en i have been trying to get charles krauthammer to sit for an interview.ot one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the he day. >> i suspect another twist here. g >> but one in which he pulls back the curtain and reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and thinker the life of a private man. >> i am not adverse of the spotlight and not pretend if you are on television you don't enjoy. it but in interior life it is not interesting to me. es >> charles krauthammer is a colleague and friend and only agreed to cooperate on a fox news reporting profile reluctantly as part of the publicity campaign as yes, a new book. "things that matter" is not a kiss-and-tell, it is a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces. ha or more than that. >> are you decoding the book. >> it is all iro glipices. >> it is entitled personal. di there is a moving piece about your brother. marcel krauthammer died of cancer at 59. >> he taught me most everything i learned about every sport i ever played. he taught me how to throw o a football. hit a back hand and grip a nine

what makes charles krauthammer tick? we sat down. >> welcome. >> measure to be here. >> you seem so certain if your opinion. do you look at an issue and say, gee, i am not sure what i think. >> when you are young. when you going -- i have been at this for 30 years and it is isn't that new issues are keeping up new forms of old issues, but i have been in so many debates for so many years i have the rhythm of it. there are a lot of things that come up where i am ambivalent and i can go either way, for instance the situation with cuba, the way it was carried south a problem but i try to express my ambivalence. >> television doesn't like ambivalence. >> i am what linda on the high wire. write is painful. television is fun. when you write as you know, you get to go over it and the way i do it i spend my time editing, first the draft i do in 15 or 20 minutes and it is editing over and over and you smooth out the edges like sand paper and sculpture. >> good writing is rewriting. >> and it is fund. >> you have been critical of p

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i understand policy arguments on both sides, charles krauthammer arguing, saying that the gas tax should be raised a lot higher than what they are proposing here in washington on the hill. and then it should be offset elsewhere, they say. but no i cannot have got my head around it. gerri: lets to shame them all, the operative phrase is to leave the door open for the tax increase. that is what james van hoch had to say. saying that i don't think we should take anything off the table at this point. bob corker in tennessee also a republican said that it's time for congress to hike the federal gas tax. mike in wyoming and orrin hatch. what the heck is going on here? tell me, is this the new spirit of benevolence between the party in washington? it seems to be going one way. gerri:. >> there are pretty strong conservatives on all fronts. let me stipulate that i know that if we are going to go down the road of comprehensive tax reform which i think we need to do, simplification making it flatter and simpler, i am for that. in order to get democrats to go along with it and to have a prayer of i

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joining us now is charles krauthammer with his first appearance in 2015.or the country? >> that was your first giant adjective of the year. i think we should celebrate that. it is good for the country and good for the party. he is a formidable candidate and a guy with a lot of experience. he is a serious candidate. i am impressed by the whole potential field far superior to 2014. and i think it is excellent that republicans are going to have that kind of choice. >> the conservative wing of the republican party does not like governor bush very much. why? >> well, they have certain complaints. i think it has to do with both immigration and common cause, which is about education. and the general sense that the bushes are too soft. they are too centrist and i think on the other hand you have a guy who was a very successful chief executive in florida. he cut taxes. he reformed education. he is very pro choice when it comes to education in the sense that he wants to allow the poor to have the kind of choices the rich have. he has been very successful with that a

charles krauthammer used the term many times mostly to criticize bill clinton and his presidency bitwasn't the holiday from history. it really is -- was far more significant than that. so i think time has come to take a look at the 1990s, and another school of think about the '90s great time of prosperity, and mostly peace, and we had things were really clicking back then. that's a little distorted as well. there were dents in the american armor in the 1990s as well so a critical reappraisal of the 1990s is in order and in 1995 might be the spur for that kind of reassessment. >> host: the book is "995 the year the future began." i want to thank joe campbell for joining today on "inside media. " [applause] >> thank you for inviting me here today. ... good evening. i am pleased and honored to be able to present to you tonight speaker. a longtime friend and one of the remarkable group of people that i 1st met about 30 years ago as a young graduate student at the university of arizona which is the part-time home of the jazz with astronomers of the vatican observatory.

