strengthen airport security at home. new procedures being discussed, increasing rates of random screenings at airports, targeting certain types of travelers, or more visible changes for ticket holder who pass through security lines. jenna. jenna: doug mckelway, live in d.c. doug, thank you. jon: a scathing report from the white house on the va scandal seems to get very little play on most of the network news programs over the weekend. one show ignored it completely. despite the review finding, quote, significant and chronic system failures and a corrosive culture, with the report concluding that the veterans administration must be restructured. so why does a report like that get so roundly ignored? joining us now, jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine. alan colmes, with us, host of the alan colmes show, author of, thank the liberals for saving america. both fox news contributors. jim what is your guest? are veterans not just that inter
of the course he s made for this nation and i think we re in big trouble years ahead because of his refusal to recognize reality and because of his continual emphasis getting the u.s. basically to withdraw from that part of the world. jon: that was part of former vice president dick cheney s response after carl said as if it seems the former vice president was accusing the president, president obama, of treason in his recent op ad. joining us is jim pinkerington for the american conservative at of the alan colmes show and aut o of thank the liberals for saving america. what do you think of jonathan carl s question? i thought it was way out of line. dick cheney has a strong opinion on president obama and his current iraq policy but nowhere did cheney in that op ad use the t word, treason, which you normally reserve for people like
saying the media was choosing sides while the new york times came under fire for an editorial that it had to correct multiple times saying the media was jumping to conclusions. as time magazine put sergeant bergdahl on the cover with the headline, was he worth it? so is all of this coverage fair? joining us is jim winkerington for the american conservative magazine, alan colmes host of the alan colmes show is also with us, he s the aut offer of thank the liberals for saving america, both are fox news contributors. jim, when we think about how this story started out in the white house with the president there flanked by bowe bergdahl s parents, clearly the white house wanted the story to be big. they just didn t know it was going to be big in the way it has become. i think it proved they have a tin ear when it comes to patriotic issues what military service is. to the contemporary, and i emphasize contemporary left,
susan rice, national security adviser, said he deserved with distinction and honor but some colleagues say he went awol, simply walking off the base and then there are controversial emails to his parents reported in a 2012 rolling stones story. he wrote, quote, the system is wrong. i am ashamed to be an american and the title of u.s. soldier is just a lie of fools. u.s. army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. it is the army of liars, back stabbers, fools and bullies. bergdahl went on, i am sorry for everything. the horror that is america is disgusting. is the media reporting the whole story? joining us now is jim pinkerington and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and author of laing t thank the liberals for saving america. there is understandable relief that he s safe but he is coming
he did. outside groups are throwing a ton of money in this race so it promises to get nastier between now and next tuesday. jenna: one to watch. thank you. jon: speculation over hillary clinton s possible 2016 presidential run is hitting a fever pitch. now a profile in the new yorker asks whether hillary clinton and the media can learn to get along. saying the former secretary of state has kept a calculated distance from the press amid continuing questions about her family life, her health and whether she will even run at all. let s talk about it with jim pinkerington and a fox news krobtor along with alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show, author of thank america for liberals. i have to start with you, alan, because of your line, the clintons are kardashians except with brains. what do you mean by that? i said that to one of our