>> greta: tonight, rush limbaugh goes on the record in a rare face-to-face interview in his radio studio in florida. cod you see the press conference? >> of course. the first thing before we get into the healthcare aspect, i tell you we learned last night that he did, president obama did listen to reverend wright all those years. >> greta: why do you say that? >> the question on the arrest of henry louis gates he was more animated, he became more alive, he was more passionate on that last question rum lynn sweet in chicago about the arrest and calling the cops stupid -- i tell you that there is a

undercurrent here. i think obama is largely misunderstood by a lot of people. i think his associations and his young wife and early adult life matter to people that mentored him matter and we're finding out this guy has a chip on his so that shoulder. he's angry this country is not private. he talked about health care last night and never talked about the greatness of our health care. when it comes to something american he criticizes it. >> greta: cases in his house and chose identification this is my house, this is my name. you don't think that was an unusual -- >> obama did not happened. we don't know what happened. the facts as we take this as unknown. obama admitted he didn't know what happened and yet the cops acted stupidly. what's going on. we are in a major offensive in afghanistan. we have an attack led by obama on our private sector, this is a purposeful attempt to destroy

the private sector as it exists. we have numerous problems, job numbers are up this morning and they are up unexpectedly up, even though we have rescued the economy. and the president of the united states does not comment on local arrests and things like that. that question, if it wasn't -- it has to be a set up. that whole press conference about health care last night, that's the less question when he came alive he admits he doesn't know what was going on in there, called the cops stupid, the company called stupid cave mouth to mouth resuscitation to reggie lewis of the boston celtics and he was dying. >> greta: be police officer as an extranet history. the boston celtics when reggie lewis was dying he gave him mouth to mouth. >> and racial profiling? race, let's face it president obama is black, and i think he is a chip on his shoulder. i think there are elements in this country he doesn't like and he never has liked and is using the power of the presidency to remake the country. rather, he goes around the country apologizes for this

country everywhere he goes. he never once refers to, thinks about, talks about america's exceptionalism. we have the greatest healthcare system in the world. nobody leaves this country for health coverage. everybody in the rest of the world comes here. he's lying through his teeth. i don't know i'm a times during a press conference last night. he either is uninformed on the details and doesn't care about them and just has this ideological. he believes in that he's got to try to get this thing passed because it really isn't about health care. one thing, if i could tell people you give me an opportunity to tell them on your network is not about health care, it's not about health insurance. notice the change in terms last night to give healthcare insurance. >> greta: what does that mean? >> everybody thinks we need better health care. we've got the best health care in the world. his program is health insurance. but you realize, greta, you are a lawyer.

you know there is no way we can ensure our health. we can't ensure our health. what health insurance is, is you taking a risk, paying a premium, what do you think it's worth to guard against something catastrophic. >> greta: it's gambling. a little bit insurance is gambling. >> and away, but we've got great healthcare here. we don't need to redo this. there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this. he is running it down. we've got health care that is better than anywhere else in the world. he doesn't talk about this. i comes to his jobs plan, the stiffness plant, lied through his teeth. we are bringing the deficit down to cute we are creating jobs to cute we are saving the economy to cute this is very difficult for me to say because it's drastic amah but his doing things like the opposite president obama and the democrats are destroying the u.s. economy. they are purposely doing it, i believe.

i think the real reason he wants healthcare is because when he gets it, that is the single greatest power the government will have regulate every aspect of our lives, and that's what obama is and that's what the democrats -- the liberal wing of the democratic party is today. total control. these people want a little liberty and freedom for the american people as possible, and healthcare insurers are. you can deny people coverage based on their lifestyles. you can dictate what you can eat, what you don't eat, if you're going to get this versus health insurance. this is a dastardly thing here that's been done. and he says things during the course of interviews that should just scare people to death. during the abc infomercial, ask the president a question on healthcare. or, i could not believe an american citizen stood up, a woman, and essentially asked obama look, by 100-year-old

