that is charles krauthammer, hardly a leader of the resistance. your thoughts?les krauthammer is hardly a supporter of the president's, but i think there is something that folks that are strong supporter of the president would agree with and that's this team has got to get on offense. the drip, drip, drip of the small details over the past few days is hurting someone who don jr., i think, is a very honorable and very honest person, loves his father and his country, but when you don't get out ahead of stories like this, small details become big details. it doesn't matter if you've watched the movie dr. zhivago or you had a shot of vodka from russia, you need to get those details out. the administrative state, whether that be folks in the administration, whether it be folks at the committee level, they're going to have all this information at a certain point, anyway. so unless you go and get it out on your terms, they're going to hold it, and whether it's on the presidential plane ride back or following a joint session speech in front of congress, that information

that's the point krauthammer makes.m in" it makes no difference the meeting was bust. the intermediary brought no goods. what matters is what don junior thought going into the meeting. you disagree? >> one step away from a thought crime. >> i'm not saying crime. not going with crime. >> that's right. there's not a crime here and a lot of people who are very, very mad about donald trump and this is the best thing that's happened to them in over a year now. >> so the fact there's no crime, you're totally comfortable how this whole thing played out? >> no. he should have reported that. >> okay. >> i'm not comfortable with that, but at the same time, there's still no evidence of collusion and agreement that it did not -- >> ana. >> affect the outcome of the election. >> i cut you off f. final word. >> we have news dropping on this issue. there is more evidence that will amount to a crime? the likelihood, is will come out. i personally as a republican commend and thank charles krauthammer for being able to prove you can be s

charles krauthammer joins us now.ly, 39% of democrats are proud of the country. that's a profound number, could it be true? >> yeah, i think it is true, probably. a lot of that probably has to do with trump. that is not good with the country, they are upset by tweets and lots of other stuff. what strikes me is the fact that we have remarkably high numbers overall. and party affiliation. i think it has to do with the fact that we teach our children about all the pathologies of the united states and very little -- any child having gone through the schools in the last decade would know that. it's really abnormal, anti-american, and destructive. >> tucker: why would the rest of us tolerate that? this is not a new thing. i know you said you have a child in school. they come home, they tell you about all the sins of the country. it totally out of proportion to their relative weight and the rest of us just kind of sit back, pay tuition, why do we do that? >> i think the left, starting in the '60s, the countercultural left, h

kids singing: safelite® repair, safelite® replace. >> tucker: charles krauthammer concern is second tooin us. first, our country's most powerful institution that hated the rest of the country for a long time. the people who run tech companies, hollywood studios, look out the window of 35 as they commute, they see a population that is fat, bigoted, dumb. they feel pure contempt for the people below them. at long last middle america is returning those feelings. and you poll by pew finds that republican leaning voters have come to distrust the higher education establishment a lot. 50% of them believe colleges and universities have a negative overall effect on the country. just 36% think they have a positive effect, a swing of about 20 points from just two years ago. okay, you say. that just because stupid, uneducated conservatives naturally hate school. they cannot get into them. right? wrong. actually, republicans of college degrees are even more hostile to college than those without them because they know how bad it is. but if colleges have lost the confidence of nonliberals, consider t

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and i admire charles krauthammer for being so forthright about this. defender of the administration. but he obviously felt misled as i think many other people did. >> what do you make of the ever-changing developments and now we're learning about more people in that meeting at trump tower where the trump team was promised damaging information on hillary clinton. >> yeah, well, you know, the meeting was depict bed by the president yesterday from paris as a rather benign affair, but now we know there were other participants in the meeting, including a gentleman who had some roots in counterintelligence, russian counterintelligence, who was actively working, as was the lawyer who originally set up the meeting whom we originally knew about on the issue of sanctions. this wasn't about adoption. adoption is a side issue here. there was an interest in removing sanctions on the soviet -- on russia as a result of human rights violations. and so -- >> and that was related to a russian adoption ban, just to clarify for our viewers. it was part of the magnitsky ac

charles krauthammer joins us for his reaction.ut first, white house correspondent john roberts traveling with the president has the latest from germany. john. >> good evening. good morning from homburg. you know this all too well, from your past, it is the art of diplomacy. when two countries get into a single room, a single meeting, and come away with different ideas of what happened and different expeditions for public consumption. after that meeting, survey laugh ralph insisted that president trump accepted president putin's assurances that the russians had nothing to do with the u.s. election. the white house is pushing back at that me, saying that's not what happen. the secretary of state rex tillerson said the president pushed president putin on a number of issues on meddling in the election, and as he pointed out just a second ago, there is a disagreement over pruden's assertion that he had nothing to do with it. in fact, tillers and went so far as to say "it's not clear to me that we will ever come to some sort of agreed-u

