fastest dsl from the phone company, comcast business gives you more for your money. why pay more for less? call today for a low price on speeds up to 150mbps. and find out more about our two-year price guarantee. comcast business. built for business. is. >> president obama and evil, i address dollars the subject last night in my memo bill o'reilly.com. last week on "special report" charles krauthammer pointed out the president is allowing evil to run wild in the world. he joins us now from washington. so we all know this is true and the other people disagree with you and me. they are uninformed, whatever. so is evil growing? >> it's gone pretty much unchecked. but now the why of it the why. president obama doesn't want to confront evil. why not? >> well, i think it starts with the fact and you just go back to th

joining us now from washington, fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. so what i don't understand and what i want you to explain to me, man to man, is why americans aren't angrier about people who exploit racial division. the agitators get away with it and are even rewarded. why don't americans rise up against that? let me just start by saying i was enjoying that previous statement. i really hate to break up the night as they say in congress i would be willing to yield the remainder of my time so you can catch up on that if you want me to give my opinion i will tell you that americans do not like the racial hustlers, they don't like the expresumption of -- exploitation. that doesn't mean americans aren't appalled. here is the central fact of this event. we do not know what happened on that day. we simply don't know. we don't know -- we haven't heard from the officer. we haven't seen witnesses on the stand who can be cross-examined. everybody is jumping to conclusions and he i would include, in that, the governor of the state of missouri. jay nixon who sa

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joining us now from washington, fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. so what i don't understand and what i want you to explain to me, man to man, is why americans aren't angrier about people who exploit racial division. the agitators get away with it and are even rewarded. why don't americans rise up against that? let me just start by saying i was enjoying that previous statement. i really hate to break up the night as they say in congress i would be willing to yield the remainder of my time so you can catch up on that if you want me to give my opinion i will tell you that americans do not like the racial hustlers, they don't like the expresumption of -- exploitation. that doesn't mean americans aren't appalled. here is the central fact of this event. we do not know what happened on that day. we simply don't know. we don't know -- we haven't heard from the officer. we haven't seen witnesses on the stand who can be cross-examined. everybody is jumping to conclusions and he i would include, in that, the governor of the state of missouri. jay nixon who sa

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and charles krauthammer is here right after the break on the possible fallout. and this could get big mpkts plus, chilling new details about an american-born suicide bomber and how he managed to leave a terror training camp and catch a plane right to florida. plus, "the kelly file" confirming a patient infected with ebola, extremely deadly disease, is headed to an american hospital. we will speak with an infectious disease expert trained in outbreaks like this one. >> on ebola i know there have been high-level talks to do something about possibly bringing americans or workers that have been exposed out of there. can you address that a little bit? vital nutrients as you age? [ male announcer ] that's why there's ocuvite to help replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula not found in your multivitamin to help protect your eye health. ocuvite. help protect your eye health. ocuvite. our cheese is going thin in a big way. with our ultra thin slices, the same natural sargento cheese you love, just thinner and just 45 calories a slice. sargento ultra thi

charles krauthammer, always a delight. much. >> a pleasure. >>> most americans are firm in their support of israel but there are some cracks within the jewish community. i'll talk about it with professor alan dershowitz after this. dsl myth #1. it can help your business save money. false. the truth is when you compare our fastest internet to the fastest dsl from the phone company, comcast business gives you more for your money. why pay more for less? call today for a low price on speeds up to 150mbps. and find out more about our two-year price guarantee. comcast business. built for business. >>> now is not the time for the department of defense and the united states or the president and his administration to call israel out on civilian casualties and urge them to do more. now is the time for our administration to speak with one voice alongside the congress an administration to speak with one voice across the congress and condemn hamas. >> said lindsay graham. usually it is israeli public opinion that is divided. this time

