the obama administration has criticized the spending as well and the videos, but now it is suggestinghat in fact the real blame belongs with the bush administration. later this hour the former gsa administrator under president george w. bush will join us live. dramatic new details on the breaking news story that unfolded live on this program on friday. a navy fighter jet shraplg into an apartment complex in virginia beach. the pilots successfully ejecting from the plane following a, quote, catastrophic malfunction. incredibly no one was killed or seriously injured in what some are now crediting to an amazing combination of luck and skill. trace gallagher has more. >> reporter: now we're learning that catastrophic mechanical failure, megyn apparently happened shortly after that f-a-18 hornet took off and the pilots as they got airborne tried to push around and try to go back to the airport, but they ran out of critical things, altitude and time. they dumped all the fuel before they ejected from the plane avoiding what could have been a bigger catastrophe and then they waited until the

artists are far far as break the evening but when we come back what do michael jackson the obama administration the son of an african leader and due process all have in common what they came to find out and then charles dickens might be dead but there's persons certainly aren't going to tell you about the increasing number of people being locked up and saddled with even more death after the break. you know story and the scene so you think you understand it and then you know here's the other part of it and realize that everything you saw. was a big. mystery . but in the alone itself you know there's a real headline with not. a problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and from what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. if they want news they go online and read it and we're trying to take the stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v. . is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it co

on this too because if you look at this washington post piece it will try to claim that the obama administration so far has had a lot of constraints when it comes to its run program in yemen and they call the killing of anwar a lot he's sixteen year old son inadvertant but yet they also want to claim that this entire time they've been knowing exactly who they've been going after and some of the pieces just don't add up there and i don't think anyone really knows whether this was inadvertent or not you know you spoke with his grandfather his father what was his take. oh well he was certainly devastated by the loss of his son booker in particular i think by the loss of his grandson as well there are people within the white house who have tried to put the brakes on the cia's kind of power mad drone everybody to death program and i think i think that's real i think what we saw in the post when you had a senior administration official quoted as saying he looked like we don't know it is a great idea i think that note of caution is a very real the question is can they win that battle with the if there'

gamma obeying me he is the son of the president of equitorial guinea and the obama administration says that the government in the courtyard of guinea is rampant with corruption of people to talk in trolling seventy percent of the nation's wealth while the rest of the country lives in poverty now they claim of the president's son who currently lives in the us has a history of participating in extortion and his wealth was the result of corrupt dealings in his home country and you know just a sidebar here but maybe as long as the obama admin is seizing millions of dollars worth of property they should be taking a look at the man in the mirror but back to may do what they claim are his connections to his home countries corruption they seize his yachts cars jets and his mansion and that's not all they took but also sees a white crystal covered glove worn by michael jackson during his back world tour now apparently was a bit of a celebrity memorabilia collector but he isn't the only m.j. fan in the story remembered obama say after the singer died. i think that michael jackson is. will go dow

so what we did in "the blueprint," was to do an exposÉ on the activities of the obama administration.to fundamentally ignore, go around, over or under the constitution. so we saw and we see the constitution as being the big rock in the road to the president's promise of fundamentally change the united states of america. >> is it different than what other presidents have done and? >> there have been times, our 236 years of existence where presidents have tried to concentrate power in the central government. richard nixon used his powers to expand the powers of the central government through a variety of programs. but this has been different exponentially in terms of the degree and extent to which the president has tried to concentrate the power of the government in washington, d.c. unit, the beauty of the constitution is that it is an instrument and a set of ideas, again, that limits government. it believes that free men for free women and free markets can do just about anything. and at the end of the day, it is that constitution that has made us an exceptional nation. in 236 years we

you know you talked about obama's administration trying to say how they've improved gullibly is things the current regime. has a website and they like to say to transparency. but you know this new cherry all of his treatment has already ben evidence of that has been released in the c.i. a report in memos in reporting on the investigation into his treatment actually spent quite a bit of time in investigating basically they got threats used against him and so we know about his treatment already and yet the government is really trying to prevent. him from being able to voice it public and we're doing everything that's a good point right that's of the most i think one of us important points here is the fact that we've already seen as a lot of these documents have been declassified what has actually happened to him and so you know the government is going to try to say that this is a matter of national security that we discuss it but it's sort of out there you know then why do you think they'll be able to convince the judge. you know who knows what can eat it should be it should be a no brai