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this comes from "the washington post" charles krauthammer. look at the first line, the evidence is now shown this is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks. this is an e-mail chain released by donald trump jr. himself. matthew, when it's the charles krauthammers, the shepherd smiths starting to say, hey, this "times" reporting, substantive. maybe then the base reconsiders or not, what do you think? >> i think it's possible. i think there's a certain percentage of americans both left and right who vote their identity. they're not going to shift. they're not going to change. but i think there's a tremendous amount of americans, a number of them who would be fairly horrified to know that a president, the president now if he did or if anyone close to him did work with the russian government to help secure his election, even if it didn't have any effect, it would be horrifying to know if that is the case. so i think these things can have an effect over time and you're absolutely right. the "new york times" is not going to be the people wh

charles krauthammer is the perfect menace that question., he's also a physician. he went to harvard medical school that he will explain what to do in a perfect world. >> the first thing is to recognize a mistake that obama made. and others have made. and thinking that you can revolutionize a system that's unbelievably complex and interlinked, one-sixth of the economy. there was a mistake because whenever you change one thing, it changes 80 other things, and other you're changing everything at once you have no idea what the outcome is going to be and you get all of these unintended side effects. i think what you need first of all is modesty. and i think -- >> tucker: modesty? >> that's a commodity you can even relay purchase, and washington, but it is available in other parts of the world. monasteries, for example. where was i? okay, the first thing you do is to say you're going to go with this this piece by piece. the first one that is the biggest, lowest hanging fruit, that was not even touched by obamacare, scandalously, his reform. the m

. >> the threat must be dealt with after a quarter-century of inaction says charles krauthammer. >> what the north koreans have done a crossed the rubicon. this is an entirely new phase. what happened today is after 25 years, successful administrations have kicked the can down the road, we are at the end of the road. >> dana: all right, greg, even though charles krauthammer used a cliche, he is correct. >> greg: north korea is a threat. how big of a threat, we don't know. you need to have a series of measures to allow you to escalate pressure without ending a nuclear war. we have to have all these options at the ready. if you want to win at strip poker, you win a lot of close. so you have to have a lot of options. dealing with national security is like wearing a lot of clothes during strip poker. you start taking things off, so it's important that you have these options. i think, you noticed it with syria, the way they treated that, they started with an option that sent a message. it wasn't a message that lead to retaliation. it was, this is -- -- the mother of all bombs. they are measur

browder tells us what he knows and then we will get reaction to all of the stomach from charles krauthammer, who is back with us this evening. first, trace gallagher lays it out for us. >> reporter: donald trump, jr., little themes as that his meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was a set up on behalf of fusion gps, a u.s. firm that helped produce the infamous and now debunked from dossier which offered salacious but phony details about president trump's connection to the russians. they deny any involvement with the meeting, but their role, if any, will certainly come up during next week's hearing before the senate judiciary committee, a hearing that was scheduled before the term junior emails went public and was prompted by a complaint from financier bill browder. as you mentioned, browder and his attorney helped uncover the russian corruption and human rights violations that led to the magnet ski act, which imposes sanctions on wealthy russians, along with the individuals involved in his death. vladimir putin was still furious, he banned russian children from being adopted b