i understand policy arguments on both sides, charles krauthammer arguing, saying that the gas tax should be raised a lot higher than what they are proposing here in washington on the hill. and then it should be offset elsewhere, they say. but no i cannot have got my head around it. gerri: lets to shame them all, the operative phrase is to leave the door open for the tax increase. that is what james van hoch had to say. saying that i don't think we should take anything off the table at this point. bob corker in tennessee also a republican said that it's time for congress to hike the federal gas tax. mike in wyoming and orrin hatch. what the heck is going on here? tell me, is this the new spirit of benevolence between the party in washington? it seems to be going one way. gerri:. >> there are pretty strong conservatives on all fronts. let me stipulate that i know that if we are going to go down the road of comprehensive tax reform which i think we need to do, simplification making it flatter and simpler, i am for that. in order to get democrats to go along with it and to have a prayer of i

we played a sound bite of you on friday and we confessed charles krauthammer we mentioned earlier, he laugh at what you said and here's why. the folks used to be a u.s.-backed government, we were at least satisfied with them, but these are the guys in control now. death to america. death to israel. victory to islam. so the american people may not be feeling too great about the new people in charge of yemen. you were asked about these folks last week. here's what you said. >> they do on occasion chant death to america and that kind of thing. it's not as if they haven't expressed anti-american sentiment in the past. >> obviously not. as i mention we continue to assess our security needs every day regardless of what's been said. but it is important to note that just this week they stated that was not their intentions. >> so i mean, you know the follow-up. you're taking them at their word that they no longer mean the chants? >> well megyn, first of all i know you could never play all the back and forth we have on yemen in the briefing but we've been discussing this probably hours last wee

charles krauthammer will make a prediction later on. that's a memo. here from new york city monica crowley and from washington kirsten powers. monica, who you do think is a threat to mrs. clinton? it can be more than one person but who do you think is a threat? >> same person that it's been for a long time and that's jeb bush. first of all, he does have a record he has accomplishments, he's well liked he's willing to buck hirç parties. he has the bush name obviously but she has a clinton name. so to a certain extent i think that would be a wash but questionable because i don't think the bush name is quite as toxic as it used to be. >> what about the governor being very articulate in wisconsin. it looks like he has momentum. >> yeah, definitely. and he's extremely popular among republicans. he's not as well known nationally, so you have to see how someone like that will play on the national field. he's someone who i think would certainly be a good second choice to people who may be behind somebody like a jeb bush or if mitt romney got back in the race

fox news analyst charles krauthammer. where am i going wrong? >> you're right on taxes, wrong on iran. let's start with the state of the union stuff. obama knows there's not a chance in hell of this get ingting past. it wouldn't even have gotten passed through the previous congress. there's no way it's going to get passed. he calls it tax reform that's a fraud. this is tax and spend you raise taxes here and spend the money there. it's the oldest democratic game. obama is doing it for one reason. he's campaigning in the sense that he's campaigning for his legacy. and the reason he wants to do this is to lay down sort of a statement of what the democratic party stands for after he's gone. in other words, he wants to be the man who changed or at least who brought the party back from the clintonen meaning the bill. clinton idea of a party that was moderate, that was able to balance the budget, that abolished welfare, that's the clinton idea the moderate sort of center left. obama is not a center left man. he wants to change america and he wants to c

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. >> bill -- charles krauthammer on earlier saying we have now entered a new phase in the war in which america finds itself. >> what's so important about this is the origin of the four killers, the brothers and the couple. they are born in france. i think we're now into the third stage of jihadist war against us. >> this stage in which training is received abroad home grown so-called radicals go abroad receive training and come back and unleash their training, their militarized training on how to kill innocents on their fellow citizens. >> that's what it's all about, megyn. and what i look at is we look at what the highest leaders of our government do. where are these people getting trained? they're getting trained in yemen. so what we do is we release prisoners from gitmo and sent them back to replace the ones we've already killed. it makes no sense to me. >> bill, thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >>> up next on "the kelly file," general jack keane on the strategy it will take to defeat this terror threat and whether we are headed in the wrong direction on this fight. plus, a

