you're watching the most powerful name in news, fox news channel. >>> charles krauthammer once wrote column about the most important person of the 20th century. "time" magazine chose einstein, the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked churchill, the indefensible statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. he traded a medical career to a one-way ticket to washington. why once here, his eyes locked on to a help wanted ad in a political opinion magazine, the new republic. >> i showed it to my wife. she said why don't you apply? >> i said i have never written anything. she said you write it, i'll hand deliver it. >> he was looking for a managing editor for the left wing magazine. something in his application or phone call that made you want to bring him down? >> mainly the fact he was a psychiatrist. he had no writing samples. >> what did you see in him? >> i enjoyed talking to him so much, i had a feeling he must be able to write. >> he gave it a shot. as the saying goes, he wrote about what he knew. his first artic

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joining us from washington charles krauthammer, author of the mega best seller "things that matter." stmas and hanukkah gift. so, this unjust country theory seems to be taking root, charles. why? >> well, let me just start by saying that i thought i heard you say earlier that you don't speak for the baby jesus. which is a remarkable act of humility on your part. so i commend you. and i attribute it to the christmas spirit. now, in that spirit on the question of justice, if our standard is divine justice, we are indeed unjust. if our standard is human justice, we are probably one of the most just countries on earth. and one of the reasons, for example, for this wave of revulsion and these demonstrations, and people saying all these nasty things about america, our r. a couple of instances where because of our judicial system, which tries to protect people, to protect defendants, to protect the accused, we he end up with a system of grand juries which you don't have in much of the world. and, of course, being human, will sometimes we'll come to the wrong conclusion. and i think it came t

bill, you and charles krauthammer must be mad as hell. ew york times" left you off the most notable books of the year list. that's because those despise the fox newschannel. charles and i are both fine. each have sold more than a million copies. they don't appreciate us. a lot of people do. mark, florida, bill, i love dennis miller and hope i can see a don't be a pinhead show next year. we should be down in south florida in the fall, mark. in the meantime, miller and i will do live shows in dallas at the verizon theater march 14th, new mexico april 11th. wesbury, long island may 2nd. details on billoreilly.com. link you right over to the office. all the other shows including boston this weekend sold out. florida, i know my little boy reagan loves me, but he doesn't ask me to tuck him in anymore. he just says, daddy, can you put on o'reilly? obviously a brilliant lad. congratulations. a big thank you to john -- who together bought five track chairs for disabled vets in honor of their late parents. you guys are patriots. and your parents wou

charles krauthammer's collection of political columns, "things that matter: three decades of passions, pastimes and politics," comes in sixth on politico's list. in seventh, former secretary of state henry kissinger shares his take on international affairs if "world order," and in eighth, james risen's book. next is a collection of mark steyn's columns from the national review, and wrapping up the list, peter zion argues that the global system is going to experience an extreme reorganization in "disebl superpower." that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to politico. >> russ roberts talks about adam smith's take on human nature and his writings on the pursuit of the happiness. this is about 50 minutes. ..

charles krauthammer and dana, they are 1,000% right.got the ball, you're winning the game, you're going to get what you want. you can't roll this back, that's the consequences of electing a democrat. elections have consequences, there's one of them. if you're the president, repeal it or do something else. it's just . >> it feels like the next two years are going to be like a liberals black friday, they're going to try to get everything they can while it's on sale. they have to like mind the store. the new slogan for republicans should be if we don't do it, they will. and i mean go earn. as a conservative liblibertaria they don't like big government. shutting down the government, if it makes msnbc happy, that's got to be the wrong thing. if msnbc likes it, it's bad for the country. >> before bob beckle brings up executive action, that was actually tried so take a listen. >> congressman, this type of action has existed in one form or another, going back decades, it was exercised in the reagan and bush administrations. >> no, mr. secretary

in the most recent book, charles krauthammer, his book on things that matter about politics and the importance of doing it and i tell people that it was truly an approach he talks about why it's important to do politics while. why it's important to engage in the system politically. >> as you might guess from that last part, when my daughter was little different of ours said when she grows up she could eat an activist and i thought no, not an activist because to me and activist if not careful can be part of the problem of the system from an activist could have a vision to impose on the rest of the world. so, my first thought was i would like to live in a world where the politics are less important and i understand the appeal of politics as a sports fan. it's fun to root for your home team but here is the truth. i realized they are really not any better emotionally or psychologically than any of the other teams in baseball, but i don't always act that way. by the way i was any in england and its fascinating every team is the new york yankees. i went to a game and i told an author who i was visit