grandmother needed a pacemaker. the first specialist said no, she is 100 years old i can't do anything more for her. another specialist at the outcome of this woman has sparked hope that the pacemaker in. she is now 105 and the meantime. this woman has the resident of the united states, if during your healthcare days, her healthcare plan we're going to take into account someone's spirit and love of wife to give obama said essentially will get the point here where, 100 years old, there will still be better off taking a pain pill. a citizen of the united states asking the president are you going to not kill my mother? i can understand fidel castro being asked that question or kim il-sung or kim jong il were some of the other dictators i can't believe that these kind of questions being asked of the president of the united states, because it is not his decision who lives and dies in this country. but he wants it to be. and he wants it to be the prerogative of his party to determine who gets born and who does not and who has end-of-life

problems that are dealt with and not. this is hideous. this is not about health care is about control about remaking the country, the economy -- proof of my point hear that the joblessness is on purpose, if your number one signature issue is healthcare, and his is, and if, which is to that health insurance is not portable when you lose your job, what's the best thing you can do for yourself to cute create unemployment. the more people unemployed, the more people lose their health insurance more people scared to death or people clamored for saying please give me health insurance. i'm scared because they have been drummed into the fact there's something in this country telling them every day from coffee to nicotine whatever it is. so all of this destruction is taking place. he wants to return the nations wealth to rightful owners. he said that the doctor last night. he said you're going to get goldplated coverage. get the best coverage in the air and winners will pay for it.

a couple million or so pay for it. totally untrue. it'll cost everybody untold amounts of money. everybody is not going to be covered for everything that happens to them. but that's what people think is offering, and he is not. again you are a lawyer. we talk about rights and they're saying healthcare is a right. if government can take it away from you credit, it isn't a right, and government can take away your healthcare if they decide you're too old, too sick, that investing whatever expense would be to prolong life is not worth it, you don't get the coverage, that's where we are headed. he only way he can make any pretense of saving money. i think this is a bad guy. >> greta: bad guy or different ideology than you. >> this is the most radical liberal that has ever assumed this degree of power. in a country. in our history. i've never seen anything like this. i mean we are destroying the economy. he's not fixing it, is not

rescuing it. the numbers tell the tale. the wealth that has been lost -- you look at the jobs that are lost, let's look at it in a way to try to convince you. jobs have been lost that means what else is a must? revenue. dextran into the treasury. now we are running with his own plans $10,000 of deficits over the next ten maybe 12. there's no money coming in your head tax receipts are way down. the states are expressing the same thing because people are out of work. if you're out of work or not paying taxes. they're not even concerned. the purpose of taxes is to raise revenue to run the government responsibly. that's not his purpose. to him the tax code is to reorient society, punishing cheaters. we are printing money, putting money that people not even born yet haven't even earned her it that's how in-depth we are. this is not sustainable. we cannot go on this way. i will go even further.

i will give you your headline and your promo line for the show tonight. >> greta: okay. >> i maintain to you, that nobody who is economically adrift, economically experienced and understanding, would dare do what we're doing if their objective was growth and jobs. the world has proved it historically over and over. this country, we have tried this on a limited arrangement before and it doesn't work. we know how to study that showed growth in jobs. you incentivize people in the private sector. how do you do that? be reduced financial burdens. you cut the taxes, you get out of their way in terms of regulation. we need people going back to work. we need people working. we need a country humming and the economy coming back. it's not happening and they're talking about a second stimulus? another excuse as well, we didn't intend it to work this year. it was those good work next year. is nothing interesting is bill anyway that's about job

creation. this is about helping state governments with their budgets -- there's no job creation and it. it is six months and are it isn't working. anybody can see it is important. there's an easy fix to that it's the exact opposite of what obama is doing. it's my contention this has to be being done or persuade. >> greta: up next, process or freedom is being taken away and the greatness of our country is under assault. he also has some nasty words for the media. more with russia in two minutes and later, for my arthritis, i use new capzasin quick relief gel. (announcer) starts working on contact and at the nerve level. to block pain for hours. new capzasin, takes the pain out of arthritis.

