doug schoen: jackie salit has been in front of the front lines and begin depended movement before there was an independent movement. i am proud to have worked with her for 25 years. as a colleague and as one of her students. she has taken the movement from a party-based movement, as it was during the reform party days to move beyond parties, to organizing and empowering independents without a political party, and creating new tools for the exercise of power and bringing people together across ideological lines. for 30 years, she has been willing to speak out against any kind of effort to cripple or subdue the independent movement. whether it came from a republican, a democrat, or even an independent. here is a quick look back at a few of those moments. >> the reform party is a sham. >> the attitude that calls the reform party a sham, it is that attitude that inspires millions of americans to become involved. it does matter what the attitude is, because that is the kind of dismissive attitude that -- there are lots of people in the progressive movement who are concerned about the possibi

also former clinton adviser doug schoen is with us.egin with you because of proximity, if you will. $500 million. that clinton spent. just about the same on travel as those in need. how do you defend such a thing? >> first you are talking about an ex-president and a former secretary of state. they fly on private airplanes. and the reason private planes, as you know, are pretty expensive and that is number one. number two, they have and will retain unique power. so for them to go meet with people and try to raise other funds is arguably an expenditure of worth undertaking. the number sounds high there is a logic and a rationale behind it. lou: the number that strikes me is that of a half billion dollars really. 75 million go to those in need. that seems eight clear-cut unequivocal case of corruption and. >> until we know what the other categories include, i don't think we can reach a definitive adjustment. >> a half billion dollars was sloppy and surely a secretary of state, well, they are operating under our laws. >> i said that they a

we take it up tonight with judith miller and former clinton adviser doug schoen.o italian police have busted a an al qaeda terror cell plotting to attack the vatican.

why do i see doug schoen there? he is one of the videos. that is interesting.ocrat, in one of the supporting rand paul libertarian. >> i don't know that he is supporting rand paul but making comments about him that the paul people like and ability and uniqueness to appeal to non-traditional republican candidates. i'm concerned about you who complained so bitterly so bitterly we pay taxes, we all do, why you not be in favor of the flat tax and no irs and tax form size of index card instead of a telephone book. why that wouldn't appeal to you. >> you're talking about the ted cruz candidacy now. >> honestly i think they both support the same type of tax reform. >> they do. stuart: i support it. absolutely i support it. i don't think it is realistic. i don't think you will get it. >> thank you, thank you. stuart: that is dreaming. >> this is one of those cases where presidential candidates come along promise a chicken in every pot yet they can't deliver, a flat tax, as much as i love it support it, a member of congress says you're taking away the power of me and my

doug schoen: jackie salit has been in front of the front lines of the independence movement before peopleze it was possible to have an independent movement in america. i am proud to have worked with her for 25 years. as a colleague, and as one of her students. she has taken the movement from a party-based movement, as it was during the reform party days, to move beyond parties, to organizing and empowering independents without a political party, and creating new tools for the exercise of power, and bringing people together across ideological lines. for 30 years, she has been willing to speak out against any kind of effort to cripple or subdue the independent movement. whether it came from a republican, a democrat, or even an independent. here is a quick look back at a few of those moments. >> the reform party is a sham. it is a cell. -- shell. >> the attitude that calls the reform party a sham, it is that attitude that inspires millions of americans to become involved. it does matter what the attitude is, because that is the kind of dismissive attitude that -- there are lots of people in

also fox news contributor democratic strategist doug schoen. and the author of blood feud, ed klein. here's what's going to be interesting, she's going to try and distance herself from barack obama. >> right. >> the obamas and clintons as you've chronicled hate each other. is she going to be able to successfully do that without retribution from obama? >> not at all. i mean, we know now that valerie jarrett has instituted a whole series of investigations of hillary when she was secretary of state. a couple of those the e-mails and the use of foreign governments for the clinton foundation have already dropped. more is yet to come from the obamas. >> all right. let's go through doug, she's got a lot of problems. those questions i asked there, how big a problem is saudi arabia and all these countries with atrocious records on gay rights, womens rights, religious freedom, how big an issue is that? >> i think that is an issue. but candidly you've talked about orgy island it was a good week for her. the allegations against -- >> but the case goes on.

martha: doug schoen and monica crowley. what have we learned so far about rarnld paul?> as a conservative i shared his frustration. i think there are two important points. one positive and one negative in how he's dealing with the press so far. it's to the benefit of any republican candidate to attack the press. it rallies the base because they all hate the left-wing press too. it makes him look fearless. the base likes that. so it does work to his advantage. the problem is that the general electorate is also watching this and watching him. what they would like to see out of any presidential candidate is presidential go meaner and presidential -- presidential demeanor. martha: ways your reaction? >> i watched the interview. my reaction was rand paul was stepping on his own story by interrupting. the "today show" is not a hot bed radicalism nor is cnbc. my take is it was counter productive. i work with candidates. i say answer the question, turn it to your advantage. don't attack the press. monica is right. there is no sympathy on the right with the left-wing media. but

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patti ann: monica crowley a fox news contributor and doug schoen. saw that man that montage. that has led some analysts to ask, is this a case of political retribution? >> at the very least the timing would appear to be. bob menendez along with bob corker from tennessee have a bill to require any iranian agreement to be subjected to senate approval. -- i'm sorry congressional approval. but the challenge is now that menendez has been indicted, he has had to give up his ranking any mort position on the senate foreign affairs committee the challenge the democrats the republicans face, if there is a deal as we expect there will be, how does bob menendez lead the bipartisan opposition now that he's facing 14 counts. he's been in short denuted. patti ann: he was a vocal critic somewhat silenced at a key time. at the sacramento time yesterday the department of justice that indicted menendez announced they are not going to press charges against lois lerner of irs fame. lois lerner a white house loyalist menendez a white house critic. >> they are not going g

independent movement when they joined forces to get mike bloomberg elected mayor of new york city, doug schoen. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> jackie salit of them on the front lines of the independent movement before people realized it was possible to have indeed been movement in america. i am proud to have worked with her for 25 of those years. as a colleague and also as one of her students, just taken the movement from a party-based movement as it was during the reform party days to move beyond parties, to organizing and empowering independence without a political party. and grading new tools for the exercise of power and bringing people together across ideological lines. for 30 years she has been willing to speak out against any kind of effort to cripple or subdue the indeed been movement. whether it came from a republican a democrat or even an independent. here's a quick look back at just a few of those moments. >> the reform party is a shame but it is a show. >> is the attitude that calls the reform party a shame it's that kind of attitude that inspires millions more every single day to become involved. >> it