Well discussion the future for the gop and a exclusive interview with jason chaffetz. And the crisis in syria deepens as the russians bomb assads enemies and tell the u. S. To get out of the way. The wreckage of this policy has now stepped in Vladimir Putin. What does putins move mean . Well ask retired general jack keen and ryan crocker, former u. S. Ambassador to iraq and syria. Plus another mass shooting, as a gunman targets christians at an Oregon Community college. Our thoughts and prayers are not enough. This is a Political Choice we make, to allow this to half every few months in america. Our panel weighs in on the president s comments and what can be done to prevent more massacres. And our power player of the wee. Sesame streets maria on inspiring generations of children, all right now on fox and hello again from fox news in washington. Speaker of the house is a big job. He or she leads one half of congress and is second in the line of president ial succession. When john boehner announced his resignation last week, it seemed almost certain his number two, Kevin Mccarth would succeed him. Suddenly that is in doubt. Joining mess now is jason chaffetz, chair of the pourerful House Oversight committee. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Thanks for having me. Just five days ago you said you supported Kevin Mccarthy for the position, and it was widely assumed he would move up when john boehner moved out. Why are you even considering the idea of running against mccarthy. Kevin mccarthy is a good man, a big reason why we have such a theres really a math problem. You need 218 votes on the floor of the house. Theres 246 republicans that will voice, but there are nearly 50 people and a growing number that will not and cannot vote for Kevin Mccarthy as the speaker on the floor. He will fall short of the 218 votes on the floor of of house. So what are you going to do . Are you going to put your name forward when the house caucus votes on thursday . Today, here, i am announcing my intention to run for speaker of the house of representatives. We were entrusted by the American People with the largest majority the republicans have ever had since babe ruth was swinging the baseball bat, but they didnt send us here to perpetuate the status quo. They want us to tackle the issues. They want you to take that fight for the senate, to the president and they want us to take that fight for the American People. So before we get into some of about the procedural issue. Its complicated. First theres a vote on thursday, then the full vote at the end of the month. Do you pledge to support whoever wins the vote in the house caucus on thursday, or even if you lose, will you take your candidacy to the full floor at the end of the month . I think mr. Mccarth has the full majority of the conference, and well have that vote on thursday, in many ways it doesnt matter. The real vote is when you call that name out in front of everything in the house. The vote on thursday is closed door, secret ballot, i will support the nominee, but i just dont believe that the nominee, if its Kevin Mccarthy can actually get to 218. Thats why ive offer myself as that divide. I think the 50plus people find im a fair, evenbalanced person that i can bridge that divide between some of our more sent members. So youre saying you will the full vote of the house at the end of the month. What im saying is we walk out i want to win, i hope i win, but theres no doubt that the Kevin Mccarthy have the majority of the people are you saying you will i will walk out of the there and support the nominee. If its Kevin Mccarthy, i will support him, but he still has a math problem, still cant get to 218. I hope we can avoid those problems, and turn the fight instead of internally, turn the fight to the democrats and fight for the things we came to congress for. Why do you think 50plus and whatever and the more hardline conservatives wont vote for mccarthy but will vote for you . I think the American Public want a change, a fresh start. Theres a reason why we see this phenomenon across the country, and you dont just give an automatic promotion for the existing leadership team. I think they want a fresh face and fresh new person who is actually there at the leadership table in the speakers role. Youve got to speak, youve got to be able to articulate the republican message to the American People an take that fight to the president , but you also have to bridge internally. Thats where weve got some conflict going on right now. How do you explain in what do you mean, that you would bring the internal conflicts better than mccarthy . Hes been in existing leadership for years and years. The strife and divide is getting worse, not better. What im trying to offer is we need internal process reform and how we select the committees, floor. I dont expect every vote we bring to the floor we win. I want to vote more, not less. I want the committees to be more empowered, and i think thats what our broke membership wants on the full political spectrum. So youre basically saying friendlier to the hardline conservatives, the freedom caucus, the Tea Party People than Kevin Mccarthy . And how could you be any more effective, given the fact youll still have president obama and enough democrats to sustain a filibuster, so how will you be more effective . Internally i think we have to bridge the divide. Im being recruited. I didnt wake up last week and think im going to be speaker. Ive had enough