surprise winning journalist judith miller, and another winner, columnist for the "new york post", michael goodwinth fox news contributors. for that reason, i'm turning to you first. >> wow. i thought any the pulitzer prize. [laughter] lou: i want to turn to the president's trip to europe in the meetings today and it looks like overall a very disappointing week for the president and the country. what do you think? >> yes, it's curious that the president times his visit to europe to escape what is going on with obamacare. i guess we will talk about later. i think that what is really sad is what we see going on here. just a little bit. but that they are trying to tout and we will talk about later. but it is sad that our image on the world stage is in shambles and the president travels all over the country and doesn't do anything but talk. the saudi arabians don't you working on our side for their side very having given them any assurances with respect to iran and now we are in a situation where they're saying, maybe we need to get our own nuclear weapon. so i'll give this trip probably 80 grave of a

perspective, with us pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the "new york post," fox news contributor michael goodwin. chris kofinis, democratic strategist and former chief of staff to senator joe manchin. gentlemen, thank you for being here. start with you, chris. the russian president is smiling. he says because he thinks that the idea of western powers determining the outcome of whatever happens in ukraine is ludicrous. your thoughts? >> well, i mean unfortunately he has decided to play a very hard game here in terms of president putin. i'm not sure what strategy is going to move him from the position he already has taken but it is pretty obvious there will be have to be some serious consideration of much stronger diplomatic and economic sanctions. i think part of the thing that is complicating this for the president and the white house to be honest, even the european allies don't seem to be, you know, agreeing money kind of consensus about what those sanctions or measures should be. we all know that military options are off the table here. you know we're not going to go to war over crimea especia

michael goodwin is writing his habit of lecturing and believing talking is doing makes him a twin ofem as o-blasio. this isn't the first time their agenda has been compared. listen to them speaking about inequality. >> the combined trends of increased inequality and decreased mobility pose a threat to our way of life. >> the state of the city is a tale of two cities with an inequality gap that is threatening our future. it must not and it will not be ignored by your city government. >> former new york city senator al demato is here. good to see you. welcome back to the show. what do you think of the comparison? >> i think it is sad. we are a great city of opportunity. people from all over the world come to this country. by taxing those who are making more so you can get it too lower realm -- >> that is what we wants to do. tax the rich to pay for a pre-kindergarten program in new york. >> if that was the only way to raise the revenue, i would say let's do it. let's give every kid an opportunity. i am for universal pre-k. i have a 4-year-old who is in pre-k. but let me say this, when

michael goodwin has been reporting on this, a fox news contributor. lly new york is a high tax state. that's always been a problem for people who look to avoid the high taxes, high regulations. what bill de blasio is doing is really two things. number one, he wants to raise the personal income tax even higher for those making $500,000 or more. doesn't sound like a big deal, but you add it to all the taxes that already exist and it is now approaching 13% for the high income earners, city and state personal income taxes. in addition to that, however, it's the hostility to wealth. the sense that if you are wealthy or even a high income person, you must be doing something wrong. there is some sense of behind every great fortune lies a great crime, that if you have a lot of money, you've had some unfair advantage. it's very much out of the barak obama playbook. >> an example, you know well that he said i want to give universal pre-k, everyone gets automatic pre-k. it's not free. he's going to raise money. governor cuomo says i have enough money. i still wan

here to explain, columnist michael goodwin. you see the similarities. we talked about this before.ey're red diaper babies. their idea for society is all about overhauling it, transforming it, changing it dramatically, fair shot, these ideas that society is unfair and we have to demolish institutions and rebuild them. so we see it with president obama, of course, most famously with obamacare, which for many people ruined their health care coverage, ruined their insurance policies. and we see with mayor de blasio here in new york, most pointedly on charter schools, which are educating successfully some of the poorest, black and latino children. the children he says he wants to help, but the schools don't fit into his ideology. >> he's stopping them from opening up in harlem! >> that's right. but they are outscoring even some of the great suburban schools and yet, he wants to destroy them because they don't fit into his ideology. that ideology is obama and de blasio with this transformative agenda that has nothing to do with the reality of people's lives. >> that's going to be -- you