"hannity" is next. i am bill o'reilly. hope to see you again next time. rememberthe spin stops here because we're definitely looking out for you. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- sean: tonight. >> stellar credentials, no question about that. sean: the sotomayor love-fest kicks off in the u.s. senate. >> this is indeed a very special woman. sean: but not everybody was so supportive. >> to indicate that -- >> please remove that man. sean: not anymore. the attorney general sets his sights on former bush administration officials. the supermax prison overturns its ban on president obama's autobiography. we have special details on the passages that they say pose a threat to national security. all of that plus jon voigt, liz cheney, our "great american panel," and much more, "hannity" starts right now. supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor took the stage today as her confirmation hearings

began on capitol hill. she tried her best to be uncontroversial going so far as to directly contradict statements that she's made in the past. >> the task of a judge is not to make law. it is to apply the law. court of appeals is where policy is made. and i know, and i know this is on tape, and i should never say that because we don't make law, i know. sean: nonetheless the democrats on the senate judicial committee could hardly control themselves, each of them eager to express their love and admiration for this nominee. >> when sonia sotomayor was growing up, the nancy drew stories inspired her sense of adventure, developed her sense of justice, and showed her that women could and should be outspoken and bold. >> you are indeed a very special woman. i believe you are a warm and intelligent woman. >> i think that the judge's nomination will inspire countless children to study

harder and dream higher, and that is something we should all celebrate. sean: that doesn't exactly look like a prelude to a rigorous confirmation hearing, so will the republicans step up to the plate and challenge judge sotomayor on her many, many controversial rulings or will they allow the democrats to roll out that red carpet, and joining me now to discuss this and now david boyd is the former attorney for al gore and guys good to see you. you both have argued before the supreme court on numerous occasions. first of all, she comes in with a prepared statement, totally contradicting what she had said earlier -- >> no, no -- sean: oh, yes, she did. >> that's not so at all. everybody knows courts make policy. that's in applying the law. you can't not apply the law without looking at policy. the supreme court does it, and because court of appeals are in most cases the last place you go because the supreme court takes such few cases, they have to do it as well.

if you tell me that john roberts is not making policy on the supreme court, i don't think you're being serious. >> he's not because john roberts understands that the role of a judge is to be a judge. here's the problem, david. she makes the statement today that she's not going to be making policy from the bench. that's basically -- >> she did not say that. she said she was going to apply the law. that's what judges do, but in applying the law -- >> you think a judge should make policy decisions? >> you're not serious. you're not serious. >> i am. >> if you're telling me that john roberts doesn't make policy. >> i am telling you that he applies the law as a judge is supposed to do. he understands the difference between his role as a judge and his role as a legislator. sean: in the american legal system courts aren't supposed to make law or set policy. don't we have coequal branches of government? >> yes, but what happens when you do that. how do you make the rule?

>> based on the precedent. >> you don't say i don't like the policy, i'm going to overturn it. >> that's policy. >> no, it's not. it's a constitutional analysis. you're -- >> how can -- >> sean, here's the problem. judge sotomayor, i'm not questioning her intelligence or integrity, i'm questioning judicial philosophy. here's what she said in a meeting. she makes the statement, you've played it many times, i know, i know, we don't make policy and laughs about it and then says we do make policy. she denies it and then she says she does. you don't get to do it both ways. >> absolutely you do because it's a joke. you don't have any basis for criticizing this judge. sean: i don't think it was a judge as much as it was a revealing insight into her real philosophy, but i know i'm not allowed to say it, i've got to play this game.

>> if she really believes it's to set policy, then why does she say i know i'm not supposed to say it but i'm going to say it. >> because there are people like you who are going to make something out of it, and you know better. and it really is not responsible to do this in this kind of important session. sean: let me ask this. is empathy supposed to be the criteria, in other words, if she talks about a wise latina woman that can make better decisions -- >> what she said -- sean: she says it seven times. >> five, but who's counting? you didn't -- sean: the administration -- >> you didn't hear her say she misspoke. the context is civil rights cases, and second what she's talking about is you need more diversity inside in those cases, and what she said is i hope. she doesn't say people can't -- she says i hope my experience allows me to make the best --

sean: she says as a wise latina woman would come to a -- >> don't leave out the beginning. she's saying what i hope is a wise latina woman with -- >> but, david -- there's a whole group of nonminority supreme court justices that have been very protective of civil rights, so to make a statement about -- and i'm not impugning her intelligence or as a judge. i think it's misconstruing her role as judge when you make those statements. sean: what if it was a white male that said that? >> i think it is always more troubling when the people who have not been discriminated against take that position, and we're three white males saying oh, we've got to be careful. i think it is exactly right that everybody is a product of their experience, of their background, and i think it's good that people recognize that and she speaks out on that.