warren has influence because house speaker john boehner needed house votes, says charles krauthammerocrats oppose the bill for other reasons. with warren insissing she won't run, the pundits are caster in a new role. >>> president obama's top spokesman says an apology by an executive from sony pictures over racist jokes about president obama was appropriate. the comments were released by cyber thieves who have posted stolen information on the company's file sharing sites. the times of london reports sony has suspended shooting on its film projects while the investigation continues. >>> attorney general eric holder has decided against "new york times" james risen to reveal the identity of a confidential source. while risen might still be subpoenaed in the trial of a former cia official7b[g÷ accuse revealing secrets, he will not be forced to reveal his source. >>> it is friday, that means another document dump from this administration. today the justice department released documents that many of them about the evolution of the bush era surveillance programs after 911. this is a respons

mara lars and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> in some ways what we have seen over the pastcouple of days is one of two ways of committing terrorist attacks, yesterday the lone wolf attacks that we had predicted would be coming would be the new face of terrorism now for several years and then today we saw a mass casualty attack, conducted by a strong terrorist group despite the fact that it's had leadership problems, management issues, internet team fighting was able to carry off in kind of a has casualty attacks. how many times do we sit here and say these kinds of attacks are wakeup calls, but they are wairkup calls. that was the case until you had fazad try to bomb times square in 2005. >> what about the people who say that this attack shows a growing concern about the afghan policy and what we're doing with troops on the ground? >> this happened in pakistan, but the worry is it could have happened in afghanistan. and if it happened in afghanistan, it would have been a much more kwirnd ind of on ou plate. we're supposed to be training the afghan forces so they can prevent

plus, charles krauthammer joins us next. also ahead, another police ambush. this time l.a.p.d.rls fired at in their cruiser. the latest on the suspect search it is all coming up. stay with us. looking for a little support. what you get is a game of a thousand questions. was it raining? were your flashers on? was there a dog with you? by the time you hang up you're convinced the accident was your fault. then you remember; you weren't even in the car. at liberty mutual we make filing a claim as stress-free as possible. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance >>> well, president obama has threatened to use his veto pen. the new congress hasn't even been sworn in yet but the president is gearing up to block the incoming g.o.p. majority. listen to what he told mpr. >> they there are going to be some areas where we disagree. and, you know, i haven't used the veto pen very often since i have been in office partly because legislation that i objected to was typically blocked in the senate even after the house took over republicans took over the house. now i susp

that's what i worry about. >> charles krauthammer, smartest guy i know. thanks a lot for coming on today. >> you're welcome. >> coming up next right here on "hannity". >> we have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in hollywood -- >> that's al sharpton. he now runs sony. how'd that happen? we will tell you. up next, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani sheds some light on that. now that president obama's announced he's normalizing relations with cuba, will this cop killer, currently hiding in cuba, will she be extradited back to the united states to face the penalty for her crimes? that and more as "hannity" continues. i have the worst cold with this runny nose. i better take something. dayquill cold and flu doesn't treat your runny nose. seriously? alka-seltzer plus cold and cough fights your worst cold symptoms plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. >>> welcome back to "hannity." earlier today the president addressed sony hacking by north korea. but the commander in chief is not the man hollywood

today i wanting everybody to read charles krauthammer's column this morning, it's called "the real fightrepublicans are debating the tactics of presidential lawlessness and inherntdly difficult congressional undertaking, particularly if you of course control a single how, democrats are trying to figure out what they believe and whom they represent. what do you think is the more serious problem? charles answers it in the next piece. have a great weekend, everyone. "special report" is next. hope you are too. see you monday. >>> welcome to "hannity." tonight they are the forgotten victims of ferguson, missouri. small business owners whose stores were looted, some burnt to the ground by protesters in the wake of the michael brown grand jury decision. but on "hannity" we are making their voices heard tonight. >> i had surveillance running on my computer and saw the whole thing. >> it's hard for us to get back to where we were before. >> we cannot

