here is mollie hemingway, a senior editor at federalist and fox news contributor.at to have you. >> great to be here. kennedy: a lot of people are expecting big, exciting things from the comey hearing, because pretty much everyone is mad at him. hillary clinton won't stop assailing him. president discussed it enough to fire him, republicans, noses out of joint along the way. what's going on here? >> might be good for people to keep expectations in check a little bit. what people want to hear comey say is donald trump obstructed justice, that's the drip, drip, drip in various news reports but he can't say that without indicting himself. if donald trump had obstructed justice and james comey just sat there and didn't do anything or wrote a memo to himself, that would mean he violated his dutand so think people should not expect he will do that, and he's already in fact gotten word out through his buddies that he's not going to say that donald trump obstructed justice but say various other things about how he doesn't like donald trump. that will be exciting enough for

lou: joining me, mollie hemingway and tammy bruce.eat to have with us radio talk show host, mark simone. the legendary. tammy, we finally have the bill, and there should be joy in the land. but instead four bad hombres get up there and want to take away the punch bowl. tammy: they are calling it a discussion draft. they can't make a commitment to the bill they presented. they are like the pajama boy. of course it's going to look different. my big problem, with the four opposed to this, senator paul and ted cruz, they $have been in there also for years. i don't see a new proposal or consolidated ideas pouring out of their pores either. they are sitting around protesting when years have gone by. mike lee said -- lou: is it good enough? tap rrp it will change. they don't cut anything. they slow the increase. that's a famous trick in washington. lou: mollie, your thoughts? mollie: this is an imperfect bill. there is a lot of stuff consequence conservatives would be happy with. if you told them years ago you could get rid of the individual

ab stoddard, mollie hemingway, and jonah jonah goldberg. you have a 50-48 split.now, we are not too with this thing, that's what they're saying. >> mitch mcconnell knew exactly what was going to happen the minute this was released. he is not surprised. i do believe ted cruz really wants to get to yes. there can be some more wrangling but that could threaten the support of moderates on the other side of the republican conference. either way, they've decided internally that they need to get this back. people bring it to the floor. they can bring it down to one or two people, stopping the fulfillment of a seven-year promise. they've lost too much time and too much momentum. there are strong indications that they are going to get this through the senate and if they can, pass the over to the house and get this possibly before the july 4th holiday. they are in a huge rush and it's intentional. >> john: the other three senators, rob johnson, mike lee, and rand paul. let's listen to what rand paul said about it earlier. >> we cannot support the current bill. we are open t

let's bring in our fox news politics editor, molly hemingway, and fox news contributor, and eric bolling, cohost of the fox news specialist. welcome to all of you. what touches you as you look back at this week? >> i'm thinking maybe it's not such a bad idea that the media are spending so much time covering this twitter battle between the president and joe and mika because it's just wasting time talking about media personalities that we don't care about. the media have been doing a really bad job when they're covering other issues, whether it's making up stories about russia collusion or calling republicans murderers for trying to reform obamacare or anything else that they try to do. maybe it's fine that they spend all this time on a story that doesn't matter. a >> martha: chris, what do you think? >> i'm struck by the waste of it all. the sad waste. we are getting ready to celebrate a wonderful anniversary of our independence, so what are we doing with that freedom? 241 years and what are we doing with our freedom and the answer, in part, we're doing a lot of wonderful things that i do

continetti: we have boys struggle with this problem, right, mollie hemingway? it is not as though the media always gets it right. how do we get to it? ms.right, mollie hemingway: thes issue it has always been a problem, it is or is been with us. i like it when it was more in enquirer, hillary has an alien baby type of delightful form of fake news. now it has spread in nefarious do some seems to people. it is a real thing and real research has been done on it. research has been going on for quite some time. shortly after the election what should have happened in our media environment is reflection. self reflection about what a poor job we had done understanding the populace, the people, people who think differently than we do. rather than do that, many people in the media chose to latch onto this idea of fake news and turn dgel, one political cu that did not have much substantiation. it did not have much impact on the election and whatnot. mention, but credibility from the media is at historic lows. you mentioned the gallup polls show 32% -- this was in septembe

