john mccain ran for president of the united states. john mccain won his party's nomination. it was his call. john mccain said absolutely not under no circumstances do i want to inject the poison of race into this campaign. it was the right thing for john mccain to do. this was the right thing politically for john mccain to do. most people understand it was john mccain's right to make the decision and got in line with it. >> and yet many on the right say he might not have lost that election if he had used jeremiah wright. >> yeah, well that's dumb. and here's why. everybody had an opinion about jeremiah wright. there were no persuadable voters. the purpose of television advertising is to persuade people that are persuadable. there are for sure millions of americans who saw the reverend wright tapes and thought it disqualified president obama from being president. there are millions more who heard president obama's speech after all this became public. and that satisfied the issue. the point was, everybody knew who jeremiah wright was. everybody had an opinion on jeremiah wrigh

john mccain tells us he thinks president obama has been improperly bragging about the killing of osama bin laden. this comes after learning the it latest bomber was a cia informant. he made a direct reference to the president there. jay korff spoke with the center. -- center. >> john mccain was an event to support a fellow pow who recited in north vietnam during the vietnam war. he was there about leadership, something he thinks president obama is lacking. john mccain criticized barack obama's lack of leadership tuesday night, specifically how he has talked about the killing of osama bin laden. >> he rose to number rag. his continuous bragging about taking out osama bin laden, most guys i know would say, let somebody else talk about that. >> will learn new insight into the foiled plot to blow up a jet. tuesday night we learned the cia was able to infiltrates al qaeda in yemen and get somebody on the inside. >> it is quite -- to pass herself off as a terrorist to the terrorists when you are working for the u.s. or allied intelligence agency. >> the spy secured a bomb and flipped it out

john mccain will ultimately win if we don't get bin laden. there's no narrative for us to leave afghanistan unless bin laden is shut down and captured or killed. >> once we get him, we know how we will leave. that seemed the closing clause of that sentence. steve clemons. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> nobel prize winning economist is here for the interview. that's still ahead. stay with us. ♪ surf's up everybody get your boards and your wetsuits ♪ free-credit-score-dot-com's gonna direct you ♪ ♪ to check your credit score before it gets too late ♪ ♪ and you end up strapped for cash ♪ ♪ patching your board with duct tape ♪ ♪ so hit free-credit-score-dot-com ♪ ♪ find out what credit's about ♪ ♪ or else you could be headed for a credit wipeout ♪ offer applies with enrollment in freecreditscore.com™. you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you wanted a firm bed you can lie on one of those." we provide the exact individualiz

. >> john mccain's lead media strategist. john mccain nixed the idea. >> this is not a winning idea. >> fear mongering. >> it's insulting. >> it is nasty. >> this is hate porn. >> gutter politics. >> how does mitt romney respond to this? >> haven't seen the papers this morning. >> it's a lack of courage on the part of mitt romney. >> it takes attention away from the key issues. >> i'm not familiar with exactly what i said but i stand by what i said, whatever it was. >> overall this is terrible for our democracy. >> whatever it was. whatever it was. >> we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. >> i stand by what i said. >> either black, white, latino, asian. >> whatever it was. >> but rather problems that confront us all. >>> the day begun with the revelation of a plan of attack against president obama that republicans began to disown quickly and mitt romney demonstrating his usual followship instead of leadership took his position only when it became absolutely clear he had no other choice. on the campai

do you remember when george stephanopoulos at abc asked john mccain about gay adoption? do you remember this moment in 2008? and all of a sudden it was like john mccain was high or something, or he was channeling miss teen south carolina? it was such a strange moment. do you remember that? >> on gay adoption, you told "the new york times" you were against it, even in cases where the children couldn't find another home. but then your staff backtracked a bit. what is your position request? >> my position is it's not the reason why i'm running for president of the united states and i think -- and i think that two-parent families are best for america. >> what do you mean by that, it's not the reason you're running for president of the united states? >> well, i think it's important for us to instill family values, but i think it's very important that we understand we have other challenges too. i'm running for president of the united states because i want to help with family values. and i think that family values are important when we have two-parent families that are parents