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we played a sound bite of you on friday and we confessed charles krauthammer we mentioned earlier, heaugh at what you said and here's why. the folks used to be a u.s.-backed government, we were at least satisfied with them, but these are the guys in control now. death to america. death to israel. victory to islam. so the american people may not be feeling too great about the new people in charge of yemen. you were asked about these folks last week. here's what you said. >> they do on occasion chant death to america and that kind of thing. it's not as if they haven't expressed anti-american sentiment in the past. >> obviously not. as i mention we continue to assess our security needs every day regardless of what's been said. but it is important to note that just this week they stated that was not their intentions. >> so i mean, you know the follow-up. you're taking them at their word that they no longer mean the chants? >> well megyn, first of all i know you could never play all the back and forth we have on yemen in the briefing but we've been discussing this probably hours last week

that's the question that steve hayes posed to charles krauthammer last night. if money was on the line. >> if i gave you $100 sent to you las vegas to bet on a candidate most likely to be the republican nominee, how would you allocate your funds? >> your chips? >> your chips, yes. >> 40 on rubio. 30 on bush. 15 on scott walker and i would blot rest on booze. >> leave it right there. put charles back up there. 40 on rubio he? >> is he my under estimated dark horse candidate who threads his way, young energetic. he has got a program and he, i think if he runs against hillary, the contrast, say vigor, the energy that kennedyesque idea will be a major one. >> but a significant bet on jeb bush? >> right. it's the booze that i'm looking forward to. [ laughter ] >> i don't think i have ever disagreed with chamberlain & mccreery in my -- disagreed with charles krauthammer in my life. i'm not now. there are a ton of the conservatives in the republican party and. >> you don't think rubio are conservative enough. >> there are people more conservative certainly on immigrat

stoddard, associate editor of "the hill" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer.e, your overall thoughts on this policy these moves and the fallout? >> many of the critics of the policy soup to assume the cuban regime will crumble when its founding dictator dies. the problem with that is that the soviet regime survived the death of its founding dictator by 67 years. the soviet regime survived the death of his successor stalin. it began under the presidency of dwight eisenhower. as did attempts by the united states to bring the regime down. the regime has survived the presidencies of eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter reagan bush, clinton, bush, and obama. that's 11 presidencies. it's not going to fall by itself. we don't know what will work but 50 years of futility is probably about enough. >> jason, as we've heard in this hour critics of this policy say this was the time because the soviets are no longer supporting like they did, neither is venezuela because of falling crude prices. if this is the time, critics say this is a lifeline to the castro

charles krauthammer can't wait to see the gop's to take the reigns to show the democrats the grown-ups in are in control. >> republicans will have a chance to show how retro actively for the last six years everything has stopped in the senate. democrats stopped harry reid stopped. they effectively acted as a shield to make obama look as if he wasn't the one stopping. well now he's going to be exposed because he's going to have to exercise the veto. schumer and the others could prevent a few of the bills from landing on the president's desk with these ridiculous amendments on keystone av cadbut the days of hiding under harry reid's desk is over. >> he is under hot water and being investigated after the former seal described a mission to kill bin laden in the fox news special. a spokesman says rob o'neil might have disclosed classified information. o'neil says history makers should be able to tell their tale. >> i think a lot of these stories for people that played a big roll in history they should tell their stories. they should be able to do so so the american public knows about it. i

