that is what this system does and it is unamerican. not how america functions well and how we got to the greatest country in the history of the world. as it rolled out, it goes against the grain of who we are. and that is why i don't support it. >> i was shocked that the president ordered the insurance companies to put a product on the shelf that he said you couldn't put on the shelf. it was like saying that it was a terrible thing. >> he said we know best what is for everybody and people have to have different coverages. the idea that people can shop for what they want -- they believe they know what you want. >> it is like the president prescribing a product. i order mcdonald's to put the mcrib back on the menu. here is the thing that irritate s me the most. he cannot say i'm not going to enforce this law, he's done it on immigration and health care and almost does it every week. >> is there a way to challenge him legally? >> who is harmed by the president going around and saying i'm not forcing a law and you have the choice to offer

. >> right new we feel like it's unamerican to be a patriotic american in this country. >> everything in this country at every level is about regulation. it's very suspicious that a president is not coming forward with his college records. >> marriage is between a man and a woman. no group be they gays, be they nambla, be they people who believe in bestiality, they don't get to change the definition. >> jon: no group, be they fox news doctors or serial rapists. i'm not saying they are equivalent, i just put the two of them in a sentence together. it's neurosurgeon ben carson and he wasn't a fox news consultant when he said that. it was after they heard it they said hire that guy. >> one of founders of communism, he said socialized medicine is the keystone of the arch to the socialist state. in other words, you have to get the socialized medicine as the foundation because it gives you control of the people. >> jon: i don't want to it in pick the doctor here but historically slad her lenin never actually said that. it's a made up group and architect actualally, the keystone and the foun

questioning what is on your plate is unamerican, folks. you think the pilgrims asked the indians oh, is this maize genetically modified? is this squash locally sourced? >> no, they ate it because they were starving. and every day americans honor the pilgrims by eating as if we are starving. andç just forget, please forget labeling at restaurant chains. i'm not interested in the contents of starbucks lemon loaf cake. the word loaf tells me all i need to know. and don't tell me about the anti-foaming agent in my chicken mcnug ets. that ruins the surprise when my mouth doesn't foam. i say we get rid of all labels. all food should come in an unmarked box. like my new line of snack foods stephen colbert's just eat it. every box comes with a complimentary blindfold. you put on the blindfold, open the box, and stick it in your mouth. (laughter) though word of warning, don't let it near your rat, or he is a dead man. we'll be right back. cheers because is welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight hosts a show on public radio as a tribute i'll be

they were unamerican. they weren't unamerican. they actually had good faith problems, qualms with this legislation. but they were demeaned and they were dismissed and they were really reviled by democrats. do you think any of them have any regrets about what they said? >> well, in leader pelosi's defense, there was an astro turf campaign around on top of real people who had real concerns. >> who was the astro turf campaign? i was at these tea party rallies. >> whole tom delay machine. >> in the end these -- they were there because they had real concerns, whether it was -- whether it was a freedom works or heritage foundation, they represent real people too like planned parenthood represents real people. >> right. >> when pelosi goes out and says all those things, you can't have a real conversation about how to put together legislation, right? you can't? instead rammed through with no republican support and to this day, the american people want it repealed. >> they want it repealed. they don't want affordable healthcare number one.

. >> for people to suggest you can break the rules to change the rules is unamerican. >> the nuclearption if successful will turn the senate into a body that could have its rules broken at any time by a majority of senators. next will be executive appointments. then legislation. >> while you were sleeping california joins a growing. it is set to expire at the end of this year. 8 states reject it so far. doctor charles krauthammer said this about the president's obamacare fix. >> it was a fraud and a sflam the very beginning. the reason is it is almost impossible technically for the insurers to end up doing this particularly in the short time frame. second because it undermines the financial underpinnings of the health exchanges themself. third it is illegal. >> dr. krauthammer will be on fox and friends coming up at 7:30 this morning. today marks president 60 anniversary of the death of john f. kennedy -- 50 year anniversary of the death of john f. kennedy. priz bette pran is live with more on this. >> it was five decades today. people all over the country today plan to recognize the

joining me now, ron meyers, spesman for the unamerican foundation and republican canada for josh to veongressman. welcome back to the show. why is this happening? >> first of all, in a obamacare funny enough they nationalized the student loan industry some 90 percent of it is controlled by the feder what we have seen since then is tuition has spiked. has gone up over 25%. we have seen average graduating student loanebt bill of nearly 20%. gei: youe making the point that the fact that there is lot of free money means that lleges are not shy about boosting tuition. is that right? >> i put it like this. the federal government is writing a blank check to higher education, but students have to foot the bill latern when they graduate. we are setting students to fail because we are saying you should go to college by the way ii having diminishing returns. you cannot mak a million dollars of your lifetime. they're not during people toward the economy. they're preparing him for the economy which is why we are failing. gerri: some of these numbers that we are talking about. we will get to the ide

