colleagues right like charles krauthammer, rush limbaugh all talk -- even rush limbaugh says this is logical. >> tucker: i don't think that's how you pronounce his name but hold on. look. the country is crowded in a lot of places. there were 320 million people here. current immigration continues. we are going to get to half a billion by the end of the century. s that a lot. that's an awful lot of people. and i think that if you were to say to the public really clearly, any time someone comes into the country legally under 18 they automatically become a u.s. citizen. i think you would find support for that would be, i don't know, maybe 10%. like nobody would be for that let's be honest. >> tucker, you know, you are a smart guy. that's not what the daca program does. >> >> tucker: yeah, it is. >> talks about a exphawl category of people who came when they were children. look, they have grown up here. they have gone to school here. with daca, many of them have bought cars, have bought houses. are paying for their college

lifezette, laura ingraham and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. chuck, give us some contacts. what's the significance of mueller and paneling a grand jury? >> it's never routine to have a special counsel on your case but within the context, this is relatively routine. you would have expected a special counsel who is dealing with a very complex matter which apparently is going to involve all of these business corporations that donald trump owns and his family owns. they would want the grand jury in place or they can issue subpoenas, take sworn testimony, and of course do all that behind closed doors under the veil of secrecy which of course doesn't cover the weaknesses which is probably -- witnesses. the president is going to have a monkey on his back for a number of months. the tone ty cobb talk, not this is a terrible witch hunt but rather we look forward to fully cooperating and we hope this

charles krauthammer joins us tonight.the point of a threat is that you have to be able to back it up. and i don't think any american president would say something like that without having in mind how he might make good on it. what would be the point of military action against north korea or, for that matter, venezuela? is either one of those a good idea? >> well, they are both separate issues. i think. the north korea one is quite straightforward. and we heard from general mattis, secretary of defense today. look, if the north koreans launch a missile, at the united states, at guam, at our troops, perhaps even seoul or tokyo our allies. we are not going to wait for it to land. the launching would be an act of war. and i assume we have plans for a complete obliteration of the north korean regime. now, people got all upset when trump used the words fire and fury overkill and all this other stuff. they forget the fact that john kennedy, president eisenhower, and most of the cold war presidents had a policy called massive ret

. >> laur, most conservative intellectual and krauthammer and crystal. >> oh, yeah. about them. >> you are saying right now and the intellectuals think. do you understand at all. we get you. you think trump is a disaster, we get that. and you have great adjectives and we have a list of all of your adjectiveingly. in your mind hitler and mussolini. >> i never said that. you are the one who used that adjectives like alarmist. >> you basically believe that intellectuals on the coast know better than the people in the states. do they have any right to be upset with what happened to the country? >>o yay. >> what you dislike about trump and turn out for your prize. >> you want to put peggy and charles krauthammer and bill kristol in the elite. >> good luck. they are absolutely critical against trump. they didn't want trump to win. peggy is a different deal and i love peggy. but the fact that three republican ikt lengthiums say that. >> how about america where half of the popularity of obama and how about the world. >> of the world, i am shedding a tear. >> and let me get t

charles krauthammer, the author of columnist.nderstand why some people are offended by confederate monuments, but my concern is that it is not about the monuments, it is about trying to delegitimize the foundations of american society. and governments. >> i think it is for many people, but i do think that there is a legitimate debate on both sides about honoring the past, particularly the troubled past like the civil war. and i do think that the two sides are simply wrong prior to the one side, the nancy pelosi saying that we have to uproot all of these, the symbol of the worst thing in america. and the present on the other side saying that we have to keep all of it. i think everyone, every monuments has a different history, content, context. if we were rational, this is not a rational moment. we would evaluate the context. and it seems that that is the only way to do it. some of the statues were sincerely held attributes, some of them by the union to their fallen comrades in the confederacy as a symbol of reconciliation and the

associated: syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.lay down the facts for how this came about today. why today, what's the back stor story? sick of the president was planning to go to the lobby of trump tower to talk about infrastructure. he was flanked by members of his cabinet and we had been told, journalists that been told he was not going to take questions. he was just going to make a statement. this was trump's decision. he decided that he wanted to take questions and aides said afterwards it was his decision to take questions and his decision to revert back to his initial statements on the violence we saw around the university of virginia over the weekend. i think what this clarified is that the cleanup effort yesterday that was largely driven by advisors of the president trying to get him to get ahead of the criticism and get past it, he was an unwilling player. the statements we heard today -- down and really reiterated the initial comments he had that this was a problem on both sides. >> bill: laurel, what did you think? was