here with more, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.mpaign director for the center for american progress action fund. good to see you both. obviously this is a bug in battle that has been going on for some time. this was the latest misstep by cnn, but many would say that they did the right thing in this case and the three reporters, they had no mercy on these three reporters who offered their resignation. emily? >> why is the president focusing on this? they are in the middle of the largest health care battle. he doesn't like to be misrepresented. he misrepresents himself on a daily basis. why did he indicate that he had tapes of james comey? why did have his press secretary say that the inner circle knows -- that's obviously a typo. he misrepresents himself on a daily basis. i wish he would stop worrying about his ego and focus on the task at hand. he is running a large, large government. this is not a business that you can run when you have emotions and ego. >> it's been very clear, we looked at those tweets at him moments ago, he fee

guy benson, mollie hemingway, charles lane, charles krauthammer. good evening. let's move quickly with what we have. i will submit to you charles krauthammer sitting in that chair submitted why this is so difficult. you have an entitlement, it's difficult to pull it back. is that where we are? stick of what we have seen with the bills is that there's not much of consensus for repealing obamacare. i think they should admit this is not a deal that will repeal it. it's a bill to fix it. you have more flexibility to build a coalition. the senate bill gives quite a bit of room. things that conservatives should be happy about, things that liberals should be happy about. >> bill: we know where the president stands. he said this today. >> obamacare is dying. it's essentially dead. if you don't give it the subsidy, it would die within 24 hours. it's been a headache for everybody. it's been a nightmare for many. we are looking at a health care that would be a fantastic tribute to our country, a health care that will take care of people finally for the right reasons, and a

howie: joining me, gillian turner, mollie hemingway, and juan williams. is the media takeaway from this hearing that it was a terrible, horrible day for donald trump to be called a liar by his former f.b.i. director? gillian: it was an earli' christmas gift. 19 million people apparently tuned in to watch this. journalists had things to write about for days leading up to it. it was an interest-generating bonanza. that's the biggest thing for the media. the big picture is this is like a news story relating to the administration that was of super bowl-like proportions. howie: the comey indictment of donald trump happened to match the media narrative that the president is engaged in some political cover-up. mollie: this network and on the for networks ran countdown clocks by makes the journalistic impulse to get something major out of this. it wasn't necessarily what the media were expecting. you had the story lines going into this that there was collusion between russia and trump. that was completely blown up by the testimonies. but there is another story li

mollie hemingway, and ray suarez, former correspondent at the pbs news hour. shannon, i presume and i suppose the american people you suppose there were no tapes. shannon: the president called out publicly the f.b.i. director saying you better hope there are not tapes on twitter. that created the question. are there tapes? do you know anything about tapes? it seems the only reason they did answer is the congressional investigation gave them a deadline of friday to answer whether there were tapes. howie: it was a bluff and a taunt. but journalistic critics are characterizing this as a character flaw. mollie: when he tweeted that, what he was doing was accusing comey of leaking because the previous day the "new york times" published a story about a covering he had with comey, and we know comey is. but he's identifying him as a leaker. he's saying stop telling stories where you are the hero, tell the full truth. it was much girl and more balanced. he did come out and admit he told president trump he wasn't under investigation and other things. how report idea and

we have mollie hemingway and ned ryun. ned, jail start with you. start -- i'll start with you. your reaction to mr. depp, his community. they are not cheap shots. i think these are dangerous shots they are taking. why are they doing it and how do they get away with it. >> captain jack sparrow needs to lay off the rum. the thing that was disturbing about that video was the laughter at his comments talking about assassinating our president of the united states. you look at this rhetoric from johnny depp and commend day towards. -- and commentators. part of politics is heated rhetoric. but the big difference is the fact that hillary clinton, eric holder and major political figures in the democrat party are embracing the resistance and saying we are part of the resistance. they are embracing this rhetoric and behavior. this is a real change from how it has been in the past. now we have major parties embracing thoseth things. trish: mollie, the ceasar play as well. your thoughts. mollie: even worse, some of these artists i don't think people take political advice from, is the politi

