liz: let's go to governor mike huckabee, governor, i'm so glad you're on the show. you know, it's not quite the same, though; right? obama's was one delay for country, iraq, and the two iraqi terrorists caught here in kentucky. obama did not sign an executive order for a outright ban; right? >> well, but there was an act in 2015 that was actually enacted by congress as part of a budget bill, and it slowed down immigration from seven different countries, the seven that are mentioned. i've read the executive order that donald trump signed. he did not mention seven countries. he only mentioned one. that one was syria. so when people say donald trump banned muslims, he did not. that's a lie. or that donald trump singled out people from seven countries. he didn't. that's a lie. truth is there's a total of 109 people out of over 300,000 traveling that got delayed. they didn't get locked up, handcuffed, put away, they got delayed. heck, liz, i get delayed by tsa sometimes because i took too much shampoo in my bag. so for people to act like it's chaos all over the world, th

. >> sean: here is governor mike huckabee and talk show host larry elder. governor, i don't know if you are still in israel. our president tried to influence their election. >> i am waiting on the senate. sean, i am waiting on the senate to show how we involved ourselves as the u.s. government in the israeli election like they think something happened in russia. $350,000 tax dollars were sent to one voice for voter lists and databases to get rid of benjamin. then president obama people raised $20 billion to defeat benjamin. that's not allegations. that's not declassified. even a senate bipartisan committee had to accept. >> sean: and taxpayer dollars were used there. that's money from hard working americans that this president used to influence an election against our closest ally. >> right. we also found out that democratic operatives were sending agitators on interfere with donald trump rallies and sending people to states who could not vote there legally. a lot of things going that they are not concerned about. the bottom line is donald trump stopped the

he won the election fair and square convincingly. >> sean: here now with reaction is mike huckabee andry elder. governor huckabee, i don't know if you are still in israel. i know you were there this week and our president tried to influence the election against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> shawn, i'm waiting on the senate. on the way that we involve ourselves as a u.s. government and the israeli election. like they think something happened in russia. 350,000 tax dollars from the state department was sent to a group called one voice. it was used for voter list and databases and all of it was intended to get rid of benjamin netanyahu. then they helped to raise millions of dollars in 2015 in order to defeat benjamin netanyahu in a foreign election. i want to know where is the senate outrage about that? that's not allegations, that's not declassified. that is information. bipartisan committee had to accept. >> sean: larry, there is another component to that. taxpayer dollars were used there. $350,000. that doesn't sound like a lot but that's money from hard-working americans that

governor mike huckabee came to her defense. due, she showed up, showed dignity, and class." watching the story for us tonight. >> i've been talking at top advisors to men who say look, all they have seen contrary to what you just played out about mike huckabee is democrats questioning the legitimacy of donald trump as president. we're just talking a moment ago about slowing down many of his cabinet nominations and signaling they wanted to obstruct his agenda. earlier today at the luncheon after the inaugural, there's a pretty animated conversation. they had some fun there, earlier, off-camera, there was a sort of an animated conversation between president trump and chuck schumer, the democratic leader. obviously the trump white house upset about the fact that only two nominations have been approved so far when on day one of the obama administration, there were seven approved by the republic. the group led by john podesta, the liberal group out today with an email marked resist president trump. "we must resist in his first 100 d

governor mike huckabee and obama economic advisor robert wolf next on that. >> we can't continue to allow -- our country. >> we will stand up to china and stop the job killing trans-pacific partnership. america has lost, listen to this, 70,000 factories since china joined the w po. by the way, try doing business over and china. my energy proposals will unlock the $50 trillion in energy reserves right here in america. this means new jobs in florida, not new jobs in china. >> martha: that was then candidate donald trump and a collection of campaign trail attacks on one of his favorite targets, the country of china. but china is doing us wrong message became a rallying cry for many of his supporters. china stayed mostly quiet on this until now. until today. the chinese president is now fighting back. he is blasting trump's message at the world egg economic forearm, which the they are now invited to. joining me now, former presidential candidate, mike huckabee, along with robert wealth, he is an economic advisor to president obama and founder of the group 32 advisors. great to have both of yo