charles krauthammer saying the republicans aren't the ones in the civil war it is the democrats fightingh other. >> if you are a republican you should simply sit back and enjoy this. people have been talking about the great civil war among republicans. i say it's rubbish. the real war especially after this election is among the democrats and we are seeing in now and rebellion by house democrats led by nancy pelosi against the white house a rebellion by warren leaving the left wing should be party against the moderates and it is a great free for all. >> what do you think? let's keep talking about this. do you think this is the start of a democratic civil war. head to the facebook page join in on the conversation at #keep talking. >> the cia director firing back against a highly critical senate report on interrogation methods. john brennan defending the agency and taking on democrats. here's fox news chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge. >> it would plunge us into a seemingly never ending more against a globally dispersed collection of terrorists with a murderous agenda. >>

. >> charles krauthammer is talking saying isis gives the psych paths in the world an outlet for theirehavior. >> it gives their lives a context and their death a context and kind of heroism the guy who beheaded a woman in oklahoma they attacks in new york city. the world is oozing with people with this kind of psycho pathology. give them a way to act out >> the time is coming to an end. going forward our mig terry will be leaner but as commander-in-chief i am going to make you sure we keep you ready for the range of mission we ask of you. >> speaking to service members in new jersey the president boasting the u.s. is bringing home many of the 180,000 troops who were fighting in the middle east. they are opening up to what it is like to interrogate shakhale sheikh mohammed. >> he was disdainful. he had a pro tensity at that point to be confrontational without being physical.>> this american's humanity whatever amount of it there is factor in it all are you conscious of it? >> we were very conscious of it. very, very conscious of it. he's a how man being. those techniques are so harsh t

. >> let's listen to charles krauthammer. >> when you hear the president's spokesman say that they know it could endanger americans, you ask yourself why would the president insist on the release of this knowing that it could to the deaths of americans serving under him as commander in chief. >> why are you releasing information if you know it's going to hurt americans? why do we have notes at all? why are there notes from this? why is this stuff to release? these are supposed to be black sites, i don't understand why they were writing any of this down. >> because they were following the law. >> in the bush administration, they did try to follow the law. remember john hugh, he went with fine toothed comb to follow all their poll cities, what good did they do? >> they dropped it and th-all te things were aju judjudicatadjud was no legal activity taking place. also when you look at this report, like dana mentioned, no cia personnel, any of the intergators, anyone involved with it was able to proffer any testimony, evidence for the report. so what you're getting is second hand, you're not

this brings us to "looks who is talking" that brings us to charles krauthammer.the administration needs to talk stronger. >> to hear josh talk about the violent tendencies for god's sakes are you not able to say islamic radicalism, the barbarism of islamic radicalism which will be connected to isis and the other groups. the discussion of extremism doesn't help the cause. >> we are hearing more from the man who water boarded the mastermind behind 9-11. dr. james mitchell in the kelly file about slamming the report saying how democrats had an agenda. >> the notion that i personally profited $81 million highlights the way they are trying to distort things. that was a commercial contract. it was led under government law. they put out a statement of work i thought it was going to be an open bid we bid on it as an open bid. it was evaluated to see whether the costs were reasonable. it involved providing a lot of people who were embedded into that organization under the command and control of cia officers and leadership not under my command and control. >> dr. mitchell

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> i think most people are tempted to respond when theyr the race excuse. it's just more demagoguery. that's why a month and a day after the democrats took a shellacking in the last election, there's no sign at all that there was a lesson learned and the reason is they believe that the people who oppose the president and his policies are are fundamentally unreasonable and therefor they can be ignored and pure aggression can be answered. i find it remarkable how on the defense republicans have found themselves really caught between their base, which is demanding that they act, you know, if they think it's unconstitutional, they should prevent it and the prevailing view is that if they shut down the government, they will lose. >> homeland security secretary said -- >> i think josh ernest said in fact the impact of the law has in fact shifted as a result of the president's action. i think that's the accurate description. changing the law is something different. obviously the president doesn't have the capacity to change the law, only congress

