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the cape -- on the cap and trade con. "the factor" begins right now. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- mi i andke: reporting tonight for bill o'reilly. president obama addressed the controversial comments he made about the rest of a black professor. mr. obama said he should have said things differently and that is our top story. henry lewis gates of arrested after police responded to a report of a burglary. the disorderly conduct charges were dropped and now charges of racism against the, are flying. president obama catapulted this

story into the national spotlight during his prime time press conference wednesday night when he said the cambridge police acted "stupidly." the president made a surprise appearance at a white house briefing and seemed to soften his rhetoric after a conversation. >> my impression of him was that he was an outstanding police officer. that was confirmed in the phone conversation. i told him that. because this has been ratcheting up and i helped to contribute ratcheting it up, i want to make clear that in my choice of words, i unfortunately gave an impression that i was maligning the cambridge police department or mr. crowley specifically. i could have calibrated those words differently.

mike: as president obama learned an important lesson about the weight of his words? joining us from jacksonville is a political commentator and a radio talk-show host. mike, let me talk -- start with you.

one is the issue with cambridge, whether or not there was any racism involved. why on earth with the president jump in the middle of this and take the bait from a reporter at a press conference that was supposed to be about health care? >> well, i think the president did a great job in dealing with the issue in a straightforward way. we don't get too much kickback from political leaders when it comes to police officers. because there was a personal situation where he knows the professor, you have a situation. if a police officer, the sergeant says that he is taught about sensitivity and racial a@profiling. if he does not understand why professor gates is up said, he needs to do some retraining before teaching else. mike: i have set the alarm off

at my own home and the police come out, when they do i am glad to see them. i apologize to them for getting them there unnecessarily. if someone is seen pushing the door to my home, i don't care what color they are, i am glad the police are going to show up and maybe stop a burglary in process. can you not see that maybe the professor would have been a little bit better off? >> i think you are right on that, but at the same time many african-americans have known this situation were police officers feel like they have to win and this situation is a police officer saying that there has been a mistake, now shut up. the police officer says that i'm going to win, you're going to jail. >> we were not there, you did not read the reports on line where the man said "i will talk

to your mama outside. this was a man who felt aggrieved and he went off on a tangent. at some point, you need to shut up when you are addressing a man with a gun or a badge. mike: i have the police department report in my hands, not only will repor-- not only t of sgt crowley but the report of the back up officer. the neighbor who made a phone call verified that this was escalating because professor gates continued to push the issue even as the officer was trying to diffuse it. we were not there but this looks like one of those issues that

would have been better had both of them walked away. why did the president feel compelled to jump into this? you thought he should have, what he said was important. did he really make a big mistake by calling the police actions stupid? >> well, if you are a police officer and ultimately a mistake was made and a person who is a middle aged man, very intelligent, a lot i-- a law-abiding citizen, common sense did not prevail. i tend to go on the side of thinking about history. at one point in time, the police was the ku klux klan. mike: we're not talking about the ku klux klan. i want the police to win because when i think about the police.

>>h@ the citizen outranks the police. mike: he thought he was a burglar. >> this is so wrong with this story, you should follow the lead of president obama who did everything but apologize today. the fact is to continue to smear sergeant crowley this way and suggest there was a mistake made, please bear in mind from his perspective, there has not been a mistake made. you want to know the mistake was made, it was made by professor k. to became belligerent and abusive. -- it was made by professor gates to become belligerent and abusive. >> i think that some of the things that and sgt crowley has said is intelligent. he has been counted in -- she

has been counseled well. we don't want to talk about police brutality, the relationship. this provides a great opportunity for us to do this. mike: sergeant crowley is a person who has a long history, no problems whatsoever. no one has ever accused him of having any racist attitudes. in fact, many of the officers who stood with him, there is no evidence to indicate that this man has a chip on his shoulder. he just happened to be answering a call because he was near the area. >> it sounds like you're saying, he knows black people and some of his best friends are black. mike: the policeman is getting a call, he might be getting into a home.

he has every right to find out if the person lives there. he was willing to walk away but the professor was not letting this happen. >> you are stuck in the past, let's stop saying that everything has to be about race. we have to move forward. fall the lead. mike: threats of lawsuits all over the place, will the profs sue for wrongful arrest? more and more americans did not approve of the job that president obama is doing. we have this details. that is coming up. i never thought i would have a heart attack, but i did. you need to talk to your doctor about aspirin. you need to be your own advocate.

