charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story. his journey from md to the pulitzer prize, how he overcame a devastating accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the doctor has a different opinion. you were a little reticent when we started this project. what's your thought about all this? >> i don't like it. >> [ laughs ] full disclosure -- i've been trying to convince charles krauthammer to sit for an interview for some time... secretary kerry on the hill today talking about... ...not one where he simply shares his thoughts on the news of the day. >> i suspect there's gonna be another twist he

when he was 5, the krauthammers moved to montreal. but 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 owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother's shirtless, i am. we're outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that's where i got all my knowledge was reading. >> of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son's stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. >> his motto for us was, "i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don't have to do everything, but you got to know everything." he thought that was part of life. >> that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. >> my father wouldn't allow it. once a week, sunday night, we'd go to the neighbors to watch "the ed sullivan show." that was the one concession, the television. >> inspi

it wouldn't matter if i were abe lincoln doing the debate, krauthammer will say negative. it wouldn't matter if i was william jennings bryant, because they say he was great, unfortunately we don't have too many tapes, right? but it wouldn't matter who i was, they have their critique written up about me long before the debate even takes place. >> but does it help -- >> it's dishonest people. >> it's honest because they disagree with you. >> first of all it makes me feel good. second of all, second of all, it takes away credibility. you have to fight for yourself. which is the problem with our country, we don't fight for yourselves. we're not respected anymore as a country. you have to fight for yourself. when you're right. look, again, if they critique me and i thought they were right, i wouldn't be upset by it. but when you do something great, and they try and belittle you, you got to fight. >> trump knows how to fight. more of my sit-down with the president-elect in just a moment. >>> a look back at my interviews with trump and his less than flattering views of the press.

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charles krauthammer -- his uniquely american story.w he overcame a devastating accident with the determination to lead a life that matters. hello. i'm bret baier, and i hope you'll enjoy watching this "fox news reporting" special as much as we enjoyed making it. fox viewers know where charles krauthammer sits on the panel, and they probably know his position on most issues. but we bet there's a lot you don't know about the all-star panelist, syndicated columnist, harvard trained psychiatrist, and even occasional baseball analyst. we think you should, even if the door

jenna goldburg, molly hemingway, charles lane, and charles krauthammer. to anyone who thought it was going to be a quiet holiday week of news, it's not the case. what do you make of this? what ambassador power said is this doesn't diminish the u.s. commitment to the security of israel. that's not how israel is interpreting this. >> that's not how any observer is interepreting this. this is like me punching you in the face and saying i'm not pushing you in the face. of course this didminishing america's support for israel. this is to no productive end. we spent eight years listen to supporters of israels insist that obama is unparalleled in his support for israel. he is going out the door flipping a middle finger to israel for no apparent purpose. if you listen to ben rhodes, you will listen in vain for an answer. this reveals that all along the rhetoric and posturinger ing to is they have always thought this was about the settlement. this is a way -- they held off doing this earlier because they knew it would hurt hillary clinton. now that hillary is gone

jenna goldburg, molly hemingway, charles lane, and charles krauthammer. to anyone who thought it was going to be a quiet holiday week of news, it's not the case. what do you make of this? what ambassador power said is this doesn't diminish the u.s. commitment to the security of israel. that's not how israel is interpreting this. >> that's not how any observer is interepreting this. this is like me punching you in the face and saying i'm not pushing you in the face. of course this didminishing america's support for israel. this is to no productive end. we spent eight years listen to supporters of israels insist that obama is unparalleled in his support for israel. he is going out the door flipping a middle finger to israel for no apparent purpose. if you listen to ben rhodes, you will listen in vain for an answer. this reveals that all along the rhetoric and posturinger ing to is they have always thought this was about the settlement. this is a way -- they held off doing this earlier because they knew it would hurt hillary clinton. now that hillary is gone

