but charles krauthammer says the idea of a third party candidate is a big mistake. >> another candidate blocking trump from the win. either he's going to win. he's the nominee of the gop chosen by the people. he's going to win or not. if he doesn't win he shouldn't be able to claim he was stabbed in the back. martha: you look at the possibility of somebody getting into this race who has very close to zero name recognition going up against donald trump who walked toib this race with a tremendous amount of name recognition his personality and as you aspects of it.

joining us from washington charles krauthammer.let's take the congress declaring war on islamic terrorism first. do you think that's a good idea? >> it's a good idea but it will make no difference what server it's all -- look, it will make us perhaps feel better and it may make it easier for lawyers to approve certain measures but look, you either you have a president who wants to wipe them out or you don't. you can pass all the laws in congress you want. >> but i'm looking down the road to the next president, quite frankly. >> the next president will have to make a speech, explain that he or she is going to do something really different, ask for an authorization from congress. >> right. >> and we will get it immediately. it's like bush after 9/11. >> i agree with you. that thing would pass outside of nancy pelosi and harry reid, everybody else would vote for it because their political careers would be destroyed if they didn't. what it does is, it gives more power to people investigating guys like omar mateen to isolate them. they

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and withdrawal from iraq. >> not surprised charles krauthammer thinks that. and even the republican primary, and the republicans could have been attacking. she is making case ahead of the california primary which is a tough primary and is the best person equipped to take it to donald trump. she accomplished that and is taking it to independent voters, can't trust him. whether you agree or disagree, he is crazy and he is nuts and that was the underlying message and the third is she is appealing to certain republicans who like a muscular foreign-policy before reagan republicans from the 80s not enamored of trump and say you may not like me, i may not be your type of tea but he is wacko and not your type of republican and that is what you try to accomplish and she pretty much it all three of those. arthel: beyond making america great again and protecting america on trade. you will hear her use the word dangerous over and over and over again, needs to hit back more specifically specifics what she was talking about. let's talk about being dangerous and what you di

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. >> but he got some critical feedback as well from charles krauthammer.favorite, dana. >> but it is a sense of trump's character. is this what you want in the white house? he was asked. he said yes. he was asked about the attack on suzanne in a march continuous because he had said the economy was bad in new mexico. he said well, she wasn't very nice to me. now, is that going to be the criteria whether a president decided whether to attack or ignore, either a politician, foreign leader, another country, by the criteria of how good are they to me? >> what's your reaction? >> what rush is saying is true. there is a desire and demand for republicans to take on the press more like that. i was criticizeboard a -- criticized by a key anchor in a friend way saying i didn't do enough to push back against the media and i should have done more and fought more. my answer to that is that's easy to say. trump gets away with it. he doesn't care what they say about him as the press secretary to the united states of america i had a responsibility to answer the questions t

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news and world report" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. big picture, steve. what does this mean for britain, for europe and for the economy? >> well i think it's neither the case that the sky is falling now. in britain, but it's also not the case that the sun will shine 365 days a year over london. it's a little bit of both. there will no doubt be short-term economic implications, there's a real possibility that a recession could result. i think depending on how abrupt the changes are implemented. but over the long-term in ten years, it's hard to see how this will have a significant impact on britain and its economy when things stabilize and normalize, on what i think will likely be a difficult transition period. >> and what will the impact be for europe? >> well the impact for europe, i think is more troubling for, if you believe in the eu, this is a blow to the eu, no question about it. i mean britain is the fifth largest economy in the world. carried huge power, helped the eu reach its compacts, gave it sort of force that i think it will lack to a certain

