charles krauthammer is absolutely right. it's gotten way too toxic.e need a respected bipartisan coalition of people whoever they may be. i don't know who they would be. maybe tom kaine and lee again, people who did the 9/11 commission to get to the bottom of this. i think we are all, republicans and democrats, need to know exactly what went on with respect to raush, maybe nothing, maybe something big. i think it's time we get to the bottom of it and leave politics out of it. charles is right et world is on fire we need to make sure the a russians are not going to continue this with us or our allies going forward. >> dana: thank you some. appreciate it up next you won't see et susan rice developments anywhere else as some in the media have dismissed the developments as a distraction and diversion even a fake scandal. mollie hemingway and robert debate straight ahead. department of justice to halt some the police reforms sought by the obama administration. we will fill you in on those details coming up. and breaking just moments ago, senate majority le

joining us from washington, charles krauthammer. is president trump doing better in your eyes?> i'm sure i was not the only one who was surprised. after all, that is a man who campaigned on precisely not being the policeman of the world. o he is a man who campaigned on american first. he said people around the world were bleeding us dry, mocking us, and here he was even talkina about allies. it just a week before thee strike, he said in his speech "i'm not president of the world, i'm president of the united states." and just three days before as he attacked his own secretary of state and u.n. ambassador, essentially said we're willing to live with assad, the idea of getting rid of him is off the table. given all of that, it's surprising and gratifying that trump took the measure he did, and he essentially undermined and contradicted the entire h idea, the one that was sort of the main theme of his inaugural address, that we were not the policeman of the world. we were not going to be acting on behalf of others. we were only going to be looking after ourselves, and the worldwe n

ian, you were able to listen to charles krauthammer in the previous segment. wonder if you largely agreed with what he had to say and what you think about president trump's move over the past two weeks? >> i think in terms of what trump has accomplished so far and the intentions to try toto make the chinese pay attention, since they are the ones that have the impact and influence over north korea, i agree with that. but i would say that his suggested outcome, the one peaceful plan, finlandization, the idea that china will turn ao country with ten nuclear weapons into a nonnuclear state, is ludicrous on its face. it would be suicidal for kim jong-un to require active regime change. the reason why china has been so reluctant is not because they are happy with what north korea is doing. they are not. they used to be ten years ago. they are not any more. the reason they don't push is because they fear that the north koreans, if they really threaten regime change, it is going to blow up, not only the regime but also the region. that is something the chinese are ver

. >> fox news analyst charles krauthammer noticed it came after the trump administration warned the hermit state to change its behavior. >> it's a deliberate provocatio provocation. with all the threats, the president saying at least there is a threat of a major, major conflict here -- trying to challenge the trump administration saying, well, show us what you've got. >> dana, obviously a very developing situation right at this hour. what do you think the trump administration should be doing in terms of its messaging right now as it relates to north korea? >> remember when rex tillerson said the era of patients has come to an end? rex tillerson has been very sparse in his words. they are not giving the dictator the attention he needs and besides the tweets, the only statement was yes, we know about the test and yes, the president has been briefed. no more think about it, we need to get together. it was really interesting that rex tillerson said in an interview with npr that the united states would be willing to speak and wants direct talks with north korea. we haven't said that before. did

come on, i can't resist. >> not to be redundant, but charles krauthammer is right.ou know, it is interesting that it always seems like -- susan rice comes up with political situations. the trouble she got into about benghazi she was spinning something politically not true -- >> harris: about the acts of terror and the killing of our people, the assassination of our people. >> and she blamed it on the video, which was not true. that led to all sorts of other riots after the fact, which led to people being killed around the world. so she's always at the center of political things. >> senator tom cotton called her the typhoid mary of the obama administration, which accurately describes it. for whatever reason she's in the middle of every scandal. like i said earlier, i have an innate distrust of this woman because of what happened with benghazi, and i think most americans do. she better be careful going forward, because sitting here, i don't have clout believing what came out of her mouth on andrea mitchell. >> harris: the roles of distruth with this particular individ