want to put out pegy noonan and charles krauthammer and bill kristol into the elites -- >> laura: theythought trump was going to lose and they both were absolutely critical throughout, against trump throughout the primary. they didn't want trump to win. peggy noonan is a different deal, i love her. the fact that three republican intellectuals, with whom you disagree on pretty much every other issue -- >> howay about america? he has half the popularity of obama. how about the world? the pew research center didbo a survey -- >> laura: i am shedding a tear about the world thinks. >> let me get to the conclusion of one sentence. they ask people around the world, would you trust trump or obama, who is out of office? 64% trusted obama. 22%, trump. we are a laugh laughingstock numerically. >> laura: we have established that, in your view, trump is the worst, -- pipe down. piped out for a minute. you have spent your minutes here saying donald trump is the worst. my question to you is, okay, what next for you and the democratic party? what do you have to offer those middle-class voters who did

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here with more is charles krauthammer, a columnist and a fox news contributor. charles, we know that the president wanted this to be a priority of the attorney general. it sounds to me like he will not be frog marching anybody in front of the cameras, but is going to say, we are getting serious about this. i assume that the attorney general hopes that this will stop what they are calling no culture of leaks. what do you think? >> generally expecting something this splashy would be there frog marching of a perpetrator or two, a little bit of drama, and actually cases to present. no cases to present, it makes you think that this is part of attorney general sessions trying to keep his job. there is nothing wrong with knowing about looking for illegal leaks, particularly from the administration unmasking, all of that stuff. that's right. given the context, to use aware that ed henry used, this is clearly an attorney general under siege being attacked by his own president trying to show that he is a good soldier. i don't think that it actually does him a lot of credi

the pictures are all over the internet down the road is all now real madrid when they drew the krauthammer you have relative a group of growers pool he has four thousand people in a room little hold one hundred thousand people and there was at least a bit of thousand people outside on time this is that had been it is a. real honor and there's this it will stream of just aren't paying attention it's the biggest of our a i do i do you know i surrender i don't know is that i'm the biggest crowd ever i don't you know ok. yes moving. around the same time his wife went out of class and tirade on social media treasury secretary steve try to pull a fast one on the public and an event with senator majority senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's he said that while the trump administration will close the loophole for hedge funds on carried interest it would leave them open for other types of funds the do create jobs this is some first class b.s. from a new funds that create jobs that could technically define a pretty wide range of investment firms and this is a scam to help the banks right there's

to be in power i don't think anyone snatching that away from coming to the charles krauthammer recently wrote a column asserting that what he called trumps worse week proved to particularly fine our for american democracy that the system is passing the trump stress test we with that. at the system's working. i think so too to an extent just trying to stress test is a tough it's a tough one to see what happens with that that's going to take a minute to see what happens with that test you know you are you optimistic or pessimistic in terms of this whole situation. i want to state of the world it's only a dollar an hour. long at all i think. he has been elected and i think. no matter how much contention you may have on the left for him. you gotta let him at least have a shot and i think. he has and will do some decent things and i think he's got a certain mindset that will enable some productive decisions to get made with some decent follow through. i don't know how successful he's ultimately going to be in getting done everything he wants to do i say you got to give him a shot let him tak

. >> charles krauthammer said there is a place for thread overkill. what he had to say. >> people got upset when trump use the words fire and fury, overkill and all this other stuff. they forget the fact that john kennedy, president eisenhower and most of the cold war presidents had a policy called massive retaliation which meant if the soviets attacked us we were not going to be discreet and proportionate in our response. massive retaliation was understood as code for we are going to obliterate russian cities. that wasn't a pleasant prospect but it was that threat that kept the peace for 50 years and is the reason we had no major war between the great powers for 70 years, longer than any time in modern history, so there's a place for that kind of overkill threat. >> perhaps a new era beginning with north korea. >> people who don't have a lot of care for the way the world should work. >> wildly, no care. >> you have to get the job done and the message was clear. when you have someone like james madison you send a missile this way you are done. >> and

they were super excited and to that point here is what charles krauthammer says about the democrats trying to take them out to take over the house and impeach him how tough it would be on the country and he still has plenty of people out there who are big fans. >> you don't remove him from office and that's where i'm afraid we're headed given the forces that are surrounding the president. i just hope that cooler heads prevail. there will be another election, people can make their choices. i think this appearance that he did in west virginia tonight is a way of saying my numbers may be down, but i command a formidable army. >> shannon: how about getting him out of d.c. versus him taking the mainstream media out there with him to see it. >> i don't think there is any danger of the establishment press learning the right lessons about appalachian and west virginia. as one publication took a bus tour across the united states like we were turtles to look at us, look at these hillbillies. they're out there living their lives. i don't think there is danger of teaching them lessons. it is helpful f

stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. she 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 report