. >> molly hemingway says that is exactly why he did it to get a better deal for the american people.ful to donald trump's voters. they are people on the right, republicans and conservatives claiming they will get out of things like this, this is part of the republican platform to exit the paris accord. you had mitt romney, the previous presidential nominee begging trump to stay in. it was a refreshing thing for a lot of trump voters to see someone follow through on the campaign promise as trump did today. >> the supreme court to revise executive order. this suspends new visas being issued to people in six muslim majority countries and approved by a freeze. the lower court decision to block that order. >> the video you are about to see may be disturbing to you, look at this freak wind gusts, sends bounce castles flying through the air. there are children inside of those lifting them right off the ground and parents run to help. look at that. you can see that on the ground at a birthday party and mexico. and four children injured. there were others critically injured. rob: that happens

joining me now, fred barnes and mollie hemingway. first of all in this vacation cancellation. can't recall senators or congressmen giving that up. do you think there is a possibility of that. mollie: i think it's amazing they are talking about that. if they don't get these types of things done, their electoral chances in the next year will be grim. i think everyone understands the importance. it's okay that it's taking a long time to work out problems with repealing and replacing obamacare. but you have to finish your work but get to go home. fred: i think maybe they will knock a week off the recess or something like that. i don't know why all these members of congress hate washington in august. i have lived here my whole life and i survived. david: let me ask you about the medicaid issue. that's at the heart of what the debate is right now. whether you continue the extraordinary expansion of medicaid that we have under obamacare so it went from kind of a help for the folks who were really desperate to an entitlement for more people under immediate care right now. is that battl

special prosecutor statute which doesn't exist right now but i was shocked to read yesterday, molly hemingway fitzgerald, the most abusive special counsel ever appointed, he knew the answer from the day he took over or richard armitage, information about being cia, not only did he not drop it, he expanded, comey pressured john ashcroft to recuse himself when i don't think he should've so comey could get his godfather fitzgerald ines special counsel, comey is dirty, mueller is dirty, the two of them what they did. rob: let's get back on topic. everything is so political, nancy pelosi said there is nothing, can you give dianne feinstein credit for doing the right thing in the situation saying there needs to be an investigation? >> i hope there would be, there should be, she is exactly right about that but there needs to be more than an investigation. there is no collusion with this administration and russia, so we can drop the independent counsel, special counsel, there is no further need and now that we have collusion between comey and mueller, before he testified, also ran things by other peo

molly hemingway. and chris stirewalt from fox news. molly, i'll start saying you like the solar panel idea. >> i'm not a huge fan of the wall but i like solar panels on the wall. >> bret: transition to the speech. classic donald trump. iowa campaign trump. your thoughts? >> he seems to be more comfortable speaking of conservative principles. it's like it's not a second language for him which at times it has seemed. he was funny and conversational and he hit the big agenda items he is interested in. he emphasized his successes. the plan about work requirement, a requirement that the new immigrants not receive welfare. it's a popular thing that bill clinton did to tie welfare reform to work requirements. it's gutted in the previous administration. it's a policy that has broad appeal. >> bret: he has the wind at his back with the special election wins. you can feel that and sense it in the delivery. >> this has been a psychological boost for the white house. they have been in a rough stretch. people including the president have felt under

molly hemingway. and chris stirewalt from fox news. molly, i'll start saying you like the solar panel idea. >> i'm not a huge fan of the wall but i like solar panels on the wall. >> bret: transition to the speech. classic donald trump. iowa campaign trump. your thoughts? >> he seems to be more comfortable speaking of conservative principles. it's like it's not a second language for him which at times it has seemed. he was funny and conversational and he hit the big agenda items he is interested in. he emphasized his successes. the plan about work requirement, a requirement that the new immigrants not receive welfare. it's a popular thing that bill clinton did to tie welfare reform to work requirements. it's gutted in the previous administration. it's a policy that has broad appeal. >> bret: he has the wind at his back with the special election wins. you can feel that and sense it in the delivery. >> this has been a psychological boost for the white house. they have been in a rough stretch. people including the president have felt under