charles krauthammer saying it's not a good idea for the president to imply this case is about race. >> i do think the president stepping out immediately and thinking the implication, because he used the word equality, that it's about race is not very helpful at the least. one cop out of the tens of thousands might have acted improperly the use of excessive force or whatever. but the idea that it was a racial incident is required if you are going to have a second investigation. that i think is a problem that derives from our history. it forces this to the category of racism. >> new overnight al qaeda threatening to murder an american hostage that demands to president obama are not met. in a newly released video we have luke summers on time. he was kidnapped in yemen back in 2013. last week there was a raid in yemen but he was not among the 8 hostages freed. right now it is unclear what al qaeda is demanding. there is speculation that it involves a prisoner swap. we are getting a first look at the kindergarten teacher stabbed to death in an up scale abu dhabi mall. she was from colorado

charles krauthammer saying the sony hack is just the beginning of what could be a dangerous pattern. starts with a movie studio which seems trif i can't go but it could get our power stations nuclear facilities and banking systems where all of the weapons are wiped out. wref to grow up as a nation and say if it takes the nsa intruding of course with the consent of the companies involv involved we have to accept that. >> if north korea is to blame for the hack how should the u.s. respond? head to foxes friends first page #keep talking. >> olympic great michael hiphel is heading to baltimore for drunk driving charges. he drove with the blood alcohol level almost twice of the legal limit. he was charged in 2004 but was given probation. this time he faces up to a year behind bars. pos elled hair a scruffy beard we are getting a look at the accused dzhokhar tsarnaev showing no sans of the injuries of his 2013 run from police. tsarnaev and older doctor tamerlan are accused of plant be bombs at the finish line killing three people injuring hundreds of others. tam tamer lynn died from a shoo

today i wanting everybody to read charles krauthammer's column this morning, it's called "the real fighte debating the tactics of presidential lawlessness and inherntdly difficult congressional undertaking, particularly if you of course control a single how, democrats are trying to figure out what they believe and whom they represent. what do you think is the more serious problem? charles answers it in the next piece. have a great weekend, everyone. "special report" is next. >>> this is a fox news alert. i'm bret baier in washington. there could be a major development in the already tense relationship between president obama and israel's leadership. chief white house correspondent ed henry joins us tonight from the north lawn, here's the full story. >> when i pressed josh ernest today he left the door wide open to the u.s. issuing sanctions to israel over settlement activity. privately i'm hear that this would not be similar to the tough sanctions that have been leveled against the economies of russia ander ran, trying to get israel's attention. it would make an

but charles krauthammer writes about there's a democratic war going on within the democratic party. >> chuck schumer said that president obama had made the wrong decision to focus on health care. >> chuck schumer reported obama care, they were blaming debbie wasserman schultz. but know who was responsible? president obama. this election was a referendum on him. >> i want to specifically ask about the divide in the drablg party. if you u ask on that map now, you said it's sad, it's going to be tough for democrats, srntd it? >> well, no, it depends, as long as the party continues, he's contracting right now to basically a coastal party. and if it starts losesing the midwest and some of the industrial states, then it will be in deep trouble, few problem is the republicans are trying to do well in some of those areas. >> this is the a but, harris, there are 256 electoral votes that are democratic, that is where the democrats won five of the last sick presidential elections and four or five states that if they win just one of, they win the presidency. to while the democratic party is as pa

juan williams, columnist with the hill and sinyndicated columnist charles krauthammer.e's been accusations lobbed at bill de blasio and the president for fanning the flames of racism. >> sure. >> what do you u think about all of this? >> the one person of course who's responsible ais this animl who pulled the trigger, he's the one that we hold personally responsible for this. and it's also true, that mayor de blasio, with his anti-cop rhetoric, who has made an occurrence like this much more likely than it otherwise would have been. what we have learned over the years is that when someone like al sharpton injects himself in racially contentious situations, people tend to get killed, whether it's crown heights brooklyn, back in the early 90s, or these anti-cop protests following the ferguson shootings. when you u're the mayor, or the president of the united states, or attorney general holder, and you choose to align yourself with someone like al sharpton instead of with the men in blue who protect our cities nationwide, you're asking for mayhem. former mayor rudy giuliani