charles krauthammer praised him. he said the traditional western saddle. the world is on notice.ight years of sleepwalking is over. america is back. let's bring in glenn hall, u.s. news editor for "the wall street journal" ." do you sense a change in foreign policy here? >> foreign policy is one thing because everybody seems to be forgetting, as they were just discussing, that candidate trump did promise he would work on defeating isis and he would convene his generals and create a plan to defeat isis once he was in office. he's doing that now, but on the broader messaging, this would be the america first strategy is that we heard also from candidate trump, we are seeing a low but of a shift in terms of more pragmatic and perhaps also more traditional ways of handling legislation issues and domestic issues. >> jon: i want to play or read for you a little bit more from that charles krauthammer piece. he wrote the very swiftness of the response, he is talking about the missile strike in syria, carried a message to the wider world. obama is gone, no more elaborate forensic investiga

reaction, joining us, charles krauthammer. am i overstating things? >> yes. look, i'm sure there is an element of trump hatred and just about everything the democrats do on capitol hill. but there is nothing like, in the gorsuch hearing, the level of vitriol that there were in the bork hearings when reagan was president or in the clarence thomas hearings when george h.w. bush was president. >> bill: those men were much more conservative than judge gorsuch is. >> in don't think you can say that about clarence thomas. the time, he was head of the eeoc. there was nothing outrageously conservative about him. that was a political hit job of the first order, and it was -- >> bill: do you think, and i know you don't i'm going to ask anyway. the hatred against ronald reagan was at the same level of donald trump? >> i don't. that's why i don't think this is about hatred of the president. i think this has to do with the fact that democrats decided, and it began, no doubt it began with the board hearing. they decided twoyears of tradition, which was you should generally

an syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. welcome. you think of this iran deal, with the secretary of state said, and the letter that he produced today? >> based on what secretary tillerson said today, we are going to see, in some ways, what the obama administration initially told us, only applying nuclear sanctions, and i think what you'll see is more pressure on the nonnuclear sanctions. but that really wasn't done by obama, and there were a lot of kind of special benefits that iran got in the last year and a half. they are not going to get that anymore. >> bret: isn't that redoing the deal, in essence? >> i don't think it is. the argument from the obama administration, a narrow nuclear deal, the trump administration is going to take that at their word. >> i think it is interesting. tillerson found it pretty tough when he came out and talk to reporters, saying, we are heading down the same path to north korea. have seen on a series of issues, moving the u.s. embassy in israel, that president trump has moderated some of the decisions

i have to tell you before the segment, charles krauthammer fell asleep. i did wake him up. i told him i was going to put a cap on his face. that's true, isn't it? it's true. next on the rundown, sly report out of syria by cnn. very slight. they didn't work out. wait till you see this. then a man holding a valid airline ticket thrown off the plane. shocking. >> oh, my god, ! oh, my god. >> no! >> bill: the factor is coming right back. >> bill: the attack on syria and the american press. the man who opposes the assad regime and has been gassed himself appeared on cnn last week. >> clearly president trump as motivated as we all have compassion for these horrible images of these babies who were killed in, but at the same time, this is a man who doesn't want syrians to come into this country with this refugee fan let me just say some sounds. hillary clinton weighed in. >> we cannot in one breath >> protecting syrian babies and then in the next close american stories to them. >> quickly, how do you see that? >> i didn't see anything in her voice against president obama's inaction

take a listen the our own charles krauthammer. >> it's about the next nominee.hand of mcconnell on this vote, abolish the filibuster meeting only 51, next time around when you might even have a liberal seat going up, then if it's only 51, the republicans would be tempted to go for a far more hard-edged conservative than gorsuch is. and that would be a self-inflicted wound by the democrats. kelly: joining me now is kevin sheridan, former rnc spokesman, jessica ehrlich will be joining us as well, but right now we're working on some technical issues with her particular signal, so we'll get her as soon as we can. kevin, back to you right now. what do you make of all of this. >> why would the democrats try to filibuster a very qualified judge in judge neil gorsuch? >> yeah, it's a good question, you know? besides rigging their own process to to nominate hillary clinton, this might be the biggest self-inflicted mistake they've made if they go forward with this, because he's a well-qualified judge, clearly. he passed the senate confirmation hearings with flying colors.