krauthammer says his mad dog nickname instills seriousness to the situation. >> this pick will send a strong message to our enemies. have a listen. >> break from the past where we had a president that not embraced the wars we were fighting and tried to get out of them. president elect trump wants to win them if you are going to be involved in them. i don't think he wants to be involved in a war but when we are we are going to win. >> it is good to have a military man who is known as mad dog. you want to send someone like him. if you don't stop within 48-hours i may have to turn the matter over to mad dog. translated afterwards into mer shan i think that can be quite useful. >> i love krauthammer saying mad dog. >> tawhat do you think about ma dog mattis? weigh in on our facebook page "#keep talking. >> cincinnati vowing to come through on the promises that xroe pelled his campaign. >> tough chanstance on immigrat. the best is yet to come. >> ma trisha stark joins us with more on the victory rally. >> it was a campaign style frenzy that sent him to the white house. president elect dona

my good friend charles krauthammer said get to encase the first one turns on you. >> host: what are we looking at here? >> guest: my mom and i are on the first part is that as our, my first pet and he lived to be 17 years old. he died when i was a senior in high school. he had taken in. he's gotten to the point where he needed care. the other pictures for my grandpa's ranch. by kevin wade was one of our dogs. there was a lot of working dogs and my grandfather i dedicate the book to and he taught me about patriotism, dignity and a love for animals. he taught us to never, ever let them suffer. when i write about the passing of henry, our first dog, i have to say i was the stronger of the two of us. peter was collapsing and died. >> host: your husband? >> guest: yes, peter. we walked in the room and they were going to bring henry in. we were distraught and that that comes in without henry and he said he passed away as soon as he walked into this room. i really think he was waiting for us to say goodbye. >> host: audra, pensacola, last word. >> caller: i just want you to know that you brin

charles krauthammer calls it a disaster and suggests that president-elect trump try to find a way to we're paying an organization that spent half its time -- more than half its time and energy and resources and bureaucracy, trying to attack the only jewish state on the planet, a tiny little speck while genocide may have murder, terrorisms going on all over the world. it's an organization that exacerbates tensions and it's good real estate in new york city and trump ought to find a way to turn it into condos. >> well, very direct comments from charles krauthammer, a man who understands what the potential is real estate-wise. there's been 20 condemning resolutions against israel. one against syria, who has killed at least 400,000 people, and one million said i better leave and one against russia who is carbing up the ukraine and what about this organization? how can they exist this tilted against one small nation? >> it's one of those institutions like so many that we see anywhere in politics that started out with great intentions and good ideas and people can come together and you nee

charles krauthammer has a warning for lawmakers. >> if the democrats go after tillerson on the russia ties, it will be a delightful festival of hypocrisies. and then all of a sudden they have discovered that the russians are not france and it's quite a flip-flopping. the famous moment we all remember, obama mocking romney for saying that the russians are a big threat and now all of a sudden they are becoming cold wear era. >> we did talk about that a little bit and that show was after ours. maybe everyone is watching "the five." eric, i wanted to ask you something about -- that was a compliment to us and everybody else at fox and charles krauthammer. one of the things that people usually ask themselves is why don't more people that are in business ever want to be in government? now you have a situation where the president-elect is leaving business in order to go into government and you have the secretary of state choosing to leave exxonmobil, a gigantic company, one of the biggest in the world, to go into government. good thing or not? >> i think it's great for america that we can get

charles krauthammer is right. now it's a mess.nless we do something to help there, if you don't control and deal with it there, then they want to come here. that's not going to solve any problems either. in terms of the refugees and everybody being displaced. unfortunately, president-elect trump is inheriting the mess of this disastrous legacy of president obama. the world is suffering. >> juan, when you think about the next 40 days, this evacuation is happening as we speak and the administration is wrapping things up and a new one is coming in, can we wait to do more? >> it seep seems it's a done d. assad has won. that's probably to me the most tragic aspect of this all. if you recall the russians came in when we saw the rebels having some success and then assad and the russians respond. the united states does not act at that moment. the way i think about this is, what could the u.s. have reasonably done? if you remember, hillary clinton had the idea of no-fly zones to try to keep the russians out, also to stop that kind of not o