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one is somebody that is tangled with trump a bunch, lindsey graham and mike huckabee whose daughter works for the president. here's what they both had to say. let's play them back to back. >> i am begging the president share with us the information you have about this, or please stop saying it. as a matter of fact, i'd like you to do more than stop saying, i'd like to to come forward and having looked at it, i am confident the election was fair and accurate and people who voted, voted legally. because if he doesn't do that, this is going to undermine his ability to govern this country. >> i have no evidence whatsoever, and i don't know that anyone does that there were that many illegal people who voted. and frankly doesn't matter. he's the president. and whether 20 million people voted, it doesn't matter anymore. he's the president. and i'm not sure why he brought it up. >> well -- >> the reason i played that, i think i took the words out of your mouth. >> you're not going to hear this. >> i agree with lindsey graham. >> and mike huckabee. >> and i think by the way that robert's explanati

here is former arkansas governor, mike huckabee, former republican presidential can date and fox news contributor. boy, what is your take so far? give me your spin what you've been watching. i know you have something pithy waiting. >> well, this is a pretty big day, he starts out with business executives and manufacturing leaders and talks to union people. he covered the full spectrum of business in his first day in office. i think donald trump is off to a great start. the press may hate it and protesters on saturday my cry testimonyselves to sleep for months and that's their right to do but donald trump is showing he is trying to bring this country together from the people who lead the companies and people who work on factory floors. i think it's a great start. melissa: so within the business community, one of the articles getting so much play today was this trump administration is looking to cut $10.5 trillion in spending. i can't tell you how many people emailed me or tweeted me, could that possibly berue? when you look down at the details, he wants to privatize the corporation for

mike huckabee listening here, former governor of arkansas. good morning to you. this is president trump, this is the businessman that the people elected. what was your impression right there of what he was laying out? >> it's refreshing to have a president who understands what business people are going through. cut through the red tape, just get through the maze of regulation. most big companies can ultimately do it even though it's very expensive because they have a whole building full of accountants and lawyers that help them go through it. if you're a small business owner as i am, just hiring somebody, the amount of money that you spend just finding out what it is going to cost to hire the person and do everything right is half of their salary per year and it is just so a lot of people just don't even try to grow business. when businesses can't grow and when the government makes it so that it's more advantageous to shrink than grow your business the economy is in trouble. trump understands that. that's refreshing. >> bill: the leaders from all these big compan

mike huckabee was there. from alabama, florida, texas, all over the country. when i came home and turned my tv on, if you watched the television, channel 18 in lexington, you would have thought it was approximately an even number. 50-50 on either side. the media is so biased. thank you for your time. host: thank you. guest: one of the most fascinating things we study is protest. the march for life in washington, d.c. was front-page story in the washington post. it got through on the network news. this is rare. usually tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people come here and march. there is no mention of it on the news. something where i think the news media thanks and served of protests are not news. or somehow conservative protests are not really democracy. that is something we have seen in the pro-life rallies where the march for life would be to abortion here is rights opponents and to abortion rights advocates. get the idea that it is an equal number of attendees. host: do you think the reason it would get more attention is this is the

mike huckabee, governor, welcome back to you and good morning. i know you've watched everything from over the weekend. what was your view of it? did the white house -- did the president do the right thing or not? >> absolutely did. he did exactly what he said he was going to do throughout the campaign. more importantly, it's what he didn't do. he didn't ban people from seven countries. i don't know if john mccain read the executive order. he might want to do that. those countries are not mentioned in the executive order. the only country mentioned is syria. where did the list of seven come from? it came from the obama administration dating back to 2011 signed into law and i assume senator mccain probably voted for this order that did name seven countries in 2015 and reiterated in 2016. bill, this whole thing is a speed bump not a stop sign. but it is based on something the previous administration did. it is just that president trump is getting a lot more attention for it particularly from all the folks who are shedding big crocodile tears on the

from overseas today mike huckabee. thank you, sir. >> martha: we'll keep one ear to the senate hearing and let you know when the questioning continues. we'll take you back if there is any new being made on capitol hill. another big story today is the future of obamacare. >> i'm grateful for the leaders of the house and the senate is to keep our word to the american people to repeal and replace obamacare. >> martha: republicans promising to repeal the affordable care act. do they have a replacement? republican senator marsha blackburn joins us now. good to see you this morning. can you hear me? >> bill: it was loud and clear the first pledge from republicans in congress repeal and replace obamacare. what about replacing it? marsha blackburn and how are you and welcome back here in the new year. >> thank you and happy new year. >> bill: it was a big day yesterday. >> yes, it was. >> bill: what are you prepared to tell the american people on the replacement aspect of this. >> we are hard of work. we have the american heal