so, for example, my favorite columnist i loved weight is charles krauthammer, because if i'm crossing through the word communist, who's right and who's wrong and all that, there's not very much substance but he's very popular. spink i probably like him more than you do. i admire him so much. i actually admire his ability to make an argument. it will i admire george will. because the argument is something i don't agree, i can argue so i don't agree with the like to see how he makes his argument because i learned from the. i know who i am competing with so speak what i present my opinion. like i said, 30 years of columns, i've got to find some columns here on the other side. >> how does an editor judge economy, i'm looking i say the showbiz side of his in and out. that's just precious inches right there. spent very good question. in fact, i was 60 what do i want to be a columnist. as i say, it took me 20 years to be an overnight success. i attended to the late great jean fiscal said. i was with him and roger ebert went on to some high school kids and the first question was i didn't get

steve hayes, charles lane and charles krauthammer. >> when you hear the president's spokesman say that endanger americans, you ask yourself, why would the president insist on the release of this, knowing that it could harm the release of americans serving under him as america's commander in chief and americans being held hostage and are vulnerable. what exactly is the game here? do we not know about this already in does it have to be done in detail and released now? his own secretary of state is going afternoround trying to ge with held because he knows of the danger. it isn't only the direct danger to americans abroad are being held hostage. the second casualty will be, as former cia director hayden said, will you ever take a risk in defense of the national security if you think you're going to be hung out to dry later. but most important i think is the fact, what intelligence service abroad is going to help us when they are going to be exposed around the world. the administration always talks about smart diplomacy, the other guys, bush and others used kbrut force, sort of thoughtless

amy stoddard and charles krauthammer. vice president? >> vice president.i thought it was very impressive, forthright, it was borderline jack nicholson saying, you're damned right i ordered the code red, totally unapologetic. and they make a very powerful case. i am not sure that some lawyers at doj say it's not torture that means it's not torture. lawyers are known to torture the language and some of the abuses in here do strike me as torture. but my hunch is that the vast majority of the american people will come down basically on dick cheney's side on this. >> i think he points out the fact that we have shifted from capture and interrogation to drones without human intelligence and calls into question how we're going to continue on in this war without it. and just like the contract was talking about, what that means when you have a collateral loss of life anyway. is torturing a terrorist worse than killing an innocent? at the same time, i think there are a lot of people unlike dick cheney. there are a lot of law mimakers capitol hill do believe this was

steve hayes, chief writer for -- and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.ldn't even do the franko flacko thing. >> there's a lot of buck passing going on here, what was most interesting in the late afternoon after the press conference was the head of sony basically disputed the president's chronology, said, look, we were in discussions with the white house, we were talking about the white house. so i don't know what the president of the united states is saying. but i thought it was interesting that president obama said that he wished that the head of sony would have called him. if the president really wanted to make a statement on behalf of freedom of expression and free speech. he could have called on behalf of sony and said -- if you release the film, we'll do everything we can to provide the kind of backing that we need. and i think it's a little bit easy facile for the president to u now stand up and pretend to be a champion of the first amendment. >> chuck? >> i don't know, i thought the best part of this long winded answer on that point, was his state

i said on this air i was disturbed by what happened in the staten island case, so did charles krauthammerdge napolitano. all americans should be disturbed. but the bigger issue you're not acknowledgin acknowledging, the astronomical crime rate among young black men, violent crime, drive suspicion and hostility on the part of the police that have to deal with it. you won't acknowledge it, russell, you won't acknowledge it. >> let me say to you, broken glass laws, the way the police approach community is a problem. the police are afraid of the community. it is true. and i think that requires some sensitivity training. and that is where we have to start. if we want to start with the core, if there is crime or prison culture that ensues in the black community, or if the fabric of the black community is in some way disrupted has everything to do with your war on drugs. the 95% of the people that go to jail for nonviolent first time offenses are people of color. >> selling heroin and crack on the street a violent crime? >> what i am saying -- >> that's an easy question. can you answer that ques

