"and this is krauthammer, this is nuts. every physical showdown has rebounded against the republicans. those who fancy themselves tea party patriots fighting a sold out cocktail swilling establishment are demanding yet another cliff dive as a show of principle, and manliness. but there's no principle at stake here. this is about tactics. if i thought this would work, i would support it, but i don't fancy suicide. it has a tendency to be fatal." as for manliness, the real question here is sanity, nothing could better revive the fortunes of a failing, flailing fading democratic administration than a government shutdown where the president is portrayed as standing up to the gop on honoring our debts and paying our soldiers in the field. wow. also in the "washington post" today, michael gershon, a former george w. bush speech write are says cruz views this as the last stand against obama care, a conservative alamo instead, it would be a little bighorn. cruz bids to become a custer for our time, an actual shutdown of the governm

krauthammer on deck. is the u.s.a. harming children by embracing libertine policies? charles is next. the boys used double miles from their capital one venture card to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. beard growing contest and go! ♪ win! what's in your wallet? charles krauthammer, i think this culture that we have now in america is currently harming children. am i wrong? >> well, it's clear that even -- even in washington state, where they legalize marijuana, they thought it's not a good idea for kids to smoke it. so they actually have a law that says nobody under 21. they also think it's not a good idea for it to be rampant in a way that sort of says anything goes. so, they have a law that says it shouldn't be done in public. so, they even, even they, the most liberal state in the union on

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krauthammer on deck. is the u.s.a. harming children by embracing libertine policies? charles is next. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support gularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. charles krauthammer, i think this culture that we have now in america is currently harming children. am i wrong? >> well, it's clear that even -- even in washington state, where they legalize marijuana, they thought it's not a good idea for kids to smoke it. so they actually have a law that says nobody under 21. they also think it's not a good idea for it to be rampant in a way that sort of says anything goes. so, they have a law that says it shouldn't be done in public. so, they even, even they, the most liberal state in the union on this recognize there ought to be limits. the problem with what you showed last night is, they have no intention of enforcing the law. >> bill: that's right. >> if so, why d

i will analyze with ralph peters, david hunt and charles krauthammer. >> voter i.d. why would we want to get obama do we need some special i.d.? >> bill: why is it the civil rights industry talking about black-on-black crime. we will tell you you tonight. i too want to tell everyone that i'm sorry that this happened. >> bill: george zimmerman wants the state of florida to pay some of his legal bills. outrageous or justified? is it legal will testify us. caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm boiler. thanks for watching us tonight. what president obama should do about syria. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. this man, syrian dictator bashar al assad is a war criminal, a mass murderer and a baby killer. by using poison gas on syrian civilians which is against the geneva convention, asatisfied is now responsible for thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths. according to the humanitarian group, doctors without borders. so there is no question that assad must be held accountable. if you

so what does charles krauthammer think about that?ke with him last night. >> so, charles, let's begin with the reality that hillary clinton can have the democratic nomination for president in 16 if she wants it; what happens then though? i mean, how do the republicans block a woman with a built-in constituency that pretty much vote for her no matter what? what do the republicans do? >> well, first of all, let's remember she is not exactly invincible. she was the anointed one before barack obama ce along. she was also inevitable in 2008. didn't really make it i think the republicans simply have to put up a good candidate. i think the republicans have the stronger argument. the country hasn't really done very well under obama. there is no great joy about what he has achieved. he has a lot of liability. she escaped some of them but not all of them. but if you put up a field and look at what the field is going to be. we have got very attractive senators, rubio, rand paul, we have got young dynamic governors like chris christie, jeb bush,

and this is krauthammer, this is nuts. every physical showdown has rebounded against the republicans. those who fancy themselves tea party patriots fighting a sold out cocktail swilling establishment are demanding yet another cliff dive as a show of principle and manliness. but there's no principle at stake here. this is about tactics. if i thought this would work, i would support it, but i don't fancy suicide. it has a tendency to be fatal." as for manliness, the real question here is sanity. nothing could better revive the fortunes of a failing, flailing, fading democratic administration than a government shutdown where the president is portrayed as standing up to the gop on honoring our debts and paying our soldiers in the field. wow. also in the "washington post" today, michael gershon, a former george w. bush speech write are says cruz views this as the last stand against obama care, a conservative alamo. instead, it would be a little bighorn. cruz bids to become a custer for our time, an actual shutdown of the govern

