he's juan williams. this is overheard. ♪ >> smith: juaa williams, wwlcome. >> williams: evan, good to be with you. >> smith: very nice to have you here and congratulations &->> williams: ttank you, sir. >> smith: could you tell us what happened that was the genesis of this? would the book have been written, although the point is a general point, not entirely about your own experience over the last few so, would you have written the book without what happened to you? because the point is a bigger point... >> williams: the point is a much bigger point, but let me just say that, as we're hhre toddy. >> smith: yeah. >> williams: .it's about a year. >> smith: yeah. >> williams::.it's almost a year to date since this whole thinn exploded. >> smith: right. >> williams: and i must say i never thought i'd be in this situation. because as you were pointing out, the kind of books i've written and, you know, you would hope that you woold get attention for your wriiing or forryour journalism, and suddenly i found mys

juan williams is here with reaction.s in a stunning interview, the anointed one claims that his administration bears no responsibility at all for the failing economy. plus, more fall-out over ann coulter comments from last night's show. >> the two most conservative candidates who are still standing now are michelle bachmann and mitt romney. >> michelle is here to break it down. we are on the road to 2012. "hannity" starts right here, right now. >> sean: on the eve of the biggest debate of this primary season. tomorrow night in iowa, we will be there. the republican presidential candidate will collide on the fox news channel. and ahead of that all-important showdown, new polls are shaking up the g.o.p. field. and they are showing us just how volatile this, well, nomination race really is. first, we begin with the view from a nationwide poll where according to the "wall street journal," nbc news, former house speaker newt gingrich leads mitt romney by a stunning 17 points. they are followed by ron paul, michele bachmann, r

we want to thank juan williams and all of you. >> thanks for coming out. >> juan williams will be in the book signing tend. you can purchase your book at the bar and then noble tennant up the road toward the capital and come back to the book signing can't. thank you very much. [applause] his newest release, "sex on the moon." >> host: ben mezrich, where did you find the story of "the accidental billionaires"? >> guest: you know, that one actually came at random, a random e-mail, 2 in the morning. i was sitting at home, and it was a harvard stupid, and he said -- student, and he said my best friend founded facebook, and no one's ever heard of him. >> host: when was this? >> guest: wow, it had to have been -- it gets all mixed up because of "the social network" movie. i guess about two years before the movie came out, so 2008 or so? it was right before the movie "21" came out. the e-mail was right out of the blue, and my wife had forced me to be on face wook, so -- facebook, so i knew what it was. so i went out to work with this guy, and it was eduardo who andrew garfield play inside t

juan williams. >> take it easy. >> bob, what are you wearing?idn't hit you. >> you did, too. >> i didn't finish my point. >> it's not called the one. he's called "the five." [ phone ringing ] [ laughter ] >> sorry. >> i'm your pocket-size provic tier. robert-size host -- hobbit-size host. kim kardashian sweatpants. let's do this, america. every single thing i regret in my life occurred after four melon balls. >> melon balls? >> what is that? >> midori and orange juice. >> all right. >> you are the straightest human being i have ever made. >> your face is so red right now. >> okay. >> you say potato, i says potato. >> nobody says potato. >> who cares? >> whoever sits in that chair. >> the wheels just came off the bus. >> it's your birthday and we want to spend a moment. >> "the five" for? oh, for "the five." >> guess what it is today, you guys? our 100th show! >> oh! [ cheering ] ♪ ♪ >> happy halloween. >> the one and only donald trump joins us on the phone. >> i have to admit, you have a great show. >> bob has gotten much nicer over the last mon

joining us now from washington fox news analyst mary katharine ham and juan williams, juan, what say you? >> well, i think you had him back stepping, bill. i think that was a tough interview for him because on the abortion issue, he just wasn't comfortable in saying why he was allowing abortion to go forward in massachusetts when he was governor if it was a heart felt position that he was taking. i think that's very hard for him. i think you were right again when you said you know what? conservatives just don't think you are that conservative. they see a lot of flip flops. individual mandate and the like. they think you are going to go back to that once you win the primary. for him, even though he got all these endorsements this weekend, i look at the poll numbers, the poll numbers look to me like it's about the same for romney. it's not despite all the conservatives saying you can't trust newt gingrich, is he reckless, is he unreliable, is he not truly conservative, i don't see anybody really, as far as voters concerned rushing to romney's embrace. is. >> bill: what do you say mary