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mike: continuing now with our lead story. a legal look at the racially charged cambridge controversy pit ago white police officer against a black professor. hours before the president dialed back his remarks on the case, professor henry lewis gates was playing hard ball and threatening possible legal action. >> my lawyers and i are considering what further action. because. >> what does that mean? does that mean lawsuit? >> perhaps, because this is not about me. this is about the vulnerability of black men america. mike: but sergeant crowley standing his ground. >> i think i'm shocked, still shocked that not only that happened but the comments that have been made subsequent to that day by the professor and his friends. i have never been accused of being a racist before to this

degree. mike: the sergeant's lawyer has reportedly said he may sue the professor for defamation. with us now civil rights attorney jennifer bon jane. welcome. who is going to win this other than the lawyers? the lawyers look like to win this thing, does either person have anything to win? >> i actually think professor gates absolutely does have a lawsuit against the sergeant. this is why. and it doesn't have to do with racial profiling or any race issue, quite honestly. it has to do with the fact that elere was an unlawful arrest made. you ask what was the arrest for? it was disorderly conduct. under massachusetts law, to be guilty of disorderly conduct you have to have a threatening, fighting, tee tumultuous behavior that has the intend of creating public alarm, public disturbance. and that's not what was happening here. so even assuming the truth of everything contained in sergeant crowley's incident report, professor gates not commit disorderly conduct. there was an unlawful arrest.

does that make sergeant crowley a racist? i don't know. but it does make him a bad cop and a liability to his police department. mike: yet, there were other officers on the scene who agreed that there was disorderly conduct and the citizen who made the complaint felt that things were getting out of hand. and that it was alarming and that it was tumultuous to use some of the legal words. it's not indisputable. there is clear lay question as to whether there was disorderly conduct. but there was basis for the officer to believe that the behavior of professor gates went beyond simply being upset and continuing to berate the officer and bebelligerent to the point that the officer felt disorderly conduct. how can you be so sure? >> what was the intent of professor gates? not to create the public outcry. he was angry. he was furious. that is different than intending to create a public riot or alarm. something very different is the legal issue, of course. and i do think it gives rise. i sue cops for a living so

obviously i think it gives rise to a lawsuit. mike: professor gates would like your phone number. he wants to call you. >> i think he is in good hands. mike: maybe tied up across the river in new jersey. we talked about these 44 people. >> i get a lot of my business from across the river. >> if there is a case there in cambridge because of this, if you were going to be the lawyer for professor gates, what would you sue for? what would you be asking for? you want money out of this? >> well, that would be the remedy you would be seeking in a civil rights claim. false arrest. mike pike why would you say that i am entitled to some type of monetary damage. what monetary damage was done to the photographer? >> the damage would be monetary and you have to say how long was any custody. what sort of emotional distress. what type of distress did he suffer from this? what's the damage to his reputation as a result of this arrest? how we put numbers on this, that's what we do for a living. that's what the judges decide. it is a difficult inquiry but

that's it. i suspect professor gates would be happy with an apology. but when you actually take a case to the courts, you are seeking damages in the form of monetary damage. mike: trip to the white house. today what the president suggestside what he is going to get professor gates and sergeant crowley. they will sit around and sing consume by yaw around the camp fire toast marshmallows, hug. do the whole thing. >> that's what i heard earlier. i suspect, i may be wrong, professor gates may not be open to that type of love fest. one never knows. >> it seems to me from all indications that sergeant crowley is not really anxious to pursue. this he wants to be a cop. he wants to do his job, but, in doing his job, do we not cripple the cop's ability to do his job when every time he makes an arrest the potential is he is going to be called a racist? >> this is where i think people are missing the point. he didn't arrest professor gates because of race, in my opinion.

