like us more. as we do not require them to change their values before we fight a common enemy. otherwise egypt s whole, we will kill you for leaving islam commitment might be a deal breaker. the bottom line is some in this country have been so busy how to figure out how to avoid any religion they have forgotten what is offensive to americans, namely those who would trample on our core ideals. in america we stand for liberty and freedom to offend to provoke, to persuade and to defy. alan is author of taking the stand. and rich lowrie is the editor of national review and a fox news contributor. alan let me start with you and applaud your statement. it was fantastic. it s the paradigm of the way americans have to look at our freedoms. jefferson would have been proud of you. thank you so much. that s high praise. i think on this show last night
the committee what the scope of the questioning is going to be but we need to have somebody that has subpoena power look into some of these deals. e we need to look at some of the inflated speaking fees that bill clinton got as she was considering everything from the keystone pipeline. who would look into it? who specifically? i think the fbi is an excellent suggestion. you could have congressional committees do it. i d like to see somebody with subpoena power that is a prosecutor possibly even convene a grand jury. you look at the menendez case the case in virginia in oregon the pattern of behavior here is somewhat similar. and it is crying out for further investigation. peter, thank you for being here. thanks. up next free speech and the first amendment have come under fire after an attempted terror attack in texas. after the break, rich lowrie and i will have some thoughts on that. plus brian is here to weigh in on the case of the college
it s wrong. i would feel the same way i would feel the same if somebody depicted jesus as the crazy cartoon. but there s no debate about whether it s offensive. everybody knows it s offensive. it is. and i think gallagher was really putting this on to create attention, to promote her organization. gellar. gellar excuse me. even if you hate her message. she was promoting free speech. and as rich lowrie put it in a column today, today, he writes criticism of islam is at the vanguard of the fight for free speech since it is susceptible to attack. but megyn by jihadists and calls for self-censorship and politically correct. there s nothing wrong with free speech but be smart, not stupid. why would you invoke attack by people coming to your event. do you hear what you re saying? it s ridiculous. we in this country need to limit our constitutional rights freedom of speech let me finish lest we invite a tack
general holder, and the mayor of new york have created a narrative that i think is very unhelpful to the country. we need to do now is try to find some common ground to stand i think he can lessen his contacts and his honoring of someone like al sharpton. this is his job as president to unite us. that does nothing to advance race relations in america, it poisons them. they really do feel under attack. and and joining us our political panel, national reviews rich lowrie and wall street journal s jason riley good evening, gentlemen. the president says the president says race relations relations now are better than what he took office. jason, i ll start with you, do you agree with that? no. of course not. he s the president. he says a lot of things i don t think they re better and i don t think he s done much to make them better. this president and this administration has shown they re not interested in bridging racial divide. or i should say they re more interested
needs to be. the governors web bush of florida shlg i think i could serve well as president. and of course texas governor rick perry. running for the presidency not an iq test. it s a test of an individual s resolve. mitt romney mitt romney might be back. and bobby jindal of ynd, scott walker of wisconsin and many more. but who is it going to be? and our political panel is back. the the national reviews rich lowrie and the wall street journal s jason riley. all right gentlemen. hillary seems to be right up there with the democrats but what if she doesn t run? i think you see a very crowded democratic field. i think a number of governors could get in including andrew cuomo of new york. i think the sky is the limit. if hillary doesn t run a lot of people get in this race on the democrat side. jim web is another person that