over with our political panel, tammy bruce, radio talk show host, and fox news contributor, and doug schoen, former advisor to president bill clinton and a fox news contributor. good to see both of you. >> hi. >> all right. doug, this can't be shocking, right? >> no. >> but, here is the but, can you think of a democrat who is on the november ballot, currently rarely mentioning president obama in campaign speeches, however, who might have once aligned his or herself with the president and the gop won't hesitate to remind them of that. >> i think that pretty much is most if not all democrats. when the president was elected in 2008 and indeed even in 2012, there was a strong sense that president obama was the head not only picture lily of the democratic party. i don't think there is a candidate running in a marginal state or district who is willing to mention the president and indeed, he comes in to states now under the cloak of darkness to attend fund-raisers which are usually off the record and off limits to the media. >> tammy, so? listen, i just said it. i'm going to see if you agreed, won

former clinton adviser doug schoen o this topic tonight. and also what happened in benghazi on september 112 years ago? the story straighfrom the men in the middle of the firefight that night in benghazi. brugger joins us with details of this exclusive interview with three of the men who survived. and at this hour, president obama returning to the from the nato summit in wales or one point it was considered by many to be weak and ineffective sections r the cease-fire reached today. >> the only reason that we are seeing the ase-fire at this moment is because of the sanctions that have already been applied and the threat of further sanctions, which are having a real impact on the russian economy. and they have isolated russia in a way that we have not seen in a long time. lou: president obama also saying that he has forged a 10 nation coalition among the nato nations to combat the islamic state terrorist group and make sure this time to stay away from freigt phrases other than degrade in deffat and destroy when speaking of his strategy. ed he

former clinton adviser doug schoen is with us.he screen, i don't think the gop is attacking on any one of them. >> stuart, you couldn't be more right. the president has approval rating below 40. that's clear. people want change, equally clear. what you said to me is the key point. there is no republican counternarrative and, hence a lot of senate races they should win are still in the balance, hanging in the balance. stuart: the republicans retreat from the field, hoping that the democrats will just fail under their own terms. retreat? they're off the battlefield. >> again, what brian was saying is critical. there is a middle class in this country is hurting. what they're saying is democrats, republicans, what's your agenda? they know with obama it's not working, they know it's big taxes, big government. there is no credible republican alternative. stuart: do you now think that a republican sweep of the senate which looked likely two weeks ago is now in doubt? >> it is in doubt, i'm not suggesting that it isn't going to happen, i'

martha: joining me now, doug schoen and rich lowry. both fox news con trit tributers.hese are serious allegations. when you are asked for all documents, you must turn over in these situations all documents. you don't get the discretion to separate out the ones that might be incriminating and the ones that aren't. where are we with this, rich? >> it's completely explosive if it's true and it can be established. this will be top-level hillary aids obstructing this investigation into an attack against our ambassador and united states interests. the select committee should pull on this thread and we should hear maxwell in open testimony and if what he's saying is delect should be other corroborating evidence. >> you say there are credibility issues with this. >> i must say that rich's formulation is a fair one. maxwell was disciplined. he's disgruntled. his behavior i think during that period. but the way rich formulated it is exactly right. we also need to hear from hair mills and jake sullivan before we rush to judgment. they are serious allegations. we need to find out

radio talk show host chris plante and fox news political analyst doug schoen.'s start with joe biden. he was talking about how his aunt went over to iraq and he had a tough time keeping up with their loan payments and so forth. >> some of them took advantage of women and men overseas. >> i grew up a nice catholic irish kid and i know that this word is a disparaging comment. >> as a jewish individual who grew up with particular sensitivity, you just wonder how someone can make a mistake after a mistake and this is not the first ethnic or racial club that he has made. so it is discouraging and a bit disquieting. tom: as doug said, this guy is almost to the point where it's clownish. >> i would delete -- i would just say that, the vice president is an embarrassment. i played the audio today on my show and he's constantly talking about this. he called president obama the first mainstream black eyed to come along that is articulate and bright and clean. when you walk into a 7-eleven or dunkin' donuts in delaware coming have to have an indian accent, and the list goe

martha: doug schoen and rich lowry are both fox news contributors. a past president, even if they have different backgrounds in terms of their political philosophy, there are things they can share. does this president have the qualities to allow him to reach out to george w. bush after all the water under the bridge? >> sadly from what i have seen the answer has to be an unequivocal no. even in the "60 minute" interview sunday night there was no sense the president himself accepted any blame. the intelligence community is pushing back against him. there is one larger message. we are all americans. we are all involved in a war against isis. we have to pull together whether we are democrats or republicans and work together to solve a huge, huge problem that affects our nation, and our liberty. >> of course obama should call bush. this is someone who lived and breathed the war on terror for 8 years. who lived and breathed iraq for years and years. he was videoconferencing with maliki constantly. it would be humbling and even humiliating for president ob

we'll get to this and talk about benghazi with doug schoen, former advisor to president bill clinton.ley, online opinion editor "the washington times." both are fox news contributors. this seems like a big deal. he seems grateful for this opportunity. doug, you say there is lot more to it. >> a lot more to it. russians through vladmir putin have taken 15% of ukraine. gotten a cease-fire largely on their deals. a european trade deal ratified on tuesday, delayed a year not to offend vladmir putin. what president poroshenko was saying as we came back, we have treaty obligations from the 1994 budapest understanding to the defend the territorial integrity of ukraine. martha, we haven't abided by that agreement at all. the russians have won. we've lost. >> sorry we didn't help you out but here is a nice joint session of congress to make you feel better. >> correct. >> and meals ready to eat. >> no military aid either. >> vladmir putin will not stop at this because there is nothing and nobody there to stop him. this is just the beginning of the march to nail back the soviet union back togeth

bill: brad blakeman and doug schoen.oth agree there are elements of bush in this speech but you believe it's four years too late. >> he instituted a platt form appeasement and apology. instead of the policies he stated yesterday, the president needed to hold the muslim and arab world accountable for the terror that's happening in their region. if he would have governed in the way the world was instead of the way he wished it to be, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today. >> i believe as americans when wear facing the crisis of isis and groups like the khorasan network as well as al qaeda, the best thing to do is to find the commonality our values and approach and not play should have, could have, would have. i'm pleased with what the president said and i'm pleased we have a commonality between former president bush and president obama. bill: this is what con found me about the speech from yesterday. the only language understood by killers is the language of force. the united states of america will work with a br

bill: joining me are monica crowley and doug schoen. up were on with him last night.he right or not. is he right or not? >> it requires american action and leadership to create a global or regional consensus which you should have in this situation with a growing threat to the middle east as well as a direct threat to the united states. if you cannot get that coalition and you need to try to get international partners. at the very least to foot the bill for what's going to be required to deal with isis. if yo you can you cannot get tht you have to act alone. bill: first, doug, for the record, is o'reilly right or not? >> i think o'reilly is right. i would offer one caveat. we can build an international coalition and we must by leading in the. the king of saudi arabia publicly chastising the president for not doing more when you have the egyptians who put together the peace deal with hamas and israel. basically what that is saying is there is no international leadership. there is no american leadership at all. i believe we are the indecember pencible nation. i believe d