this might make you ask where all the money is really going. henry kissinger goes on the record about the dangers crisis on the korean peninsula. what are we doing? first, sarah palin is not just making headlines.

today, she is writing them. she wrote an op-ed piece in the "washington post" calling the washington energy plan an enormous threat to our government. mike huckabee joins us. governor, tell me, but when you are governor, do you seem somewhat shackled in terms of what you can say and do? is this an act of liberation by gov. palin? >> i never felt compelled to hold things to myself when i was governor. clearly, the piece that she did outlines a very peace a policy that america should be talking about. capt. trade is really cap and tax and president obama has

declared war on american energy resources. that doesn't make sense. we have about two on the 67 billion tons owe have a signifif coal that we can use in our own country >> could she have done this when sh greta: she has given notice. why didn't she do this earlier? >> she could of spoken out on this issue any time. she did speak on these frequently. anwar is another example where we have to barrels and barrels of oil that we can recover which would be in much better source for energy and america that it would to be to continue upon the middle east. a lot of our energy comes from

countries that don't even like us. why would we hold ourselves hostage to countries like venezuela? it doesn't make sense when we have enough energy. offshore, our recoverable sources of energy. the french did about 85% of their electricity from nuclear. greta: who is listening to her? >> maybe she showing her serious side. i don't know. that is something that is beyond me. andgreta: how do you

think it is for her? it is weird have the spotlight has been on her. >> is she trying to get away from the spotlight or simply get in the spotlight but in a different capacity? it would appear from the fact that she is doing things like the op ed that she is not interested in exiting the stage or leaving the spotlight. she wants to do it as a private citizen, perhaps as a candidate, but not as a sitting governor of alaska. greta: there's a difference between being in the spotlight and using the spotlight. many people don't like to be in the spotlight but if you are, they use it. do you think she likes it? >> there are certain aspects that no one can like, especially as an elected official she is subject to all kinds of

disclosure laws. . a lot of people do not appreciate how much politicians have to disclose. all associations, affiliations. one of the things that she will enjoy as a person not in office is that she will enjoy the fact that she will be able to make an extraordinary amount of money and she won have to tell anyone. she is going to enjoy it that. greta: what do you like better, being governor or being ex- governor? >> i loved being governor. education is significantly up in this state. a lot of what we did to reform education resulted in no scores. it makes you feel good. there are so many things that you can do.

this is a job that can kick things done and not just in your wheels. -- this is a job that you can get things done and not just spin your wheels. greta: i would like to see someone pushing issues but on the other hand, i might have political aspirations and i don't want anyone in my way. do you ever feel like that? she might be your challenger in a couple of wyears. >> she might be the person that i support. it is a grueling and demanding schedule to run for president and the risks are high. i love what i'm doing and i have no idea of my future. i'm not about to do anything. i hope that sarah palin does extremely well because i think that she is an important voice

for our party. i think that she rallies people. she brought electricity to the republican ticket last year when frankly, there was about as much excitement as he would see at a baptist dance which means there wasn't any. she has a role to play, whether she runs or not. she has an important voice and i hope that she remains a part of the republirepublican party. she might branch out and go independent. that would be a big mistake. she needs to be a part of our party. greta: you would be happy to stand behind her. thank you for talking with us. >> always a pleasure. greta: listened very carefully, is gov. palin rush limbaugh in a

skirt? >> a state run media continues and even several commentators totally continue to miss rearead miss understand sarah palin. here is a state run media montage that basically says that she is me in a skirt. >> maybe she wants to be there me next rush limbaugh. >> she could be the next rush limbaugh. >> she could be the next rush limbaugh. >> is her future as rush limbaugh in a skirt? >> they did on these themes and they all adopt them. i have no clue what she is going

to do. i don't know anyone who does. we have a story that she is calling to go out and campaign for conservative democrats. when she left the governorship of alaska, i did not hear the word "republican." if on in sarah palin, the republican party has just been as mean-spirited to hurt as the democrats have. a lot of the republican media, the so-called conservative media. i don't know if she will campaign for conservative democrats -- the one thing that does slightly worry me about this is this whole third-party business. it is remote but it is a possibility. there are many people pushing a third party. third parties lose. they never end up with a congressional or a senate

