jonah goldberg, head of national review and a fox news contrib e contributor and nome shyber. why is the mainstream press maybe some would say be latedly turning critical of president? >> i think we can call it scandal fatigue. you have the va, the irs, you have bowe bergdahl. i think we're tired of policies that we're not sure are working. but as a mom, i also have to say it is impossible as a reporter not to see these children and feel sorry for them. and it's impossible as a mother not to see and think about the children who live in the inner-cities in chicago, legal immigrants, and how all of this is going to impact them. >> the picture res hard wrenching, jonah goldberg. but when you look at the pundits, even on fox, saying obama should have gone to the border. is there something about this border crisis that has even presidential cheerleaders jumping ship? >> people are covering because it's a significant news story happening realtime with great pictures and great pictures not in -- in the journal. >> not happy to see the picture. >> exactly. and so obama simply seems to

i would say the best piece about pikkety's book is by jonah goldberg. don't read his book.t's so long. read jonah goldberg's piece about it and it says he makes a shady case with bad facts and he gets to the point that he says -- well, here is the bottom line. if i were hillary clinton, i wouldn't necessarily hitch my wagon to that star. >> absolutely. thoughts on hillary clinton and pikkety? >> spinal tap had a better tour than her. the idea that inequality is a threat, it shows you progressives tend to choose solutions that are always far worse than the threat they attempt to cure. what would be the solution in capping salaries, forcing businesses to jack up wages. >> you must admit that income inequality is a huge political issue in the country. >> it's been made a that way. >> on saturday there was an article in politico where the democrats are trying to do a communications pivot away from income inequality because they are desperate to protect their red state democrats in november, so now the president is like a president without a message. he can't bring up income ine

jonah goldberg, and charles krauthammer. jonah? >> i do not like this katrina analogy myself.ies, no one thought that president bush's policies led to hurricane katrina. i mean, it was a hurricane. the crisis on the border is a direct result of the president's policies and decisions. so in some ways this is worst than katrina, because this is something they created. i think the reason why barack obama doesn't want to go to the border is he doesn't want to sort of presidentialize this contco controversy. but that ship has largely sailed. >> the fallout and response, rightly or wrongly, how they handled it, the image of president bush flying over and, you know, the fallout from brownie, you're doing a great job, all of that stuff, that's where i guess they're getting the linkage. >> right, and there's a sense that president obama, i mean, jonah is right, doesn't want to sort of own it, and if he avoids it, talking about it as a crisis, sends out statements and requests for funding, it's an emergency. but it's not something we has to go and visually be part of, optics is the word

leland: jonah goldberg, editor-at-large of nationalreview.online.mply, why do you think the president isn't going to the border? seems like something he could definitely go down and have photo-op, those kinds of things. why is this administration keeping him away? >> first of all, happy 4th of july. happy independence day. i'm sure i don't have as much flair as ed henry but i will do my best. i think one of the main reasons he doesn't want to give a photo-op about this, he doesn't want to make this a bigger story. the refresh your recollection of refugees, these kids at border is absolute deadly to the split can call narrative president obama wants to build about immigration reform. in part because the reason those kid are there that they have gotten this message that president obama wily nilly give the kids citizenship if they make it across-the-boarder. the crisis at the border is prove of the complaints about amnesty. these kids, or their families think they get amnesty if they make it here. the president, mainstream media has to cover more and t

we'll ask jonah goldberg into. >> wildfires in eastern washington burned hundreds of square miles and the president has declared an emergency in washington state. >>> at least 47 dead, 11 injured after a plane crashed during an emergency landing off taiwan. the plane went down in severe weather, crashed into a neighborhood. we'll have a live report. that is all ahead "happening now." >> thanks, jon, we'll be watching. jon: thanks, sandra. >> i'm clearly outnumbered here but now it is my turn with this story in what could be the nanny state once again thinking it knows best. california governor jerry brown signing into a law a bill that limits the number of full-contact football practices for teenagers. the new rules limit practices for middle school and high school teams to two per week during the regular season but also prohibits team from holding full contact practices during the off-season of the law adds new guidelines how to medically treat a teenager with a concussion. so, are we like, is this going into the category of wussification of america? too much, too involved. >> this i

i heard i think jonah goldberg talk being how the lack of media access to these facilities where they'reessman for this district, i would like to take a look. the people guarding the place said, come back in three weeks. it is amazing that the main stream media is not shocked and protesting the lack of access to these things. >> where is the transparency? >> there is a lot of issues with transparency across the board with the administration. but this one on this crisis obviously a lot of people want to see the situation. there are all sides to this issue, humanitarian side about these kids, but a lot of them are being walled off from media access and the question is what happens? what action is going to be taken? senator mccain and others say the first plane load of central american kids heading back to guatemala or ecuador or honduras would stem the tide more than anything else. we'll see if it ever gets to that. >> we'll see. bret baier's got ten hours to prepare for his big show. 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on the fox news channel, thank you very much for joining us from your castle.

last night i heard jonah goldberg say when you do the breakdown, the amount of money we would be spendingw. >> that's just this time. >> wow. so you got to stop the bleeding or stop the flood. so if you've got a bathtub and it's overflowing with water, you don't continue to put towels on the floor to try to absorb the problem. you have to turn off the spigot. let's switch gears and talk about this -- let's turn off that faucet and turn this on. this is getting a lot fired up. a conservative mother of three in west virginia had all sorts of liberals on twitter just giving her all sorts of backlash because of pictures she posted. this is following the hobby lobby pro decision, hold ago chick-fil-a cup in front of hobby lobby, in front of the flag, clinging to her gun and her bible. we're getting nasty tweets. >> yeah. i think she even tweeted out, liberals better not look at these pictures because your heads will explode. you know what? apparently some heads did explode. even though she was exercising her freedom of speech. here, for instance, is an tweet from attic. holly fisher, so i was