charles was born in 1950. when he was 5, the krauthammers moved to montreal. but they spent summers at the family cottage in long beach, new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. >> i don't think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother's shirtless, i am. we're outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that's where i got all my knowledge was reading. >> of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son's stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. >> his motto for us was, "i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don't have to do everything, but you got to know everything." he thought that was part of life. >> that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. >> my father wouldn't allow it. once a week, sunday night, we'd go to the neighbors to watch "the ed sullivan show." that was the one concession, the television. >> inspir

charles krauthammer saying he is doing his job. and i agreed with him. >> president trump singled out jeff zucker for criticism. >> ask jeff zucker how he got his job. i sort of understand there's a certain bias by jeff or somebody for whatever reason, and i understand that, but you've got to be at least a little bit fair. that's why the public sees it. they see it's not fair. you take a look at the shows and you see the bias and hatred and the public is smart. they understanding it. >> i am opinionated. as part of jurmt, not to straight reporters like you guys, do you have an opinion? you are straight reporters. he is not fighting with people like charles krauthammer or anybody else, that's part of the business of being in politics, you get reviewed. he seems to want to knock out the guys doing the straight front page reporting. that's who he goes after. >> and delegitimize it as fake. we saw it yesterday and today where the reports, leaks, the information that's being reported that his administration says is true, trump is saying

charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story.astating accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion.

charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story.ting accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion.

jesse: smartest, james reasons or charles krauthammer. sen was going to be on tonight but he chickened out. this is as runaway for charles. it's not even close. reporter: i love rosen. but there is beatles music and weird things coming out of his office. charles, you see him as the deep thinker writing the columns. i'm go with charles. jesse: a hot debate coming up. ♪ jesse: a virginia school board chairman is make waves after telling his students they don't have to stand for the pledge of allegiance. he recently tweeted. you are not required to stand for the national anthem or pledge. there will be no action taken against you for choosing to not stand or participate. our president is a bona fide idiot, but you are safe in pwcs. ryan sawyers is president of the prince william school board in virginia. he's also running for congress. just so our audience knows. there is a law from a long time back that doesn't require public school students to stands. but then you went so far as to call the president of the united states an idiot. do you th

how is charles krauthammer? charles is still recovering from surgery earlier this year.me to share a part of that with you. quote: this being my first vacation from fox since i began there years ago, i should be enjoying the lay off except for the fact that i have to work hard. my doctors compare it to marathon training, to offset the debilitating effects of the surgery. i watch the show just about every night. and it is consistently splendid. the best newscast on television. i wish you all a merry christmas and a happy new year. i'll be back as soon as i can. charles, we can't wait, really. we are looking forward to seeing you on the panel again in 2018. finally, a special thanks to the "special report" staff, the correspondents, the producers, the technical staff. all who work on this team to make this show what it is. thank you. this has been quite a year. we thought 2016 was newsy. who knows what 2018 will bring. but we will cover it all. thank you, the viewers, for tuning in night after night. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. t

such as charles krauthammer, what the wall street journal editorial page thinks about me, -- editorial page. i do not care what the new york times editorial page things about me. so that is how i deal with the inevitable criticism which comes along with doing a job like this. whose opinion do you value? host: and sometimes do you deal with the criticism with humor? in your kentucky senate office, you have a wall that is filled with an unusual way. i have a lot of cartoons, all of them skewering me. i recently asked my staff to count up all of them over the years, and i think we were at about ask hundred, and none of nice.re but if you have a good sense of humor, you enjoy them. host: have 600? none of them are favorable? sen. mcconnell: none of them. not a one. nice. but if youhost: it seems like yy that. said, ionnell: like i am used to being criticized. you have to find out what is important to yourself, keep your eye on the goal and when opportunities to achieve what you want for the country come along, and that is what happened after 2016, all of a sudden we had a president who was

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charles krauthammer once said the nature abhors a vacuum. so does state craft.sness reflect the obama administration's pullback from the u.s. leadership role? >> it reflects countries trying to figure out where president trump stands. a good example is china and north korea. the chinese want to know, is the president going to push back against their campaign in the south china sea? if he is, there could be a potential conflict beyond the north korea dimension. they want to know, is he going to sanction them, banking institutions? more broadly if you look at the middle east, the challenge for the president will be what happens with iran and saudi arabia? the iranians just tried to kill the saudi crown prince. what if the saudis bomb to han? what if the russians drop a bomb by accident on american soldiers in syria. it's unfair to blame it wholly on president obama. it is some function of the time. >> doug: certainly half of america is blaming president trump for his, lack of a better word, lack of precision in his language. overt aggressiveness. >> it's been an e

charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job. and i agreed with him. since then i've watched many other people say that. i didn't direct him, but i would have directed him if he didn't do it, okay? jim? >> that was the president telling kristen welker on february 16 that he was doing his job but he didn't tedirect m to direct the russians about sanctions. joining me, foreign adviser. what his plea could contend given the documents had a senior official in his call to the russians. >> this admission of guilt by the former national security adviser is a shattering moment for the trump presidency. for the first time the special counsel is penetrating the white house gates coming very close to the oval office itself, and the stark simplicity of the charges against michael flynn. he's admitted guilt to them. send a very profound signal. it's about the u.s. illusion involving the russians and the simplicity of this indictment is a signal that there's a lot more to come. the information that was filed is a message to the white house that mike flynn faces expo

charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job. and i agreed with him. since then i watched many people said that. i didn't direct him. i would have directed him if he didn't do it, okay? >> so interesting to me because he really seems to defend mike flynn so often. we've seen this affinity from the president for mike flynn in ways we haven't seen when other people like paul manafort, george papadopoulos, his low-level staffer. saying he should get immunity, telling comey he's a good guy, shut down the investigation into him, makes you question, is it because flynn knows so much or feels a sense of loyalty to him or is it a little bit of both? it's an interesting dynamic because we've seen him not distance himself from flynn in the way he's done oawith others the white house was trying to do that saying he was only there for 25 days or whatnot. clearly -- >> obama administration official. >> right, who obama fired. >> most likable one. >> there were times where he was considered to be a running mate to be a runn to the president. reached out to him and t

charles krauthammer once said the nature of -- abhors a vacuum and so does statecraft.eat of war, we see it across the globe, reflect the obama demonstrations pull back from the u.s.'s leadership role in the world? >> also it reflects countries figuring out where president trump stands. a good example of that would be china and north korea peer the chinese want to know is the president going to push back against their campaign in the eastern and south china sea. if he is, then there could be a potential conflict they are beyond the north korean damage, they need to know are they going to sanction them, banking institutions, on north korea? broadly ifoo you look at the middle east, the challenge for the president coming into this new year will be what happens when i to iran and saudi arabia. they just try to kill the saudi crown prince who will be the king. that could happen in the next week. what happens if the russians drop a bomb to push soldiers out? there are so many issues. i think it would be unfair to blame it wholly to president obama. it's some degree a functio

charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job. and i agreed with him. since then i have watched many other people say that. no, i didn't direct him but i would have directed him if he didn't do it. okay. >> all right. so you hear that. we find out today in the court documents, manu, that there were members of the transition team, very senior members, who knew that kislyak and flynn spoke about sanctions. what do you make when you hear that, this is what the president said in february? >> he obviously did not think flynn did anything wrong by having these discussions during the time of the transition and the time in which the obama administration had issued sanctions against russia, right after -- in response to the russia meddling which, of course, the president has downplayed all along. it speaks to how the white house -- the president himself, sort of the affection and loyalty he has had for michael flynn. this president values loyalty above anything else. it is perhaps one reason why he did not want to fire michael flynn for some short period of time

charles krauthammer the other night saying he was doing his job. and i agreed with him. and since then, i've watched many other people say that. no, i didn't direct him, but i would have directed him if he didn't do it. okay? >> help us understand the significance of this time line. >> well, i think what the president is talking about is it would have been michael flynn's job to contact foreign officials as the national security adviser, but this all deals with the thing he pleaded guilty to today is before he was in the government, when he was in essence a private citizen. so the question is who in the transition directed him to talk to the russian ambassador twice about this. and a larger question is why did michael flynn lie about it if he didn't think what he was doing was wrong. why wouldn't he tell the fbi the truth about these contacts. and of course we don't know the answer to that question. but it is quite clear that the detail that is in these court documents can only have come from michael flynn. so it's a sign that he has obviously cooperated with mueller's i

charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job. and i agreed with him.ince then i've watched many other people say that i didn't direct but hut i would have if he didn't do it. okay? >> bottom line, on two occasions at least, december 22nd and 29th, before donald trump was president of the united states and hence before mike flynn was national security advisers they engaged way foreign diplomat to do things that were counter to current u.s. policy. i want to think about this. we know a new administration comes in, they want to do things counter to u.s. policy. i imagine there might have been a way to do this legally "opposed to do it, lie to the fbi or do it illegally? >> do it legally, wait until they become -- >> wait a month. >> until inaugurated and have all the policies discussions he wants. it looks a lot worse in the context of everything else going on. so far there is not yet a smoking gun other than the fact that mike flynn lied. we're in a new situation now where you have an insider who's ready to tell what really happened. that will, as time g

directed him because that's his job and it came out that way any all fairness i watched dr charles krauthammer the other night say he was doing his job and i agreed with him and since then i've watched many other people say that no i didn't direct him but i would have directed him if he didn't do it. when you start to look at this timeline tom it is getting really confusing here who fired flynn february thirteenth february sixteenth he made that statement saying hadn't done anything wrong now he's saying well he fired him because he had done something wrong he lied to pens and he lied to the f.b.i. what is the white house narrative now on what exactly the president's position is. well that that business about lying to the f.b.i. as a reason for firing him. doesn't quite make logical sense because first of all it's the first mention that he's made of having lied to the f.b.i. and what's what's also clear is that his. his his own attorney apparently has been telling reporters that in adding that lying to the f.b.i. that he was just paraphrasing his own comments in the past which is just not not

i have tried to follow the arguments of william kristol, george weiland, even charles krauthammer as to why they distance themselves from trump. radical, a little too to conservatives and and talk about what he brought to the table. his conservatives and a gradual evolutionary process where you make change and trump shook things up too much? show less text for conservatism itself. host: remember, the initial argument against trump was that he was not conservative enough, that he was a moderate, maybe even a left winger. my initials aboard for trump feature.e a the consensus in favor of free trade, alessi's award not the dutch were not helping the middle class or lower class. even foreign policy which has been overwhelmingly successful, thatpresident seeks to me trump is considered as pursuing mainly centrist policies which would of been considered mainly centrist policies, policies either on the left side of the republican spectrum, only 15 or 20 years ago. it's easy to dig out quotes from various politicians, democrats or liberal republicans. and from centrist or liberal organizatio