i mean, people are dying, people areetting rich. you are upset and frustrated. people should not be dying. >> when do we start punishing success in america. >> and >> i realize, this is only a poll, it's not iowa, it's not new hampshire. but mr. herman cain leading at 27%. >> first of all, i think, i like the politics idea of averaging the recent polls because it gives you a better sense of what is happening and gets rid of the outliers, polls that over-emphasizing or under-emphasizing a candidate.

if you look at the average, mitt romney is 23, cain is 20, perry is 14 and gingrich and paul at 8. if you look inside, it looks like as perry declines, cain rises t. begins in florida, with the -- after the poor debate performance by perry and cain wins the straw poll and continued since then. now, whether or not tell continue to continue, we don't know. herman cain needs to get his campaign focused on the campaign and not book sales. >> his book -- i thought-- the way i interpreted this "book sales," is that it was part of his campaign strategy. but that seemed like the bay to get the word out. this is who i am. >> fine. but with all due respect, he had four stops in texas, it is not an early primary, march 8. why spend a full day in texas? today, he was in western tennessee which doesn't vote until at least march. he needs to get his bus to iowa,

new hampshire, south carolina, florida and nevada. if he doesn't break through there -- and have you to show up, particularly in the first 3, they have a very keen sense of their role in this, and they expect to you show up. if you are not campaigning actively in those states, one on one, now, it is going to be a problem for him. >> that seems to make an abundant amount of sense. i am curious about the fact that he is improving, whatever his strategy is, his numbers are improving. i realize this is national. >> remember, four years ago on this very day, it was rudy giuliani at 30 and fred thompson at 20, john mccain at 13 and mitt romney at 11 and mike huckabee at 6. huckabee was camped out in iowa and vaulted onto the national stage. by the time we voted, fred thompson and rudy giuliani were nowhere to be seen. that's a cautionary lesson for herman cain. look, he has been given a gift.

the question is whether he will transmute it into something more durable. being on a bus tour in western tennessee is not the way. >> that's suggesting that michele bachmann has been sort of a sleepener the past few weeks, in terms of getting attention from the media. but she spent a lot of time in iwa. that's her strategy. does that put her in a more viable position. >> she may be more viable than the national polls give her credit for. iowa, south carolina, new hampshire, they have a different sort of tone to each of them. in iowa, they are slow to commit, but once they commit, they stay with you, that midwestern sensibility. in new hampshire, they are slow to fall in love with you, but once they fall in love with you, they will fall out, fall in, fall out. you hope they are falling fallin love with you when they go to vote. she's from waterloo, originally, grew up there, represents the adjoining state. she has an organization in place. in a caucus, organization

matters. four years ago on the democratic side, hillary clinton was the leader in the early polls and was crush in the caucus states because she had not bothered to organize in idaho, for example. as a result, the guy who had organized them, swiped a bunch of delegates and those were his early victories, not the primaries, the caucus states. >> governor romney, four years ago, i remember his son and many of his sons and he was doing a drive around the state, seeing every count neiowa. is he doing that kind of emphasis or is he seen in iowa and focusing on other states? >> i don't think he's made a decision. >> too late? >> no. he has an organization in the state. he has the advantage of a list of people who supported him four years ago, augustmented by the intelligence of his organization thus far. but i don't think he's made a decision whether or not to commit -- >> isn't that like mr. herman cain? if he hasn't committed in iowa. >> he's going in and out, in and out. but he has an advantage that herman cain doesn't have, he has

a bunch of people in the counties that know him well enough to sign up and say i'm the romney county chairman here in cherokee county. herman cain needs that apparatus in place if he is going to snake iowa. you have to -- if you are a challenger like herman cain, you know, look, he would be the first president of a major political party not to have held elective office. if he was elected president, he would be the first president in history who never held elective office. so if you are running uphill, you better seize the opportunities. this is an opportunity, wandering in western tennessee on a bus is not exploiting it. >> is that, though, the fact that he hasn't held an office, i think in this climate is to his benefit. the tea party is so sick of congress and we expect they are going to vote republican. i mean, if anything, i think it hurts more to have a background. >> i hear this. but we want our presidents to be people who have substance.

