go like pro. . >>> continuing now with charles krauthammer once again joins us from washington.ek president obama said. this. >> the men and women of the intelligence community, including the nsa protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people. they are not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls or read your emails. >> so do you believe that, charles? >> i would say that it is generally true. i'm not sure it's 100% true people are human. you often had v. a bad apple. we know about snowden. snowden is the guy who uncovered the keys to the kingdom. misused information and one way or 00 other helped it get into the hands of the chinese and the russian secret services. so, we know that there can be bad apples there. i would just say though, been around for 10 years. i haven't heard of any egregious cases of someone having their stuff listened in to we know what happens. eastern europe, places like cuba. when they listen in, there are consequences. they call you and you lose your job. your kids are harassed. there is all kinds of stuff. is the

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megan kelly, check her out at 9:00. >>> krauthammer is up next.oppressioppres oppressing people? krauthammer up next. . . >>> back tonight, inequality in america. yesterday, a new mayor was sworn in, new york city. perhaps the most liberal mayor in this city's history. bill de blasio takes over for michael bloomberg, and here are some highlights from his introduction. >> our nation has the largest prison population in the world. much of that problem stems from issues of race, perpetuated by the depth of human indifference. >> let the plantation call new york city be the city of god, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> joining us now from washington, charles krauthammer. inequality, charles, are we a nation that embraces inequality, which is what those gentlemen want us to believe? they want the audience to say we are a rotten system and they are going to fix it. >> no, in fact, i think among the western nations, the p

charles krauthammer will answer that question. ♪ show you all ♪ tonight i want to show you all. >> chargest police in los angeles looked away from drug evidence in justin bieber's lavish home. is it legal on the case. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor is right now. ♪ ♪ >>> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. tanks author watching us tonight. the new york news vs. the factor. that's the subject of this factor memo. >> depend on tv news for vital information. newspapers and magazines have lost of a lot of influence. internet does not provide in-depth reporting or analysis it is headline service. for better or worse. americans are dependent on national newscast for information. enter tom brokaw the former anchorman of the nbc nightly news. mr. brokaw is a first-rate journalist but does see things through a liberal prism. recently he gave a talk here in new york city where he cited the nightly news broadcast. >> that audience is so much more substantial than most people realize. when i talk to audiences i say how many of you think of bill o'reilly is the most popular guy in news?

this is why even if congress reads charles krauthammer and says, ooh, good idea.re shamed into signing this thing for political reasons we have with barack obama in the white house who is not going to sign a repeal of the bailout provision of the law. >> first of all, you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you've got democrats up for re-election. you're going to vote for a bailout of these, the fat cat insurers. i'm not sure any of them will support that. you will get huge majorities in the house . and i'm not sure obama can with stand this. this will be a huge issue for him. if in the end you don't do the bailout and, as you say, the premiums skyrocket, what that means is with high premiums, the young and healthies will drop out more. that's why it's the death spiral. i'm not sure there is any way this can be stopped. even if it's not, imagine what a campaign this will be and how much it will hurt the democrats. if obama exercise it is details now, what's he going to do next year after he's lost the senate? >> charles, great to see you. >> pleas

charles krauthammer is number one author. the bailout looks like it is going to happen at this point. >> what they call adverse election if you don't have enough young and healthys to subsidize the older and the sicker in these exchanges the insurance are going to lose a ton of money. the numbers are way down the percentage of the young and healthy is so low if this continues there's no reason to think otherwise. the insurers are going to be out a huge amount of money. in the monstrosity called obamacare allows for your tax money and mine to bail out the insurance. i think it would be a good time for the gop to pass a one-line legislation repealing those two provisions in the bill that would be a moment of truth for obamacare. >> if we don't bail out the insurance companies then the risk pool they don't get saved from their bad risk pool. that is when the law starts imploding they are not going to provide insurance for free next year premiums are going to go up. what are we left with single payer the government steps in to ta

