megyn: if bush administration folks had acted under their watch the obama administration says the 2010 debacle could have been eye voided. avoided. they say it's the bush administration to blame. they say in 04 the conference was $93,000. in 2006 it had ballooned to $323,000. and then two years later it was up more than double, well about, yeah, more than double, just 655,000 leading us to 2010 where it was up to $840,000. they say most of that ballooning happened under george w. bush, not under barack obama, your thoughts. >> first of all it's so clear that the obama administration is in crisis mode. so where to begin. first, i question the numbers, and i'd love to see a line item break down of what is in each of these numbers. i'm not going to distrust them out the gate. secondly looking at the location ever the conference it looks like they've confused what is a local regional conference with conferences which were nationwide which had more than 300 people at them. some of them had several thousand -fs people at them. i think they are comparing apples to oranges. what i think you se

he is the son of the president of equitorial guinea and the obama administration says that the government iniquity oriel guinea is rampant with corruption with people at the top controlling seventy percent of the nation's wealth while the rest of the country lives in poverty now they claim with 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 feelings 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 some may do what they claim are his connections to his home countries corruption they seized his yachts cars jets and his mansion and that's not all they took they also sees a white crystal covered glove worn by michael jackson during his bad world tour now apparently is a bit of a celebrity memorabilia collector but he isn't the only m.j. fan in the story remember what obama said after the singer died. i think that michael jackson is. will go down in history

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

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

some of those used to be the loudest critics of the bush administration along with obama when it came to the war on terror and how we conduct ourselves and that includes waging war based on lies secret prisons rendition torture guantanamo bay all things in violation of international laws understanding of human rights and all things the greatly damaged our reputation so for a minute here let's point out harold koh he's a state department legal adviser under the obama administration also a former dean of the law school and he was a really vocal in talking about the damage that had been done under george w. bush six years of defining. entirely through the lens of the war on terror has damaged or human rights reputation giving cover to abuses committed by her knowledge and blunted or go into criticized by leaders in the world. the next administration whether cloudy or republican will have the burden of repairing this reputation too good but i've got the sources of our show of power. now coming all so referred to president bush as the torturer and she just you know and so a new profile of

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 is not enough. [applause] that that does not satisfy the obama bureaucrats. they want to be catholics to fall in line and violate the tenants of their faith. -- tenets of their faith. i will follow a different path than president obama. i will be a staunch defender of religious freedom. [applause] this regulation from the obamacare folks is not a threat or insult to only one religious group. it is a threat and insult to every religious group. a

the obama administration argued that central -- federal law trumps that state law. and that the obama administration has different priorities for immigration enforcement. gang members, people who have committed crimes, potential terrorists. they said that the federal law preefments the field but it seem told me that the supreme court justices were not buying that part of the law. they said all the arizona police do here is call up the federal government, call the federal center and say hey, we have a guy here. do you want him held or no the and when the lawyers say no, we don't want him, they're supposed to let him go. gwen: the chief justice was the one who said don't we want to know? >> right, he said it sounds like the federal government doesn't want to know who's here illegally. there are two sections that may not fare as well. because they make it a crime to do something that is not a crime under federal law for illegal immigrants. that is to not get a job and to not have their federal papers. those parts may not be upheld. >> is this the end of the road for im

the epa under obama administration has implemented 75 regulations. there are 219 regulations pending. bring in your panel. tucker carlson from daily caller.com. mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? >> well, he said poor choice of words. it was perfect choice of words. he says what he thinks. and others in the e.p.a. he talked about, you know, saying well, we really believe in all of the above as obama said. we heard jay carney saying it doesn't reflect what we've done. he is wrong. look what they have done on coal. regulation to make it impossible for any american to open a new coal plant because of regulations and over time will shut down the coal industry. overlooked because it was issued during the three days of oral hearing on obamacare. that's a fact. heard earlier in the show about oil, the regulations on refinery, hyper regulation, that led to the closure of five with three teetering on the edge. now you have the worst. natural gas. we have greatest fold mine

two, how close john edwards came to being in part of the obama administration. or part of any administration. >> 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 ] >> bret: just doesn't have it thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. make it a great weekend. we w

yeah the romney might not want to brown people up the way the obama administration did this week but make no mistake he does not want documented immigrants that are in the country now to stay here and as for the kids undocumented immigrants well romney has quite a harsh stance when it comes to the dream act you know the bill that senate republicans struck down in december missing want those kids to be educated either. my point is we're not going to go round and round people off in buses and ship them home instead we'll let people make their own decisions based upon their employment opportunities here or lack thereof. through g.o.p. form even though he's argued time and time again that we need to make laws to get undocumented immigrants to sell to ports there is one thing they can say that the military. you know you. can be. very. you know there's. so many things that undocumented immigrants who have lived in this country their entire lives they're not good enough for an education but they are good enough to die for our country and then maybe they can be said is that if they make it b

under the obama administration in three years it has grown by 40%. this is virtually 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 ow