. >> john mccain's lead media stratist. john mccain nixed the idea. >> this is not a winning idea. >> fear mongering. >> it's insulting. >> it is nasty. >> this is hate porn. >> gutter politics. >> how does mitt romney respond to this? >> haven't seen the papers this morning. >> it's a lack of courage on the part of mitt romney. >> it takes attention away from the key issues. >> i'm not familiar with exactly what i said but i stand by what i said, whatever it was. >> overall this is terrible for our democracy. >> whatever it was. whatever it was. >> we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. >> i stand by what i said. >> either black, white, latino, asian. >> whatever it was. >> but rather problems that confront us all. >>> the day begun with the revelation of a plan of attack against president obama that republicans began to disown quickly and mitt romney demonstrating his usual followship instead of leadership took his position only when it became absolutely clear he had no other choice. on the campai

yesterday, john mccain was at a memorial event. mitt romney like president barack obama never served but he said as president he would make sure america has a strong deagainst. >> we would make sure we can prevent war because a strong america is the best deterrent to war. >> mitt romney went on to say it is important to have a strong military because the war is not safe. now also at that memorial day, john mccain did not hold back with a protesters who was then escorted out of the event. [applauds] [applauds] >> jerk [applauds] >> well, the audience cheered john mccain's respond and the senator resumed his speech. >>> we are hearing about a plane crash in the idaho mountains. his wife and 26-year-old daughter came through on sunday afternoon but that's after the family spent the night on a snow covered mountain side. the plane stalled in stormy weather, a cell phone was crucial, first when they flagged down a rescue operator... >> when you are turning it into a strobe light they said when the helicopters fly over we should have tho

john mccain will ultimately win if we don't get bin laden. there's no narrative for us to leave afghanistan unless bin laden is shut down and captured or killed. >> once we get him, we know how we will leave. that seemed the closing clause of that sentence. steve clemons. thank you very much for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> nobel prize winning economyist is here for the interview. that's still ahead. stay with us. [ male announcer ] whoa, megan landry alert. and she's looking directly at your new lumia, thank you at&t. first, why don't you show her the curved edge... now move on to the slick navigation tiles -- bam, right into the people hub. see megan, colin has lots of friends. hey, colin, what kind of phone is that? whaaa -- oh megan -- when did you get here? [ clears throat ] ohh yea no, let's... [ male announcer ] introducing the beautifully different nokia lumia 900. only from at&t. rethink possible. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you and your money deserve. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab, that means taking a close look at

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jay korff has this interview. >> senator and prisoner of war john mccain criticized president obama lack of leadership tuesday night, specifically how he has talked about the killing of osama bin laden. >> heroes do not brag. it is continuous bragging about taking out bin lande. -- laden. >> tuesday night, we've learned that the cia was able to in for debt -- into its rate outside in yemen and get someone on the inside. >> it is quite an accomplishment to pass herself off as an al qaeda terrace to the terrorists when you are working for a u.s. intelligence agency. >> we have learned that the spy secured a bomb and slipped it out of yemen through saudi arabia last week. it is now being studied by the fbi. >> having the bomb in its original state, before it goes off, experts are able to figure out how the bomb works, how it might be detected. that is easier when the bomb is still intact. >> president obama touted his accomplishments on the war on terror during a campaign event over the weekend and no higher. >> osama bin laden is no longer a threat to this country. >> his opponent in the l

what mark was saying, look at the numbers for john mccain -- it was the enthusiasm and the turnout for barack obama that was so important. the man was the most charismatic candidate in 2008 that we have had probably since reagan, perhaps even more. it was a perfect storm -- had a financial collapse, war weariness, eight years of republicans. it was over before it started. the italian communist party could have won the election in 2008 -- [laughter] and some say did win the election. >> karl marx, italian communist party -- this is "masterpiece theatre." >> "the washington post" had a good analysis of how to look at this campaign. barack obama is probably going to start out with a roughly 237 electoral votes. romney it falls far behind that. if you are up for -- a few are up in the air and barack obama has a chance to get those. >> fox news will fix that. >> finding solutions and opportunities in an environment of change and turbulence is what i learned during my career, it is something i want desperately to bring to the presidency. >> he thinks that experience is going to help our econ

