charles krauthammer, is he right?blaming the russians for everything a parallel to anti-semitism where the jews are blamed for everything? >> the difference is the jews didn't do it, and the russians did. he lies with a smile. i love the fact that this week he said it could have been russian patriots who are artists acting on their own are the one who might've hacked. of course, the state is innocent. nothing like that happens without the state in russia. he knows it, we know it. but he is a very good liar. >> james: michael needham? >> no, that's exactly right. vladimir putin wants to change the subject. the real subject is he like to take advantage of the void left in eastern europe created by barack obama's failed policies. he reasserted american leadership in the world, he got back and talk about sovereignty and eastern europe, he has backed it up with defense pending numbers and special forces training troops. vladimir hooton wants to talk about this story, which makes him look strong. >> james: do you agree, dav

guy benson, mollie hemingway, charles lane, charles krauthammer. good evening. let's move quickly with what we have. i will submit to you charles krauthammer sitting in that chair submitted why this is so difficult. you have an entitlement, it's difficult to pull it back. is that where we are? stick of what we have seen with the bills is that there's not much of consensus for repealing obamacare. i think they should admit this is not a deal that will repeal it. it's a bill to fix it. you have more flexibility to build a coalition. the senate bill gives quite a bit of room. things that conservatives should be happy about, things that liberals should be happy about. >> bill: we know where the president stands. he said this today. >> obamacare is dying. it's essentially dead. if you don't give it the subsidy, it would die within 24 hours. it's been a headache for everybody. it's been a nightmare for many. we are looking at a health care that would be a fantastic tribute to our country, a health care that will take care of people finally for the right reasons, and a

charles krauthammer is here with us tonight, professor john banderas and former justice department lawyerake christian adams ways and with expert insight in terms of what the president is up against here is the trump legal team is now ready to file a former complaint against james comey for licking his own memos to the press. joining us for the white house lawn with the response we got for the president. >> an extraordinary news conference, the president accused a former fbi director of lying under oath, the congress, the president himself offered in another extraordinary move to testify under oath to robert mueller, the special counsel. the president left the door open to the possibility that there might be tapes of some of these calls or meetings. the president firing back of course at comey who had it charged that the president is a liar and that's why comey says he had to document their meetings and their phone calls, to the contrary the president believes his testimony backs him up. he was shown the president was told under numerous occasions, he was not under investigation and there

charles krauthammer also joins us this evening, but we begin with chris coons, and member of the senate judiciary committee which is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. welcome, good to have your back on the program again tonight. what did you think about his testimony today and did it put to rest any of your concerns? >> that "what classic jeff sessions, he's tough, combated and he stood up for himself admirably in his testimony today in front of the senate intelligence committee. the question that i have had all along was when i raised this morning in front of the oversight committee, the appropriations subcommittee that is responsible for the justice department budgets were he didn't appear, but instead send his deputy. that was whether or not attorney general sessions violated his recusal. early on in his service as attorney general he notified congress that he would not be involved in any matter arising either from the investigation hillary clinton's emails or this ongoing matter about potential russian involvement in our 2016 election or collusion with the tru

author and columnist charles krauthammer has thought a lot about virtually everything.ch of the message be democrats should run on next time? >> the paradox here is that one wing of the party, the base has a message because it has an ideology. that's the bernie sanders wing. they actually have a coherent set of ideas. they watched create a government run health care, they want government intervention, higher taxes and open borders. they want to create a european social democracy. i think it's nuts, i think it's a terrible outcome but he hung in there for six months against hillary. it's a strong base of the party, it's not the majority. the rest of the party, the clinton wing, and two are the regulars do not have a message. that's the problem. by message, they appealed to blacks and hispanics. two young people, to mostly to women but it's mostly single women, to lgbt, they have constituencies. it's a stitching together of constituencies hoping that will put them over 50%. that's a strategy, it may work. it worked with obama, he put together large elements of those const

