like crazy. >> all right, that wraps it up for this week. twitter all week long, ali and i are tweeting. and we do read every singing one of your questions and comments. "money" will be back next week. have a great weekend, everybody. here's a look at what we'll be bringing you over the next three hours. homes and businesses and roads are submerged in water and then next hour at 3:00 eastern, with chicken nuggets and fries served at school, childhood obesity is on the rise. now food activists are telling the government it's time to put its money where its mouth is. and in our 4:00 eastern hour, a family food makeover, you may

want to try it in your house with your kids. you're in the cnn newsroom where the news unfolds live this saturday october 2. a big rally in washington, at the lincoln memorial right now t gathering is called one nation working together, including a host of individuals and advocacy groups pushingi ishes -- issues related to education. >> pretty good turn out there at the lincoln memorial. >> reporter: i think we have some great video of the crowds turning out here on the national mall, right here at the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial. really there are a range of issues that they're touching on here from the podium and from the signs i see in the crowd. but what it comes down to seriously is jobs and november 2, those will the two big themes that we're hearing here.

a coalition of liberal and progressive groups coming together including civil rights groups, union groups, gay rights groups, environmentalists, just to name a few, all coming together for this rally, really aimed at getting out the vote and stirring the same emotion and the same energy that we have already seen amongst conservative groups and that we have seen here on the national mall with glenn beck and tea parties earlier this summer. the president, naacp as well as ed schultz the speaker here. listen. >> we're not the answer to the tea party, we're not the alternative to the tea party, but we're very much the antidote to the tea party. we're in a different response to the same situation, some people see prosperity going up and tension going up. let's create a tide that lifts all votes. let's make sure the firefighters

and the cops can keep their jobs to keep us safe and teach our kids. in tough times there's a playbook for how to get out of the great depression, it's the same one that can get us out of the great recession, we have to focus on jobs and schools. >> we cannot give up on november 2, we have not gotten everything we have wanted in the first two years, but have to stand behind our leaders on the progressive agenda, that is for the people, and not always the corporations, it is for the family of america. >> and that again is ed schultz, he's a radio personality as well as an msnbc talk show host, speaking here of a range of people, we're in the middle of this rally right now it's very beautiful here, so it may turn out a range of issues, everything from education to immigration reform, really that they're talking about, but again, all set against the very

important backdrop of the midterm elections, one month from "today" atoday and that's coincidence in timing. mexican police are trying to free a bus load of tourists in acapulco. gunmen apparently seized the bus last night. there were at least 22 people on board and all the tourists are described as mexican nationals from a neighboring state. no americans are involved. we'll bring you more details on this developing story as they become available. and u.s. authorities are working with mexican police to find the culprits behind an attack near the u.s. consulate in mexico. it happened last night in monterrey, a series of grenade blasts rocked the consulate, but none were close enough to actually damage the facility and no americans were injured in that either. a watchman at the nearby courthouse was hit by shrapnel. u.s. officials don't believe the consulate was the target of that attack. all along the east coast

floodwaters are starting to recede. it's been a pretty ugly situation for the past couple of days, but it's still very dangerous. you're looking at some of the rescues that took place too. at least eight deaths from north carolina to new england are now blamed on the high water, hundreds of people including nursing home patients were forceded to higher ground. and among the highest hit areas, hundreds of people have been rescued from their flooded homes and while the region is starting to destroy out just slightly, flood watches and flood warnings are still in place, all the -- and another weather system is moving through the region as well. bonnie snyder, is this other system going to be related to another named storm? >> no, actually the new system that will probably come more towards tomorrow is just a cold front coming through, but any time you see rain on top of drenching rain, the flood risk goes back up again. you have got to see these

rainfall totals since tuesday, some of the amounts of rain that have occurred in just four or five days time, they're more than what you would see in an entire half-year period. you can see we have over 11 inches in norfolk, virginia has accumulated. and heavy rain in new york city, at least three inches, there was a time where the new york city subway system was shut down because of flooding. i want to show you where we stand with the flood watches and warnings. we still have flood warnings from north carolina up to vermont and the driving has been treacherous if you were traveling on i-95. our i-report comes from the philadelphia-baltimore area on i-95. you've got to see these pictures of what it looks like on the roads. you can see that the cars had to come to a complete stop because they couldn't cross the road in front of them. this was reported by jake miller who was driving up near the baltimore area, and he said the rain was coming down so heavy and hard, he had to stop what he was doing and he actually

watched cars hydroplaning on an interstate like that. it's bringing rain to the northwest. we're going to watch it advance eastward and we're not done with 2 tropics. >> if you're talking about hurricane season, that lasts until november 30. >> october is still a busy time. >> we got a long way to go. so it's open enrollment season for employees of a lot of companies out there, lots of options including those flexible spending accounts. what are they? and should you sign up? that's next. it's work through the grime and the muck, month.