mike: but professor gates said that's what he was doing. >> he arrested him because he had an attitude. it was an attitude adjustment. attack on his authority. and he was like i'm not going to let this uppity man, black or white question my authority. that's what it was about. you know what? that's an abuse of power and it's wrong. he should be disciplined for it and should apologize. mike: jennifer, don't we need to have respect for the authority of the policemen? >> we should have respect. we should have respect for a lot of people. we should have respect for elderly people. handcuffs are not a rebuttal when you are not respectful. he had a first amendment right to say i don't like the way i'm being treated. i think it's racially motivated. and then the response is ok, old man, cuff time. i think that was improper, unlawful, and is going to justify a civil rights suit. mike: i read the report. it didn't look like it was quite like that. i think the officer tried to extricate himself from it and get away from it. i appreciate your point of view. you are such a strong advocate for professor gates. he has certainly got to give you a call if he wants to pursue this legal option. >> i have a lot of respect for

the man but i'm not a personal friend. mike: jennifer, thank you very much. directly ahead. president obama's job approval numbers are falling below the 50% mark. how key dig himself out of this ditch? then later, glenn beck says you and your family need to, i'm not kidding, watch out for the killer clowns. what the heck is he talking about? we'll find out in just a moment. wouldn't it be great if it were easy to spot the good guys ? you know, the guys who do a super job. introducing the superguarantee. go to superpages.com to find a business with the superguarantee. we're so confident in these super businesses we stand behind their services. you'll get the job done right or we'll step in and help to make it right. sign up for free at superpages.com

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mike: in the unresolved problem segment tonight, are american voters experiencing some buyer's remorse? for the first time since taking office, president obama's overall approval numbers have dropped below the 50% mark. that's in the latest rasmussen poll. meanwhile, the white house is pushing for action on the health

care bill but it sure looks like the effort is stalling and democrats are trying to blame the republicans. >> what's the cost of not reforming our healthcare system? premium rising faster than your paycheck. insurance companies dictating more and more medical decision. families faced with paying the mortgage or paying for health care. but some leading republicans playing politics have vowed to kill reform. tell republicans the cost of doing nothing on health care is just too high. mike: joining us now from washington, d.c. lanny davis, a "washington times" columnist and former white house council for bill clinton. lanny, i'm shocked. shocked that democrats are blaming the republicans for all that's going wrong with the health care bill. >> i actually am disappointed, disappointed because tim kaine, that's not the voice of the tim kaine elected as a moderate governor of virginia. i think the dnc and the democrats in congress need to be careful about making this a partisan issue. i think president obama has tried to avoid that there are

lots of thoughtful blue dog democrats who are concerned about the cost of this program. i'm supporting president obama's program. but i think there are genuine doubts and some of the very good republicans like lindsey graham, john mccain and others have serious questions. we ought to not make this ah@ partisan issue. it's too bad the dnc just goes right back to the default position when it really shouldn't be doing that. mike: lanny, the democrats can pass this if they just get all the democrat votes. they have a filibuster-proof senate. a 40 vote majority in the house. how would they possibly be able to say it's the republicans block it? they have opposition, as you mentioned, from 52 blue dog democrats. they also have opposition as we saw a week ago from many of the democratic governors who are afraid that there is going to be some cost shifting from the federal government down to the state level on medicaid funding. so, how does this begin to play out where the democrats start saying, look, if we want a health care bill, we are either going to have to bring the republicans to work with us or

