krauthammer's mother thea is from belgium. his father was a real estate developer from what is now a province of ukraine. both jews who left world war ii europe. they met in havana, moved to rio and eventually new york city where charles was born in 1950. when he was 5 the krauthammers moved to montreal. they spent summers at the family cottage in long beach, new york. charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court or in the water. >> i don't think i ownershiped a shirt until i was 21. all the pictures, family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother, i am. we are outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that's where i got all my knowledge was reading. >> reporter: of course there was reading and studying. his father spoke nine languages and carried his son's stellar second grade report card around in his pocket. >> he said, i want you to know ifrg. i want you to learn everything. you don't have to do everything. you have to know everything. that was part of life. >> reporter: that life didn't

charles krauthammer. his uniquely american story. his journey from m.d. to the pulitzer prize. how he over came a devastating accident with a determination to lead. a life that matters. hello. i'm brett bear. i hope you will enjoy this special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox news viewers know where charles sits on most of the issues but we bet there is a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist and occasional baseball analyst. we think you should. even if the doctor has a different opinion. what's your thought about all of this? >> i don't like it. >> full disclosure. i have been trying to convince charles krauthammer to sit for an interview for a long time. not one where he just shares his thoughts on the news of the day. >> i suspect another twist here. >> reporter: but one where he reveals beyond the extraordinary writer and influential thinker the life of an intensely private man. >> when i say i don't like it, i'm not averse to the spotli

charles krauthammer our special guest is still with us. going to kick it off. >> i'm going to the gym. at 9:00 a.m. there's a construction crew working busting things up. behind them on the sidewalk, a guy maybe 20s, in a sleeping bag lined vertically like this sleeping against the wall like this. i decided to resurrect this phrase. in the 70, a phrase called bum. we understood homeless families. when you're 25, same age as the people working on the street, you're a bum. >> what about bumming cigarettes? i've heard you use that before. >> i thought you stopped smoking? >> i did for now. >> no one likes a quitter. >>> yesterday i wasn't on the show but we played a sound for gavin getting beat up for making these remarks. >> i guess 7%. they want to be ceos, like staying at the office all night. all power to them. but by enforcing that as the norm, you're pulling women away from what they naturally want to do. it's making them miserable. >> he says femininism is making women miserable. i think it's making men also pretty miserable. i know i'

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krauthammer writes about his real passions. chess, mathematics, space, baseball.l sense. anything performed to a high level of beautiful form whether it's walking the balance beam or whether it's playing shortstop. it shows the best of what humans can do. i find it moving. >> krauthammer had a terrible spinal accident 40 years ago that left him largely paralyzed. >> there will be no second round -- >> while he can't type, he often dictates columns. it hasn't slowed him down a bit. >> you write conservatives think liberals are stupid. liberals think conservatives are evil. >> oh, absolutely. >> he says liberals tend to be nice but foolishly think everyone else is nice too. as for the flip side -- >> the liberals imagine that to want to, for example, reduce food stamps or to cut back on the welfare only -- that can only be advocated by people who are truly evil and enjoy throwing orphans in the snow. >> but the most astonishing column is one he wrote within hours of the attack on 9/11. he said we had had entered an age of terrorism. a war with radical islam that dem

and like laura ingraham yesterday, charles krauthammer even more forcefully yesterday many others saying this was a disaster. even if you support ted cruz's energy as laura ingraham says, the tactics are terrible, stlnt a growing sense out there and don't you think that will move the house to come to some sort of a deal that allows them to move on the tissues that paul ryan talks b-entitlements, tax reform, debt? >> i think that's clearly the strategy including the senate. the big player moves from boehner to harry reid because senator reid doesn't want to take up any of these things and if they are taken up he'll insist on taxes and we get right back to that question of whether republicans have any deal that has any new revenue in it. harry reid will become the focus of this moving off of boehner as we move towards a senate deal and then ping pong over to the house. >> i was going to say to another point that joe is raising which is if part of where people have