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stoddard and charles krauthammer. a.b. start us off, is it a surprise?ad a busy night. >> i was surprised at the injunction. i thought if it was going to happen, it would have happened earlier. i do think that this is problematic, even though the administration said if they sign an exemption, they are exempted. i think at this point they are not certain they still won't be fined. it is in -- it is not happening in advance of obamacare. all of these debates took place way in advance of this law becoming a reality. now it is real and people have been hearing about it nonstop since october 1st. sticker shock. doctor shortages. not the right hospitals. losing coverage and everything that you thought you could keep. this is going to be, i think, politically very difficult for democrats if this drags on, because they'll have to defend it going into an election year when the rest of obamacare is so unpopular. >> the recent numbers 2.1 million but forbes magazine did an analysis of those who have lost their insurance as a result of the new restrictions in obamac

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your problem is and this is what krauthammer said, the crisis. he said these guys think this makes them look more manly or something. they don't realize it makes them look like idiots. and i said to this guy, this would he like the coach of the dallas cowboys. deciding when it was fourth and 31 instead of hunting they run the quarterback sneak. maybe you think that would make you more manly. i would guess the fans in the stadium with a to differ. that would make them stupid and that is what we were doing. it's not enough anymore for my party, from my conservative movement to simply cite. that proves nothing. if we are going to fight, fight smart. fight about rings that matter. fight about things that reconnect you with middle america and make sure you fight to win. we haven't done that in a very long time. >> do you see how excited he is about this? that is why he had to write this book and thank god he did. we should open it up to everybody else's questions. we have to go to politico. .. that's part of the message to be able to not be afraid to

and charles krauthammer has no details on what could turn into a multimillion dollar bailout for thensurance industry, on "the kelley file" right now. >>> and breaking tonight, controversy over an execution in ohio now getting attention around the world after complaints the convicted murder suffered too much in his final moments. welcome to "the kelley file" everyone, i'm megan kelley. she went missing in 1989. her body was found in the woods near a local creek. her throat had been slit and she had been raped. it took ten months for prosecutors to get their first real lead in connection with her murder. a -- claimed that his mother-in-law had murdered her. he described details only the killer would know. he was charged, tried and convicted. and in 1994, he was sentenced to death. yesterday that death sentence was carried out. maguire was injected with a mixture of drugs that took 24 minutes to take effect. the maguire family is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit saying the execution violated his constitutional right not to be punished in a cruel or unusual way. and the maguire fam

so that's another bailout. >> jimmy, as krauthammer suggests, it's an interesting point, plirkt point, strategic point. should the gop insist on taking those bailout provisions out? i don't know if you attach it to the debt bill or not. but have a vote on it. >> if they don't, given the history of this administration, they're going to find the money. they will pay them. because obamacare is only what obama says obamacare is. so they will find that money. and i think that would be very popular. i don't think it would pass, obviously. but i think they'll try to do that. >> i'd love to see these sort of on the fence democrats in red states defend an insurance company bailout. >> daring to vote against it. >> that would be something. >> paul howard, let me go back to you. the study today from m.i.t. and harvard that bassically medicaid sign-ups, which are voluminous are actually putting more people into emergency rooms in the hospitals, not less, that comes as a shock to some people. i always thought if you offered something for free you get morar of it. what's your take here? >> it doesn

and an ardent conservativ chaes krauthammer, we thank you for being here.are pleasedo recommend what is a blockbuster bestseller already. it makes the book so compelling. walter mondale, henry jackson, how can you be associated with su people, given your conservative philosophy? >> i'm gl you asked. lou: and you never dreamed i would. and wasn't like the lord spake to me. it is quite simple. in my 20s, i was a democrat and then this is a road that has been traveled by many. and what happened was i was in my 30s and i began my writing career. and the evidence of what the great society of the war on poverty which i had believed in in my 20s d 19, the evidence of what the effects were. and it wasn't money wasted, it was part of the communities and the people who were meant to help. lou: when it comes to your rationality, not always conservative thinkers and advocates come about how have you preserved that. >> i think that when thing people do is credit this is good or bad. in some ways to make your once a liberal, i understand the intent of liberalism. there a