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they're focusing on three issues in particular. jobs, justice and education. let's listen in right now to richard trumka. >> we come together today because america needs jobs, jobs that will support families, all families, jobs that will give our young people paths of tucht, not obstacles, jobs that will allow people to retire with dignity, jobs that provide the means to support small businesses like the one owned by diana ortiz who came all the way from pueblo, colorado to tell us that we need an economy that works for main street, so that small business -- >> you've been listening to afl-cio president richard trumka. there were a number of speaks including al sharpton and ed schultz and on the list "today" of those who are going to be

speaking, harry belafonte, just to name a few. on what's being called one nation working together. now let's talk about your job and your benefits. it is open enrollment time at many companies right now. the time to sign up for health care plans and other benefits and one benefit that promises to save you big money is a flexible spending account. so here to tell us about the three major ways fsas can help you, personal financial expert, good to see you. >> great to see you, fred. >> let's tackle the basics first, what exactly are fsas and why do i need to consider it as a good option? >> so an fas is short for flexible spending account and it's a benefit offered to employees by many employers that enables you to pay for out of pocket health care costs with pretax dollars. and if you're like most people,

what i just said will make your eyes glaze over. so think about it this way, you're at the pharmacy, you've got a basket of things that you have to purchase and the person behind you taps you on the shoulder and says hey, would you like a coupon for up to 40% off, no strings attached? that's what an fsa is and four out of five americans aren't using it. >> so you can pay for those out of pocket medical relateded things, but how it works is, you put money in it along the way throughout the year, whether it's taken from your paycheck, et cetera, it's put into a separate account, you can only use it for these medical out of -- out of pocket expenses, right? >> qualified expenses. and there are 100,000 items that actually qualify so it's a very hefty list. >> so you say that the real big lure is it's tax efficiency, and how it can save you in the long run on taxes, but it can also save you in other ways too, how?

>> so the number one benefit is this, you have to work less in order to pay for an expense. let me give you an example. let's say you go to the dentist and you don't have dental coverage and it costs you $100, that's the bill, if you didn't have an fas, you would have to earn $150 if your tax rate were 33% because uncle sam would take $50 right off the top. if you use an fsa, you only have to earn $100 to pay for the $100 visit, not $150 to pay for the $100 visit. but you're saying i have dental coverage. if you go to this website, save smart spend healthy, you can see the list, again, over 100,000 items that are eligible. >> that's how it may safe you some money, but how does it keep you on a budget, so to speak? >> what i have noticed is that what gets measured gets managed.

sear so if you're on a diet, you write down how much you eat, you eat less. if you write down how much you exercise, you exercise more. the simple act of writing down the fsa -- look for ways to spend smarter. >> you say ultimately this really does keep you healthy because the incentive is you don't want to lose this money that you've saved so you really are going to take care of yourself and address all these medical needs because of this sfa, right? >> exactly, this money enables you to pay for co-pays, it will help you stay on the medications your doctor prescribes and it will help you have extra money to go take advantage of preventative care. >> if you don't use that money in an fsa, you lose it. thanks so much, good to see you. >> thanks, fred. all right, financial

success, fame, love, everything, right? best selling novels. terry mcmillan had all of it, but when her husband revealed he's gay, her happiness turned to anger in a very public way, if you'll remember, face to face on mcmillan on getting to happen and rising from deception. and technology to the rescue, this time it's helping us answer that age old question, what's for dinner. cnn's garry tuchman serves up this week's edge of discovery. >> researchers at intel labs seattle are cooking up something new. 3-d technology that turns your kitchen counter into an interactive touch screen surface. it's called away sis. >> the oasis camera turns cameras to turn every day work space into an intelligent work space where objects that come in

give you access to a whole world of digital information. >> just put an item on the counter, a camera and a computer work together to identify it. >> there's no bar codes or special tags on these. >> then a projector creates a touch screen display right after your fingertips. put two items together like this steak and pepper, and oasis gives you cooking instructions. when you're finished, you can store what you've learned in a virtual drawer. the researchers are also taking oasis out of the kitchen to see what else it can do. >> to take this unit and drop it down in a million different environments and just see what happens. >> reporter: chess, anyone? gary tuchman, cnn. because of one word, imagination and reality have merged.