members to saying please, jason do this. Realistic we cant promote the existing leadership. That internal factor is there, and i think will continue to the floor of the house when that vote actually happens. I think a new fresh face who says, look, how are we going to hold the line for the full political spectrum, what are we going to fight for. I am not there to promote the status quo. Im not there to do what Mitch Mcconnell or the president wants to do. Lightning round. Quick questions, quick answers on some of the specific issues you would face. President obama announced on friday he will not sign another shortterm spending bill when this continuing resolution runs out in december. Would you be willing to risk a shutdown to defund planned parenthood . Well, look, were going to have that discussion internally. Moot job is to help put a bill on the president s desk. The president s solution is to borrow more money from china . Thats not a solution. I want to solve this problem. Unless were actually solving the problem, i have a hard time putting anything over there onto the president s desk that doesnt also solve the problem. I want to solve the problem. Respectfully, because youre maybe the next speaker, how far are you willing to take the fight to defund planned parenthood. The job as speaker is to from the whole political spectrum, then were going to fight and make that case to the American People. What about budget caps under sequestration. Are you willing to lift the caps so you would have more spend domestic spending . Personally i want to cut spending. Personally i dont believe we can continue to add to the deficit, so i like the budget cap. I do believe we need more money for the military, for the v. A. We ought to take care of the people who take care of us. I want to fight cancer that is killing people every day. But thats not the job of the speaker. You have to respect the body and go fight for that. The government will reach its debt limit on november 5th. What would you demand from the president . And from the democrats in order to vote to lift the debt limit . And are you willing to risk the possibility of default in that negotiation . Our job in the house we have 246 members. Our job in the house is to actually put forward a bill. I would like it to see actually cut the deficit, not continue to add to the deficit. I dont want to borrow more money from china. I actually want to fight for those things that will solve the problem and not keep punting it down the road. Would you demand something in return for racing the debt limit . Were not going to unilaterally raise the debt limit. Thats not a responsible thing for the company. The debts was 9 trillion when president obama took office. Were approaches 20 trillion. Weve got to solve that problem, not just say lets borrow more from the chinese. Would it be fair to say as speaker, congressman, you would be more confrontational than boehner has been and that you believe mccarthy would be . Im going to be myself. Im going to get that body behind us, and you want a speaker who speaks. We feed somebody out there who is actually going out there and making the case to the American People, talking to the senate about what we need to do, going on the National Television shows and winning that argument. We dont seem to win the argument. Thats a problem. Just the suggestion that you would run for speaker has brought out some criticism from conservatives. They note you ran a hearing on planned parenthood this week. Take a look. Your compensation in 2009 was 353,000. Is that correct . I dont have the figures with me. It was. Congratulations. Critics say i focused on the wrong thing, you focused on the frchss, not on the video and the fact theyre trafficking goddy parts. I issued the subpoena. But i think its legitimate to question how they spend money for a notforprofit organization. 127 million more in revenues than expenses and they want more federal money . I think we can tackle it both on trafficking in fetal body parts, but also about the finances. They also note in june you stripped conservative congressman mark meadows of his subcommittee chairmanship because he baulked, went against the house leadership in terms of giving fasttrack trade authority to president obama. You took sis subcommit year chairmanship away. Is that the kind of charm youll be . No, i think i learned a lesson. I listened for an hour and 40 minds with my committee and reconsidered that decision. Weve got to win the argument and make result cass, not just knock people over the head. Its a lesson learned. I think im better for it, and i think mark is better for it, and were certainly friends to this days. Youre in an ugly sits carom of the oversight committee, you held a hearing about the continued security lapses at the secret service. Heres a clip. Dont let anybody get in that gate, and when they come to the gate and theyve got a bomb and they say they have a bomb, believe them, take them down, take them down. Now an Inspector Generals report has revealed that within days of that hearing, some 45 Agency Employees got ahold of your 2003 application to be a secret Service Agent and someone leaked the fact that your application had been rejected and director joe clancy is now revising his original account to the Inspector General when he said back then that he didnt know people in the agency were looking at your file. Be taken at the secret service and should director clancy step down . The secret service