tom bevan and charles krauthammer. okay, steve, what are the implications?the discussion of these races certainly fell off the radar today. this will be the kind of result that defined the politics in this country through the midterm elections and somehow people are talking about it as much as you might have thought. this was clearly a good night for donald trump. he has every right to crow about it. i think republicans would be wise not to say too much comfort in these results. these are specific races. marco rubio's point about the chatter in classism, not liking donald trump, i think that's shortsighted. his approval rating is still 36%. that's not something republicans want to take going into midterm elections. there's a lot that needs to happen. >> one of the things i was that nancy pelosi and in some of these districts, she is less popular than president trump. she came out moments ago with a letter to democratic colleagues saying as we take inventory in the special election results, it's important to note that we made important progress. the house was

charles krauthammer joins us tonight. charles, why the display's rage?'m not defending the president's tweets. i don't think he beat should be tweeting, at all. you look at television, you think is crime is greater than the crime committed on london bridge. >> look, you are always going to have lunatic voices on the left. some will get expression on cable tv. but generally speaking, -- there are a lot of stories about what we see on the left. the suppression of speech on campus, the rioting, the antifascist so-called rioting. if someone dare say something politically correct. that is all true, those are real stories, they are to be covered. but the london attack is not really a story, it's not a political correctness story. it is a story about islamic radicalism. and the tragedy here is, president is sort of right in talking about immigration. but the point he is missing is that the problem was immigration 30 years ago. we are 30 years late. to paris, we are 30 years old. this is a failure, and generally is a failure of assimilation, integration of these

charles krauthammer joins us live now.hat do you make of the "new york times" putting out an editorial that is embarrassing for them years later to still be pushing this false narrative 24 hours after a former bernie sanders supporter tried to assassinate republican members of congress? >> it's completely egregious. it's not just that it has been debunked six years later, it was debunked within three days. i remember writing a column four days after the attack in which it was absolutely totally obvious that the shooter was a paranoid schizophrenic. he had no idea what was going on. there were no ideas in his head. one of his teachers had said he was living his own world. at the time, this is what is most egregious, people don't even remember, the day after the shooting, the "times" ran in the news section on the front page; something it labeled the news analysis that introduced this false introduce that jared loughner, the shooter, was motivated by this thing on the website that showed bull's eye for 20 districts. jared lo

charles krauthammer is here to help us untangle the knots. i am legitimately confused.ht that there were our main opponent there and everywhere was the sunni extreme extremist organization, isis. now, i see that we are shooting planes down for my government that is also fighting isis, that is representing the shiites. so, is the main threat in syria at the assad regime or is it isis? sincerely, i don't know. >> it does like the last year of the second world war. we are all fighting the nazis, but we know they are finished. a lot of maneuvering in the last year was to try to figure out what it would look like after the nazis. now, the mean enemy is about to be driven out of mosul, iraq will be cleared of them. what is going on now is the encircling of rocco, their last stronghold based in syria. within six months, probably a year, both of them will be gone. everybody knows that. so, it is going on right now in syria is the maneuvering. iranians want to inherit the territory that is going to be lost by isis. and they showed that by long launching rockets today over a rock

matt schlapp, jennifer jacobs, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. arles, with the russians drawing lines in the air like this, are we in a new cold war? >> we have been in a new cold war ever since putin came into power. not exactly at the same level of risk as the old cold war. the russians are very careful. they made a similar announcement after we did the tomahawk attack if they would cut off communications. it didn't happen. the sound bite you showed of lavrov speaking, he was conciliatory saying i hope communication continues. sounds as if there is a lot of bark coming out of the defense ministry from moscow because i have to show the russians have to show the syrians we are your patrons, we are not going to stand by. all of this maneuvering is about post isis syria. they both assume isis is going to be wiped away fairly soon. the question is, will syria, will assad be able to restore with the russians and the iranians full control over the country including the part that's now isis or will that be a kind of semiindependent rebel territory and t

with us is olivier knox, lisa boothe and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. owe live olivier, you spend a lot of time on the hill. is the american public tired of obstructionists and are the republicans better off with nancy pelosi where she is. >> they keep electing them, right. they send the same people back to congress. they tend to be very happy with their own member of congress and unhappy with congress the institution. so i don't know that it's especially convincing to say the american people... they don't want the other party to be obstructionist. that's the main point would i take. >> is pelosi good for the republicans where she cancers they have run a lot of races successfully by bringing her in, nationalizing the race and say ing this local candidate represents nancy pelosi. it is effective. democrats under her leadership have lost a lot. >> i want to move to the scandal industrial complex, the cease less parade of charges and allegations and investigations, relating to whether there was alleged collusion between the trump campaign and the creme lin