joining me from washington, charles krauthammer.k people in the public eye have a responsibility to know what they're talking about before they protest on the company dime. am i wrong? >> there are people in the public eye who all the time talk about things they know nothing about. the leading democratic candidate for the presidency, the former secretary of state said a couple weeks ago, don't let anybody tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs. presidents often talk about things they know nothing about, senators, congressmen. i might say even talk show hosts and even i -- perhaps even i have once said something that makes no sense, although i can't remember one offhand. >> there's a difference though. if you're going to throw in as a professional athlete or an actor or on stage, by the way -- not talking about in your private life. not talking about that. if you're in an arena where people have paid money to come and see you and you're working for a team, and then you make a statement, a political statement as these s

with that let's bring in our panel, george will, juan williams, and charles krauthammer.okay, george. >> this is an unprecedented press conference and i don't think it's a precedent that make us hungry for more because i don't think we learned a whole lot. the contention seems to be in this town that the most important question is did the torture work. the fact is the law doesn't say torture is forbidden or unless or until it's useful, it's just forbidden so the question is, is this torture and did we do it. brennan seems ready to concede a number of the points. i would like to have heard a question as to why and who destroyed the tapes. our fox news' in-house judge says and i think he's right that this whole report stems from the irritation ofne feinstein if they destroyed the tapes. they hacked the computers of the oversight committee of congress for the cia. these are unanswered questions and part of the long conversation we're going to have. >> yeah, that really wasn't tackled in this news conference. juan, i want you to listen to another part of john brennan's news c

. >> you said something about politics at the end end in his most recent book charles krauthammer in his book on things that matter talk in his introduction about politics and the importance of doing it and i tell people, still justify my existence that it was truly an approach that it is important to do politics well, why is it important to engage in the system politically? given your talk about smith, do you have any thoughts about that? >> as you might guess from the last part, when my daughter was little, a friend said when she grows up she could be an activist. i thought oh no, not an activist. to me and activist can if not careful be a part of the system. and activist and a vision to impose on the rest of the world. my first thought is politics, i would like to live in a world where politics is less important. i understand the appeal of politics as a sports fan. it is fun to root for your home team but here is the truth, folks. i actually realize that the boston red sox are really not any better, emotionally and psychologically and morally, then the other teams in baseball. [ap

. >>> well, in his latest column charles krauthammer call thd a travesty of a report writing that theats who put it together areñ4  guilty of c condesention. charles, welcome to you. the democrats appear to be justifying the release of this report acknowledging that it may be placing american service personnel in dangerc,zíu sayingn america we must hold ourselves to account. your thoughts. >> well, that's not what the democratic leadership of the intelligence committees were saying at the time. it seems that they were in support of this until ten years later, many years later when we are now sarukÑ& and all of a sun they are appalled by it. it's not just the we know for example nancy pelosi who was the ranking member of the house intelligence committee was briefed on these interrogation. the chaix#(d÷ of that committee has written that they knew what the cia was doing, they supported it, they funded it. jay rockefeller, the chairman, the chairman on the other side of the senate intelligence committee. and the point i want to make is not just that this is hypocritical to all of a sudd

>> pelosi and warren's break from the white house catching the eye of syndicated columnist charles krauthammer who says we could be seeing a growing rift within the democratic party. >> if you're a republican, you should simply sit back and enjoy in this. people have been talking about the great civil war among republicans. i've argued that it's rubbish. the real civil war, especially after this election, is among the democrats, and we're seeing it now. a rebellion by house democrats led by nancy pelosi against the white house, a rebellion by warren leading the left-wing faction of the party against the moderates, and it's a great free-for-all. >> but republicans also have their troubles with some conservatives angry that their party didn't use the spending bill to try to block president obama's executive actions on immigration. now, i want to go to you first, mark, on the dem-on-dem violence. [laughter] sit back, grab some popcorn, watch it happen because it's so rare to see pelosi and elizabeth warren at odds with a progressive president. >> well, there's nothing wrong if you're a republican

