send bush a message, note pat buchanan for president. >> most political analysts credit pat buchananlican enthusiasm for president bush's re-election, even though the president secured the nomination, and having been softened up by pat buchanan, the president who did the reasonable thing and compromised with democrats on taxes, faced this in the general election. >> the george bush promise -- >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> then he gave us the second biggest tax increase in american history. bush increased the gas tax by 56%. can we afford four more years? bill clinton, a different kind of democrat. as governor, arkansas has the second lowest tax burden in the country. you don't have to read his lips, read his record. clinton-gore, for people, for change. >> the democrats had lost the last presidential campaign to tax pandering by george h.w. bush and bill clinton wasn't going to let that happen again this time. so he tax pandered. he echoed pat buchanan, and while he was at it, bill clinton made himself a tax cutter. he offered a middle class tax cut as a center piece of his campa

goes back to pat buchanan. >> aren't you on target? the republican con fab in texas remind med of another gop gathering in houston back in 1992. and here's pat buchanan that year, which they really didn't want on television, but it was. >> i watched that giant masquerade ball up at madison square garden where 20,000 liberals and radicals came dressed up as moderates and centrists in the greatest single exhibition of cross dressing in american political history. the agenda that clinton and clinton would impose on america. abortion on demand, a litmus test for the supreme court, homosexual rights, discrimination against religious schools, women in combat units. my friends, we must take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. >> you gene, i think i remember the phrase, block by block. >> right, right. let's change the neighborhoods the other direction. i thought he was pretty direct. a lot of republicans thought that was their death knell, talking like that. and now here they are in 2014 going right back at it

pat buchanan. >> striking coincidence, john. look, miss lois learner has already taken the fifth amendment. the activity here they are investigating is the irs going on a full court press after all these little tea party groups denying them basically their constitutional rights to participate in the democratic process. it is worse than what nixon allegedly did. someone said they are out to harass people by having audits of them. is this an article of impeachment against nixon. this screams for an independent prosecutor to investigate this. the truth about it, and the lies and who was behind it and what happened there. if again, it were republican administration, the entire press corps would be over it the way they were over the break in at water gate. >> what do you think of that? >> still looking for payback from the nixon era. there is nothing to connect this to barack obama. and there's a lot of confusion of facts. the republicans claim they sent a letter about investigation and e-mails get destroyed. the letter was about a d

also, pat buchanan takes a look at the question. did the president cross a line overstepping his authority and break the law? plus, crisis on our border. thousands of young children crossing into our country illegally and now, jan brewer siz homeland security is dumping them off to fend for themselves at bus stations and kcalifornia chrome goes for the triple crown. hello, everybody, america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts right now. >>> after spending more than a decade at guantanamo bay, those five enemy combatants are now in qatar, which has promised to keep them out of the public eye, but critics charge they'll be back on the battle lines in no time. >> while the taliban five are basically free to roam around qatar, it has been said that they are not allowed to people other than family members, even when it comes to phone calls. we apologize for that. we will try to get amy back when we can. let's take a look at some fox news polls earlier this the week as the story was developing and made headlines. fo

pat buchanan. >> john, look. we have to get back our people who have been left behind and lost, but you do not trade five nazi generals for private edi sloe van who deserted. this is the problem. it's a trade, it's first that the white house and the president either were unaware they were dealing with an individual credibly alleged to be a deserter. secondly, they gave away topnotch taliban people. third, the white house was utterly unaware they would cause a fire storm, which would cripple the president's trip to europe. he would divide the country. it would split the military and hound him for one week from a preplanned rose garden ceremony, john. i think the decision is indefensible and i don't think he would do what he did again. >> eleanor. >> well, i disagree. the sacred trust between the government and the people who go to war on behalf of the government and its people is that we do bring back our people. that is not only reserved for heros, it's reserved for everybody. now, if in fact he did plan to deser

pat buchanan says go! should make a point of being there for no eshth reason than to give the other side of the climate change story. ben write, call their bluff and their hot air. sheila in pittsburgh, even if democrats shut them down, i guarantee folks watching back home will give a thumbs-up. that is if democrats allow such a hearing to be televised. how little democrats care about veterans. going to get the va and bergdahl scandals off the front page. ramirez tweets, maybe they should debate something more immediate like our crushing economy affecting millions of americans right now. that's a good idea. carmen writes, love you, neil, you're way too cute. ideal. >> reporter: cavuto, you've had a stellar week of shows, the stupid walmart protest thing. what due to relax on weekends? i plan my next line of attacks for next week, tip. no rest for the weary, in between barbecues and more barbecues and stuff like that. anyway, keep your e-mails and tweets coming, we'll keep them coming, too. obbs is net. kee