ment karls kraut charles krauthammer calling it an outrageous statement. >> they drive car bombs intokets you can't power the administration. you the idea the united states doesn't do this is preposterous. of course we do. the idea that the war is winding down tell that to anybody who lives in afghanistan. this is a fantasy. obama is pretending the war on terror the war on afghanistan are all winding down. this is sort of embarrassing. >> this coming after a brand new fox news poll says they are down-playing the threats for terrorists. 43 percent saying his approach is about right, 47 percent under emphasizes the threat. >> log on to fox and friends first facebook page for a live debate #keep talking. >>> it didn't happen in the streets. instead in city hall. >> that meeting was held in the wake of the michael brown shooting in ferguson. an hour in that fight broke out when witnesses say a woman who was trying to leave was pushed by the business manager of the police officer's association. he claims he did not push her. the meeting ended early. no arrests were made. >> illinois and ne

charles krauthammer taking secretary of state john kerry to task for saying the biggest error they canis blaming muslims collectively. what is the biggest mistake? >> the biggest error is to refuse to say who the enemy is. that would be a larger irerror. it would confine people to for example the hell at that is sere you syria today approaching now more than a quarter million dead. the original sin here is not that obama sort of is confused. i think he is in a way but that he has a strategy he came into office with a strategy. he didn't quite understand which is sort of a axiom of geo politics. if america leaves the vacuum does not remain a vacuum. >> it is 18 minutes after the top of the hour. did you see american sniper? according to howard dean you might be angry the former presidential contend de is now apologizing. sort of. >> a family inside this car when it was swallowed by a sink hole. how they made it out alive. ♪ >> a little dirt road anthem. 5:22 on the east coast. thank you for joining us. a maryland family nearly swallowed by a sink hole. the whole was created a huge water

listen to the attempt to answer that question and charles krauthammer's response. >> you don't think taliban is a terrorist group? >> i don't think that the taliban -- the taliban is an armed insurgency. >> it attacks buses, it drives car bombs into markets and it's not a terrorist group. look, you can't this administration. >> press secretary joshua earnest was back at the white house today and attempted to clarify the comment. >> does the administration consider taliban a terrorist group or not? >> they carry out tactics akin to terrorism. they do pursue terrorism to advance their agenda. >> all right. so let's get this conversation started. they tried it again today. eric i have a theory. we swap theories back and forth. i think they are not making a political rationalization. they are trying to tell everybody that the war in afghanistan is over. they don't want to call the taliban terrorists because they want to be able to say see america, we said we'd get out of these wars, even if it's premature and misguided and we're going to create the problem that they created in iraq by le

charles krauthammer of the post has used the term many times usually took clinton and his presidency but it wasn't a holiday from history. it really is far more significant than that so i think the time has come to take a look at the 1990s and another school of thinking is this is a great time of prosperity and peace and we have things really clicking back then and it's a little bit distorted as well because i think a more critical appraisal is certainly in order and 1995 might be the spur for that assessment. >> 1995 the year the future began. [applause] >> [inaudible] please join us for a book signing and we will see you next time. is >> host: joining us now on the dawks the sc c-span bus is maybe not a face is that you're familiar with but an appe voice thatti you are familiar within ja little a senior economics correspondent with marketplace and npr minnesota public radio as well as a columnist for bloomberg. with. he's written this book onlace retirement how baby boomers are changing the way we think about work community and the good life. first of all when did the magic baby er

stoddard, associate editor of "the hill" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. on this policy these moves and >> many of the critics of the policy seem to assume the cuban regime will crumble when the founding dictator dies. the soviet regime survived the death of its founder. the cuban reek yeem began under presidency of dwight eisenhower. and survived 11 presidents so it's not going to fall by itself. we don't know what will work. >> as you've heard in this hour critics of the policy say this is the time. so far yits are no longer supporting what they did. either is venezuela. if this is the time, critics say this is a lifeline. >> well, what we've learned is that if you let the countries like china and vietnam you can have relatively economic free countries that co-exist with political repression. and that is what we have in cuba. you have to remember, or that is what we can have possibly in cuba. you have to remember that while the u.s. is not been trading with cuba for a long time, other nations have. and there is no reason to believe that u.s. dollars will