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conquering anger and resentiment, a bitter battle that best selling novelist terry mcmillan says he has wageded and won. but her personal life came crashing down several years ago when her husband admitted he's gay. mcmillan described that shocking moment during a 2005 appearance on ""the oprah winfrey show."" maybe you remember this. >> he said he was confuse it about his sexuality and then he said, i think i might be gay. i said what? >> you were surprised to hear that? >> he was on the bed, i was sitting in a chair. >> yeah. >> and then he said, i think i

might be gay. and there's a hallogen lamp tha i had, and i said i feel like taking this lamp and bashing it in your face but i'm not going to. and he stood up and he said, i am gay. and i said, well finally you told the truth about something and look what it turned out to be. >> ouch, well that deep sense of betrayal ate away at mcmillan for years but she tackled her anger head on in a fierce internal battle that turned out to be the launching point for her book. >> after my divorce i was really bitter and angry and all that and i realized how it was wearing me out and i didn't like the person that i had become. i didn't expect my marriage to

last forever, i know and knew to some extent that nothing is promised and i know people that had married their quote, unquote soul mates and all that and their marriages lasted three years, five years or whatever. i said as long as -- i'll take this and feel good until it runs out and it just so happens it ran out in a weird way. but i had temperature really good years being married to jonathan and i loved him dearly and vice versa. but ultimately, when i found out i mean i was divorcing him when he desired to tell me what he thought he was. when you've been deceived, when you've been lied to, and someone that you trusted, i don't care who they are, you are angry about it because you really did feel safe with this person and now you realize that you don't know how much of your inside that they really did violate. you don't know how much of it was deliberate or inadvertent. it wore me out. i didn't even recognize myself

after a couple of years. >> what was that moment where you said, suddenly i didn't even recognize who i was? >> i was swearing a lot and i was grinding my teeth, all kinds of things, and it was not who i was, and it just started dawning on me how much energy it takes to be angry. oh, my goodness, it's like an emotional termite, it was wearing me out. >> so it was years you felt angry for years? >> oh, yes. >> at what point did you say, you know what? i'm tired of being mad. >> i didn't just say i'm tired of being mad. you just get tired of being mad. some women never recover from any kind of emotional abuse or deception. some women don't. and i wanted to write about that. >> and you feel that's okay too? >> i don't think that's okay, no. i think you allow your past to destroy your present and you can't even enjoy, you can't let love in, you can't let anybody in if you're angry.

and you're stuck in the path, it can destroy you and my attitude even in writing this book, you know what? hold up a minute here, i deserve to be happy. >> and how is terry mcmillan feeling these days? are you breathing? are you at a comfortable place? >> i feel like i'm floating. in my on sky, sort of. and that i'm -- that i got my center back. i basically wrote myself to happy to be very honest with you. because i know also that it's a temporary thing, but i know when it's being snatched from me and i know how to snatch it back now. >> she says she's breathing, breathing and exhaling all at once. so terry mcmillan has some ideas for women trying to overcome

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welcome back, a look at our top stories right now, it's being called the antidote to the tea party, thousands of progressive and liberal activists are gathering to focus on jobs, education and equality. the rally is taking place at the same spot tea party activists gathered five weeks ago, we're talking the lincoln memoal.ri in indonesia, a train crash has killed at least 36 people. dozens more are injured. officials say a train from

jakarta was traveling at high speed when it crashed into the back of a stock train. indonesia's transportation ministry says it is investigating whether the crash was caused by human or technical error. and no delays of two american balloonists who disappeared over the adriatic sea. crews from croatia and italy are involved in the search. the pair has been missing since thursday morning. here's dominic with a look back at this week that was. >> it's been six days since israel started building again in the west bank, five days since vice president joe biden told his base to buck up. four days since eddie long declared spiritual warfare. we're going to take you through all of it right now. welcome to what the week.