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man there this evening, and ed henry here with us with all defects and skip tonight, and charles krauthammer standing by with his thoughts on the president's handling of the attorney general. all of that coming up moments away. as we watch them file in, we have been hearing that they are on time. the president tends to run a little bit behind time, but the crowd is filing in. melania, his wife, the first lady is there as well, white house correspondent kevin corke joins us now. he is they are on the scene in ohio tonight waiting for the president to come out. hey, kevin. >> yes, we are. great to be with you. they are calling this the rally in the valley. i have been to youngstown many times, good to get out here and see what the people in the midwest really feel and what they are talking about. and as we get into this packed arena once again, just show you, show him what is happening right here. you can see the crowd is excited, very loud. keep this in mind -- i guess if you can look at is one way, you're saying, let's build on the momentum, build on the energy in west virginia. on the other

charles krauthammer is among other things a physician and he joins us to talk about this.wo different ways of looking at this. we talked about this. one is from the personal perspective, and the other is from the legal perspective. much of the parents do and which of the state allow the parents to do. how would you divide those up? >> i think the real tragedy here as there are two principles. they are essentially the parents, but the parents can be wrong. and with the teller at the two facts. in this particular case, i think the parents are wrong. they for me looking at the objective evidence i think this child is in terrible distress. he can't hear, he can't see, he can't move. he cannot swallow. he's into beta. i've been interbedded for weeks at a time. i can tell you it's the edge of despair, and this child can't speak. i was an adult at the time, i could speak. he can't speak. the merciful thing to do, i believe, if it were my choice, if i were king, would be to remove the tubes and allow child to die. the parents think otherwise. i think in the end, these issues are i

charles krauthammer usually goes to these games. to go to, this was not a good one, charles. >> bad choice. but oh the glory. with the white house on fire, the congress in chaos, and the world going to hell in a handbasket, we need happy news like this. this is why god created basebal baseball. late on the sixth day. [laughs] >> bret: this is the prediction right now after watching what you watched today. the washington nationals, world series this year quest mix because they will be in the series. they may not win it, but who cares after today's game? >> bret: think about that, four home runs in a row. charles, i know you will be at the next game i'm sure. we have a lot of game left to play here in our coverage. we have all the things happening at the white house, we've got you covered. but as you look to capitol hill and the senate floor, we can tell you that things are moving forward, but we don't know when. it's believed that at about 8:00 p.m. eastern time they will start with called the vote-a-rama. he sees senator langford co

say this is something here, what you see is some conservative columnists that say like charles krauthammer but if you look at hannity and breitbart, among trump's real supporters they are not buying that anything happened here. >> sreenivasan: anything change here? >> in our political world i'd be kind of confident saying yeah, if the republicans in congress get really tough on trump, what's going on, this is a hostile foreign party here, what's going on, among trump's supporters they're not all that happy with the republicans in congress anyway. you see declining poll numbers about what republicans think of the republican congressional leaders, you see some really sharp attacks ton part of breitbart and radio personalities like rush limbaugh and sean hannity, you might be raising taxes on us, they are not blaming trump. republicans begin to say in congress if this russia thick is going to bother us, i'm not saying that it's an occasion to leave the reservation. >> sreenivasan: looks like health care vote is going to be poarved at least another week. if it comes up for avote and doesn't pa

correspondent for political, editor-in-chief of lifezette laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> i'm not impressed by the story about the lawyer. i think it's a red herring the size of a whale. she was a pawn. it doesn't change the fact of the scandal, the email received from an intermediary by donald trump, jr. said a russian government lawyer. the president was wrong. a russian government lawyer would be coming with dirt on hillary and that the kremlin was supporting his campaign and that the state prosecutor in the kremlin had a trove of documents. that's the story. i don't think it's illegal. i don't think anybody's claiming it's illegal, but it does, the one thing it does do, it totally undermines a six-month story from the white house to which i was sympathetic that there wasn't any collusion. this was a bungled collusion. this was keystone cops collusion but doesn't change the fact there was attempted collusion and it undoes the white house story completely. >> i don't think it undoes the white house story completely unless you think donald trump himself knew about thi

two, charles krauthammer himself, considered a sacred cow of the heritage foundation, says he believes we are heading towards a single-payer system. how long do you think it is going to be before we get to a single payer system? last question with regards to the budget, considering how awful this budget is and how terrible the republican party has become an governing lately, how likely do you think it is that we are heading towards a government shutdown? thank you, "washington journal." you guys are without a doubt the most patient people in washington. host: romina? guest: on the question of obamacare, that accusation is often thrown out. there are components of the affordable care act, like the exchanges, ideas which are aligned with medicare advantage, some of the republican plans for premium support. but when it comes to the overall obamacare package from especially the harmful regulations, those accusations are false, which is why the heritage foundation and conservatives are still very much engaged to repeal this very damaging law. in terms of single-payer, i think that would be