at the end of the day what is fundamentally challenging about the obama administration and their effort to expand the power of the federal government, and the executive branch within the federal government, is that the president has taken what has been a casual tendency by past presidents and he has put muscle on the bone. he has done it at alarming speed, and in an alarming scale. so that you see not only his use of -- i'll give you an example. in 2009, "newsweek" magazine had a cover store. the cover story was that we are all socialist now. well, the heck we are. but what "newsweek" magazine was talking about was that president obama had reversed what had been done in the clinton gingrich years to balance the budget, to actually end -- reform welfare, and we were moving back very rapidly in the first year of the obama administration to an expanded welfare state. and so it's -- this represents a clash of world views, and the role of government. we believe, as we have advanced in both of our books, that limited government, free markets, and a vigorous defense of u.s. interests in the wo

profound it very clear that he was always sure he was right so when he first came into the obama administration was pushing everybody else up because he kept saying no you stupid military people don't know what you're talking about and that's as much what i'm concerned about as his flip flop because people who believe they are always right and are also the ones who are reviewing these these targeted killings without any review by a judge chances are good they're not really reviewing evidence with any distance with any humility with any. you know they know they're right and so i think it's it's really troubling to see that he kind of is bulldozing everybody else and denies that he's flip flopped denies that he's changed his mind on these issues but it's a pity because you know he used to be a great outspoken person on this he also by the way used to criticize his former student john you yell which is another curious interesting detail. unfortunate i guess you could say to say the least in that case but let's move on to time of day in the case of ana cheri to i know that they haven't said that th

minute here let's point out harold koh he's the state department's legal adviser under the obama administration also former dean of yale law school and he was really vocal in talking about the damage that had been done under george w. bush six years of defining ocean. voyage the war on terror has damaged our human rights reputation giving cover to abuses committed by her knowledge it blunted our ability to criticize and to leaders elsewhere in the world . the next administration whether democrat or republican will have the burden of repairing this reputation to build but i've got the sources of war schloss tower. now cut all so refer to president bush as the courts are in chief just you know and so a new profile go by tarmac alvey tries to ask though how it is that he's now become one of the most vocal supporters and pushers of the obama administration's drone war which points out that code told the new york times reporter in two thousand and two that the policy of targeted killings seemed to violate the government's longstanding bed on assassination and yet you want to know what he told her wh

[applause] economic freedom has not been the only one of the obama administration's targets. rst freedom, our religious freedom, has also been under attack by this administration. you may have seen a recent labor relations case. the government claim to a church should not be free to determine who qualifies as a minister under the law. it claimed the government should interfere with that decision. the constitution came to the rescue. we wondered what the court would do. they rejected the obama administration's attack in a 9-0 decision. [applause] of course, now the obama administration has decided it has the power to mandate what catholic charities and catholic schools and catholic hospitals must cover in their insurance plans for employees. it is easy to forget how often candidate obama assured us that under his health insurance plan, nothing would have to change. the government is already dictating to religious groups on matters of doctrine and conscience. in all of america, there is no larger provider of health care for women and their babies than the catholic church. that i

two, how close john edwards came to being in part of the obama administration. nistration. >> that makes his behavior the most irresponsible of all. you can imagine what would have happened had he won. it's doing the impossible. the trial. to make -- it is eliciting some sympathy for john edwards. terrible guy and terrible stuff but idea you criminalize it to use arcane finance laws is something people imagine is a stretch. the question is, is everything all really bad behavior in american life criminal or not? >> he went from 3-4% in the approval rating. >> good. moving up. that is it for the panel. stay tuned for an update on north korea's nuclear program. >> bret: finally tonight, missiles military parade. biggest fear eventually there could be an intercontinental they say they are all fakes. and this video aapparently from north korean state tv seems to back up that assessment. ♪ [ laughter ] [speaking foreign language] [ laughter ]