the people like pat buchanan talk about this on the fringes of the debate that they were in the greatrotectionist country. we can argue about whether there was a right or a wrong thing and the fact is as someone described to me the american industrial base was built behind. it's been about as easy the economic nationalism and the idea actually it's not just about economic nationalism but it's also about having a level playing field. so if i am exporting into china i probably have a 15% tariff to get my goods into china whereas if i can expor am asked porter a 15% subsidy so the trade is about equalizing the trading. again these things are always more complicated. ronald reagan is per trade as a great betrayer but he was a [inaudible] people remember all of these flooding america and harley-davidson was going bust and he just slapped a tie here on these japanese motorbikes and so the domestic industry. >> host: if china had been named and shamed in that way would that have just been basic domestic populism? >> guest: the problem is that there is still a massive demand for these chinese

former reagan adviser pat buchanan along with are all stars david asman, lori rothman, tracy burns.he reluctance to be at the debate. they want to feed the same type of cynicism that democrats are showing a guy getting on this special commission. you want to look at least like you're doing your part. >> well, i think an expert. in office good on the environment. and i were an expert in the republican party on that i would go to the debate. the way the democrats are doing it is quite clear. they don't want to debate sergeant randall. here is an issue. the enironment, it energizes the base and young people, editorial writers to environmentalists. for those folks this is a clause a religion. it is popular with the people, even if they got it down number 20. their area of concerns. neil: of the republicans were to say we're not coming. is 20 of the list of things. the democrats come back and say to them, we think this fixation of yours is a distraction. what happens? >> it's a formal committee. it could very well be on national televion and go on for days. i think the democrats defensiv

pat buchanan talks about political athletes, and in this case, i think you had buster douglas actuallyeating mike tyson. it wasn't buster douglas was so great, but tyson just lost his touch in the ring. i mean, think about this. i'm a conservative guy, yeah, i'm a mainstream conservative guy, but i wouldn't want to vote for a guy that voted for a $7 trillion medicare drug benefit plan without, you know, paying it off. that's what cantor did. he voted for the bank bailout. he said one thing in washington, d.c. about immigration, he said another thing about immigration when he got home. i don't think it was so much his position on immigration as he just never took it to the people. he became very disconnected, and he ran against a guy who was very connected, and i think that makes all the difference in the world. >> not defending cantor personally, because i don't know him, but intellectually, they are trying to be this big republican party on immigration, making sure they have a shot at the hispanic vote, at the same time locally they don't care about that agenda. why should they care w

people like pat buchanan talk about this and are on the fringes of the debate in many ways.america was the great protectionist country. that's a historical fact and we can argue whether was the right thing or the wrong thing but the fact is that someone described to me the american industrial base was built behind the wall. that's just what happened. the argument on the right very much has been about shaded into as you say economic nationalism. and actually it's not just about economic nationalism. it's about having a level playing field. if i'm exporting cars into china i'm probably going to have a 15% tariff to get my goods into china for as if i am a chinese exporter you get a 15% subsidy. the loss of trade are about equalizing that playing field. >> host: and about polly davidson. >> guest: again these things are as markup agape. reagan is portrayed as this great free trader but he saved polly davidson by running a 30% tariff. in the early 80s people remember all of these japanese -- were flooding america. he slapped a tariff on these japanese motorbikes and save the dom