i agree with charles krauthammer. this speech today, when it comes to freedom and liberty and american leading in the world with our western values, it's really different from the inauguration speech. if you have been following ronald reagan for years, if you listen to the speech president trump gave today, you can say i agree with that. i loved it. >> kimberly: he covered all the points. very well done i think. greg. your take. >> greg: the speech first and foremost that on the world stage, we are back. pardon us for the hibernation but we aren't rusted and we are back. that's what we did. trump's vision aligns more with the present day world than the predecessor. he is concerned with the big ticket items. terror, security, freedom. jobs. u.s. media and liberalism in general is consumed by the small thing. language and decorum and memes. when they bring it up, they might not even know what he's talking about but small outreaches are marginalized compared to the big stuff that he talks about. he is, ironically, more o

charles krauthammer saying it is evidence of collusion. this was published in an article that he publiced. i want to read this. this is not heresay. this is not fake news. this is an e-mail chain released by donald trump jr. himself. how significant is that? >> i think it is very significant. charles is not a big fan of president trump or candidate trump for that matter. last summer in criticism of trump not being fit for office. when we look at the effect on the base. the base, if you like, not a whole mass. there are people who believe it is fake news. there are a lot of other people who are genuinely interested in exactly what did happen that the investigation should continue and they are worried that these investigations are also diverting attention from what many people were basically saying during the election campaign last year. there are many things which have gone wrong with american poli c politics. politics are not reflecting the interests of ordinary people. ordinary people are not able to achieve the american dream. and the ro

. >> charles krauthammer said this a few week ago. once you give people an entitlement, it's very hard to take it away. kennedy: it only happened one time. a weird bush era real estate entitlement they were able to walk back. by the wasn't something as nebrask -- asnebulous as health. the cold war is still are much part of our foreign policy. despite the republicans infighting over healthcare, they have been spending a lot of time gushing about how hard they have been working on it. >> healthcare is working along have well. >> for us it's never been about the timeline, but getting the best piece of legislation that helps americans. >> it's not working. we are replacing it with a law that will actually work. kennedy: all that hard work doesn't seem to be paying off with the voters. a fox news poll shows 27% of americans support the senate healthcare bill. the quinnipiac university poll found 60% of america's taxpaye taxpayers -- 6 -- 16% support the repeal. >> i think republicans being characterized as cold hearted. republicans don't d

i have no flood a lot of respect for charles krauthammer, when he says that donald trump, jr.,'s wordsi love it, and the email, is evidence of collusion. the guy he's colluding with is a washed up pop music publicist. he was the publicist for john denver in the 1980s. not the american publicist. not the british publicist. he was the australian publicist for john denver in the 1980s. since then his progress to becoming the publicist for an untalented pop star who happens to be the son of a very minor d list oligarch. i'm sure you like i follow the effort closely, as closely as cnn does. 70 minute bullet on cnn's morning show. i'm sure you follow johnny hit parade closely, but if you are going to collude -- i'm not sure even under the espionage act it's possible to bring prosecution for someone colluding with the publicist for a pop singer. i can't find that in there. >> tucker: what you've described is a crime against good taste, colluding with the australian publicist and the late john denver. >> son johnny mize >> >> centering putin on the other hand is a great improviser. so even if

charles krauthammer made it very good point. europe doesn't want to be seen as oppressors. think the worst thing they can be called is that. it was western civilization that broke the worldwide practice of slavery. it was western civilization that did that. it may have taken a long time to get there. but it happened. and now that is the scorch of the world and we still fight against human slavery. >> greg: if you look at that advocate of sharia law, she understands the oppressor versus the oppressed ideology helps her. if you portray yourself as a victim, you can actually help western culture be destroyed. we don't want to be seen as the oppressor so we bend over. >> jesse: there's nothing wrong with western culture. one of the other things he was criticized by cnn, we made symphonies. he was talking about innovation and brilliance and technology and pushing forward to new frontiers. we make symphonies -- that was called a dog whistle on cnn. like being proud that beethoven came out of western civilization. it's not racist. >> greg: they were talking about beethoven the dog