charles: i want to play a sound bite from charles krauthammer about bannon not being in the white house. >> it's infinitely safe tore keep him inside the tent, keep him on the periphery. but keeping an eye on him. keep your friends close and your enemies closer. he's not an enemy but he could be a potential one if he gets kicked out. i'm told steve bannon is willing to play the long game. is that bad news? is that bad news for the white house? >> donald trump has changed a lot of his views. he's looking like the donald trump we have seen throughout the campaign. that's something steve bannon brought. when steve began noon leaves the white house, the breitbart readers won't like donald trump echoing a more conventional republican president. they want him to stay with the issues that got him elected. charles: what if he resembles jeb bush. >> not jeb bush, george bush. charles: i think for the general public, we saw the tomahawk missiles. i saw one hole where 60%. americans approve of that. they showed the american public starting to rally around the commander-in-chief. that will make pre

charles krauthammer is making that case at some point a year or two from now we'll shoot a missile from the sky. i don't know if that's the case or not. it appears to me that this has reached a stalemate. what is your view of that now with north korea? >> first of all i thought that the president was exactly right in the interview that he gave ainsley and is doing it the right way and made the point about china. we have moved the chinese, their visit in mar-a-lago moved the chinese dramatically. they've cut down on the amount of coal they're buying from north korea replaced with american coal. the biggest single source of northern exchange north korea has. the chinese moved 125,000 troops to the border and i think that the north koreans have to feel increasingly isolated. my view is when you deal with a country that may have nuclear weapons in a serious way, you have to be careful. you want to increase the pressure, you want to be prepared to fight if you have to, but i wouldn't do anything present sip advertise at this point. i would keep squeezing him harder and harder. as long as the

charles lane, mercedes schlapp, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. the interview with the egyptian president covered so much on so many topics. one atmospheric thing that leaps out at me is the extraordinary degree of confidence that both the egyptian president and the jordanian king expressed in president trump, saying he can do things no one else can do. and then there was what we just heard from the egyptian president speaking to bret baier, saying that essentially the united states and egypt should be willing to put boots on the ground in order to secure some kind of israeli-palestinian peace agreement. >> so interesting, al-sisi's answer, he was saying the arab state, after 70 years, are ready for a deal. they are tired of the palestinians. he won't say this, but this is the truth. and the big threat is not israel to the sunni arabs. it is iran. they are prepared to make peace tomorrow but they are hostage to the palestinians. did you hear what he said? he said we are talking with the palestinians, the second and third generation, meaning here w

senior editor at "the federalist" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.ollie, should we be surprised to find susan rice at the center of the story? >> ever since devin nunes talked about the unmasking, i would assumed it would be lower level. this is not a minor flunky. already a pretty serious allegation, now something much bigger. >> it's important to remind their viewers, as i often do, i did two weeks ago, that although people want to confuse the two. unmasking is not leaking. unmasking is not wiretapping. it is not surveillance and while devin nunes lied about this, president trump lied about it, susan rice lied about it. this revelation could be anything from a scandal to a crime. should be a separate investigation. who leaked it? was the unmasking legal? that's different from an allegation that president obama ordered wiretapping. it's not actually a story. it's about two separate things and they may be two separate wrongs. unmasking is not wiretapping and not leaking. it's the leaking that's a problem. that's a crime. >> james: we don't have time

stoddard, and charles hurt, opinion editor for the washington times and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer listened to brady. he seems pretty optimistic parade they've been working on it for a while. it's hurting the republican cats when it comes to the issues the specifics on tax reform. >> give them credit for working on it. there is unity among all republicans, the team at the white house and everyone on capitol hill about wanting this. this is our greatest item on their wish list and they wanted for generations. but that said, there are the divisions that remain that prevented a health care reform bill from passing. those divisions will rear their head next week when they need to pass the spending bill and the government funding runs out next friday. april 28. they need to come together. when the sacred cows are delineated, everyone can have hearings and say it sounds like a good proposal but when the lab ring starts and people come in and say i'm with you. i want to support it but you can't take this one thing away. that's going to happen. it's going to be where the rubber meets the r