is demonstrating why we started to investigate them and that i shenanigans. I think the question is really for the department of justice. You had 45 secret Service Agents violate federal law according to the Inspector General . Why isnt there a special prosecutor over there . Its kind of scary. I fear that these people if they do this to me, im sure its probably not the first time. Im a sitting member of congress. Nobody should have that done. Its a violation of federal law. Do you still have confidence in director clancy . I lose it every day. Again this is why almost two years ago we started investigating the secret service. Theyve had a series of mishaps and theyre entrusted with guns near the president , the most sensitive classified information. They have a serious cultural problem. Thank you . Congressman, and well follow the battle for speakership this week. Thank you. Well bring in our panel to discussion the shakeup and the latest from the campaign trail. And what do you think . How should they deal with president obama and the democrats . Let me know on facebook this is a story about doers, the artificial heart, electric guitars and rockets to the moon. Its the story of america land of the doers. Doin it. Did it. Done. Doers built this country. The dams and the railroads. John henry was a steel drivin man they built the golden gates no matter whos doin. Theres all kinds of doin up in here. Or what theyre doin. What the hecks he doin . Energy got us here. And its our job to make sure theres enough to keep doers doin the stuff doers do. Look, this is not what telephone never my intent to imply anything. I want to be clear that this is where were going. Kevin mccarthy trying to walk back his links the House Benghazi Committee to Hillary Clintons drop in the polls. Its time for our sunday group. Brit hume, julie pace, who covers the white house for the associated pace. Ben domenech, cofounder of the web magazine the federalist and Christi Parsons who reports on the white house for tribune newspaper. Brit, how damaging was the statement both to his prospects to be speaker and also to the work of the benghazi committee, and what do you make of someone like jason chaffetz, a member of the House Committee announcing hes going to oppose mccarthy to the right. In the case of chaffetz, if it hadnt been he, there would have been somebody else. I think the episode was damaging to the committees investigating benghazi. It gives the democrats a talking point, a shillelagh, that they can beat the republicans heads with, adinfinitum. Hes right. If they go to the floor with him as kind of their nominee and the people on the right who dont want him dont vote for him, he cant win. Then they go to a series of votes, it could go on for a long time. Were a long way from having this matter settled. Mccarthy i think started the unraveling process about i his gaff on the committee, which kind of gave people an excuse, a reason not to support him. This is a manifestation, chris of the divisions within the Republican Party we are seeing reflected in Donald Trumps ascendancy, and the complaints we continually hear about the leaders in both house and senate i dont think theres any way of knowing where this is going. Julie, we saw the president seeming to almost dare to pick a fight with him on the budget or anything else. Here is the president. I will not sign another shortsighted spending bill like the one congress sent me this week. We purchased ourselves ten additional weeks. We need to use them effectively. With the split that we have seen and we saw again this morning, among house republicans, do the president and white house officials feel that they can beat republicans, Congressional Republicans in any kind of a shotdown . Whether its on the budget or debt limit or any of these things . Later in that conference you saw the president acknowledge that the speakers race is of chaos around the things hes talking about. They think that mcconnell and previously boehner had looked at the landscape an figured out a shutdown, a fight over the debt ceiling is not good for republicans going into the 2016 election. They think mcconnell is still in that same place. The question is whether the new speaker will be in the same space. With chafe either now in the race, it cigarettes complicated, but they think the politics favors a pretty clean straightforward budget process, not a shutdown. If they feel there is a shutdown or default, that the republicans take the blame, whether thats fair or not . They think they would take more of is the blame. They think that the president and the white house would good some of the blame, but the republicans. You saw some developments in creating summer distance between themselves. On the republican side, jeb bush took a swipe at his former protege, marco rubio. Here that is. Im a proven leader. Tallahassee. I relied on people like marco rubio and many others to follow my leadership. What does that tell you about the current fortunes of marco rubio and jeb bush. Its interesting. In the old ways of approaching governor. In order to get to the presidency, you wanted that experience path. Jeb is confronted that you gain more of the tools by actually being in the senate, by walking back and forth from your office to the floor, being confronted by all sorts of gotcha questions. In a certainly sense its an expression of his experience ought to matter to voters currently, but i think he had an interesting moment, being attacked