governor mike huckabee and howard kurtz both standing by. we begin the peter doocy outside trump tower. >> good morning. for once this morning the president-elect and director of national intelligence are on the same page. james clapper that spy chiefs don't do. he put out a press release declaring the dossier alleging blackmail material was not an intelligence community product and agrees with mr. trump, leaks about their private meetings are bad for national security. so at real donald trump treated today james clapper called me yesterday to denounce the false and fictitious report that was illegally circulated. made up, phony facts, too bad. his advisor said this morning that mr. trump was happy to get the call if clapper, a major change from his posture at the press conference yesterday where the intelligence community was in the cross hairs accused of leaking that fake document to make a political point. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and f

after the break, ted cruz, chris christie, ben carson, mike huckabee, they all thought they could beat trump and win the nomination. howie: it seems like another era. but there were plenty republicans who thought they had a good shot at donald trump. but as a leading candidate don't you need to be able to withstand tough scrutiny? >> sure, that goes with the territory. but no republican running should not be confused and think the mainstream media are our friends. the "new york times" wants hillary clinton to be the next president. and every day from now until the election day, they will push stories advancing that. there is a reason necessity don't like the mainstream media because they are partisan liberal democrats. almost without exception. they have a partisan agenda. howie: almost without exception. i heard you say the media stereotyped republicans in being stupid or evil. are you saying -- that's a pretty heavy charge. are you saying this is true all journalists, most journalists? many journalists. >> it's true an awful lot. the mainstream media is not fair and impartial. necess

also mike huckabee.he politics occurring right now capitol hill in advance of the inauguration. also tucker carlson starts a big news show tonight. actually same show, moving two hours to 9:00 p.m. eastern. there's a high school band that's going to be performing at donald trump's inaugural parade, but before they do that, they are going to perform for us. it's kind of a thank you to the many people who donated money from all across the country to raise $135,000. three hours kicks off about 13 and a half minutes from now in the channel you all trust for good morning news. lisa: thanks, steve. clayton: go grab some coffee. lisa: coming up next. we will see you soon. clayton: welcome back, congress getting another chance to lock up illegals for five years to try to sneak back in. kate's law reintroduced by the new 115th congress, kate stanley was killed by juan francisco lopez sÁnchez while walking on a san francisco peer with her father. the illegal had been deported five times, lisa. lisa: yet another sc

we've gotten texts from ted cruz and mike huckabee. it's crossing the aisles.chers were taking kids, buying out theaters, schools are -- it's been remarkable. it's been such a -- so inspiring seems like it's been a catalyst for change in the country and a catalyst for women and kids to think about math and sce, engineering degrees. i don't know, it's just been -- it's been overwhelming. >> you must have known in writing the screenplay it is the american story, the underdog, the person that's overlooked, the person who has to make the run at the end, who has to really surprise everybody and this one, they'd already done it but nobody knew about it. that's the amazing story here for americans. >> yeah, it seems like the country -- 65% of our audience and 3035% is other so the entire country embracing this story as an american story which is also have been uplifting for us and wonderful to watch. >> it's the way you put it together. i think you put it together in a way that was inclusive. let's watch a scene from the movie "hidden figures." >> how did you know the

mike huckabee and sean hannity keep talking about his bare test. with respect to sean hannity, i didn't know he invited me for a beer. his opinion of me does not seem to be very high. but i am always good for a beer. i will put mr. burgess up against sean hannity. he'll tear him up. >> sean: i still offer that beer, and i will pay for it. in celebration. you were eight years are over. nobody came to my defense, not that i would ever need or want them to defend me. if anything, they are probably cheering him on for what he did. attacking me and fox news and talk radio and rush limbaugh. so here's what it all comes down to. the media wants to be fair in their coverage of president-elect trump, then fine. but if they are not, they can expect plenty more of what the press the elect gave them earlier this week. joining us now, host of the series, michelle malkin investigates. michelle malkin, a part of me wants to laugh but then a part of me realizes that the rest of the country, this is journalism. journalism is dead. we have an informational crisis. w

want to go back to mike huckabee, governor huckabee, president trump says we, america, will prioritizestian refugees. i'm all in favor of that governor but they're saying that amounts to religious favoritism. what say you? >> well, it doesn't. stuart there is about 50 countries across the middle east and asia that are muslim countries but for christians who are being slaughtered, slaughtered throughout the middle east there is no place for them to go. so the obama administration had largely ignored pleas from many human rights organizations and relief organizations that said we have to do something about the people who truly are being targeted whether in egypt or kurdish area of iraq. so i think what he is doing is literally trying to find genuine refugees in people who have no place to go. stuart: i think, one example of a very, very poor performance on the part of the media because the plight of the christians in the middle east who have been slaughtered as you say, governor, for many, many years, that is never brought out to the fore, not one person on the left who is criticizing th