julie pace and charles krauthammer. >> trump could win the election. the numbers are upside down people are unhappy with the country. hillary represents the same. the middle class is not served by the economy. immigration is nuts. it hurts the poor. it's kra yachtic. if trump ran on those things, he's gotten this far on those views. if he ran on them, he could win. this is trump throwing the fight, hurting himself for reasons i can't speculate on. if he continues to talk about himself -- >> you think it is self-destructive? >> it is. of course it is. talking about yourself and about trump university, which we know nobody cares about, is an act of self-destruction. of course it is. at a moment when this is winnable. i can't account for why this is happening. it has the potential to derail his campaign but to discredit what he's run on. our immigration policy is out of control, it is. it's a big deal. >> i think tucker is exactly right. there are reasons donald trump has done so well and the big reason is people feel like he cares about the things that a

but charles krauthammer says the idea of a third party candidate is a big mistake. >> another candidate blocking trump from the win. either he's going to win. he's the nominee of the gop chosen by the people. he's going to win or not. if he doesn't win he shouldn't be able to claim he was stabbed in the back. martha: you look at the possibility of somebody getting into this race who has very close to zero name recognition going up against donald trump who walked toib this race with a tremendous amount of name recognition his personality and as you aspects of it. it's a tough road. bill: that's something we'll be looking at closely. the republi -- the republicans l endorsing trump. jeb bush and george bush, john mccain and mitt romney will be skipping the convention. tore region rains creating catastrophic flooding in texas. these are stunning picture shot from a drone showing the devastation in rosenburg, texas. the river cresting at 54 feet. some horses were forced to seek die land on a front porch. >> think is something we have never encountered. it's frightening to us. reporter: what

with that, let's bring in the pan panelist, steve haste, charles hurt, ron and charles krauthammer. steve, your thoughts on the whole thing, then what the fbi director talked about. >> the thing that got me was listening to the 14-minute statement the president delivered after the briefing. what he said today was better than what he said in the past because he acknowledged the obvious terrorist attack was a terrorist attack. that's damming. i think if you think about some of the other things the president said, they were contradictory. he said, for instance, we didn't know the motivation of the attackers. i think we don't yet know the motivation. he said this today, 36 hours after we learned that, at least eyewitnesses said he shot at the bar. he pledged loyalty to baghdad. he had long contact with jihadists in the past. >> he spoke of the tsarnaev brothers. >> in 2014, he claimed he wanted to be martyred. how in the world is there any question about what his motivations are? the president of the united states can say on national television as he allowed this person pledged loyalty

more, steve hayes, lisa boot add, adam keefe reporter with "the washington post" and charles krauthammer. welcome all, steve, i start with you. is this shake up a reset? what does it say? >> an attempt at reset. look, anybody who's been covering the story knows about corey lewandowski chewing people out and having problems with paul manafort. i think some kind of shake up was likely. he had a high profile problem with michelle. his name has been in the news. this is an attempt to reset the campaign. this is a campaign that's had several bad weeks. bad weeks back since indiana with one controversy after another. unlike the primary season where the controversies didn't affect him, his poll rating or the ability to win primaries, they are reflecting him now. you are seeing them in other comments from other republicans about the party's nominee. more skepticism about him as the nominee. this is an attempt to put all of that behind them to say we are about to get serious and here is the reset. >> all right. speaking of polls, we have a new one out from monmouth putting him and hillary clinton

. >>> proximate news contributor charles krauthammer calling out clinton and her attack saying she has nothing to offer the american people. >> this is the he is sen of her campaign. this is the line from the speech. i believe in america always moving forward toward the future. every creature on earth from a crews tation to the united states of america is moving forward toward the future. there is nowhere else to move. this is about the emptiest phrase a presidential candidate can offer. it's the essence of her campaign. she doesn't have anything other than the fact that i am here, i am confident and that's it. trump is lucky in running against the one person who entitled deep discontent and has nothing really on her plate. >> the real clear politics average shows clinton leading 45 percent to clinton's 39.2. >> it is a party, party, party 52 years in the making in cleveland. hundreds of thousands of calves fans expected to line the streets for the victory parade. they are celebrating the first championship since 1964. >> it will start near the arena. 60 floats and cars will flood the