charles krauthammer. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york talked about his accomplishments, his criminal justice plans. he was part of a group of prosecutors asked to resign in march. he was fired after he refuse. his remarks took place last week. we will show you that tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. here's a preview. i am no longer the u.s. attorney. i want to say a quick word about that. if you want more details, there is an article that came out this afternoon. .riefly i was asked to resign i refused. i insisted on being fired, and so i was. i will tell you i do not understand why that was such a big deal, especially to this white house. i had thought that is what donald trump was good at. [laughter] that that is how he got to be the president. after how many people remember the germanic

let's talk about all of this with syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.tonight. your thoughts? >> it seems to be a deliberate provocation by the leadership in pyongyang, but it is not, as john roberts pointed out, the kind of icbm that would threaten us. it is still liquid fueled, so it is not advanced in its technology. it seems to me to be a deliberate provocation with us at the security council, or secretary of state, saying we are near, at least there is a threat of a major, major conflict here, trying to challenge the trump administration saying, well, show us what you've got. but the administration seems to be saying is, we've got to china. well, we don't see anything from china. we just heard that the chinese are in contact with the north koreans to try to put pressure on them not to test. well, dated test. -- they did test. i think were going to see whether the chinese action is an illusion or whether trump was taken in with the meeting by xi, the president of china, or whether this is a process where they've agreed to do things over time. but we

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," mara liasson, and charles krauthammer i mean, my head is spinning. this is a complete 360-degree change from his policy on syria which, even though a lot of trims foreign policy had not been fleshed out, syria, he had been clear year after year. criticized president obama not just for erasing the redline, all of a sudden, we're talking about military action in putting himself in the sandbox that obama did. he doesn't like what assad is doing, but does he want to get rid of him? troops on the ground, something he said he wouldn't do? >> there are u.s. troops on the ground. >> doesn't mean more u.s. troops if he is really talking about regime change. we're not quite sure what the president was talking about, but we know what to was moved by, he said he changed his mind, what is he going to do about it? >> it's quite remarkable, only a few days ago that he said through his spokesman at the u.n. and also his secretary of state that we would not be continuing the obama reproach of wanting regime change. the official policy was

liasson, national political correspondent, national public radio and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. the focus right now is the government funding towards the end of the week. seems like the border wall is going to be the issue as we close in on friday. >> democrats have done a great job with obstruction. they don't have a lot of power for they've done a good job using whatever power they have to cause problems for president trump. this is a curious issue for them to obstruct on because i think in general while people might want a literal wall, they definitely care about border security and enforcement. these are areas where there should be some negotiation. >> the wall as a metaphor. if donald trump can get something in the government funding bill about border security, he can claim victory in the democrats can say they didn't vote to fund the wall. he is already said he doesn't want a government shutdown period he's already backed up the final negotiating position. if he wanted the democrats would do something, has to be willing to shut the government down in order to get up but h

editor, charlie hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times," and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. >> i think it was absolutely the right thing to do. president trump didn't just act, he acted quickly, i think he notes, he has put himself in a position of strength going forward, the sitting arab monarchy is relieved, helps with their impetus, but on on the specific issue of the rule of law in the world, i think trump took a major step forward today, if you look at governments across europe at what has been done, i think it has been proved that this desire was desperately desired. >> put up sean spicer's tweet after looking at this tomahawk cruise myself, the tweet of the room where president trump was, the image after the strike apparently was ordered at 9:15:00 p.m. eastern time. charles, the world reaction seemed like, again, it was respectful of the strength move. >> i think it was extremely important for precisely that reason. it will have its particular effects on the ground in syria. it's a warning to us, they no longer have a free hand, going to pay a price, next time it wi