contributor steve hayes of the weekly standard and syndicated columnist, fox contributor charles krauthammer. charles, you had time to digest and listen to our reactions. my more thoughts on this action and where we stand? >> my astonishment has only increased here. it is not about forensics. who cares about the details of the attack. we are way beyond the theatrics. you know, i grieve for the dead children, hundreds of thousands of others who died from weapons. and we -- we are, i think, beyond even the military strategics in this. i would have opposed a limited strike because i think it is not what you want to do. you wouldn't do a strike that will affect the battle that's happening in syria today that's tilted against the government. at this point what's at stake is the word of the united states. and that overrides everything, can you imagine we talked about the jubilation, we heard about jubilation. in damascus, obviously, in iraq, russia and imagine the demoralization, not just among the rebels looking up to the sky and looking for assistance, but among all the states in the region who

have at krauthammer. you heard what he said. he floated the possibility that about 10 months after the attack we suddenly file charges, including against the man that we knew back in october was in that compound that night. who we think is a link to that al qaeda affiliate in the area. we knew who he was fox news even interviewed him back in october. sat down with him it is a little interesting. it's right now that we have these charges entire timing question is ridiculous. there is an investigation that has to happen befofore we figure out whether or not we are going to charge somebody whether somebody is a suspect. i think, you know, this is a situation that republicans and democrats should be standing together to try to get these people who attacked our country, who killed our ambassador, and, you know, this is just, you know, why would you make these accusations? it we minds me during the clinton administration, every time bill clinton went after al qaeda, had you these accusations of wagging the dog and everything like that

because as charles krauthammer says it won't work. >> all right.mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu who will be here in the studio. >> a good man. by the way did you hear about ed quinn edwards, 85, had a baby. >> yeah. >> i'm looking for a comeback. he needs to be louisiana's next governor. >> this guy is unbelievable. >> jimmy mcmillan from "the rent is too dam high" running for mayor what he had to say about anthony weiner's candidacy. >> can't wait for that. >> jimmy's campaign ads/music videos. news you can't use, straight ahead. mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. where over seventy-five percent of store management started as i'm the next american success

. >> bob, charles krauthammer weighed in on hillary clinton running for president.ounced a series of heady foreign policy speeches earlier this week. you i think have said she's going to be the nominee. she's going to be invincible. krauthammer disagrees. take a listen. >> you have to remember she's not exactly invincible. she was the anointed one before barack obama came along. she was also inevitable in 2008, didn't really make it. i think the republicans simply is v to put up a good candidate. the republicans have a stronger argument. the country hasn't really done very well under obama. there's no great joy about what he's achieved. he's got a lot of liability. she escaped some of them, but not all of them. >> invincible -- >> as much as i admire krauthammer, his view of american politics is way off and has been for a long time. he can say all he wants about hillary clinton in 2008. she wasn't going to run anyway. obama came out, it wasn't as if this was somebody who was a surprise. obama was set up to run. and she almost got it. this time around, not only do th

>> in what respect -- >> i listen to krauthammer, who granted is a smart guy. he understands his role very well, but is not an expert on the middle east. >> pull the funding. >> here you got the conservatives, some conservatives and liberals staying very quiet about this. and not be willing to stand up with obama on this. nobody wants to take that money away from the generals, because they did the one thing that y'all wanted, which was get rid of the brotherhood. and that is why mubarak is out of jail, because those were his people. >> we put the muslim brotherhood -- >> we put them in power? >> yeah, we did, we funded them. we didn't want mubarak, so we funded -- >> the arab spring, there were a lot of different quarters. i do agree that some people have come back around and said now looking back, hindsight is 20/20, we should have just kept mubarak. on the syrian portion of this, the united nations is there. right? they were actually there last april, when supposedly assad who is the dictator there used chemical weapons against its own people. now the u.n. is