krauthammer meter of approval?on things since he has been elected, since he won the election that i actually am encouraged by. >> all right. >> some of his appointments. some of his moves. and i -- if he is going to govern like this, i would not hesitate in the slightest. >> we will check with you every few months and see if the meter of approval is going up. where is rudy giuliani? i thought he was going to be secretary of state. the guy is in a witness protection program. where is he? >> i have no idea. i don't think is he going to be secretary of state. >> isn't that strange though that he disappears? >> well, he will be back. they all come back. >> but why did he leave? you must know. >> well, i'm not exactly an intimate of donald trump. >> but you know everything. where is he? >> no, i don't have the powers of demonation pull ouijas the world in rudy giuliani? you tell me where governor christie is. >> who? >> chris christie. >> he's in jersey. >> is he a little bit harder to hide. >> hard to get across the ge

charles krauthammer in the year 2001, four months before the attack on the trade towers, said america is the most powerful nation since imperial rome. the world will be back to our well. wealth. i am quoting that this is the consensus of the opinion in washington. now, the point is our military, and we start off with the invasion of iraq began in 2003, expecting a walk in the park and to do this with the most magnificent military force in the history of the world this is every editorial of "the new york times" and network news television and so on. the truth is the united states hadn't won a war or fought a war in 45 years. our american military essentially it's show business and advertisement. we do -- >> you watch television -- not very often. how are you informed? if you're not watching the campaign coverage on television -- >> you don't have to see a lot of that, you get the idea really quite early. i saw trump come down in june, 2015 when he comes down the escalator in the trump tower and announces himself as the candidate for the united states that is his announcement you ask me

fox news contributor charles krauthammer last night calling them almost laughable. >> this is sort ofa verses spy and not much more. the timing is ridiculous. if you are going to do this, you do it when it happens. you don't say to vladimir putin during an election, cut it out. that is adolescent. you take the consequences and make them stick. i think it is a fairly trivial thing. the russians they stole our mail. they read our mail. they published our mail. that is called espionage. you are not supposed to do that. you do it, we punish you. that should have been done 18 months ago. you send a signal to the chinese and iranians and others we will punish you. this is a slap on the wrist. >> do you think the russian sanctions go far enough? >> dallas says they should be sanctioned for meddling but it should have been done a long time ago. >> obama has ignored russia and laughed at romney who was concerned about them. remember that? since when has obamacared about american security until the policies and poor legacies lost an election. wayne rights it is a last ditch effort to blame some

tom: charles krauthammer says it's out of date and otherrage tifs.rnor huckabee wants tomorrow moist into the river and make it a parking lot. >> i will give you two numbers. the u.n. directly has been responsible to help reduce hunger to half of wait was among impoverished nations, including millions of children. the mortality rate for children under 5 has been cut by 2/3 as a direct result of efforts by the united nations. those are two examples in which the united nations has played a role in the betterment of our planet. we don't need to make more enemies. we need to stand with israel, but we also need to stand together against terror. i think people will move to supporting organizations like hah malls if the world doesn't show, look, we are here to support peace, not just israel, and be in a sense anti-palestinian or anybody who is anti-jewish as much of the awill be world views sit. >> the 3 billion we give to them, the stories have been going for years about the corruption at the u.n. do you want to cut them off or at least threat snn. >> i do

charles krauthammer in the year 2001, four months before the attack on the trade towers, "time" magazine says america has the most powerful nation since imperial rome. the world will be bent to our will. i'm quoting. this is the consensus of opinion in washington. now, the point is our military, and we start off with the invasion of iraq in 1993 expecting a walk in the park, expecting to transform the whole middle east into connecticut. [laughter] and to do this with the most magnificent military of force ever assembled in the history of the world. this is an editorial in "the new york times." this is network news television and so on. the truth is the united states hasn't won a war or hasn't fought a war in 45 years and hasn't won a war in 70 years. our american lit terry essentially is show business. it's an advertisement. we do, we will make more movies. >> you watch television? >> not very often. >> how were you informed? if you were not watching the campaign coverage on television, are you not watching some of that? >> i have watched some of that but you don't have to see a lot of t

