trump s hand in may saying he s, quote, very pleased that the president assigned legal protections that issa had co-sponsored. that s the same thing that he tried to approve and issa cruised to victory in the past election but this year in a tight race against doug appleby. at a fund-raiser last night, president obama talked about issa. primary contribution to the united states congress has been to obstruct and to waste taxpayer dollar on trumped up investigations that have led nowhere that. joining me, former reagan official linda chavez and josh barro. josh, this to me, the darrell issa is two things. it s, one, the political
that have different interests. say iowa. i don t know how much they know about donald trump s past. well, that s the thing. everybody knows it. just take a quick google search. donald trump s life has been in the public eye for the last 20 years. there s a major difference between bill clinton s donald trump s relationships. bill clinton did it on the taxpayer dollar. he did it in the governor s house, the white house. even as you describe that there and even if you agree with your depiction, it s not hillary clinton. it s bill clinton. hillary clinton is the one rung for president, right, scottie? absolutely. that s the one thing people are not talking about, the idea she always stood by her man which in some cases is honorable but she never took up for the repeated cases, the women that were underneath bill clinton as governor and president that were basically a version of assaulted or involved in these
the house. i encourage people to go and watch the videos. unless you ve seen the videos, it s awfully hard to really know the horrendous activity it is taking place there. but i think, you know, even if you re pro abortion, if you watch these videos, the despicable activity of selling fetal tissue, of performing procedures that are unlawful such as performing a procedure that is not used for other abortions, but specifically for fetus recovering fetal tissues, saying we crunch from above and we crunch from below so that we can resume taking out the portion that we want. that s against the law. and so that s our job in congress is to make sure that people are abiding by the law, especially if they re getting taxpayer dollar to the tune of $500 million, half a billion dollars a year. we want to make sure they re abiding by the law. all this is teeing down for a
just want to remind people that please don t complain if i were to put an anativity scene out during christmas and say, you know, if it s my house i get to do with it what i wish despite what other people around the country may feel about it. joining us now from los angeles, mary katharine ham and from washington juan williams both are fox news analysts. juan, do you believe the white house should be used to promote policy? i mean, what s next? a banner going down saying liberalism is good? i mean, come on. it s the people s house. all the people. yeah. well i think that s why it was totally legitimate for the president to do what he did, bill. first of all there were no taxpayer dollars used for that illumination. that s ridiculous, the whole thing is a taxpayer dollar. all the security. it s the people s house. you are missing the point. here is a key and this is where huckabee just demonstrates why he is totally lost. what you have got is a constitution that says there
each week we ask you to vote online in our friday lightning round poll for your favorite panel topic. as you take a look at this chart, the national debt since 2009, it is now over $18 trillion. and can you see how much it has grown since the president took office. a president who campaigned in 2008, obviously, saying that the debt was a major problem and that president bush was using the credit card and the bank of china. what about the debt and how big a deal it is and how it factors in now. the budget deficit that has gone down, he would say that we are spending less than we were, that that debt is shrinking that he is being a careful steward of the taxpayer dollar. this chart is staggering.