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charles krauthammer on that.en pinheads and patriots gavin newsroom the mayor of san francisco, your verdict is. pkó@v@ zx7? >> bill: back of book segment tonight there is an article in the back of "newsweek" magazine that says the presidency might be too complicated for one man or woman to handle this because president obama is having so much trouble as did president bush before him. charles krauthammer is not buying it. he joins us from washington. do you think this is just more excuse-making? >> yeah, it's actually rather pathetic. you didn't hear this when ronald reagan was president. it's the kind of thing that gets cooked up in the mainstreamed me were when you have a failing democratic presidency. this was a ton of this in the late years years of the jimmy carter administration. late january a piece in the "the washington post" saying how the day of the larger than life presidency is over. one year later we elected a larger than life president in reagan. august 1980, last few months of the carter years,

we appreciate it charles krauthammer on deck.nt bush gain agnew found respect by talking about his book and other things? charles will answer that question. moments away as we continue from >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. let's bring in fox news analyst charles krauthammer from washington. so you are watching president bush all this week and tonight on the factor. overall assessment of him? >> i think what's remarkable is that this return to the limelight has shown us why he was once so liked. and i think the reason -- people forget that opposition to president bush originally was the very light, early in his presidency. there was some resentment over the resolution, of course, the election against al gore. but he wasn't hated. what was so interesting is that and then he won again re-election against john kerry. he was a likeable guy. what happened was when the war in iraq went bad, when we had the scandal with abu ghraib. the policies were so difficult and searing in their results, there developed a very widespread ha

charles krauthammer on that.n pinheads and patriots gavin newsroom the mayor of san francisco, your verdict is. francisco, your verdict is. in those reports ahead. hi. you know, if we had let fedex office pri our presentation, they could have shipped it too. saved ourselves the hassle. i'm not too sure about this. look at this. [ security agent ] right. you never kick off with sales figures. kicking off with sales figures! i'm yawning. i'm yawning some more. aaaaaaaand... [ snores ] i see your pnt. yeah. snores ] [ malannouncer ] we understand.® you need a partner who delivers convenience. next time use fedex office. >> bill: back of book segment tonight there is an article in the back of "newsweek" magazine that says the presidency might be too complicated for one man or woman to handle this because president obama is having so much trouble as did president bush befor him. charles krauthammer is not buying it. he joins us from washington. do you think this is just more excuse-making? >> yeah, it's actually rathe

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somebody else in that list that interests you and why. >> well, charles krauthammer didn't name a name- >> he's not running. >> right. [laughter] >> i would nominate him and vote for him. >> you know, he says the anti-obama basically. i think the anti-obama is mitch daniels, governor of indiana. i mean, you don't get drier than the former omb director under bush. he's a number cruncher. what he's done in indiana, bret, he privatized the interstate, and everybody held after he did it, but turns out to be a genius move. he's taken budget deficits and turned them into budget surpluses. created thousands of jobs. the guy is dry, but very, very likely. i think he has a very good chance of challenging barack obama from a very crucial state. >> kirsten? >> i think that's sort of the johnson and mitch daniels fit into what charles is talking about if it turns out into the year of the dull as he said it would be, those are the type of people, but when you go through the list it always leads you back to sarah palin. the reason is because most of these people are kind of -- yes, they're great on

nina easton and charles krauthammer.e agenda is this because january 1, the taxes go up. >> lame duck session are wildly overrated. they don't usually do anything more than they actually have to. sometimes they do less than they have to. but i think they have to act on bush tax cuts. there is obvious agreement. they have to agree to cut tax cut, including for the wealthy. >> bret: despite the back and forth from the white house and the president and axelrod. >> it's all game-playing. he will have to do it. it's in his best interest. what the president doesn't understand for his re-election, you know who his best friends are now? republicans. the thing he needs more than anything else is a strong economy. the last thing that will help the economy is raising tax cuts on the people who invest in start-up and create more jobs. they have to do something about a budget, because spending for the government expires and they'll extent it one way or another. then there is the doc fix so doctors don't have a drop in medicare. >> th

and columnist charles krauthammer. >> this is the final hammer in utility of our negotiation. the farce began when the clinton administration concluded the frame wok agreement, in which the deal was they would freeze and dismantle their plutonium program for the goodies including the two nuclear reactors, where a lot of economic support. the problem is that there are two ways to develop a bomb. plutonium or uranium. we assumed all they had was plutonium. in 2002, our negotiator in pyongyang was told they had separate uranium progress. they denied it over and over again. so we had no idea. now we discover they have, as you said, vast facility, thousands of machines that look quite modern. this is not something that was done overnight. they had a parallel program while they pretended under the clinton and the bush administration to be dismantling or holding back on the you plutonium program. this means they were not stopping at all on the development of nukes. i think we will reflexibly return to negotiation. the reason this is revealed because what they want is another farcical