. >> fascinating to hear charles krauthammer put most of his money on marco rubio. >> it's all wide open so exciting. dana, great to see you. >> thank you. >>> a similar political event in iowa this weekend. several other potential republican candidates were discussing the challenges facing this country, including obamacare. >> i don't believe in taking the most important thing a person has, which is their health, and their health care, and putting it in the hands of the government. everything about obamacare was a lie. it was a filthy lie. >> when will they listen to conservatives, that we the people, instead of listening in on our phone calls. and how will they ax obamacare? >> we get the senseless obstacles of washington out of the way. we need to repeal every word of obamacare! >> our next guest has a new book out, and he says obamacare did not do a thing to help make health care more affordable to drive down the costs. author of america's bitter pill, money, politics back room deals and the fight to fix our health care system. i don't have time to go through all of his credentials,

here's charles krauthammer earlier. >> for years he's been giving speeches in which he says the war hasorrupted us. we have to change. we have to end this war. you can't end the war unilaterally. and what we're getting week after week in australia here, in canada everywhere, are re-declarations, again and again that the war is ongoing and the west is the target. >> just before we came to air in a "the kelly file" exclusive i spoke to the new senate majority leader kentucky republican leader mitch mcconnell in his very first interview since the start of the new congress. mr. majority leader, it's great to see you. thank you very much for being here on what has been a busy news day. let's start with the news of the day. you came out today and suggested that this underscores in your view that suggestions last year that the war on terror is over were erroneous. were you referring to president obama? and do you think that he has a handle on the terror situation? >> well i certainly was referring -- you remember earlier last year he called isil the jayvee team. it's pretty clear they're not a

nina eastton commenters for chun magazine and singd indicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> what'st this is the origin of the four killers, the brothers of the couple. they are born in france, i think we're u now in sort of the third stage of the jihadist war against us. the first of course is 9/11, all of the attackers were are the middle east. and then from the last year or two, we have seen the lone wolf attacks, usually homegrown but fairly unstable and one-on-one and it looks as if fairly disorganized or acting out of inge picture ration but not on instruction or with training here we have perhaps the beginning of the third wave the third stage, and this is the trained local cells, who have learned their trade in the middle east, are connected in some way as we heard the 50 calls among the two groups here. and the obvious connection with al qaeda in yemen, and this i think is going to be, it's as if there's a critical mass of these dissident jihadists in the west, who are now in a position rather than act like the single guy in australia or the single guys acting separately in

syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. you cover the hill all the time.out the challenge to boehner and what it means? >> well, it's interesting the time to challenge him came after the election when everyone chose their leaders on both the democrat and the republican side speaker boehner was not opposed. >> but like the sun comes up in the mornings there are a bunch of dozen or so, it's not going to be 28 republicans who feel that it's a badge of honor. it is seen as some conservatives in the conference. a sign of what the leadership is willing to do in the future, because as you heard in senator mcconnell's interview is their earnestness and their caution and their measure could not have been made more clear. both boehner and the incoming senate majority leader have made it perfectly clear, again and again we bring the majority down. we are to govern, we're not herere to play games we're out of cr governing. many conservatives see that as a real sign of a is sell out. and they're not going to win, but they're happy to pick the fight. >> we should point

such a sweetheart now to a special message from charles krauthammer.onight, talking about things that matter. >> what great material for us. i do remain optimistic the country will come back and it's only 751 days until inauguration. it's been a great year because of the rather unexpected success in my book, things that matter. in fact, i got a call from a reporter with an article asking me to explain it i decided to play humble and said i don't know. maybe call around and ask others and let me know. i didn't hear anything. a friend called and said the story about the book, the new book is flying off the shelves. nobody knows why. that is the last time i play humble. now, what does make me humble is the good fortune that i've had. and had more than my share. starts with friends, family, and great colleagues here at fox. and as i said last year, this time at the top of the list of things that matters to be able to do what you love for a living. i started out in life as a doctor and for a ended up without intention or planning doing what i was meant to d