krauthammer puts the bar that high, what do you think? >> it is hard to disagree with charles. a policy that swallowed a presidency. everything that the obama care looms over the president so and he's at a tipping point for his own key policy initiative. it is not just whether the website works or doesn't work, it is people are able to shop? can they keep the coverage and do they finally get better health care? right now obama care is on display and the american people are troubled. >> joe, just to be clear, krauthammer is not saying it is president obama's legacy. this would make people turn away from the american liberalism because it proves big government doesn't work. is he overstating it? >> i don't think he is in the sense of health care. democrats are trying to get health care since harry trumman called for it 70 years ago. so, if it does self destruct, there is no doubt it will set back a key liberal cause i am sure for a decade but it will impact. on the other hand, it works the opposite way, too if it works, the republicans will be on the wrong side of history like th

charles krauthammer shares his thoughts. and a well known lawmaker claims one of those responsible for obama care stormed his house . tonight new demands for background checks on the people we are entrusting with sensitive information. welcome to "the kelly file." we have charles krauthammer here in a moment. we are beginning with breaking news on a case of bullying getting national attention. we warn you. this is a disturbing update. 12-year-old rebecca sedwick killed herself in september in lakeland, florida, after months, am a year of online relentless bullying. on monday of this week the sheriff in florida te decided to take a the tough stand, filing felony charges against the two accused bullies sean here. one 12, one 146789 the 14-year-old on the right said to be the ring leader. after finding the gurls were with still posting cruel miss sajs about the victim even after she was dead. breaking tonight the sheriff announced unreelated, sort of, charges against the stepmother of one of the girls. after the sheriff's offic

charles krauthammer in a sea of liberals. and i managed to swim to safety.here? could they kind of tell? because i know you tell one story in your book about how you wrote a column and the editor or publisher said congratulations. i've never had so many people cancel subscriptions! >> i was a kind of hero for that week. no, it was extremely collegial. we had interesting debates in the halls. sometimes we attacked each other, in print but with respect. i wrote a column, i believe i wrote the unsigned editorial in support of the contras and the war on nicaragua and kinsly, editor in chief, wrote a rebuttal in the same issue. but it was an exciting, wonderful place. >> your book is a group of your columns you've written over the last 30 years. you still write the column every week for the "washington post" writers group. how do you decide what to write about? >> the lord provides. at the beginning i used to worry action how am i going to get a column this week? but it would turn out that by wednesday, which is when i write, somebody would do something exceeding

my guest tonight column inconsistent charles krauthammer is joining us. first 50 years ago in dallas an assassination that changed -- sorry i thought we were having a discussion earlier. [cheers and applause] earlier tonight we were having a spirit and interesting discussion. i thought i would make a weighty joke about it. we begin on wall street. it's been five years since the financial collapse that tanked the global economy. while no one has been sent to jail or community service or even had a one hour time out in their home or faced the reality of causing a catastrophe maybe it's about to change. >> jp morgan and the justice department have tentatively agreed to a d.l. 13 billion settlement. >> $13 billion settlement with the government to settle for bad loans. >> they say jp morgan willingly misled people by backing lisky mortgages. >> jon: risky mortgages. it seems like when tom cruise was in that movie and they packaged the loans with a sultry derive actives trader. i remember her. that's why so many traders work in a button down and underpants. $1

joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer.ut that bit of brilliance in the talking points memo, huh? >> i give you a plus. >> really, a plus from the doctor? that's big time. >> rarely hand them out, particularly to you. >> sure. >> on this one but you got one thing slightly wrong so maybe it's just a straight a. we talk about political lies. that's what you got from clarence page. and i don't think that's right. when a president says didn't know about the tapping of the german chancellor, that's a political lie. everybody knows that when it comes to foreign intelligence, everybody lies. it's understood. you know the old definition of a diplomat is a gentleman sent abroad to lie for his country. so that's known. but, when you are talking to your own people in trying to sell a program and you know deliberate thely you know that something is not true, but you say something so that it will pass, after which it's already the law, it's extremely hard to undo, that is a really, not a political lie. now the question is did obama real