>> here's the difficulty, and i don't disagree. i think diversity of thought is fine on the supreme court. there's consequences to an election. the president of the united states is barack obama. he then has the authority under the constitution to nominate judges to become justices of the supreme court. he is done that. the role of the republicans in the senate, and i hope what jeff sessions said today at least sparks the interest of some of the other republican senators is that they ask real questions. this judge deserves a fair up or down vote. sean: there's a lot at stake here, private property rights, freedom of speech rights, this is a lifetime appointment. when i look at the new haven firefighter case, and i've interviewed the firefighters in that case, and i'm thinking even though it was a 5-4 supreme court again overturning her circuit court decision which wasn't even a decision, 9-0, they basically said she didn't

handle the case properly, that it deserved more attention than that. is that troublesome to you that -- for example, here's a guy with dyslexia that spent $1,000 on materials, that hired people to read to him, that actually got to the point where he made the promotion. why should he be discriminated against and why should she dismiss that? isn't that troublesome? >> just remember 8 out of the 13 judges, federal judges, who looked at this case decided it the same way she did. this is not something where she's an outlier. the supreme court in my view and in the view of a lot of people including a unanimous second circuit panel changed the law. >> but nine justices of the supreme court disagree. >> no. >> they said she should not have gone for summary judgment. 9-0. >> 5-4. >> it doesn't matter, she got overturned. >> you're probably going to tell me that bush-gore was 7-2. >> you did a good job. sean: you did do a good job on

that. >> he did a great job. >> you both have argued before the supreme court many times, and i can see why. all right. >> we're friends. >> thanks, sean. sean: coming up so much looking forward, well, there are new indications that the attorney general may appoint a special prosecutor to go after bush administration officials. now, later on we'll tell you about that, we'll check in with liz cheney, and we take a look at the land of the czars, a special look at president obama's shadow government and jon voigt. could someone toss me an eleven sixteenths wrench over here? here you go. eleven sixteenths... (announcer) from designing some of the world's cleanest and most fuel-efficient jet engines... to building more wind turbines than anyone in the country... the people of ge are working together... creating innovation today for america's tomorrow. thanks! no problem!

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sean: now, many of president obama's top advisors have gone on record and ruled out the possibility of prosecuting former bush administration officials, and even the president himself has said in the past that he's interested in looking forward, but not backward. but there's word tonight that the attorney general eric holder is considering appointing a special prosecutor to probe the bush administration's interrogation policies, and joining me now with reaction is former deputy assistant secretary of state liz cheney, thanks for coming back. before i get to any of that, and it's important stuff, there's a report out, you know where i'm going -- >> can't we do the other thing. sean: liz cheney runs for office?

>> it's a little overstated. i have a lot of respect for people who run for office, i think it's an honorable profession, and i have great memories growing up on the campaign trail. sean: it's in your blood? >> could be, and i think there's a lot of really important issues facing the nation. so i hope at some point it's something that will work out for my family. sean: so you do hope it would work out. >> yeah, but who knows what will happen down the road. somebody that you have on the show a lot says you never know what's going to be in the next fish run. sean: congress, senate? >> who knows, but i think these issues facing the nation are really important, and anybody who is trying to raise kids in america today has got to have a lot of concerns about the direction of the country. sean: what do you make of the democrats wanting to probe into the issue of torture. it seems to me, and i'm standing back, democrats any time they want to make any political movement or have a political