candidate. that is not the way to go. we will save that for later if that begins to transpire. she is outsmarting everyone. she is steps ahead of everyone strategically, she does not fit any cookie cutter mold. from the standpoint of personal responsibility as governor, she has been distracted with over half a million dollars of ethics charges and none of them are through. -- true. let's say that she has a future political aspirations. as a republican, all of her

supposed opponents do not have day jobs. let's look at the republicans, mike huckabee, mitt romney, sanford is gone. if she is going to compete, she will have to come down here. if she is being distracted from serving as governor. she can overcome this quitting business. greta: obama drops a bombshell. henry kissinger goes on the record about north korea. the top u.s. commander in south korea is making big headlines today.

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economy, but when is the president's stimulus package supposed to kick in? joining us is david from market watch. david, why do you think the president is now saying that it is going to take up? -- tick up? >> the president has been slow to catch on, i think, even when its own economic advisrz have been talking, and the numbers that the government is actually news in -- actually using in planning, so he is a little behind. most of the people have been talking about higher unemployment numbers. in fact, the treasury, which ended the stress tests on the bank, and using numbers between 12% and 10% -- which did the stress tests on the bank. when he did it, i guess it makes it official. greta: david, on a point is an indicator. moving in the right direction, i

would give that to him -- unemployment is an indicator. what are the indicators that stimulus is working, it is not unemployment, and when will we see those numbers move in a positive way before we reach a conclusion about whether or not the stimulus package is working? >> a couple of things, greta. there have been problems with the stimulus package, and i think the administration would even admit that the money is not going out there as fast as they thought, so is not having the intended effect. also, the stimulus was sold as kind of the kick-start to the economy to get it moving again and get it going into positive territory, but the reality is is that it is more of a buffer against the downside, and we just cannot expect gdp to start rushing forward, with growth rates near 5%. that is not how it is going to work. that said, the congressional budget office said maybe the stimulus package will kick in in

the fall of 2009. some of the things the government is talking about in terms of getting the money out there, and may not have the effect until year end pre-empt -- it may not have the effect until year end. greta: i know about 10% of the money has been disbursed. is it that they are just not doing it right? they are not getting the money out there? they are inefficient? or is it a bad idea? >> i do not know. i think thereç are so many movg parts or different parts of the stimulus package. with the highways, the states are just sitting there, waiting. i do not know. i do know that the government does acknowledge that it is not getting out there. greta: david, thank you. >> thanks. you president obama just dropped two economic bombshells, and they are not good news. you just heard one of them. why is the other one? and maybe worse for you.

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[captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- president greta: obama took bad news right into the -- greta: president obama to a bad news right into the heart of high unemployment. >> some of the jobs that have been lost in the automotive industry and elsewhere are not going to be coming back. they are the casualties of a changing economy, and in some cases, just increase productivity and the plants themselves means that some jobs are just not going to return. greta: if that is the case, why did we spend so much money dealingh> general motors and chrysler? our guest joins us. is the job market changing profoundly there so they will get jobs? >> the job market is deteriorated profoundly, greta. the unemployment rate in michigan, he mentioned nine% to 10% nationally, and it is 15%

year --çó in michigan, you mentioned a 9% to 10% nationally. -- you mentioned a 9%. fewer people are -- you mentioned 9%. the hospitals in the area are reporting their first ever losses, and they are having to lay people off, so it is not just the automotive industry. those that are trying to grease the economic we'll hear, hear talk about alternative energy, battery power for cars -- ça greece the economic wheel -- grease the economic wheel. in the last 10 years, we basically lost 1 million jobs here in michigan, and that is an unsustainable rate, and it is also an unreplaceable number of jobs at this point in michigan. greta: and it is notç just michigan. the textile industry in the

south. it is not just michigan that is going to be hit by this. >> no doubt. greta: they are the most obvious loss of jobs, but there'll be a terrible boomerangw3 across the country. rick wagoner, some news for him? >> yes, he is going to be leaving general motors. he was obviously relieved of his job by obama administration in march, but he stuck around, and there was some argument about how much money he should be paid as part of a golden parachute. he was expected to be around $20 million. now, he will get $8 million. there was a $74,000 annual paycheck from the company. and a life-insurance policy that pays out about $2.60 million, so he will walk away with a lot of money in his hands, but not as much as we expected. greta: how long has he worked for gm? he is in a little different category. >> rick had been there for 31