charles krauthammer. congratulations on what is a fantastic book.yed every page. >> thanks, sean. i appreciate that. >> by the way, i love the fact that you gave a speech one day and told the story about me and all the years we had known each other. go ahead. you can mock me on national tv. >> i don't mock you. you know, i'm always surprised that you are upset by that. >> i am. >> it's the most charming story. you know i told it again on the special that brett baier did. i said sean doesn't really like it but it is a wonderful story. it just shows. i like it because it shows how i haven't made this fact that i'm in a wheelchair sort of the center of my life. and the fact that you weren't aware of it, i thought was lovely. it was a way to compliment you. >> listen. it's a friendly story that we have between the two of us. the story was inspiring. the special was fantastic. it reminds us that think we have problems, everybody has problems. some people are struggling with incredible things and your ability to overcome, i found inspiring. thank you. >>

yesterday we heard from charles krauthammer. he's a progrenostica torch r. >> republicans warning republicans, conservatives warning conservatives even before this ted cruz strategy launched. i always talk with charles krauthammer. >> he raised that exact question. take a look. >> how exactly was he going to achieve abolition of obama care? explain that to me. has he ever explained it? where is he now? his sidekick, senator mike lee said oh, we're past obama care, we've moved on. i mean, you know, these are the generals who lead people into the battle of little bighorn and then go home and have lunch and leave the troops out there? where are they? where are the generals? what's their strategy to get abolition of obama care? >> mark halperin it gets worse. a new gallup poll americans now have heard of senator ted cruz and that's not necessarily a good thing. his net favorability is done 16 points from four months ago. cruz's defund obama care partner senator mike lee not doing a lot better. >> this is shocking numbers. >> he's se

krauthammer moments away. >> back of the book segment tonight.uld the washington pro-he football team banish its nickname redskins? sports guy bob does stats says yes. >> ask yourself what the equivalent would be if , hispanics,ard asians or members of any other ethnic group. when considered that way redskins can't possibly honor a heritage or a noble character trait nor can it possibly be considered a neutral term. it's an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present they intend. >> also president obama has implied he would change the name. joining us from washington sports fan charles krauthammer. all right. i don't think people understand the genesis of the name though redskins. it came from newfoundland, canada, did you know that? >> newfoundland, canada, yeah, that used to be a part of britain, i believe. >> yes. and when the settlers came over, they were warring with the indians up there who used red paint, all right, that was the ritual before they fought. so, therefore, the word red skins meant indian fighters and that's how it came i

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>> charles krauthammer, thank you for being here. by the way, loved the special on you. >> thank you very much. >> your life and your book. good luck with it. >> thank you. >> one more critical moment from today's hearing. secretary sebelius was challenged on whether the president is keeping his promise to america. wait until you hear what she said. she was directly asked, "is he keeping the promise -- if you like your insurance you can keep it." wait until you hear what she said. and new revelations that the administration did know health care.gov was riddled with threats to your security. that's coming up. >> you have exposed millions of americans because you all, according to your memo, believed it was an acceptable risk. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. mmmhmmm...everybody knows that. well, did you know that old macdonald was a really bad speller? your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. help the gulf when

charles krauthammer, thank you so much.ulation and best of luck to the book. >> thank you very much. >>> lets schek in with our political panel until the greenroom. jim wheeler is apologizing after he said he would hold his nose and reinstitute slavery if that's what his constituents really wanted. >> i think maybe he should do less holding of his nose and more holding of his tongue. you know, obviously this is a very stupid thing. i'm glad ryan, the governor of nevada, has condemned it strongly. >> stick around. more of "the lead" coming up. no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself. and better is so easy with benefiber. fiber that's taste-free, grit-free and dissolves completely. so you can feel free to add it to anything. and feel better about doing it. better it with benefiber. >>> welcome back to "the lead." read my good articles lately, mr. president? former national security council spokesman tommy gave us insight into his old boss' reading habits in an interview for buzzfeed.com

charles krauthammer. >> this is going to give him political advantage.is is a lifeline for an administration who's drown. the numbers are low. administration is in disarray. humiliated abroad. an economy stuck in the mud at home. he's got nowhere to go. i think they've been hoping for a shutdown because obama then gets to go on the stage and to give all that stuff that you showed in your introduction. this is the law of the land. >> we weren't hoping for a shutdown, but if the republican party had to take a hitt on it, so be it. producer is excited ae having this block, five minutes. >> it was beautiful. >> to point out, they didn't want to shutdown, harry reid could have brought the senate back. he waited until monday at 2:00 p.m. >> for what? >> he knew the shutdown was going to play in their advantage. correct, they didn't have to. you're right. >> the bigger issue here is that winners do not need lifelines and bob just admitted that obama care is a big loser because it needed a lifeline. you just said this saved him. how did he need saving if it wasn