under the obama administration in three years it has grown by 40%.ally the auditors, the irs of the department of labor. >> this isn't about big government, small government within this is about smart government. these are some of the morse sensical regulations that exist. it's not government regulators who care about kids most. it's not frankly the farm owners because that what they are. we are not talking about family farms, were talking about large corporate -- >> there is an implication for family-owned and operated farms. >> parents have the safety of their kids most in minds. parents need to know how dangerous it is working with some of this machinery. megyn: you have farmers in the midwest saying and i do and i don't need the government to come in and tell me. >> a farmer in the midwest isn't what a farmer in the midwest was 30 years ago. a farmer in the midwest isn't out there plowing fields. a farmer in the midwest is managing a huge operation. megyn: they are throwing soy beans at i right now. >> 90% of farms in america are owned and operat

on immigration while at the same time pandering to latino voters and other avenues that the obama administration isn't the only ones who's going to be playing both sides of the field appears that mitt romney is seizing the opportunity to remind latino voters of obama's campaign promises to them. let the immigrant community not forget that while he uses this as a political as a political weapon he does not take responsibility for fixing the problems we have . yes the latino community should not forget that obama promised to tackle immigration reform in his first year in office but it also shouldn't forget romney take on immigration like when he was asked during a debate if he supported the arizona approach to tackling the problem. so going back to the question that was asked the right course for america is to drop these lawsuits against arizona and other states that are trying to do the job right the body isn't doing. right. i will drop those lawsuits lawsuits sunday one. o r when everything interview he touted his record on immigration as a qualifier to his conservative. i think the biggest misc

administration? a lot of people have said that barack obama is not radically different in a lot of these things as the bush administration. >> that's a good question. there are some quarters of the republican party saying you should bring back enhanced interrogations. they work. it's hard to save. mitt romney said that he would double the detainee population at guantanamo, which means he's more amenable to sending prisoners there, which the obama administration hasn't done. gwen: thanks everyone. the conversation has to end here, but it will continue online where we tackle the eternal question, do political endorsements matter? you can find that in our "washington week" webcast extra, and i answered your questions this week in my monthly webchat. its posted at pbs.org/washingtonweek. keep up with daily developments with me on "the pbs newshour," and well see you again right here next week on "washington week." good night. download our weekly podcast and take us with you. it's the "washington week" podcast at "washington week" online at pbs.org.de >> funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> o

it reflects how obama and his administrative agencies are overriding the law for the entire term. a said to dmitry medvedev his russian pal. he said after i'm elected i are more room to maneuver. i'll be more flexible. imagine how flexible he is going to be honoring global warming and killing carbon-based energy in his second term. >> bret: this energy issue is already being used by republicans in ads, there are outside groups, super-pacs with energy ads. expect to be be in some of those ads. >> we already saw it, other things woven in to that. energy institute statement. weaving in the gsa. secret service is not part of the folklore but will become part of the narrative of the anti-epa people. best thing to happen to president obama right now is if he could find a good route, a route he would find acceptable for the keystone pipeline. then he can say look, i was just looking for a better, safer route. that is something that has knighted a lot of people who would otherwise be environmentalists who want the jobs in some of the states. >> i think that is the second thing to do after

it, and i'm not working for the campaign, and i don't think people should listen to an ex-obama administrationofficial or a romney campaign operative. go look at the congressional budget office report yourself. and what you can see is that while the obama budget is trying to stabilize the debt-to-gdp ratio, the romney budget, according to objective budget observers, is blowing up the deficit. it's crushing social security and medicare by more than 25% while simultaneously putting in $3 trillion of tax cuts. so to say that they're broadening the base when the base broadners they've discussed are one-tenth to have the cost of the tax cuts, just doesn't make any sense. as i say, it's just not mathematically correct. so i really don't think they should be pushing that argument. >> a quick rebuttal there? >> the goal is not to stabilize debt-to-gdp at an already very high level, the goal is to bring it down. >> then why increase the deficit? >> romney would bring down gdp back to 20%, to where it used to be, and do so without raising taxes. we can do that. that's just simple arithmetic. but we cann