>> experience is -- >> experience. and look, we think about the new members of congress as being tea party representatives -- they are. but they have the same percentage of people who have held local, or state elective office as the rest of the congress. so they are not that different in terms of their experience. tea party didn't sweep in a bunch of people who had never been involved in politics. just the opposite. >> but i think experience, i think his experience is different? >> it is. >> it is different. but it may be refreshing. it is not experience that may be transferred into the skills -- i am not saying -- >> wait a minute. at this point, we don't know. okay? we do know this. in the head-to-head matchups, rom my tends to lead obam aperry tends to lag, but relatively close. and herman cain in the national matchups, even though he is ahead of -- of perry in the republican presidential sweepsteaks, he lags him in the

head-to-head matchup with president obama and they want to know, look, being in office and having served as governor of texas, as governor perry did, gives people the confidence when i say i am going to do something you know i will get it done because i have done it before. >> i can say, i have bias because i was a lawyer, i would never make it in tv. i didn't have a journalism degree. >> well, you are an exceptionally gifted person. >> i tease you with that. governor romney is among many, the conventional wisdom, the pundits, which is inside washington is almost like the heir apparent. is he? >> i think we are way premature. i point to four years ago, rudy giuliani was leading the pack and he was nowhere -- >> when do we get to the point -- >> when the individual state polls, when we get close to voting in individual states and people are making up their minds in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. but they will change. the early contests will have an

impact on the consequent con concontests. we felt really good about north carolina until iowa. two days later, we were behind by 6, after losing new hampshire. what matters is the early state polls as we get closer to voting. people get to a point, we don't know when it is, it varies from election to election, where someone says, it's time to make a decision. i'm in new hampshire, it's time to make a decision. i'm in south carolina, it's time to make a decision. that's what really matters. until then, this is all good conversation. but it -- you know, the conventional wisdom is that romney has the lead. and the conventional wisdom is that he is the presumptive nominee. they may be right. but he is not the presumptive nominee. >> i assume in iowa, since it is not a primary, it's a caucus, you have to have the machinery on the ground to get people to caucus, a lot of people think

that iowa is unfair, unless you have the night off to caucus, if you have a nighttime job, you can't participate. >> look, eligible, a quarter to the a third of the republican who is vote in the gubernatorial primary show up and vote at caucuses. a caucus by its nature draws fewer people than does a primary. >> is there a path for speaker gingrich? >> yeah. have you to break through in an early state. he has done well in the debate performances, it has nudged him up. but this gets down to making a retail-style campaign in three or four early states. certainly, iowa, certainly new hampshire, certainly south carolina, maybe florida. but have you to break through early. and how strong is his organization in these states? >> and senator rick santorum? >> uh-huh. look, santorum is a potential like bachmann, a potential interesting figure in iowa.

he's going for the same kind of people that she is, that is to say, evangelical and social conservatives. he has a greater appeal to catholics in the eastern part of the state. she probably has a better appeal to evangelical protestants. but he's camped out there. if he is going to have a chance, it's going to be there. >> what if santorum or congresswoman bachmann wins iowa? what does that do in new hampshire? >> new hampshire doesn't pay much attention to iowa. but tell give them a bump in the national media and allow them to survive a second or third place finish in new hampshire and go on to south carolina and nevada and other states. i mean we saw this with huckabee, who broke through in iowa, didn't do so well in new hampshire. but it allowed him the time to do things like run well in georgia and missouri and so forth. >> to the extent you can generalize, dpow well in iowa, you can expect to do better in south carolina than in new hampshire? >> that's my general reaction.

i think new hampshire doesn't pay much attention. south carolina pays attention to new hampshire. we say that south carolina and we think typical republican party in the south. however, it's very diverse. you have a lot of retirees in the coast and the lower part of the state from the midwest and the northeast and have a slightly more moderate flavor and emphasize economic and national defense issues over social issues. and in the up country, have you a party more likely to emphasize the social issues. and in the middle of the state, you have small-town conservatives and chamber of commerce type who is emphasize both. >> what do you get with an endorsement like a governor christie? >> two things. you get a brief moment of positive attention, where you get some advocates of that person and detractors. but you get a nice attention. it soaks up the day or the news cycle. the second thing you can get if they are willing to go on the campaign trail and do things for you because you quickly get into