keir son -- and charles krauthammer.e, welcome to fox. >> thank you. >> anybody who has been covering washington or following washington has read your columns for years, seen you on abc's this week. your commentary there. we know you and your old friend, dr. krauthammer are huge baseball enthusiasts. for us this is a home run. welcome. >> thank you. >> what about this? this back and forth with speaker boehner today, referencing this quote in the "wall street journal" and then the president's comments? >> the president is rather enjoying this. if the 'em blem is this is -- this is a crisis is a beautiful thoing thing to create, to understand his behavior in early october, you have to understand the disaster in september. he suffered two huge obstructions both involving core presidential powers. the power to use appointment and -- he suffered at the hands of democratic senators. he wanted larry somers to head the fed, the most appointment he'll make in the second term. democratic senator -- he wanted the power to threaten

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joining us from washington, charles krauthammer. so, i don't think president obama is give in after syria. that's the problem. he can't give in or he looks even weaker than he looked a couple of weeks ago, right? >> is he not going to give in because this is going to give him political advantage. this is a lifeline for an administration that's drowning. his numbers are low. the administration is in disaway. humiliated abroad, economy stuck in the mud at home. he really has got nowhere to go. i think they have been hoping for a shutdown because obama then gets to go on the stage and to give all that stuff that you showed in your introduction. this is a law of the land. i'm upholding the law except for one thing. it's completely lawless. he unilaterally changed about 17 provisions in the law after it was passed. >> bill: that's right. >> you are not allowed to do that under our system. but then he says that the republicans are the ones who are being unreasonable because they want to amend another provision. and as you pointed out, oba

>> charles krauthammer, thank you for being here. by the way, loved the special on you. >> thank you very much. >> your life and your book. good luck with it. >> thank you. >> one more critical moment from today's hearing. secretary sebelius was challenged on whether the president is keeping his promise to america. wait until you hear what she said. she was directly asked, "is he keeping the promise -- if you like your insurance you can keep it." wait until you hear what she said. and new revelations that the administration did know health care.gov was riddled with threats to your security. that's coming up. >> you have exposed millions of americans because you all, according to your memo, believed it was an acceptable risk. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made o why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pai it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include he

krauthammer moments away. >> back of the book segment tonight.pro-he football team banish its nickname redskins? sports guy bob does stats says yes. >> ask yourself what the equivalent would be if , hispanics,ard asians or members of any other ethnic group. when considered that way redskins can't possibly honor a heritage or a noble character trait nor can it possibly be considered a neutral term. it's an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present they intend. >> also president obama has implied he would change the name. joining us from washington sports fan charles krauthammer. all right. i don't think people understand the genesis of the name though redskins. it came from newfoundland, canada, did you know that? >> newfoundland, canada, yeah, that used to be a part of britain, i believe. >> yes. and when the settlers came over, they were warring with the indians up there who used red paint, all right, that was the ritual before they fought. so, therefore, the word red skins meant indian fighters and that's how it came into the fighters, a

what do you think krauthammer was talking about?eople are going to be healthier, and in the long run, health care costs, what are they going to do? they're going to go down. but, of course, the liberal congressional budget office was the people that put that report together. we don't want to pay attention to them. they're really not nonpartisan, according to the conservatives. this has republicans scared out of their minds. they don't know what to do. krauthammer laid down the battle lines this morning. he said if obama care fails, liberalism will be set back a generation. >> the irony is that his signature achievement, obama care, is the test of this new liberalism, and today it hangs in the balance of a website or a promise here and there, so there's kind of a practical reality check on his ambitions. if he does not succeed with obama care, the cause of the kind of expansive liberalism, the kind of entitlement state he has been looking for, i think will be set back a full generation. >> this is not about entitlements. this is abou