distraction, that's their go-to. do you see that it way? >> absolutely. there's this latest set of flurry over the last several days is clearly political, and it's sad because these programs that the intelligence agency has run over the course of the last eight years, programs like terror surveillance program, programs like the enhanced interrogation program, they've kept the nation safe, and we're still at war, and so for the democrats on the hill to take a briefing that they got from director panetta, and i would point out that this program wasn't even a program by most press accounts, but the planning was kept secret for eight years, and congress was briefed, and within a couple of weeks it's public, so that tells you something about concern and briefing the congress, but also the news reports say it was a program aimed at finding ways or a set of ideas to capture and kill al-qaeda leaders. i think you'd be hard-pressed to find an american citizen who disagrees with the need to do that. sean: al-qaeda bigs would be the target of the secret plan. panetta had accused your dad of

wanting to see the u.s. attacked again. i spent time with your father and interviewed him, and i got the impression if your dad had his way, he probably would rather be fishing and hunting and off the public stage, but he feels so strongly about the idea that we're headed in the wrong direction, we're making decisions that are going to make us less safe that he full a compulsion to speak out. >> that's right, and director panetta has said he didn't mean that, that that was phrased in a way it shouldn't have been phrased. i don't think he believes that. sean: what about all these other cia directors that point out george tenet, 60% of the information that we got that these terrorists want to destroy american cities came as a result of enhanced interrogation techniques. >> and with regard to this particular program, general hayden gave an interview in which he said he felt no restriction at all from anybody about whether he could brief congress, that the plans never

rose to the level where a briefing would have been required. sean: do you think they're trying to intimidate your father and silence him because he has probably been the most effective voice in opposition to the obama foreign policy? >> maybe. i think they're doing a pretty poor job at it if that's what they're trying to do. fundamentally they do not like the notion that we're at war. they don't believe we're at war. sean: no, it's a man-caused disaster. >> and they don't want to deal with the fact that president bush and vice president cheney kept the nation safe for eight years. they don't want to have to address that. so instead they want to attack the programs, and now we hear that they are in fact going to try to prosecute potentially the men and women who carried out those programs. sean: and it seems too they're going directly after your father. >> i think that's right, but in your open you talked about statements from white house staff. the president himself when he released the interrogation memos, he said in that statement, and people can get it online in april of 2009 i'm releasing these memos, but we will not be prosecuting the

people who carried out this program under the authority of the department of justice. sean: eric holder is about to -- what do you think that means? does eric holder not have a boss? >> i think it means people have to question how much president obama's word is really worth, and it will be a real test of president obama. is he going to act as the chief law enforcement officer of the land or take a pass on this one. sean: you can announce here when and if you're running for office. >> all right, sean, it's a deal, if it happens. sean: good to see you. president obama's own autobiography was temporarily banned by the supermax prison in colorado because prison officials said that it posed a fiber one. i'm looking for some fiber. this bar is an excellent source of fiber. there's no fiber in this. tastes too good.

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ahmed omar abu ali asked for copies of the president's books. his request was passed along to the fbi which determined that one page in barack obama's dreams from my father and 22 pages from "the audacity of hope" were potentially detrimental to national security. now, although the bureau didn't identify specific passages, the "a.p." press did provide wrus t -- us with the passages that they found objectionable. it's not difficult to figure it out. take this one. i firmly believe that since 9/11 we have played fast and loose with constitutional principles in the fight against terrorism. and then there's this one about our inability to control the flow of immigrants on our southern border. quote, immigrants are entering as a result of porous borders

rather than any systematic government policy. mexico's proximity suggest the possibility that border crossings cannot even be slowed much less stopped. the country has no meaningful national security policy. quote, our difficulty there is in iraq don't just arise from a result of bad execution, they reflect a failure of conception. the fact is close to five years after 9/11 and 15 years after the breakup of the soviet union the united states still lacks a coherent national security policy. now, since the initial "a.p." story was published last week we learned that abu ali did successfully object and was given access to the president's books. and tonight we begin a brand-new segment that takes a look at the 30 plus obama appointees that are known as czars. since taking office the president has skirted the senate

confirmation process and has empowered individuals to oversea major offices now within the federal government, many of whom operate only under the supervision of the white house itself. now, in essence a select group of unconfirmed, unvetted individuals are now at the helm of a shadow government right here in the u.s. so without further ado, let's take a trip to the land of the czars. ♪ sean: the white house czar john p. holder was pegged as obama's biggest radical, and a closer look at his record very much supports that distinction. now, holdren has gone on record slamming the u.s. as, quote, the meanest of wealthy countries. of course holdren pay nos attention to the fact that the suns the most charitable nation.