charles krauthammer will tell us. >> this is a part of the war on whites that's being launched by the democratic party. >> is there a growing anti-white people movement in america? we will present the evidence. >> you're not allowing me to cover the event? >> the management doesn't want you on the property. so, unfortunately, sir, we will have to ask you leave. >> waters gets booted out of the national organization of women convention. it wasn't pretty. >> if you stay on the property, you will arrested. >> you are about to enter the "no spin zone." "the factor" begins right now. frnltsd hi, i'm bill o'reilly. america's weakness part two, the subject of this evening's talking points. remember last night i documented vital areas where the u.s. is losing influence or completely collapsing? the memo is posted on billo'reilly.com. tonight, more on why america's weakness is growing. it begins with propaganda. how to obscure the truth. when talking points first began listing all the situations where the usa is getting hammered, the evidence overwhelmed those who support the obama administrat

and charles krauthammer. jonah, what do you think? >> i'm not sure. he's looking for an opportunity to turn the narrative on the economy. i think he believes the economy is doing much better. he has an argument to be made on that. it's clear from the poll the american people don't agree with him and they are not feeling it. and i think his overriding problem is he just -- he is being buffeted at all sides by events outside of his control and i think he's trying desperately to get in charge of the narrative again and seem like the guy in charge and i'm not sure it will work. >> ron, we keep talking about this poll. approval 40%,disapprove 54%. right track, wrong track, 22% right track, wrong track, 71%. what do you make of these numbers at this point in this presidency? >> short term, obviously, disastrous for the president. he's in the same place president bush. that's not a good place. longer term, it's an indictment on washington. 75% of the people in this poll, i'm sorry 80% of the people in this poll belie

we're going to finish up with charles krauthammer. his winners and losers. charles?nner he of the week demagogues after the funeral of michael brown on monday, the cameras will be gone. it will be in the hands of the justice system. the wheels of justice will grind slowly and the demagogues will be left with nothing to do and no state. the winner of the week is the anonymous unknown wise guy in the foreign ministry in cairo issued a statement urging u.s. authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the demonstrators in the ferguson as reuters put it, echoing language washington used to caution egypt as it cracked down on islamist demonstrators. this is a guy who understands humor and you tonight see that a lot in foreign affairs. >> and there you go. winners and losers with the panel. panel, thank you as always. and thank you for inviting us into your home tonight to. that is it for this "special report." fair, balanced and unafraid. don't forget, chris wallace with what promises to be a big show this weekend. take a look at that. greta goes "on the record" righ

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ed henry, charles krauthammer, colonel tom mcnerney and tom sexton. ed? >> john boehner said he was dismayed by a lack of strategy from the president in terms of dealing with isis' march not just through iraq but syria as well. that seems to be the big challenge for the president. he has a clear short-term strategy but is lacking long-term focus. aides say the president, who campaigned against what he called a dumb war in iraq and was hesitant to use u.s. military power in syria, acted this time because of a tightly defined mission, which was halting a potential humanitarian disaster, also protecting u.s. personnel, wanting to make sure there's not another benghazi situation and also slowing isis down, although i pressed josh earnest today on why there is not a plan to actually stop isis altogether. with al qaeda, the goal has been, defeat and decimate. is the goal to defeat and decimate isis? >> the goal as it relates to this specific situation is the need for iraq to confront the threat that is posed by isil. >> administration officials defend the lack

charles krauthammer on that. >> you know the vice president, right? >> man -- >> i'm going to give you a hint. >> okay, go. >> first name joe -- >> also tonight, jesse waters venturing in to the heart of motorcycle madness. a revved up watters' world ahead. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone from southern california. "the factor" begins right now. >>> hi, i'm bill o'reilly reporting from los angeles. thanks for watching us tonight. as president obama returns from vacation, the threats from overseas mount. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. we live in a dangerous world and under president obama it's becoming even more dangerous yet millions of americans are not paying attention. and that in itself is dangerous. reports over the weekend say that russian tanks have now moved in to southeastern ukraine. we don't know the extent of that. but we do know the russian tyrant putin continues to challenge president obama. in china, warplanes apparently buzzed a u.s. navy surveillance jet over international waters. the pen

