kirsten before was actually delivered, most in the media seemed to give it a thumbs up. you had kind of a different take? >> yeah, well, i mean, i thought it was a pretty underwheming speech, actually. and the reality is you could almost write the articles before they come out and now what people say. every speech barack obama gives they think is brilliant when it's transparency not brilliant. and when i talked to democrats behind the scenes, yeah, underwheming. the media seems to think it's amazing, when it's uninspired. rehashed olds that-- pre-k? universal pre-k? is this 1980 and yet, they raved about it. >> jon: yes, bob schieffer on cbs says much better than the inaugural address, and savannah guthrie played his best card in the political fight, which is the emotion card. >> that gives away that political reports look this is a team. and team obama. when the football coach says my quarterback is the best quarterback ever. each year. if you're in the mood displaying is, you sound exactly like is a van in a g guthrey. >> if you were a conservative you tended not to li

kirsten powers is a editor for the daily beast. and both are fox news contributors. >> i know something about the chrysler corporation. i believe this is a tempest in a tesl afrpblgts you have a, you have a e sai he said he said. you have a reporter at "the new york times" with a solid reputation, and we have to get to the bottom of the facts. right now we just have a set of allegations. i do think it's interesting that broder said that elan mas called him before the story appeared to apologize for the test run that hadn't gone very well and said

>> i'm not quite as generous as kirsten when it comes to the motives of the media. i think they very intentionally are trying to divert attention from what was, i think, a brilliant speech, a brilliant response and a very difficult situation to the president, but they don't want to be talking about any of the substance of it, so they're trying to distract. look, i think marco unionio scares the left just about everybody out there instead of ted cruise. instead of talking about that really intense moment when rubio was able to identify with the american people say, look, i don't live next to millionaires. i live in the same working class neighborhood i grew up in. i just paid off over $100,000 in student loans. a few months ago. that is the last thing that the leftist and the mainstream media want the american people to be talking about so they pick out something stupid like a sip of water. >> bill: i'm going to say a couple of things and i hope people don't think i'm ego centric or narcissist. >> never. >> bill: this goes to the next segment with howard kurtz when i

kirsten powers columnist for the daily beast. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, we heard that senator lindsey graham on the reasoning behind his vote. and the reason whether why he o delay this. others have different reasoning. your thoughts on this and how it plays. >> as you said, there are a variety of reasons. i think the main one right now for the delay, it looks as if it's just a delay, it's not a denial until the end of time, of a vote on his nomination. it's to look in to the speeches, the income that he hadn't disclosed, in response to a question from senator ted cruz, who asked about that and hadn't received a response. i think the republicans are on good grounds of demanding information. they are required to give advice and consent. in the case of john boltton, nominated by the bush administration to be u.n. ambassador, he was actually stopped completely from the nomination from getting a vote. because of, you know, of a protest by democrats about lack of information. ultimately, the bush administration had to give them a recess appointment. s

>> very good question, ali and i think that kirsten might agree with me on this.the legal frame work for enhanced interrogation techniques was leaked and that was authored by top bush administration, justice department official, when that was leaked he the left went wild and went into meltdown and accused president bush and vice-president cheney and rumsfeld of ravaging the constitution and those interrogations, indefinite detention, warrantless wear tapping, data mining, all of which with the exception as far as we know of interrogations, the bush-- the obama administration, rather, has continued. and so now we get this memo leaked from the obama team that shows that they've done everything bush has done except for interrogation and took it one step further to target american citizens who are suspected of engaging in terrorist activity and yet, there is nothing with a few honest leftist intellectuals like kirsten who will blow the whistle on this and say we need some intellectual consistency here. if we're going to attack president bush for the counterterrorism p

jim pinkerton, contributing editor in the american conservative magazine and daily beast columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. hello again, normally we would uld have been video here in a clip of president obama hanging with his golfing buddy tiger woods over the weekend. but we don't have those pictures because the white house press corps was locked out, access denied. now, is that a big deal? well, maybe. especially when candidate obama made this promise. >> what i want to do is maintain this virtual community that we've built and i want people to keep challenging me and pressing me, and i want to create a white house that is more transparent and accountable than any government we've seen before. >> jon: well, the obama white house has been overactive in cutting off access, controlling the message and manipulating the media to avoid answering some of the tough questions. the journalist whose job it is to cover the president reacted to the latest shutout. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry served as the president of the white house corresp