and joining us mary katherine and juan williams. juan, what say you?inkt's an out raining, as part of the human contract. if you see someone injured or acting in irresponsible way, as a tauadult as a human being. >> and getting allowing the classrooms be about the betterment of children, i don't see any question-- >> this teacher has done this before. you know, there's video of two incidents, mary katherine and then there's the teacher, the president, oh, you know, we tell it to you and we show our members, you know, look, you want out of control in the public schools, you got it. you got it. it's out of control. >> yeah, this is out of control and actually the surprising thing about the two clubs, you can tell it's sort of a structured event going on and he's sort of letting it ham. >> letting it happen. >> and here is what's going on. in the unions there is probably easier to get sued for trial lawyers and touching a students and get in a fight and-- >> this may be different when i was teaching at pace high school in opa-locka, florida, i had to brea

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brit hume and juan williams and mary katharine ham will analyze. >> i was disappointed in mitt, i really thought that he would go out and had courage. >> donald trump will be here. his upcoming debate looks shaky. we will get the inside story. >> tell me why you think these pinheads are fascinating. >> who are the most fascinating people of 2011, well, barbara walters think the kardashians are in the group. i respectfully disagree. ms. walters will be here. >> stop giving me a hard time, billy. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. voters who don't know anything. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. right now more than 200 million eligible voters in the u.s.a. i don't want to be supercilious. i estimate that at least half of those folks no idea, none about what's going on in washington. and their vote counts as much as your vote and my vote and we take the time to study the officials. presidential candidates know th

juan williams, fox news political analyst. he joins me now. make of gingrich's comments refering to the "fast and furious" program to track guns through mexico being a trap essentially. >> that blew up on them. julie: in fact hurt americans, not mexicans? >> so odd to me, as a matter of fact, julie the program was started under the bush administration. i don't quite grasp why he would think it was continued under the obama administration then that means it was intended to justify some gun control measures the administration didn't want to actually put through the congress. the facts just don't support his statement. julie: the "fast and furious" program first of all blew in their faces. >> certainly did. julie: an american border patrol agent was killed. >> right. julie: this was supposed to track guns in mexico. in fact some were lost. they were found in a drinking cartel's house in a basement behind a wall of mirrors. essentially an american died. we want to hear from eric holder. we expect some sort of accountability. he claimed he didn't k

host: it is a question juan williams poses in a piece from fox is on december 1.an, you are last. go ahead. caller: good morning. long time the work. -- long time viewer. it has been no christmas present listening to the program. ever since i turned it on, it has been a bashed republican day. just an overall brief overview of congress, republicans won by a majority because they vowed not to raise the people's taxes. they really believe in cutting spending, but the democrats wanted to increase taxes as a way to address the debt. this past week, the payroll tax cuts, the democrats saying, "we want to decrease your tax cuts." that was the republican mantra. i believe democrats can be so hypocritical at times the sometimes i yell at the tv, but i'm glad i got through today, and i wish everyone a beautiful holiday. host: your thoughts. guest: i think we went over this earlier. someone called in saying democrats have lost the argument about raising taxes in a time of economic uncertainty. i think that is right. what as i said earlier, when it comes to the higher echelon

let's begin first with an update from juan williams. so, since my firing i was hired full-time by fox news to be a political analyst there. i have -- i appreciate that, and i certainly appreciate fox making that decision. you can imagine it is scary in these days when journalists are such a tender -- under such as economic pressure. i also writing a column, and i have just finished and intense four months of life in which i have been writing this book that mark mentioned which will come out in late july. so that is kind of an update on where i am now. now, let me change hats and pretend to be the radio talk-show host. i would say, well, tell us exactly how you think this storm started. when did the tornado ripped into your life? and i guess my response would be, well, i didn't even know it had written to my life. what happened was that bill o'reilly, the number one talk show host on cable news in america, was on television and expressed his belief that muslims attacked us on september 11th which prompted whoopi goldberg and another woma