that would be a good solution. >> krauthammer goes on to say most americans want to work keeping the handouts going would have the opposite effect. obamacare opposition reaching a new high. 68 percent of voters are against the requirement that every american be covered by health insurance. last week 61 percent say healthcare would decline because of obamacare. they dodge questions of how many young people have signed up so far. >> i can tell you the demographic data hasn't available yet. er i know they plan to make the data available. several states running around the marketplace are reporting a good mix of people are signing up. >> they fast tracked the enrollment goal that would help the marketplace effectively. routine tonsil surgery is routine achievement. the family lawyer saying the children hospital of oakland refused to give her a feeding tube for almost a month. it is like terry schiavo who suffered brain damage. she died in 2005 when her husband had her feeding tube removed over the rejection of her family. schiavo's brr talked about jahi's case. >> healthcare is eroded the

. >> let's listen to krauthammer. >> obama has decided he's going to dedicate himself and the rest of time into inequality and he has created the inequality because the fed had put a trillion into higher assets, meaning the market and it is the rich who got richer and it left everybody else behind and you get the massive discontent in the economy not improving. he is the cause and now he is going to redeem us from the misery he has contributed to. >> greg? >> it is interesting. the obama administration in a way is like a drinking problem. you are constantly fighting the mess you create and every day you have the hangover and you are trying to get yourself out of it. and it is like alcohol, like homer simpson said, the solution and the cause of your problems. >> and krauthammer said it was obama that made rich people richer because of the fed program and the zero interest rates but that means at the same time you jump on obama for beating up on the rich, but you can't have it both ways. >> of course i can. but here is the thing. and it is interesting that you -- gep we've had this -- a

even if congress reads charles krauthammer and says that's a good idea house republicans and even ifshamed into signing this thing we have barack owe babb ma in a white house who is not going to sign a repeal of the bailout of his law. >> you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you have democrats up for reelection. you are going to vote for a bailout of these fat cat insurers. i am not sure any of them are going to support that. you are going to get huge majorities in the house. i am not sure obama is going to with stand this. this will be a huge issue. in the end if you don't do the bailout and as you say the premium sky rocket, what that means is with high premiums the young and healthys will drop out even more that's why it is called the death spiral. i am not sure there is any way it can be stopped. even if it is not mraj what a campaign issue this will be and how much it will hurt the democrats because if observe exercises the veto now what's he going to do next year after he lost this? >> good to see you. >> pleasure, thank you. >>> a winter blast hitting much

. >> charles krauthammer talking about a dope flaw in the obama website.ld doom the entire system if it is not fixed soon. >> insurers cannot figure out who has signed up and what subsidies they are entitled to because of back end issues they have not worked out yet. richard fouler host of the richard fouler she. and blad blake man tomorrower deputy to george w. bush. richard, i will start wu. you heard charles krauthammer call it a train wreck because the back end issues don't allow the insurers to determine who is designed. >> i think there is issues with the website and figuring out the back end side. but folks who have already enrolled as of december 31st they are getting health care. we have fixed it for some folks and the white house will make sure it is fixed for the other folks as well. the affordable care act is more than a website. it is making coverage better and you know, opening up the flood gates for folks who get health care. >> these are the words from the administration, they are the ones who put out the warning and it was jim angle who fo

bill: krauthammer you just heard him say you have got a train wreck. is there any indication they can get this right before mid-march? >> if i were a betting man i wouldn't put my money on them getting it right after mid-march. you talk about building this in effect from the beginning. in a period of just a couple months. that's a tall order. bill: steven, thank you. appreciate your time out of washington. march where massive explosion felt for miles. the crews are having problems putting this out and the fears there may be more explosions. bill: robert de niro played him in the moste "goodfellas." what was found inside the home of the most infamous heist in american history. ♪ i know i go from rags to riches if you would only say you care ♪ hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat too, and has five grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i -- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? oops. [ female announcer ] as you get older protein is an important part of staying active

