steve hayes, kirsten and charles krauthammer. >> what about this move? >> we should have concerns. what caused the collapse. tfs easy move. it was huge amounts of mortgages given out to many people who had no business buying a house in the first place, and if this administration is worried about the worst recovery since the second world war as it should be and it has to find a place it wants to fine tune, instead of risking here going on the side of having this thing blow-up in the future again, having a bubble and a collapse, how about doing something that is not risky, keystone, a deregulating or at least stopping the suffocating of energy, where we can get huge amounts of economic expansion. instead of fine tuning of a mortgage rules, if anything, if you are going to err on the side of being strict and not on the side of loonking the regulations which could allow the repeat of the bubble. >> a lot of what happened prior to the collapse of the economy was middle class people frankly overextending themselves. i think that -- i don't think it's a good idea for any standards to be l

george will, steve hayes, maura lyson, and charles krauthammer. charles, a lot happened this week. >> a lot happened, the case has been reopened. the reason is this memo that came from the white house, and it was a prep memo from a member of the national security staff to susan rice for the famous talking points for her explanations on television that were 100% false. and the question had always been, had this come from lower downs? had this come from cia? what's important here is that it says, and he's telling her what the goal of her appearance is to be, to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of policy. the only explanation of the white house, and this is what carney had been pushing for a week, is that this had nothing to do with benghazi. this had to do with all the other demonstrations. that is a preposterous proposition. the reason susan rice was on the show, the reason she got the prepping, the reason she had to be told "our goals" was because of the benghazi deaths. it was not because an

martha: steve hayes is a writer for "the weekly standard." it appears they are going back to a play book. keep walk there is nothing going on here. but this time it doesn't seem to be working. >> reporter: it's a problem for the administration for a couple reasons. you have reporters who sit in the white house briefing room every single day. they may not be paying attention of the details of all the reporting on benghazi taking place here at fox and elsewhere. they may not know all twists and turns of the story. but they know when they are being misled. and what jay carney said about the ben rhodes email not being about benghazi was absurd. it was a reference to individual who harm americans. of course it was about benghazi. i think that has woken up the white house press corps in a way none of these other kerfuffles has when it comes to been gosy. here is what charm -- here is wt charles krauthammer said. >> it's the equivalent of what was discovered with the nixon tapes. republicans have done a terrible job of building the case. the questio

i would help organize a debate between someone like steve hayes and pick anybody from the mainstream media that was supposed ton covering bane -- benghazi, one neutral moderator and let the american people decide if this is just a stunt or legitimate investigation. >> should the democrats show up, yes or no? >> i would say yeah they should -- look, there are seven republicans kicking hillary clinton's butt out there, if they are not there to change the narrative and give her a little break, they are going to get screwed. >> agreed. they don't know what else is out there. that do you mean that was withheld by the administration, where there is one document, there's probably more. >> bob. >> absolutely not. where did the video come from? >> why wasn't there security at the embassy? and should they show up. >> absolutely. you have to have all the facts and information how can you say you are a credible candidate if you are not willing to go in there and answer questions? >> from boko haram -- sebts and others are boycotting the hotel after he imposed islamic law in his country. >> i thi

steve hayes is with us, juan williams, and larry sabado is with us. steve, i'm thinking jack kingston's a conservative. david perdue is a conservative. >> i think the tea party versus establishment mean that's been pushed by the mainstream medium while there's some truth to it has been overdone. if you go back and look at the georgia senate debates on the republican side, i remember the third debate which was back in february. you had perdue open up with an opening statement in which he called for bold entitlement reform. he stumbled on revenues versus tax increases. this is not someone who is a castle type from delaware. he's pretty conservative. >> what do you think, larry, as we look at the races here tonight? we had mixed results this week and last week. i would think everybody would agree they didn't want to have a situation like todd akin like last time. that's part of where some people were getting more involved in the primary process, right? >> absolutely. look, i think what you just said applies to the two most important races so far tonight.

steve hayes, from wisconsin, comes to us live from milwaukee. very loud, delusional minority that is driving our politics. that is what david plouffe says. that is what he believes. what do you think? >> well, i think his math is wrong. if you look at latest "fox news poll," 61% of the americans, or 61% of those surveyed wanted congress to continue to investigate this and also believe there was some kind of a white house cover-up of the benghazi attack and that poll took place before the latest revelations about the emails from ben rhodes at the white house that were withheld from congress. so david plouffe just doesn't have his facts right on that. i think it is important to continue to investigate this because we have so many unanswered questions, i think the american people want answers to those questions. bill: if plouffe will discredit republicans, the whole phrase, loud, delusional, minority driving our politics in america. this is what republicans are going to argue. senator lindsey graham, south carolina, listen. >> i would say to anybod