. >> sandra: charles krauthammer mention that first. >> this is the single most important initiative. i think health care reform is much more congressional, it was preceded trump. he was the one who ran on this, he ran as a businessman and this is his one chance, and a good chance, to stimulate the econom economy. that would make his presidency. >> sandra: is one chance, this is a big deal. this is what the president campaigned on. this is what he promised. this is largely with the american people voted for. >> meghan: let's not mince words. he really needs a legislative one at this point. the tricky part is he needs bipartisan support and i just don't know what democrat you're going to find who will get on board with this. i know that talking about taxes and finances of the greatest thing ever. for me, i need an iv drip into my arm. when i heard stephen nguyen saying i can make this on a postcard. i was in my apartment last night when this was on and said you're going to make taxes easy for me and not complicated? if he can do that, i will give him anything he wants. it is for me, a

tumulty, national political correspondent for "the washington post" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammeroughts on the interview? >> i think the first thing, secretary tillerson backed away from this notion that kim jong-un might be mentally unstable. that is a belief that i think tillerson reflecting in the u.s. intelligence community, others are not so sure about that. >> bret: let's play that sound bite real quick. this is when i asked him about kim jong-un. >> all indications are that he is not crazy. he may be ruthless, he may be a murderer, you may be someone who, in many mistakes, we would stay by our standards, is irrational, but he is not insane. indications are in the past that when certain events have happened, he has made rational choices. >> bret: and obviously they're hoping he does it again. >> the evolution in languages such that i thought it was very interesting when he said that the idea is to provide for north korea to become part of the community of nations. economic growth, stability, moving away from the notion of regime change. existentialism, so crucial to the nort

an syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.harles, the mother of all bombs. >> well, it is curious as to why here and by now. splint let me interrupt you, the president just landed in florida as air force one is landing there for the easter weekend as he heads down to mar-a-lago. we just wanted to bring the shot of air force one landing as you continue. go ahead. >> i suspect from what they tell us, this was a isis base, isis tunnels, which tells you, number one, that isis is more entrenched than we would have thought. you have this notion of mattis being a band of jihadis running around, but i suspect it is because it was isolated. the radius is half a mile and you are likely to catch civilians and innocents in the blast. mainly because of the isolation. but i think you're right, there is a message here. after all, this was developed in 2003, 14 years later, by now, i think we are trying to send a message particularly to the north koreans, perhaps also the iranians. they are developing nukes, the nukes are buried. they are int

jenna goldberg, molly hemming way, political report and syndicated krauthammer. >> it is fair to say at this point that the trump as putin puppet story line is officially dead. to come back, but it would take something remarkable. i think that it is, you know, i think at one point today, these are the worst relations we've ever had with russia, ever, president trump said. but it is very clear that things are not going well. and everyone is sort of just doing a tailspin, trying to figure out what the theme of the pudding is of american foreign policy right now. >> bret: remember that debate, amy. you're the puppet. no, you're the puppet. that was hillary clinton and -- >> that was a good one. >> bret: what about the tillerson lavrov conference? >> it was lavrov who was the most, i guess, outspoken here, much more so than tillerson. but again, this is -- we're trying to figure out -- pudding is a good word. we're trying to figure out where this congeals here. the secretary of state said there is no change in policy on sunday. this is about isis. today, now, we're talking about not nece

washington times" very leslie marshall, syndicated talk radio host and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, charles, let's start with u.s. policy to syria. are we figuring out more of what the administration is trying to do? >> i don't think the administration itself is sure what it's trying to do. it is succeeded in doing one thing, sending a message to the whole world that we are not going to be walked over. we are going to respond. when we do, it will be decisive, and it will be quick. the days of handwringing and assuming the u.s. will do nothing, no matter how much it's provoked in the middle east, are over. as to the specifics of where we go in syria now, i think what we are getting out of the administration is perhaps unintended strategic ambiguity. meaning everybody in the administration has a view and it hasn't been harmonized. i don't think it matters that much because even if we decided we are going to do regime chang change, were not going to marshal the means to bring it about. we are not going to invade. that's sort of a theoretical issue. we get nikki haley saying yes,

steve hill tonl, formthilton, a columnist, charles krauthammer. welcome back, steve. first before i get you on tax reform, your thoughts on 100 days, we're obsessed about it, but just your thoughts about president trump and this environment. >> i think that it is clearly a mixed picture. to put it mildly. i think that in my view, he squandered a really massive opportunity to be that different kind of leader, the real change maker that he was going to shake up washington and cut through party lines. i think the way he started really set him back. having said that, there are clear accomplishments. paul ryan listed them today at the press conference. there have been measures implemented to deregulate businesses and so on that will make a real difference. the most surprising thing in terms of the expectations is that actually he has done better on the national security front than on the domestic front. people were really concerned about his leadership on the international stage, how will he deal with leaders, and will he be this crazy person destabling the world. he has b