we are going to own this thing completely? >> well, first of all, the country would lose if there was a partisan 60 to 40 vote in the senate in a partisan party line vote in the house. this is too important an issue for there to be a party line vote. medicare passed by bipartisan support. president bush's prescription drug plan passed with bipartisan support. secondly, there are blue dog democrats opposing parts of this because they are concerned about the cost there are other democrats concerned about whether you have to raise taxes to pay for this. but i think there was a wide consensus, including republicans, that the present system is broken, that we have 44 million people who face the disaster of no insurance whatsoever we are the only western democratic society anywhere that doesn't have health insurance system that allows everybody to have some access to the healthcare system. we just haven't found the right mix of solutions. we need conservatives and liberals sitting down to work

this out on bipartisan basis, mike. mike: there are ways we can address this. you mentioned 44 million. many of those are ones that can afford new insurance. they just choose to buy a new truck instead. there are many who qualify for state programs. they just choose not to sign up. that number is much smaller in terms of those that don't have any umbrella to stand under when it really starts to pour rain. >> good point. mike: for those there ought to be some avenue. let me ask you. this why isn't there more of a willingness to let some of these ideas get tested in the states rather than to do a national program all at once? we have seen what's happened in massachusetts and in tennessee where they have tried similar projects to what we are talking about. and they have been budget busters. >> well, look. this is youall new territory. there is very good argument that we ought to do this step-by-step. we did pass children's health insurance. and that got through on a bipartisan basis.

i think there really could be an approach where you get more of a bipartisan support by doing this step-by-step. i think president obama has courageously taken this on on a come prehencive basis. i remember when president clinton and hillary clinton tried to do that. it's a difficult thing to do in a short period of time. mike: lanny, we are going to have to go. i really appreciate your being here. >> thanks, mike. mike: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. glenn beck is afraid of killer clowns. he will be here to explain. so long sarah palin. the governor will leave office this weekend. something tells me we have not ♪ (announcer) introducing new tums dual action. this tums goes to work in seconds and lasts for hours. all day or night. new tums dual action.

mike: in the at your beck and call moment tonight. this moment on the glenn beck show caught bill o'reilly's attention. >> we are trying to pack the show with as much as it as we possibly can it's an emergency now. you have got to watch this show or your children may be killed by clowns beating them to death with those giant clown shoes. it's an emergency. don't go anywhere. mike: the fun begins when bill asks beck how can we escape these killer clowns. >> wouldn't you like to know bill o'reilly, sure. meanwhile bill o'reilly is just on television telling you how to be violent about. i know. bill: beck, when you do that you know "newsweek" magazine which we just discussed are going to say that you want to murder clowns. that's what they're going to do.

>> that's what i'm telling you. america, go get the clown shoes and beat people to death. do it. bill: you are handing them fodder. >> i know. bill: cap and trade. you saw the talking points memo. does it get more brilliant than that. >> the bible and talking points memo. you have read the talking points twice? because i did. >> yeah. i mean, we have a situation here where i think the government has been -- we have an al takeover. business and special interest. they are running the government. >> it's interesting is, it not, that liberal cloak which is what global global warming is, the big heinous corporations that ralph narrowed and all the other guys despise. >> despise. bill: they are the ones going to make the money, the folks, the people, the down trodden, we're going to panchts here is the

thing, bill. all that bull crap from michael moore where, you can't get rich. meanwhile is he rich enough. i mean, is he a shrub. is he rich number to be flying across the country in a private plane. they don't hate corporations. the progressive movement exposed themselves in the early part of the 20th century. they love corporations as long as they run them. it's a dick parityship. as long as they are running it, they are fine. bill: ok. but this con. this cap and trade con. i'm a global warming believer, i don't think that you are. and i am going to give you a thermometer for christmas, by the way. >> may i? may i? temperature peaked 11 years ago, i was with you on global warming. i have said this over and over again. you have to be a dummy if you don't look at the thermometer. bill: yes, that's what it says. >> thermometer shows it was going up peaked 11 years ago. bill: the last eight years have been seven of the warmest years on record.