this morning fox news contributor charles krauthammer as he always does slamming the u.n.pointless organization. >> it is an organization that exacerbates tensions. it does not assuage them. he was born in hope the end of the second world war. turned out to be a disaster. any move to minimize our support for it. any move to get it out of the u.n. imagine if headquarters were in zimbabwe. it would get zero. we have good real estate in new york city and trump ought to foond a way to put his name on it and turn it into condos. >> he is never one to mince words is he? democrats digging in and gearing up to battle president trump'sed administration every step of the way. some blocking mr. trump's cabinet pick others refuse to go meet halfway. >> i have no intention of pretending everything is all right, that we are going to work together. for me i am going to fight him every inch of the way. this business of calling names and lying and retreating on your promises, et cetera, why should i trust him to be any different with me. >> nancy pelosi is spearheading the charge drumming

i wonder what do you think, first of all, about charles krauthamm krauthammer's idea. condos?we're getting into different analogies, it's like the greedy squabbling democrats and nothing gets done. that's the problem. you look at that and $8 billion that was six years ago, right? you look at a simple statistic like this. the u.n. spends about 32% more on their employees than the same comparable position as the u.s. government. the money we're giving them is having a third markup alone. you look at who it empowers. it empowers them to do apt i willist real -- the leader of iran, the -- the real question is a cost benefit analysis. if you look at it from president trump and his benefit, what's the return on investment. and for united states, it's less and less and less. >> that's a good point. we had a presidential campaign where donald trump and hillary clinton talked about how the middle class has been shafted for a long time in this country and their tax dollars are not spent wisely. if you have a viewer putting on their work clothes in middle america, what are their tax doll

charles krauthammer doing plenty of talking saying president elect is carving out his path and letting the world know he is not afraid to buck what is long standing foreign policy in place. >> what he is saying to the world and our own foreign policy establishment is we are not going to adhere to all of the beliefs of the last 50 years. we are not going to be pursuing nuclear reduction agreements with the russians in the hungry way obama did and end up with little and perhaps making us more soft. >>> the president elect trump planning to do away from the program requiring immigrant men to register with the government. the program was formed after the 9-11 terror attacks but has not been in force since 2011. if he wants to go ahead with his plan he will have to start from scratch. >> boeing ceo says he will make a cheaper air force one. now trying to create some competition. setting sights on rival lockheed martin in the 35 fighter jets. here's a tweet from mr. trump based on the tremendous costs it cost to over run i have asked boeing to price out a comparable f18 super hornet. the f35

joining us from washington charles krauthammer. and you say? i think you are generally right.much as i would like to lay every social i will of the country at the feet of barack obama, i'm not sure this is an act of commission on his part. it's more an act of omission. i think obama simply reflects the general feeling over the last 10, 15, 20 years that drugs are a personal choice, that we destigmatize it i think he is right. you don't want to lock up marijuana users. but i'm not sure that we're doing that anyway. >> we're not. >> i think that's excuse. >> we're not. >> the real issue is in the 1980s we had a first lady who unashamedly she was laughed at by the sophisticates in the media but unashamedly she had a campaign just say no. in other words, it's very important to stigmatize certain things and when you destigmatize certain things, you get more of it for example, you know, when we were growing up in the 50's and 60's. single parenthood illegitimacy was considered something that stigmatized you and it was a social norm against it. you can do all you want with laws but w

stoddard, mercedes schlapp and charles krauthammer. this sounds like what we heard from him today.a slap on the wrist, it would have done permanent damage to israel, which is why even obama himself several years ago vetoed the resolution, because it sets conditions that takes away all of israel's bargaining chips. it gives everything over to the palestinians in advance in return for nothing from the palestinians, no recognition of a jewish state, no concessions at all. i think what happened today was very important. the reason is that had obama done what it looks like he was going to do, which is to have the u.s. abstain, the resolution then passes. and it will never be reversed. because in order to be reversed, you gotta get security council to vote to reverse it. the chinese and russians would exercise a veto. this would have been one last shot at israel, and particularly at israel's prime minister from obama. an act of kind -- i don't know if it's ideological, but personal revenge. what trump did was unprecedented. for a president-elect to step in to publically oppose it and ess