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krauthammer, charles?ink this is not rocket science. christie is now hostage to the truth. if he told the truth and he had no knowledge of this, it will hurt him. if he didn't tell the truth, and we will know it for sure one way or the other, if he did know about this thing, he's toast. it's rather simple. now, if he didn't know, if what he said was trow, there are two ways in which he's hurt. i don't think either of them is fatal, especially because we have three years to go until the presidential election. the first is the competence issue. it did happen under his watch, and, remember, whoever runs in 2016 will be running in the wake of and against the legacy of obama who showed incompetence as an executive and was the bystander president. he didn't know about the irs. he read about the a.p. scandal in the press and who knows, maybe he didn't even know there existed an obamacare website the way he talked about it, so you want to run as a competent executive hands on. this isn't going to help christie in

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charles krauthammer joins us. charles, what's this business about he's going to change washington and all this gridlock business. >> he says he's going to change article 1 of the constitution that says that -- this is how they do it in venezuela, cuba and other places. he shows it on twitter and he says i will rule from the pen. what makes it sort of pathetic is that it sounds like a tough threat and it is unconstitutional. it's not how you ought to beat the president of the united states. but in the end, there's very little he can do. what's interesting is he said the same thing in 2011, this was a speech he gave in nevada. it was announced by the white house as the we can't wait tour. and it was one statement after another, i'm not going to wait for congress to act, i will do x, y and z. in the end it didn't work, because in the end, the only things a president can do with a pen, executive orders, are fairly limited. with one exception, that's epa and using the epa to shut down entire industries. that power. >>

and there's still other people saying and charles krauthammer with a great idea of other things we can do in terms of extending the three months. but instead of just giving people three months of pay, say i'll give you this, but in turn end it. listen. >> so i think what the republicans ought to do is to recognize that it's becoming an entitlement and they would oppose that. on the other hand, it is still tough times and unemployment is relatively high. and if we were to count the people who quit looking, it would be 11%. so i think what they ought to do is to say we'll accept the short term, the three months, but only if you build into the bill an unwinding of this so it has an ending, so we all understand it isn't an entitlement, it is a way to help people temporarily. that would be a good solution. >> the comments there are wise and i think charles krauthammer expressed compassion. susan collins in terms of job training, the note there is great, it would be a great practical implementation. but i think many people feel the one thing that, a was promised, and, b would really help is

but there are some, including charles krauthammer, who say you know what? of the plan. >> the bill was written deliberately to force employers to kick people off their plans so that would be the only way to get the subsidies. in fact, what it tells you is that none of this is an unintended side effect of the creation of obamacare. the purpose of obamacare was to destroy the relationship between the employer and the employee and getting health care and that's exactly why millions of people are being tossed off and millions more will be as the larger employers start tossing people off later in the year. >> he's talking there about larger employers who have got more than 50 employees, you've got to provide or you get into big trouble. with target, if you have less than -- if you work less than 30 hours a week, you're considered part-time. now they're saying, go to the exchanges. they're trying to spin it by, well, only 10% of target employees have used this in the past. but some employees are really furious about it. in the meantime, the company comes back and

krauthammer saying this on the kelly files. >> it is unseemly the commander-in-chief the leader in thee world most powerful man on earth could reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his command to get so whiney. if you think as he does self righteously there's no way to oppose him and be patriotic and sympathetic to the american people it is evil to the other side who are preventing people who are receiving the message. it is a myopia, it is unbecoming and often becomes repulsive it's a refusal to give respect to the other side. now the filmmaker behind the hit anti obama documentary 2016 obama's america has been charged with violating federal campaign laws. he is accused of directing donors to contribute to republican long senate campaign. >> a shocking new video shows texas gub torian candidate wendy davis' team openly mocking her opponent greg abbott for being in a wheelchair. now abbott is firing back. elizabeth prann has the latest on this heated campaign. good morning elizabeth. >> texas attorney general greg abbott is presumed to be running against state senator wendy davis