this weekend unamerican for $2,204 round trip on a weekender getaway which is pretty cheap.are out there. the surcharges are rages. gerri: jet blue came out and said, we are going to put fares on sale. deep discounts pier 50, $55 to fly from washington to florida. there is right there. capitalize on low fares. this was part of their effort to kind of protest what was going on with american and u.s. airways. and it is interesting. do you think that the work? >> jet blue likes to give prominence in the way it they can. they're selling l.a. to san francisco, long beach, missouri, san francisco today for $98 not during the show when the davis, but could in january and february. the see a lot of wild and crazy airfares. especially as we go into the fall year between thanksgiving and christmas. a lot of good air fares. after the first of the year we will see dynamite air fares. in boston, you're right now, june, july and august if you're seeing air fares as low as $712 to europe, many of the people in the united states have to pay 151700. there will be pockets of good deals. gerri

. >> and that's very unamerican. they're very european. europe may go into a double dip recession. but american has grown since world war 2 at nearly 3.5% per year. and we should be creating millions more jobs. how do you get out of that rut some that's what i'm asking. >> well, i'll answer that in a second. but let me go back to the business investment. you're right if you look at overall business investment is below its peak of '07. but if you divide that business investment into two part, one is structures, it's the buildings, we all know we were in a building boom, a building bubble back in '05, 06 ta'06 tat, '07. that's still way down. but if you look at equipment and software, it's higher than it's ever been. and that's why we're growing. because the entrepreneur hasn't quit. we have the cloud, the smartphone, tablet, apps, fracking, 3d printing, all of these things are really positive. so i'm not going to disagree with anything that steve said. he's right. all of those negative things are happening. but there is a lot of great positive things happening, too. and so the way y

for the change in rules and you also know that harry reid once said that the nuclear option was unamerican, would destroy the senate and ruin our country. tell us why you voted for it. >> i voted for it because the senate as a result of republican obstructionism has become totally dysfunctional. chris, this country faces a series of problems that are just extraordinary. unemployment is much too high, wages are much too low, the gap between the very rich and everybody else is growing wider. there are huge issues that we have got to address and we're not addressing it. this year i think history will record that less has been done in the senate despite all of our problems than in the modern history of the united states of america. and what's going on is what the republicans have done is obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. historically when the president made a nomination to the judiciary or to the executive branch, there was debate. if the candidate was, you know, terrible or corrupt, it was defeated. but it did not go on and on and on. in the history of the country, there have been 168 filibusters

harry reid called such tactics unamerican and illegal.l today >> yes. the other side was hypocritical. this will have unintend consequences. remember the republicans, you weren't around then but after world war ii they pass ad 22nd amendment to the constitution to deny, two term limit on the president to deny fdr in death what they couldn't do in life. it affected two future presidents. this will come back to bite presidents in the future too. whether it's unconstitutional or whatever. the change of the filibuster rule in '75 supposed to limit filibusters, filibusters increased but didn't profound the nature of the senate and i don't think this will either after they get over the short term anger. >> chuck todd, what was behind the move? >> think what was behind it had to do what happened with the d.c. circuit. you know, we can go down a certain way. democrats wanted to fill these holes in the d.c. circuit. second highest court. more importantly the court that hears a lot of cases that are challenges to government regulations. so, you kno

opposition to the common core, which has all kinds of problems, that's wrong and that's fundamentally unamericanjohnson, jr. >> good to see you, steve. >> what do you think about that? e-mail us. meanwhile, 20 minutes after the top of the hour, he used his bible to swear in at both of his inaugurations and even announced his first campaign for president in lincoln's hometown. why is president obama skipping the 150th anniversary of lincoln's monumental gettysburg address? that is today, by the way. >>> then you've all seen the ads for those as seen on tv products. which ones will make the best holiday gifts for christmas this year? we're testing them out as we're seen on tv this channel. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ by the end of december, we'll be delivering ♪ ♪ through 12 blizzards blowg ♪ 8 front yards blinding ♪ 6 snowballs flying ♪ 5 packages addressed by toddlers ♪ ♪ that's a q ♪ 4 lightning bolts ♪ 3reepy gnomes ♪ 2 angry geese ♪ and a giant blow-up snowman ♪ that kind of freaks out [ beep ] [ female nouncer ] no one delivers the holidays like the u.s. postal service. priority mail flat rate is more reliable

it just was the most unamerican thing i'd ever heard of. i absolutely couldn't believe it was real, and the more i learned, the more i realized that it was worldwide puzzle, and there were reporters around the world piecing little bits of it together, which made it incredibly interesting. >> also on "the new york times" book reviews, best nonfiction books for 2008, what "the forever war" a look at america's battles withislamic fundamentalism. and "the world is what it is" an account of the life of the know nobel peace -- >> military historian max hastings presents a history of the first year of world war i. next on book tv. the author examines the diplomatic failings that led to the onset of the war and recalls the early battles. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thanks so much for that. it's such a pleasure to be here at politics and prose. when i was talking to my wife about the program here, i said the great pleasure coming here, you guys read books and buy books. nothing every author loves more than that. every great historical event