>> i don't believe that's true. bill: check it out. we did. >> i will be fine with the facts in looking at a thermometer. the question is, is it still going up with the co 2 like they claim and are we causing it? >> or has it leveled off? >> or the other big question is, if you buy into all of that stuff, which i don't, if do you, will this solve it? cap and trade won't. >> that's not the question though that i'm most concerned about. what i'm most concerned about is the con is that we have a president who came into office and was largely elected on, look, i'm with you, the people. i'm going to make life better for you, all right? that's why he got elected. i'm going to clean up the environment same time, give you jobs and health insurance. your life is going to be better. what this is turning out to be is the people will pay more, goldman sachs and al gore are going to make gazillions. >> g.e. bill: pay no taxes. so. this is change, who believes in change? come on. >> >> first of all, let me disagree

with the one fact that i don't think that's why president obama got elected. i think president obama got elected because people saw him as something entirely new, which he has turned out to be. just not what you opened. but, he was somebody who was going to change the culture in washington. people were tired of being lied to. they are tired of being told one thing and doing another. bill: what's this? >> this is much worse. bill: what is this? >> this is that at hyperspeed. bill: see, look, in the beginning of the program cheryl casone said i think cap and trade is going to pass, it's not. this is going to get out. this con is going to get out. everybody understands now it's a con. it's not going to get passed. >> i just did a fundraiser in idaho for the sheriffs up there. and i was on stage on saturday. and i said america, you have got to stand up. you have got to stand up because this con that's going on right now is going to change america forever. you are not going to get out of

this. bill: cap and trade could be rescinded in the next administration. it could be. >> it ain't going to be. and the guy said to me glenn, he showfted from the balcony, we called, they don't listen. what are we supposed to do now? so, bill, what do the people do? bill: you have to vote in the next election for other people. >> how do you stop cap and trade? >> whoever votes about against it, then you vote them out of office. >> you mean votes for it. bill: whoever votes for it cap and trade we will stop by telling folk what is a con it is. we started tonight. it's irrefutable. they can't deny anything we said. whoever votes for it, we will let you know. >> you can't deny that al gore has said this is globa government. that's what it leads to. bill: i have got to run. if all things fail, we will sick the clowns on them. come with the clown shoes. >> get the big shoes. bill: have a big march with the clowns. mike: coming up, sarah palin. gearing up to live under the governor's mansion this weekend. where will we see her next? we have got some predictions.

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mike: thanks for staying with us. i'm mic huckabee in for bill o'reilly. in the personal story segment tonight, alaska says so long to sarah palin. thgovernor will officially leave office this weekend and a new poll shows that she might

have a problem getting back into national politics. according to a "the washington post" abc news poll, palin's favorability ratings has dipped to lowest level since last summer. 53% of americans not fans of . . angeles, democratic strategist matthew littman. matthew, let me start with you out in california. you have looked at this from a democratic perspective. i'm just curious. what do you say about sarah palin's future? >> i think sarah palin would be great on the real housewives of wasilla on bravo. i think she should be doing something like that. she comes across really as quite a character but not a figure that should be taken seriously on the national stage. that being said, mike as a democrat, i hope she is the republican nominee next time because the republican party would be completely gone if sarah palin became the nominee of your party. mike: she had great comments.

the original roll out speech in ohio. her speech at the republican national convention. i was there. it was electric phiing brought a unit to the party that they didn't have. i thought she did a great job in the debate with joe biden. so she is clearly capable and she has demonstrated that on several very important pressure-filled occasions. >> well, i am going to disagree with you. i thought she was terrible in the debate with biden. i thought her speemp at the convention was awful. it may have appealed to the republican base. mike: you used to work for joe biden, of course you didn't like him. i thought she handled him. >> those speeches may have appealed to the republican base. i don't think it appealed to independents, certainly the democrats. mike: amanda, have you written extensively on sarah palin. what say to you mr. littman here? >> well, to compare her to some tawdry character on trashy reality tv show is insulting to