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. >> with that, let's bring in our panel, steve hayes, a.b. stoddard, and charles krauthammer. charles. >> i think it's worse than a political act to announce the leaving. it's kind of an act of personal narcissism. when this was talk about a few months ago in the press, there was a mention of the fact that if the full withdrawal happened in 2016, that would allow obama to leave office having fulfilled a promise to liquidate the wars. i mean, is that how we're now setting the strategy of the united states of america? a war zone where so many have died and so much treasure and blood has been spent so a president can leave office looking good? it's certainly been designed as has been suggested to help the democrats in the 2016 election, but why would you announce it in the first place? the greatest success we had in the post wars era were in japan, korea and germany, where we still have troops. 60 years after the war. obama justified the leaving of the 10,000 behind and he said it in his speech today, so that we don't lose the gains made with such sacrifice by the soldiers who ha

steve hayes, elise viebeck and charles krauthammer. charles, it was almost recommend is nis sent of that press conference in moscow where he continued to ramble on about different things. >> you can see how dismissive he is of his adversaries in the west, particularly obama. he says he will recognize the results of the election. we'll see. but at the same time the separatists who are obviously under his control have been disrupting and attacking. there's been a lot of death and they may make it impossible for the elections to come out in yeern ukraine. at which point, he could recognize a government in kiev. then he can deny the government in eastern europe. so he has his objectives already there. he's swallowed crimea. he will, if this works out the way he wants, he could deny the legitimate si of elections in the east and thus press for very wild auto nm my on the part of the east. meaning they woulden a client of russia and he will negotiate with the winner of the election. it's going to be a chocolate magazine nat who is very stron

joining me "weekly standard"'s steve hayes, fox news contributor. welcome back to the show. >> good to be back. >> on this very serious topic, this va scandal that gets worse and worse. in miami now, we're hearing that there were drugs dealt. that drugs should have been use in the hospital legitimately were being sold. that patients were being abused. this report being made by a fellow, thomas if i or a, who was a detective there -- fiore. are you surprised by this. >> i'm not exactly surprised. because we've seen allegations and detailed in government reports and previous press reports. i guess the fact that this was so widespread, so well-known and so tolerated by the staff, staff and administration of the hospital was really eye-popping. not that just drugs were being dealt within the hospital. it is that it was basically a known secret. everybody knew that was the case. there were patterns where the patients would go down and meet their dealers on smoke breaks, on times they understood their dealers would be there in order to make a drug dale. g

let's bring in steve hayes, kirsten power and charles.sident said a small team is on the way. i don't think we know exactly what that comprises but help is being offered. you hear representatives on capitol hill and others calling pr more robust action. . >> i think it's okay that we don't know exactly what's being offered. i don't think the president should tell everybody. we should keep this secret but provide as much help as we can. one of the things that's clear is they have significant ties to al qaeda, to affiliates and they have a target for al qaeda proper for years when al qaeda drew up a list for places that were right of growth for the kind of islam we see practiced by al qaeda. nigeria was on the list. it's not surprising we have seen this kind of growth. we should treat it like we treat an extension of the war on terror and we should fight it aggressively. >> both sides of the aisle are adamant about how horrific this is. >> yeah. this is a horrific situation. and i think it's great that everybody is so concerned about it. on

from "the weekly standard," steve hayes, juan williams and larry is with us. as i look and listen to what they are reporting here tonight steve i'm thinking jack kingston is a conservative, purdue is a conservative. they are trying to make every race tea party versus establishment. i don't think it fits in every case, do you. the tea party versus establishment mean that's been pushed by the mainstream media while there's some truth to it has been overdone. you go back and look at the debates, i remember the third debate which was back in february, you had perdue basically open up with an opening statement in which he called for bold entitlement reform. yes he later stumbled on the question of revenues versus tax increases this is not somebody who sort of an arlen specter or ca cassill from delaware. >> we had some mix results. the tea party in nebraska won last week. everyone agrees they didn't want a situation of todd aiken like last year. >> absolutely. look, i think what you just said applies to the two most important races by far tonight. first kentucky. th