obama said no. his policies were worse than the busch administration. e he is unwilling to be pushed in the right direction by people who know what they are doing. >> he think there is no political cost to going -- >> barack obama is a [ inaudible ]. he is a strong rigid view on what is right, and he doesn't move evidence be damned. >> matt stoller fellow not afraid to take on president obama from the left. number one problem is money in politics, as long as democrats and republicans get elected by taking a huge sum of money from donors they are going to do what thos donors tell them to do. that's how the system works, that's why we have got to get the money out of politics. when we come back we'll do viewfinder a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a [ train whistle blows ] [ ball hitting paddle ] [ orbit girl ] don't let food hang around. yeah! [ orbit trumpet ] clean it up with orbit! [ orbit glint ] fabulous! for a good clean feeling. ♪ eat, drink, chew orbit! ♪ >>> all right. we are back in a moment we'll discuss john mccai

obama said no. his policies were worse than the busch administration. he is unwilling to be pushed in the right direction by people who know what they are doing. >> he think there is no political cost to going -- >> barack obama is a [ inaudible ]. he is a strong rigid view on what is right, and he doesn't move evidence be damned. >> matt stoller fellow not afraid to take on president obama from the left. number one problem is money in politics, as long as democrats and republicans get elected by taking a huge sum of money from donors they are going to do what those donors tell them to do. that's how the system works, that's why we have got to get the money out of politics. when we come back we'll do viewfinder and have some fun with some fun videos. including joe biden. [ woman ] oh, my gosh -- it's so good! [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp so we can describe them to our customers. [ male announcer ] red lobster's festival of shrimp starts now! for just $12.99, pair any two of 9 exciting shrimp

inconsistency is never becoming and if the obama administration wants to use executive powers at least use them equally don't hide behind some notion of executive restraint that everybody knows you don't actually believe it and so for that we're giving the obama administration really the president himself since he's the executive the issues the orders tonight still time to work. ok guys time for happy hour and join me this evening our team producer jenny churchill and kevin glass managing editor at townhall thank you guys thanks very much for joining me first or trying to switch of the order i mean or. let's talk about iraq rails obviously the big story has been that there was a gawker a mole working within fox news they fired him they found it that's all said and done it but listen to what roger ailes had to say about dr. what is the good for a group. that it's a sort of court which. told. me that is a website that everybody should really have steroids. i am not kidding i honestly just doesn't know what. the right way to get your pulse on the news world all of you honestly doesn't fox

and also the obama administration gets another going over in the supreme court. what happens if the former constitutional law professor has two priorits ruled unconstitutional. and the power player of the week. it is all happening in the zoo, all right now on fox news sunday. and hello again from fox news in washington. next week marks the first anniversary of the daring night time raid in pakistan when navev seals stormed bin laden's compound and killed the world's most wanted terrorist? we invited counterterrorism chief john brennan. welcome back to fox news sunday. >> thank you, chris. >> chris: before we get on the war on terror wheeland you about the chinese under u.s. protection. >> we are working closely with the individuals involved in this and so i am going to leave it to others who have for it >> chris: can you tell me this, how does the president balance his support for and desire to protect human rights dissidents on one hand and not wanting to damage u.s. relations with china. >> the president has to balance the commitment to human rights. also, that

the obama administration -- this is the new thing that has been happening for a while. they are turning the globe into a pre fire zone. to pick up on general david petraeus, beyond 2009, portrayed in washington, america's savior in iraq and afghanistan and got out of both countries just-in-time but he got more publicity than any general sins macarthur. he then was made -- in terms of american politics, was made the cia director. you have not a civilian but a military man being made cia director and he went into the shadows. no profile the general david petraeus. he goes up and testify as now and then but it is remarkable how he has dropped out of the news. what you have increasingly behind the scenes what in the 60s they called in the shadows. we see american war going into the shadows. general david petraeus was part of that. he is a man who relies on iraq and afghanistan on special operations forces, hunter killer teams and drones. the cia specializes in drones and hunter killer teams and so on and so forth and clearly coordinating with the military. to add to that, o