someone who the first woman vice presidential candidate in the republican party and governor in her own right. >> i think it's insulting to the people on the housewives show actually. >> let me finish. it's that kind of talk that galvanizes her base. part of the reason why she has such strong support in the republican voter she has 70% favorability ratings. >> amongst republicans. >> stand up to her because you attack her in such a tasteless manner. >> yes. yes. let me tell you, if what i say gets sarah palin more support amongst the republicans, i will keep saying it because of i want her to be more popular amongst the republicans. mike: matthew, hold on a second. matthew, do you not feel that some of the attacks on sarah palin have been just uncommonly brutal and really over the top? >> i feel that that may be true. i also feel that some of sarah palin's attacks on -- >> -- mike, i feel that some of sarah palin's attacks on the media and on barack obama have also been incredibly unfair and

ridiculous. i think many of the things that she says are ridiculous. i think she is also an incredibly dishonest politician, perhaps the most dishonest politician on the national stage since nixon. mike: that's pretty -- amanda, i will let you take that one on. >> come on, amanda. >> matthew thinks this will help him politically. all it does is expose the kind of dirty tactics and mean spirited attacks that always come to sarah palin and broadly to women who are strong conservatives. i mean, this is common par for the course kind of stuff. and i am happy to. >> who else aside from sarah palin do people talk about like this? >> there are several -- i mean, look at all the attacks on people like ann culture, michelle malkin. this stuff is par for the course. >> ann culture? that's your example in ann coulter, you think ann coulter gets attacked unfairly? >> yeah, i do. >> that's your example? well then i think we disagree.

ann coulter says nice things about everybody else. mike: i like sarah palin. i think she is a gracious person. i think she has been totally stunned by the level of vitriol that has been pointed her way but she has been a governor of a state. she did many things effectively as a chief executive of that state. that is a job where decisions have to be made every single day that people can evaluate and really until she was on the national ticket, there really weren't any accusations about the way she was governing and her effectiveness. it was after that she got named to the ticket that the politics of personal destruction, to borrow a phrase from the democratic playbook, certainly seemed to be the way in which she was primarily attacked. >> she was dishonest about her own record, mike. let's not forget that. she said that she was against the bridge to nowhere. we all said yes to the bridge

though nowhere. she said at the convention her teleprompter went out and she ad-libbed when it hadn't gone out and ad-libbed. it's what sarap did on the national stage is the problem. it's sarah palin's fault. mike: amanda, i want to give you the last word here. what does -- does she have a future with the republican party. and does her resignation as governor in the middle of her term, does that hurt her? >> yeah. i think there is a few things that do ding her fair or not. one of them is stepping down in the middle of her term. the second one is the barrage of ethics attack. there is always the news headline that comes at she has fended off 16 of them so far. no one has talked about the batting average. this in this debate tonight is an example of getting distracted away what sarah palin represents politically. people get so mired in the personal attacks we didn't get to talk about what her plans may be for the future. that's unfortunate. mike: by the way, matthew, i'm

going to mark you down as undecided voter on sarah palin. we have to see how that comes out later. when we come back, president obama is blaming the press for focusing on his anti-cop commentary in the cambridge situation. what did he expect?t?t?t?t?t?t??

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mike: segment tonight, the president takes issue with the media frenzy surrounding the cambridge cop controversy. earlier today, mr. obama told the press corps that in the private conversation today sergeant crowley asked him for some help dealing with reporters. >> he wanted to find out if there was a way of getting the press off his lawn. [ laughter ] >> i informed him that i can't get the press off my lawn. [ laughter ] he pointed out that my lawn is bigger than his lawn.

