joining us from washington, fox news analyst mary katharine ham and juan williams. why no bounce? >> because it's not the big issue. the big issue is still the economy right now that's what is dominating like 70% of americans say it's about the economy. only 10% say it has anything to do with healthcare and i would add, having listened to your talking points memo o brilliant one that in fact what the american people are saying is that, you know he what? this wasn't even a tax. remember, that's what eric, romney's guy says. romney doesn't believe it was a tax. romney had the same deal in massachusetts. >> look, if you listen to those g.o.p. pinheads, you don't know what they are talking about, mary katharine ham. every day it's not this. it's not that. look, all the republics have to do as i said, and i appreciate the compliment, mr. williams, is lay out something better than this confusing power grab that the obama care deal is promoting. and right now, it's not there, mary katharine. it's not there. >> yeah, okay. i think the problem for obama is yes it does look like a power gra

mary katharine ham is known as an articulate guest. til march 2012, issue is the co-host of the morning majority in a washington, d.c. is a frequent fox news contributor an analyst. mary katharine ran a very successful vlog known as hamnation. and her video exposing unquestionable washington transactions and secrets won the 2007 vlog of the year award. it covers personal stories to economic and current events. she particularly loves and focuses on conservative fiscal and security issues. mary katharine is now married and continue to work for our conservative movement as the editor at large of hotair.com. considered herself a true feminist and is inspired of grandmother's ability to do it all with out the government's influence. i was impressed with how it persuasively she spoke. she is an amazing example of intelligence and success. please join me in welcoming mary katharine ham. [applause] >> hey, guys. thanks for coming back in. it is just like peep speaker two key -- speaker to steal my thunder. this is a pedometer, not an alcohol mo

joining us from washington is fox news analyst mary katharine ham. here in the studio the always perper cacious juan williams. do you care about this story. >> i do. i don't want to come across as any prude and the fact is the strip club has done everything by the books and by the law. i care about it because it's antagonistic religious institution. can you imagine all of a sudden you have strippers dressing up as nuns to entertainment their customers. you can also imagine that you are going to have nuns subjected to taunts and all of that from randy going to the strip club unruly behavior. >> bill: that's all speculative. >> i don't like it. they have been there. and initially let me tell you something, bill. this permit was denied. >> bill: right. that's the same thomas moore society representing the nuns saying listen to this village, you don't have to do. this you don't have to put it there. it's a thousand feet one of these clubs is supposed to be away from any kind of a church institution but they gave him a waiver. and, but i think that the nu

mary katharine ham and juan williams are here. that can only mean one thing.that is kind of a loaded question. hi, guys. jon: they're both smiling. jenna: a fiery, fair and balanced debate coming up next. ♪ why not try someplace different every morning? get two times the points on dining in restaurants with chase sapphire preferred. jon: right now presumptive republican nominee governor mitt romney on his first overseas visit since securing the nomination. the governor on a week-long trip to england, israel and poland, gyping with a stop in london for the olympics and a meeting with the british prime minister. but before leaving u.s. soil mr. romney unleashed a scathing attack on president obama's record on the economy, national security, and foreign policy. >> the president's policies made it harder to recover from the deepest recession in 70 years. exposed the military to cuts that no one can justify. compromised our national security secrets. [applause] and in dealings with other nations he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it was not des

mary katharine ham, editor-at-large hotair.com. stuart start with you. what is happening this week, stu? >> don't mince words. it is a terrible report. 386,000 new claims for jobless benefits is far too high. this makes it basically the worst recovery since world war ii from any recession. the use of the record recovery is being very generous indeed. three years after the end of the recession we should not see a high number of new jobless claims, period. bill: just a week ago we were getting better. what happened? >> it was artificially low number. it included july 4th week. a lot of people didn't register for unemployment benefits. art fish -- artificially low. bill: they continue to go up. do we have a fix on that? >> the trends is u

joining us now from washington to analyze mary katharine ham and juan williams. mary katharine, you go first tonight. you say? >> i think it's disturbing. it may be the spread the wealth comment of this election of course when he said joe the plumber it made a big splash last time around. you get a glimpse of president obama who i think is a committed liberal actually believes. this sets up a philosophy. if you built a business you didn't build that he says it staking a claim for the government and for everybody else in society on the successes that business people have built that they have taken risks to build and so, thereby, saying what you earn is not actually yours. it's a really backwards philosophy and i don't think that americans will respond to it. >> bill: isn't it true that all of us who are successful owe something to our country for providing the structure in which we can bloviate on my part. okay? or sell our products to people who have money to buy them. fur a merchant. isn't that true that you have to think about well, how much do i owe on a give-b