it's in our soul. >> charles krauthammer, author of "things that matter," charles, good to see you. >> good to be here. >> do you agree with chris matthe matthews? >> well, i don't think i've ever said this before, but i do. look, i mean, it is ridiculous to go back to the pre-9/11 paradigm of treating acts of terror as criminal acts. they are not. they are acts of war against the united states. and when holder says we're going to track down the people who did this, i mean, it's as if fdr were to announce the day after pearl harbor that we're going to track down the pilots who bombed us in pearl harbor. the whole idea here is to -- now we made a terrible mistake for decades pre-9/11 in pursuing criminal offenses as individual acts rather than understanding that we have in isis an entity that is armed, has a ton of money, a ton of recruits, controls an enormous amount of territory and has declared open war on the united states of which the beheading of that journalist or that american was simply one instance. unless the president understands that and we have no strategy and we have no

. >> i want to read you something that charles krauthammer said last night.y critical of something speaker boehner said. he said it is ridiculous to sue the president on a wednesday because he oversteps the law, as he has done a dozen times illegally and unconstitutionally, and then on a thursday say that he should overstep the law, contradict the law that passed in 2008 and deal with this himself. was that a mistake by speaker boehner to say the president should act alone on his own executive authority? >> i think both of them have a great point in the sense that charles krauthammer is right. house republicans can't go home until we put our solution forward, and we're going to. the speaker is also right in that the president helped create this crisis. he could address it very aggressively. we know he won't. that's why we're staying here and why we're going to get the job done. >> what has been the concern, what have you heard from conservatives? why is it that this -- you didn't have the votes yesterday? what was the biggest problem? >> yeah, you know, it's

charles krauthammer calling secretary kerry clueless and oblivio oblivious, author of "things that matteren on the new york times best seller list forever. good to see you. >> good to be here again. >> clueless in why? >> two weeks ago the egyptians put forth a cease-fire in place. and instead of just accepting it and saying this is the u.s. position, insisting on it, kerry went off to paris and negotiated with hamas' lawyers and allies qatar and turkey, and came back with a proposal that essentially backed all of hamas' demands. the reason he was clueless, is it wasn't just an egyptian proposal but supported by the arab league, wall to wall coalition. an amazing new kind of coalition, israel, saudi arabia, jordan, the gulf states and egypt and palestinian authority -- >> 22 members of the arab league minus syria. >> minus syria and qatar saying they don't want to see hamas rewarded, flourish, they want to see it diminished and overthrown. it is one of the leading edges of islamist radicalism in the world. presented with arab partners what he did was stepped all over it and astonished the

should address the immigration grudges on his own without the need for congressional action and charles krauthammer of the no the conservative columnist called it a flip flop and was ridiculous and in conference when you stand on that which partner on the lawsuit or with the board on the lawsuit and then the follow up to the lawsuit would scrotum i'm a cold in comprehensible. well i think the lawsuit i mean look i think when you are the speaker of the house and recognize that this is a the way our constitution works you may people may not like it but there's a house there's a senate there's a president there's a court and there's checks and balances. as your previous guest talked about when it came to the senate intelligence committee and how they're doing with the cia he said you know they need to respect that the house is the check of the balance i think has speaker boehner is fundamental point in this lawsuit it say the president doesn't get to choose which laws he and forces especially with respect to obamacare you don't get to pick and choose you may not like what the house of the senate does

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, i'll start with you.s ago, this is a dire situation in iraq. multiple air drops, multiple air strikes. there were more air strikes today. but the president seems to have cooled on this, the urgency of this mission very quickly. >> there's been a disconnect between what he and his aides have said about this, and what they said they're prepared to do about it. most of the rhetoric has been to delineate all the things that are not being considered for us to do. this, in spite of the fact that the president said in his interview with tom friedman of "the new york times" that we have a strategic interest, not just an interest, but a strategic interest in pushing back islamic state, or whatever we're calling them this week. the president has been very careful to locate the reason for our actions as protecting u.s. personnel and a dire humanitarian emergency. both of which allow him to say, i had to act quickly, and don't need to go, as i started to do with syria last autumn, to congress for permission to do thi