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the chicago tribune called scalise to bow out of leadership and charles krauthammer on fox news. >> scaliseted to make it easy for the party he would have stepped down from his own from leadership. nobody is demanding he leave the congress and his career is over. >> so what does scalise think of duke back then. in a 1999 interview with roll call, he embraces many of the conservative views as duke but scalise said this week he wholeheartedly condemns the duke group's views. >> there will continue to be additional questions as long as there's no information that contradicts steve scalise, i think it's very likely that he will hang on to his leadership position. >> when i spoke to one of congressman scalise's, i just don't think we ought to be playing gotcha here and that's what this is. he can completely understand how scalise can end up speaking before this group. as you know jake there are a lot of other people who still feel like scalise has more explaining to do. >> athena jones, thank you so much. jarvis is the columnist for the new orleans picayune and nola.com. he joins us. jarvis than

in his latest column charles krauthammer called this a travesty of a report writing that the democrats who put it together are guilty of condescension and hypocrisy. charles is a syndicated columnist, a fox news contributor, and author of "things that matter," which has sold more than a million copies. charles, welcome to you tonight. so the democrats appear to be justifying the release of this report, acknowledging that it may be placing american service personnel in danger, by saying in america we must hold ourselves to account. your thoughts. >> well, that's not what the democratic leadership of the intelligence committees were saying at the time. it seems that they were in support of this until ten years later, many years later, when we are now safe, and now all of a sudden they are appalled by it. and it's not just the hypocrisy. we know, for example, that nancy pelosi, who was the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, was briefed on these interrogations. porter goss, who was the chairman of that committee, has written that they knew what the cia was doing, they supp

here's what charles krauthammer said on special report yesterday. >> i understand the pent-up anger andhe rage over the president's constitutional action, but the cure for that is to go see a psychiatrist, not to vote in the congress and shut down the government. the republicans are ahead, they shouldn't blow it. >> what do you think? >> you know, charles is a fellow physician and a psychiatrist. i hesitate to argue against charles. but i think charles is right on this. i think shutting down the government won't do any good. we don't have the power until january comes. in january, though, we have the power to write all of the appropriations bills and to, in minute detail, tell the president how the money is to be spent. so we have a great deal of power in january, and we should use all that. but i don't think we should use it to shut down the government in december. i don't think that helps anybody. >> what's the point of these congressional hearings? >> i wish we'd have the hearings to get to the bottom of it and make the president come forward and basically admit to hypocrisy but also

. >> charles krauthammer, me, judge knap, all agree justice may not have been served in the eric garnerporting tonight. also ahead, the controversy over criticism of the first children and bernie goldberg write as a letter to the "new york "new york times" it it is does not publish but we

all this leading folks like charles krauthammer wondering when the administration will finally draw aine. >> is there no tyrant or any anti-american center in the world that obama will not appease for nothing in the world -- >> joining me marc thiessen, an american enterprise fellow and happy to announce he is now officially a fox news contributor. yeah. welcome to the team, marc. great to have you. >> thanks, megyn. very happy to be a part of the team. >> well earned. let's talk about it, charles. charles's actions that this is complete capitulation and sees it happening on multifronts. your thoughts. >> he's absolutely right. this has been a banner week for the world's -- first north korea launches a cyber attack on the united states and gets away with it and forces hollywood to unilaterally withdraw a movie and the castro brothers have succeeded to end decades of isolation and get nothing in return. it sends a signal to the world that we can be pushed around. nine u.s. presidents stood up to fidel castro and barack obama blinked. so if you're watching this, in tehran let's say, wha

. >> charles krauthammer, me, judge knap, all agree justice may not have been served in the eric garnercase. we'll continue our reporting tonight. also ahead, the controversy over criticism of the first children and bernie goldberg write as a letter to the "new york "new york times" it it is does not publish but we

. >> charles krauthammer said as well today was that basically who in the world would want to go out on christmas with their family to see a comedy about north korea? that's one part of this that doesn't make any sense either. >> ed, thank you. >> good to see you. >> and straight ahead. sony's amy pascal meeting with reverend al sharpton. really? reverend al sharpton? she thinks that's a good idea. i will tell you what i think about that off-the-record next. plus a growing campus controversy was a muslim student viciously attacked just for expressing conservative believes? the student goes "on the record" coming up. up to 30%? 45%? 60%? the answer is... up to 60% less. and that's a big reason why the u.s. is a world leader in reducing co2 emissions. take the energy quiz -- round 2. energy lives here. [ female announcer ] you've tried to forget your hepatitis c. but you shouldn't forget this. hepatitis c is a serious disease. left untreated, it can lead to liver damage and potentially liver cancer. but you haven't been forgotten. there's never been a better time to rethink your hep c.