think while have report and analysis from brit hume, charles krauthammer, juan williams and mary katharine hamepartment has continued to move forward in fulfilling its critical law enforcement responsibilities. >> bill: no surprise the justice department announcing it will not do anything about attorney general holder being held in contempt of congress. is it legal will explain why. >> i will come on and play your clip and i will apologize for being an idiot. >> bill: should i apologize for getting the supreme court prediction wrong? or are their extenuating circumstances? bernie goldberg will render the verdict. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us ni

joining us mary katharine ham with "the daily caller" and fox news contributor and ryan clayton, democratic campaign consultant and funder of 100 proof politics.com. good to see you both. mary katherine, we talked about people with preexisting conditions who can not be denied coverage under obamacare. we're talking about poor people under expansion of medicaid and obamacare would be guaranteed coverage. if you take that away and repeal obamacare, what happens to those low income people? >> i think that is the question we're going to be wrestling with partly because the court decided look you can not strong-arm the states into doing this by saying we'll yank away the rest of your medicaid funding. it is a shared program. the federal government foots bill. state government foots bill for part of it. what happened in the past the federal government gives you program with strings attached. sort of like a drug dealer in a bad '80s anti-drug psa we'll give you good stuff at first and hook you. later on they're not paying for it anymore. states are genuinely concerned. they have political concerns

mary katharine ham, great to see you. >>> that thanks. jamie: florida is a key state and florida could be a winner for the president if he can lock down its 29 electoral votes. the outlook is shaky. florida drowning in high unemployment rates and mass foreclosures there. bill: another fox news alert. significant developments on the spiraling violence in syria. we're awaiting a vote at the u.n. security council. next hour, 10:00 a.m., eastern time, a resolution that is aimed at ending the bloodshed there. this is very difficult work. this is a day after a rebel bomb attack struck at the heart of bashar assad's regime killing key members of his inner circle including the defense minister and his brother-in-law. david lee miller is live at the u.n. what can we expect next hour? good morning. >> reporter: we expect a vote as you mentioned but diplomaticly it is not expected there will be a great deal of movement. kofi annan called for the vote scheduled to take place yesterday to be postponed so member-states can unite. now appears they are d

mary katharine ham, editor-at-large of hotair.com. fox news contributor.ton a campaign consultant who has worked on the campaign trail for 10 years. ryan, to you first. a lot of people say the president's remarks were taken out of context but he does seem to suggest that so much of this success wouldn't have taken place without government. >> well president obama essentially said that the government builds roads and builds schools and provides valuable public services of and that business owners build businesses on top of those public invests. and especially since, cans are some of the largest users of court system and lobby government for special treatment and spend millions of dollars in the electoral process. at least they can do is they're at least super heavy users of our government services and they need to pay back into fund the government services. you can't fund government without revenue. jon: the u.s. corporate tax rate is highest in the world. sounds like you're defending that tax rate? >> well, corporations many times pay zero dollars in feder

joining us from washington to analyze mary katharine ham and juan williams.s' new book mustled now out in paperback. >> is that a good thing. >> i don't think there is any question. little bit of surprise to me. if you just look at the reality is nobody has any doubt if israel went after iran the u.s. would, of course, back israel. >> i don't know about that juan. barack obama has never said that and netanyahu doesn't like obama. >> that's a fact. >> he doesn't give him that kind of hey, if you go, we will be right there with you. >> well, in fact, there was a report this weekend in an israeli paperback and forth. but basically the u.s. was even briefing israel saying this is what we would do in terms of what we have planned. in terms of attacks iran. so, while the obama administration has focused on sanctions, nobody is taken military action off the table. this is an attempt by mitt romney to make obama's differences with. >> went a lot further. >> somehow obama hates israel. that's just crazy. >> i don't think romney was implying that obama hates israel. bu

think while have report and analysis from brit hume, charles krauthammer, juan williams and mary katharine hament has continued to move forward in fulfilling its critical law enforcement responsibilities. >> bill: no surprise the justice department announcing it will not do anything about attorney general holder being held in contempt of congress. is it legal will explain why. >> i will come on and play your clip and i will apologize for being an idiot. >> bill: should i apologize for getting the supreme court prediction wrong? or are their extenuating circumstances? bernie goldberg will render the verdict. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for win