nalthough krauthammer said retribution is not a valid purpose. but a strategy purpose of removing the assad regime might be. he argued one point in time u.s. stand off systems could degrade the military and wall street journal why not a military strike to take out assad himself. >> may i answer that? >> because assad is a monster and a thug and murderer. kerry is right. but he is charcoal gray and al-qaeda is black. if the alternative is a rump stay of syria and division of syria and islamist in damascus with chemical weapons. is that better for us or israel. charles krauthammer is america's most brilliant columnist. he thinks that get rid of assad. and i think better to cope al-qaeda on the ropes. >> many thanks to tom bevin and ralph ports. appreciate your insights. >> just the beginning of our look. and what is happening in the unite the nations and what is happening in the middle east and what we expect now in the white house. >> we know where the rockets were launched from and what time. and we know where they landed and when. we know that r

croat, and this is krauthammer -- this is nuts. those who fancy themselves tea party patriots fighting a sold-outcocktail-swill i sold-outcocktail-swilling establish pt are demanding yet another cliff dive as a show of principle and manliness. but there's no principle at stake here. this is about tactic. if i thought this would work, i would support it. but i don't fancy suicide. it has a tendency to be fatal. as for manliless, the real question here is sanity. nothing could better revine the fortunes. michael gershwin says, quote, cruz views this as the last stand against obama care, a conservative alamo. instead it would be a little bighorn. cruz threatens this could become a custer for our time, an actual shutdown of the government, the only realistic outcome of cruz's strategy, would work for conservative conservatives. so americans would need to side with a distrusted fax of a disdains institution which is pursuing a budgetary maneuver that even many republican lawmakers regard as aggressive, desperate, and drooomed. what peop

>> krauthammer if he can make the time. because he's already there. >> mark walsh, who's your new editor in chief? >> you are, larry. >> we can't use max. we can't use leonard. who do you want now as they move toward the center? who's your pick? >> i think the current guy's doing a great job, larry. look, you guys just if i may make one quick point, all you're talking about when you describe the issues surrounding this brand are the opinion pieces. you're not talking about news gathering and hyperlocal news. the presentation of the school board meeting, who covers that. remember, newspapers have a cost structure where they're supposed to deliver the news, not just opinion. >> that's been part of the problem with the "post," is it hasn't been able to decide is it a national paper or is it a local paper? >> and by the way -- >> this indicates -- >> they made so many factual -- michael medved, they made so many factual mistakes down through the years they really undercut their own credibility. i mean, i scan the "post" every d

. >> joining us to weigh in charles krauthammer. we talked this week on the special report panel about this reluctant president really in every statement he made, sense of reluctance, to get involved, number one. number two, the outlay of how limited it was going to be. now this announcement that he's going to pause essentially, wait for the debate, and vote in congress on september 9. they get back at 2:00 p.m., september 9. >> i think it is astonishing the way that my colleagues have described it. but the most astonishing thing is the lack of any urgency. as you say, congress will be back in a week. he says, i can strike in a day or a week or a month. as if he is a judge handing down a sentence. and the execution can be any time in the future. will is a war going on. do you think everybody is going to hold their breath, hold their arms? step aside until obama decides when he wants to go to congress? look, i think he should go to congress. i think it is absolutely necessary. but he has done no preparation. what they should have don

as gingrich has said, as charles kra krauthammer has said on the government shutdown idea.by what we're not. we have to be defined by what we believe and what we are. >> i think robert's slightly wrong. he's right about the makeup of the general primary voter. but chris christie in a field of five doesn't have to get more than 31%, 32%, to be a very viable candidate. and there are still, i believe, 30% of those republican voters who will vote for someone who's rationale and has a chance to win. >> coming up on "morning joe," from the new film "the butler," we've got willie with cuba gooding jr. and rocker turned actor lenny kravitz. later, the role of religion in our often hectic lives. faith on fridays. first, here's bill karins. >> this is chamber of commerce they call this weather. from the great lakes, ohio valley, through the northeast. let's take a look at the tropics. we know the weather's common in the lower 48. there's a tropical storm erin, our fifth storm of the season, but it's way out here in the atlantic. it has hostile conditions out ahead of it. not a concer

we want to get to mika's must reads and start with charles krauthammer.de of war is receding why the giant snooping programs. if al qaeda is on the run as he innocently assured the nation throughout 2012 why is america cowering in 19 closed down embassies and consulates, boston put on an unprecedented full lockdown after the marathon bombings and from somalia to afghanistan why are we raining death by drone on violent extremists. every target amazingly a jihadist. this policy and purpose is why an evacuation from yemen must be passed off as a reduction in staff, benghazi terror attack must be blamed on some hapless egyptian. american individual grapher, why the ft. hood shooting is nothing but some loony army doctor gone postal. it's about leadership. the word play is for policy embedded in confusion and ambivalence about the whole enterprise. this is not leading from behind this is not leading at all. this new closing for pakistan in lahore. >> if he had that in time for press he would have added it to that list. they say it's separate from the 19 other