he's advocated cutting the average gdp per person in order to help global warming. he believes that if you can't buy a car or pay for gasoline, you will reduce your emissions because you will drive less. and on that same topic holdren appears to even suggest that anybody who denies the existence of global warming is committing a crime against humanity. so there you have a look at john holdren, the allows science czar, and he's just one of the many czars that are now operating within the president's shadow government. we'll have much more from the land of the czars in the days ahead. and "hannity's america" continues in 90 short seconds. we'll tell you how the man behind hope and change and tha

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that's not going to stop him from vocalizing his opposition. not only does he oppose judge sotomayor, but he's also upset about the reckless spending, the stimulus program, the president's lack of response in iran and the impending cap and tax bill and much more. and on top of everything, you are one guy that has been out there defending our troops and our military. this is the antithesis. i thought hollywood guys don't do this stuff. how come you do? >> well, obviously, sean, you know, the things that we do, we shouldn't be in a situation where we can do enough for the troops. these guys step up for us. they put themselves on the line, and i know their families, and you and i know visiting these guys in the hospital as we do, we find that they're the best of us, and it's a very great honor for us to serve them. sean: these are the best of the best.

one of the things, you came out, here you are, you're willing to openly criticize the obama administration, but anybody that does this is attacked, demonized, in your profession oftentimes it hurts their career. what has been the reaction to you speaking out? >> let me say this, first of all, sean. there was a -- i made a speech at the house senate dinner for the republicans, and it was well-received, and then i had a lot of response. and of course as you say, you know you're going to be attack if you step out and criticize our president. and teresa albano editor of people's weekly world which was formerly the daily worker found a way to take a phrase i used and not put it in context, and then she made this statement. she said jon voigt made a threat against the president of the united states, and my response to this which was toss a reporter from "the washington

times," i said teresa albano has targeted me with vicious, harmful lies, she is igniting hate against me. i would never threaten the president. i said his policies must fail because they're creating a socialist america. why do i step out and say that knowing i'm just going to get a whole bunch of other stuff coming back at me? it's important that we speak out. that's hour duty as citizens. i'm against his silence on iran. i'm against obama's lie that he was going to protect israel and now as president he arrogantly tells them what they can do and what they kracan't do. has he forgot our only hope is israel to prevent iran's nuclear buildup? and i'm against his very cunning ability to rush things through without anybody looking at them,

his stimulus package has failed, and they're thinking maybe another stimulus package. i agree with bill o'reilly, sean. he said obama's on his way to bankrupting america. i agree with him. sean: i've been saying it for months, it's not he's on his way. he is bankrupting the country. and you just have to look at the numbers, jon, and the numbers speak for themselves. you cannot spend this much money, quadruple the debt in five months, we're going to be paying a trillion in debt, and that's before cap and trade and nationalized health care. one of the things that's most frightening to me is all of these rosy predictions, none of which have come true, just the opposite is happening, so once they have to readjust these figures, they go up expo nextally. and you're getting it out there and other people are getting it out there. millions are expressing their dissatisfaction, but the mainstream press is not

reporting it, sean. thank god for you guys at fox and yourself for covering the tea parties because without you, we wouldn't think anything was going on. absolutely no other network covered it. nobody. except maybe janeane garofalo covered it. can you imagine, sean, 37,000 people came out in protest in a town in texas to protest against this irresponsible spending that's going to leave their grandchildren in great debt and burden, and she said about that, she said oh, well, these people are just -- they're red necks, they're just people who are. sean: racist. >> prejudice against a black president. a remark like that -- my take is she would have to be suffering

from severe guilt thinking perhaps she's a descendant of white slave owners. i had heard something on the other line and it distracted me, sean, i'm sorry. sean: let me go back to this question. i take it as a given, jon. i'm on the air four hours a day. i believe as you do he's bankrupting this country, socialism doesn't work, we're robbing from our kids and grandkids, he's unilaterally disarming this country, nationalized health care will be a disgrace, all of these things we talk about, the supreme court under sonia sotomayor is as radical as it will be. i speak out. i'm willing to accept the role and be the punching bag. i dish it out, i take it. you're not used to being in that role. has it impacted your work, your