[cheers and applause] >> melissa: charles krauthammer says there rally was a clear message from presidentthe washington establishment, take a look. >> i think this appearance that he did in west virginia tonight as a way of saying my numbers may be down, but i command a formidable army. he wasn't specific on policy, but he said i'm bringing value back. i'm the only one who listened. that's his appeal, that's how he won the election and he's reminding the elites that that appeal is still there. >> melissa: still to this day, even though he won the election, there are so many out there who don't know that there is this giant group in america that support the president. they are so hermetically sealed in their elite bubble, they don't know that there are a lot of people out there questioning and the president. >> kennedy: with their cosmopolitan bias. >> melissa: pretty much. >> harris: would it help if there were others in the mainstream media who did some reporting on all those people? maybe they could pop the bubble. look, when you look at the numbers for this president among his base, th

you here in the immediate aftermath from republicans, on this network charles krauthammer saying it was moral disgrace, trump lost me in that moment. you hear people say that was it something. i think that signals to you that it's not just media or far left people but people like what just happened at trump tower? what did he do? it was compelling. i think when you are at a point where we are talking about race wars, were talking about the country being so deeply divided, i was on tv on one of our shows outnumbered and one of our cohosts started crying. anything i say is going to be taking wrong or misinterpreted, i'm going to be called a racist. i just want to talk to you. it's just that emotionally powerful. if news media doesn't pay attention, i would be startled. >> greg: i'm not interested in comfort from a network, i just want context and clarity. without context and clarity, i worry that it doesn't help the public, it infuriates the public and makes this racial divide worse. i could be wrong. >> kimberly: amplifies it. it's important to have peaceful and meaningful discourse, i d

charles krauthammer says we are seeing some foreign policy similarities between comp and most cold warhelped counter a 50 year soviet threat. >> people got all upset when trump use the words fire and fury, overkill, all of this other stuff. they forget the fact that john kennedy, president eisenhower, and most of the cold war presidents had a policy called massive retaliation, which meant if the soviets attacked us, we were not going to be discreet and proportionate in our response. >> shannon: ari fleischer is a former press secretary for president george w. bush and a fox news contributor. good morning to you. does doctor k have a point there that you have to speak in the language that your adversaries understand because supporters of the president same he is just trying to speak in a way that kim jong-un gets it. >> i think as usual, charles krauthammer nailed it. the only thing i would add to it is then general colin powell said about north korea launched a preemptive attack on us or south korea that the united states would turn north korea into a parking lot to use: powell's words

syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >> having a targeted, skilled, coherent immigration policy should not be controversial. the change that deals with merit-based allocation of spots is wise. the only thing that's controversial is decreasing the number of people allowed entry into the country. there are two main problems. with our legal immigration system. not focused on skills enough and the portion that does focus on skills is poorly designed. 30% of people coming into the country have anything to do with an economic case. half of those are merit-based. 6.5% or something. having an immigration system that matches more with what canada or australia does, it's long overdue. >> bret: new green card recipients, you look at, no stats for 2016 yet. 2015, about 1,051,000 new green card recipients. you look at how many green card holders are here in the u.s., this goes back to 2014, 13,200,000. charles, big issue and won the white house thinks they can have a win on. >> long overdue. if you make the case, it's an easy one to make and it would prevail. it would take time but you have

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, mo elleithee, and charles krauthammer. good evening. steve, would you like to begin? >> the president's silence over the first two days of the controversy said more than his words earlier today. whenever you have white supremacists and neo-nazis holding hate rallies that lead to violence and eventually committing acts of domestic terrorism, you denounce them partially. you denounce them specifically and then you do it again and again and again and then you do it one more time for good measure. that's what presidential leadership would have looked like and we didn't have it. you had it for many members of the senate, republicans and democrats. tom cotton called out white supremacists specifically. said what they were preaching was an anathema to the united states. the problem for president trump beyond this missed opportunity and great moral failure is that we know what it looks like when donald trump wants to call somebody out. we know what it looks like when he wants to condemn somebody. he's done it for journalists. he's done it to hi