. >> john heilemann, pat buchanan always talks about political athletes and talking about 2008 hillary'sack against the wall, a great political athlete. this guy is not. as i said yesterday, thad cochran is not my type of republican, he drove me crazy, a big ap proep eighter, spends a lot of money. a lot of mississippi people think he's too establishment, too big of a spender. but a lot of it just comes down to who were you running against? you look at eric cantor, he had a really good challenger, a solid guy. that's why he won. in this case, this guy was a clown. you go back and listen to some of the things he said about women, the overtones about race. there's a reason african-american got out and voted against this guy. he scared them for good reason because of some things that he said that concerned him. >> in the kantor race, the difference is the factor is a runoff. it gave the barbour forces a chance to regroup and it gave the state, including the african-american voters who normally don't show up in a republican primary, a chance to pause. in this case the pause allowed for reali

people like pat buchanan who talk about this have been on the fringes of the debate but if you look at the country that is a fact we can argue about whether it was the right thing or the wrong thing the fact is as someone described it to me the american industrial basis was built on the high tariff war. that is just what happens. and so they put the argument on the right that very much has been about the economic nationalism. and it's not just about economic nationalism but it is about having a level playing field. so if i'm exporting the cars into china i will have a 15% to get my goods into china whereas if i am a chinese exporter and you get a 15% subsidy. so, the trade argument is about equalizing that playing field. >> guest: again these things are always more complicated. ronald reagan is the trade but i think it was a 30% share of. remember the japanese motorbikes are flooding america and harley-davidson was going bust and he just slapped a tariff on the japanese motorbikes and served the domestic industry. >> host: if china had been named and shamed in that way would that have

believes we need to rebuild the military, but when you look at the fact that we continue, you know pat buchanan has a great quote. it's not civility to borrow from the world to defend the world. we are in a debtor nation. every so often we have to have debates on the floor of the house to raise the debt ceiling. under george bush we raised the debt ceiling seven of the eight years he was president of the united states. under president obama we raised the debt ceiling seven times in five years. that allows our nation, which is in debt, to borrow more and more money to spend and there is no cap to it. this is why we continue to -- afghanistan, we ought to stop spending money in afghanistan. we ought to spend it here in america on our roads, on our schools, and it just goes on and on. for me personally, i am a person that believes sincerely we need to start rebuilding america and not the world. >> what would happen if the u.s. wasn't in afghanistan or didn't go to iraq and try to help the middle east out? do we just let it happen? >> i look at the other countries that have just as much at stake as

it's like pat buchanan says, he talks about the political athleticism. and this guy's actually good. we haven't heard a lot of, but he sounds articulate and intelligent. some of the people we put up in 2010, they would have thought he was an outfielder for the dodgers of frederick hayek they would have said is that selma's dad. >> we're going to hear more on this. >> it's fascinating. >> absolutely. more from him coming up. and also talk about the now race to replace cantor in his leadership position. but first we have to start in iraq. 11 years after american troops arrived in baghdad, the city is facing the threat of a new invasion. this time from the same insurgents the u.s. spent time fighting. stunning speed and now fighters are vowing to march all the way to the capital. their goal is to establish an islamic state that spans across iraq and syria. as the map shows, they already control huge portions of countries. they used to be known as al qaeda and iraq. now fighters have teamed up with others to fight the governments of iraq and syria as well as

speaker, before i close i want to quote pat buchanan who i have great respect for, particularly on foreignlicy because he and i agree. this is his quote. is it not a symptom of senility to be born from the world to defend the world. is it to the a symptom of senility to be born from the world so we he can defend the world? mr. speaker, i would put one word in there to change. i would change senility to stupidity. i'll read it now. is it not a symptom of stupidity to be born from the world so we can defend the world? mr. speaker, again uncle sam is saying, don't spend money overseas when you got problems here in america. and our veterans are not being adequately cared for. mr. speaker, it's time to end the spending in afghanistan. it's time to stop spending our troops -- sending our troops over thereby to be killed and have their legs blown off an their arms. mr. speaker, before i yield back, i would like to ask god to continue to bless america and bless our men and women in uniform. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon

pat buchanan. is it not a symptom of senility we e born from the world so can defend the world? how appropriate a statement is that? we are a debtor nation that has to borrow money every year to pay the debts of our own nation, and we borrow money to spend overseas in foreign areas. it makes no sense. that's why i'm so disappointed that last week we were unable to put a stop on the waste, fraud, and abuse of the american taxpayers' money in afghanistan. now when we also must consider the collapse of iraq, i'm reminded of a quote from my country's first president. in a letter from george washington to james monroe, and i quote washington, i have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a -- enter or a meddle in the concerns of another. that everyone has the right to form and adopt whatever government they like best to live under themselves. george washington. mr. speaker, beside me is a military carrying the casket of an american soldier killed in either iraq or afghanistan. i bring