a place where you can't be everywhere that everybody wants you to be and having a strong surigate like a bobby jindal, like rick perry, allows to you keep the people on the ground. i noticed that governor christie almost immediately did an a fund-raising email appeal on behalf of governor romney. that's what you have as a surigate. >> i -- surrogate. >> i have a sense that governor perry seems less enthusiastic, like the wind is out of his sails. maybe he will get a second wind. does he seem -- is he less of a factor? do we go back to the thesis that it's way too soon? >> first of all, clearly, particularly from his wife's comments, you can see their mental state is not particularly g.d he gave a good speech on energy and he has $15 million in the bank. the question is, does he have the start of an organization and does he have a message that allows him to compete in the

early states? i suspect that south carolina will be good for him. if he keeps up the fund-raising pace, he can be competitive with mitt romney on the tube in the early states. probably too early to be up on television. i wouldn't be worried about being on television. rick santorum has radio ads. but if you are well known like perry or romney or cain, it is better not to be on television in the early states, but to be there in person. this was a critical mistake that romney made four years ago nmarch,ville and may of 2007, before he had really introduced himself personally, he ran a bunch of television ads. i can't tell you how many people said, he's a hotdog. y he shouldn't be running television ads. we would rather see him at the lincoln day dinner or the candidate forum than to see his ads on television. >> let me play the board game. let's assume romney is the nominee and cain is the nominee. what would they be looking for in terms of a vice-presidential

nominee to complement themselves? >> look textend depends on whether it's a political decision or a governing decision. if it's political, they would say it's a case of romney, he would say, i want somebody from the emerging south like a marco rubio or a successful governor from the midwest. or, you know, if it's herman cain, he would like somebody with solid government experience like barack obama did when he was worried about the foreign policy credentials and picked the chairman of foreign relations committee, joe biden. but i learned in 2000, i was opposed to dick cheney being chosen because i thought it was a political mistake. we didn't need to worry about wyoming. he was an oilman, we were trying to develop the image of bush 43 as his own man. but he went with dick cheney. but he said, the day after i made the case against dick cheney to he and dick cheney. he called me and said, i am

going to go with cheney and the reason is i am thinking through the lens of who would be the best partner to me in the oval office and if something terrible would happen to me, i want somebody that the country has confidence in. i understand the politics. you go solve them. >> but vice-president biden was a government decision, so it was a governing decision -- but it's good politically, because it filled the void -- >> i think it was a waste -- >> you do?! >> joe biden's advice on afghanistan, you know, there is a new article out about the decision on libya, in which again, joe biden is on the losing end of all of these arguments. >> the president went the other way. >> so if it was so important to -- to senator obama, why is president obama basically dismissing all of his advice. >> i think that it looked good -- >> it looked good.

>> politically, it looked like it was a governing decision. >> but it wasn't. it wasn't. who thinks -- who would be confident if joe biden would be president of the united states? i for one would not be. >> i happen to like the vice-president. >> you are right. it's a political decision. it was not a governing decision. that's the lens through which most people who have to make this decision make it. i mean, look, joe lieberman was a big advantage to the democratic ticket and would have been a good governing decision. but we know in retrospect, it was a political decision. al gore wanted a member of the senate, to have, you know, something to allow him to leverage the florida, he wanted to get south florida jew who is were not excited about him, why not take this extraordinary step and put the first jewish american on the ticket and off they went to the races. that's how most of them make it. and i suspect president -- obama made a political decision. i suspect both mitt romney and herman cain and rick perry would

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>> there is trouble. demonstrators are now clashing with police. it's happening around the country. in new york protesters refuse to go leave the park where they are so the park would be cleaned up. in boston an attack on the coast guard. charles gasparino joins us. good evening. since we last spoke, this protest is still going on. maybe i concede to you there is not as much of a purpose as i thought, although i stand by people's right to protest. >> absolutely. >> i must admit i'm a little bit

at a loss what people are looking for in this protest. >> greta, if you look at them, and we have done some reporting on this, there is a barely coherent message, aside from sort of ramblings that resimple stuff you might hear out of marxists and they don't seem to have a purpose. if you go down there and look at the park. it's a mess. it's an open sue -- sewer, and people live down there. these folks should be cleaned out of that place. to go down there, to live down there, from what i understand, to have a business down there is unbelievable. it's a deplorable situation that the mayor of the city let get out of hand. >> there is a slight issue, though. next time the issue, the protests could be won that you support, and we do have a first amendment for peaceful protests. >> wait. do we have a first amendment right to occupy a park for weeks