profession? >> well, look, when i think of this -- first of all, i'm a fellow who is -- i've been around, and i've taken care of myself, and i'm not worried about losing jobs, but i am worried about millions of people with small families losing jobs, and it's a big deal to me. so i want to speak up. but slowly but surely we can see that obama's policies are failing, but the people who brought him in to office will defend him no matter what because they refuse to -- feel that they made a mistake. who brought him into office? the press brought him in. the press was a big factor, and so was -- they got a lot of help from acorn, this corrupt organization that is now under indictment in many states throughout the country for voter

fraud and registration fraud, and also, by the way, responsible for the stealing of the election of norm coleman in minnesota, but the press brought him in, and now they want to make sure that nobody topples the throne, it seems, so they don't report anything that will interfere with his policies, but when the news is biased, it can -- it can control the people in a dangerous way. we see what's going on in venezuela, and we're shocked, we're shocked to see hugo chavez closing down the opposition media, we're shocked whether we see what's happening to the truth in iran, but this same thing is happening in our country right now. the obama regime is controlling the press. they protect them, they cover for him, and they don't want the truth to come out that there is this dissatisfaction, that people are waking up, and it's being expressed in these tea parties. sean: it's funny.

i watched you this weekend in pearl harbor where you played fdr, and one of the moments that really struck me in the movie, and you're a phenomenal actor and we're good friends, but the moment when you said don't tell me we can't, and you stood up, and obviously fdr, and you showed that courage, it seems to me that in many ways in your real life you stand up, and you're counted, and you don't see a lot of people in your profession do it, and i know you're probably going to take some heat again for this, but i admire you for it, and i want to thank you because i think it's a wake-up call to those that seem to be living in that hypnotic obama trance, if you will. >> can i just say one little thing about the sotomayor candidacy? sean: yes, sir. >> there are two people who i know you know, sean, walter williams and thomas sowell who are two of our leading

economists and philosophers, they're both very successful african-americans, they have always had a great pride in our country, and they have a different take on affirmative action than sotomayor who is very proud to say that's of that school. they say that they are very glad that they weren't, quote, victims of affirmative action, that all their successes and who they are today came from the school of hard work, of study, and of competition. and i think that is the kind of character we should look for when we're seeking people for high office, not the other. sean: jon voigt, thank you for being here. the "great american panel" straight ahead. [ surgeon ] what causes a bone to break?

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sean: and tonight on our "great american panel" he is a rock 'n' roll hall of fame musician, dave mason is with us. he is a former deputy assistant secretary of state fox news contributor "usa today" liberal leftist columnist, bob beckel is here, and she's a political analyst, former campaign staffer for john mccain, megan orastus

is here. a wise latina would make better decisions than a white male. >> she'd certainly make better decisions than you. when alito went through his hearings he talked about the consequence of being an italian-american, and when your favorite justice, the towering clarence thomas talked about his background as an african-american, he said that that would impact him. what's new here? sean: can i tell you what the difference is? she's saying race and gender, she's talking about superiority, bob. alito talking about the impact of his background is far different than saying one is superior to another. >> where did she say superior? sean: she said a wise latina would make a better decision than a white male. >> in many cases there's truth there. sean: and if a white man said that about a wise latina --

>> he'd probably be arrested. >> actually as a wise woman from spanish descent, i don't think that this does women much of an advantage. i watched the hearing today, and i watched one of the senators, lehey, i believe, he said no one is going to do this woman any harm, and it's almost like she needed special protection, and frankly i can do just as much as the guys can. i don't need any special help -- sean: you can do twice as much as beckel. >> i don't think it helps women at the end of the day to patronize them. >> she wants to emasculate us white men. >> what?

she's going to get confirmed, she'll probably get 60 plus votes, but behind her comes a whole batch of appellate judgeships and the district level that obama will be able to appoint, and the -- >> it will be shifting into a liberal direction. sean: justify this for me, and i'll ask this question. here's this firefighter in this new haven case who i interviewed, and here's a guy who worked really hard. one salary family income, he wants a promotion, spends $1,000 of his own money, takes it away from his family, he hires people because he's dyslexic, he works really hard, does good on the exam, and judge sotomayor doesn't believe in equal justice under the law. if she had her way, he never would have gotten the promotion. >> she didn't have her way. it is important to note if you look at the breadth of everything she's done, this is a woman she's not a complete leftest. there are cateses where she's