years. he started in the mid-1970s, 1967, so about 32 years, and his tenuret( ended in 1979. he came right out of harvard business school to work at gm, and he ended up in detroit and became ceo in 2000 and chairman in 2003. greta: i was looking back at the election numbers, and president obama beat john mccain in the state of michigan. is the states split on the president, or as the automotive industry's situation changed that dynamic -- is the state split? >>-- is the states put on the president, or has the automotive industry -- is theç state split

on the president, or has the automotive industry changed that dynamic? >> it may have garnered more favre for obama. otherwise, these two would not be in the area -- garnered more favor for obama. greta: thanks. kimber john e. oil, the dear leader, may be dying, -- kim jongç il, the dear leader, and maybe die. and the last time i throw the pitch at the mets game, then, to me to a contract -- dear leader may be dying. and the last time i threw the pitch at the mets game

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that north korea can throw at us. that according to the top u.s. military commander in south korea. now, the world is watching the peninsula after a report that kim jong il may be dying of cancer. moments ago, former secretary of state dr. henry kissinger went on the record. good to see you, doctor. in april, north korea launched a long-range moissile. then they pulled us out of the talks and did short-range missiles, and now we hear that kim jong il is sick, and we do not know how sick, but what should the united states be doing right now? >> we have to understand what the issue is here. here is a country with a population of 20 millionç that has no foreign trade, no national resources, that is not in the international system, that for two decades with a

leading its own population has managed to build a small nuclear arsenal, and now they are working on delivery systems. the united states, china, japan, russia, and south koreaç has sd this is unacceptable. the u.n. has passed a number of resolutions, and they continue to have nuclear weapons. this will mean that the nonproliferation policy is substantially in jeopardy if not down the drain. how can we expectation of success in negotiations with iran if north korea gets away with this? and under those conditions, countries like japan and south korea are likely to enter the nuclear world, too, and we will be in a new world, and it will be a demonstration of what calls

itself the world community, so that is the fundamental issue, and can we bring it, can we bring about a change? greta: our top military commander in south korea said that they are ready, north korea and the u.s. is ready for any think that north korea will throw out south korea or anyplace else -- is ready for anything that north korea will throw at south korea or anyplace else. nothing has moved forward accept north korea testing weapons. that has moved forward -- except north korea testing weapons. >> the north koreans have told us the same thing three different times. they have a plutonium reactor which they closed down periodically for concessions, and once they have milked us for the maximum number of

concessions, then they start their reactor again, and we cannot go back to that, and we have to bring about a consensus from surrounding countries to bring korea,ç i would not say o its senses, because it does not have many senses, but to a recognition that this will not be accepted. if not, we will live in a world -- if that continues, we will see a proliferation of nuclear capability in asia, and it was certainly be even more difficult if not impossible to negotiate with iran. greta: well, china certainly does not wantç japan to get nervous and develop nuclear weapons, but it also seems to me that china is the only one with a sort of the power or influence over north korea to sort of ratchet up those sanctions. can we not get china to do more?

we talk about it a lot, but can we actually get china to do more? >> china has done more in the last u.n. resolution that it has ever done before, and there is a senior delegation -- and it has ever done before, and there is a senior it -- china has done more with the last u.n. resolutions than it has ever done before. greta: how much time do we have? >> well, it is really a question now. one year? but we cannot afford to have another -- if talks resume, we should not do them on a bilateral basis, because it is not between the united states and north korea. it is an issue between the world

and north korea. if the six-party talks resume, they have to be given a deadline, and they have to be in the context of the north koreans agreeing that they will stop their nuclear weapons capability. otherwise, we will go back with the same concessions over and over again while the rest of the world proliferates. greta: what happens when kim jong il, dear leader, dies, either passes the torch to his son, his brother-in-law, or the military? give me yourç prediction on who gets the torch, and tell me what is going to happen. >> the high probability is that the torch will be given to the third son. what is not at all clear is whether the third son, who has no visible government