. >> charles krauthammer said this a few week ago. once you give people an entitlement, it's very hard to take it away. kennedy: it only happened one time. a weird bush era real estate entitlement they were able to walk back. by the wasn't something as nebrask -- asnebulous as health. the cold war is still are much part of our foreign policy. despite the republicans infighting over healthcare, they have been spending a lot of time gushing about how hard they have been working on it. >> healthcare is working along have well. >> for us it's never been about the timeline, but getting the best piece of legislation that helps americans. >> it's not working. we are replacing it with a law that will actually work. kennedy: all that hard work doesn't seem to be paying off with the voters. a fox news poll shows 27% of americans support the senate healthcare bill. the quinnipiac university poll found 60% of america's taxpaye taxpayers -- 6 -- 16% support the repeal. >> i think republicans being characterized as cold hearted. republicans don't d

joni goldberg and charles krauthammer are saying enough with the excuses. >> short of 5:00 shadow and wink keeps on the beach, the transition to bitterness is complete. the idea that literally every single possible variable is to blame except for her and her actions is remarkable, she launched a humiliating election that was almost unusable and because she never knew why she was running. the thought of sending emails to her staff in the middle of a campaign after essentially being on the road for eight years and begging them to come up with the theme. if you don't know why you're running for president you shouldn't be running for president. >> shocking new video, swaying, slurring his words and struggling to stand. >> abcd efg. >> office is finding the golf great at sleep at the wheel, live with the more of that. just released. >> reporter: the video showing a lethargic tiger woods, tying his own shoes and the police cruiser before telling officers he had no idea where he was. >> do you know where you are going? >> no. >> just driving around? >> drive. heather: he failed field sobriet

fox news contributor charles krauthammer said it is not the republicans fault they can't come to agreement, it comes down to the failures of former president obama. >> not a failure of communication, this is a failure of expectations. the country does not want to see the entitlements handed out by obamacare, it communication, lack of coordination in the house and senate. it is the fact that medicaid -- people are used to what was. they don't want to give it back. that is the reason obamacare is in trouble. the country is not where it was seven years ago, the left usually wins, since the new deal, it is extremely hard to bring back, that is the core issue. >> tempers flaring at the white house press briefing over fake news, sarah huckabee sanders calling out cnn and other media outlets for false reports. >> multiple incidents where the outlet you referenced has been repeatedly called a disgrace to all media, all journalism. if the media can't be trusted to report the news that is a dangerous place for america and if that is -- particularly for the purpose of spiking ratings, coming from the

charles krauthammer is a writer and columnist. he joins now. charles, this is all we know about it. we don't have proof this is true. he says it's true. but this does seem like something we might want to be worried about given the relative cost of killing someone and treating them. should we be concerned ? >> absolutely. there are a lot of arguments against assisted suicide. the main arguments come out of holland. holland is the pioneer for assisted suicide. they allow this to ten, 20 years ago, and the slippery slope is terrifying. it starts out, they say, although try to do is alleviate the pain of terminal patients. and what you see happening, it starts out that way and holland, they end up on a yearly basis killing people who are not -- you are demented, who have no choice, without consent. old people's homes, because of quality of life. that's well known. also, the idea that it's only for terminal patients in pain is a famous case -- i wrote about it in my book, a woman who lost her two sons, was inconsolable, asked to be given assisted suicide. was. her doctor went on trial, b

national public radio, editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. the shooting coverage lasted a day before "the washington post" came out with the story yesterday that now the president is being investigated for potential obstruction of justice. seems like we can't stand one thing very long without it coming back to the political divide. >> five anonymous sources in "the washington post" story indicating that the special counsel has interviewed members of the intelligence community. five people unauthorized to speak. i think what you thought today was nice. it was heartening. i think some of the kumbaya mentality we have heard over the last 24 hours does kind of gloss over how low we have gone. i would say from the ferguson riots to baltimore, the total lack of respect for the police, to berkeley, middlebury, where someone like a charles murray is treated abysmally where you justify burning cars, turning them over, writing the f word on the american flag. this is the type of carnage which is going to get worse unless both parties speak out against