on end? to use it as an open sewer, to have sex in that park and smoke pot in that park? is there is first amendment right there. >> no. >> i'm a libertarian. come on. >> charles, a peaceful protest is extremely important to our democracy. >> of course. i would be the first to tell you. >> i'm in no way supporting as opposed ting on a member of the coast guard which happened in boston. there's a protest outside a very fancy hotel in los angeles. listen, i just err on the side of caution when we talk about a fundamental constitutional right. now, i don't think these protests are in any way advancing their purpose because they are annoying people by making it into a cess pool. they around going to get their point across but i'm not sure what their particular point is. >> they really don't have a point other than they hate wall street, which by the way, i'm surely not one of these protesters, but i've been writing books about the evils in

wall street for years. it's not so much of a secret. and i will say this about the right to protest. the basic of libertarianism, and i am one, i have rights and you have rights as long as they don't conflict with someone else's rights. there are rights of people of new yorkers to work down there, to live down there, and they are violating those rights and i don't understand why this mayor, mike bloomberg, who calls himself a libertarian, is allowing them to violate the rights of people who leave downtown manhattan. it's deplorable. >> they are reporting that tomorrow it will spread around the globe, the protests, new zealand, alaska, london, frankfurt, new york. i don't know where this leads us. but i do -- i do sort of -- i am sort of curious as to what they are seeking to achieve at this point. you know, i remember when you had to -- protests usually have a particular goal and a message.

>> right. is there anything happening here? i'm quoting one of those lefty '60s song. is there anything happening here really other than the protests? i'm wondering if we are giving this way too much credence. a thousand people out of the whole population, it ain't that much. and i mean are we blowing a vocal, very vocal, very small minority of the people, you know, blowing this out of proportion by covering it like this? i just wonder if we are giving them too much freedom. >> i hope it doesn't get violent because then we have a whole another story on our hands. it's annoying to people who live in the area but i'm a big fan. the first amendment. but peace demonstrationings and we will be watching. thank you. >> anytime. >> the solyndra scandal, congress is asking for documents from the white house and they

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>> did you hear from treasury department officials admitted today and admitted to congress? hold on to your seat for this

one. treasury officials testified to the restructuring of the half a billion dollar solyndra loan was shocking even to them. and congress asked the white house to produce documents and the white house is refusing. which one do you want to talk about first? the treasury department pointing fingers at energy and saying you are the rat, you don't know what you are doing? >> the story is developing as we go along. from the treasury department perspective, what they came and told congress today, we've been focusing on the original granting of this loan, and then there's the restructuring of the loan that happened last week that. put taxpayers back behind the line ever the investors of solyndra. the treasury department folks say today they were encouraging the department of energy people not to do this. they were concerned even about the legality of doing that. they raised red flags. we had red flags at the beginning and red flags at the end. >> so there's somebody out there. there's somebody out there who knows something who okayed this is obviously is running for

cover. >> we have a portrait of a war inside the administration. it's clear the department of energy wanted something and there were officials inside the office of management and budget and others saying wait a second, let's slow it up. it falls on the department of energy to do all the explain in this. we've seen the head of the loan program under which the solyndra loan was granted resign. >> he was not there when they first started but monitored. >> and as more details come out, as every new congressional hearing unearthed new e-mails. >> this is such incredible blunder. apparently there's at least another one, solar power. it's unbelievable horrible things done with american taxpayer money, the recklessness. but now you have the letter from the white house the white house is simply playing lawyer, we aren't going to turn over the documents we want because we are trying to get to the bottom of it. it would be nice to find out who the inept person is, the person essentially so politically

motivated to waste the taxpayers' money. and now the white house says we aren't going to. it's certainly in this gate time of war, and where people are needing jobs, if the president would step up to the plate and order these people who work for him to comply to get to the bottom of it, it would be nice. >> on one hand you are a lawyer and know how it works the. the legal boiler plates that said he's are confidential inside the west winning of the white house. other presidents have use a similar explanation. but congress is hungry for a lot more details about it. until now the white house has been relatively open and producing documents voluntarily without subpoena power but this goes to a different level. >> but the finger prints of the white house are on this. we've seen memos of ron lane who worked with the vice president's office. and you've not voluntariry, her finger prince are on it,