first, we are joined by charles krauthammer.s a lot for coming on. >> a pleasure. >> tucker: what do you take from that speech? >> well,

news, syndicated column lists charles krauthammer. they have been pursuing three times as many leak investigations as were open when the obama illustration headed, that raises, to become on the fundamental message. why do you think there have been so many leaks in these last six months? >> well, i think president trump has some serious issues with his intelligence community. i think that is the bottom line here. they got off to a rocky start. started during the campaign. it's down the keys never really repaired it. i think attorney general sessions is absolutely right. this is a leak apart from the others. foreign leaders cannot speak to the u.s. president incompetence, that is a big, big problem. at the same time, i think that president trump needs to lead by example, not by instilling fear in either the media or the intelligence community. i think one of the reasons that previous ministrations did not leak as much as this administration is not because they fear prosecution, because they respect the office of the presidency. >> but,

weekdays just $9.99 >> bret: before we go, a quick note about our friend and colleague charles krauthammersurgery this morning and will be recovery for a number of days. we don't know how many. we're told that everything went extremely well. charles is doing great. he is eager to get back to work. is he on the mend tonight. so when the trends and facebook messages and emails flood n coming at as asking where's charles. that is where he is. charles, as you know, we are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers and look forward to having you back here on the panel very soon. finally tonight join martha maccallum and me for special coverage starting 8:55 eastern time for president trump's afghanistan address on fox news channel. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report" as we leave you tonight, a look at folks trying to put to words their reaction to the solar eclipse. one word was very popular, while others paid tribute to the eclipse in song, fair, balanced and still unafraid. ♪ >> describe this event in one word. >> i think i have to say awesome. >> a

americans do support dreamers and some of your own fox news colleagues like charles krauthammer emmas is logical to provide. >> tucker: hold onlo. the country is crowded in a lot of places. there are 320 million people here, current immigration continues. we're going to get to half a billion by the end. that's an awful lot of people. i think if you were to say to the public really clearly any time someone comes into the country legally under 18, they automatically become a u.s. citizen. i think you would find support for that would be 10%. >> you know, you're a smart guy. that's not what the daca program does. it talks about a small category of people who came when they were children.. they have grown up here, they have gone to school here with daca, they are paying for their college tuition. it's completely illogical, it makes no sense. >> tucker: it makes no sense to enforce or immigration law? this is insane. people who break the law ought to get a special class because they have political clout. that's not the way it's supposed to work. ifed you think that anyone who comes here u

charles krauthammer. >> pleasure to be here. let me answer the question, where is scaramucci going. obviously "dancing with the stars" ." stu and i don't know anyone who's been on that show but i would recommend against it.il if he calls me, i will tell him that. so i think a lot of republicans, a lot of people who voted for donald trump want to believe that this is a turning point, where the energy of the administration will be focused outward, and the debates that they are having will be policy debates, and they can win some of them.es do you think it is that? >> i think it could be. if this is a successful presidency, they will date it to this last week which is where they hit rock bottom and they got some money and control, kelly, who doesn't suffer fools. obviously his first edict was scaramucci went way, way beyond the line. it's not just a matter of chaos. it was sort of unseemly. both because of the infighting and because of the "colorful language," and it couldn't be tolerated. it appears as if he's going to establish lines of communication, lines of control. it will all go

let's talk more about this with syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.ht, charles, 200 days. put up a full screen of president trump. understanding what we heard about congress. illegal border crossing fell 64% in may. arrests down 53%. 860 regulations rescinded or delayed. order to move oil and gas, national guard, drilling gas, -- natural gas. legislation signed to make it easier to fire people at veterans affairs. that was the big piece of legislation. appointed, of course, supreme court justice neil gorsuch, and 354, 577 key positions needing senate approval. have no nominee. 132 have been confirmed that on the negative side. thoughts of 200 days of president trump? >> well, i think the major achievement, of course, is neil gorsuch which will influence the court for generations. it was quite a bit of deregulation, the congressional review act which allowed rescinding of 14 regulations that had been approved at the end of the obama administration. guess who vetoed that last regulation was john mccain. he has been feeling ornery all year. these are all