juan williams, columnist with the hill and david drycker, roll call. besides the user of the ding.to use so it much and the candidates disregard it. we might have to have a fog horn or something. dade, your thoughts about the debate and how it played out? >> i'm a big fan of the electability question. it appears unseemly to useless to only talk at winning you can't govern or do anything. it might make me a d.c. insider but great way to start. mitt romney had a great night and he didn't stumble when chris wallace asked him about the flip-flopping on social issues. he may not have convinced anybody but he wasn't whiny. he didn't shift. it was better than the interview with you on the healthcare question. the big loser is ron paul. he started out pine. fiscal issues, great. criticizing newt gingrich on the judiciary reform plan. great. foreign policy, a big huge problem. he doubled down. part of the problem for ron paul he doesn't espouse a different point of view. he tries to tell everybody there is nothing to worry about. i don't think for the republican primary voters he can get pa

juan williams, the hill.ted columnist charles krauthammer you heard the house majority leader on this show say they are going forward, they are going to push this and see how far they can push senator reid to negotiate on one-year payroll tax cut extension. >> there is the same that certain factions never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. republicans here had a win because keystone pipeline divided the democrats. gave republicans a major policy and put president obama in a box. he didn't go over with the rank and file conservatives. not just the freshmen, but the veteran and the freshmen conservative in house caucus that want more. speaker boehner and cantor have no choice but to go along with what the members want. leaders have to do that. they are in a mind. for now, the senate democrats are dug in and they have no idea of changing -- in washington, there is dug in and dug in. my reporting today they have no intention of doing anything. the senate republicans are similarity disabused to do anythin

here is juan williams, and arv parker. here we go again, juan. i talked to senator mcconnell today.american people, playing politics, misrepresenting the republican' position. the republicans did support an extension in the payroll tax cut. they did support it. they just were saying, we have to cover spending for the cut. now, that is a very different position than saying the republicans chose to raise taxes on 160 million hard-working americans. that's dishonest. that's not true. >> when you said, here we go again, though youth were going to say it's time to stop with he politics and time to take country first. >> what become obama? >> what about republicans who refuse to raise tax only millionaires and billionaires and trying to take money airplane from working americans -- >> how about they cut spending? they're borrow 40 cents of every dollar? >> they're talking about republican proposal would require a three year freeze of salary on government workers and the -- >> the president is being dishonest. here's the point. very simple. the republicans are willing to go along with an e

and liz cheney, and fox news analyst juan williams. last night's debate, all of the cand dastes went after newt gingrich. despite the speakers promise to be positive he went back at them quickly. your read. >> i thought he did well. there is a question does the bad newt come out and the guy who looks in the mirror and sees charles degaulle. he kept a sense of humor and deflected the attacks and i thought his answer on the personal one about his marriages was very effective and asking for forgiveness and he will find that the voters honor that and that will not be an issue. i think he held up well so far. >> chris: you think mara, they got him on the k-street connection and man dates? >> i don't think so. i think that all week we have heard about newt's problems and there are tons of them and the republican voters so far seem to be absorbing that and discounting that. and i think that one of the charges against him a career politician he had a good come back to romney. you tried to be one and would have been if you hadn't lost to ted ke

and now, our political analyst juan williams. e for "new york times" and the "washington post" and the "wall street journal" which is owned by the parent company of this network. what do you make of the polls? >>juan: not good for the president or any circumstance. this is a employment where you -- you look at the president's number and the numbers and the people do not feel like the economy is moving in the right direction. with foreign policy, the numbers are good and in terms of personal rating the american voters like him and his family. this is all about the economy >>shepard: and now electability. i wonder, who do you consider on the republican side to be the most electable? >>juan: well, you look at romney you have to say he would fit that to a tee someone who has a record in terms of speaking to economic issues. gingrich as you saw from the poll that you put up, is someone who is unfavorable, the unfavorables are high and the favorables are not sufficient to make up for it. so for the swing voters they would look at him an

it is wednesday and time for wednesday's with juan, fox news political analyst, juan williams writes for several numbers including the "wall street journal" and "washington post" and "new york times" and lots going on. poll numbers are changing. how do you see this? i heard krauthammer saying the republicans have botched this? >>juan: it is a true. a political trap has been set and the republicans walked into it. you have a situation where they had an opportunity to say okay there is a deal, because, remember most of the republicans in the senate went along with it, but the deal, the trap involved here is that the democrats said if you turn away from this, then, of course, republicans will be blamed as people who are causing most american families to endure thousand dollar tax hike beginning january 1. >>shepard: do you see a way gore them to have an agreement to allow the republicans to maybe turn that around in and way? >>juan: well, not at the moment, because it would require that harry reid, the senate leader and president obama agree to open up the talks to negotiation and they