fox news contributor charles krauthammer slamming president obama saying he never had the authority inhe first place to pass the immigration plan. >> the culmination of a long strain of decisions issued by the supreme court and by lower courts which admonished this president for clearly over stepping the boundaries of his authority. in this case it was egregious. that's what the circuit had said. this empowered illegal immigrants. it was not in the president's power to do it. just because the president wants to do something that congress will not do that doesn't give them the authority to do it. >>> a 4-year-old swept away by flood waters. he was playing in the water when he was carried away. the flash floods killing at least two other people. >> onlookers were in shock as a hou burning house was up rooted and carried down the river. families trapped in rising waters. >>> severe storms and rain as we head into the weekend to tell you about. >> maria molina joins us. good morning. >> we have been tracking the weather for several days now. it started in parts of the midwest producing tor

charles krauthammer, fox news contributor. charles, good to see you.as, look, we can't catch every deranged person that wants to commit mass murder but we can limit the damage they do. the president seems to have moved past the notion of stopping the home grown terrorists. he didn't announce one thing that will change to stop them. he's only focused on the push for legislation to limit, in his mind, the fguns that they have access to. your thoughts. >> if you had his record on foreign policy on combatting terrorism, you too would want to change the subject to what in this particular case, orlando, is a complete irrelevancy. obama is making a category error deliberately. he wants to lump this in with sandy hook, aurora which he mentioned as if it's some kind of crazy person without a motive who goes ahead and shoots. now the problem is that you've got to ask yourself, is orlando more akin to those or is it more akin to the boston marathon, which he did not mention. the reason he didn't is because there was no gun involved. it was done by other means. an

substantively that part of her speech, the first third of her speech could have been pulled from a charles krauthammer column or from the editorial pages of "national review" or the "weekly standard." on substance, it was the right critique to make, i agree with charles also that she's a very unlikely person to make that case. she is not only a chief contributor to the catastrophic foreign policy of the obama administration for the past seven years, she continues to be one of its chief defenders. and if you reread her book, she takes credit for any of a number of these things, including laying the groundwork for the iran deal, the diplomacy with the afghan taliban. which i think is pretty clearly failed. the russian reset. all of these things. and she's the one taking the case to donald trump. >> meanwhile today, karen, paul ryan, house speaker comes out, says i'm going to vote for donald trump. some people took that as you know, not a full-throated, i'm really getting on the trail. but this is what he said in an op-ed. he said as i said from the start, my goal has been to unite the party so we can wi

today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when we look at cash on hand.ump has outpaced hillary clinton by what he has on hand. >> it's a surprising number. it doesn't reflect well on the trump campaign. no denying that. on the other hand, a couple points. money does not determine the outcome of elections, necessarily as mitt romney proved. a lot of people proved in the last primary season. this is evidence among other things that the gop donor class isn't giving so presumably they think they're going to do better with hillary. they won't. the third point that the trump people ought to be exploit something this shows that hillary clinton has a ph.d. in sucking up to rich people this was the rationale behind his are primary campaign, i'm not beholden to special interests, a theme he ought to revive. >> he's talked about the fact he's going to do things on his own as tucker said. i'm self-funding. now if you're competing against somebody who has tens of millions of more dhars and with super pacs facted in in. how does he kbad that or is it game over when it

jeffrey goldberg "atlantic" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. monica, your thoughts? >> the phrase that he used, there's no magic to the phrase radical islam, really struck me. if he really believes there's no magic to it, why doesn't he just use the phrase. you cannot hope to defeat an enemy unless and until you're able to define it. that's step number one, the bare minimum this president refuses to not just delineate who the enemy is and what we're up against, he also refuses to engage it. his steadfast refusal to name the enemy leads into a lack of a coherent strategy we've seen from the president from the very beginning. >> interestingry, he said it a day after the presumptive democratic nominee, she doesn't have a problem saying it. she doesn't want the indication that the u.s. is at war with islam. >> i talk to currencom, they say they would prefer not to broaden the subject and what they mean by that is they would rather not have a situation in which muslim who is are on our side feel as if we're talking negatively about their religion. that's where the guidanc