"the weekly standard" henderson for the "the washington post" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> this is a huge elm bare -- embarrassment to the administration and is a blow to having the tears tried in civilian court. this is a guy involved in a plot and his defense was that he was an errand boy. he was a dupe. he had no idea what was happening. but that was undermined by the one count on which the jury found him guilty, which was conspiracy. conspiracy as the judge explained explicitly, he was asked to come in and explain the law. conspiracy is defined as knowingly, willingly, being part of a plot. so obviously he knew he was involved in a plot which undermines the entire defense. and, yet, he is acquitted on 280-plus charges. what this demonstrates is two things. number one, in principle, we should never have these people who are acting as illegal combatants in a war against the united states, a jihad that osama bin laden had declared openly in 1998 to kill americans everywhere in the world ought not be treated like ordinary americans who have these high protectio

let's start with the trade deal and the lack of it on this -- charles krauthammer and let's start with the trade deal and lock of it on the trip. >> the president walks out to a stage and walks out empty handed he has a failure on his hands. this is becoming a ritual. this is incompetence and experience and arrogance. handed a treaty by the bush administration. it was done. he wanted to improve on it. so far, he has nothing. the e.u. has a treaty, which is going to make it difficult. it will open up the market and it will remain closed to us. this is a pattern with obama. he thinks he can reinvent the world. with iran he decides he has a silver tongue and sweet talk anymore a deal. he is humiliated over and over again. russians, he gets nothing. middle east, he proposes a ban on jewish construction in jerusalem, which is never going to happen. what does it do after 17 years, it destroys any chance of negotiations. again, combination of he comes in, i'll reinvent the world. i know everything. arrogance. and the result, he gets zero results. >> bret: a.b.? >> it's a huge disappointment f

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, charles, your thoughts?> when you have to appeal to the magna carta, you're pathetic. his defense is he couldn't afford a lawyer. what what is he indij innocent? he has place in dominican republic. he just doesn't have a defense. the only issue now is level of punishment. won't be expelled and probably get reprimand. why he didn't settle it months ago i don't know. he thought he'd run out the clock or dodge it in some way. a sad photonote on iconic career. >> bret: the full ethics committee will meet thursday and this is the next phase to go over sanctions. what are the possibilities here? charles mentioned he doesn't think it will go the full expulsion from the house. >> it doesn't look like he will get expelled but there will be a letter that he will admit wrongdoing. mr. rangel did not have to invite the trial. he's so full of bluster and made a huge scene unnecessarily. charles is also right when you are drowning, the magna carta cannot save you. this is the least of the democrats' worries. monday after

first, george will, charles kra krauthammer, others have made this point -- >> conservatives. >> they've made the point they're not common sense, not using intelligence. there's no reason to be doing body searches of 6-year-old, 12-year-old girls traveling to louisiana visit their grandparents. we're not talking about profiling but to not stop them but use it to apply our defenses to those most likely to cause us harm. here's the second concern. it feels like from this administration that we're playing a defensive game in the war on terrorism. yes, we need to harden our infrastructure, but if you have a committed terrorist willing to give up their lives, you look at the past patterns. we got lucky with the bomb in times square. we got lucky with the cargo packages, lucky with the underwear bomber, that the devices didn't go off. luck is not a strategy. we need to be routing out these networks. we need to be killing these terrorists. i think the american people, when they see an administration worried about reading miranda rights to the underwear bomber. they worry when they see an admini

. >> krauthammer it the best follow-up, even those people who resolved what was happening at wall streett almost the highest levels didn't know. he had kitchen table economic issues. unemployment, gdp, and economic growth. and he says he wasn't involved in that area of it. >> well, i know you've seen a lot of the former president throughout the broadcast world over the last week. coming up monday and tuesday at least on "fox & friends", we're going to have the sitdown that brian and i did the day before yesterday and he's got some stuff that we haven't heard him tell anybody else. it's a 500 page book and there's plenty of really good stuff. that is a very funny former president. >> i was going to say. i've seen a lot of humor out of him in the last week. >> stand by. tuesday will be the dedication of the bush center at smu and we'll have that live as well. >> it will be down in dallas. >> yep. >> meanwhile, straight ahead -- >> he's the star of the hit fox series "human target." mr. mark valley. west point grad joins us on the show and how has -- hey! and how his time in the military --