charles krauthammer blasting the president for admitting to the world he has no strategy. >> i thought president could no longer surprise me. i was wrong. he shocked me today. the president of the united states in the middle of a real crisis a few days after the beheading of an american deliberately sort of spitting in the face of the country and demonstrating its cruelty the president gets in front of the world and says we don't have a strategy. if that is true don't say anything. why do you announce you doo a strategy? >> the threat of home grown terror. we told but douglas mccain an american in california who turned against his country and died fighting for isis overseas. he grew up in the twin cities just like mohammed the second killed in the battle. corey castigar also became a terrorist he became a terrorist in somalia. they at least 20 came from the same area of minnesota, the twin cities. some believe dead others still at large. our ainsley earhardt is live where two of these men grew up. what are people saying there? >> good morning. two of the 20 that were recruited this is

charles krauthammer and karl rove think so. >> we had an infrastructure in mrachls obama wanted to get out completely and wanted to be able to boast in his reelection campaign i got us out. as a result we're nowhere in the region. >> this president does not have a strategic view of what america's interests are. >> jedadiah help me understand this dismissive attitude. he called crash of the obamacare web site just a glitch. why do you think he does this? >> when it comes to foreign policy, i think he doesn't want america to be in a leadership position and i think he hopes everyone else will take care of it. he's not interested in being a leader and setting precedent. he's interested in letting it sort of drift. as far as domestic issues that is politically driven. i think he often indicators to left wing base. he's concerned about them and his legacy. >> do you think, greg, he's dismissed the threats? do you think he's seen threats and just ignored them? there is no way the nsa can't detect an army growing with artillery that we can look inside of a cell phone but can't see this? >> he

. >> bob, you asked me in the break do we have any sound on tape of charles krauthammer. i actually went and got one for you. i'd like to have you comment on mr. krauthammer. >> the idea of shaming the butchers of tiananmen square or shaming a country that just a week ago buzzed the u.s. airplane at 20 feet, a country that is expanding into the east china sea is the dumbest idea since the russian reset. based on the same assumptions that the russians and chinese and others have idealism when it comes to foreign policy. it's a stupid idea. >> is that a misguided grad student mentality? >> first of all, i was hoping charles would have gone someplace. it's really good to see him show up on "the five" for the 83rd time. i wish we could get into the climate discussion. it will go nowhere. this is clearly a violation of the power of the president. >> there you go. >> that doesn't mean i don't support it. >> but at least you realize -- >> he's going to bypass congress. >> when you get a bonding treaty, you can't possibly do that without -- >> why do it? >> i don't know. >> to ra

. >> charles krauthammer says president obama is skipping a key step when dealing with america's immigration know the through the step of legalizing which i would do that has to come after you obscure the border. there are a lot of ways to do it. i think there are simple ways to start to do it with a fence. there is a fence around the white house after all. cop vince americans it is the last 11 million they will legalize and you won't be sending the signal to the next 11 million. >> right now all eyes are on the kansas primaries. three term republican senator pat roberts in a tight race against milton wolf. he is a doctor who happens to be a second cousin of president obama. in the race for governor brown back is facing opposition in the republican primary. the dark horse on the ballot and reds dents in michigan and missouri state will be voting today. >> nine month old terrier a write in candidate for prosecutor in washington. the current prosecutor run unopposed for 12 terms. the owner said he decided to put his dog in the race saying he is charming and honest. >> everybody chill lax regar

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. >> charles krauthammer talking about the administration opening up the criminal investigation and theeading of james foley. he says the white house is being naive and setting it sef up for another attack. >> it is ridiculous to go back to the pre9-11 paradigm to treating acts of terror as criminal acts. if fdr were to announce the day after pearl harbor they were going to track down the pilots who bombed us in pearl harbor. the idea is to understand we made a terrible mistake for decades pre9-11 in per duing criminal offenses rather than understanding we had an isis an enemy that is armed, as a ton of money, a upon of recruits has an enormous amount of territory and declare ed open war on the united states with the beheading of which that journalist that american is one instance. >> isis militants could already be in the united states. rick perry says the border is to blame. while the governor says there's no clear evidence terrorists split across the mexican border he argued it is in such poor position members of isis can easily enter the u.s. >> individuals in isis or other terroris