charles krauthammer joins us. i think it's fair to say the democrats' hair is on fire about the pick of scott pruitt. how worried should they be? >> they should be worried, because they have overreach now for eight years. and that's about to be stopped in its tracks. all the coverage has been on the fact that he believes x, y or z about climate change, as if we have a religious test for office in the country, because as we just heard, climate change is a kind of religion. the fact is, we don't care if the guy believes that the moon is made of green cheese. his job is to administer. that means to carry out the law as passed by congress. the complaint of the right of conservatives about this administration, it's absolutely trampling the idea of administrators as interpreting the law. they make it up. that's why the epa has been stymied time and again in the courts led by pruitt and other attorney generals. when they try to overstep. they interpret the law in a way that gives them absolute dominion over almost everyt

bigger question is where was the obama administration the last eight years, to paraphrase charles krauthammer, the role of being a superpower is to be so strong that you send a message and structure of deterrence in place to prevent this kind of thing happening. we were talking about bipartisanship on this issue. lindsey graham expects people on the right and the left to hammer rex tillerson to get answers out of him in terms of his relationship with vladimir putin. he was against sanctions against russia. again, he will now be in the role of representing and protecting the united states. he's going to have to prove that and then some when being confirmed. >> let me say this about rex tillerson since you brought it up. easy answer for him at confirmation hearing, will you or will you not continue based on sanctions. i would say over the past few weeks, strengthen the sanctions, don't have bilateral agreements which is what i understand you are about to have with the trump administration, no, no. sanction not the russian people but sanction putin's inner circle. it is not hard to do. revoke vi

judge andrew nopalitano, laura ingler and charles krauthammer. charles, your thoughts on the lautest developments? >> obama imagines the obama deal is his legacy. it is not. aleppo is his legacy. history will remember this as a symbolism of the policy of retreat and the inevitable yoult co outcome. it's not as if the civil war was going to go one way or other because of what the united states did. it was essentially in an equilibrium a year and a half ago when the russians decided that their side -- assad was losing. the rebels were on the advance in aleppo and elsewhere. he stepped in to rescue assad. then he saw there was no response on the part of the west, no penalty whatsoever, even economic, coming from the united states. he decided to drive the advantage. we are reduced now to getting speeches from our u.n. spokesman, pleading, saying to the iranians and russians and to assad, have you no shame, have you no pity? the answer is obvious, they have none. the only thing that could have stopped this ultimately would have been some kind of deter

in the 1990s, as charles krauthammer famously dubbed the unipolar moment. and then over the last 15 years, the focus of defense has been quite, quite rightly, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. but now, you know, we face the reemergence of competition and increasing possibility or probability of great power conflict, whether because of russia's aggression in eastern europe, china's assertiveness in maritime asia. and so i think it's quite appropriate, as we close out the obama administration and look to the trump administration, we kind of take stock of where we are and where we need to be. so certainly in recent years, the obama defense department has placed emphasis on the so-called third offset strategy, the defense innovation initiative. and as we approach the end of the obama administration, i wanted to ask our panel, you know, how they would take stock of those efforts from their -- you know, from their standpoint, whether it's running a science and technology program at a think tank, focusing on missile defense and other areas, or from defense i

charles krauthammer joins us. i think it's fair to say the democrats' hair is on fire about the pick of scott pruitt. how worried should they be? >> they should be worried, because they have overreach now for eight years. and that's about to be stopped in its tracks. all the coverage has been on the fact that he believes x, y or z about climate change, as if we have a religious test for office in the country, because as we just heard, climate change is a kind of religion. the fact is, we don't care if the guy believes that the moon is made of green cheese. his job is to administer. that means to carry out the law as passed by congress. the complaint of the right of conservatives about this administration, it's absolutely trampling the idea of administrators as interpreting the law. they make it up. that's why the epa has been stymied time and again in the courts led by pruitt and other attorney generals. when they try to overstep. they interpret the law in a way that gives them absolute dominion over almost everyt