charles krauthammer is a writer and columnist. one of the finer fruits of western civilization. he joins us tonight. charles, what did you make of the speech ? >> i'm working on a symphony, so i will let you know. look, -- [laughs] >> be my unfinished symphony, that's for sure. this is this best speech he's given. it was very reagan-ask it was not so much about american exceptionalism, he kept saying we and you, the poles, and the europeans, the west. this was a defense of the west. that's what made it so unusual for trump. this is the antithesis of his inaugural address, because it was about america. he didn't speak about the free world. he spoke about our allies as parasites in that speech. this was a complete overturning of that. this is a return to traditional american universalism, leading the community of nations meaning nato, the west, europe, including a lot of east asia, other places as well. and by taking on the mantle of leadership, basically expanding the meaning of americanism to go beyond our shores. it was a huge step, and extremely significant. >> tucker: what wa

anna palmer, charles krauthammer. >> well, sean spicer, we hardly knew you.sorry for sean spicer. his problem was he was just way over his head. this was a guy that with not prepared. if he had thomas jefferson as his president, he would have had a hard time but with someone as mercurial and changeable, i don't think he had any chance at all. it began really badly with the first event. trying to pretend that the crowds at the inauguration -- a trivial issue -- where the largest ever in history. he did it angrily. and then he referred to concentration camps as holocaust centers. this is a man who should not have been in that position. i think he's sort of liberated now. good to be somewhere else. >> james: anna, it's commonly reported that reince priebus was responsible for bringing in sean spicer. they worked together at the rnc. does this fall of sean spicer move down to the political demerits of reince priebus in the president's eyes? >> every week, wherever there's someone to blame, is this priebus' last week? i do think this a problem for him. does reince

stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.he is joking of course but ten days ago anthony scaramucci was going to be and announced as the new white house communications director. ten days later, he's gone. >> what a ten days. unbelievable interview he gave where he was so vulgar and had such inappropriate things to say. this was ten days that felt intense. having said that, i think these changes we are seeing might make it true that there is no chaos now, meaning getting rid of scaramucci should help tamp things down. we need c with reince priebus' departure. he was supposed to help with the legislative agenda, best friends with paul ryan, you couldn't get a more establishment republican person. things didn't go so well. trump wants to change direction and you can hope things will go better with someone who is more to his liking. >> bret: this suggests general kelly has power, that he has some power from the president himself. >> absolutely. i think everyone was surprised. it was clear kelly was in charg charge. kelly reported

hemingway from "the federalist," tom bevan of real clear politics and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles, that's something you don't hear every day, a president lashing out at a senior member of his cabinet. >> well, there's a reason presidents generally don't do that. the leaders of any kind of do that because every time you look at jeff sessions now i'm in the back of your head, you're going to be looking at that guy and saying he's just been attacked by his own president, the man who appointed him. he has obviously lost the confidence of the president. they are not going to say it because if you say it, he has to resign. he doesn't want to resign but i think this limits his tenure. it's only a matter of time. you can't really do that, speaks of the fact trump is unconventional. we knew that but there's a reason for the conventions. and that is, an underling can't really function effectively and that's what's happened. >> chris: there seems to be another problem which is in emphasizing what he did an sessions recusal and how unacceptable it was, isn't he emphasizing how import

into crooked hillary's crimes" mollie hemingway, charles lane, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> the most interesting thing was what kushner said at the end, the russia conspiracy story line is ridiculing trump voters. good day for jared kushner, good day for those who don't think there's a lot to this story. not what we might've anticipated a couple weeks ago. obviously jared kushner is not ground zero of the russia conspiracy but if people are interested in russian meddling in the election, i think they need to start looking at fusion gps, the democratic opposition research firm. they were behind the dossier, had ties to the meeting, running interference for the company involved in sanctions. it >> bret: he's not going to testify. he is taking the fifth. >> told the senate intelligence committee he will refuse to answer questions about his dealings with russia. >> bret: chuck, the president tweeted today after one year of investigation with zero evidence being found, chuck schumer just hated the democrats should blame ourselves, not russia, referring to the senate minority

