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♪ blow ♪ blow >> i mean it never gets old really. you could watch this stuff all night long. happy new year, everybody. and new year's eve is often a time of reflection and renewal as we look to the next year. charles krauthammer, fox contributor. he wrote a book this past year. it was enormously successful on the things that matter. >> things that matter. as rick perry once said, i can think of three. of course everyone starts out with family and friends. nothing matters more than that. but that's too obvious and talking about it can get sentimental. so second, having fun. i think catfish...

Secretary of state john kerry's in afghanistan discussing how long american troops will stay there. he's meeting with of afghan president hamid karzai trying to come to an agreement. now, let's talk about the implications for both nations with rick renel, former spokesperson for the last four u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. and a fox contributor. thank you for joining us. looking forward to future, 2014, our withdrawal. we've been there for ten years. can we afford and can hamid karzai afford for the u.s. troops to totally pull out as we did in iraq? >> well, let's first talk about what we need. ...

Sta disastrous politically, dart rouse practically and doesn't have any upside for him. >> jim garrity, contributing editor at national view, and kirsten powers, a fox contributor. much of the coverage is focused on this belt way media circus and ted cruz. >> the impact on premiums, subsidies, jobs, the federal poverty level all have been eclipsed by ted cruz on the floor reading dr. seuss's "green eggs and ham" and the tenor of the coverage this week has been much lighter. take this "gq" october issue for example, ted cruz, the distinguished whacko bird from texas.

Rebel forces, coming from the outskirts of this area. again, a sign that even though these negotiations, these talks about at least one aspect of the fighting here, weapons might be wrapping up, the war continues unabated. >> we can't forget there are people suffering in the meantime. thank you very much, greg for that report. >> meanwhile, president obama has been praising the deal that was reached between the u.s. and russia. saying it offers a chance to destroy syria's stockpile of weapons, but critics warn president bashar al assad will not live up to his commitments. senator mccain and li...

Port of tartus. it is potential for a terrorist attack, less concerned about russia, that has the pentagon concerned. >> for more on this let's bring in pulitzer prize winning journalist and fox contributor. judy, welcome. let's start with the retaliation issue that assad brought up. and, you know, everything is on the table. he said, well, you never know what the rebels will do, if you all attack us, you know, i'm oh of he said, basically, i'm dealing with a huge can of worms here. i've got two different -- t at least two different forces that, who knows what they might do. >> right, xakly. t...