for a comment he made in the wake of the oregon shooting, which was really spun completely out of context. This is when he says stuff happens and you dont have to react immediately. I think this is a moment he could seize in a sense he hasnt had so much of the giveandtake with the media. I think it would be an opportunity for him to show he is a leader and pick a fight that could be to his benefit. Im not sure a fight between him and marco rubo accrue toss that effect. Why would you think he would be going after rubio as opposed to trump or carson or i think he realized rubio is more in his lane. He has an appellate to people that share his views on immigration and the kind of washington. Getting marco rubio out of that success. And then theres recent days come out over the keytone pipeline and took issue with how president obama is leading our efforts in syria. Take a look at this. I personally would be advocating now for a nofly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air. Hillary clinton is not half baked in terms of her approach to these problems. She was obviously my secretary of state, but i also think that theres a difference between running for president and being president. Christi, how do they feel at the white house from the Hillary Clinton putting some distance on a variety of issues keystone, syria, other issues, between herself and the president . I think they feel like shes staying in the realm of basically campaign rhetoric. He dismissed it just as things you say when youre running for president , they dont obligate you and so far theyre not critical that he had to call them half baked. I dont think they love it, but i think the president is willing to keep it kind of cool until she becomes more strident. Do you have a sense that theres sort of a line if she stays on this sort of the line shes okay with it, if she goes to that side of the line she might push back . I think thats the case. She said theres a few place where is shes broken with the president with policy while secretary of state. She has clearly laid those out that she wants to show some daylight and sting distinguish herself a bit. Shes more hawkish than he is. Whats the latest on the biden watch, in or out . I dont think anyone knows. Its day to day it seems to flip back and forth. When you heard him speak last night, it was almost a campaign speech, he was drawing distinctions with the president , very forwardleaning, but then he has other moments that you dont get the sense hes quite ready yet. I think thats right. I think the Vice President did an interview with a catholic magazine this week where he sounded very much like an interview with colbert. Where hes emotionally not there . Where hes emotionally not there. Its clear hes not ready to say hes in, but hes not saying hes out. Monday . I dont think so. Im not going to ask brit, because he headaches predictions, which makes him the smartest person on the panel. Up next a dramatic escalation of russias involve involvement in syria, but president obama says the u. S. Wont engage in a proxy war. Well talk with a top american gasp shark diving xerox personalized employee portals help Companies Make benefits simple and accessible. From anywhere. Hula dancing . Cliff jumping Human Resources can work better. 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So call empire today at 18447172652 to learn more or to schedule an inperson meeting. The crisis in syria escalated dramatically with russia launching an air campaign. President obama came until new criticism for letting Vladimir Putin fill a power vacuum in the middle east. The white house is rethinking its strategy. Joining us at the map to break retired fourstar arm general jack keane, and from crennel station, texas ryan crocker who served president from bush 41 to obama as ambassador. General keane, let me begin with you. Show us where and who the russians are heading. This is a blowup of the syrian map, which doesnt show all of syria. The orange is the regime control represents the rebels. The green is isis. Whats happening in the last year, the rebels have made some significant gains in palmyra and up here in the north, this encroaches on the coastal enclave which is right here, where the russian base is. Called in thats correct. The regime is in a precarious situation. The reason for the air strikes rebels, particularly in this area and here, the starbursts indicate the strikes over the last few days. Theres been a couple out to the east near isiss headquarters near raqqa. Thats window dressing, this is the focus. The second purpose is not just to stop the advance, but to set the conditions for a ground counter offensive to push back the rebels in that area. The u. S. Officials are reporting that 3 to 600 Iranian Forces are being deployed into syria, and thats in addition to the 1500 that are already there. Your sense of where theyre going to be deployed and what this russian iranian allyian in syria is going to mean. First of all, the Russian Iranian Alliance strategically is a game changer. Influence. In terms of whats taking place in syria, this regime would have fallen without russia and iran. Russians are bringing in about 3,000 more to add to what they have here, which is 7,000 on the ground. This el will provide advisers to the regime military, and localized local militias. This ground offensive could not success without irans influence and without russia airpower. General, come join me at the desk. While you