so one arm of the obama administration bans discrimination from housing entities, getting government inistration doesn't ban it the hud rule is meaningful policy change, one that might get them in a lot of trouble and the failure to sign the executive order, feels like, well, a failure. how do we assess the administration? joining us are kai wright, author of "drifting toward love." and mara keisling, joy-ann reid, and allison kilkenny, reporter. all right, folks. is there the obama administration succeeding or failing on these issues? executive order no and yet this very courageous hud rule? >> as you point out, it's great. the hud rule, great policy, but i think what is very clear and the white house articulated this week implicitly is that this administration is not going to be a political leader when it comes to the question of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. keeping with 20 years of democratic party policy. >> it does feel different than the clinton administration, who wasn't a leader, but instituted don't ask don't tell, and here you have the end o

i wanted to listen to obama on this. >> the obama administration decided it had the power to mandate r insurance plans for their employees. well, here we are just getting started with obama care, and the federal government is already dictating to reridgeous groups on matters of doctrine and conscious. >> here is my question. really, legitimately a question for this panel. if they are still hammering on contraception, which feels like a consensus issue among americans, like that people should have access to contraception and using encro h encroachment on faith-faced issues. aren't we 15 seconds from them saying the obama administration trying to force religious organizations to accept lgbt people when they won't. why would a religious organization not have the same sort of eligibleity policy. but it feels like there is a brewing cultural moment happening. >> we have not fully gotten his etch-a-sketch out yet. so i don't know. the tone may change and i think that may be part of the white house political office's calculation on this. they expect that they will be able to keep lgbt issues

let them higher than that, it is that much easier and this is something i don't think the obama administration or the europeans fully understand. serving and, finally, ambassador, so we have a position where, potentially, the administration is saying, maybe you can enrich some and the iranians say we'll do more and the president says, close fordo and the iranians say, no, we're not going to do that. what is next? >> well i think then it becomes the subject for negotiation, this is complicated but we're showing good faith so let's keep the talks going, every day that goes by allows iran to continue to enrich uranium, it is more progress for them, they would be happy to have these negotiations go on pretty much forever. that is what the problem is, the negotiations are not cost-free, they do buy time, for iran, they do make the situation in the middle east riskier. >> eric: and three weeks, more negotiations in baghdad. we'll see what happens, if anything. ambassador john bolton, thanks for joining us every sunday. >> thank you. >> this week marks one year since the u.s. raid that killed usama b

politics playing into, and these on the whole first of all the things i would say about the obama administrationgenerally is the visionaries, they were mad visionaries, but they had a vision of how would work and how it should work. they were completely wrong. the obama people are kind of managers and i think that your managers just as you say by the moment, by the weak coming you know, i don't think they have any vision of what's happening. they are almost just trying to keep up with events. >> now that we've uplifted everybody in this room -- we will open it up, and if we can have some gender equity in the questioning there would be great. >> this gentleman here. >> i would like to ask if you have heard about and believe that sufficient attention has been made in terms of the press to the following to be offensive to drive last year, christopher ed gray, the dean of the california law school, who was also on the obama transition team, he was at the conference they were discussing law and order, and he was in his tenure again in the university and what came up is the question about the obama ad

guest: the executive, in this case the obama administration, has deported 1.2 million people. if they were not enforcing the immigration law, we would not have 1.2 million deportations. the administration, the executive branch, is enforcing immigration law. sp-1070 requires a law enforcement officer to learn immigration law, and reasonable suspicion is based on what a person looks like or wears. >> what we always hear is you cannot do this, you cannot do that. why are there millions of people here illegally? there have been efforts to litigate states into not cooperating with the federal government, and therefore states have been giving out benefits to illegal emigrants without checking -- to illegal immigrants without checking status. now they are back at it again, the same players with the foundation money, and they say we like the idea of secure borders but week -- but we oppose every form of immigration reform that you can name. racial profiling, asking the federal government for verification of a person's status, it criminalizes not carrying identification, lays out a port

