that is not you jon kerry. that on capitol hill members of congress attend classified briefings today hungry for background info on the president's plan. democrats left the briefing quite angry. >> my reaction to this briefing is it was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing. i calmly from this briefing really angry, deeply dissatisfied. >> it raised more questions than it answered. >> president trump assassinated soleimani he had no evidence of an eminent attack. kennedy: is the left wise to pounce on the president's iran dealings are they just blowing partisan smoke? let's meet tonight's party panel and talk about it. with god's townhall editor and fox news contributor katie pavlovich along with attorney danielle mclaughlin, and townhall.com political editor and hosted a guy benson show it is guy benson. welcome everyone. so jon kerry says this is tragedy. i think you could argue jon kerry has done more harm in the iranian realm then his boss or the current president. >> yes jon kerry in the obama administration

tell us -- tell us when we saw joe biden, hunter biden, jon kerry testify about it. tell us where you did it during the impeachment hearing. i don't remember seeing that testimony. i don't remember seeing the bank records. we put that bank records in front of you and the people are entitled to know what exactly was going on. >> thank you council. the senator from oregon. >> thank you nurse senator ontrack on behalf of heinrich and myself i have a question sent to the desk. >> thank you. [silence] >> the question from senator merkley and other centers as counsel to the president. please clarify your previous answer about the bolton manuscript. when exactly did the first person on the president's defense team first learned of the allegations in the manuscript? secondly, mr. bolton's lawyer publicly disputes that any information in the manuscript could reasonably be considered classified. was the determination to block its publication on the basis that it contains classified information, made solely by career officials or were political appointees in the white house cou

talk about running around competing with china and building relations with russia, he sounds like jon kerry that's wrong. we want russia to be an ally where russia is defying the united states everywhere in the globe it can. or they are helping at some point. [inaudible] gerry: i strongly disagree. >> we can argue about the role of russia because few commanders came from chechnya. somehow they found a way going by turkey was some sort of document, and ended up in syria and iraq. gerry: we've got to take a break. to the u.s. should develop a strategy to confront russian ironic middle east. >> it's more about u.s. strategy they have to build out allies. what's happy with the courage is a problem its resignation in other states prayed right now the u.s. reputation with the bush, obama, and now trump. it's very low and strategy. i hope that will help to build the trust. gerry: gary we have to take out break but i want to get gary's views on democracy in the world. stay with us. big ink tanks. lots of ink. ♪ ♪ . the new rx, crafted by lexus. lease the 2020 rx 350 for $419 a month for 36 months.

did jon kerry or joe biden agree with chris hines? if not, why not? >> just as the reason joe biden is not material to these proceedings, the reason why this is a baseless smear, is that the issue is not whether hunter biden should have sat on that board or not set on that board. the issue is not whether hunter biden was properly compensated or improperly compensated. or if he speaks ukrainian or doesn't speak ukrainian. with the president asked for was an investigation of joe biden. and the smear against joe biden is that he sought to fire a prosecutor because he was trying to protect his son. i guess that's the nature of the allegation. and that is a baseless smear as we demonstrated the unequivocal testimony in the house demonstrated when the vice president sought the dismissal of a corrupted incompetent prosecutor, it had nothing to do with hunter biden's position on the board. and everything to do with the state department, our allies, international monetary fund will use an unanimous agreement that this prosecutor was corrupt. and the onion cont

they had a big fight in the closing days and jon kerry came on to win iowa.going to happen here? joe biden has been coming up in the polls in iowa, i would say he does have to look like the guy, he has been the front runner all along, we have all thought they were opportunities for him implode and he never has. he is the front runner at the moment -- nationally and in iowa he seems the one position best to capitalize on this at the moment. jon: see you think this is joe biden's race to lose? >> i think the polls tell us it's joe biden's race to lose since the day he got in it. of course, his weaknesses have been knocked out, there have been times when he looked to have stumbles. the polling shows he has never quite stumbled. so yes, the narrative -- without the narrative was bound to change and it has not changed. any day now he could stumble complement something new could happen but it hasn't happened yet. jon: bernie sanders and elizabeth born have been battling for the leftmost wing you might say the most socialist wing of the party. but bernie seems to be

there is no question that as part of the ironic nuclear deal, the deal that jon kerry and barack obamaotiated, ironic got back billions of dollars in frozen assets and that use those assets to spread terror, gave it to hezbollah and other bad actors around the middle east. wouldde you be willing to concede that is part of the president maximum pressure campaign, that at least they turned off the terror money spigot? >> there has been a real impact on the ironic economy and to the regime because of that campaign. so that was a positive. but here's a negative happening at the same time. a real weakening of our alliances and partnerships. what made the ironic deal possible was getting most of the world aligned with the united states in putting nsanctions pressure on iran. that's what got them to the table. now we are in a place although president trump is saying here'sng a moment for diplomacy. we need nato more engaged in the middle east. we need our partners in europe. lots of other actions and steps he's taking in the last few years have weakened and strained of those alliances and par

talk about running around competing with china and building relations with russia, he sounds like jon kerry that's wrong. we want russia to be an ally where russia is defying the united states everywhere in the globe it can. or they are helping at some point. [inaudible] gerry: i strongly disagree. >> we can argue about the role of russia because few commanders came from chechnya. somehow they found a way going by turkey was some sort of document, and ended up in syria and iraq. gerry: we've got to take a break. to the u.s. should develop a strategy to confront russian ironic middle east. >> it's more about u.s. strategy they have to build out allies. what's happy with the courage is a problem its resignation in other states prayed right now the u.s. reputation with the bush, obama, and now trump. it's very low and strategy. i hope that will help to build the trust. gerry: gary we have to take out break but i want to get gary's views on democracy in the world. stay with us. the epson ecotank. no more buying cartridges. look at all this ink it comes with. big ink tanks. lots of ink. no more

did jon kerry or joe biden agree with chris hines? if not, why not?>> just as the reason joe biden is not material to these proceedings, the reason why this is a baseless smear, is that the issue is not whether hunter biden should have sat on that board or not set on that board. the issue is not whether hunter biden was properly compensated or improperly compensated. or if he speaks ukrainian or doesn't speak ukrainian. with the president asked for was an investigation of joe biden. and the smear against joe biden is that he sought to fire a prosecutor because he was trying to protect his son. i guess that's the nature of the allegation. and that is a baseless smear as we demonstrated the unequivocal testimony in the house demonstrated when the vice president sought the dismissal of a corrupted incompetent prosecutor, it had nothing to do with hunter biden's position on the board. and everything to do with the state department, our allies, international monetary fund will use an unanimous agreement that this prosecutor was corrupt. and the onion contr

in the crossfire -- >> i remember when jon stewart went on "crossfire." it was 2004. john kerryee facing george w. bush. and i thought, you know, watching it, i said, this is going to be a funny show. >> can i say something very quickly? why do we have to fight? the two of you, can't we just say something nice about john kerry, right now. >> i like john. i care about john kerry. >> and something about president bush. >> he'll be unemployed soon. >> anyone who enjoyed paying attention to the news and watched "the daily show" will forever remember jon stewart going on "crossfire" and reading those guys the riot act. >> you're doing theater when you should be doing debate. it's not honest. what you do is partisan hackery. and i'll tell you why i know it. >> you had john kerry on your show and you kiss his throne and you accuse us of hackery? >> the show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. what is wrong you? >> comedians and satire when done right will take on hypocrisy no matter where it comes from. >> i think the vice president and is his wife love their daught