arkansas governor mike huckabee is here. americans tax reform grover norquist and send chief strategist for the 2008 presidential campaign will join us as well. a grantee is here. you don't want to miss a moment. stay with us as we talk all about this upcoming important as we transition to trump right now. america three days away from the inauguration of our 43rd president of the u.s. senior adviser kellyanne conway weighed in to boycott the ceremony. there she is last night. >> we hope his democratic members of congress be reconsidered. they're welcome to the inoculation. if they want to contact us they're welcome to do that. governor pence of indiana but feel the republican governors to go. he went to president obama saturation. he began his preview later, that he went to show respect. maria: and adoration celebrations start tonight after 10 security with the chairman's global dinner, a black eye dinner invitation only event with the goal of introducing foreign diplomats for the next administration team and policies. you'v

governor mike huckabee with his take on what he expects to see and the reaction for the number of democrats who say they won't be there. governor. >> bill, i don't think it makes a lot of difference. opening up more seats for people who want to come and celebrate the new president. i think it's petulant on the part of these democrats to say donald trump is not the legitimate president. hillary clinton ought to give her las vegas speech it is and how horrifying it is to question the legitimacy of our system. a lot of us don't like the results of an election but we accept it and move on and we make our country work. that's what these guys need to do. >> bill: they are making a point it's a form of birtherism for democrats. much like they accuse donald trump of questioning legitimacy of president obama. brit hume has looked back at history and said the following to o'rielly last night. >> this is usually a time when the partisan bitterness and disappointments of an election are set aside if only temporary, set aside because of this remarkable event. the peaceful transfer of power. i think the

mike huckabee. so many of these big business republicans who turned a deaf ear to families like kate or jamil, or all of those wonderful moms from the remembrance project to donald trump did not just listen to but featured prominently on the stage he kept his promise and commitment to them. that's why you've got it rahm emanuel screaming bloodied murder or shame on him, cory booker. who was mayor of newark windows four young people were slaughtered by who? members of the ms 13 el salvador and illegal alien gang that were harbored by people like cory booker. >> sean: at the end of the day, i don't think there's going to be a 20% tax because at the end of the day, mexico needs us more than we need them. isn't that the real situation here? >> yeah, that's for sure. i think the other thing that is so brilliant about what donald trump is doing is he's going to throw this right back into the laughs of the mexican people. one of the policies i've pointed out is if you look at how mexico treats its own sout

let more reaction from mike huckabee, former arkansas governor and gop presidential candidate and foxews contributor. governor, good to have you. do you think the fallout of russia and hacking outrage is a big concern we need to safeguard against cyber attacks has become so politicized. given the intel community discovered russia cyber attacks in 2015 well before donald trump was the republican nominee andep to delegitimize trump's victory. >> interesting that they didn't get exorcised until after the election. they didn't expect the results to be this way. they spent every day to find a scapegoat, russia, james comey. whether it is donald trump's tweets, whether the media. they look at everyone but themselves. so this blame toward the russians when there is not a scintilla of evidence that the russians actually had an impact on the election. now, did they hack machines? probably so. did they perhaps get involved by sending misdirection, misinformation? doubtful that they did anymore misinformation than did "the new york times," "the washington post," or the major networks, that ignor

mike huckabee and sean hannity keep talking about his bare chest. which is kind of weird. with respect sean hannity, i didn't know he invited me for a beer. his opinion of me does not seem to be very high. but i'm always good for a beer. i will put mr. burgess up against sean hannity. he'll tear him up. >> sean: tear me up, is that a threat of violence? president obama will officially be out of power in four days. four days, this long nightmarebe ends. and is leaving behind a huge mess that president-elect donald trump is going to bee forced to clean up. it appears that donald trump will be taking a much different approach than barack obama instead of doing nothing and blaming his predecessor for everything, president-elect trump looks like he will try to fix the country's problems. the problems we all face. here with reaction, former speaker of the house, newt gingrich. when he gave his farewell address the other night, i went on air, and i gave his economic. record, if i talk about foreigng policy, i can talk about egypt, iran, afghanistan, iraq, libya,, north africa, ch