valerie. i don't know who knew what or did what but now for the white house to say confidentiality, you know, it is reasonable to be suspicious. >> and a lot of folks in congress are suspicious. we talked about this before. there are multiple investigationings going on at multii believe levels. it isn't going away anytime soon. with new revelation it is keeps coming out. in this case you are right. the west winning to clamp down say, no, are not going to see the communications, it's going raise more questions. >> somebody okayed this and somebody did so for a reason either because that person is inept and thought this was a good business decision. we would like to know that. so that person doesn't do it again. or there was so much political influence bearing down on the person the person did that and we are entitled to know that because that is totally unacceptable. >> the department of energy clearly wanted something that a lot of other parties, even inside the executive branch did not want to see happen here. >> wouldn't think the president would want to get this off his plate? and i nerve understands some of this, even energy secretary khu

wouldn't you be think these men, one head of energy and one to the president, could easily get this thing addressed and neither one steps up to the plate and exercises leadership. >> they are always worried about the precedent it sets. >> you think there's something there. >> doing the right thing is just not rue nine washington anymore. i think that is doing the right thing. instead of playing the game we thousands of dollars and hours, the right thing would be to do that and that doesn't seem to be a nab the city. >> it's clearly an embarrassment for the white house. it isn't getting better from anytime soon. seeing the president address this a few times, doesn't seem to be concerned about how it went down. >> but it's other people's money. >> and there are going to be bad bets in this from the white house perspective. >> yeah, but he's not betting his money, he's betting ours. and that's not going to go over

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good evening, sir. >> greta, how about those packers? let's break up the packers. i think we ought to level out the playing field here. they are too rich. >> i was just telling someone right before it started that i remember when i was a kid you were like the devil because we couldn't catch you and then the johnny unite s. you were picking on the packers. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> i understand tonight you have some ideas on how to get jobs. what can we do about jobs in this country? >> well, i just think that we need to look at the real problems in this country. and i wrote something about the teachers union, you know. and the great thing about the nfl and about sports, it's a union. but there's not guaranteed employment. if you produce and play great, you get rewarded. if you don't, you don't. and in our teacher system they are captive. we want them to be better but there's no incentive to do better. there's no incentive to perform.

so therefore, our great teachers, we are losing them. and our unions, our public and private unions are out of control and we don't get the performance there because there's no incentive for the good, industrious people to do better if they work hard. they don't get trophies for trying. they get trophies for performing and that's what america was based on. if we can start doing that and get rid of the entitlements and change the tax system and bring some sanity back and get back to a real democracy and real capitalism, then we can solve problems here and we can provide jobs and that's what we need to do. there's no silver bullet solutions here. there there's no get quick rich schemes. these are systemic things we have to address and nobody is, democrats or republicans. >> how do we get to that point where there is such enormous incentive to do better? and i read in your piece where you talked about, you actually compared to sort of being on the gridiron and if you can manage to stay three or four years on a

football team doesn't mean yo should stay for 30 years. there comes a time when you need to go. >> we need to rediscover americacasti. that's why your grandparents and my parents came over here to have hope. we can do it whether we are entitled or not. we have to get rid of entitlements, we have to get rid of all the tax breaks and we need to reform the tax system, and we need to do it and we need to do it now. 51% of american families doan pay tacks. general electric, verizon, others have paid foe tacks the last two years. that is thereat wrong. everybody knows we need to do it but nobody is doing anything. we are going along the path of enabling people to be nonproductive and to be captive by the system and the system is not working. we need to get back to the basic fundamentals and that's also the system that makes football work. it makes good teams work. you have to get back to fundamentals. when you get away from your fundamentals you lose and you

get beat. we've gotten away from the fundamentals of what america is all about. >> we only have a minute left. do you see any of that in washington? any sort of inclination by washington to sort of get back to the fundamentals, as you say them? >> i do not. i see nothing but blame the other guy. let's blame -- let's still blame george bush and let's blame the republicans and republicans blame the democrats. the bad news does not get better with age. the signs are there and the signs are we are really in trouble here in the direction we are going. and we need leadership. democrats and republicans. side by side. to go out and fix this and get back to the fund mentales. i see nothing happening there. now i see of both parties, everybody is running for re-election in 2012. big deal. how about now? how about solving these problems now because if we go this way for much longer, we are in deep trouble. >> and do some people may say we are already in deep trouble. >> yeah, we already are.