do, let me turn to ambassador crocker. This is a big deal. This is the first time that russia has struck militarily outside of the Old Soviet Union since the fall of the the end of the cold war. And its also really the first time that russia is involved in an aggressive fashion in the middle east since, what, the 1970s. How big a deal is this no putin . For putin . It is a big deal for Vladimir Putin and for us. What we are seeing is nature abhorring a vacuum. In the case of iraq and syria, the vacuum that we left when we disengaged is now being filled by people we really dont like. So i see a continuum here. Islamic state, iran, Iranianbacked Shia militias in iraq, and now russia. So when we step out, others are stepping in. I see this russian intervention kind of the latest move in a pretty negative process thats been going on for several years now. Let me pick up on that. Ambassador, at the u. N. This week, it seemed that president obama was inviting russia and iran into the syrian conflict. Take a look. The United States is prepared to work with any nation, including russia and iran, to resolve the conflict. Russia has played a horrible hand brilliantly, we folded what could have been a pretty good hand. Explain what you mean by that . The russians are moving in because of the weakness of the assad regime. Its defensive in nature. Theyre trying to prop him up, as the tide of the battle turns against him, as jack keane said, its iran and its russia keeping him in the game. For us to think for a moment that russia and iran are aligned with our interests in the region, that is lunacy. The pattern of air strikes points it out. They are attacking the forces were supporting. They dont care about islamic state. So our interests and theirs are completely misaligned. Yet they are moving forward and were not moving at all. There are things we could do. Thats what i mean about a potentially pretty good hand. We could impose a nofly zone. We could make a dramatic step on refugees. We could engage diplomatically and politically. Thats the big absence right now. Send john kerry to baghdad and have him sit there working the political problems that underlie the weaknesses of the iraqi military. Those are political problems, we can make a difference, but we have to engage to do it. General keane, both you and the ambassador made a big point about the fact in the northeast part of the country, thats where eye says is where isis is, and the moderate are in the northern part, but foreign minister lavrov said this week theres no difference between the rebels theyre hitting. If it likes look a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, its a terrorist, right . Is general, how do you answer from a russian perspective theyre just focusing on the rebels that are putting pressure on frankly isis does not put much pressure on the regime. Its more concerned about the caliphate and expanding outside of iraq and syria from the headquarters in iraq, so the focus for russia will be on whatever rebels are encroaching on that regime and that kind of pressure. Ambassador crocker, as you mentioned here, you said earlier that the president should impose a nofly zone over that section of northwest syria where civilians are, where the moderate relatively moderate Syrian Rebels are. A proxy war with russia in syria. He suggested another quack mire there. Putin. Should the president be so confident that this will end up bad for putin . That would be basing a policy on hope. That has never made sense, it doesnt make sense now. We need to change the dynamics of the game. I think we could do it with a nofly zone. Jack keane would know this better, a nofly zone to stop the hidual barrel bombing of his own people. Ambassador, if you interrupt you have a nofly zone in precisely the areas that the russians are attacking now, arent you creating the danger of a super power confrontation of the skies over northwest syria snirchlts i wish we had established that nofly zone before the russians came in. That might have dissuaded them. I think we should still step up. A nofloyd zone can be forced not with manned aircraft necessarily, but with offshore missile, and i think we should tell the russians were going to do it and then do it. That is not an end in and of itself, but checked change the political dynamics to make the russian, the iran yawn and their client t. At the aseed, realize they have to negotiate a agreement. I want to ask you both about the big news of this weekend, of course the tragic events in afghanistan where apparently a u. S. Air strike and the effort by the u. S. To help the afghans take back the city of kunduz, an american air strike reportedly hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital. General keane, how can Something Like that happen . Its usually a human mistake. We have tremendous pilots and its a targeting problem as opposed to anner rant missile. Its one of those two things, wrong targets orrer rant missile. These things happen, as sad as it is people out here sacrificing their lives in a combat zone and theyre killed by a United States pilot. Its an unbelievable tragic event to be sure. Sadly, though, these things do happen in war. The good news is they rarely happen with u. S. Weapons. Thats the good news. Ambassador crocker, finally as the former ambassador to that country, how badly does this hurt or standing with the afghans . It is a very tragic event, as jack said, but the afghans count on us. They will know it was a