receiving various government subsidies that other people get. the immigration issue is no putting it behind you in that definitive sense. jon: what about the argument, you see it. v commercials behind it, that the system we have now is defacto amnesty for the 11 or so million illegals already here? what you want to do is come up with a system where you don t have this problem again. according to cbo, the current bill, the gang of eight bill would reduce illegal immigrationly as little as a third. you could have seven, eight, million illegal immigrants 10 years from now. we don t want to be in the situation where every 10 or 15 years we have to pass another amnesty is as we show your book cover, i want to ask you, what would lincoln do? lincoln unbound is rich lowery s new book. it is fascinating. what would he do on immigration? he had a generous attitude for illegal immigrants. that is clear. he worshiped lawfulness. where he would come down on this
about which you wrote a book. this thing has been bumping around since 2004, reconstituted once. according to ap, as of may this year, the incoming chairman didn t have security clearance and they had no room to meet in. this has all the meaning and consequence of eric holder s meeting with reporters after ap and james rosen subpoenas, which is to say none at all. meanwhile, the nsa director general keith alexander recently told lawmakers that up to 50 pl plots had been thwarted by those government surveillance programs, he promised he would go back to lawmakers with details. so far, not a word from him to congress. i have to assume they re going to demand specifics pretty soon. right, because the newest revelation tells us that there s a lot of discretion and rolling permanent talk about the newest
let s bring in our panel, rich lowery, editor of national review, and author of new book lincoln unbound. ab stoddard, and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. before we get to that, we have late-breaking news. the washington post is reporting federal officials formally charged edward snowden, the nsa contract employee who disclosed all this information, charged him with espionage and theft and conversion of government property. charles, your reaction? it was obvious, it was inevitable. i am surprised they would dump it on a friday afternoon, unless they re not that interested in publicity, which i suppose is true. what else are you going to do? the guy obviously, i mean, even if you believe he may not be convicted, he clearly has acted, he stole the property, he released it, he broke the rules, and he broke his oath. i think that s a hell of a starting point. i think his chances of getting
he hated class warfare with the very fiber of his being. all right. lincoln unbound check it out. thank you very much. more fox & friends in three minutes. dad. how did you get here? i don t know. [ speaking in russian ] look, look, look. you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you ll save. with one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly i as planned.. really? can you hear it? fueling the american spirit no matter when, no matter where
what is it that makes lincoln such a seminal figure in our story. this man, first republican president knew better than anybody what it meant to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. during the civil war lincoln had the foresight to set up a system of land grant colleges. where i derive inspiration from is the writings of lincoln. lets take you back, senator obama kicked off his presidential campaign in 2007 in illinois, land of lincoln, references to lincoln 230 times since announcing his candidacy for president in 2007. that s what you re really kind of talking about in your new book, rich, lincoln unbound. this is a project, goes back to technical r., fdr, they want to claim linc oln as the father of big government. you had no market whatsoever.