she has this song that mike huckabee parodies. ♪ >> her people got back to him very quickly and saidse it. >> hello, it's me. >> he's going to announce on this show that he's backing donald trump of the united states. >> backing him up in traffic. >> my presidential candidate, neil cavuto. >> so mike has done what he often does. make idiots out of pundits. >> we had our call on this. we could be inside where it's warm and cozy. the staff said neil, let's go outside. it's 20 degrees. what the heck? >> extremely handsome. very postured. >> on the phone with us right now, marco rubio. >> no matter how sensitive you may find donald trump, he doesn't have a right to not be prevented from speaking. >> so presidential candidate san san is with us now. you talked about fixing her bias, that she's not a distant observer. her candidate is hillary clinton. >> i know you want to start a fight with the democratic party but -- >> i would never do that. i would never do that. >> no, never. >> okay. >> the gop convention is on. neil is out recovering from heart surgery. he's doing well. "we want tru

take this to our first guest presidential candidate mike huckabee. love having you, governor. you know, it's an honor to attend the inauguration. the most important event in our democracy. how do you think the american people react to this boycott and a potentially chaotic inauguration? >> well, i think most of them are going to ignore the fact that these democrats are such poor losers that they can't accept the fact that their candidate lost. but i do have it on good authority, liz, that donald trump personally is not affected. in fact, he may have to take no more than half a baby aspirin to be able to sleep at night over the fact that some of these folks aren't going to show up for his inauguration. he's still going to be president, whether they show up or not. and, by the way, jn wi wasn't being honest. he didn't show up for presidenbush's inaugation either, and it was basically the same reason. he said he wasn't a legitimate president. so there's a partner with john lewis. it's unfortunate, and i think it's embarrassing to the democrats, and i would like to see some democr

me right now former republican presidential candidate and former governor of arkansas, governor mike huckabee. governor, always good to see you. so, you know, he says one thing, but in reality if you fact check it, it's something else. and, you know, interestingly, he was saying the same darn line about president bush as he's saying about president trump. what do you make of that? >> well, i think it's interesting. hillary clintons has taken john lewis to task. i don't know if you heard what she said, but i want to quote some of it because i think it's very significant. she said questioning the legitimacy of the election and refusing to accept the results would be horrifying, that it's denigrating our democracy and she was appalled by it. she said that's not the way our democracy works. we've been around 240 years, we've had agree and fair elections, and we have accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them. and that's what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage. oh, by the way, that was not said about john lewis, that was said about donald trump. but i'm wondering -- t

here is speaker ryan and mike huckabee today talking about trump's claim. >> i've seen no evidence to that effect. i made that very clear. >> i have no evidence whatsoever and i don't know that anyone does. >> clearly he does not care. the president does not care about what his own party says because they're not jumping on board of this at all. >> that's right. it's in some ways a replay of the campaign where donald trump is on one side and he has what he might call the party elite on another side. so i think in that way, it doesn't really matter to donald trump what those folks say. i think, you know, donald trump sees himself as the leader of a movement, and those are the people we saw him communicate to in the very emotional way on inauguration day. and i think he is doing the same thing here. he's talking to a very specific audience, an audience in many ways that's been primed to believe conspiracy theories because in some ways donald trump has been a conspiracy theorist starting with the birtherism. in this i think republican-base audience has been primed to believe things about

sarah huckabee sanders, the daughter of mike huckabee is in the room and so it looks like we're gatheringarted shortly. >> another quick question as we await sean spicer's arrival, i take it the usual seats for various news organizations, that has remained the same as it did during the obama administration? is that right? >> reporter: that's right. the seating chart that's normally in place from one white house to the next which is managed by the white house correspondents association that has not changed. right now i'm in the cnn seat. the little bronze plaque that is below that seat says cnn. i don't believe those have been removed and we're sitting in our seats according to that organizational chart. you ask that question because that's a question floating around in journalistic circles. could this new administration potentially because they are upset with coverage and so forth rearrange the seating chart and move us out of the briefing room and so forth. i have not gotten any kind of word that any of that is in the works. i think a lot of that is just talk and for the moment, wolf, we