here now to react from washington, fox news analyst mary katharine ham and juan williams. juan, about 15% of americans going to be in poverty it looks like and the president is out campaigning much of the time, raising a million dollars, probably going to get a billion to keep his job. something a little unsettling about that, is there not? >> i think politics is the reality here, bill. you know that republics in congress who have been obstructing the president's job bill are going to be out campaigning. mitt romney is in london campaigning this week. >> bill: romney doesn't have any power to do anything yet. is he not in elective office. >> hold on. he has ideas. he should have ideas. is he running for president. >> bill: he has ideas. he can't do anything. >> less taxes, rest regulation. that is not going to help poor people. >> bill: you just spouted a democratic talking point. i don't know whether you wanted to do that or not or perhaps you are in a little haze today that the congress didn't pass the jobs bill. i wouldn't pass the jobs bill if i were in congress and i

think while have report and analysis from brit hume, charles krauthammer, juan williams and mary katharine hamhas continued to move forward in fulfilling its critical law enforcement responsibilities. >> bill: no surprise the justice department announcing it will not do anything about attorney general holder being held in contempt of congress. is it legal will explain why. >> i will come on and play your clip and i will apologize for being an idiot. >> bill: should i apologize for getting the supreme court prediction wrong? or are their extenuating circumstances? bernie goldberg will render the verdict. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us toni

next, remarks by former house speaker newt gingrich and fox news picture mary katharine ham. tomorrow, discussion of gun- control laws in the u.s. and other countries. a look at the possible effects of budget cuts on education. and then the growing abuse of prescription drugs in america. "washington journal," that 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> it was clear when that eight and then the amendment -- when the eighth amendment was ratified, and the death penalty existed in all the states and was the only penalty for a family. for somebody today to say that somehow the american people have prohibited the states by ratifying the constitution, they have prohibited the state from applying the death penalty, i do not know where this comes from. the american people never voted for any such thing. >> and peninsula and reflects on over 25 years on the bench. >> newt gingrich predicts fast economic growth based on energy and manufacturing. it was one of many topics in his speech at the clare boothe luce seminar in washington. he talked about foreign policy, calling pakistan and saudi ar

mary katharine ham ran a successful video blog, ham nation, in her videos exposing questionable washington sent -- transaction secrets won the 2007 web blog video of the year. she particularly loves and focuses on conservative, fiscal and security issues. she is now married and continues for work for our conservative movement as the editor at large of hot air.com she considers herself a true feminist and is inspired by her grandmother legacy of doing it off without government interference. i heard her speak about this earlier this summer. she encouraged me as a young conservative woman and i was impressed with how persuasively she spoke. she was very witty and family and is an amazing example of intelligence and success. please join me in welcoming mary katharine ham. [applause] >> i know the speaker probably got into a bunch of wonky policy and he can talk about anything under the sun when it comes to that. i wanted to get more practical about thinking about starting your career in washington and maybe go through some of the things that i have learned and maybe not learned while i've been

mary katharine ham. >> it was clear after the eighth amendment was ratified the death penalty was notpenalty existed and was the only penalty. for somebody today to say that somehow the american people had prohibited the states by ratifying the constitution, they prohibited the states from applying the death penalty, i do not know where this comes from. the american people never voted for any such thing. >>antonin scalia reflects on 25 years on the bench. >> a house arms subcommittee hearing on reductions to the death fence contract work force as a result of the impending budget cuts. the committee will hear from frederick -- this is one hour and 35 minutes. >> i want to welcome all of our members and distinguished witnesses to the -- to today's hearing. i wanted think there were witnesses for their patience during the series of votes and they -- i apologize to you for the delay. civilian workforce maxwell labor contributions both home and abroad. frequently alongside military and contract personnel. i welcome this discussion today and the opportunity to better understand how the depa

we just heard from newt gingrich and we will hear next from mary katharine ham who will discuss her journalismareer and the importance of speaking out as young conservatives and becoming activists. then we will hear from kate obenshain discussing the phony conservative war on women and how the left is really waging this war. in the meantime, let's take a look at what congress is up to next week. "congressional quarterly" reports that the debate over extending the bush era tax cuts will move from the senate to the house next week with a measure to extend the expiring tax cut as well as legislation to help establish an expedited timelines for congressional consideration of the gop plan to overhaul the tax code. the senate goes into executive session to consider the nomination of robert bacharach from oklahoma to be a judge. and lawmakers macon sinew situation of the cybersecurity bill