with that, let's bring in the pan panelist, steve haste, charles hurt, ron and charles krauthammer.hole thing, then what the fbi director talked about. >> the thing that got me was listening to the 14-minute statement the president delivered after the briefing. what he said today was better than what he said in the past because he acknowledged the obvious terrorist attack was a terrorist attack. that's damming. i think if you think about some of the other things the president said, they were contradictory. he said, for instance, we didn't know the motivation of the attackers. i think we don't yet know the motivation. he said this today, 36 hours after we learned that, at least eyewitnesses said he shot at the bar. he pledged loyalty to baghdad. he had long contact with jihadists in the past. >> he spoke of the tsarnaev brothers. >> in 2014, he claimed he wanted to be martyred. how in the world is there any question about what his motivations are? the president of the united states can say on national television as he allowed this person pledged loyalty to isis. the second point, rea

stoddard, social editor of "the hill" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. laura, how do you compare trump and clinton's speeches in terms of policy and their political effect? >> i think it was a stark contrast in this way, chris. hillary clinton's been around public life, national public life for 25 years. not counting arkansas in her speech she really didn't make an aggressive pitch for her record. and why her record indicates her strength as a president. foreign policy, she didn't tick off we did this, this, and this. on economic policy, she was around when a lot of the decisions were made. if she had the secret to reviving the economy, maybe she should have shared it to barack obama and not just spring it on the nation on january 20th. i think she, she went after trump's temperment, trump university. but she didn't make the case for why her record indicates she should be the nominee. >> trump comes out and says look, this is what she's done. she's part of the corrupt regime of washington, d.c., i'm going to lead the country in a new path for renewal in

julie pace and charles krauthammer. >> trump could win the election.umbers are upside down people are unhappy with the country. hillary represents the same. the middle class is not served by the economy. immigration is nuts. it hurts the poor. it's kra yachtic. if trump ran on those things, he's gotten this far on those views. if he ran on them, he could win. this is trump throwing the fight, hurting himself for reasons i can't speculate on. if he continues to talk about himself -- >> you think it is self-destructive? >> it is. of course it is. talking about yourself and about trump university, which we know nobody cares about, is an act of self-destruction. of course it is. at a moment when this is winnable. i can't account for why this is happening. it has the potential to derail his campaign but to discredit what he's run on. our immigration policy is out of control, it is. it's a big deal. >> i think tucker is exactly right. there are reasons donald trump has done so well and the big reason is people feel like he cares about the things that are imp

steve hayes is here, ron fornier of "the national journal" and charles krauthammer. okay, steve, kind of a heated event today between trump and reporters saying he's paid the money to the veterans. >> well, a little eruption from donald trump today. for five months reporters have been trying to get the details of what this event did. and asking, i think fairly basic journalistic questions like, what was the total amount given? who received these funds? and in some cases, who gave these funds? and they had very little luck getting that information from the trump campaign. i would argue that in a paypal economy, when i can wire you $25 while we're sitting here at this table, and you'll have it in the bank account tomorrow, the trump campaign should have been able to provide that information much earlier than it has. now it took him five months. it's a good thing donald trump raised money for the veterans. people have raised questions about why he did it and the original intent of that event to distract from the fox news thing, but i think it's basically we're all bette

more, steve hayes, lisa boot add, adam keefe reporter with "the washington post" and charles krauthammert with you. is this shake up a reset? what does it say? >> an attempt at reset. look, anybody who's been covering the story knows about corey lewandowski chewing people out and having problems with paul manafort. i think some kind of shake up was likely. he had a high profile problem with michelle. his name has been in the news. this is an attempt to reset the campaign. this is a campaign that's had several bad weeks. bad weeks back since indiana with one controversy after another. unlike the primary season where the controversies didn't affect him, his poll rating or the ability to win primaries, they are reflecting him now. you are seeing them in other comments from other republicans about the party's nominee. more skepticism about him as the nominee. this is an attempt to put all of that behind them to say we are about to get serious and here is the reset. >> all right. speaking of polls, we have a new one out from monmouth putting him and hillary clinton het-to-head. he is down by