but this is undoubtedly and krauthammer talked about it last -- in recent days on shows. game-changer for the liberals in this country. this is why obama care needs to be successful. this is generational change. this is something that the american people will always hang with the progressive movement. and they will be certainly indebted to democrats for making this happen because the republicans have been a no-show. and it is messaging. so there are victories on both sides. lots more coming up here on "the ed show." stay with us. a can of del monte green beans? ♪ ♪ if i was a flower growing wild and free ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to be my sweet honeybee ♪ ♪ and if was a tree growing tall and green ♪ ♪ all i'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves ♪ grown in america. picked & packed at the peak of ripeness. the same essential nutrients as fresh. del monte. bursting with life™. the same essential nutrients as fresh. help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the h

they didn't want to commit. >> charles krauthammer, good to see you. thank you.ove is unconditional. but now scientists are helping us to learn if the feeling is mutual. terrell brown is with us. >> good morning. a team of researchers at emory university set off to find out what goes none a dog's head the first is to get a dog to sit still long enough. at a residence, their dog kady is one of the family. >> ready? >> reporter: kady appears to love the kings as much as they love her. but what's the real feeling behind these big eyes and wagging tail? >> you got to wonder, do they just see the person that's going to feed them and walk them and give them what they want, or do they truly love us? >> reporter: to find out owner patricia king volunteered kady for a research study at emroy university. led by biologist gregory berns to see if dogs feel emotion the same way as humans do. berns has spent his career using mri brain scans to study decision making in humans. but it had never been used on dogs. among the problems they need to be awake and remain still for the

they didn't want to commit. >> charles krauthammer, good to see you. thank you.ts are helping us to learn if the feeling is mutual. terrell brown is with us. >> good morning. a team of researchers at emory university set off to find out what goes none a dog's head the first is to get a dog to sit still long enough. at a residence, their dog kady is one of the family. >> ready? >> reporter: kady appears to love the kings as much as they love her. but what's the real feeling behind these big eyes and wagging tail? >> you got to wonder do they just see the person that's going to feed them and walk them and give them what they want or do they truly love us? >> reporter: to find out owner patricia king volunteered kady for a research study at emroy university. led by biologist gregory berns to see if dogs feel emotion the same way as humans do. berns has spent his career using mri brain scans to study decision making in humans. but it had never been used on dogs. among the problems they need to be awake and remain still for the claustrophobic procedure. >> they're cof

liberty 76, okay, i'm convince that had krauthammer lost it.we support the shut down to defund obama care or delay obama care. >> look. i respect the sincerity of the opinion but sit suicide what. you're doing is shutting the government down. there is no end game. there isn't even a middle game here, you can't continue with the government shut down. it's going to be on the head of the republicans. instead of concentrating on what is going to happen, what really is happening with obama care focusing on that, if you pass a clean cr, if you fold on this as you're going to have to, then you pivot to where strength is. you can do the threat on the debt ceiling. polls have shown countries behind you. and the president will not allow that to happen. he was hungering for the government to be shut down. he was hoping he, it will. it's the opposite on the debt ceiling he's going have to negotiate on that. that is where you can win. >> more on the other side of the break. obama care comes on line in a few hours, we'll take a look at other problems some th

we're back with our panel jonah goldberg, kirsten powers, and charles krauthammer.oughts on that statement? >> i thought he had the right tone. he got at the very end at the got a slight owe beak dig in about hurting the american people and all of that. but i thought his tone was not vindictive one and he wasn't dancing in the end zone. and i think he was open about what he wants to do. he would like to do a pivot. he knows he has gotten some political advantage even though democrats and republicans have been hurt here. he knows the republicans have been hurt a lot more. so he is thinking that perhaps he can pivot now and exploit that on immigration where the entire issue was floundering from his point of view. on what he said about the fiscal discussions that are now going to start about the budget, i'm quite sure he will not budget on requiring higher taxes. we will return to the impasse that has prevented a bargain all the way through back to 2011. and i think that's going to dead lock. >> kirsten? >> yeah. i thought it was the perfect tone. i thought he was very