mistake. No country, no military does more than the United States to avoid this kind of thing. Tragically it happened. I dont think that is going to fundamentally change how the afghans look at us. Right now they need us badly. They are desperate to see us stay and engage in the military. That will be the dominant factor. Thank you both, and well stay on top of this situation in syria. Thank you, gentlemen. Up next well bring back the group to discuss that massacre in oregon, and president obamas the issue. And what would you like to ask the panel, just go to facebook or twitter with the comment and say obama politicized this issue. Well,ing this something we should politicize. President obama responding with obvious emotion to the latest mass shooting at an Oregon Community college and declaring he will push again on the issue of gun control. Were back now with the panel. Brit, what do you think of the president s comments both in the immediate aftermath and then at his friday News Conference and his intention, he says, to keep talking about the need i dont have any problem with him saying it should be politicized. Gun control is a political issue. If a president has an idea he believes ought to be advanced to try to stop these recurring mass killings, theres not wrong with his doing so. The problem i think is this is not an issue thats served the Democratic Party very well as repeated defeats have proven through the years. Furthermore what hes talking about is he speaks vaguely of commonsense measures. Well, what commonsense measures does he mean . It looks to me as if the gun control he likes is the kinds they have tried in australia, for example, where they confiscated guns. You couldnt pass that through either house of the congress with full democratic control of both houses. I think its a quick xotic mission, but i dont have him problem talking about it. He bought the guns legally, he had no record, no Mental Health record, does it give the government any pause that any realistic law probably wouldnt have made any difference in this case. They try to talk it in a broader way not specifically this law would have stopped this incident. The president has said repeatedly he thinking the problem is the broad availability of guns whether purchased legally or not. To brits point here, the president is really lacking in specifics about what he wants to do moving forward other than simply talking about it. I think that underscores the political position he finds himself in. Well see him launch a big push for legislation on capitol hill. I dont think well see him pushing state legislators or governors to do anything. I think he will simply be talking about this, because he knows the political p environment hasnt changed. The shooting that took place in oregon was on the 274th day of 2015. According to a website called mass shooting tracker, it was the 294th mass shooting in those 274 days, and they define mass shooting as one in which four or more people including the the question, then, can we do anything about it . It was interesting to listen to the president saying what he said the other day. From my perspective, if you actually think through this process, if you take logically the steps hes taking and assume for the sake of argument that hes correct, that his policies are popular, theyre common sense, theyre constitutional and that the only thing thats preventing them from going through is the intransigence of the republicans or gun lobby or some other effect, theres a problem with that. This president , when he came to office, he had the house, he had the senate, he had his own party there, he could have had any legislation then that he wanted that he was willing to push there. So when it comes to assess what kind of gun policy we have, the president needs to look in the mirror. I think it really is about him. He chose to go the health care path, to pass obamacare, to use Political Capital in other ways. When he complains the fact is it was a Democratic Senate after newtown that killed his approach to gun legislation. I dont think this is something that stands up along the logic of what hes saying when you this i about it. How would they respond to that at the white house. I think they would say that the president had a limited amount of Political Capital and only a twoyear period where he had the latitude youre describing. When it comes to trying to pass something through the senate, its a difficult issue. Not all democrats are supportive of the gun Safety Measures that the president was pushing. We asked you for questions for the parnell, and we got this on facebook from eric. He writes the shootings in oregon and the amount of dead ends up being an average weekend in chicago, but you never hear the president talk about that. Christi, how do you . Answer eric and this complaint that you hear from a lot of people that the president s outrage on this issue is selective. Question. I dont think its true that he doesnt talk about gun violence in chicago. I think he has talked about it in fact you remember not long ago a 15yearold girl was killed in chicago, an innocent bystander to gun violence in a gang conflict i think its fair to say, though, he does seem to focus on the big matt shootings, and not the steady drumbeat of Gang Violence in a city like chicago. When he talks about the urban violence, there are other factors that he trying to attack like my brothers Keeper Initiative and some of the rhetoric, and his personal