promises about openness and transparency. the republicans would have done the same thing. it's just that he promised he would be different. >> larry: penn is it going to pass? >> i think it will. i believe the democrats and obama want what's best for us and probably know what's best for us, but is it okay to force even a good thing on people? i don't know. >> larry: nancy? >> i think it's going to pass, and i'm actually gratified listening to dennis kucinich tonight. i think it's a step in the right direction. when you think of gender equality, that didn't stop with women getting the vote in 1920. civil rights didn't stop with brown versus the board of education. we're getting a foot in the door to make great changes. it's unacceptable to have tens of millions of people in this country without access to a good doctor or health care. that's just wrong. >> larry: you may not agree, but do you respect dennis kucinich? >> actually, no, i don't.

i'm going to be honest. i don't like him at all. he gives me the creeps. >> larry: because he's very liberal? >> no he has a creepy look about him. i'm sure he's a great guy, a wonderful guy, he's a much better human being but he gives me the creeps. >> ben, you give me the creeps sometimes. i respect him. i think he's realizing that getting a foot in the door means a lot more than not doing anything, which is what the republicans have been doing. nothing. >> larry: penn, what do you make of the kucinich switch? >> i'm proud to say no one gives me the creeps, but i listened to him say to lawrence o'donnell on ms nbc that he would vote no matter what, so obama takes everybody in air force one and flies to their district and does a rally and hope someone yells for them to vote. i don't know. i would like to think, one of

the cool things about him was that he seemed to be so true to himself and changing around for a foot in the door all seems just a little bit less heroic than i would like. >> larry: the president appeared on fox news earlier today. he went into hostile territory. the host interrupted him. he talked health care and politics. he also asked about tiger woods' return to golf. watch. >> i think that tiger has acknowledged that he betrayed his family. that's a personal issue that he's got to work out. i hope they've worked it out. i'm sure he's going to still be a terrific golfer. >> larry: tiger, what do you make of, beb, coming back? >> i think it's great he's coming back. i don't think it's any of anybody's damn business, except him and his wife. i think it's outrageous, the way the media has made a tremendous

brouhaha out of this. >> larry: try to have an opinion, ben. nancy, what do you think? first penn, then nancy. >> i have a slight difference in grammar with ben. i think the word is among and not between, but certainly it's none of our business. >> larry: nancy, do you complete the try um ver at? >> it is none of our business. it is a sad fact that everybody who is a sleshtd, their lives are open to the media. i will say this about tiger woods. i'm sure he has really great health care. he has access to the best health care in the world, don't he? >> larry: what do you think of that, ben? >> i'm not sure what the connection of it is with anything else. i better not say anything more. >> larry: did you see the president on fox? >> no, i did not. >> larry: did you see it, penn? >> no.

>> larry: nancy, did you see it? >> nope. >> but a lot of people watch fox. >> larry: i'm not saying they don't. i didn't know the host, but he interrupted him a lot. >> wasn't it hannity. i will say this, he's the most diplomatic and polite person in the world. it saddens me he's yelling at israel so much, we could really all learn a lot from his interpersonal skills. >> larry: we'll be back with ben, penn and nancy.

hannity. >> larry: anderson cooper standing by to host "ac 360" at the top of the hour. >> tonight keeping them honest on health care. the white house looking for votes on what special favors are tucked inside the bill. we'll talk to dennis kucinich, why he switched his vote and whether he got special promises from the president to do it. also a 360 follow on the haitians that laura sills buy tried to sneak out of the country. every one of them had a parent. tonight they're reunited with

their families. a shocking story, literally, a new game show where people deliver potentially lethal doses of electricity to contestants even though they believed they were hurting people, they kept zapping them. why did they do it? we'll reveal all tonight on 360, larry. >> larry: only in america. that's anderson cooper, 10:00 eastern. remember that series planet earth. we've got a blog exclusive about working on the breathtaking follow-up to that series. it's called "life." it premiers on sunday. go to our blog cnn.com/larry king. ben, what's your read on the rielle hunter. >> this is astonishing, this good looking guy, supposedly so devoted to his cancer stricken wife, it turns out every single