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economy. >> i can't predict this. the american economy is a great thing. it is being nobody, nobody can wave a magic wand or turn a couple of knobs and manipulate a bunch of levers and cause it to magically change direction, it is too big and too complex. that is another reason why he can't really end up controlling healthcare. it is too complex. everything about this economy in this country is complex and it is big. so, the american people are very resourceful. at some point people are going to say i'm not -- i'm not happy sitting here being unemployed and tired of waiting for whatever obama said he was going to do for me. entrepreneurs will get out there and the economy may come back. it may start upticking. the obama people are predicting the future and saying itle be a jobless recovery. how inspiring is that. i think obama even referenced it last night. the economy is going to come back but the jobs will be a lag

factor. that is all that matters. if the economy is coming back and there aren't any jobs for it, for whom is it coming back? we could be ticking back up. economic direction could be ticking back up and i guarantee you when that happens obama and his guys are going to take credit for it, the stimulus worked, blah, blah, blah, which will not be the case. that brings you to the political question, the perfect opportunity to contrast who this guy is and what his policies are and lay the groundwork for the elections of 2010 and what to run on. it is not complicated. do the opposite of this. talk about american greatness and the abilities of the american people to build the greatest country in the history of civilization being torn down now by this guy who has a deep recentment for it. you can hear it when talks about it overseas and in this

country. it angers me. i love this country. i'm in awe. as human beings we are no different than the human beings anywhere else in the world and there have been families, clubs, countries, thousands of years on this planet longer than we have. we are barely 250 years old and we have outdone everybody in almost everything that lives, raises the standard of living in the history of the world. it is not because our dna is different, it is not because we are special human beings. it is because of our freedom, the founding documents and the rights that we have and where they come from. we are having that freedom that erupted. we are adding a tax on it and the greatness of this country, its people are under assault right now. it angers me because this is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing to come out of this recession. printing money, $12 trillion in debt and then last night he talks about how he is reducing

deficits. that was a big disconnect because i watched this thing with my mouth open in awe. and the press, this is the sorriest time i think in the -- in my lifetime and career. jim demint said that healthcare is obama's waterloo. the press has met their waterloo and it is obama. they have sacrificed whatever integrity, character, professionalism, ethics that they had. it is all gone. their total reason most of them for existences is propping this guy up. they are not reporting the details of his plans, they are not reporting his policies. looking at it as a horse race. will obama win? will obama lose? count down clocks, the networks put a countdown clock to the press conference. they sit around with the tingles up their legs all day and marvel at how obama is so smooth and elegant. they are not reforming --

informing anybody about the details about his policies and yet 53%, over 50% in most polls now oppose this healthcare plan. so who it telling the people what's in it? alternative media, your network, talk radio, the conservative blog network. the mainstream media has cashed in its chips and have become nothing more than steno graphers for ram emanuel and it is breathtaking to see willingly sacrifice every characteristic that makes quality journalism. >> greta: up next, rush says president obama attacks pediatricians last night and the president just making up numbers out of thin air. what exactly does rush mean? the radio powerhouse also i never thought it could happen to me...

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continuing with rush limbaugh. what would you have asked the president last night if you were in the press corps? >> well, about healthcare. that was a big thing. mr. president, the cdo says that a minimum 240le with dollars annual deficit with the healthcare plan and you are saying you are going to reduce deficits. what do you say about the numbers? i would have then said the heritage foundation, permission of independent body, analysis

of the house plan. and they have found that 83 million americans would lose the private health insurance and be forced on to the public auction. you say they would be able to keep their private insurance. the health plan says -- he said last night he unwittingly did this. he attacked the profit of insurance companies. they are making too much, look at the profits they are making. i'm going to go after the profits and they are not going to give up the profits easily just like big oil is not going give up the profits easily. if you take the profit out of any private sector business that has to compete with the government, the private sector doesn't exist. the government doesn't have to worry about a profit. if he is going to attack the profits, they are gone. businesses already want to offload a lot of the healthcare