charles krauthammer. i came to washington to work for broadcast properties, which were owned by "the washington post." the former executive editor len downie was in the newsroom as katharine graham's granddaughter announced jeff bezos, the founder of amazon, wasas buying the paper. >> she read a statement in which she made clear he strongngly subscribes to the journalistic values of "the washington post." >> let's take off the pundit hats. give me your personal reaction. lois, you wrote a fine piece for "politico." >> thank you. my first reaction was shock. i was home, working. i got in the car, and went back to the office. it was a little bit of sadness, and then i thought maybe this is a od thing. maybehave tried everything. the model needs to be blown up and ybe jeff bezos will bring a fresh eye. >> colby, who would have thought the grahams would give up the newspaper? >> i was the last person to think that. this is the second time "the washington post" rocked my world -- the first timime was in marc,

what do you think of the back and forth between charles krauthammer and juan. >> what many happeningit isn't just voter i.d. they are restricting early voting. they are restricting days you can vote. they know it will be aimed at people who will vote democratic. in pennsylvania where there is voter i.d., the majority leader of the house said it's to help romney win. that they admitted it. there are very few understand kent of voter fraud that takes place at the voting booth. most of it happened in absentee voting. absentee or when you register to vote. >> i think that's ridiculous. the north carolina laugh is common sense. you have to show an i.d. to get into this building. you have to show an i.d. to vote. they are reducing the number of days for early voting in north carolina. but they will increase the number of sites and increase the number of hours because the goal is to keep the total hours available for early voting exactly the same. we are in new york, which doesn't have no questions asked early voting the way north carolina does. so carolina is more liberal than new york so

juan williams with the hill and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer.here's no appetite for the u.s. getting involved in syria? >> i think that's right. part of the reason the president hasn't felt pressure to actually do in syria what he did in libya. when he made comments about libya, estimates by amnesty international and others of the death toll were around a thousand and the president gave what was i think impassioned moral case for leadership. he went on to say when leaders like the united nations and united states speak out and say things that aren't followed up, they're empty words and their words lose credibility. that's exactly what we're seeing here as you suggested, a year after the president declared red lines, we haven't done anything. we have proof that the syrians used chemical weapons, the administration has acknowledged as much. this may be another instance of that, even a bigger instance of that. yet there has been no real consequence. the president warned of enormous consequences. there have been no consequences whatsoever. >> juan,

first, here is charles krauthammer. >> what i'm concerned about is what we hear, leaks from the white leaks are, we're going to have a limited two or three day campaign, drop a couple of bombs, we will make a point, then retire from the field, because from the reports i read and what i heard, they explicitly say this is not intended to alter the strategic balance or course of the war. if that's the case, we should do nothing. >> eric, if it is not going to alter what's going on in syria, if it is not designed to hit assad or his palace, why are they leaking these anonymous leaks? >> again, let me preface this with i am absolutely pro-military. let me give you back and forth of my 15-year-old son last night. 2:00 in the morning came in, he is going to be in trouble for that. talking to him, said we're going to attack syria. he said why. i said because they used chemical weapons on their own people. he said why do we care about that? because they use it on their people, innocent people die, we have always been the watchdog. he said what about benghazi, i said you mean libya? he said yea

last night on "hannity" syndicated columnist and fox news contributor charles krauthammer says it isthey gave more specific details about the targets on the outskirts of damascus. they won't disturb dinner in damascus. this is really astonishing. they come out with all of the details. they basically say we are not in. they announce we have a coalition the british and the french. everything falls apart. the british parliament was in complete humiliation. it shows the administration that cannot even organize a three party coalition. >> all of these developments in the middle east have israeli leaders on edge this morning. they are officially deployed their iron dome defense citizen they are handing out gas masks. israel concerned it could become a target, too. connor powell has the latest. >> they continue to prepare for the possibility of a u.s. military strike in syria. there is a possibility it could be from syria or iran in israel. prime minister said yesterday that israel has deployed additional iron dome missile defense units to the northern border with syria. there are at least