tucker carlson of "fox & friends" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.as trump gone over the tough week or is he getting back to getting his stride? or do you think he's wobbly still? >> the best quote i saw about this was, it's in a construction site when it says x number of days since we've had an accident? i think we went four days now. with sticking to script. i don't know that it's going to be maybe a whole week. but i think we're going to see this pattern continue where he is not a scripted candidate. that is the appeal of donald trump. that is his brand. is to be somebody who is not going to be a typical politician. so i think he will short-term stay on script. but once the barrage of attacks come from democrats, the super pacs, et cetera, seeing him stick to script then is going to be very interesting. >> he was on script today. about hillary clinton's emails. >> hillary clinton has jeopardized, totally jeopardized national security by putting her her emails on a private server all to hide her corrupt dealings. bill and hillary made $150 million,

joining us for reaction, charles charles krauthammer. what's your call on, this charles?i think it's absolutely right that the left needs to point to gun control as a distraction from the fact that the policy that obama representing the left has pursued for 7.5 years has failed. which is why they had to edit and redact his discussions with the hostage negotiator we're talking about the orlando shooter here even though it is obvious they had already said that he was acting as he said himself in the name of isis. you don't want to remind people what the real cause, the motive here is you would rather talk about something else. they would rather talk about the guns they don't know, how to elaborate, execute a policy. >> a guy like clyburn, old time politician. went through the civil rights era. paid his dues. i'm sure he was treated harshly on many, many occasions. he has got to see that this thing is chicago is so far out of control and that the white establishment that runs that city has done absolutely nothing about it. yet, he doesn't make any comment for years. for year

mercedes schlapp, syndicated columnist for the "washington times," and columnist charles krauthammer. >> this creates a profound legal conundrum for the career prosecutors and fbi agents who have been investigating mrs. clinton. there are two teams of investigatorses there. separate from each other. they are two elite teams. one concentrates on national security. the other concentrates on public corruption. and quite frankly, the question that our colleague james rosen put to josh earnest goes right to the heart of the matter. what message is the president sending to these teams? so that's problem number one. problem number two is a technical/legal conflict. can the president and can the attorney general who works for him, and can the director of the fbi who works for her. possibly be influenced by the president's wish that the subject of their criminal investigations should succeed him. and if they are, are they still in the position to make determinations or should an independent thinker with real authority called a special counsel be appointed? >> chuck? >> well we got rid of the s

stoddard of "the hill" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what do you make of this memo signed by 51 state department officers critical of president obama's policy towards syria? >> it shows that president obama's strategy is clearly one of hesitation towards syria. we know that it has been a humanitarian failure. and the mere fact that you're seeing this widespread number of state department officials basically saying look, we don't agree, we need tougher military action. we know that the diplomatic accord are not working and that russia and that syria and that iran are calling the shots. this is an embarrassment for the obama administration. >> what they're basically saying, these officers is we need some military action to put pressure on assad to come to the negotiating table because right now he's winning and has no reason to settle with the rebels. >> that's right. let's think about it, in 2011 president obama said it's time for assad to step asite. assad is going to be ruling and being in power longer than president obama. president o

charles krauthammer's latest column is entitled sympathy for the speaker. paul ryan is in a general genuinely difficult fix with donald trump. he writes, ryan was legitimizing resistance to the new regime giving it safe harbor in the house even as resisters were being relentlessly accused of treason for quote, electing hillary, unquote. in the end, ryan called an armistice. what was he to do? oppose and resign and then what? what would remain of conservative leadership in the gop and if he created a permanent split in the party he would be setting up the gop's entire conservative wing as a scapegoat from loses in november. talk about all this with charlie eric, columnist for the washington times, colleen's white house correspondent for the wall street journal. colleen, how do you see the fix that paul ryan is in or is he in one? >> he definitely is in effect. i think krauthammer asked a good question, what was he to do? paul ryan at first put some distance between himself and donald trump. he didn't immediately fall in line, he didn't endorse him right afte