the obama administration said help remove hosni mubarak.lace of hosni mubarak is likely muslim brotherhood government. >> juan: yeah. >> eric: that is a problem. is it not a problem? >> juan: you don't like democracy? >> eric: i don't like a group that the sole mission is advance shariah law over any form of people's government. >> juan: you are making judgments about the muslim brotherhood based on what they were in some of the involvement. they say now that they make progress and they want to, in fact, join democracy. >> you're buying it? >> juan: i say you have to give people a chance and allow a society to evolve. we can't dictate egyptian policy. >> eric: president bush allowed an experiment in egypt and let's remove -- >> dana: well, i don't think -- >> eric: remove muslim brotherhood, would it change our stripes? >> dana: hypotheticals are not pure but if you look at what happened in the palestinian territory, they did have an election. >> juan: we didn't like it. >> dana: hamas won. we had to work on it. that's who they voted in. no

for dennis, it appeared at times from the outside like the obama administration was caught by surprise by the initial advent of the arab spring, i don't mean that in an accusatory way. i think all of us were caught by surprise. can you reflect from your time there on the inside how this played out within the obama administration? what do you think the administration got right? what do you think they maybe got wrong in responding to these events in realtime? >> well, first, i think you're right about the fact that everybody was caught by surprise. the truth is that nobody predicted what would happen, and i, tell you a little story, because it tends to validate this point. in the summer of 2010, the president signed out a decision memorandum that was to launch a whole of government review of our approach to the middle east on the question of reform. and it was based on the premise, basically, that, steve, you were describing that president bush articulated, that the kind of -- the reality of the region was creating maybe an illusion of stability, but not the fact of stability. and that y

it's a hard business, and, you know, one of the challenges for the obama administration is for those regimes that have not had revolutions. the monarchies which as elliott spoke of, have a legitimacy and are trying in their own way to reform. one of the challenges for the obama administration is to help those regimes actually do a democratic transition before there's a revolution, not after. but i offer the vignette about mubarak. it is very hard. and final postscript. in the last meeting that president bush had with king abdullah of saudi, and where he talked again, once again, about reform and applauded king abdullah's reform, on the way out to the van where abdullah left, he said, mr. president, i understand what you're saying, but i'm afraid. i'm afraid. a man in his 80s, maybe 90s. bedouin, trying to reform, but, you know, such a long way to go. so it's very hard, but one of the things, i think, the obama administration has an opportunity to do is to try to get these regimes that have some legitimacy to lead their people to a democratic future without having to go through the di

fortunately, the constitution confronted the obama administration. the supreme court ruled unanimously for the sacketts and against the obama epa. this administration's attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by our constitution. the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous, that liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead, they've been employing every imaginable ploy to restrict it. i applaud true conservationists like rob keck who work to preserve lands, herds and flocks for hunting. i applaud ambassador bolton for opposing international efforts to erode our rights. i applaud congressman issa and senator grassley for their work in exposing the "fast and furious" scandal. and i applaud nra leadership for being among the first and most vocal in calling upon attorney general holder to resign. we need a president who will enforce current laws, not create new ones that only serve to burden lawful gun owners. president obama has not. i will. we need a president who will stand up for the rights of hunter

how can congress fight back against this effort and the part of the obama administration to kill the armed pilots program? >> we're introduce a bill just to counter it right now. the program's remained static. we've had no new flight deck officers come on board. the federal light deck officer program not only being a stop the threat program, it is also a chief deterrent. the terrorists are going to think twice before they realize when they open that cockpit door they're going to have a very highly trained armed pilot behind them. what we need to do on the level of congress, we're introducing this bill. we will lobby hard on the hill for this program. when i've come to congress, i understand we're in a budget crunch. that's why this bill is fully offsetted for another program within the tsa for overage of personnel. this program is an essential part of the safety net program. we can lobby this on the hill. i think i can get a lot of colleagues to sign this bill and push this bill on through. >> you mentioned that background checks were no longer being performed on pilots trying to get