but if anybody has any connections to the boston press as well as national press, sergeant crowley would be happy for you to stop trampling his grass. mike: joining us from boston is tony berkowitz boston university communications professor. tony, the president today acquitted himself with some humor. that was a good stroke. why on earth did it take him this long to find his voice to come out and address the fact that he really got into it on this one? >> well, it's really inexplicable. first, why he even commented on this case. obama has been very skillful avoiding getting into racial politics. but today, at least he made this start to go away but why they waited this long and why they let this turn into a huge story, moving away from health care reform, which was his message for the week, is really something that i just can't

understand. mike: how much damage to the president in terms of his image, his overall agenda, because of the distraction of the past several days? >> well, i don't think this helps him. there have been a lot of stories in the opinion leader press that his poll numbers are softening a little. his approval rating and especially hal people are looking at how obama stands on the issues. so this is not what he needed. he really needs to sort of strengthen his numbers. start to rebound and he wanted to do that by showing america that he really does understand the health care dilemma. has a plan. wants to start to move forward. and then he just got mired down in this story that was very destructive. he will probably come back, but this is not how they wanted it to end this week. mike: he has had more press conferences in seven months than george bush had in eight years. this is an unusual number of appearances by a president. and then add to the press conferences almost every day there is a well-publicized speech. there is an announcement.

he is at the podium all the time with the everpresent teleprompter. is he saying too much too often? is there a point at which the president needs to back off and not be heard from so that his statements have more impact when he is making them? >> well, the white house certainly believes that all obama all the time is the strategy that they want to go with. listen, these are smart people. they do a lot of polling. their internal polling has to show that so far the president has not worn-out his welcome. and he is the sales person and chief. i really wonder though if you are on television all the time, having these press conferences. constantly talking to the people on tv. if you start to wear out your welcome or become a little less special, become a little less important and i just don't think it's a very wise strategy but then again, one has to assume that rahm emanuel and david axelrod are a lot smarter than i am's. mike: they have to be smart but

job approval first time below 50% that hasn't happened since he took office. there is clearly some of maybe the magic coming off of barack obama's presidency. >> well, he has had the magic for quite a while. and he has been very popular. i think the first problem is people are dissatisfied with his stand on the issues, the rise in the deficit. i think that sort of started it and people are getting a little skeptical and a little worried about health care. and so that i think is really what is starting to bring his numbers down. but, also, i think if you are in people's living rooms day in, day out. soon they are going to say, you know, maybe you should stay in your own living room. mike: professor, any final thoughts on advice you would give to the president on how he can maybe get himself away from this cambridge cop situation real quickly? >> well, i think he did a great job today. this was the obama that ran and was elected president of the united states. charming, smooth, that's the

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actually, sigh this guy is a little out of control right now but you can't blame him for that let's tell you more about michael jackson. >> michael jackson. >> so basically the deal is. >> ok, apparently unruly fan out there. involving getting involved in never want to do that with steve ryan's live shot there. >> sometimes it happens. especially when people have a little too much to drink. bill: media making a big deal out of me saying i will not spend 10ucks to see sean penn in a movie. i believe i have a responsibility to explain this a bit further, especially to younger americans who may not understand my thinking. so, yesterday, i taped this interview. bill: well, thanks for giving me a hearing. >> [ laughter ] bill: the reason sean penn bothers me is that he legit mis bad people like the castro brothers and hugo chavez. bill: are you guys getting that? >> i don't know. bill: if i think someone is helping an evil doer, i just say no to that someone. >> oh, narly.

bill: also, i think mr. penn doesn't like america very much. maybe i'm wrong. >> hey, bud, what's your problem? bill: finally and i appreciate you hearing me out. every american has a right spending choices. this is one of mine. you can have the last word. >> oh i need are some tasty waves, cool buzz and i'm fine. bill: indeed. mike: and that's it for us today. the factor continues 24/7 on bill o'reilly.com. we hope you check it out. and check out my show huckabee saturday and sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. eastern. this weekend we have got a blockbuster show lined up with dan quayle, mc hammer, the amazing queston and ron in mill sap. for this week's huckabee show or past shows or commentaries heard on nearly 500 radio shows each day go to mike huckabee.com. hannity is next. i'm mike huckabee in for bill o'reilly hope to see you next time. reer