tucker carlson, host of "fox & friends weekend" and and charles krauthammer. you heard bernie sanders there and he's making the pitch to california. >> i think he'll march to the democratic convention in philadelphia no matter what happens in six or seven states. the truth is he's as unlikely a candidate really as donald trump. he is without charm. he's elderly and running an economic program that's 80 years old and has been proven not to work and yet he's drawing crowds of people who know for a certainty that he's not going to win and they are coming out anyway. what does that tell you? it tells you the power of running on something in contrast to the sort of tepid identity politics campaign his opponent is running. he's running on something that's actually resonating and he's going to extract eye teeth at that convention, no question about that. >> all right. chuck. it's the realism of trying to convince people that in fact he can still win the nomination. >> well, i think he is making an additional pitch wch is, as you referred to those polls that show him

substantively that part of her speech, the first third of her speech could have been pulled from a charles krauthammeror from the editorial pages of "national review" or the "weekly standard." on substance, it was the right critique to make, i agree with charles also that she's a very unlikely person to make that case. she is not only a chief contributor to the catastrophic foreign policy of the obama administration for the past seven years, she continues to be one of its chief defenders. and if you reread her book, she takes credit for any of a number of these things, including laying the groundwork for the iran deal, the diplomacy with the afghan taliban. which i think is pretty clearly failed. the russian reset. all of these things. and she's the one taking the case to donald p.trum >> meanwhile today, karen, paul ryan, house speaker comes out, says i'm going to vote for donald trump. some people took that as you know, not a full-throated, i'm really getting on the trail. but this is what he said in an op-ed. he said as i said from the start, my goal has been to unite the party so we can win in the

. >> charles krauthammer and brit hume see it differently. >> when a baseball team is losing, as younow, they fire the manager. that of course is just a way of pretending to do something because it's the players, not the manager. this is nothing to do with the campaign manager. >> it's one thing to say as trump did, that he needs to move to a new phase in his campaign. quite another for him to have fired somebody who was with him so loyally. it was a little puzzling. >> so for all intents and purposes, eric, the reports are that they still maintain a good relationship. they were, you know very close, trump believed that cory lewandoski was very loyal to him. trump said, jump, cory would say how high. meaning execute. get it done, et cetera, et cetera. good or bad sign? >> well i think it's a good sign that immediately after corey was let go, fired, he hit the news circuit. he was on all the networks. he was talking about trump still in a positive light and donald trump talks about corey lewandoski as well. corey brought donald trump to the most surprising shocking primary victory in

. >> as charles krauthammer says whether we should have zoos. for all the people that have zoos and see if the design is just right. anyway, ted, thank you. get ready to speed read the news. exillinois police officer sergeant drew peterson found guilty again. this time it's a murder for hire plot and the target? a prosecutor. the very prosecutor who in 2012 successfully prosecuted peterson for killing his third wife. now peterson got 38 years for that murder. in addition to new conviction he remains under suspicion for disappearance of fourth wife. shark attack in california. woman bitten on the arm at corona delmar state beach. the woman rushed to the hospital with serious injuries. she is expected to be okay. the attack shutting down miles of popular beaches. some have now been reopened. the shark has not been reported since but it was reportedly a great white shark. another animal. enormous alligator spotted walking across a florida golf course. two friends golfing incredible video. they say the gator looks to be 15 feet long. if that size is