there's a fine line between news and noise. i'm pete dominic, i'm one of 6.8 billion people on this planet, it's 2010, we have thousands of tv channels, the digital superhighways, the democrats, republicans, and apathetics, 15 different flavors of toothpaste? information overload. but this, this is what made tv. this is what we watched and this this week, this is the week that was. hit it. >> i have been accused, i'm under attack. >> four men are accusing long of coercing them into sex when they were teenagers. >> i'm going to fight. >> it is shades of vietnam. >> five midwesteamerican soldie accused of killing civilians. >> former president jimmy carter was hospital'sed, he went to the hospital just for observation. >> a woman ask mr. obama this

direct question. >> the precepts, jesus christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that i would want to lead. >> high anxiety on the streets of paris, new reports suggesting a plot by a terrorist commando team had been foiled. >> tony curtis has died. the corner says he suffered a heart attack in his las vegas home. >> tyler clementi was a good-natured soul. his roommates secretly streamed video of him on the internet. >> chief of staff rahm emanuel is resigning in order to run for mayor of chicago. >> if authentic, it is the first we have heard from osama bin laden since march. >> that's what the main stream media hammered into your head and some important stuff and we'll get into it. but what was undercover? a couple of things come to mind.

michelle obama's child nutrition bill came to a screeching halt in the house and she's always championed for healthier school lunches, she's got that garden but it's interesting that the bill could take money from food stamp programs. kim jong-il's son has been identified as the heir apparent to lead north korea. but nothing was more important than the testimony of the director of the congressional budget office this week on tax cuts, he characterized as devastating. here to talk to me with it, our specially hand picked panel, david webb, he's t estephanie m national radio talk show host and a comedian, writer and a director of some of the funniy t est tweets i have ever read in my life. this is a no win, nobody wins and that's why it's a great

story. republicans and democrats, everybody loses, if it's not okay to cut from the top, it's not okay to cut from the bottom. they all raise the deficit. let's start with you david web, what do we do here? >> i mean if you read the whole report, it basically says that it's going to raise it in the short-term, it's going to be good in the short-term, it's going to raise it in the long-term unless you offset it with either increasing taxes or spending cuts. so hey washington, cut some taxes and maybe cut some spending. that helps. >> stephanie miller, democrats aren't highlighting this this week because it breaks obama's promise. we know president obama is not going to raise taxes above $250,000 for those making that, right? >> well, you know, pete, one thing it does prove is what the president's saying is right, these bush tax cuts for the rich are largely what got us to this deficit. so they got to stop screaming about the deficits. the one thing that did come out

of it is at least they did a temporary extension of tax cuts for people that are $250,000 that seems to be the best idea in there. but he has -- they also can't keep telling the lie that he hasn't given tax cuts because he has to most americans. >> this trickle down economics theory, he says tax cuts aren't good, they're raising the deficit. sam? >> well, i mean trickle down economics has been completely discredited by anybody but, you know, maybe the tea party. i'm not a deficit hawk so i'm not terribly worried about the deficit, frankly, but i think we should have tax cuts for people under $250,000 because we have seen study after study which suggests that these people are going to spend more money. and the one thing about that omb report is that it does not actually measure the difference which has been proven, like i said in study after study that people who get tax cuts under

$250,000, they put that money into the economy. if you get tax cuts over $250,000, you put it into the back and you just wait. >> david web, you're a very, very wealthy guy, are you putting your money into the bank? this is what i want to ask the tea party and republicans, david web, where are you cutting? >> you start by cutting programs that are bloated. >> give me one. >> cut down on department of education. cut it down, push it back down to the states. decentralize it. >> every state has their own department of education, you want to get rid of the department of education? >> education works best when it's at the state level and you knee a doe to oversee some of the -- >> you've now gone .00001% of the way. that's ridiculous. >> let me give you a little lesson in economics.

when the rich, the so-called evil rich above $250,000 have money to invest, it helps grow wealth capital in the country. and unless you offset the tax cuts, one of two ways, you either cut spending across the board, which is what we need to do, you raise taxes, which is what obama's going to do. but it delivers -- it will deliver over $3.4 trillion in actual revenue for the government. >> stephanie miller? >> oh, please, i'm out here in california, pete, and meg whitman is a billionaire and she can't even afford legal household help, apparently. the rich don't spend their money. so, you know, i think you're right, it certainly benefits more people to give tax cuts at lower levels. and the other thing that we're screaming about is these tax levels are still so much lower than they ever were. let's go back to the 90% eisenhower years. >> that should work out really well. we want to go from 36% to 39%.