charles krauthammer joins us. i think it's fair to say the democrats' hair is on fire about the pick of scott pruitt. how worried should they be? >> they should be worried, because they have overreach now for eight years. and that's about to be stopped in its tracks. all the coverage has been on the fact that he believes x, y or z about climate change, as if we have a religious test for office in the country, because as we religion., climate change is a the fact is, we don't care if the guy believes that the moon is made of green cheese. his job is to administer. that means to carry out the law as passed by congress. the complaint of the right of conservatives about this administration, it's absolutely trampling the idea of administrators as interpreting the law. they make it up. that's why the epa has been stymied time and again in the courts led by pruitt and other attorney generals. when they try to overstep. they interpret the law in a way that gives them absolute dominion over almost everything. if it rains o

let's bring in jonathan swan, leslie marshal and charles krauthammer. there's a sensitivity here, obviously, charles, in a non-political correct, say what you say, most people would look at this and say, you are making too much of it. in the state department world, their hair was on fire probably. >> and in the chinese world. the chinese are extremely sensitive about these nuances in diplomacy. they have been at it for 4,000 years. the rules were laid down by kissinger and nixon when they made the opening. it was that we would be allies of taiwan but we would have to observe certain rules so that we would not be contradicting the notion that we and the chinese agreed on at the time that taiwan is part of china. once you have communications between the president of the u.s. directly the president of taiwan, then you are impinging on that. it wouldn't really matter. this is politically correct except for the fact that the chinese when they get upset can do things like take over an island here or there or tear up an agreement or start threatening or do oth

charles krauthammer observing that the russian strong man isn't keeping his feelings about the current president is secret. >> putin is showing his complete contempt for obama, the way it laughs it off. it's a smart move on the part of the russians. you put no pressure on trump and give him the option to drop the sanctions. these sanctions are meaningless. >> we'll have reaction from governor mike huckabee on how the next administration should handle this. first we go to peter doocy in florida with more on president-elect trump's answer. >> >> reporter: one of his top priorities in the first week of the new year is to great briefed by high ranking officials about the evidence that they have that makes them so sure it was russia and not somebody else trying to impact the november result. mr. trump agreed to hear these officials out a day after dismissing intel about russia insisting instead that in the age of computers nobody knows what's going on. and just weeks after he said people pushing a story line about russian hackers trying to throw the election in his favor were embarrassed ab

and charles krauthammer. >> we're in a real danger zone at a point in which u.s. relations have disintegrated which i've never seen in my adult life. but what remains unresolved is whether this is a temporary situation until the new administration takes place. >> the damage from the resolution is long lasting. it's a matter of international law. the israelis cannot escape it. the damage from the speech today i think is meaningless. nobody is going to remember it after a month. this is kerry trying to express himself emotionally mostly but it will have no import because that administration and the view behind it will be swept away. there was one important element in the 70 minutes of that word salad and it was important because i think there's a ray of hope. the danger for the israelis, the danger for the peace process was that there was another shoe to drop. possibly obama would go back to the security council, take the kerry six-point plan and impose it on the israelis through security council resolution. that's been a threat. and the second threat was that obama

standard, karen tumeltie for "the washington post," molly hemingway, the federalist and charles krauthammer. welcome to you all. steve, what do you make of this? my in box was filled up with reaction from capitol hill. both sides of the aisle, mostly from republicans saying, we're glad to see it. why are we eight years in the presidency and now getting these? >> it's a good question. first i think we should make a point of clarification. this was not a hack of our electoral system. >> correct. no votes were hacked. >> senior administration officials on the white house call today said that, acknowledged that, made that clear. russia did not hack the voting system. having said that, what the white house tried to say was a series of bad behavior over years from russia both with respect to diplomatic activities and the this hacking of democratic entities led them to do this. it's not a very convincing turn for president obama to present himself as an russia. this is the president who accommodated russia, i would argue, for 7 1/2 years, starting with the reset, going on to what he allowed the ru