trump spent $57 million to knock out 16 of what charles krauthammer said are the best, more scorens republicandential candidates. >> isn't a big part of that trump goes on tv all the time and does a lot of enters. >> upick quick to us and fearless. a new study showed the value of his free media through november is $5 billion, and hillary's is worth half of that. that is the defense. people in -- that's why you got 13 million votes, he won the nomination, going to continue to do it at some level, but also look how hilary is going to unite the run rips better -- the republicans better than the democrats. >> we were the first at fox business to point out every time donald trump opened his mouth it was a $25 million ad buy. this guy has a ph.d in how to create free media. i will say this, this where is it becomes key. hillary clinton's going to get a lot of free media, and when it comes down to dollar to doughnuts, running campaigns you need people on the ground and battleground states to get out the vote, and it's going to be an -- >> hold -- >> a billion dollars -- >> the billion dollars is a my

but we begin with charles krauthammer and author of the book "things that matter."see you. so the president, whether he acknowledges it explicitly, was dealt a significant blow by this high court? >> yes. this is not the first time. this is a culmination of a long string of decisions issued by the supreme court and by lower courts which have admonished this president for clearly overstepping the boundaries of his authority. in this case, it was quite egregious and that's what the fifth circuit had said. this was a sweeping decision that would have empowered these illegal immigrants and whether you agree with the policy or not, it was simply not in the president's power to do it. and just because the president wants to do something that congress will not do, that does not give him the authority to do it. >> he doesn't seem to get that? >> no, he doesn't. >> 22 times he came out and said to the community pushing for immigration reform, i can't, i have done all i can do. if i take the next step, which is the thing that just got struck down today, i'll be overstepping m

joining us from washington charles krauthammer. and you say?and i say that i commend your passion for kate's law. i think your connection between kate's law and the numbers you cited about the disaffection people have with the parties, with congress, et cetera, it's quite unsupportable. i mean, there is no -- i would support kate's law tomorrow but the idea that it has had any effect. >> you miss the point. i'm just giving that as an example. one example. but a vivid one. of how ineffectual congress is on a number of issues. not just that. >> but even in this particular case, the fact that the family is suing authorities, these are executive authorities. >> yes. >> and not legislative authorities. it's the failure of the sheriff. it's the failure of ice. it's the failure of the administration. it's the failure of san francisco. >> yes. >> which itself declared itself a san sanctuary city. people get the government they deserve. >> wait a minute. the reason i used kate's law is because it's so simple and as you know i'm a simple man. >> that, i

news and world report" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. big picture, steve.itain, for europe and for the economy? >> well i think it's neither the case that the sky is falling now. in britain, but it's also not the case that the sun will shine 365 days a year over london. it's a little bit of both. there will no doubt be short-term economic implications, there's a real possibility that a recession could result. i think depending on how abrupt the changes are implemented. but over the long-term in ten years, it's hard to see how this will have a significant impact on britain and its economy when things stabilize and normalize, on what i think will likely be a difficult transition period. >> and what will the impact be for europe? >> well the impact for europe, i think is more troubling for, if you believe in the eu, this is a blow to the eu, no question about it. i mean britain is the fifth largest economy in the world. carried huge power, helped the eu reach its compacts, gave it sort of force that i think it will lack to a certain extent without britain as p

jon: on political observer whom i greatly admire, charles krauthammer, guested that it was a pretty effective speech but maybe questioned the person delivering it. listen to this. >> it was so effective that trump responded not by trying to refute one or the other of the charges and there were a lot of them. lack of knowledge, lack of strategy, lack of policy and lack of fitting this for the office, lack of judgment. he wentright after her because she is about the worst messenger to attack him on these issues . ben ghazi, the reset. the premature withdrawal from iraq. jon: jackie, what do you think about that? when you look at the state of the world right now and again,mrs. clinton was secretary of state during half of the obama administration, a lot of americans are wondering how effective a job he has done . >> it's going to be really interesting to see these two candidates go after each of their weaknesses because as pointed out, hillary clinton does have a lot of vulnerability. she has a record of secretary of state that has many flaws. on the flipside, donald trump doesn't have any forei