bit of it was a lie. the heart is deceitful above all things and boy is he an example. >> larry: you can't be devoted to the poor. >> he's quoted by his campaign manager that it made him sick to be among working class and poor people because they didn't smell good. it med him sick to be around people who weren't rich. >> larry: ben penn what do you make of the whole edwards' affair. >> i troy to hang tough about certain things not being any of our business. some of the stuff sure seems like it does cross over into our business, especially when he -- his whole image was based on that caring and concern and so on. i'd like to make it none of our business, but i'm but i'm afrai is a little bit. >> larry: nancy, what do you make of rheal doing that interview. >> first of all i agree with ben and penn and i think rheal is an opportunist, i hate saying this,

i'm a woman, she's a woman. but you just know -- >> i'm an opportunist. >> you know what's going to happen, she's probably going to have her own fashion line, fragrance, then a reality show and then probably pose news. and why do we even have to know any of it? i find the whole thing horrible. and i'm so grateful that john edwards wasn't chosen to be vice president. yikes. >> think about the fact that this man's image, every single bit of it was fabrication, he really did not care at all about anything except looking good, having his hair look good. having a 20,000 square foot. that's fine, rich people can be sympathetic to the poor. but the fact that he had such incredible contempt for the people whose votes for which he was asking, is -- >> i always that if he asked for a barber and got a really cheap

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>> larry: by the way, if you heard some background noise in our studio tonight, we had "larry king live" auction winners in our studio tonight, they're winners of tickets to the chicago blackhawks and a whole group of folks from moore park college.

nice to have them all around, you may have heard them. a very nice group. what do you make, ben, of obama? his year in office. >> if it's not a disaster, it will be fine. but if it is a disaster, it's going to pull him down terribly. we won't know for four years. we'll have to judge him for a long time after he's out of office. i think he's cracking the whip on israel way too hard. >> larry: you don't think israel did the right thing? >> i think they were very stupid about their timing, but they've been our most staunch ally in the middle east. >> there's so much about bush that i disagreed with and there's so much that obama's doing exactly the same. the corporate bailouts, the signing the patriot act, the continuing wars, it just seems

awful to me and i'm so upset that there's really no anti-war movement anymore. the anti-war movement was the anti-bush movement and if obama keeps doing the same stuff, some of us who disagreed with bush have to continue disagreeing with obama even though he's so much better spoken and so much more pleasant. >> larry: nancy? >> i think that president obama came in at an incredibly bad time. there were so many big, big, big issues at play, the economy was tanking, the war had depleted so much money and so many lives and him being the first african-american president is truly a big deal and i think that he's handled it with quite a lot of grace. >> larry: the jury's still out, too early. >> yeah, it's 14 months. >> larry: the 66th annual radio and television correspondent's dinner is being held in washington, a black tie gathering, press, pundits and

politicians. vice president joe biden is the speaker, let's tune in. >> at least its my foot. by the way, ron was only pointing his finger. look, ken, in fairness, i know you're going to get mad, but in fairness, i think you're a little rough on the republicans for constantly repeating the mantra, the health care bill is 222 pages long. put yourself in their spot. just ask sarah, that's a hell of a lot to write in the palm of your hand. i don't blame them. by the way, i know this is all

supposed to be humorous as i'm trying to be, but, you know, i do have to defend our administration a little bit here, especially the recovery act which i have been put in charge of. republicans keep saying it hasn't created a single job. well, tell that to senator scott brown. by the way, speaking of scott, kind of ironic, the man who posed with his pants down caught us with our pants off. i don't know how this works. we were a little slow scott, picking up how good you were, but we sort of zeroed in now. you know, it's often said, a picture is worth 1,000 words. normally i would rather go with the words. but i -- tonight i sum up the

journey barack and i have had since being elected. i thought the best way to do that is share some of my photos with you and to let you know how i'm adjusting to the job. at our convention, president obama addressed a stadium of roaring supporters. but let me set the record straight, he's not the only one that addressed the stadium. and by the way, sasha and malia weren't the only ones to get a dog when they went to washington. i got one too, his name is champ. you can see, he's a democratic dog, he's biting the hand that feeds him. look, i got to level with you, one of the first things the president did was said joe, we got to have some ground rules here, ground rules relating to our relationship and how you function in your job. so the next slide is one of our first days in the white house.

the president is explaining me exactly how far down i have to bow when i enter the oval office. that's not the only ground rule. i don't know who the hell is doing these slides, but they're about two seconds ahead. at any rate, it's a real