this case, are you suggesting that charles krauthammer is saying let's go ahead and cave in? said for three months. >> for three months? it doesn't sound like him. >> the world is going to be a different place in three months. you won't have the debt ceiling fight and that is the harder baby to split. >> right. but are you suggesting that we are going to lose this fight, though? i don't think we lose this fight. >> i think a good chance the republicans lose this fight and then cave. >> i think there is also -- what you're hearing on the hill, at least from what i'm hearing, is that there is more likely to be a compensation over the minimum wage and where -- the public is really behind the minimum wage increase and if they just keep saying no, that that is going to take harm them and mark just pointed out, it also kind of prolongs this discussion that we're having which is not about obamacare. >> let's sum things up really quickly here. i ask patience from people at home to understand. i'm just being a political analy analyst here. i'm a kid whose dad was on unemployment for a

. >> bill o'reilly, charles krauthammer. >> yes. >> we have got like the cast from the five.athered tonight to ring in the new year. >> i love that from our family to yours. we are ready to bring in 2014. >> this is the first time for you times square. throughout the night get your impression of everything and what you think of the moment here as we bring in '14. >> a time not to be missed. would he see wish you all a happy new year. thanks for joining us.n >> see you real soon, everybody. bye-bye. back to the five. >>> no dancing. welcome back to the five's county to 2013. many plan to wipe the slate clean and kick bad habits and start anew. i think we should start with kimberly -- >> how many do i have? i'll try to resist the temptation to become one with bob. >> what does that mean? >> people say oh, we think you love bob secretly. >> she does. >> do you make resolutions, kimberly? >> i don't feel that i should, because if i break them or -- give up what? my godiva chocolates with the caramel inside, i don't want to do that. >> and you don't want to give up your number one

krauthammer and the media because they know that obamacare has been in trouble and we are likely to lose a lot of seats in 2014. so the democrats and eric ham are stirring the pot cause problems within the party so they don't lose faith. >> host: naomi, who do you like? who is a republican that you like and what is an issue that you're concerned about? >> caller: i love the law that is in the house, trey gowdy is a brave old soul from south carolina and georgia. >> host: are you a member of a tea party? >> caller: i am not a tea party person. but both parties are getting back to constitution and stopping tearing it down. >> host: okay, thank you for your time. >> guest: let me address what he said that obamacare. because i do believe that is going to be a huge issue in the midterm elections this year. and she had talked about south carolina as well and i just want to tackle all of this. i do believe that given that you have democrats with about 23 seats that you have to defend my believe it will be a competitive race and republicans had a great chance of taking control of the house and s

george will, charles krauthammer.sconnect george from where we are and where people think we are? >> the people are right. the two-thirds that think the economy is not good. the recession began in december 2007. since then, we have added 13 more million americans in the country and have 13 million fewer jobs. we have lowered the unemployment because more and more workers are no longer counted because they're not looking for work. if the work force participation rate today was as high as when the recession began, it would be 11%. it wouldn't be called recovery at all. >> this congress did not move forward kirstin on 55 tax cuts, didn't renew 55 tax cuts for individuals and businesses. you heard that one person talk about seeing his check get a little smaller for the take home. more and more people this year will see that same check getting smaller. >> right. well hopefully they'll pick it up in this new congress. tax cuts are one of the things about the congress. there's no certainty they do them in a longer term plan

now, this is why even if congress reads charles krauthammer, and says, oh, that's a good idea, and evene senate democrats are shamed into signing this, we still have barack obama in the white house, who is not going to sign a repeal of the of his law. >> first of all, you might get overwhelming majorities in the two houses. you've got democrats up for re-election. and you're going to then vote for a bail-out of these fat cat insurers. i'm not sure any of them are going to support that. you're going to get huge majorities in the house. and i'm not sure obama can withstand this. this is going to be a huge issue for him. in the end, if you don't do the bail-out, and as you say, the premiums sky rocket, what that means is with high premiums, the young and the healthy will drop out even more. that's why it's called the death spiral. i'm not sure there's any way this can be stopped, but even if it's not, imagine what a campaign issue this will be, and how much it will hurt the democrats. because if obama exercises the veto now, what's he going to do next year after he's lost the senate? >> ch

