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i think look at the conservative commentators whether you talk about jonah goldberg, others, krauthammer, who are questioning the very stability of the president of the united states. we have many reporters, myself included, who have talked to numerous people, republicans on capitol hill who in private will tell you they doubt the stability of this president and that in the last week it has really been demonstrated. it's part of the story and it is very hard to cover. it's a different dynamic than we have ever had to deal with before. but the tweets that tpresident f the united states have been making are a roadmap of his mind. that roadmap takes very crooked corners. >> you are talking about what republicans might be saying in private. in public, we haven't heard so much of this. jeffrey, let me put on screen part of your column from the new yorker. you said it is a certainty that history will look unkindly upon the moral blindness of contemporary republicans. you say there's been relative silence from gop leaders. >> that's right. carl is correctly pointing out that a few conservative

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jonah goldberg writing, quote, you're the one person the president can't fire.be you were misled. maybe you were part of the deception. i'd like to think that's not the case. either way, is this really what you had in mind when you took the job? jonah goldberg is a senior editor at "the national review" and fox news contributor. that's a lot. what do you think the vice president can do right now? >> well, look. one of the things we know that donald trump is right about is he threw away the old play book. he broke the mold. he's not playing by the conventional washington rules. that i think is a big source of a lot of his problems. some of those rules were there for a good reason. but, mike pence is still playing role of the dutiful surrogate vice president who just goes around talking about the president's broad shouldered and manful leadership and all of the rest. i don't think he's helping donald trump by playing that role. donald trump set him up. mike pence went out and repeatedly said that the fbi director was fired on the recommendation of the deputy attor

jonah goldberg, mara liasson, fox news senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano. and mercedes schlapp. mara, what about today's message? the faces of the european leaders seemed to be snickering or appalled or one of the two periods because they didn't like it, i think that's fair. it was a public scolding. what's interesting is that obviously is not the first person is done this. you just heard gates say the same thing. obama complained about free riders. he is within his rights. he was a little bit misleading when he said they owe the american taxpayers. and the other countries paying their share. >> bret: i think he was saying them american taxpayer has been paying for all these years. >> but it's not a protection. they don't pass to protect them. they spend a certain amount on defense with a can all contribute to the common defense. a match, he is within his rights. i think that what the europeans would've liked to hear in addition to that was a more ringing defense of article five which is an attack on one is an attack on all. he did mention it but he didn't

jonah goldberg slamming that double standard. >> the thing i find flabbergasting the trigger a memorym the campaign, why isn't homea aberdeen in jail, i have friends, security clearance that would be carted out of the building for doing a fraction of sending, quote, thousands of emails to anthony weiner, susceptible to manipulation and blackmail. >> you might grab an umbrella before you head out the door. >> janice dean tracking heavy rain for some people anyway. >> to carry an umbrella. >> above this boundary, we have warmer temperatures south of the boundary and you can see it across the central us along the boundary for low-pressure for potential for more heavy rain shifting across the southeast in the ohio river valley. we have watches and warnings in effect in these regions and this continues to move north and eastward and the trailing cold front across the southeast departing by tomorrow. estimated precipitation, saturated with rainfall, that is why we have flood advisories. >> we could get heavy rainfall. we are expecting a cooler forecast and looks like rain in the forecast. a

jonah goldberg fox news contributor. good morning to you.eard you late yesterday describe these pre-existing conditions in some states suggesting we don't have the whole story. is it on the books or is it not? if you change this law are these people protected or are they not? >> look, the simple fact is the pre-existing condition issue is an important issue. there are real people who have concerns about it. but starting with obama's push to get obamacare passed, democrats have height and inflated numbers way beyond the reality. you had some democrats saying 129 million americans would be denied insurance if they could deny people with pre-existing conditions. it's more like 1 or 2 or 3% of the market out there depending how you do these things. a lot of states have had on the books for years prior to obamacare had regulations preventing discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. they tend to be in the sort of bluish places where republican moderates are coming from and so there is a lot of hyperbole and exaggeration. no stat

jonah goldberg, national correspondent for "the washington post," mollie hemingway, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> i thought the comments were syntactically challenged. what comes across to me is that the appointment of mueller is good news at least in the short term. assuming he's not guilty of any of these charges, it takes it out of the hands of democrats and out of the hands of the press to a certain extent and lets him focus on the trip, lets him focus on agenda. if anybody calls for impeachment, which i think it's ridiculous, the white house and the replicants get to say we have to wait for mueller to comk with his findings. until then, there's nothing for us to do. it slows down the congressional hearings. that's all good news. >> it gives him permission. the question is whether he has the discipline to focus on edge. the white house put out the light of the president had been stoic when he received the news, he said to his staff let's go to the agenda. by this morning, he was tweeting about how it was a witch hunt and he was a victim. i think he can use a little bit

jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review.ditor in editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> there's a lot to focus on. short of getting five clock shadow and wearing wingtips on the beach, her transformation into full nixonian bitterness is incomplete. the idea that literally every single possible variable was to blame except her and her actions was remarkable. mesmerizing watching it. we forget that this is a side of hillary that's always been there. in her memoirs, she writes about a vast conspiracy that chief justice rehnquist was leading against her and her husband. this was a woman whose captain sidney blumenthal employed for decades, conspiracy monitor. it is this worldview that she is a force for truth and justice at all of these evil forces are to blame for anything bad that ever happens to her. >> you have to wonder who this does any good for. doesn't do any good for hillary clinton and her reputation and her standing prayer and she doesn't look big in this interview

but i had jonah goldberg on the show.nd he made the point if director comey did not keep detailed notes on his interactions with president obama but did with president trump, it's damning he had abagenda. i want all of the comey memos -- >> why would it matter what memos he would have written about president obama if it's true what he wrote about president trump, that president trump is asking him to end an investigation? what is the -- >> great question. and a lawyer's mind and in jonah's mind, if you don't keep any votes on president obama and you do on president trump, it indicates that you have an agenda at the beginning of the trump administration to somehow either box him in or embarrass him. that's why i want all of the comey memos. i don't know that to be true, but i certainly do believe based upon the new york times that he was suspicious of him going in. and there are reasons to be wary of donald trump. you have to be wary of the president drawing you in. he's not the normal guy who back slaps everyone and gets

mollie hemingway, jonah goldber goldberg, carol lee. carol, your sense. after the meeting at the white house, is their sense that this is going to come to fruition? >> they feel better about it. i was at the white house today. there was a lengthy meeting. they seemed to have reached a compromise that they feel they can thread the needle with this. pretty significant promises, saying preconditions would be, they guarantee everyone who needed the provision, it wouldn't change. they admitted they don't know exactly what effect would be on premiums. they were optimistic about this. they've had a tough go so far on the presidents legislative priorities. they would very much like a vote. then it goes to the senate. >> bret: talking about the pre-existing conditions. this is a big problem for moderates in particular. the president referenced at this weekend. fred upton from michigan offered an amendment and here he is explaining what it does. >> it's our understanding that the $8 billion over the five years will more than cover those that might be impacted. as a