plans to the public. what is the disparity? i would have also asked for a follow-up after he accused doctors of doing unnecessary surgeries and organ removal to line their pockets. i think that comment unremarked on by most so far, they have been today, but he has asked a question and he lays into the pediatricians. well, we got to do it smarter and more efficient. you take your kid in, sore throat, repeated sore throat, doctors say here is the reimbursement piece, oh, i get this for the ton sills, i take the tonsils out even if they don't need to come out. for one, the pediatrician doesn't take the tonsils out. they recommend the surgeon. they are not surgeons for the most part. so they have a get a kickback from the surgeon. but just to accuse doctors are doing unnecessary things for

profit, doctors do do a lot of unnecessary things but it is because of malpractice suits. they do all the unnecessary tests because there are lawyers out there waiting to jump on any of them who misdiagnose or don't diagnose something so that is why there is all the -- you really want to cut costs in healthcare? tort reform. put limits on damages. >> greta: there are limits. >> there aren't enough. >> i could throw he a figure out and say we are wasting a trillion dollars a year in healthcare policies just on malpractice. and you might say where did you get that. i don't know, i made it up just like obama made his up last night. >> i made it up. a trillion seems to be the number that works these days. back in the campaign it was $250,000. anything above that and you were going to get soaked and anything below it you were not going to get attacked. we spend $6,000 more per

citizen in this country and this other advanced countries and we have got to reduce that. does he not understand this is the best healthcare system in the world? the best cost things. the american people because of our exceptional iowa many expect the best. but i'm getting sick and tired of being compared, nobody leaves this country for healthcare and takes their kids anywhere. they don't take them to cuba or great britain or canada. there is nothing wrong here structureally with the care that we got. this is an insurance problem, catastrophic problem basically. this is not the way to fix healthcare. this is not the way to reform it. >> greta: how would you fix it? >> well, long-term, easy. the answer is easy. healthcare other than catastrophic, accident, severe illness, healthcare has got to be priced the same way a hotel room is or a car is.

you want to stay at the ritz you pay for it. stay at a mow mel 6 -- motel 6, you pay for it. we don't have insurance for hotels. we don't have insurance for airplane travel. we have it for healthcare because the government has been paying it or insurance companies have been paying it for 50 years and people now assumed it is their right to have it because they are american. now, that would take awhile, the health savin accounts could get the ball rolling on that but a first thing, catastrophic insurance is what the government out to provide or what people, that somebody, the ordinary every day doctor visits, checkups and so forth, pay for it yourself or go buy your own policy that you can afford that covers what you want covered. you don't want to pay for it yourself, and then have the catastrophic stuff that everybody is worried about wiping them out.

you would save so much money. >> greta: up next, rush says president obama wants to control every aspect of your life and behavior. rush also says there is a bad reason that the white house wants to pass this healthcare plan so quickly. more with rush, n n n n n nex n taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz.

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>> greta: continue rush limbaugh. and one of the topics, healthcare. >> for instance a woman doesn't a for annual visits and has barbecuing bash lump -- and has a lump in her breast. it turns into a catastrophic situation. >> what do you want to do with that situation? >> greta: i'm posing the problem. >> i think that the premise of the question is where we are going wrong here. >> greta: okay. >> because the premise of your question relies on have woman

having been irresponsible. had a lump or didn't get it checked out and didn't do the regular checkups and all of a sudden one day discover a lump and the treatment is expensive. what do we do about this? well, what obama is going to do, you didn't get checkups and didn't do this, well, we have to limitx our coverage, you didn't live right. you didn't do what you are supposed to do. what did you do that caused the lump? we have put out guidelines on what to do to avoid breast cancer, did you do those? that is what it will come to. >> greta: one woman who has the lump and is irresponsible and may even have health insurance. >> i'm not saying she has been irresponsible. we have freedom, if she doesn't want to go to the doctor she doesn't have to go to the doctor. why should everybody else have to pay for her? >> greta: there are some people who make an election not to go to the doctor and some people who cannot afford to go to the