now, syndicated columnist and author ott a new york times best seller "things that matter" charles krauthammer. i want to start with foreign poll spip given what's gone on in iraq, you have said that president obama really doesn't have an identifiable foreign policy. and i think most americans would agree with you. but this is the united states of america. and i want to ask, why do you think that is? is it because of incompetence? i mean, this is the president of the united states. is it not caring? or is it an intentional decision by the president to reduce america's importance on the world stage? >> i think it starts with the latter. it does start with that. i think obama made that very clear from the beginning when he did his confession tour. around the world. when he talked about america, it seems overreaching. iraq, torture, everything. from the maltreatment of the indians to hiroshima, his catalog was long. america had overteped, it lost its moral authority, if it ever had it, to lead the world. i think he sees america more properly as diminished in its role in the world. now you add on

and charles krauthammer. george, your thoughts. >> this episode didn't tell us anything we didn't already know which is to say it's redundant evidence that ate very dangerous place and that the crust of order in afghanistan is like a pie crust it's thin. dick durbin said there are great problems ahead. there are not great problems for the united states because we're leaving. for the foreseeable future as far as i can tell, in foreign policy america is under this president a spectator. someone else's game from the ukraine to syria to gaza to iraq, the united states is looking on and commenting, the president's comment was that afghanistan isn't a perfect place, it qualifies as the understatement of the year and, again, the passivity of the united states is the story. >> that actually from a may speech where he talks about afghanistan. listen to this. afghanistan and then iraq, the president on these policy issues. >> the bottom line is it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our fo

charles krauthammer to the program. why are you so down on secretary john kerry? >> i'm not against he's trying to get a cease-fire in fact, i think he made a terrible mistake and that's what i wrote about today when the cease-fire was proposed two weeks ago by the egyptians that was before the israeli ground incursion. think of all the lives that would have been saved. now, that cease-fire was proposed not by -- only by egypt. it was supported by the entire arab league, including saudi arabia. all the moderate arabs. and what kerry did is instead of similar am i staying home and saying the u.s. supports that cease-fire, which is what the arabs, the moderate arabs, the arabs alyled with the u.s. wanted, he goes off to paris, negotiates with qatar and turkey who are hamas's allies and lawyers, and then sends jerusalem a set of proposals, terms that would fulfill all of hamas's demands. now, i give kerry great credit for working out that deal finally two weeks later after a lot of people have died and trying today to be very stern in placing the blame today where it

jonah goldburg, kirsten powers, and charles krauthammer. jonah, i'll start with you. more military advisers to help with the situation. there's certainly that seems to have been a turning point, the crisis unfolding. >> yes, and we heard ben rhodes earlier talking about sending this aid in in part to protect our people in erbil. i understand why they have to say that so they have legal fiction, but the notion that's our top priority is ridiculous. we could have gotten them out a long time ago if that was the real issue. the obama administration stumbling and late in the game is coming around to actually recognize the true nature of the threat of isis. and it seems to me all this talk about air strikes and protecting the refugees and we just heard john kerry talk about this peace meal reactively, i don't know why you would say never send troops in. why not have that threat out there in term os of our foreign diplomacy. >> kirsten, there have been those warnings that if isis has been operating as a traditional armed force over the last few weeks, it's now reverting to m

joining us now from washington, charles krauthammer.w, i think are a lot of people are living paycheck-to-paycheck and wages are going down. and expenses are going up. and then there's the terror threat. what do you think's the greatest threat in the world? >> i would add to that iran going nuclear. that could be the greatest threat of all. and we have an administration that have just paid iran $11.8 billion to engage in six months of negotiations that ended with nothing. and now we're paying them $2.8 billion to give us another four months of useless negotiations. >> right. >> and even if we end up with an agreement, i guarantee you it's going to leave iran as a nuclear threshold state, meaning it will be six months, eight months away from a bomb. and that i think is the biggest of all threats because terror at the conventional level will give us 9/11. but terror at the nuclear level will give us unbelievable destruction that we cannot imagine. and that would be coming. >> okay. now, kirsten powers puts forth that, hey, it's always bee