voted in favor of whites and others, but the statements that she's made outside of the court, her other opinions -- sean: which ones bother you? >> the comments about a wise latina woman, i have a white father, i think he makes just as good judgments as me, and those types of comments are concerning, particularly the empathy comment. a lot of americans have said this talk of empathy because that's not something that's constitutionally mandated. sean: doesn't that suggest that we basically -- i'm sympathetic, i have empathy toward you but not something else. >> there's a thought. having empathy on the court. sean: you're not applying equal justice under the law. >> that -- look, this woman has thousands of decisions. she wrote a lot of them, a great detail, and every right wing nut in america -- sean: why are you so angry about this? >> i'm not angry about it, sean. i'm trying to make a point. she has come up fine. she has a stellar judicial

record. she is not a far leftest. she's not left for me. i wish she were much more left than she is. sean: she is left of ruth bader ginsberg by the end of the day. >> i just wonder why the whole issue of the test was even disavowed or whatever it was. why was that an issue when you had those people -- they spent all that time. isn't it that the best is going to rise to the -- >> that was -- that was a mistake, but the issue before the court was the city of new haven and what they were doing and so it was -- i think it was a bad choice on the part of the city. that test was looked at by two different groups and said it was a fair and impartial test. that was a mistake, what her thinking was, i haven't read all of her opinion on it. sean: she just summary judgmented it away. >> there's a lot of things that people do as judges which are very fine and difficult for all of us to sit back here and judge.

sean: what about the fact that she basically in an unscripted -- i know i'm not supposed to say it, but we really do write law? she said it and then today she comes out with a written statement i do not believe that. it's not credible, bob. >> first of all, i mean you think i fell off the pumpkin true on the way this here? everybody makes law. sean: i didn't know there was a thing such as the great pumpkin, bob. >> i do, and the good fairy, and if my wish comes true, i'll be sitting in that seat. no, the fact of the matter is this woman has i think a stellar background and a wonderful judicial record. sean: the platitudes. >> i think she's not liberal enough. >> you think we're not allowed to question her and criticize her. >> question her all you want. do it. that's why you have four days of hearings. sean: we're going to straight beckel out.

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sean: and we continue now with our great american panel. while everyone has been paying attention to the sotomayor case, now we have the financial analyst that is saying that unemployment will go as high as 13% in the weeks to come. obama says those that the stimulus plan, bob, is working as attend. now, even jesse jackson is saying this is not working -- is working as intended. >> not only do i think this is working, i think this man single-handedly brought us back from the economic abyss, and i consider him the greatest

president since franklin roosevelt, period. absolutely. before he became president, they were losing 700,000 jobs a month, and now, we are losing 500,000. there is information that they got from where? the bush administration. sean: the president said first of all that is working. it was said it would have an immediate impact on the economy and that the unemployment would not go above a certain number, and all of a sudden, they keep moving the bar, and liberals say, "is successful because obama did it" -- "it is successful." >> the then-canadndidate said

one thing, and i wonder when he is going to admit that unemployment is rising. sean: he has got so many dense and so many numbers -- he has got so many debt and so many of the things. >> i am english, and i came to america when i was 23. when i left england, it was 98 cents to the dollar. everything was socialized, nationalized. i thought i would go west. by 2019, there is going to be a $10 trillion hole in the economy. >> where you went wrong in your politics, i do not know, but the program you put together, like

getting fishing boats to give it to start businesses -- like getting fishing boats together to start businesses, it is good, and is working. sean-- and it is working. sean: let me go to sarah palin and levi johnston. he has issues with her. governor palin, for whatever reason, this woman just gets attacked more often by more people. she just does not want to sit there as a lame duck and take the money, knowing that she is going to have to spend all of this money for investigations. >> what people are not talking about for better or worse is that this guy is a father now. he is making these egregious

statements about sarah palin. this is the grandmother of his trial. this is not healthy for him -- this is the grandmother of his child. i think it is really incredibly selfish of him to be basking in the limelight right now. he needs to go home every is his son and get off of television -- he needs to go home and raise his son. >> this is the place where i will agree with you. sarah palin should be out there all of the time because she helps our side. this guy would not be nothing if it were not for this woman. sean: would you unpleased tava intellectual integrity to and did this, that governor of palin is being attacked -- would you be