. >> meghan: part of the problem is, charles krauthammer was on fox news last night and he was saying this country as none of the same place it was seven years ago. now the american people like dominic dominic the american public will want health care to be provided by the government. people literally died waiting in line to get health care in arizona at the va. the support for repeal in lowering every day. >> marie: 30% public support for the senate bill. >> kennedy: it's a horrible bill. it's a republican bell and republicans hate it. you have two factions and they all essentially despise the bill. this form of socialized medicine -- i have to give president obama credit because the aca was brilliantly written because he got those into the economy and they are impossible to remove without collapsing the health care and insurance. >> marie: in ohio and places like west virginia, somewhere upwards of 90% of people are being treated for things like the opioid crisis through medicaid. these people are legitimately scared, county by county level, person by person if that will go away. >>

. >> fox news contributor charles krauthammer sounding off saying the latest hearing shows how far offe investigation into russian meddling has gone. >> he helped himself about. he basically uncovered or exposed the absurdity of this exercise. this is supposed to be about russian meddling in our election. that wasn't even an issue. then there was supposed to be about the collusion. there is not an ounce of evidence. i used to be a doctor. you show me the facts and i'm willing to change my opinion. this had been investigated for 7 months. there are leaks like the titanic and has there been any leak of anything, the president or the collusion with the russians? know. trying to tag it on sessions is even more absurd. heather: donald trump accusing democrats of obstruction saying they are clinging to obamacare just to resist him. >> republicans in congress as hard as they are working you have the democrats on the other side who truly have become obstructionists. even there new motto, resist. it is a pretty accurate motto. >> reporter: donald trump hosting republican senators at the white h

because remember, russia hacked our democracy, charles krauthammer is a writer and it columnist. charles, when you look at russia hacking our democracy, does pearl harbor come to mind? >> charles: i think that's a deranged analogy. >> tucker: [laughs] >> charles: one of the worst scandals since teapot dome. watergate is insignificant compared to it. i am not a trump apologist. >> tucker: i can vouch for that. >> charles: i love the word lordy. i will adopt it for my own. so far it starts with the charge the russians have interfered in our elections and the comey hearing, people got all incredibly sanctimonious. comey said it's not a republican issue, it's not a democrat, it's an american issue, a threat to our democracy. yes, they leaked some documents we think. the idea that they actually tampered with the system, the russians have been doing this just about every election and every country that we know. it's just a little more obvious this time. imagine that this had happened in 2012 and it was but romney, the man who said russia is our biggest enemy, it was at the receiving end

byron york, mollie hemingway, charles lane, and charles krauthammer.byron, your thoughts great >> the first thing was he confirmed some reports we've seen that the president asked him if he would consider letting go the michael flynn investigation. this was after flynn was fired. he confirmed what you were just reading, the loyalty request, although it's something we hear the president has asked almost everybody he's hired. on the other hand, he did confirm with the president said which was that call comey saidn three occasions donald trump was not under investigation. we've seen a brief statement from the president's lawyer saying he feels completely and totally vindicated. my guess is tomorrow what you're going to see is democrat saying that comey has just given them solid evidence of obstruction and republicans saying this makes us feel a lot better. we think it can be explained. >> bret: the president talk to lester holt, laid out the different meetings, said he'd been told he wasn't under investigation. then we have a series of stories from anonym

charles krauthammer has laid out why that might be the case. >> if it were obstruction, then he's indictingself. for not making a statement, for not bringing it out in the open. he can't say it's obstruction which is what everybody who wants to see trump destroyed is waiting to hear. what we will hear is something navigating in between saying it wasn't pressure. he was speaking on behalf of an associate, a friend. it could be interpreted in various ways. that's what i think is going to happen and that's why i think it's going to be a bust. >> eric: explain a little bit further. here's why charles is 100% right. 18 u.s. code number for talks about if you are a federal authority and you know of a felony and you don't report the felony, and here's the code. punishable by a fine of up to three years in prison. what he is saying is if he did say "i knew trump obstructed justice" and under oath a month or two later i didn't report the felony, he would be indicting himself to open himself to -- >> eboni: the day this all broke. you said if that's what he saying come he's got a serious problem beca