experience, can hold together an establishment that has been in power for such a long period of time, so my prediction would be that this young man will be appointedç and that then some power struggle will take place underneath him that may not be very visible, but it is not impossible that under the strains of all of these, the system will start cracking. it is a very strange society. you have been there. you know. greta: i have been there, and is very different from the way we live. i will attest to that -- and it is very different from the way we live. >> it changes in a symbolic sense. if we are really committed to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, as the president has

stated repeatedly and eloquently, and if we cannot manage it in their region in which the country that is proliferating has such limited resources and is surrounded by countries with -- and tensions, then the ability to do it and other regions will diminish all the more, and there will be an immediate impact on japan and south korea and a longer-term impact in the middle east. so it is a very important issue for the world, but we should not let ourselves be maneuvered in a position where we have to bear the inspire -- the entire responsibility for this. this is for the six-party talks with a deadline and with a determination to bring it to a conclusion this time, and the

conclusion has to be the destruction of the korean nuclear weapons capability. we have to remember that the north koreans have been proliferators of their technology all of these years. they build a nuclear plant in syria that"t israelis destroyed last year -- they built a nuclear plant there. they are a loose cannon in the situation, so this is an important test case of our ability to bring about de- nuclearization. greta: dr. kissinger, thank you, sir. >> a pleasure to be here. greta: çi just posted a new pol on gretawire.com. go to gretawire.com right now and vote. and that a death in a hotel room. room. and what our pajamas i i

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justice o'connor, where it is said that a wise old manç shoud come to the same decision as a wise old woman, and you push back from that -- you deal with the famous quote of justice o'connor. >> i knew that justice o'connor could not have meant that if judges reach a different legal conclusions that one of them was not wise. that could not have been hurt meeting, because reasonable judges disagree on the conclusions in some cases -- that could not have been hurt meeting -- her meaning. i was trying to play on your words, and i fell flat. it was bad. >> they would choose to see some facts and not others. >> it is not a question of choosing to see some facts, senator. i did not intended to suggest that. in the wider context, what i

believe the point i was making is that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others. >> lawyers anonymously rate judges in terms of temperament, and this is what they said about you. she is a terror on the bench. she is temperamental, excitable. she seems angry. she is overly aggressive, not very judicial. she does not have a very good temperament. when you look at the valuation of the judges on the second circuit, you stand out like a sore thumb. in terms of your temperament. what is your answer to these criticisms? >> i do ask tough questions in oral argument. >> are you the only one to ask tough questions in oral argument? >> no, not at all. greta: now, to a mystery in

florida. a man was found bludgeoned to death sunday in a hotel room. a few clues we know are mysterious. joining us is a reporter for "the miami herald." what happened? >> greta, he had traveled to new york's -- new york for a weekend's convention for about 1000 representatives -- for a weekend convention. he checked in on thursday with his wife, and on sunday morning, his wife told police that she what --ç she went out for breakfast, and when she came back at around 8:00 a.m., she found him lying down on the floor next to the hotel bed still in his pajamas. greta: now, this man's grandfathers started a very

famous hotel down in miami -- this man's grandfather, the fo çóuntainbleu? >> yes, and it was lost during a bankruptcy. he livedç in the hotel actuall, in the penthouse of the hotel, for very many years. he had actually used that to promote his business, is planning meetings nationwide. greta: -- his planning meetings nationwide. greta: how was it that his wife found the body? had she left the hotel room? >> right now, she says that she had gone down for breakfast, and when she came back, she found him there. the police chief said that he had been bludgeoned with a blunt

object. now, they have not said what kind of object. and they say that right now, they have no suspects. greta: how long will she gone from the hotel room? when did she leave for breakfast? >> we still do not have that information from the police department. we did ask. we just did not receive information, so we do not have the weapon or what time she left for breakfast. we only know that she came back at 8:00 in the morning, and police are quite tight-lipped about information surrounding the case. greta: this is a very strange homicide. luis, thank you, sir. >> thank you. greta: , up next, the best of the rest, -- up next, the best of the rest, and oh-oh. it does not get any

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