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

and i think in a way it looks that way to the obama administration too. conceptually, what it's done and what it's doing is to turn the glow into, you know, in vietnam there were certain areas of vietnam during the vietnam war that were called free-fire zones were you could just -- where you could just, in essence, fire at anything if you were an american soldier, whatever. .. but he got more publicity than any american general since my car there may be or ike. he then was made partially public on obama's part in terms of the american politics that he was made the cia director, and he has -- so you have not a civilian but a military man being made the cia director ian he wedged himself into the shadow. so there are no profiles. he's hardly written about. he goes up and testify as at the same time what you now have increasingly behind the scene in the 60's to use to call in the shadows. we see the american war going into the shadows and petraeus is part of that. he is a man who relied in iraq and afghanistan on the special operations forces, killer teams,

is the obama administration dragging its heels here? >> brother, you know, the question is always what are we going do it about it? i'm going to keep it real and tell you i can't control the obama administration. all i can do is work with my colleagues in congress and we can raise a ruckus talk to you, organize forums go around the country, and we can turn the temperature up to make them do the right thing or shame them if they don't. >> go ahead, shame them. >> well that's -- that's -- this is one of our steps along that road. we're giving them a chance to do the right thing, but we're not going to let eric snyderman drift in obscurity. we all were proud when he was holding up the settlement. they wanted to do a worse deal than was done. now we are going to make sure we squeeze all of the water our of the sponge and start by highlighting the good of this deal and say we're not going to tolerate him getting inadequate support. >> i have a clear perspective. i'm a progressive. so i love that you are doing that, but we also have to put pr

the obama administration said help remove hosni mubarak. now we find will put in place 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. th

the obama administration contends the law steps on powers that are exclusive to the federal government, but as cnn's kate balduan reports here, there may be a majority of justices who see things differently. >> reporter: inside the courtroom, the conservative majority appeared to lean toward upholding at least part of the arizona law. just antonin scalia suggesting if the federal government isn't doing the job, states may be justified stepping in. asking, "what does state sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?" the justices focus on the law's most controversial measure, that law enforcement check people's immigration status if the officers have reasonable suspicion they're in the country illegally. the white house and its supporters argued that intrudes on what is exclusively federal authority over immigration. >> the justices are concerned about a system of mass incarceration that's going to catch u.s. citizens and immigrants who are lawfully in the united states. >> reporter: but for the obama administration challenging the state law, it was anoth

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

say no to the obama administration's extreme epa rule. american cross kroed roads responsible for the content of this advertising. >> the epa is extreme. newt gingrich, getting surgery, running on gas prices. this question of energy policy, gas prices and expensive new cars we want to put gas, all connected and undoubtedly will be in the election cycle. >> we have no energy policy. what energy policy? i mean -- we never have. that's just the way it's been since the end of world war ii. we have a bunch of ad hoc measures that people come and go. this leaves people in the auto industry wondering, do we get behind wind, hydrogen? we should either have a policy or leave it to the mark. >> this is some of the most powerful kormss on earth. oil and gas companies invest heavily in companies like american crossroads and others that fight for their interests. let's be honest, huge oil and gas conglomerates attempting to fund to get their apparatus in power to not be regulated. >> i have to disagree on one point. no policy in the obama administrati

>> well, i think, what they -- the obama administration fears more than iran making progress toward nuclear weapons, is the possibility of an israeli military strike, against the iranian nuclear program, to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. and, if through a process of negotiations, the pressure can be applied to israel not to take military action, let's be clear, here, through the november election, then i think the administration sees that as something positive. i think it is another example of the iranians taking us to the cleaner in negotiations, buying time for them to make more progress on the nuclear program and giving them a kind of political legitimacy and in this case particularly with respect to the europeans, maybe buying space from the sanctions that the european union and, perhaps, even the united states, have imposed. >> eric: well the iranians in fact say they'll continue enrichment, not to 5%, but to 20%. what does that mean, you need 90% enrichment for a bomb? >> right. this is a matter for nuclear physic but let me put it this way. when you enrich up to 5% reacto

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

the obama administration does not. the they're really doing, administration, is jeopardize in any chance of convincing the american people that if congress were to pass an amnesty, there would be real enforcement down the line. host: let me show our viewers what the justices will be looking at when oral arguments begin wednesday. the ninth circuit court has blocked for parts of arizona's law. one of them, the requirement for police to verify immigration status of anyone stopped and suspected of being illegal. police can address any foreign citizens who may have committed an offense. those are the four parts of the arizona law the justices will be looking at. the ninth circuit court blocked those parts. arizona challenged that. that is why we are to the supreme court. i think there are about five other states with similar laws. alabama, georgia, indiana, south carolina, and utah. dan stein says they are holding off because they want to see what's the supreme court is going to do. guest: they've all seen arizona's econom

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

so find out what hillary clinton said are in the obama administration tonight . and that. they might not have. but good times are no short supply. a story. is if you understand it and the. other part of it and realized everything you saw. is a big. blow to the. but in the alone itself you know there's a real headline with none of the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters for those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to. our is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. i guys it's time for it's and i still sign ward and today we are giving it to one of the most powerful women in the united states secretary of state hillary clinton when she brazil a few days ago to take part in the first open government partnership meeting 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

government has been trying to do unnamed senior obama administration officials have said that the money is coming from the israeli government that hasn't been substantiated as fact but that's the best lead that we have right now everything so much for joining us tonight. all right guys i just want to take a quick moment term mind everybody to participate in our project to find out which congressperson requested that environmental activist turn to christopher be put in isolation you can learn more about tim's case and how to help us figure out which member of congress is behind it on our facebook page and remember if you do find anything out that you want to share with us please e-mail us producer dot com. are you one more break tonight but when we come back senator who often comes off as stupid on twitter calls president obama stupid on twitter and on happy hour should sex offenders be banned from holding underage kids all live and according to the white house he had diabetes they were disabled we'll have all those stories and more look at the. story of the siege so you think you unders