even her biggest handicaps were self-inflicted, charles krauthammer is a writer and columnist who joinss now. it just sound like what people make of trump. >> i know i'm in a minority with conservatives, it could be because i was in my youth a liberal. i retain that marshmallow deep inside of my heart. and i try not to betray these days. but it's a pathetic performance. the it's childish, she can't accept responsibility. she is at this where she says i love in one of her ribs she says was a perfect candidate? no. did i make mistakes? yes. these are rhetorical devices, whoever said she was a perfect candidate? she was a terrible candidate, she was the worst of manageable. she couldn't shake the challenge of a 74-year-old socialist who, this is the best part about bernie sanders, honeymooned in the soviet union. she couldn't shake his challenge for six months. lindsey graham once said about bernie and the soviet union, yes, and he never left. that was her challenge and she had the dnc behind her, she complained about the dnc being against her. it's not delusional, losing an election, losi

charles krauthammer. who has thought a lot about virtually everything.hat should the message be that democrats run on next time? >> the paradox here is the one wing of the party, the base, has a message. bernie sanders wing. they have a set of ideas. they want a government-run healthcare. they want government intervention. higher regulation, higher taxes and open the borders. they want to create a european social democracy. germany in the u.s. a coherent idea. i think it's nuts, a terrible outcome but it has appeal. he hung in there for six months against hillary. now the problem is that is not a majority of the party. it's the strong base of the party. it's not a majority. the rest of the party, the clinton wing, the part who supported her and went for her and who are the regulars do not have a message. that is the problem. by message, i mean ideology, coherent set of ideas. what they have, they have con touch whensies -- con touch -- they have constituencies. they appeal to blacks and young people. they appeal to women, mostly single women. to lgbt. th

charles krauthammer. good evening to all of you. there was that today. mercedes.you want to begin some sort of defense, or how would you like to characterize your reaction? >> it makes it difficult for the trump supporters who believe the president has the right agenda for america but that he gets distracted when he sends out these tweets which are incredibly disappointing. there is no need to be talking about this anchor's appearance or personal attacks. that particular show has been a relentless smearing campaign against the president. they have called him from a fake president to questioning his mental ability to be president and having personal attacks against the president himself. the president, it was coming to them. the president did not stay quiet. the president has now made these two television anchors into the heroes of the mainstream media and the left. >> bill: you brought up the program. i want to play clip of what we believe they were discussing before the tweet was sent. tweets, i should say and a sample of the flavor for the show in case the audie

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >>ria from the left is a good reminder that the hysteria is not just because of donald trump because donald trump is president but it's based on policy. some of the comments that you've heard. saying the united states had resigned as the leader of the free world, saying it was a traitorous act of war. it suggests how invested in the left is but there is a deep irony. it is, as you have described, a nonbinding, unenforceable, voluntary, nonratified agreements. how is it on the one hand that you have the left crying about this meaning doom for the planet and on the other hand it's not having any enforcement mechanisms. >> bret: when talking about this in the framework of how president obama signed onto it and how he put into it, it still wasn't a treaty. it never went to the u.s. senat senate. >> they would have voted it down. as steve said, the goals were voluntary and chosen by each country individually. if it was toothless and not binding, what's the harm of staying in. there was hyster

susan page, editor in editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> there's a lot to focus on. short of getting five clock shadow and wearing wingtips on the beach, her transformation into full nixonian bitterness is incomplete. the idea that literally every single possible variable was to blame except her and her actions was remarkable. mesmerizing watching it. we forget that this is a side of hillary that's always been there. in her memoirs, she writes about a vast conspiracy that chief justice rehnquist was leading against her and her husband. this was a woman whose captain sidney blumenthal employed for decades, conspiracy monitor. it is this worldview that she is a force for truth and justice at all of these evil forces are to blame for anything bad that ever happens to her. >> you have to wonder who this does any good for. doesn't do any good for hillary clinton and her reputation and her standing prayer and she doesn't look big in this interview. she looks small print can't help the democrats. there are a lot of people looking backward that