i'll start with you on this, kirsten, as a public university we have an obligation to engage in difficultigation for controversial issues with goal of finding workable solutions. >> i don't disagree to get involved in controversial issues and there's racism still in this country and that's a true statement, however, this campaign is racist, i don't understand how they're fixing the problem doing something against white people or black and brown any other color people by saying i'm lucky i'm white. it implies somehow there's another value in white people and i guess they're saying, oh, that's what people think. well, you know, i don't think that. and i don't know very many people who think that and i'm kind of finding it hard to believe people in wisconsin sit around thinking that they're better than other people, you know, or they're lucky they're white and not, you know, black or brown. you know, it's just, it's absurd. >> megyn: it seems like, ill he' play devil's advocate. it seems like they're trying to say you may not be walking around consciously thinking, i'm lucky i'm white, but i

joining me is kirsten powers and tucker carlson.d to see you. >> hi, sean. >> kirsten, we can go back to the oklahoma city bombing. i'm going to show you other tape we have here. anytime there's any indication that the person either listened to talk radio, watched fox news, liked rush limbaugh, they immediately blame -- i'm not going to do that. just because this guy liked left wingers, i don't blame him, not them. >> you mean you blame him? >> sean: yes, blame him, not them. >> yes. i think pretty much conservatives have been saying that. when i saw the news that he had written a manifesto, singled out cable hosts, the first thing i thought, please, god, don't let it be a single than person from fox news, because otherwise it will be fox news' fault, even if other people are in it. turns out, loves obama, hillary, all these left wing cable show hosts, which of course have nothing to do with it, but we know what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot, which is this would be -- you know, fox news would have have been blamed f

your reaction, kirsten?u know, on the democratic side, the freshmen came together with folks like bob and others on the republican side. we've been working on this issue for five weeks now. in fact, the conversation started before we even took office. and on the democratic side, we reached out to leadership ahead of time and said hey, we're working on this project. it's important to us. it's important to our constituents. and we hear daily from our communities that they want a bipartisan solution and it ends the bickering. we got no push back at all from our leadership. in fact, many of them said, good. go forward and we need some change in washington. >> congressman pittinger, your reaction to that? do you see this or could it be perceived of as a potential threat to the established order? >> no, sir. we got tremendous support from our leadership. we all recognize that the national debt is the biggest crisis that we face. and that has to be front and center. frankly, all the briefings we attended together a

martha: i mean as kirsten points out there is collateral damage that happens in any warfare.s as well. the language is that, you know, to fall under this you would have to believed to be a senior member of al qaeda or an affiliate to be targeted in this way but there's a concern, a larger concern it could happen at home and that is another reason why this gets a ton of attention, skirs den. what is your concerns in that regard. >> of course it could happen at home. that is not necessarily a reason to be concerned. i reject the term collateral damage. these are human beings who are killed. i know that is how we talk about it. there are no different than we are. these are people who have done nothing wrong being blown into pieces by american drones and i think, you know, i just don't, i agree there needs to be oversight. >> are you saying a blanket matter all the people targeted by drones have done nothing wrong? >> collateral damage -- >> if you're in yemen stay away from al qaeda operatives. don't drive in cars with them. >> really, rich, a 16-year-old should be killed becaus

for more on these claims, let's bring in monica crowley a fox news contributor and kirsten powers, alsoews contributor. what a turnabout for this woman, this heroine who said she voted for barack obama in 2008, and she said it was a huge honor to be there next to the first lady, bigger than going on oprah which she also did and she says she feels betrayed and that they used her for political gain. monica, your thoughts. >> there are two parts to it. first the personal betrayal that sergeant munley feels because the president personally gave her his word that they would all be taken care of. so, there's a bit of hypocrisy that she's pointing to in the president's broken promises. the second part of this, which is the bigger story, obviously, is the designation of what happened at fort hood as workplace violence, which is patently absurd. major hassan for months leading up to this attack was passing out business cards that called himself soldier of allah. he was dressed in muslim garb, carrying a koran, increasingly radicalized, public speeches to his colleagues on the base radical islam

