katie pavlich. steve laser and charles cook of "the national review." it's a serious night and so many questions as adam brings up. so many in fact it doesn't give us enough satisfying answers. this certainly is odd. people were looking at this as a park place shooting. but there is a huge terrorist element. what's the oddest part for you charles? >> it didn't fit the profile. you don't normally have more than one shooter. it's a guy in a trench coat he doesn't try to get away. from the beginning it looked as if it could be terrorism or a gang or mafia hit. kennedy: in southern california they were looking to see if it was a drug hit, being a border state that's one of the first things you look for. the obvious signs of terrorism we have seen, it doesn't quite square. >> i have been reticent, i didn't want to draw conclusions. not everyone with a muslim name is a terrorist. but it does look like this was islamic terrorism. kennedy: gender is something that caught people off guard. i think people in their spare time do a lot of racial profiling and they

and katie pavlich and also a fox news contributor. '. let's say mean things about people. is this a preview of the death match? >> between donald trump and hillary clinton? if it gets that far. i don't know that's pundit hospital think donald trump will make it to the general. but for an early exchange this was fiery. hillary clinton took something that's a liberal article of faith after san bernardino. we heard about what isis wants after that and it didn't line up with a lot of republican rhetoric. she took that from her own speculation and it into the realm of fact and it's easy to call out. kennedy: she lost this rounds. i imagine today there is a bit after scramble trying to figure out if this writes they are going. if they are look together general election, do they do to bring him down a peg? >> hillary is beating donald trump if he were to make it to a national election. but on this issue it's about time donald trump started take on hillary in this way. he's been take on republicans in a harsh way. i thought jennifer polliery was trying to take a breath there. why

editor of townhall.com, katie pavlich is back and "weekly standard" senior writer steve hayes is here. welcome to all of you. stunning details coming to light a short time ago. federal investigators believe that tashfeen malik swore allegiance to isis on facebook. as investigators say there is also a quote, very serious possibility that she may have served her husband's terror trainer and that they were being planning or i should say planning a second attack after opening fire on syed farook's office christmas party that killed 14 people and wounded 21 others. trace gallagher live in san bernardino with more. trace? reporter: the big headline, andrea, we know that fox news confirmed that tashfeen malik went on facebook using alias, and pledged her allegiance to abu bakr, the head of isis. also sometime before the attack she tried to go back on facebook to delete that post. clearly the feds were able to recover it. they say there is no evidence that isis directed these attacks but certainly isis inspired the attacks. keep in mind that isis told all of its followers to attack their home

katie pavlich, steve moore, founder of committee to unleash prosperitys and michael goodwin, "new yorkcolumnist, all fox news contributors. katie, let me ask you first, does this help him or hurt him? >> i don't think anything hurt trump you trump up to this point. melissa: good point. >> i don't think any supporters are worried about him endorsing him. they have very big egos and rough up critics and reporters of. very similar to hand them things. i don't think trump supporters will necessarily think this is bad thing. melissa: there was something he said, steve moore. translation is a little difficult, but said he is very flamboyant. he is very talented. without a doubt he is absolute leader. but then he said something about how he would be willing -- oh, he wants to move to different level of relations, to more solid deeper relations with russia. how can russia not welcome that? we welcome that. steve, what do you make of that? there is something more to that. >> the big question whether putin is registered to vote in iowa, south carolina or new hampshire or else it doesn't really m

katie pavlich and the former communications director for governor corzine. abby: when donald trump says bill clinton is fair game in this election, what does he mean by that? this is someone who knows the clintons personally. how far can this go? >> who knows with donald trump. he seems to be doing a pretty good job of insulting himself to the republican nomination. the republican establishment has continued to misunderstand the primary electorate. donald trump, despite predictions of falling apart is turning out to be in 2016 to be the clear frontrunner. they are responding to the candidates most against things. against immigration reform or gun control or minimum wage increase. somehow women going the bathroom. those aren't the kind of candidates who tend to be elected president of the united states, but they seem to be dominating the republican primary so far. >> he will go places that no other candidate will go. he has no boundaries. he's willing to talk with bill clinton. could this be a good thing for trump in the end? >> i wonder if donald trump was w