charles krauthammer sounding off saying what we need to know is not more finger pointing but a de-escalation of political hostility. >> this is a reflex i have seen among democrats. it is true to some extent among republicans. the vitriol in our politics is not unilateral. if you are a democrat you are to have at least the decency to wait a while before leveling accusations. if that language were so extreme we would have the beginning of a de-escalation. rob: donald trump slamming the russia investigation taking to twitter to wonder why he is being pro while hillary clinton is not. one of the tweets red crooked h destroyed phones with hammer, bleached emails it had husband meet with attorney general days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction, this comes a day after a washington post report claiming robert mueller is investigating the president for obstruction of justice for firing james comey. as we wait for confirmation on that investigation the senate judiciary committee opening their own probe into comey after termination, if the administration had improper interference w

susan page, washington bureau chief "usa today" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.usan, i am sure you have talked to a bunch of people today. how shaken are they? >> i think it has hit people pretty hard. they are shaken because of that sense of personal peril that most members of congress don't have security with them, but also and maybe this will be short-lived, but i think there's a sense of "have we gone so far in the fierceness of our political debates? and things like social media postings, going over the line of civil discourse that we should step back? will it have a more lasting effect? >> chris: katie, what have you been hearing from members and staff? the echo effect. >> the theme of the day has been unity, and i think it's important to point out that republicans were targeted because of who they are and what they believe in, the ideas and policies they have pushed forward. unity doesn't mean that republicans and democrats have to agree. it means they have to make better arguments about their policies rather than going to a lazy debate, quite frankly, abo

laura ingraham, mara liasson, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> there's a lot of viewsin the senate about whether they can get it done. there are some republicans who think not getting it done would be the politically best outcome for them. lindsey graham among them. they think they can still blame the democrats. there's also a debate about tha that. so far, there's not a bill insight in the senate and they are talking about getting it on before they go for recess. that's a couple weeks away. i think it's looking very, very difficult. >> bret: one of things i've heard is that they are going to p something together in the senate. they are going to strong-arm 51 votes and get it to a conference committee and then do the work of ironing out the details of what it looks like. >> i can tell you from my radio listeners all across the country this is the one issue other than the wall i think that they think trump and the republicans, they really have to deliver on forcing the border, building some kind of wall, and getting this obamacare repeal and replace done. i think it's p

white house reporter jennifer jacobs and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.mollie, it's happening. >> i think people are anxious to have comey actually answer a question. he's got a good track record of answer questions publicly in a way that's favorable to him, declining to answer questions that might actually shed light on exactly was going on at the fbi. i think it will be important for republicans and democrats asked for the good question. senate intelligence committee to just ask a series of questions about his memos, web access, who he transmitted information to. he declined to answer. that is par for the course. hoping on thursday we get good answers. >> bret: sometimes, and you heard brit hume earlier, these moments in washington never really live up to everything and everybody thought they were going to be. here you have this questioning and you wonder how much jim comey can answer about an ongoing investigation, how much she will talk about what he said to president trump or didn't say. >> it could be a turning point in his presidency. i know the wh

mollie hemingway, anna palmer, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.kay, obviously the administration wants to turn the page but the president keeps weighing in. >> they understand there is a lot of rage about the president and they do want a little bit of pushback so i think they're looking for that. i keep on remembering the last debate when donald trump was asked if he would accept the results of the election and he said he would wait and see. we spent many days talking about when a threat it was and how damaging it was to the norms where you accept the electoral results. here we are in june with a huge class of people who seem largely to be unable or unwilling to accept the results of an election and doing everything in their power to gum up the works. i think there are parts of this that are self-inflicted by the trump administration. there is a heck of a lot of this about people not being able to accept a won the presidency. >> bret: the white house briefing is still largely about this topic, and obviously it's a focus in washington. here is sean