afternoon. bill: certainly will be emotional when it happens. 10 minutes past the hour. some of the stories we re watching in america s newsroom , prince harry talking about his time on the front lines in afghanistan. wasn t done in the wrong way but just, . go the other way. bill: doing his country s work. more of the prince s take on that war in a moment. martha: chilling rescue caught on tape. a woman falls on the subway platform on the tracks. wait until you see what happens. we ll show you the tape. it is an unbelievable story. bill: tough words from a conservative commentator suggesting the president s mission now is to reverse everything that ronald reagan put in place 30 years ago. our panel debates that in a moment. this was really obama unbound and i think what is most interesting is that obama basically is declaring the end of reaganism in this speech. jenna shared her recipe with sharon,
that i m here from the government and i m here to help. you have to look how successful that has been? how successful the government helping people been? look at unemployment, unemployment among minorities right. that raise as question. look at this program and this way of thinking and ask ourselves lifted people up, has this genuinely helped people to prosper in the country? when you say unemployment thing, second to last major inaugural speech you don t raise bad topics. that is one thing. i m not surprised he didn t do it. i wouldn t either. it was obviously glaring hole people say why don t you say saying in unemployment. what has the government done to help. every major high-tech company owes the federal government existence because of the internet. space program opened up millions of jobs because of the space program. martha: if a chicken and egg thing. private enterprise, ended up prospering based on the growth of railroads in this country and technology in
with all due respect to krauthamer. he is wrong about that. he didn t say, left himself an opening. he will change entitlements. it has to happen. that is not a fair statement to say. as far as liberals versus convervatives. that is right. it reaffirmed our position. you re right. we won the election. martha: what is fascinating, bob, mary katherine, jump in on this, very little discussion about the economy. very little discussion about jobs. when he started talking about climate change, am i living in the same, you know world in terms of what is going on? because you can, we could argue about climate change and taub about the environment on a important issue no doubt but is that a priority issue when talking finite space of the inaugural address is that where you want it spend your capital, mary katherine? he likes to give an overarching speech and a pretty speech to lay down some more historical markers. i think that is the point of this. i think he feels unleashed as liberal. bett
bill: some breaking news from the high court. supreme court will not consider an appeal over how much authority the epa should have in setting air quality standards. that appeal filed by a company that operates one of the three main u.s. copper plants. it was appealing a decision by the d.c. circuit court in july that had uphold the environmental protection agency, the epa s new air quality standard for sulfur dioxide. you got that? martha: got it. bill: all clear? martha: leading conservative charles krauthamer now saying that president obama s inaugural address, was a quote reaffirmmation of his liberal ideologis. watch what charles said. i think what s most interesting is that obama basically is declaring the end of reaganism in this speech. this speech today was an owed to big government. it was a hymn to big government. he said number one, i m going to defend what liberalism has achieved in the 20th century where he
weekly standard , and fox news contributor has been on this. steve, good morning to you. how are you doing, post inauguration day? doing well. bill: give us a sense about what we can expect to happen in your town next. well, i think very little. you re looking at a spending, spending trend that is unlikely to change anytime soon. we ve already seen this, hints of this in the early stages of this battle with the fiscal cliff and the discussions over the debt ceiling. i think we saw in the president s speech yesterday an unwillingness to do anything significant to change the trajectory of u.s. debt the president just doesn t seem that interested in the issue. bill: you wrote this morning, the weekly standard , obama doesn t care. that is the sentence, i m reading right there. you look at the debt, the way even the white house projection for 2016 is extraordinary. will be at 21 trillion up from the 16 trillion now. effectively in eight years you double the debt and then some. righ