"special report" online begins with steve hayes at the helm in a matter of seconds. >> i'm greta van susteren. this is "on the record." >> murders, rapists, sex criminals, dangerous illegal immigrants let loose. why are dozens of convicted criminals back on the street? then,. >> we cannot say silent. >> a sult tant imposing brutal sharia law. he owns this hotel. >> does it seem that far off from what happened in the holocaust? >> will that stop the as you will tant. >> break up a classroom fight. it's a must see "on the record." >> up first, murders, drunk drivers, and sex offender, they are all among the illegal immigrants released back on to the streets by the u.s. immigration officials in 2013. so, what about the obama administration's claim that it is cracking down on the most serious criminals in immigration enforcement? washington examiner chief political correspondent byron york joins us. byron, so, what's the story? why are these people getting out? >> this is a huge bait and switch why by the obama administration. i don't think there is any other way to describe it. if you l

martha: steve hayes, senior writer for "the weekly standard" and fox news contributor. so, steve, this is the biggest, most recent revelation the specificity which the president was briefed, there were attempts to sort of mislead with these wait times. there were inaccurate reports that were being filed. fraud really on the part of these agencies. >> yeah. i think what is interesting about this he was briefed about this or his team was briefed about this in any case as long as nearly six years ago but none of this should be news. we had a gao report finished in december of 2012 which laid out exactly how va employees were gaming the system to make it like like wait times were smaller than they were. we had reports about urgent need for reform in the veterans affairs administration. we haven't seen any reports or urgency on the part of the administration. martha: you can really document how much more money was thrown at the problem and how much more resources thrown at this problem with really no results. >> exactly. if you look back to 2001, the va budget tripled since t

martha: steve hayes, senior writer for "the weekly standard" and fox news contributor. good morning to you, steve. >> good morning, martha. martha: becoming a increasingly looming question for hillary clinton. how much is this benghazi going to hang over her if she decides to run for president? you heard vice president cheney talking to chris wallace and he believes it will continue to be a big deal. >> i think he is right. he says she bears responsibility. she has said repeatedly in the past and including during her testimony on capitol hill back in january 2013 she think she bears responsibility for what happened. what we've seen the clintons do since then though i think try to exculpate her a little bit. bill clinton last week saying, well, she did all of the right things. i don't think she did anything wrong. we're starting to see clinton surrogates really making the case she didn't have much to do with what happened in benghazi. you're seeing a change in the story from hillary clinton and her surrogates that think is very interesting and will be interesting to track

let's bring in our panel, steve haze hayes, mara lie ason and charles krauthammer. >> what jumped outow familiar it was. he pretty much reiterated his foreign policy approach which is to set up two extremes, kind of cartoonish extremes, one isolationism and the other boots on the ground everywhere. i'm not for every one of those. the administration had also hinted recently that it was going to do something more on syria and i was expecting a little bit of detail from him today and he didn't really give any, although he says we're going to continue to look into helping -- he did an interview with npr today where he was asked about that, he says the situation has deteriorated. its worse in syria now but i think the capability of the rebels is greater. so now might be a better time to send them weapons. i also thought that what the american people want, i don't think he's out of step of the american people in terms of intervention. the american people are weary, they don't want military intervention, but they do want their president to project strength and that's what the speech was inte

steven hayes, strong, strong language, what did you make of that, steve? >> i haven't been around for as long as dick cheney has. but president obama is the weakest president in my lifetime. compared to jimmy carter who most people regarded as the weakest president particularly overseas, president obama doesn't compare favorably to jimmy carder. bill: he says he wasn't even around when 9/11 happened. that was a direct reference to afghanistan. >> he he we don't face a serious threat in al qaeda in the ways we did leading in the up to 9/11. oh suggested the threat of a mass casualty attack from al qaeda is if not gone, significantly diminished. i just think you talk to intelligence officials at the cia and the intelligence community, many of them have a didn't view, while the threat from al qaeda while dispersed remains significant. they are not just focused on local problems and local issued. but they are trying to find ways to strike here in the homeland. >> glowing some parts of the world. a lot of people will find out very soon about that growth process

and steve clemens from west point to cafe milano, you get the last word. >> thank you. all in with chris hayesening from new york. i'm chris hayes. big headlines out of kentucky, and a tough editorial today from one of the state's biggest newspapers show that the marquise u.s. senate race in the country may turn the answer to a deceptively simple question, what do you call obamacare? >> tonight, the hunt for the number one republican in the senate really begins. >> a showdown to the midterms, including the huge battle that's going to play out in kentucky.

and steve clemens from west point to cafe milano, you get the last word. >> thank you. all in with chris hayes is up next. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. big headlines out of kentucky, and a tough editorial today from one of the state's biggest newspapers show that the marquise u.s. senate race in the country may turn the answer to a deceptively simple question, what do you call obamacare? >> tonight, the hunt for the number one republican in the senate really begins. >> a showdown to the midterms, including the huge battle that's going to play out in kentucky. >> they have made it official this week, it's going to be mitch mcconnell versus allison lurnd grimes. >> it's the biggest senate race in the country. the man who's perhaps the biggest single opponent of the president and his signature achievement is up for re-election. >> i'll do everything i can to repeal and replace obamacare. >> you would think that unrelenting opposition to obamacare would be a big benefit for mitch mcconnell, considering the law continues to be unpopular in kentucky. there's just one problem for