-- [laughter] kirsten, what about that argument, the flap over the photo?well, look, i'm always for transparency, so i think, you know, if the president talks about something, why not release the photo, but i agree with judy this is kind of beside the point. it's not really the big issue, and people claiming that it's photoshopped, i mean, that's just silly. i don't -- what he shoots has no bearing on anything. jon: the question is a lot of the president's political opponents think he puts out this photo sort of opportunistically and when it gets criticized or picked apart, then the white house doesn't like it. >> well, of course, and we have every right as the media to challenge whether or not a man holding a weapon in this position could have actually fired it. but let's remember what this is about. this is about an effort to reduce violence in our society which is now spiraling out of control. this should be about whether or not the president's proposals make sense, and they're the best way to do that. and that's the debate that we're still trying to avo

bill: does rubio have a point, kirsten? you have to secure the border first to prevent issues from coming back on you years down the road? >> yeah. obama done a pretty good job securing the border. i don't really, i don't really think that is the most important thing. i think it is more important to bring the people out of the shadows. i don't think it should take eight years for them to become a citizen. bill: when does he do it? >> i'm for amnesty. i would do exactly what ronald reagan. bill: right now? >> yeah. i would do exactly what ronald reagan did. >> what reagan did, didn't fix the problem. >> i don't, honestly understand what the complaint is here by republicans that the president is putting together a plan on the off chance that congress can't get something done. congress has shown that they're actually pretty bad at getting things done. so i think it is smart for the president to have something to, have a plan. this is not the final plan. so it is a draft plan. and i think it is a responsible thing for them to b

kirsten powers democrat and fox news analyst. if you were judge powers. judge powers and this woman comes in front of you with this attitude with the hair and what would you have given her? >> well, i consulted judge napolitano on this because it did strike me that this probably wasn't legal what the judge did. can i understand the impulse to want to react with this way he said it will be reversed because it it violated the cannons of judicial ethics. you cannot bail -- you can't raise someone's bail because they offended you. the bail is meant to make sure someone. >> bill: he didn't waive the bail. he just raised it. >> raised the bail. he can't punish her through raising the bail. the judge can go through all the different things that he did in terms of the violating his role as a judge. is he not the king. he is the judge. you have to follow certain things. >> bill: by the time it is heard 30 days will be up. >> you don't go to jail for 30 days for being obnoxious and disrespectful. i believe we have a problem with disrespectful. i don't blame school

i want to show you real quick, kirsten. we got some statistics about this.0% of the workers. this is unskilled. someone helped clean the house for my father, brought a meal, 10% get paid $7.89 or below. 50% of or more get over the $9 and that what is we're talking about raising minimum wage over $9. the problem, criticism of doing that, a lot make a lot on overtime. there are concern businesses cut back on overtime, that they would lose extra income they're already getting from overtime. >> well, i mean those are fair points to raise but, i mean i think the unions are arguing in favor so they get the minimum wage. i don't know why unions would have any interest in their workers making less money. people shouldn't have to, i mean, it was better if they could work shorter hours for more money than working overtime to make up the money if that makes sense. the minimum wage is a floor. doesn't mean you can't make money over it. if you will have the floor, if you believe in that, which i do, you will have that floor for unskilled workers at mcdonald's i don't kno

kirsten powers for the daily beast. syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. what do you think?i think, as a matter of helpful, it's not a good idea to expand medicaid. it's basically going to blow up under obamacare. you can understand the rationale for governors wanting to accept it. i wouldn't do it but it's particularly galling for for scott who made a career opposing obamacare. he ran a private citizens group opposing obamacare and ran for governor opposing obamacare. he was elected larmly because he opposed obamacare and he said he would reject obamacare after he was elected. he led the federal lawsuits against obamacare. once the supreme court decision came down said it would be devastating to the state. terrible idea to expand medicaid. we won't do it here if florida because we are going to do the right thing. money has spoken to him. he has changed his mind. bad decision and politically cowardly. hypocritical. >> he is selling it to the legislature it will only last three years, that is the time the administration picks up 100% of the tab. he is saying he is going to pu

kate joins us, and from washington, kirsten powers. am i over the top when i say we've become a barbaric nation, powers? >> well, i think the stuff you were discussing with bob beckel, the way the baby was disregarded and late term abortion thing, that is barbaric in my mind. i think we are supposed to be a country that protects the most vulnerable among us and what's more vulnerable than a baby? >> bill: so if that's true, and beckel got real upset when i said this, and i always know when i'm getting beckel when he gets upset -- the people pushing the late term abortions and the people pushing the, oh, yeah, well, you can't really punish a mother for doing crack cocaine 48 hours before -- you can't really hold her accountable. that's on the left. that's on the left. that's where that's coming from. not on the right. so how then should we view the liberal movement in the form of an andrew cuomo, in the form of the five new york jersey supreme court justices, most of them appointed by liberal governors? how should we view these people?

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