charles krauthammer and karl rove think so. >> we had an infrastructure in mrachls obama wanted to getut completely and wanted to be able to boast in his reelection campaign i got us out. as a result we're nowhere in the region. >> this president does not have a strategic view of what america's interests are. >> jedadiah help me understand this dismissive attitude. he called crash of the obamacare web site just a glitch. why do you think he does this? >> when it comes to foreign policy, i think he doesn't want america to be in a leadership position and i think he hopes everyone else will take care of it. he's not interested in being a leader and setting precedent. he's interested in letting it sort of drift. as far as domestic issues that is politically driven. i think he often indicators to left wing base. he's concerned about them and his legacy. >> do you think, greg, he's dismissed the threats? do you think he's seen threats and just ignored them? there is no way the nsa can't detect an army growing with artillery that we can look inside of a cell phone but can't see this? >> he le

charles krauthammer. not on vacation here with us tonight on "special report." we appreciate that very much. ninjanyon nina, we'll start with you. what is it? >> i don't usually engaging this august ritual of attacking the president forgoing on vacation. it's too much. >> whoever that president might be. >> whoever it is. fdr went on a cruise as europe was exploding and came back with land lease which saved our allies from falling into the hands of the nazis. i think there's something to be said for taking a time out, a breather. that said, we are now in the most dangerous period since 9/11 and i don't think it's good for this president, not just about optics, i don't think it's good for this president to be on vacation. we're in a dangerous period because specifically of his lead from behind, stepping back from the leadership position of america. we got putin's aggression, we got isis about to create a caliphate state that's going to terrorize the united states and the west. these are dangerous times. i don't think it's about optics or just august ritual game p

charles krauthammer had an excellent column today talking about how so many of the arab nations are not supportive of hamas. that could open a door in terms of what john kerry is doing to gain support for israel. let's do away with all these arguments about israel's rights, let's move on, get back to the idea of co-existence and some kind of peace. and i certainly would say to you, don't give israel permission, then, because we e approve of israel and they're our allies, to just annihilate the -- >> why not? they need to destroy hamas. >> destroy hamas but there are children and people there. >> people with the opportunity want to go to the mus lum countries. john kerry this messed that up last weekend. >> this is not over. >> it is. our credibility is. >> it's not a divorce. >> it's worse. >> that was the point i was going to make, that kerry went to the people that like hamas. >> that's right. >> it is refreshing to know that there are arabs around the world who are disgusted by hamas. i feel bad for the palestinians. they're like a family with a horrible thug far brother and a brothe

it's not a smear, that's ridiculous as charles krauthammer said. >> does the public have a right to know that the cop had to get treated for whatever confrontation he had? >> the public has a right to hear it but not draw any conclusion from it. all right? that all has to be presented in an evidentiary way. we are a nation who wants csi, ferguson, in an hour. you want it solved. not happening. there has got to be a lot of investigation. and everybody has got to pull back. >> bill, jedi ah here. this has led to a big conversation about the demilitarization of the police force. a lot of people have weighed in on that. rand paul who may run for president has come in and wrought a column about that. should this spar a discussion about the peace force and the tactics that they're using? >> no. i don't think it's warranted in this case to tell police departments across the country what hardware they can have. that's ridiculous. do i believe putting these guys out there in ferguson exacerbated the situation. i would not have done that had i been the attorney general of missouri. i would have pu

. >> charles krauthammer thinks that's exactly what the president and his party may have in mind to help them stay in power. >> i think this is impeachment bait. they really know it would be such a violation of the separation of powers, that it will raise impeachment talk. i think obama is cynical enough to plunge us into a constitutional crisis, to gin up the vote, to bait the republicans into impeachment, as a way to save his party in the midterm elections. >> is that what the president is doing, bob, baiting republicans into impeachment? and possible overreach? and then a constitutional crisis because he thinks it will help them? >> listen, the democrats used the word impeachment four times as much as the republicans, for good reason. the last time they tried to impeach a democratic president, they got -- >> 20 times more. >> it happens. but look, what is this about? the immigration thing is he believes it strongly, so do i. you can't get the thing through. it's also a good voting issue. once again, the republicans will figure out a way to get no hispanic votes and we'll be laughing a