mara liasson, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, your thoughts on the write up. think of it is a silly and alarmist analogy. the difference between the cuban missile crisis and this is that the soviets in 1962 had an active deployable, utterly devastating nuclear arsenal. that was at stake. this is armageddon was at stake. as of now, the north koreans don't have an operational nuclear force which is what is driving this entire issue right now. the stakes are infinitely lower. it seems to me the administration has made a decision that the north koreans are accelerating their rush to breakout to the point where they have a nuke on a missile that could reach the united states or even just reached japan and they're not going to allow it. the problem is, it is accelerating. they've been doing more tests at a faster pace and have developed a panoply of missiles that were on display over the weekend that surprised a lot of analysts. it's not as if we can stand by as we did for 30 years and hope this is never going to end. it will end soon. meaning and with a deployable

editor in chief -- laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.aura, i guess he is sending a signal that they are serious about trade. >> he campaigned on this. this is one of his core issues, wildly popular in states like wisconsin. big dairy farms they are. cheese production. also pennsylvania, ohio. we haven't heard a u.s. president speak about the dumping of cheap products into the united states and obscenely low prices that has devastated american industries, and that is why so many turned out in the old rust belt states, and this will be very popular among rural americans and i think other americans. it's not surprising that canada responds -- candidate should respond that way. they are going to fight for their workers command we are going to fight for our rookeries and our industries. that's way it should be. there should be an efficient marketplace where both sides have a chance to represent their workers and their industries. vigorously. and once they get probably taser actually confirmed, which, i hope mitch mcconnell gets that done, we

charles krauthammer shares his thoughts on how the president is handling all these international challenges i think this is reassuring that we are returning to the classic american definition include our allies and most important we accept world leadership in a way that had not been accepted by obama and seemed to be not accepted by trump, the candidate. >> dana: general jack keane agrees with the commander-in-chief's military strategy. >> this is another step in the right direction. what president trump has done since january 20th has given his commanders in areas where we are conducting conflict operations, given them the authority to conduct strikes as they see fit, to move forces as they see fit, and not to ask the white house for permission. the micromanaging of the military is over. the commanders feel very good about their ability, their freedom of action and as a result of that our operations will definitely be more effective. >> dana: mike more relative who was at the obama administration set this to say earlier. >> we have a new president. and kim jong un is trying to challenge hi

here, charles krauthammer. charles.hen you are in the middle of something like this, things are going crazy, the question is, is this really a new thing? i have never seen anything like this. >> we saw some of it in the '60s, when the university administrators, the famous case at cornell, a riot with students carrying guns. by and large, administrations are supine and still are. the danger here is, we are reaching a situation where thugs, and for that matter, violence, but basically fascist gangs to shut down free speech. we talked about how dividedhe things are, even with what we eat and what we read. the one thing that he was due unitas, even in the bitterest of times in the '60s, people would say things like, i don't believe or support anything you say but you have the right to say it. that was a cliche. it almost became something that was s so obvious. where has not gone? if you can't have the government guaranteeing the safety of speech, then we have lost the fundamental tenets of our society. if there's anything t

correspondent for the associated press, julie pace, and nationally syndicated columnist, charles krauthammereeling emboldened by the reaction, i think, to this action in syria. but there are questions about what is next. >> i think it is interesting that tillotson was talking about what is in rush's interests, and you can see the slight movement, perhaps, toward re-engagement of the old soviet union, the election tampering, put that aside for a moment. is there ever going to be a solution in syria without russia and the united states coming to some understanding, whether it is part of a grand plan or grand bargain involving not expanding nato or the ukraine or peeling i ran out of the situation. a lot of smart people have written about this. it is difficult to see how this ends with just the united states getting involved, more military strikes, without putin coming to that conclusion that tillotson referenced. how is this good in rush's long-term interests. the fact that he said that, i have my concerns about getting mired in the middle east again. i thought that was smart the way he phrase