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welcome back to "what the week"? i'm pete dominic and every week i'm heading out with cnn cameras to talk with you about issues that matter the most to you.

this week don't ask, don't tell. 2/3 of americans, 67% now in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. do you agree? i hit the streets to talk it out. >> of all these countries that allow gays to openly serve in the military. welcome to democracy, where are you guys from in come here, cowboys. 67% of americans in a new cnn poll said gays and lesbians should be able to serve openly in the military. what do you think? >> i think they should. >> i think they should. >> everybody has the right to protect and serve our country. >> i think it should be up to the men and women in the military. >> my take is i used to be uncomfortable around gay people and then i got around gay people. >> god bless anybody for being attracted to me. >> and i love gays and i love

lesbians but i don't agree with what they do because in the word -- >> i understand that, but you're making a religious argument for -- what other jobs can i not do? >> i'm just saying. >> what other jobs can gays and lesbians not do? >> you said openly. >> you said you don't have the foundation in the bible, where it ought to be, you read the bible and it tells you what you should and should not believe. and i don't want to turn that into a biblical conversation. >> you are and the military is separated from religion. >> i don't know how you can say let's let them in openly if you haven't served. >> 20 years in the air force, i think that don't ask, don't tell is appropriate. it was known about in the military even back then, but if you did your job, that's all that really mattered. >> i disagree with that totally. put them out front. >> what's that, put them out front?

>> put them out front, does that mean they can serve openly. a host of a conservative talk show host, should gays be allowed to serve openly in the military? >> i think we need to trust gates on this one, he said we need to study it and move forward to where it can happen. what somebody does in their own bedroom is their own business. but the military is an environment where you need integration. it's going to happen immediately. >> this one seems like a slam dunk. >> it is a slam dunk, it's going to happen eventually, so let's start the process right now, there's absolutely no reason why we have this policy. >> 24 countries allow gays to serve openly in the military. are we not as professional in our military, stephanie? >> i'm still no shock over that cowboy, let me just say somebody ought to write a song, mamas don't let your sons grow up to

be homophobic cowboys. i'm going to quote my dad's old running mate, barry goldwater, you don't have to talk straight, you just have to shoot straight. >> what the week wants to take things a little further and give everyone in politics a weekly check up. this week we're examining the democrats who are suffering from what plagues many of the brass in washington. it's when a rock star president and mighty democrats of 2008 go limp and lose their hope of change. it's hard to explain to america that it takes a long time to get out of this jam. it's our political plague of the week, we call it electile dysfunction and there's no magic pill that can save the democrats. what can they do to -- of course you're happy, the republicans are away in the lead, but you have been here before with electile dysfunction. >> it happens in both parties, but right now the reaction to

bad policies since 2006 by the pelosi-led congress and the president and in a basicallily liberalism on steroids is proven not to work, stimulus didn't work, health care bill now is going to cost everybody more money and nothing and jobs, well they're not coming back. so, you know, people are going to just stay no more democrats, no more big government, no more entitlements, let's get back to a rational government. >> stephany. . >> you know, you guys just keep nominating more and more alarming candidates over there in the tea party, i'm sorry. i think we are going to take joe bidens advice and get it together. other weiwise we're going to ha samantha from bewitched. i have yet to see a tea party candidate with a functioning brain. >> whoa, whoa, stephanie, there are 39 seats needed, there are 70 in play and hundred that are

needed. nice try and buy the way, the real witchcraft -- let me finish -- the real witchcraft is the voodoo economics that's going on in washington that's where a president has spent more than every president behind him on the deficit. >> is that true? >> back during the 2008 campaign, everybody knew whoever was going to win the presidency was going to get blamed for the disastrous policies of the republicans for the past eight years and it's coming to fruition. and i'm not one who actually thinks, i don't think you're going to see gop control of either the house or the senate because you can get very excited if you're a tea party member, but the fact is you can only vote once and apparently because sharia law is coming you may not be able to vote at all according to these people. but i think we're going to see the democrats at least retain