and charles krauthammer. all right.en, a lot to consider here because there is a question for hillary clinton, steve, about how this looks. they say they will hug it out. we won't see any pictures. so does it took, though, opportunistic if she's too critical of the president at this point. does she risk that? >> it looks opportunistic. she's in a can win position. it looks opportunistic. because what we've heard from her and her spokesmen and representatives is absurd. she gives her real views on syria, on a number of issues and she's critical of president obama, more critical than she's been in the past. then you have her spokesman come out and try to clean thunder and patch it up, and, you know, where hillary clinton said, you know, basically don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principle, her spokesman said that wasn't in reference to president obama. well of course it was a reference to president obama. those are his words. who else would it be a reference to. this kind of dispute, the kind of positioning that

and charles krauthammer. >> what about the president's comments and how this all fits together?e thing he said today is he talked about black crime a little bit which i was happy to see. he said black criminals should be prosecuted which is helpful but then he attributed that black criminality, it stems from poverty or racist criminal justice system. the black crime rate was lower in 1960. this is about black behavior. it needs to be addressed head on. it's about attitudes toward the criminal justice system in these neighborhoods where young black men have no sense what it means to be male or black. he needs to address it head-on. >> we're getting word in from our team on the ground in ferguson that a journalist has been arrested in ferguson. this would be another incident involving journalists covering this event which is also in and of itself troubling. >> there were two other journalists that were arrested, washington post reporter and huffington post reporter who were in a mcdonald's. it raises concerns how the police are conducting themselves. it reflects badly on that poli

we'll have the latest on that explosive story with crosswalk -- charles krauthammer and karl rove. >>ht now i'm not. >> also ahead,

and charles krauthammer.ulie, is there a sense at the white house this is inevitable. >> it is inevitable. question still remains what will be the scope of it but i think there's no doubt there's some type of action later this summer, perhaps even before congress gets back from their recess where the president will announce executive actions that presumably will allow some number of people who are in the united states illegally now to stay here. >> george, thoughts on that? >> well, during the watergate unpleasantness 40 years ago henry kissinger said with his wit of the nixon white house the illegal we can do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer. they can do this immediately, i guess, but what is the antecedent? it's very clear determining the status of people within our borders is article i power. power of congress. ed henry reported the white house is considering delaying efforts to deport up to 5 million people. there are no efforts to deport up to 5 million people. none. 85% of the 12 m

charles krauthammer made that comment last night.hat did you think about the president's remarks yesterday? >> i can't get like too out of shape about it. i think his goal is to remain calm. he's the most famous black american in the world and sometimes you would like to think that he would take some risks and say some uncomfortable things but maybe he will and maybe he realizes that's not who he is, but if you look at what is wrong and you see what's happening to ferguson, which is almost like detroit condensed into a made for tv movie it's like a time lapse history with a generation of a city, i think it's not black on black. it's poor on poor. you've got decline in the family structure, high taxes, poor schools, joblessness. you've got people leaving to the suburbs, leaving the poor to prey upon the poor. who runs these places into the ground? it's not evil white cops. it's liberalism. it's liberalism that has destroyed every single one of these cities. >> one thing i thought that was pretty radical yesterday. when he talked about

charles krauthammer explains why he thinks that is a problem. >> you wonder whether an administration who can't get its story straight in one day can conduct an operation of that delicacy and complexity, military, diplomatic and political. the president simply can't decide. i think this really ought to make us think twice about whether we can entrust a man of this lack of decisiveness -- >> joining me now, andy mccarthy, he's a contributor of the national review, and author of the book faceless execution. he was the lead prosecutor in some very major terror cases, including that of the blind sheik who bombed the world trade center in '93. thank you for joining us. the first question i have for you tonight, why can we not get a straight answer from the administration on the threat level. let's start with that i can understand why they don't want to announce they're about to bomb syria, if they are. why can't we get a straight answer on whether we're about to bomb syria? >> they're entrenched in the idea of the threat not being that serious. that's the story they've been trying to run f