mission i think will tinge long after hes in office, but i think he sees the Mass Shootings as a separate thing. Its a dynamic in the case of Gang Violence, he feels like he has policy prescriptions he can push or at least talk about when it comes to Mass Shootings. I think hes increasingly reaching the point like many people, who just feel like theres not theres not an obvious solution to attacking this. In the time we have left then, there a solution . I dont think there is. Evil people will always exist, this el will do evil things. Its much more difficult to come up with a policy solution to deal with a maniac, a lunatic about this fellow, he was embarked on a murderous rage than dealing with the problem of crime in the inner cities. I know after newtown and after some of these, the president has talked about the gun control, but also the Mental Health aspect. I must confess ignorance on this. Has anything happened there so that you have more American Health intervention, more of a connection between gun purchases and mental Health Records . Youve seen some tweaks, signing some executives orders, trying to move the ball forward, but nothing in a major way, and certainly when you do look at a lot of these Mass Shootings, out. Its also one area where you have some Common Ground between the democrats, republicans, gun dont want to see more legislation, Mental Health does seems to be something you cant potential see progress made. So brit, going back to something that ben is said in the Previous Panel segment, you had jeb bush get hammered this week by a bunch of people for saying stuff happens, and sometimes you just cant find a solution for it, and stuff happens wasnt the most eloquent way to put it, but what do we do . Do we have to accept this is going to happen and there are limits to what government can do . Well, its a Law Enforcement issue, also as you and julie were talking about, a Mental Health issue. I dont think the president or anyone on his side of the equation or really any of the republicans is being very bold or creative about articulating possible ways to address these things. Mental health issue is obviously a problem. This guy probably should not have been on the streets. He was evidently in pretty bad shape. Its a tricky thing to do, but its not i think mission impossible. What we need from the president is some kind of a balanced approach to the issue. That would be true of Hillary Clinton or anyone else running for president. Were not hearing that. Its not an easy problem. But i think its it would be helped by at least some thoughtful new ideas on the subject. But just very quickly, you he hadnt been incarcerated, he hadnt committed a crime, so so the question is what is a thoughtful way to get at that . I dont have the answer, but i think there probably is an answer. Thank you, panel. This will be an issue well continue to discuss and see you next sunday. Up next on you power player after 43 years, maria generations of children knew her as maria on sesame street. But now shes stepping out of character to talk about her own challenges as a kid and the impact her role had on so many young viewers. Here is our power player of the week. Somebody handed me the torch and i ran with it. Sonia manzano has been a television trailblazer for almost half a century. As maria on sesame street she taught us about letters, life, and love. As one of the first hispanics on tv, she filled a big void. Icon . My husband wakes up every morning and says, hello, icon. Really . Yeah, he thinking its funny. To understand why, just look at her life. Growing up as a puerto rican immigrant in the south bronx back in the 50s. My father was a violent drunk. There was domestic violence. What role in that life did Television Play for you . Television was my sanctuary. I loved leave it to beaver and father knows best. But there was that void. I never saw anybody who looked like me or lived in the same kind of environment i lived in. I wondered where i fit into this society that didnt see me. Whats the name of that song fast forward to the early 70s when she got the role of maria on sesame street. I was a teenager when i started, when i fell in love and got married, so did maria. I do. Maria had a baby on sesame street shortsly after i had a baby. So shes really me in a as a better person. Im kinder, im more patient. Why are you retiring . 44 years is long enough to wait for oscar the grouch to propose. Its the me myself that is coming out. Sonia won 15 emmys writing for sesame street now shes written her memoir becoming maria. Do you think you provided the same safe haven to young kids, hispanic or not, that you found watching tv as a kid . I know i did. Thought i was their friend, their mother, their girlfriend. And what does that mean to you . Its just wonderful. Sonia says when she started on sesame street she wanted to end racism and close the education gap. While that may have been a little ambitious, she said she had a lot of fun and made a contribution. Made a lot of people laugh, fool around with the muppets. Geronimo learning how to do a take to the camera. I had a producer who always said so its our drop in the bucket for an equal society. I think that that means something. Sonia isnt finished giving. Shes donating some of the profits to help build a Childrens Museum in the area where she grew up, in the bronx. Thats it for today. Have a great week. Well see you next fox news
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