byron york, mollie hemingway, charles lane, and charles krauthammer.byron, your thoughts great >> the first thing was he confirmed some reports we've seen that the president asked him if he would consider letting go the michael flynn investigation. this was after flynn was fired. he confirmed what you were just reading, the loyalty request, although it's something we hear the president has asked almost everybody he's hired. on the other hand, he did confirm with the president said which was that call comey saidn three occasions donald trump was not under investigation. we've seen a brief statement from the president's lawyer saying he feels completely and totally vindicated. my guess is tomorrow what you're going to see is democrat saying that comey has just given them solid evidence of obstruction and republicans saying this makes us feel a lot better. we think it can be explained. >> bret: the president talk to lester holt, laid out the different meetings, said he'd been told he wasn't under investigation. then we have a series of stories from anonym

we will bring in the panel, guy benson, mollie hemingway, caitlin collins white house correspondent.er knox. yahoo! news, chief washington correspondent. okay, tell us. >> i do not think you can spend today as a good day for the white house, right? you have the former fbi director calling the president a liar. heavily suggesting that the special counsel is looking into obstruction of justice which would involve the president and also comey characterizing the ask for the president allegedly said that he hoped to that plan would be essentially left off the hook. he called that in his own mind of directive. so that is a rough day down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. but i do think at the same time that several of the major narratives from the nt trump left sustained significant body blows from comey's own testimony that the president was in fact told three times by the fbi director that he was not under investigation. that trump did not interfere with the russian investigation and in fact supported it. and a few others. if you are a trump supporter, you have a few things to hang your hat o

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. >>ria from the left is a good reminder that the hysteria is not just because of donald trump because donald trump is president but it's based on policy. some of the comments that you've heard. saying the united states had resigned as the leader of the free world, saying it was a traitorous act of war. it suggests how invested in the left is but there is a deep irony. it is, as you have described, a nonbinding, unenforceable, voluntary, nonratified agreements. how is it on the one hand that you have the left crying about this meaning doom for the planet and on the other hand it's not having any enforcement mechanisms. >> bret: when talking about this in the framework of how president obama signed onto it and how he put into it, it still wasn't a treaty. it never went to the u.s. senat senate. >> they would have voted it down. as steve said, the goals were voluntary and chosen by each country individually. if it was toothless and not binding, what's the harm of staying in. there was hyster

stoddard, mollie hemingway. good evening. i white house victory. >> i think that's right.a win and a vindication for donald trump and the travel ban. it was also a win for the plane that are of the law. part of the reason why this was such a clear win for the white house is that they were on the right side of a constitutional legal argument. the president has plenipotentiary power terrae navigation -- immigration. the ninth circuit opinion, fourth circuit opinion were bad and political decisions. would have been a huge mass if the supreme court had not clarified that the president does have these powers and it did trim back certainly some of the more expansive ideas of quote what the ban is supposed to be. people from these countries can come in. they just need a good reason. >> bill: the courts in february and march. we were listening to them. >> these rulings were kind of ridiculous. they were going through donald trump's campaign tweets and try to ascertain deeper meaning. that was a bad precedent to set, this idea that we can judge donald trump differently than all oth

mollie hemingway, senior editor at "the federalist," tom rogan, staff writer for the "washington examiner ." white house reporter jennifer jacobs and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. mollie, it's happening. >> i think people are anxious to have comey actually answer a question. he's got a good track record of answer questions publicly in a way that's favorable to him, declining to answer questions that might actually shed light on exactly was going on at the fbi. i think it will be important for republicans and democrats asked for the good question. senate intelligence committee to just ask a series of questions about his memos, web access, who he transmitted information to. he declined to answer. that is par for the course. hoping on thursday we get good answers. >> bret: sometimes, and you heard brit hume earlier, these moments in washington never really live up to everything and everybody thought they were going to be. here you have this questioning and you wonder how much jim comey can answer about an ongoing investigation, how much she will talk about what he said to preside

mollie hemingway, anna palmer, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.kay, obviously the administration wants to turn the page but the president keeps weighing in. >> they understand there is a lot of rage about the president and they do want a little bit of pushback so i think they're looking for that. i keep on remembering the last debate when donald trump was asked if he would accept the results of the election and he said he would wait and see. we spent many days talking about when a threat it was and how damaging it was to the norms where you accept the electoral results. here we are in june with a huge class of people who seem largely to be unable or unwilling to accept the results of an election and doing everything in their power to gum up the works. i think there are parts of this that are self-inflicted by the trump administration. there is a heck of a lot of this about people not being able to accept a won the presidency. >> bret: the white house briefing is still largely about this topic, and obviously it's a focus in washington. here is sean