control. i was making a joke at the fact that sharon angle said "today" that sharia law is taking over this country and i was making a joke of the fact that a lot of tea party members seem to believe that and that is in fact the joke, it's ridiculous. >> everybody got a joke in and we'll let everybody at home decide whose was the best. all right, president obama's chief of staff calling it a day, to run for mayor of chicago? i thought that was kind of crazy myself until i did some research. rahm emanuel's week on the other side. was gathered together in one place. [ printer whirs ] done. ♪ thanks. do you work here? not yet. from tax info to debunking myths, the field guide to evolving your workforce has everything you need. download it now at thinkbeyondthelabel.com.

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friday morning, president obama made this announcement. >> my chief of staff, rahm emanuel has informed me that he will be leaving his post today to explore other opportunities. >> like maybe mayor of chicago? this brings us to our segment we call you are here. how did we get here in let's go back three weeks when mayor daily announced that he would not be seeking another term. of course the talk of rahm emanuel's replacement, that starts immediately.

why? well, let's go back to april when rahm emanuel made some news on the charlie rose program. >> one day i would like to run for mayor of the city of chicago. >> let's go back 50 years further to find out who is rahm emanuel and how did he get here? he was born and raised in chicago, he was a ballet dancer who lost his middle finger in a meet slicing accident while working at an arbys. his brothers ari emanuel on the hbo show entourage is based on, that's his brother, the most powerful agent in entertainment. here's rahm emanuel's professional bio. he was senior adviser to richard daly when he campaigned for mayor of chicago. he was one of president bill clinton's senior advisors, we'll put him right there on the road.

he represented in the house of representatives from 2003 to 2008, he represented chicago. president obama tapped him in 2008 to be his chief of staff and, well, i have to say, when i heard that this ambitious guy was going to leave such a powerful job to run for mayor, i thought, that doesn't sound very ambitious, until i realized even a guy called rambo isn't superhero. the first chief of staff, harry truman's chief of staff. there he is right there, handsome man, john steelman was his name. he served the longest because he didn't know that you can get out a little earlier, that trend was started much later. and that brings us to his replacement, the new chief of staff, president obama's new left hand, he's left-handed. his name is pete rouse, he's not quite the ball buster that rahm emanuel was, but he was the senate chief of staff, people

called him the 101st senator when he workinged for majority leader tom daschle. now if more and more people are getting their news from comedians these days, well then exactly what are they getting? stick around, we'll hear who's getting roasted by the late-night comedians. [ printer whirs ] done. ♪ thanks. do you work here? not yet. from tax info to debunking myths, the field guide to evolving your workforce has everything you need. download it now at thinkbeyondthelabel.com.

welcome back to what the week, i'm pete dominik and this section is called why this person is better than me. haley is only 12 years old and she started her own charity. go to every.org and donate just one dollar. patricia moran, she is better than me, why? she just joined the peace corps to learn spanish. who else is better than me? the tunes of mona shore high school, they elected a transgender peer homecoming king despite school officials barring

it. mark zuckerburg, we know why he's better than me, he donated $100 million to newark public schools, maybe he's not better than me, there's a very controversial movie coming out saying that he stole facebook. they're all better than me. all right. well, late-night comedy has become a legitimate news source, traditional -- i think it's kind of awesome. as carol burnett said comedy is tragedy plus time. and time moves pretty fast. here's what late-night comedians found funny this week. >> sarah palin made her first appearance on snch"dancing with stars." >> everything she says, she says in threes like this. >> this is amazing, so exciting,

it's to see all this courage and joy and exuberance by every dancer is awesome. it turns out she does this all the time. absolutely amazing, awesome, invigorating. the determination and resolve and sheer guts. democracy and tolerance and freedom. >> it's a humming, humbling experience already. it's very humbling. stephanie miller, sarah palin continues to take a beating, what do you think? >> she is just comedy gold, caribou barbie, i don't care what she says, i think it's a good day when you can understand anything she says. >> we're out of time, but i thank you guys so much for coming on this panel. i really appreciate you joining me for our first show. and using my beautiful bald head as a magic 8 ball. here's the next big things, next week we'll mark the anniversary of the war