stoddard and charles krauthammer. george, what is the president going to do, what does he have to do tonight? >> he's going to be pugnatious, i have a pen i have a phone. every president since washington has had a pen. every washington since rutherford b. hayes has had a phone. what makes this president different he thinks these acutriments will allow him to get around congress. the more pugnacious he seems, the more arrogant he seems. >> he's going to outline ways, things he can do on his own. we remain to see whether they're going to be unconstitutional. some of these things may be small things that are around the edges. i don't really expect them to be that sweeping, they are little things the president feels he can do to try to ignite economic growth and help workers. >> dr. jill biden walking in, being escorted in, in just a moment, the first lady, michelle obama will come in as well. a.b.? >> everyone knows that state of the union addresses don't rescue presidencies. this is a solemn event for president obama. h

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charles krauthammer piering on special report and says it is all about bailout. >> reason they are not going to have to go into a death spiral getting a lower number is because they get the bailout. they can keep the rates the same and you and i pay millions of dollars that would compensate for a program that is completely out of whack. that's why republicans ought to pass within a week or two right now a provision to abolish the bailout then you will see the insurers in a different way. if they have to do it honestly and have to raise the premiums you are going to hear them scream. >> we will see. other news new jersey governor chris christie set to deliver his annual saturdtate of the st address today in the midst of two separate scandals. he is facing tough questions over the use of super storm sandy relief fund. federal officials are investigating whether christie improperly used $25 million federal dollars to produce these tourism ads that feature he and his family. the governor is also under investigation after his staff orchestrated traffic grid locks on the george washington br

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here's charles krauthammer's reaction to that statement. >> think about this. you're the secretary of defense. he's the president, he's sending 30,000 more troops into battle, and three months later, secretary of defense realizes that obama doesn't believe in the surge or believe in the war or believe in his own actions. how can a commander in chief in good conscience do that? i do think this is an indictment of the president that rises above everything else he's done in his presidency. >> i'm going to start with our most recent author of the panel, who has a book coming, do you think that robert gates is breaking any new ground here, or confirming what a lot of people just suspected all along? >> first of all, since president obama keeps saying pakistan, i'm going to refer to him as the commander in chief. so we learned that president obama -- you can't blame a leopard for his spots. it speaks to a fundamental discomfort that president obama has had with american power all his life. he's cultivated a mindset that the united states is the goliath that needs to

one person who could certainly agree with that is charles krauthammer. >> in 2008, obama said regan was a president who was historically consequential in a way clinton was not. what he meant is regan changed the course of american history and clinton played small ball. when obama came into office, if you look at his first state of the union, extremely expanse frb, extremely ambitious. he sounds like a president who realizes he's not going to get it done. now he's playing small ball. he's being a clinton, not a regan. >> and brit hume htells us how e really feels. >> he's talking about his presidency. after four years of recovery -- this is his recovery. this is the recovery he promised. he's saying after four years it's worse. i have never heard a president do that in my life, get umin the middle of the presidency and announce all of the things have gotten worse since he got in office. he didn't put it that way, but you think about it, that's what he was saying. >> last night, during the five's fox news chat, you had a similar observation early on in the speech. >> it was when he was re

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charles lame, and charles krauthammer.ve, what about this whole back and forth about the pen and the phone and what's going to be said and what won't be? >> we have heard it all before. remember, the president did this back in 2011 after republicans took over the house of representatives. the white house declared, we can't wait. we're going to do these things that the republicans, intransient republicans in congress won't allow us to. that's how we're going to govern. the problem for the president is he doesn't have much to point to ing terms of real accomplishments in congress. and number two, politically, it's hard to enough how this is going to help him. the republicans who ran and won in 2010 are the ones who will be up in 2014, the senate democrats we have talked about so much in red states, are the ones defending their seats. does the president of the united states think in effect, declaring congress irrelevant is going to help them help them? i don't think it's likely to have that effect. >> dan pfeiffer, senior adv