peter: governor mike huckabee joins us this morning. governor, good morning. >> good morning.ident-elect trump is looking for a new relationship with russia but the left is freaking out about it, why? >> well, because they didn't win the election and their policies have failed. it failed with russia, it failed in the middle east miserably failed in the middle east. the fact that donald trump says, look, i can deal with these guys because i'm going to go into it with a totally different perspective and appointing rex tillerson, somebody who knows them, that doesn't mean we are going to surrender to russia and russia will deal with a much tougher administration, one that says what it means and means what it says. i think that's exactly how he play it. this administration, the obama administration has freaked out over the whole election. they want a reset on everything. the reason is they still believe everyone gets a trophy, that you know, you can't lose an election. well, they lost and they are going to learn to get over it bus january 20th, donald trump is going to be presiden

former republican presidential candidate mike huckabee.ernor, good to see you, thank you so much for joining us. >> well, good morning, maria, i realized i'm the cooling saucer of your show today, dial it down a notch. maria: we kick it off with hot sauce and you're right there. >> i have no evidence whatsoever and i don't know that anyone does that there were that many illegal people who voted and frankly it doesn't matter. he's the president and whether 20 million people voted, it doesn't matter anymore. he's the president and i'm not sure why he brought it up. the thing i do know that people keep arguing about the popular vote, they are missing the point. founders created a system, the electoral college, the people winding about it, they have a way of changing, they can change the constitution. until then, accept the fact that we have a process that includes all of the states and make sure that a candidate doesn't just spend time in four or five states that have been big populations and forget the rest of the country. i think it's a gre

governor mike huckabee is here to react soon.> the objection is signed by member of the house but not yet by a member of the senate. >> well, it is over. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> it's over. clayton: it's over. stop grasping the straws. joe biden tells them to knock it off. it's over. cut it out. "fox & friends" hour two starts right now. ♪ abby: happy saturday, everybody. boy it was a brutal news day yesterday. clayton: fridays. i don't know what's been happening the last two years. fridays. don't get to have as much fun here because we are dealing with all tragedies. abby: all last summer every friday it seemed like something terrible happened. we want to start with fox news alert and horror that took place yesterday in florida where fbi agents are trying to piece together why this suspect you can see him there esteban santiago opened fire inside a fort lauderdale terminal. five people are dead and 8 more are hospitalized. agents said the iraq war veteran told agents two month ago that his mind had been infiltrated by

governor mike huckabee will address that followed by howard kurtz in our hearings. 12 minutes away atre attacking our news organization. >> no. not you. not you. your organization's terrible. >> you are attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? steve: the heated exchange serve talking about. the president-elect blasting the media after an intel memo filled with rumors it is leaked. even rumored to be intel. ainsley: it's an accusation the national intelligence director denies having north dakota nig to do with. and here to react is senate armed service committee member. we have senator ted cruz and senator lindsey graham. good morning to both of you. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: senator graham, i'll start with you because you're from the great state of south carolina. >> go tigers. ainsley: yeah. oh, i know. national champions. we're so proud of them. what did you make of that exchange yesterday with jim and donald trump? >> you know, at the end of the day, unseemly, i guess. and the president-elect will soon be preside

governor mike huckabee is with us now. ♪ the animation there. now i can see the governor. okay.ent, not just of trade but also of foreign policy what say you? >> it is a realignment, not only of trade but realignment of power, i think donald trump understands america can best be in a position to influence the world when it's strong. when it's weak, when it comes across as weak we really don't have much influence because no one takes us very seriously. i think his message is exactly spot-on. he makes it clear we'll not be the janitorial cleanup crew for the world we'll not be the policeman but we'll be a strong country. we'll defend our interests. we'll not nation-build other places. we'll nation build america as example of for other nations. that is who we've been. that is who we will be. stuart: are you shocked that the message was delivered in stark fashion and following through on it with stark action? >> not at all. i think the message was delivered in a way that the average american can understand it. he didn't go in there trying to speak to the academics. he didn't go out

. >> i have to put up this, mike huckab huckabee, he made a statement that president obama grew up inenya. of course that's false. >> you're making a stew of things that are obviously false and things that are true. he was weak. he was weak. >> then why is the united states more respected now than when george w. bush -- but the united states is in every measure, when pew research does polling we are more respected than when george w. bush was president by every measure. >> that kind of polling is worthless. >> because you don't respect this president. >> no. it doesn't describe anything important to know. here's what -- look, for eight years we neocons told you liberals obama is weak and won't protect the country. and now no one should -- >> which president had more devastating terrorist attacks on the country, george w. bush or barack obama? >> if i were a democrat today, i would say you guys were right because he did not protect our political process when we needed it. at this point i -- >> how many drone strikes did the president mount against terrorists abroad? >> george w. bush p