charles krauthammer is an author and columnist and he joins us tonight.here's a lot here but the timing of this, the president says unwisely, mueller can't go there with his personal finances. the very next day, somebody from the mueller camp leaks this. what do you think of that? >> i think the problem here at root is the whole ideal idea oe special counsel. the prosecutor. their resources are unlimited. politically, they are on fire able. legally, yes but we know what happened with nixon when he tried to fire a special prosecutor. the same would happen to trump. why does this happen? when it does, the reason it's wrong is because it creates an organization with unlimited resources and mandates to run a fishing expedition. we know what happened with clinton. it started out as a bad real estate deal and ended up with sex in the oval office. >> tucker: not a linear progression. >> it was a zigzag progression. it's a given that we are having a special prosecutor. the mandate is to look for the collusion, the collaboration. i think it's reasonable within the

charles krauthammer said it wasn't act of no confidence in sessions.t some point he needs to say, i understand the process, i am a dealmaker, but there's no way to talk your way out of this. >> i would say, if he goes down toward the legislative agenda and gets tax reform past, considers what he does with the future of the special counsel, i think if they passed tax reform into 2018, i think they will all be on it. either pull the plug now for this will be going on years from now. make a decision. >> sandra: juan williams, ned ryan, thank you. >> rick: president trump's executive order cracking on a show called centura cities could be suffering another legal bloke. a federal judge in california refusing to reverse his own injunction blocking the order from taking effect. what will the doj do now. live in less and just this. >> what comes next? has a legal and options, neither one is -- issued by the president in january, slashed money from jurisdictions that refuse to help i.c.e. deport illegal immigrants. chico california cities sued saying the presid

to do a deep dive into reform, and my wife is a doctor so i can talk so -- charles krauthammer set aouple nights ago of about the hundreds of billions of dollars, that's too complicated. that would actually make producers, hosts, journalists do real work on television. instead of just relying on a tape that was provided of an of jeff sessions. >> >> tucker: you can never undervalue the role of laziness, but you answer the big questions. answer this. the conventional understanding is that the media are liberal, they're trying to take down the president because he's a republican. if they focused on health care that would not be good for the republicans could they haven't done anything on health care. they could use that to criticize them, and they are sticking to russia. why are they doing that? did they believe the conspiracy themselves? >> part of this goes back to 2016 in the presidential election. the media has this idea of itself in this heroic role where they are going to be the ones to hold the evil administration accountable. just like during the campaign during the election, t

conservative columnists and charles krauthammer called it a violation of civic honor. is it that? >> i don't know. i certainly don't know if it's illegal or not. >> congressman, i did -- wait, wait, wait. wait. please answer the question i asked you. nothing about illegality because i know you are not an attorney. i am asking, was it a violation of civic honor? was it an american thing to do? >> it would have been better not to do it. >> i'm asking, sir, does it go beyond that? is it more than it would have been better if he didn't do that? it's like saying it would have been better if i didn't eat that bagel this morning. is it more than that? >> i don't know. i have sympathy because it's coming from a guy on the outside because i'm from the outside myself. it's not a good thing to get in the same room as a russian lawyer. that's getting out there, i agree. >> all right. i don't know if that's a clear answer to my question. i'm going to move on to health care because this is very important to millions of american people. when it comes to the issue of medicaid expansion, funding f

stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charlie, there were a lot of lines in there that really struck a chord as far as painting a picture of a region that includes what's now called the three seas initiative. trying to change the dynamic in the region. >> i thought it was a tremendous speech. there were a lot of great reagan esque lines. if you think about eight years ago, this is about one president obama was beginning his, what a lot of people derisively called his apology tour, going around the world sort of apologizing for america and making excuses for her failings feces about america. this speech was different. it was more like a reagan sounding speech where he talks about the shared ideals, called poland the soul of europe and i think there is definitely a new sheriff in town. >> bret: used a lot of history in poland and strife they had to fight off the and the soviets. to become a country again. >> they were appreciative of that. the polish government particularly and i think the speech was well designed and well

yesterday from charles krauthammer, we got this. i'll leave it to the lawyers to adjudicate the legalities of collusion. you don't need a lawyer to see the trump defense collusion has a democratic fiction designed to explain away election loss is officially dead. the tide has turned, has it not? >> well, i think you have to put it in context. clearly this was attempted collusion. it may have been bungled collusion. the administration said there was nothing to see. there was fake news. no serious contact or meaningful contact between trump world and the russians, that's dead. that credibility of that is completely shot. now, it may be that nothing came out of this meeting. that's what we're being told both by the russians and by the trump side. you look at -- in black and white at those e-mails at the former british tabloid reporter turned publicist saying that this is information coming from the prosecutor, the russian state prosecutor, this is part of an effort by the russian government to tip the election to trump and there's goin