our fox news reporting charles krauthammer a life that matters.u want to dvr if you are not home tonight. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. make it a great weekend. greta goes "on the record" right now. >>> tonight, you, yes, you, have a problem. not only is your national healthcare web site an absolute flop but your politicians don't even know who they work for. they work for you. >> majority of people calling for me to resign i would say are people who i don't work for. >> that is the most arrogant thing i can recall hearing really over my lifetime. >> i didn't realize it wouldn't be operating optimally before the launch. >> the federal government is very -- it's just pathetic on this. >> in an ideal world there would have been a lot more testing. >> not only are these people going to get paid but then we have to pay somebody else to come in and start over and fix it. >> who pays her

our own charles krauthammer had this advice for speaker boehner.e a listen. >> they have been shifting their demands every 12 hours. he will have to come up with something stronger than i want to have a talk with the president. you have a president arguing what looks like on principle. if you argue, i just want to have a talk, it looks weak and indecisive. unless republicans can agree, they will lose on this. >> katie, i feel for john boehner because he's dealing with a divided conference, but is charles right on some level? republicans have been all over the map with de-fund it, delay it, medical device tax and delay the individual mandate, entitlement reform. they've been all over the place. >> they've been all over the place but they have been specific what they're asking for, whether individual mandate delay and everything you just listed. not that republicans say we want to have a conversation, they offered and passed more than a dozen things to the house and kicked them over to the senate and where they've gone to die. that's where harry reid

and charles krauthammer.gress believed this military act they passed on the first day before the shutdown, right before everything took place, covered this payment. and then they say the decision was made, in the legal interpretation by the pentagon lawyers or the justice department, that it didn't. and then we have this delay until today. >> yeah. look, i mean, i think the whole thing has to be seen in a bigger picture. but on the merits of it, this is -- you know, this was a call that an administrator could have said, this is what congress intended. let's go ahead and disperse the money. instead, they deliberately read this in a way that they didn't -- they couldn't -- it was a choice. a voluntary choice, not to deliver these benefits. and the idea that they were constrained by the letter of the law is kind of laughable, coming from an administration that has repeatedly violated or refused to enforce laws it doesn't like. so this was a voluntary act on the part of the administration. and we know that this i

charles krauthammer, both doctor by the way. >> i think obama care is in fact going to be the reason that we are going to pick up seats in the house, and we are not going to lose the senate. >> when the other guy is committing suicide, get out of the way. this could be a setback for the entitlement state and the liberal arrogant idea that could set them back for a decade, and they know it. which is why they are terrified. >> dr. dean -- did howard dean think that in 2010 which was an historic loss for the incumbent party after a major piece of legislation was passed? in 2010 the democrats lost more seats than any other party had lost in a first-year mid-term. i don't know what changes all of a sudden for him the calculation that we found out that the president told you something that is not true so now vote for them? >> they were saying in 2010 they were getting people to vote against them. obama and his people were completely outmaneuvered in 2010 which the tea party people who sent out a lot of misleading information. >> the tea party people who said don't believe the president who

>> charles krauthammer is the yin and i'm the yang.ther. >> we have this eastern thing going on. >> you do. that's what i think of when i think of you and charles krauthammer, an eastern thing. if it's way too early, mike, what time is it? >> ordinarily it's time for "morning joe." but right now it's time for "the daily rundown" and chuck todd. chuck, take it away. >>> promises, promises. is there a big hole in one of the major message points the president used to win over the public on health care? this morning a new report by nbc news finds millions may be impacted. >>> plus weather one week to go before two states pick new governors or perhaps re-elect an old one, some numbers you should know about who's showing up in the garden statend

charles krauthammer and i will analyze. >> andrew breitbart had to know that he was targeting me. >> this woman, a former federal employee, says she will sue the widow of andrew breitbart over an internet beef that happened years ago. this on top of jesse ventura suing the widow of american sniper chris kyle. is america becoming a mean and ruthless country? we'll debate it. >>> also, tonight in the state of california says children can legally have more than two parents. also in colorado, some counties now want to secede from that state. >>> caution, you are about to enter the no-spin zone. "o'reilly factor" begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching tonight. the brawl continuing over obama care and the government shutdown that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. both sides upped the rhetoric. last night talking points suggested a one-year reprieve for folks who don't want to buy into it this surrounding the implementation of it and the waivers the president granted to some business concerns. this morning republicans echoed ha. >> if you're having