michael needham, jonathan swan, nina easton and charles krauthammer. surprised about giuliani? >> i think he would have been a strong candidate. this is a little with strong candidates on it. you have people with foreign policy experience. general petraeus on the list. rudy wanted it. he was part of a pretty thorough process. i think president-elect trump has seen 90 people go through trump tower. rudy decided it wasn't right for him. >> we are hearing -- we don't know this. giuliani wouldn't confirm it. he was offered other positions like dhs and others. he said they talked about other positions today in an interview with neil. but he wanted state. it wasn't looking like he was heading that way. >> the way it was put to me by someone in trump's inner circle is if he wanted dhs, he could have gone it. he made it clear that the only thing he wanted was secretary of state. he put himself in a tough bind. he was telling everyone immediately -- i was getting phone calls from people saying i spoke to rudy and he said the only thing he wants is secretary of state. the fact that he ma

i got to be with brett baer and megyn kelly, charles krauthammer, george will, steve hayes, tucker carlson who i adore and juan williams. that's a tightknit group and we worked a lot of hours, a long time. truly, jackie, that's what always wanted to do when i was a kid. i started out in wyoming and colorado. when i was in third grade my dad had me read the rocky mountain news and denver post before he got home from work and i had to choose two articles to discuss before dinner. that really started my interest in use. i'm a voracious news consumer. what i really wanted to do my whole life was be on a sunday show talking about news of the day, like george will. now we are called get to tell them, i loved it when i watched you when i was a kid. he doesn't think that's very funny. >> now you are doing it five days a week. >> the way i describe my life right now is one -- i signed my book joy and gratitude. describe my career right now is that my plate is full with all of my favorite foods. the only thing i think i need to do right now is maybe take food off. >> what would that be? >> i think m

steve haze, mara and charles krauthammer. how much damage is done as a result of this?this is very serious damage. it cannot be undone, because you can't change security council resolution without the russians and chinese and you are not going to get it. the ben rhodes statement is so disingenuous. the ideas that the israelis didn't have a hand in this, the resolution, shows up and they decide to abstain, is ridiculous. does anybody think that ven w venezuela and new zealand spent nights slaving over the worldinworld i wording? of course no. this was a u.s. operation. if rhodes is right, this was only about the settlements deep in the west bank, way beyond the separation barrier. you can understand the vote, perhaps. but it's not. every israeli left to right has agreed that when there's a settlement of those settlements, in other words when there's a peace, are going to be abandoned and torn down. the right wing minister of foreign affairs lives in one of these settlements. he has said openly to journalists, i know it's so because i was in the room, that he would -- he

syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. can we talk about this permanent thing? can't congress go in and pass the law? i mean, they're talking like this is -- >> a royal decree, like the emperor has spoken, there's no challenging the emperor. of course, congress can change this. this is a several decades old law that the president used in the waning days of administration in a very cynical move. this, again, represents another reason as to why so many people are tired of washington. this is taking executive action that will be challenged in court or changed by congress. executive action at a time where the country has said, we need job growth, we need change. we don't want to destroy the environment. no one wants to do that. there's responsible technology that is in place now to drill very effectively, very responsibly, a lot of it in shallow waters which can be done. and, again, in the last days of the obama administration, he's worried about burnishing his legacy which on foreign policy is in that eatters, domestic po he'll say he delivered a great economy to o

and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.aura, you lusistened to the reaction all day to rex tillerson. your thoughts on where this is coming down and is this going to be a confirmation fight on capitol hill? >> i'm not sure how much of a fight it's going to be. i think it's quite something to hear from senator corker talk about the flirtation between tillerson and putin when, first of all, under the bush administration, i remember those gauzey pictures captured with putin and president bush at the ranch in cowboy duds looking into his soul and seeing deeply into it and of course the failed russian reset on behalf of hillary clinton's efforts with the former soviet union then, of course, barack obama's telling sergei medvedev he'd have more flexibility after the election cycle. seems to me there were attempts to get closer to russia in the last two administrations but not a lot of success in dealing with russia so i think it's good to have someone from the business community who's actually been successful in dealing with the