today's steve hayes shows us the three bs of fitness. the band, the bench and the bells. >>> the first gone tan notice detainee to face a civilian trial has been found not guilty of all of the hundreds of charges he faced. ahmed ghailani was found guilty of one count to destroy government property. he was accusedof helping terroristsomb two u.s. embassies in 1998. a federal judge prohibited prosecutors from calling a key witness in the case saying the witness was identified while gielge gill ran any was interrogated he could face life in prison. >>> an ethics committee will announce punishment for representative charlie rangel who violat 11 house ethics rules. the 20-term congressman was found guilty of accepting payments for travel to conferences as well as tax evasion and improperly using his office and raising money for the rangel city at cit college, new york. experts believe he will be reprimanded or censured but not kicked out of congress. >>> it's over in alaska as cumbent lisa murkowski who won as write-in. there was a long delay

steve hayes, senior writer for the weekly standard, fox news contributor, good morning, steve! and bob beckel, analyst and also a fox news contributor, how are you doing. >> fine. bill: you want to work to 69? >> what. bill: you wants to work until you are 69. >> i am going to, yes. >> i don't mind. i will -- >> somebody wants to hire you, i'll work. >> steve hayes long way to go. i don't have that problem. but, bill, in your case you have plenty of time, man. bill: hold your fire here, would increase the retirement age to 69, by the year 2075, if you are around then. lowering social security costs of living increases, and, freezing some of that domestic spending. steve, we have heard it before, different chapter, different verse, maybe even a different book. is it real this time? >> no. i don't think it is. look, some of the proposals are good. some of the proposals are healthy and some of the proposals would actually cut things, but, if you want sort of a big picture perspective, what we are talking about here, what is generating all of this squealing from washington, is a pr

steve hayes senior writer for "the weekly standard" henderson for the "the washington post" and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> this is a huge elm bare -- embarrassment to the administration and is a blow to having the tears tried in civilian court. this is a guy involved in a plot and his defense was that he was an errand boy. he was a dupe. he had no idea what was happening. but that was undermined by the one count on which the jury found him guilty, which was conspiracy. conspiracy as the judge explained explicitly, he was asked to come in and explain the law. conspiracy is defined as knowingly, willingly, being part of a plot. so obviously he knew he was involved in a plot which undermines the entire defense. and, yet, he is acquitted on 280-plus charges. what this demonstrates is two things. number one, in principle, we should never have these people who are acting as illegal combatants in a war against the united states, a jihad that osama bin laden had declared openly in 1998 to kill americans everywhere in the world ought not be treated like ordinary americans

steve hayes, and white house correspondent for the washington examiner and juan williams, fox news contributorsteve, first to you. what about the back and forth for the democrats at the white house today, to stiffen the resolve on this tax cut issue. >> democratic official emerged and said they now understand clearly where the president stands. i don't think many other people understand where the president stands on this. look, they're trying to pack so much into the lame duck session. there are so many things that they think they're going to accomplish. take one example, the defense authorization bill. this is something that typically takes weeks, plural, to get done. democrats think they're going to do that. they think they're going to repeal don't ask, don't tell. they think they're going to ratify stark. you ticked all these things they think they're going to get done and it seems what's lowest on the priority list even though harry reid finally mentioned it today is tax cuts. this is the most important thing that can emerge from this lame duck session and it seems like it's an add on or a

steve hayes, for "weekly standard" stand. a.b. stoddard, the hill. and columnist krout krout krout. let's start with the trade deal and the lack of it on this -- charles krauthammer and let's start with the trade deal and lock of it on the trip. >> the president walks out to a stage and walks out empty handed he has a failure on his hands. this is becoming a ritual. this is incompetence and experience and arrogance. handed a treaty by the bush administration. it was done. he wanted to improve on it. so far, he has nothing. the e.u. has a treaty, which is going to make it difficult. it will open up the market and it will remain closed to us. this is a pattern with obama. he thinks he can reinvent the world. with iran he decides he has a silver tongue and sweet talk anymore a deal. he is humiliated over and over again. russians, he gets nothing. middle east, he proposes a ban on jewish construction in jerusalem, which is never going to happen. what does it do after 17 years, it destroys any chance of negotiations. again, combination of he comes in, i'll reinvent the world. i know ever

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