doug schoen is with us. i want to bring you back in. >> sure.dent clinton's law doesn't this reverse it. >> i helped the president and this does reverse it, the '90s was a very good time and helped to reduce the welfare roles, but stuart we've talked how tiermentiermen entitlements have to be put on the table for a plan. we need to reform, medicare, medicaid, welfare and social security. stuart: he won't touch entitlements. >> it's part of the concensus, that says he has to do that just like the republicans were willing by and large to take on revenue. stuart: stay there, a couple of issues going on here. >> sure, sure. stuart: after a long delay the house of representatives finally approved a 50 1/2 billion dollars hurricane relief bill for hurricane sandy. it passed despite being loaded with pork. 240-180. some said we don't want it, i'm astonished, your thoughts. >> i'm sad we couldn't have a clean bill for sandy, once again there was pork loaded into a bill that, whose purpose is undisputable and undeniable. reflects badly on the congress of

and let's bring in doug schoen, former clinton advisor and fox news contributor. i'm saying, it's a huge win for the president, politically, but for the country, economically, i think it's very bad news and you say what? >> it's a disaster. i'm a centrist democrat, still am, a centrist democrat, but a democrat. we're doing nothing about the debt, the deficit, bugetary policies and we're up against the debt ceiling limit in a month or two. stuart, this is rotten. stuart: at what point are you going to leave the party that's just done this to us? >> well, the republican party had no strategy, no plan, nothing as an alternative so you have to compare something in this case to nothing and i'm not going to join a party that's bereft of ideas and doesn't stand for one nation policy. >> at the start this have program, i played greek music. >> right. >> and sort of tongue in cheek, but there's a point there. am i being too strong in likening america to greece. >> stuart, had i been you, i would have played italian folk songs we're closer to italy than to greece. we're hea

political insiders to talk about it, john leboutillier, former republican congressman for new york, and doug schoenontributor, and former pollster for president clinton and pat caddell is under the weather today. doug, people are more skeptical today than four years ago. >> absolutely. four years ago there was a universal sense of enthusiasm, optimism, and hope about the election of our first african-american president who ran on a theme of being different, uniting the country, and changing politics in the withed with. -- in washington. today we are me polarized and pessimistic and people have less hope for the future and are more cynical. the president himself is being more partisan in his approach. >>gregg: who rasmussen polls, john, which underscore the question, that is this: 63 percent of g.o.p. voters disapprove of the g.o.p. in congress. compared to the democrats and how they feel about the democrats in party. is the republican party in crisis? >> total crisis. first, to the president and the numbers you put up. you rule the way you run for office. if you run a campaign on substance and you

>>gregg: back with our political insiders, john leboutillier, pat caddell and doug schoen learning thatrow will nominate former senator hagel, a republican, to be his next secretary of defense. given the things hagel has said of the so-called jewish lobby, about gays, about hamas, about hezbollah, is this going to be a bruising battle? >> absolutely bruising. these are huge issues the republicans threw mcconnell today signaled they are going to look very, very closely at the nomination which is code for expect most if not all republicans to vote against but democrats in states like new york, new jersey, and connecticut and florida, tough if them to support hagel given his positions on iran and israel and i think this is going to be another chaotic fight something that could be like john tower. >> and you have not only democrats in states as doug described in the northeast but landrieu in louisiana, and mark pryor in arkansas. they will vote for this guy? >>gregg: why nominate this guy? >> he likes hagel and the attitude is i will get you for susan rice and shove this down your throat. h

john leboutillier, panot caddell and doug schoen. >> secretary clinton was impassioned, she did not fullytions, you are right. she took responsibility, foisted it off on lower level people, protected the president, and bottom line? it was a wonderful performance that puts her in line to be the nominee for the president. >> was it a deal? >> we will get to that because of the -- look, the 60 minute thing. >> she and the president --. >> she allowed the lie to continue, the fabrication, as the president calls up 60 minutes to put her on the air so he can pay her off for protecting him on benghazi which is unprotectable. >> you are saying the president is paying off hillary clinton tonight? >> what do you think this? >> endorsement for president. >> it is a call to pay off. a difference. joe biden, poor joe, but, anyway, the thing is, let me say this, this was made possible by the second great republican guide: incorn -- incompetent. >> they have pushed since before christmas do have hillary clinton testify and they blew it^. >> you have only five minutes, you have to organize. after the div

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former congressman from new york, and pat caddell, former pollster for president jimmy carter, and doug schoenton. john kerry has a lock. he is a member the boys' club. the others? >> there will be issues and challenges with all three. if i had to bet i bet they all are confirmed and that hagel will be the toughest but ultimately will get through. the larger issue, with brennan going to c.i.a. and with jack lew going to treasury this is the effective consolidation of the white house and the president directly over treasury and c.i.a. and c.i.a. nominally an independent agency. >>gregg: these are corner -- cronies? >> yes and it is worrisome. >>gregg: pat, especially hagel who has said to republicans, troubling things about iran, hamas, hezbollah. >> said troubling things to democrats and not just republicans and he will be the most problematic. we see president obama and his chief of staff will either be biden's or the deputy of tom donnalyn, all white males, to drop the mask of pretense of bipartisanship, pushing the agenda through and the discussion each of them is what we can do in terms of

what about this monica crowley radio talk show host and doug schoen former pollster to president bill >> happy new year. bill: happy new year to you as well. is this the fight you want to pick next. >> if you're the president you believe you have maximum leverage at this point. any second term president almost mid lee becomes a lame duck. he probably feels like he does have the maximum opportunity here to get the rest of his agenda through which largely includes immigration reform. bill: doug? >> yeah, i think with the victory on the fiscal cliff, where the republican divisions were unrolled we became clear at how weak frankly the republican party is, the president is going to push an ambitious agenda and i think the republicans having lost the election in large measure because they couldn't get more than 27, 28% of the hispanic vote, bottom line if the president has an expansive agenda including a pathway to citizenship for the 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants here it's going to be tough for the republican toss resist. bill: two pointed questions on this. first the latino vote, 71

let's bring in doug schoen, former pollster to president bill clinton, and monica crowley, radio talkhow host and both fox news contributors. good to see you. what a story! if you were to craft a scenario to make a good argument for someone having a gun, and what are the chances she just recently went to the range with her husband. she went over all this stuff with her husband and then someone tries to break into their home. monica, you start. what do you take away from this? >> this is could instantly become and i think unwittingly become an example of responsible gun ownership. the reason they had a handgun in their home, by the way they kept it very safely. they kept it in an actual safe was for this very kind of scenario where their lives and their property was being threatened. and in this case she was working from home. a man came up to the front door, burst into the house. she grabbed her two children, martha. ran upstairs. locked herself in a room, bat room. called her husband who called 911. they did everything correctly. this intruder came in. i'm not sure whether or not he

. >> megyn: joining me now, pat goodell from former president carter and doug schoen, formerly with presidentplaying sound bites from the president during the broadcast and i think the viewers have a sense how the tone was and we played it in full yesterday the, but the president did seem irritated with some of the questions, when major garrett now with cbs, not raising the debt ceiling, and now he thinks it's out of line for the republicans to do the same and he didn't seem happy with the questions or what's happening now politically. your take on what we saw, pat? >> my take was, of course he's unhappy. the president right now is in a mode he's king and he's out to destroy the republicans and they're every way we can. he can say what he wants. i thought garrett was, the questions that major garrett asked were right on target, about the history of this. he acted like it was read from the teleprompter and the question-- he said we were close to being able to destabilize our debt and deficit. this is insanity. he's making the case we stopped corporate loopholes his white house after biden dema