republican presidential candidate rick santorum is with us tonight in our center seat. joining him on the panel, stephen hayes, juan williams, and charles krauthammer. first, this trump situation has taken a lot of air time. what is your reaction to this weekend and what do you think of all the hubbub around it? i issued a statement within a few minutes after he made the comment about john mccain, said that john mccain is a war hero period. we have disagreed on a lot of things over the years, but knowing what that man went through, if that s not a hero i don t know what a hero is. i haven t decided to jump into the food fight. i think when a democrat says something stupid which i think something recently has been said that s not a very good thing, the other side isn t told how do you feel about that and then to
republican presidential candidate rick santorum is with us tonight in our center seat. joining him on the panel, stephen hayes, juan williams, and charles krauthammer. first, this trump situation has taken a lot of air time. what is your reaction to this weekend and what do you think of all the hubbub around it? i issued a statement within a few minutes after he made the comment about john mccain, said that john mccain is a war hero period. we have disagreed on a lot of things over the years, but knowing what that man went through, if that s not a hero i don t know what a hero is. i haven t decided to jump into the food fight. i think when a democrat says something stupid which i think something recently has been said that s not a very good thing, the other side isn t told how do you feel about that and then to
beat up on the other person. it s okay, but just because someone says something that s wrong or doesn t mean that they re stupid or something that s mean doesn t mean they re mean and i m not going to engage in personal attacks. that s what s going on here. unless you attack him personally you re not tough enough. you re backing off. you re not going after him. it ends up with a weaker candidate. isn t this race different, a lot different with all these candidates? now he s topping the latest polls. what are you learning from that? what does that tell you? well you go back four years ago and the two top people in the polls were michelle bachman and rick perry. one had a lot of money and one had a lot of grass roots momentum. what i find is these
the idea there is a suspicious package and secret service officers are coming back potentially xwoxed driving right next to the thing as they pull up. i thought they were off-duty coming up for a party. they may have parked at the white house for convenience. are you ever off-duty and near the white house? i don t think there s such a thing. this isn t just another government agency. this isn t like the mint or ftc. protecting the president is one of the most important security mission there is. the world almost turns on the office of the presidency. markets are certainly confident or not because of it, and we have an agency that, you know, it reminds me of karl marx repeats itself, six months ago they let someone get into the first floor what s that tell you?
so i see this more as a one-off ploy. i see this as a group of people who talk about a strong america having contributed to a weaker america p. i just wonder whether when bill clinton, the president you served, was engaged in the last 11th hour talks trying to reach a deal between yasser arafat and the israelis. if somebody on the republican side had called up or sent a her with 47 signatures on it saying don t trust clinton, he s a lame duck? i mean, what kind of game is this? it s a very dangerous game, and, you know, once this precedent has been set, it s out there in 9 public you know, system, and again, you know and it i don t know how you expect president obama to drive the best deal possible if the other side isn t sure he can