king's interview with senator john mccain in just a few minutes. stick around for that one. >>> the chief executive officer of yahoo! is apologizing for padding his resume with an extra college degree. scott thompson said he was sorry for how the issue affected the company and that he takes full responsibility. thompson's company bio listed a bogus computer science degree in addition to his actual degree in accounting. yahoo! calls it an inadvertent error. >>> and maurice sendak, children's book author and illustrator who brought us "where the wild things are" died after complications from a recent stroke. president clinton called him a king of dreams and one critic the picasso of children's literature. sendak created 100 stories with fanciful and sometimes controversial tales. he was 83 years old. those stories will live on forever. >> love those books. >> loved reading those books to my nephew. >> i have read them to three now, two of whom don't read them anymore, but one still has a few years ahead of him. >>> up next we'll talk about the romney

s leading voices on foreign policy, senate john mccain. then, catholic institutions take the obama administration to court. over its insurance mandate on contraception. is it an issue of religious freedom? or women's health? we will ask a top church official pushing the legal challenge, cardinal wuerl archbishop of washington. plus, are president obama attacks on governor romney's business record working? and our power player of the week, a remarkable story of devotion to country and sacrifice you will not want to miss. all right now. on fox news sunday. and hello again on this memorial day weekend. from fox news in washington. as we remember those who is given their lives defending our country, we continue to face foreign policy challenges. here to tackle all of that is senator john mccain. welcome back to fox news sunday. >>guest: thank you for having me on especially memorial day. >>chris: there has been another massacre in syria, government forces killed more than 90 people including more than 30 children. you can see some of the bodie

senator john mccain knows full well the quicksand of immigration politician. he has this advice for this cycle's gop standard bearer. >> i think we have to present a very humane face to the whole issue of immigration, because we know that's what -- how our nation became what it is today. we also need to have a set of principles on overall immigration reform which we would be willing to sit down together and work it out. >> the new nbc wall street journal telemundo poll illustrates the steepness of the hill. 27% of latino voters back president mccain and 67% obama. this is we low the 67% that senator received on election day 2008. 68% of latinos said they were highly interested in the election. that compares to 81% of all voters highly interested. that suggestion a possible intensity gap. if the election is as close in november as it is today, even a tiny drop for support for president obama could swing a few critical states governor romney's way. truth is, governor romney has more to worry about when it comes to the latino vote, much more. the president is har

john mccain had a reputation and still does for speaking his mind. the more he spoke his might be, the more the members of the base decided they didn't agree with him. mitt romney doesn't want to take that chance. he is very reluctant to be really candid about things he knows in his rational mind are correct like correcting that woman there talking about treason. as long as he feels that insecurity, we can expect to hear him go down that wishy washy middle. >> i agree with clarence that john mccain did do some straight talk. remember, john mccain also shifted starkly to the right during the 2008 primaries and i think for the reason that joy-ann mentioned, romney will ease into this. i believe when we get to the general election, he will start rebuking those people as he gets more confident. as he has more success in unifying the party. we've already seen the tack from the party shift recently saying even if you like barack obama, he is in over his head. that tells you that he is going to move, when we get to the general election toward a more respect

what mark was saying, the numbers for john mccain, it was the increase as them and turn out of the base that was so important for obama. 2008 was the dream. now you have a reality. no enthusiasm, that is pretty obvious. he was the most charismatic candidate in 2008 than we have had since reagan and even more. it was a perfect storm -- financial collapse, war weariness, eight years of republicans. the italian communist party could have won the election in 2008 -- [laughter] some say did hewin the election. >> from karl marx to the italian communist party, this is "masterpiece theatre." >> let me return to earth. "the washington post" had a good analysis of the campaign. barack obama will start out with 237 electoral votes, if you look at the electoral college. ronny falls far behind that. barack obama's stands a good chance of getting a big chunk of the that -- >> fox news will fix that. >> which of these two candidates as the better message? >> finding solutions and opportunities in an environment of the change and turbulence is what i learned during my career, and it is something i wan

don't need john mccain. >> well, that's -- i guess, again, we go back to the question of principles. and where conservatives are in it for the long-term, they think, why do i need somebody who may or may not adhere to what i believe? and as you know, there are a good many talk show hosts and others who say sit this election out, let's regroup, let's get a better candidate the next time. let mccain do his own thing and don't support him, and maybe he'll win, maybe he won't. i think as we get closer to the election, most conservatives will consider the options. and they will say, well, mccain certainly has some things we don't like. principally the things conservatives don't like about mccain are the mccain/feingold bill, which they feel really trampled on the first amendment, and his stand on immigration. and there are some other things, too. but those are big public issues, which he took i leadership position on and thought he was wrong. so how can we trust him to do what we think he should do. by the same token, 80% conservative voting record in the senate, surrounded himself with p