>> anyway, fran, thank you. let me confess that i do confess that eats a challenge. i did love watching you many of the wonderful sunday games, even though, like i said, the packers could never catch you. but fran, nice to see you. >> thank you very much, greta. good to be with you. >> and now callista gingrich. she's been busy on the campaign trail with her husband, newt gingrich, but she found time to write a children's book. it's called "sweet land of liberty." nice to see you, callista. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> who drew the cover. >> we have a wonderful i will stray tore, and she did all the illustration necessary the book and together she and i developed this character, ellis the elephant. >> the first thing i think of is the republican elephant and you don't have a donkey in there. >> there are no donkeys, i have to say. but we considered many animals, bunnies, hippos, giraffes, but

in the end i couldn't resist this adorable elephant. >> why ellis? >> it harkens back to ellis island as we are a nation of immigrants. ellis is a name children would find delightful. >> it's so interesting, when i was reading the book i didn't realize until i was reading it outlied in the other room, it rhymes. >> it does. >> i guess i didn't realize it as i rode it in my mind but when i was reading it aloud. >> i have a new appreciation for doctor -- dr. suess. >> what provoked this? >> well, i wrote this book because i love america and i believe our country is exceptional. and i think it's more important now than ever that our children understand why we live in an exceptional nation. unfortunately many of our schools are failing to teach our american history. a recent survey showed a majority of fourth graders didn't know who abraham lincoln

was, or why the pilgrims left europe. or about the ref newsary war. >> fran tarkenton was just on. you heard him. he's upset. a lot of people upset with the education system. people, we're not making the mark compared to a countries in education. what happened? >> well, we've resort today politically correct history, unfortunately. >> the book is selling like hot cakes, right? >> yes. >> how well is it doing? >> i'm a mid-westerner and we don't usually brag. >> do it this time though. >> we are very pleased that sweet land of liberty is number four on the new york times best-seller list for children's picture book. >> is there a seek -- sequel? >> well we are considering one. >> is a donkey going to be in that one? >> we will keep our options open. >> you are not excluding the chance. >> this is a patriotic book, not a conservative book, it's a pro

american book and i hope it will appeal to many americans. the celebration of our patriotic values. >> did you actually write it on the campaign trail? >> yes. >> well, you are am -- ambidextrous, so to speak. >> now donald trump is talking about roseau dodge again. what is she saying this time. >> and we had bill o'reilly and david letterman on camera together. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana!

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>> the top stories but here is the best of the rest. fox news bill o'reilly going one-on-one with dave letter man. they don't agree much an lot of things but they got competitive on the letterman show. was it a friendly competition or not some you decide. >> i will say that i supported it going in. i think we discussed this on your program way back when because all of it was saddam husein had these weapons. >> come on, billy. come on, billy, let's go, come on, belly, let's go! come on, billy, let's go!

>> quit that. [booing] >> get up here! come on! >> i'll give you one more chance, bill. >> i'm not high-fiving you on a war? i'm sorry. >> no just because we are feeling good. >> no, having a conversation. sit down. >> yeah! >> what is the problem then with helping those people that need help? >> you help the people who need help, not the people who refuse to work. you know, nine percent, nine percent of the american population is addicted to substance. are you going to help them? are you going to pay all their bills in is that what you want to do. >> first of all, i don't believe you. >> okay. >> that comes from the department of health and human

services. >> i can't prove it but i don't believe you. >> would you like to make a bet? would you like to bet me on that stat? >> i'll bet you a paycheck in. >> happy to do it. come on, let's go, let's go. happy to do it. >> oh, no. >> i'm not going to do it. >> now we are sure that was all in good fun or at least we hope so. and could it be a fresh start for donald trump and rosie o'donnell? they are known for going many rounds in their wicked war of words but tonight there's a new twist. but tonight there's a new twist. she has new tv show and trump said he would like her to be successful. but when asked if he would go on her show, trump said i don't think so. and this is one for animal lovers. imagine to play with your pet even when you are not home? new technology is making it

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>> greta: time for last call. what should the u.s. do to iran? jay leno has an idea. >> have you heard about this story. u.s. agents disrupted a plot by iran to assassinate the saudi arabiain ambassador on american soil. president obama pretty upset about this. and says he's going to have sanctions on them. and he's got a plan, he's going