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john, thanks for that let's talk with syndicated columnist charles krauthammer with all of this. start with mike flynn, his lawyer seeking immunity for any testimony before congress or the fbi and then donald trump's tweet saying that's exactly the right thing to do. seek immunity. where does that take this case? >> well, it's not going to depend on trump tweet. although i think it's not a very good idea for the president to inject himself into this. it's not going to help. if the fbi or any of the committees think that flynn can deliver trump, they will grant him immunity. there's no reason to think he will. if it's just protecting himself, i think they won't be interested in granting him immunity. in other words, is he only useful to the extent that he gets the big fish. that's how it is in all of these investigations. so, i think it has to do with flynn's own exposure, not having agent of the turkish government. perhaps some dealings with the russians that predate his involvement in the trump campaign, that we don't know about. i suspect it's personal stuff. it's not campaign

. >> when i watch a george will or a charles krauthammer, i watched them for aryears.'re losers. >> look at these people. what a bunch of losers. you are a loser. >> rosie is a loser. >> bill crystal, he's got some magazine. i don't know what it is. what a loser! >> like poor mitt romney. poor mitt. i understand losers. i understand losers. you can make a lot of money with losers. >> i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> she how he's changed? he's in the white house, and he's still talking like that. joining me now is senator rich blumenthal. senator, let me ask you about -- i guess gorsuch is coming in the wrong way. is that how you see it, without 60 votes? it looks like it's going to happen? >> if it happens, and there's still hope it won't, it will be because donald trump and the republican leadership in the senate essentially have blown up the rules. they changed the rules and are going to win, if they do, only because they have left that wreckage in their wake, and there's a reason they call it the nuclear option. it has fallout. the repercuss

charles krauthammer praising the decisive action. >> the united states reacts, and quickly.e obama where you'd have weekes of public hand-wringing, remember when he came up with the policy on afghanistan, took something like eight months? this is about 48 hours and america strikes. america is back, and it is liable to react now. you no longer have a free hand. and that, i think, is going to change a lot in the world from a single response like this. kelly: for more let's bring in scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w. bush, former adviser to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and then dennis kucinich, former democratic congressman from ohio and fox news contributor. thank you both for joining us to share your perspectives on this. dennis, what do you say about all of this in terms of the retaliatory strike and sending those tomahawk missiles to send bashar al assad a strong message? >> well, the whole world, anyone with a heart, is expressing outrage over what happened. you see the pictures of these dead babies, how could it not move you? at the

i mean, is this anything but what charles krauthammer called it, which is a radical par tour from whatld people on the campaign trail? >> here's how we're looking at it, people who voted for trump, walk quietly carry a big stick. you will see problems with his base if it becomes nation building, put a lot of troops on the ground, expend a lot of money to do nation building. i think right now it's one of the things we've sent a signal with the tomahawk missiles and with the moab -- >> a new sheriff in town. >> a new sheriff in town, a re-set button. the united states will be accommodated on the international stage. so i think right now a lot of supporters are saying this is good, we're sending a signal you will listen to us and pay attention to us. the break would happen if it becomes nation building, massive investment of resources and american lives into foreign thesers. >> and some people are actually looking at this as saying, we're finally seeing a gelling of the national security team, whatever infighting is going on in the white house, behind us, seems to not be affecting the mcm

so when i mentioned this with charles krauthammer the other night, a lot of people concerned about thethey are dealing. what is the future of opioids and painkillers? >> bret, i have good news. researchers right now are figuring out painkillers that work on other receptors in the brain besides opioid receptors. and may not be as addictive. we were promised that before, as rick leventhal pointed out. we have to be careful. not as addictive. the other point is genetics. we know that at least 30% of addiction is genetically based and researchers are also figuring out exactly the part of the brain that is involved, who is most at risk, and those people, i can say, wait, i'm definitely not getting those medications. there are indications for opioids. after surgery, dental procedures. but i have to be alert to that as time goes on, if i refill that, if someone is at risk genetically, i'm going to end up with another addict. >> bret: dr. siegel, thank you. we hope you at home have found this weeks series informative. this is obviously, as we have talked about, a problem that will not be going