voting on the presidential race in general, joining us from washington, the always effervescent charles krauthammer believe there is a political component in this trump u deal, charles? >> you make me sound like al can alka-seltzer. political component? look, i don't know how you jump from saying the law firm for the pro-clinton democrats and thus the judge have to recuse himself? >> no, i'm saying it's a political deal and folks should know it. >> it started long before trump was running for president. >> it doesn't matter though. >> it has nothing to do with the clintons. that's ridiculous. >> hold, it, hold it, hold it. donald trump said, wait, wait, wait. i heard this argument and it's bogus. your argument is completely bogus. donald trump, from the jump, didn't like president obama, from the jump. asking about his birth certificate, questioning where he was born, questioning whether he was a citizen, all of that. this law firm deeply embedded in democratic politics at the outset of that couldn't stand donald trump. all right? so, when trump u comes before them, they take the case on contingenc

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jeffrey goldberg "atlantic" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. monica, your thoughts?d, there's no magic to the phrase radical islam, really struck me. if he really believes there's no magic to it, why doesn't he just use the phrase. you cannot hope to defeat an enemy unless and until you're able to define it. that's step number one, the bare minimum this president refuses to not just delineate who the enemy is and what we're up against, he also refuses to engage it. his steadfast refusal to name the enemy leads into a lack of a coherent strategy we've seen from the president from the very beginning. >> interestingry, he said it a day after the presumptive democratic nominee, she doesn't have a problem saying it. she doesn't want the indication that the u.s. is at war with islam. >> i talk to currencom, they say they would prefer not to broaden the subject and what they mean by that is they would rather not have a situation in which muslim who is are on our side feel as if we're talking negatively about their religion. that's where the guidance is coming from obama. i

stoddard of "the hill" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. you make of this memo signed by 51 state department officers critical of president obama's policy towards syria? >> it shows that president obama's strategy is clearly one of hesitation towards syria. we know that it has been a humanitarian failure. and the mere fact that you're seeing this widespread number of state department officials basically saying look, we don't agree, we need tougher military action. we know that the diplomatic accord are not working and that russia and that syria and that iran are calling the shots. this is an embarrassment for the obama administration. >> what they're basically saying, these officers is we need some military action to put pressure on assad to come to the negotiating table because right now he's winning and has no reason to settle with the rebels. >> that's right. let's think about it, in 2011 president obama said it's time for assad to step asite. assad is going to be ruling and being in power longer than president obama. president obama wil

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today" columnist and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. when we look at cash on hand. hillary clinton by what he has on hand. >> it's a surprising number. it doesn't reflect well on the trump campaign. no denying that. on the other hand, a couple points. money does not determine the outcome of elections, necessarily as mitt romney proved. a lot of people proved in the last primary season. this is evidence among other things that the gop donor class isn't giving so presumably they think they're going to do better with hillary. they won't. the third point that the trump people ought to be exploit something this shows that hillary clinton has a ph.d. in sucking up to rich people this was the rationale behind his are primary campaign, i'm not beholden to special interests, a theme he ought to revive. >> he's talked about the fact he's going to do things on his own as tucker said. i'm self-funding. now if you're competing against somebody who has tens of millions of more dhars and with super pacs facted in in. how does he kbad that or is it game over when it comes to relini

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mercedes schlapp, syndicated columnist for the "washington times," and columnist charles krauthammer.the career prosecutors and fbi agents who have been investigating mrs. clinton. there are two teams of investigatorses there. separate from each other. they are two elite teams. one concentrates on national security. the other concentrates on public corruption. and quite frankly, the question that our colleague james rosen put to josh earnest goes right to the heart of the matter. what message is the president sending to these teams? so that's problem number one. problem number two is a technical/legal conflict. can the president and can the attorney general who works for him, and can the director of the fbi who works for her. possibly be influenced by the president's wish that the subject of their criminal investigations should succeed him. and if they are, are they still in the position to make determinations or should an independent thinker with real authority called a special counsel be appointed? >> chuck? >> well we got rid of the special counsel a few years ago because they star