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Are so over. you say we keep going back to the same well. maybe try something different? >> we keep going back too -- clintons and bushes and clintons and bushes in so many election cycles. america is not designed for dynasties. we almost -- started to have one with the adamses and that dined out. were not a monarchy, and the idea we have these same families -- not just the same families but the same players, insiders, coming up again and again, i think is something that americans are frankly si...

Back of the book segment tonight, how tough does barack obama need to be in the ukraine deal? joining us from los angeles, mary katharineham from washington juan williams both fox news analyst. first of all, juan, what would you do to putin if you were president, god help us. what would you do? >> well, right off the bat, the first thing i would do is i would freeze all the assets of russians have in international banks. i would make it painful for the ruling class in russia and secondly, i migh...

Government spending. what it results in is amnesty. it results in a deterioration of the value of the dollar, unlimited, unfunded liables. theyve thats working together, you have to break that up. you cannot break up the ruling class. >> what do you make of the argument something like this: you have to keep your powder dry for the big battle, and the big battle is the mid-term elections, keeping the focus on obamacare, a lot of this stuff slide right now, including threats of government shutdown...

Holocaust is okay. >> i wrote an entire book about the psychology and psychopathologies of the american elite and if theres one thing ive taken away it is theres nothing more destructive than a ruling class that simultaneously has too much power and is genuinely convinced its being persecuted. and that is the situation we have now and history has shown that is a very unstable equilibrium indeed. ♪

Like when -- >> excuse me one second. did you compare the estate tax with the holocaust? >> no, the morality that says its okay to do something to a group because theyre a small percentage of the population is the morality that says the holocaust is okay. >> i wrote an entire book about the psychology and psychopathologies of the american elite and if theres one thing ive taken away it is theres nothing more destructive than a ruling class that simultaneously has too much power and is genuinely ...

>> excuse me one second. did you compare the estate tax with the holocaust? >> no, the morality that says its okay to do something to a group because theyre a small percentage of the population is the morality that says the holocaust is okay. >> i wrote an entire book about the psychology and psychopathologies of the american elite and if theres one thing ive taken away it is theres nothing more destructive than a ruling class that simultaneously has too much power and is genuinely convinced its...

To wake up or this problem is going to continue just like the poverty war -- war on poverty lasted 50 years, $23 trillion, and there are more poor people today than then. >> herman, the bottom line is were not doing that. heres my -- >> no. >> the latest budget, you can commend them for avoiding a government shutdown or whatever you want to say, but the way we arrived at that was to do something that doesnt address or long-term spending issues and we just breathe a sigh of relief because for now...

Theyll northbound a couple of years. we dont know that. but we know where they are now. >> frank bruiny pen add column in the "new york times," surprised a lot of people. he said of hillary clinton, this was last months -- he said hillary? not so fast. because he called her the establishment candidate, part of the ruling class that voters have come to disgust. what about that? >> well, first of all, i dont agree with that, but the funny part of primary caucuses on both sides is its not about wha...

Mandela, its tempting to remember the post card mandela, the person who brought people together after he was freed from captivity but you have to remember the context in which he lived. you had the inverse in the civil rights movement. you had a native african population that was seven times larger than the ruling class that essentially turned them and enslaved them in their own country. they were made a third-class citizen, a noncitizen, a nonperson within a land that they called their ancestor...

The ruling class. they are the people, the last bastion of the great white male, yet they are so aggrieved. and i think thats something that sort of keeps fox together right now. it keeps its story line together. i do wonder whats going to happen, you know, as that coalition becomes a minority. as the republican party sort of is unable to make a national party out of its using that coalition. i dont know whats going to happen to fox. they have not proven themselves able to do much else besides s...