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is julie, host and correspondent from the "associated press" and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammerresident talks tough saying he is canceling operation bright star. it's been canceled for a number of years now but he doesn't cancel the $1.3 billion we give to egypt. much of that money has already gone away. tucker, is he out of leverage here? >> i have to say, in his weak defense, it's a tough situation because you don't know. it's very volatile, you don't know where it's going to go. in the end, u.s. interests are paramount. there's no reason to stake out more ground than you need to except on the human rights question. i was really struck by the short shrift he gave to the burning of christian churches and christian homes. less than half a sentence. imagine a scenario or country of usa aid had mobs burning mosques. do you think the president would devote more than half a sentence to that? yes, he would. by omissions like that, it did seem to me his sympathies lie with the morsi people and i think fundamentally, that's bad. >> we get back to this question of the aid, julie, much o

let's bring in our panel, kierston powers, and charles krauthammer. >> technology just changed everythingember the debate over whether saddam used poison gas, yes, he did, no, he didn't. now we have the video which is overwhelming in its emotional power and increases the pressure on the governments like ours, especially ours, to intervene and stop people from doing this terrible thing. doesn't change, the basic context, is toppling the assad regime. and what do you do if you get it? a regime that is worse? >> you are not a proponent of intervention -- >> they are horrible, but the question again, i'm merely saying, it may be good to topple the assad regime or not. i'm merely saying the weapon we should use is o-- the final thig i would say is intervening in iraq in 2003, morally justified, remove attend counterbalance to iran, that had consequences. >> kierston? >> i don't think it has to be whether or not we're overthrowing the assad regime. and i do think we disagreed about this before. but i see the united states as a force for good in the world. and someone that people turn to when th

constitutional matter is the author of the blarand new book, "things that matter", our good friend charles krauthammergood to see you. >> good to be here. >> thank you very much. >> the president does not have the power to u nxt inunilateral authorize stopping a threat to the nation. >> now he can be as hypocritical as he wants because he is not up for re-election. remember, there is no surprise here. when he did the libya operation he didn't consult with congress either. suspending a piece of obamacare here and there, suspending the immigration laws this is a man for whom the constitution is a suggestion nothing more. >> what do you make of having telegraphed basically everything that we are going to do here charles? >> i find it staggering. in fact just a few hours ago. they gave even more specific detail about the targets on the outskirts of damascus, i mean are they going to announce the times that the bombs are going to fall so that they won't disturb dinner in damascus. they come out with all the detail, they basically say we are going in and then everything falls apart. it showed the administra

stodda stoddard, and charles krauthammer. >> obama has done a lot of retreating, not all of it in thee of terrorism, but he thought the bush administration had overextended us, got us out of iraq, left no presence behind. getting us out of afghanistan after a surge which he then immediately announced there would be an end of and we would be leaving. he's closed 20 somewhat embassies because of threats in the air. he did nothing about the attacks in libya. you know, america is not very much respected in the world. as a consequence, obama used to talk about guantanamo and sins of the bush administration, torture and all this stuff as the recruiter of terrorists. the biggest recruiter of terrorists is american weakness. what bin laden said, people will go with the strong horse, not the weak horse. that's what's happened under his stewardship. >> look at the latest fox news poll on the president's approval ratings ovary sent months and you can see how it has taken a drop since august of last year. ab, what about this? >> i think there are a lot of reasons for that. i think the president c

steve hayes, charles lane, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer., not only has no one lost their job but no one lost a paycheck. >> look, this is a definition of how to conduct a stonewall. for all the weeks after benghazi, remember, weeks that took us past election day, all administration answers to all questions about the benghazi fiasco were well, we can't talk until the investigation, waiting for the arb. then you get the arb report and then everybody afterwards says well, it is all the arb report. what did it say, responsibility stops at the assistant secretary level. these are people that botched it and they will be put on leave. stage three is now where the new secretary of state looks at this and says essentially these people were not responsible or they don't really carry any accountability. they're back on the job as you say without ever missing a paycheck and no one is held responsible. remember, earlier in the show you had the secretary of state hillary clinton testifying earlier this year that she wants the law changed so that she shou