here now, howard kurtz host of media buzz, molly hemingway is senior editor at the federalist and foxet me start with you with the media punishment that was meted out in this piece and get your thoughts on that and then i want to share another piece of it. >> my first reaction was ouch. i agree that we are awash in a sea of spin and speculation and prediction driven by this hyper-speed news cycle and that these hashtags are often wrong and disconnected from the news that people want. here's how i think the indictment goes too far. there are still lots of performers who will at least try to get it straight. they just don't happen to be the kind of people you see popping off on cable news panels. >> let's look at another piece from this editorial that he wrote this morning. what i had heard from the media and the political class has been so spectacularly proven wrong by events again and again that i sometimes wonder why read newspapers, following journalists on twitter. he still does that out of habit, what do you think? >> it's not just that there is so much conventional thinking or gr

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joining us with more, mollie hemingway,, sr., editor at the federalist, and richard fowler. richard, let me start with you. this is an issue that i have done an hour-long documentary on what's going on on campuses with these sort of judiciaries that are made up of three professors who have no necessary background in sexual assault cases, who decide the fate of the accused on their own and that accused is often not allowed to even have an attorney present. so, how is that due process? how is that right? out of the obama administration get away with that? >> here's the thing. i think we have to do more about how we deal with sexual assault on campuses. i'm not sure if this pick is the right pick to do that. i think that there is some middle ground that both conservatives and progressives in the senate can come to you on how we deal with this issue. my problem, kissel has more to do with having no experience. his position aims at helping institutions, providing guidance, providing guidance on how to them, and federal laws and what are the best practices in higher education. thi

and molly hemingway, a fox news contributor. welcome to you both. i thought it was interesting that former president clinton's tweet said treaty. he used the word treaty. that's one of the main gripes people had about this. if it was a treaty it required senate approval and never went there. if much of what president obama accomplished in his time is pieces of paper this administration will be able to undo them. >> the key point here, i take it to heart what you said. it's executive action on some level and people found it grateing. president obama said it is hard to get something as complex as a climate deal through the legislative body and america was showing leadership to the world by saying we can agree to lower our output of greenhouse gases and hoping that the rest of the world specifically china, the leading emitter of greenhouse gases, would fall in line. it was an example from the obama administration point of view of american leadership. >> shannon: juan, you know you don't get to skip the constitution because something is hard to get done

fox news political analyst and mollie hemingway, senior editor for the federalist and jay sekulow. chief counsel for the american center for justice. jay, i want to start with you at the legal issue. is james comey is any legal trouble over this leak? >> i think he is. 641 says if you disclose and convey a government document to an unauthorized person that's a violation of the law. let's be clear what happened. james comey admitted he was, in fact, the leaker. he leaked the information to a friend of his from columbia law school with the instruction to leak it to at that point "the new york times" and he said he did it for the sole purpose of obtaining a special counsel which is the result he got. if you look at section 614 and others i think he has serious issues. let me say something else. i think it was the complete collapse of james comey's case against donald trump. the absolute complete collapse of any obstruction of justice of whether the president was under investigation. there was nothing there. i think it was a zero. a bad day for him. why would you want your f.b.i. direc

what molly hemingway is, had a great article, i had no idea how dirty this mess was involving comey and over the years, but it was comey that pushed john ashcroft to recuse himself so comey could get his child's godfather to become the special counsel, you may remember, fitzgerald. and fitzgerald knew when he took the position, that richard armitage was the leaker but he still spent millions of dollars, wasted time. comey was at the bottom of that. and comey manipulated through this leaking to get a special counsel when we don't need one. we know now for sure there is no collusion between this administration and russia. let's at least stop that facade. let's stop that distraction. get rid of mueller. he is dirty. he created all kind of problems. there were people, we celebrated one-year anniversary of orlando and mueller could have stopped it but he purged the training materials in the fbi so fbi agents don't know what to look for when they're looking for radical islam. that is mueller's fault. stuart: what do you make about the speculation today there is a memo from former attorney gen