here to tackle all of that is senator john mccain. welcome back to fox news sunday. >>guest: thank you for having me on especially memorial day. >>chris: there has been another massacre in syria, government forces killed more than 90 people including more than 30 children. you can see some of the bodies stacked up like cord wood in a village and the white house has decided to start vetting some of the rebels to see if they are islamic radicals and, perhaps to lets other arab countries arm them. is that enough? >>guest: of course not and only about a year too late. this is a shameful episode in american history. it began back in 2009 when we refused, when the president of the united states refused to speak up on behalf of the demonstrators in the streets in tehran, and it has gone from one episode to another. we have over a year and now talking about possibly vetting some people. look, nearly 10,000 people have died this is a brutal regime of incredible proportions, and, by the way, if as sad fails in it would be the greatest blow to iran in the last 25 years because

john mccain in the swing states, according to pete hart's own numbers, about the same number of votes in 2008 t that george w. bush did in 2004 when george bush carried those states. barack obama come up because of the enthusiasm and intensity had a bigger turnout and was able to carry those states. i don' see that same kind of thing in 2012. >> if ma is right, but you are barack obama and you want young people to turn out, aren't you defeating or on purpose? >> ice -- s see it slightly diffently. for three and a half years republicans d fox news have painted barack obama as the devil incarnate. [unintelligible] may i dr. krauthammer or? >> i did not say a word. i was silently rolling my eyes. >> keep rolling, because i willl keep r rolling. they had reasons to get this son of karl marx out of the white house. t they have to be careful about how they go after barack obama. ere is the base out there, and if there is a feeling he is being treated unfairly, that they are trying to take michelle obama and those nice kids out of the white house there will be people who will come out there

bush and john mccain called it immigration reform. they said it would help republicans with the latino community. a path to status and citizenship. governor romney has evolved. is he now in the wrong place when he said no. >> our beloved ronald reagan in 1986 thought the best way to solve the problem then in a compassionate way was to grand citizenship and amnesty didn't work. it magnified the problem. we have to figure out what's the right thing to do for america. >> another issue, congressman that will come up again is the so-called dream act. i want to listen to governor romney. if you have illegal immigrants that came over as young children, their parents brought them over. maybe they want to join the military or do community service, can they get on the pag way? here is governor romney. >> the question is, if i were elected and congress were to pass the dream act, would i veto it? the answer is, yes. >> he would veto the dream act. senator marco rubio says he is trying to come up with a proposal that he believes can get more bipa

someone like senator john mccain. it's so much easier to say. >> i think, the real point is what we are trying to do around the table is have a rational, sensible conversation. what do we do now? the cards are what they are. we played the cards. what we should have done is kind of irrelevant. the question is, we are where we are. this is the situation. you have a guy murdering these people. john pointed out the differences between this and libya, our limitations to act at the edges. this is not bosnia or places to send in bombers and clean this up. we are faced with a bunch of really, really hard charges or choices. what i was probing about with you, joe, what would you do since you are in the center on these issues. you recognize america's role in the world, what do we do? >> get back to me tomorrow. i'll call the white house. i'm serious. i'll call around and see. i think, though, let me throw it back at you to say is it an option for the united states to allow, to permit, to stand back and basically play the role o

>> you would have to ask john mccain. >> bill: i did ask him last night. he said it was a cheap shot, undignified, military people in a position where they are in these areas don't brag about what they do and they done diminish anyone else. they do the mission and keep quiet. that is what the senator said? >> i think when folks are saying there are two points. when you see from republicans criticizing obama, you know, anyone would have made that call it's actually not true. >> bill: biden said he wouldn't have done it i don't care, i don't care what the republicans are doing, i care what the president of united states is doing. maryanne led me ask you, you are an advisor to a lot of political campaigns. would you have advised the president to take out this ad on one-year anniversary on the death of bin laden? >> i think the bigger point. >> bill:, no, maryanne, yes or no, would you advise him to do it? >> yes. here is why. president obama can rightfully point to the anniversary of getting bin laden because he said he would do it and he did. he went to afgh