krauthammer it's far too early to say the guardrails have held.e have a grand jury investigation which will sprawl, which will investigate this president and his business dealings before he became president and we don't know we'll find. i'd be surprised if we found nothing. >> and in defense, nicole, of dr. krauthammer, he ended with the two words, so far." >> right. >> as we are saying, so far. >> i think we have, i think that kelly serves -- i think we have an 80/20 problem. 80% of the problems of the trump presidency of trump's creation. 20% were from having a weak chief of staff in reince priebus and this sort of warring, the warring multiple axes of power. i think general kelly can solve the 20% of problems created by the staff but i think the 80% is still the looming question. we still have a president who won't openly acknowledge russian interference in the election. we still have a president we don't know he's not directing the surrogates to assassinate the man of a war hero, fbi director two of presidents of two different parties and i th

karen at the multi-y for "the washington post" and charles krauthammer syndicated columnist.i'm going outside for trump and against his opponents, what is clear is that some the opponents he sees are inside the white house. >> i think it's about to get very interesting. the -- i know there are some people. some republicans in washington who are probably cheering at this. but, a very significant bear has been unchained from the white house. i think a lot of these people, and you are right, there are going to be some of them in the administration, in the white house, i think there are even more of them up on capitol hill who have just earned themselves a new enemy. and i think he is not going to quit. but i also think that it's we can make a little too much of it as well donald trump has refused, been unshakeable in his commitment to those things that he and steve bannon have both been fighting for for a long time i think until other areas like afghanistan and some of these global affairs issues or trade with china, things like that. i think that's where we are going to see a l

first, we are joined by charles krauthammer. a writer and columnist to assess what that just meant. charles, thanks a lot for coming on. >> a pleasure. >> tucker: what do you take from that speech? >> well, the content was not impressive. it was highlights. it was the greatest hits. but i think this is a very important demonstration to the country, to the political elites, to the press which he doesn't particularly like. that he has his army. look, you have to look at this in context. here is a guy whose numbers are down in the 30's. he has got this grand jury, reports of a grand jury being convened. he has has got the walls kind of closing in on him in washington here he is going out in the country and saying these are my people. these are real people. forget about the numbers. forget about the chatter in washington. forget about the stories about russia, which he spent a lot of time on. but i represent a huge constituency of tremendous support and enthusiasm. now, admittedly, this is one state where he won the biggest victory

charles krauthammer gets it. take a listen. >> he's got this grand jury, reports of a grand jury being convened. he's got the walls kind of closing in on him in washington. and here he's going out into the country and saying, these are my people. these are real people. forget about the numbers. forget about the chatter in washington. forget about the stories about russia, which he spent a lot of time on. but i am representing huge constituency of truman's support and enthusiasm. >> what do you think you make the you think that was pretty enthusiastic? >> eboni: it was. i cannot hate on that at all, eric bolling. he can be very smart, he knows where his energy is. that's what fuels him, as you say, very accurately. there is a huge -- that will ride with this president until the wheels fall off. that will put him in the oval office. i don't think he is along for catering to that base. >> eric: if the wheels fall off... i will go with that. the wheels have not fallen off. kat, your thoughts on this? >> kat: it's inc

. >> bret: syndicated columnist charles krauthammer joins us with steve's departure today. want to play something. this is thursday. and when the whole article came out with the american prospect. this is what you said. >> i think that bannon just got scaramuccied. [laughter] >> you have to define that verb. >> it's a new world. actually he was self-scaramuccied. japanese version of it. >> moochy, moochy. >> exactly. where you actually impell yourself. on north korea, which he did speak extensively about, he totally contradicted the president. he ridiculed his position. >> bret: so what do you think about that now in retrospect and this move today? >> i'm committed to the scaramucci explanation. i mean, you could give me all these other reasons. you can tell me the writing was on the wall. you can tell me kelly wanted to clean house. you can say it was inevitable once reince left he was going to leave. and you can tell me tendered his resignation a couple weeks ago it was only a matter time. the fact is he gave this interview to the american prospect after which you cannot

we have members of congress up and down the aisle, conservatives, charles krauthammer call it is a moral disgrace what happened. it's important now for republicans, as i spoke with the chairwoman mcdaniel yesterday. she said republicans unequivocally denounce this. we're a party of lincoln. we do not support this activity. the rnc is gathering next week. they're going to issue a resolution denouncing the kkk. we don't want your vote. we don't want your support. we don't support what you do and we don't want your support of us as well. >> can you believe we're having this conversation for the republican party that i've been a member of since i was 18 years old. in 2017, they actually had to at the republican meeting denounce the kkk again and whose fault is this? it's donald trump. i woke up to the tweet storm this morning and i was just beside myself because i thought to myself, just when you think it couldn't get any worse, he quadruples down on this and comes out talking about the history and culture and beautiful monuments and using euphamisms that white nationalists use. i thought to