. >> a lot of people who watch fox news would be surprised how much charles krauthammer, rich lowry,ement and respect those voices. >> put some other 2014 videos on the website. we look forward to pressing people about the media. >>> still to come, your top tweets and the media on another missing asian jet but steering clear of the black hole of speculation. does a freshly printed presentation fill you with optimism? then you might be gearcentric. right now, all printers are on sale. plus great deals on hp ink and toner. office depot & officemax. gear up for great. >>> first a sad note. espn anchor stuart scott lost his battle with cancer at age 49 this morning. former colleagues said he didn't just push the envelope, he bulldozed it. it's fitting to bid him farewell with his signature line boo-ya! as we came back ready to look at television's absurd performance after the disappearance of the airasia flight we found another jet missing in the same region. while cnn went wall to wall with the coverage there was little about mysterious black holes or terrorism. >> we start with breakin

. >> fascinating to hear charles krauthammer put most of his money on marco rubio. >> it's all wide openting. dana, great to see you. >> thank you. >>> a similar political event in iowa this weekend. several other potential republican candidates were discussing the challenges facing this country, including obamacare. >> i don't believe in taking the most important thing a person has, which is their health, and their health care, and putting it in the hands of the government. everything about obamacare was a lie. it was a filthy lie. >> when will they listen to conservatives, that we the people, instead of listening in on our phone calls. and how will they ax obamacare? >> we get the senseless obstacles of washington out of the way. we need to repeal every word of obamacare! >> our next guest has a new book out, and he says obamacare did not do a thing to help make health care more affordable to drive down the costs. author of america's bitter pill, money, politics back room deals and the fight to fix our health care system. i don't have time to go through all of his credentials, but they

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.ts to get rid of the sequester that's popular with the military republicans are split on this, some of them like the cutting, but they don't like the harm to the military. >> the sequester has been replaced before. it's not -- republicans are not going to put an end to it. but it's been replaced with more sensible cuts in the last year and a half. this suggestion that it can be a thing of the past and eliminated is going to be problematic even though the president has proposed a little bit more relief for the military spending side, which is supposed to lure republicans into agreement. what you're going to see is -- are proposals by the republicans to replace the military spending because it is affecting readiness and senator mccain is right about that. there may be a chance now with the threat of isis that democrats and democrats join in for increasing military spending. but they're going to fight for that nondefense discretionary spending all the way and tax hikes and more spending t

rather than having them as enemy combatants as charles krauthammer suggested, he is reading them theiranda rights. we've gone from one extreme to another. >> so are we treating the war on terror more like a law enforcement issue when we should be treating it differently? judge al rex, i want to go to you first on this was as much as -- because as much as believe we should keep gitmo open, we have had success in court trying some of these terrorists. what do you think? >> i think you have to separate criminals from basically prisoners of war. we are in a war against terror, and we have been for a very long time. it seems like over here we're still debating it. but i went to the middle east with the pentagon in 2006, and back then in briefings we had with generals, they basically said this is the new war. there will not be another war like world war ii. this is our new paradigm here. we will be fighting a war on terror forever. it will never end. and that message doesn't seem to have been made to the american public. everybody thinks we can come back and avoid war. but when you're in war

. >> that str charles krauthammer on the dust up over prime minister benjamin netanyahu's upcoming visit to the united states. house speaker john boehner has invited the prime minister to address congress. the big problem, though, he didn't ask the white house first and now the president is saying he will not meet with the prime minister during that visit because of protocols. joining us now to talk more about this and some other pressing policy issues, senator mike lee republican senator from utah and a member of the armed services committee. welcome, senator, great to have you here today. >> thank you. it's good to be with us with you. >> lots to talk about beginning with the high stakes show down between the white house and prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is planning to address congress over his serious concerns about iran and urging lawmakers not to back down on efforts to pass legislation imposing tougher sanctions against iran. the white house reportedly fuming over this move behind the scenes and there are reports in israel newspapers right now that the obama white house is

tonight we'll analyze the contenders, and charles krauthammer will make a prediction. >>> michael moore the "american sniper" debate. very disturbing. we'll tell you what's going on. >>> also ahead, is it legal for a minnesota school district spending thousands of