our plan is to do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. show the world how barack obama's opinions were misguided. chuck todd, front page placement, the times played this baby big today. >> they did and let's look at it as political strategy. just watch how it consumed a day of the campaign. of the romney campaign. the idea this might come up as a potential ad, and it just shows you why a simple political strategy, this was a bad idea and this wasn't good advice. the idea that somehow mitt romney or the republican message machine should go off on another tangent and not be talking about the issues of the day or the economy, is simply bad political strategy, and it threw romney off all day today. it has turned into bad business for mr. ricketts, who owns the cubs, which is in chicago. watching all of this, how it got as far as it did is mind boggling. it seems like bad political strategy and bad business for mr. ricketts. mitt romney saying he repudiates it, but watch. >> i read the article on the aircraft. as i read it, i want to make it c

birth, john mccain would have won in 2008. the question i'm asking you, do you think that is true? >> i don't think any political strategist believes it's a wise thing to be talking anything about where obama was born at this day and age. >> thank you for that direct answer. the obama campaign has seizes on this, i'd like you to take a look at an ad that they've produced. listen to this. >> i have read about him. he's an arab. >> no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen that i happen to have disagreements with. >> why doesn't he show his birth certificate? he doesn't have a birth certificate. >> john, we know that mitt romney is a spineless individual. but shun he really cancel this event? >> well -- >> wouldn't that be the right thing to do? >> if not cancel then do something to put distance between himself and the birthers and the other whack jobs and what george will calls a bloviating ignoramuignoramus, h for donald trump. the question here that the obama people are trying to raise is one of character. political charac

senators such as john mccain and even presidential nominee, mitt romney. but it is something that many people are extremely alarmed about. because if they are armed, it could only exacerbate the violence and deepen the crisis even more. perhaps even spilling into neighboring countries. and that's why that idea as well is not one that has been fully embraced by everybody. >> yesterday, ayman, the spokesperson for the u.s. state department suggested iran is responsible for quote aiding and abetting the massacre in syria last week by providing support for the syrian militia. left a few people scratching their heads, what can you tell us about iran's influence in syria? >> reporter: well there's two ways to look at it. in terms of the actual events on friday, there's still no public evidence to suggest that iran was involved. but there's no doubt that iran is syria's strongest ally in the region. there's no love hidden between these two countries. they support each other militarily. there's very close diplomatic relations and syrian activists in the past have

last time, obama understandably didn't talk about john mccain's age in words. but the ads were clear. >> things have changed in the last 26 years. but mccain hasn't. he admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer. can't send an email. after one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same. >> i'm barack obama. and i approved this message. >> i approved this message. romney seems to expect something this year after those stories the other day that his superpac might air jeremiah wright ads, romney rerepudiated the idea but portrayed himself as a victim. >> i make it clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. i've been disappointed in the president's campaign to date which has focused on character assassination. >> some on the right regret that romney's taken the wright ads off the table. here was sean hannity reacting thursday night. >> now, governor romney, i have to respectfully disagree with you. i believe that the president's relationship with the reverend jeremiah wright a. man that

we know john mccain nixed the idea. i think this was fred davis' way of trying to get it back in the mainstream again. >> and you can get something into the mainstream in the media without running it by just having this kind of thing come out. apparently it was supposed to come out shortly before the convention or around the time of the convention where it might have been difficult for the obama team to rebut it. interestingly, john mccain's spokesperson put out a statement saying senator mccain is very proud of the campaign he ran in 2 2008. he stands by the decisions and would make them again today if he had to the do over. it's clear from game change and the reporting from the campaign that mccain rejected attempts to inject race into this. >> andrea, i think the other thing, i did talk to some people who say look, maybe four years ago this might have worked as a political tactic in that barack obama was significantly less well known. he was introduced to the american public four years ago and maybe some of the rever

more than the whole john mccain spent in '08. how do outside groups on the democratic side plan to compete with that? at least for now, they don't. one labor leader telling politico.com for their story today, "we're not making any attempt to match american crossroads or any of those groups with tv ads. progressives can't match all the money going into the system right now." so how do you possibly compete and win against all that dark money piled up against you? let's ask somebody who knows. joining us now is iowa congressman, targeted by those ground zero mosque attack ads, bruce braley. congressman braley, thanks for joining us. >> welcome home, rachel. great to have you back in washington, d.c.. >> did i get the facts right about what that race was like in 2010? >> you nailed it. it was one of the most unexpected outcomes of any political race. nobody was tracking me as a vulnerable candidate. and then this mountain of secret cash came flowing down into my race and it was -- i became the poster child of the bad aspects of citiz