let's bring in our panel, ninak charles krauthammer. >> that last statement was made about a meeting on the 3ert of march, 2010. that's three months after obama announced the surge in afghanistan, so think about this. you're the secretary of defense. the president is sending 30,000 more proops into battle, and three months later, the secretary of defense realizes obama doesn't believe in the surge or believe in the war or believe in his own actions. he doesn't believe in petraeus. he hates karzai. he thinks the war isn't his. how can a commander in chief in good conscience do that? i remember saying here on the night of the president's speech in which he announced the surge and immediately announced the withdrawal, and then for the four years ever since, he never spoke to explain to the american people why the war, why the surge was important. he now has the lowest public approval of any war in modern history. because it had no leadership, but i think this is a shocking revelation. i assumed that he didn't believe in this war from his own actions. but here's from somebody sitting wit

yet last night conservative columnist charles krauthammer accused the president of being whiney in hitting. >> look, it's rather unseemly if you are the commander in chief, the leader of the free world, and the most powerful man on earth who could reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his command to get so whiney. >> you know, if the president was really whiney, why would he give a presuper bowl interview to this man? take a listen. >> on a personal note, the president told me man-to-man in december that he would do the interview, and he has kept his word. i saw him at the kennedy center celebration. he doesn't have to do the interview. he knows it's going to be a tough one. and he is coming in anyway. so we're happy about that. >> why would he if he is whiney, why would he give that man the presuper bowl interview, bill? >> first, i want to point out this will be the third interview that bill oh really has had with president obama. bill press has not had one. so if there is any favoritism here, i get accused of playing favorites with fox news. >> don't be whiney, bill. just tell us w

here's charles krauthammer's take. >> everybody in america tries to create a log cabin story. this is her log cabin story. the problem is, i think it was larry who said, if you're going to create a narrative, that's perfectly okay, but make sure it's a real narrative. and she says her problem is a lack of tightness. it's an odd word. it's really a lack of truth. >> so what is it with democrats and the truth? do their paths ever cross, bob? >> what is it about democrats? >> all right. >> is that what you just asked me? >> wendy davis made a name for herself when she did a filibuster on the abortion bill on the texas senate floor, and not we're finding out her past may be nothing -- >> not nothing. she said things, she exaggerated her situation in a trailer park. i understand that. >> one. >> and part of her education was paid for by a wealthy husband. two. beyond that, and if those are indictments for somebody's entire career, i find that a little bit difficult for me to accept. if that's the case, very few politicians would stand mustard to that. i don't think -- most of the p

stoddard and syndicated columnist and author of the best selling book "things that matter" charles krauthammera.b., let's start with you. lik split over trade, and harry reid is saying i don't want to move it forward. >> well, as you know, they are getting very scared in the democratic party about what's going to happen to the senate and whether or not they will lose majority in the senate, and there's a lot of talk about moving resources around and trying to save the vulnerable senate democrats that they have now to retain control. this fast track issue is very toxic in the party, as you know. all of the lie i don't know's share of the groups, outside groups on the left are putting enormous pressure on democrats not to do this, and they are not interested in anything right now. their own constituents, their own democratic supporters in labor, at home, are worried about obamacare. at this point with the economy not set to just be a total game-changer by november, they don't want to -- they don't want to take on anything that would muddy the message about income inequality and fast track would

steve hayes and elise viebeck and charles krauthammer. steve?think what is particularly discouraging is the fact that the united states fought so hard in those towns and others in western iraq to win free dom for the iraqis alongside the iraqis and sunni tribes and now that is basically gone. what we saw over the last couple of days is just a culmination of a long build-up of fighting from the current version of al qaeda in iraq. and you've had a series of complex suicide bombings leading up to this. some two dozen suicide bombings in october in western iraq by this group, according to the author tative subject on these matters and it is a long series and this has been coming for quite a while. >> elise, is there a sense that the administration is dealing with this in any way, shape or form, is capitol hill engaged on this? >> well certainly the administration is quietly sending many weapons to the iraqi government in order to combat this rising tide of al qaeda in the west. but there is bipartisan opposition on capitol hill and skepticism, fran