folks with the national review, charles krauthammer, i saw people responding to the e-mail saying whoahoa, this is messed up. do you think that it's registering more broadly? >> we're going to find out, chris. look, i think that as we approach the six-month mark of trump presidency, the country's never seen anything like it. he's the most unpopular president this early in his term in the history of the country. and the polls range from 35%, 36%, to 41%. and i think it's important to remember, even the day that richard nixon resigned, he was at 29%. i mean, 29% of the country stuck with him. that's just a dynamic feature of american politics. and i do think that a lot of the trump support isn't so much support for the president as it's anti-trump. >> that's right. >> as one commentator described it. and that's a feature that we're increasingly tribal politics. where people, no matter what is done in the name of your tribe, people are supporting the tribe. but look, i think that there are scores of republicans who are beyond appalled by this. overwhelmingly independents and nonregistered

. >> i have great respect for charles krauthammer. there was no follow-up or attempt to have collusion. we may learn that he didn't read the e-mail and see this was a government official. we don't know that. yes, he said he shouldn't have taken this meeting. i think any campaign professional. that's one of the interesting things. how few people that have worked on campaigns are talking about this. we have seen well-organized campaigns, you know how to act and you may bring your counsel to a meeting. you are seeing campaigns that are just kind of coming together and aren't organized the way they should be and you know this sort of thing can slip through when you are not paying attention. those are two different realities. for charles to jump to that conclusion is pretty extreme. it is clear that the russian government was trying to get involved in our politics. >> wouldn't that be the inference. if you were to receive an e-mail, that would infer we russians may have something against your opponent wouldn't you know that it was an adver

weekly standard, gillian turner, former national security staff, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. okay, gillian, what do you say? 's vehicle on the deal tonight, the president is in a position now to where he thinks he's going to have to certify this not just because -- the reality is iran is probably living up to the letter of the law if not the spirit of the deal, but the problem is once the deal like this is in, it's very hard to renege whether in whole or in part. the administration is seeing that after six months in office. >> and a lot of the things for iran were on the front end. the stipulations that they god, the things that they got were on the front of the deal. >> well, it's continuous throughout the deal. the sanctions that it offered them allows them to bring their international energy supplies to the global marketplace. they are going to net somewhere in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars over the next few years from this deal. i think the political capital that was invested in bringing germany, the u.k., france to the negotiating table is something we have

charles krauthammer. laura. >> it's never good to start on monday with another story about a russian meeting and the trump folks. this is june of last year and this was just as they were getting ready for the convention. doesn't surprise me someone connected to the campaign would take a meeting with a friend of a friend who was trying to get some mojo and some juice with donald trump, jr. for this kind of stuff happens a lot. now we are focused on russia so this woman is a lawyer in russia. as someone who has two adopted russian kids, this ultimately ended up being a meeting about adoption. i've seen so many times sources in russia trying to get the word out about this act which they are desperate to get rescinded in the united states. that was her goal in this meeting. she wanted to push her case with their clients. that doesn't surprise me. listen, he's right about the ukrainian deal. the ukrainians did want to influence the election and hurt trump. they wanted to help hillary clinton. the hillary clint

isrles krauthammer considered a sacred cow at the heritage foundation and believes we are headed for the single-payer system. how long do you think it will be before we get to a single-payer system? with regards to the budget, considering how awful the budget is and how terrible the republican party is at governing , how likely is it we are headed towards a government shutdown? journal" "washington you are the most patient people in washington. guest: on the question of obamacare, that accusation is often thrown out. there are components, like the exchanges idea which are aligned with medicare advantage and republican plans for support. when it comes to the overall obamacare packet, especially harmful regulations, those accusations are false. that is why the heritage foundation and conservatives are engaged to repeal this damaging law. in terms of single-payer, that would be devastating. you need to look at canada or the u.k. and think about what that means. it means rationing by government . that leads to care issues. individuals in canada who are older cannot even get an mri. there