extremists terrorist organization. chris stirewalt is fox news digital politics editor and howie cutters is the host of media buzz. great to see you both. hi, shannon. how much is this about chris, start with you. try to walk this fine line of not sort of inciting the public. there has been talk about a backlash against innocent muslims here in america. how much of this is the administration trying to do that keeping calm while they figure this out? look, you remember the allegations recently of doctored intelligence to try to make a fight against isis look better or that it wasn t going as badly as it was. there is often pressure, whatever that case turns out to be close attention to government entities look better. i certainly believe that part of the soft cell here on what s going on ask self interested because obviously the system failed. so there you have that.
he is the establishment guy saying trump isn t a real conservative. real conservatives don t consider bush to be a real conservative. the person who could benefit is carly fiorina. if they are looking for an alternative to trump then she could really benefit. way to set up my next segment. a surprise announcement a couple of hours ago on the next president deadline bait. after weeks of controversy a change in the rules suddenly creating an opportunity for carly fiorina to join the main stage, the primetime event at the next event. fox news digital politics editor. you come on one night and the next day they do what you said. i think it was us. she is on. it s not official yet. they are not booting anybody off. it could be 11 people up there. they are just sliding another podium on to the stage.
breaking tonight a u.s. senator is reportedly about to be indicted. reports today that eric holder s justice department is preparing to bring serious criminal charges against democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey. the reports of potential charges had many noting the senator s recent set of very public foreign policy knocks on president obama with some media outlets questioning if the latest move from the doj is political retribution. joining us now chris stirewalt, fox news s digital politics editor. chris, he s this investigation s been going on for some time. and it focuses on his relationship with some shady opthamologist. i see what you did there. well, shady. the underlying scandal or underlying controversy involves a long-time friend and big-time donor of his who was at one time the largest single biller to
and i am not going anywhere. breaking tonight a u.s. senator is reportedly about to be indicted. reports today that eric holder s justice department is preparing to bring serious criminal charges against democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey. the reports of potential charges had many noting the senator s recent set of very public foreign policy knocks on president obama with some media outlets questioning if the latest move from the doj is political retribution. joining us now chris stirewalt, fox news s digital politics editor. chris, he s this investigation s been going on for some time. and it focuses on his relationship with some shady opthamologist. i see what you did there. well, shady. the underlying scandal or underlying controversy involves a long-time friend and big-time donor of his who was at one time the largest single biller to
fox news s digital politics editor. chris, he s this investigation s been going on for some time. and it focuses on his relationship with some shady opthamologist. i see what you did there. well, shady. the underlying scandal or underlying controversy involves a long-time friend and big-time donor of his who was at one time the largest single biller to medicaid in the nation to medicare in the nation. some $22 million i believe in 2012. and a guy who was putting it through big time on these eye surgery outpatient centers down in florida. and he was a super patron of menendez s. last year we were watching this very closely waiting to see what was going to happen. and then nothing. nothing happened. and so in large part we assumed that they had not been able to make the case and moved on.