doctor and then becomes catastrophic and it enormously expensive for everyone. >> i think there is a myth about all the people that don't get medical treatment. i think that is part of the sales pitch here. i talked to a number of doctors, surgeons, er, intensive care, patient comes in and they get treated whether they can pay or not and they are sent a bill if they don't have insurance and make arrangements with the hospital to pay it off over time and if they don't then the car reposessors head out. by law you have to get treated. people get healthcare in this country whether you have insurance or not. we don't need to start making giant fixes based on assumptions that there is a whole bunch of people getting sick and not getting treated. it is not the case.

>> greta: so in your view, there is nothing to be fixed in the healthcare system from the government standpoint? >> well, we don't need an overhaul and we certainly don't need obama's reforms. we don't need the government running healthcare. we don't need the government telling doctors what specialty they are going to go into. how are you going to insurance 47 million people and cover them with no new doctors and he is putting squeezes on doctors. he will squeeze doctor fees and obama's plan is not about healthcare. it is about control. obama's plan is about reorienting the american society and the american private sector is the single one thing that government could then have control over every aspect of our lives and our behavior. so, i gave you an answer. deal with catastrophic. that is what scares everybody. look at, if getting healthcare

coverage for people, greta, was so important, 12 million people recently, that is the number that i found, literally are too poor to have insurance and they are unemployed and so forth. for $29 billion you could cover those 12 million people for a year. we just spent 700, $800 billion in a stimulus. well, if healthcare is so important, then these people would have health insurance if that coverage is so important, h@why not $30 billion in the stimulus money to insurance them. why a trillion dollars to take everybody out of their current plans, enroll them in a public option that no government official will be part of. >> greta: that may be more cost-effective if you insurance the 47 million, if we did that. >> but not all the 47 -- some are illegal aliens. >> greta: i picked the umbrella number. >> okay, fine, do that.

but we could have -- 12 million people who don't have insurance could today have it if just $30 billion of stimulus money had been spent on it. this is not about insurance. i don't -- i know this sounds radical. i tell you the truth, obama said i don't have to worry about healthcare, it is not about me, it is not about -- it is all about him. every aspect of his administration is about him. he talks about all the great plans that the elected officials and members of congress said it themselves and it's true, they do, they have a smorgasbord of healthcare plans all paid for by the government. and free healthcare plan a senator chooses or congressman chooses is run bay private sector insurance company. the government does not run their healthcare and they are

not going to opt out of that and join us in the public option that isn't going to be any good. here is one for you. i read this on the internet yesterday. the american thinker.com. under obama's plan, would ted kennedy have gotten treatment for his brain tumor that he was able to get because of his own private insurance and private wealth. >> greta: meaning he wadnd have under the government plan. >> obviously not, obama has said as much in the abc special. well, if it costs too much and they are in the -- loop them out. makes perfect sense, if the government is go to decide who is going to get healthcare and who doesn't. why invest all the money to treat somebody 76 to 80 or older with a terminal disease. the government is going to say it is not worth our investment

to treat you. as a former democrat governor of colorado said, richard lamb, old people have a duty to die and get out of your way and the vast majority of healthcare money are spent by the elderly. makes sense, end of life, get close to it, monitoring their health more closely. young people, immortal, they are not worried about dying. they are worrie worried about e traffic accident or some other catastrophe befalling them. they don't go to the doctor as much oar spend as much time in the doctor's office as elderly people do. i said earlier, they say healthcare is a right but anything the government can take away from you is not a right. and if they can deny you health coverage, which they are going to, they have to, everybody is not going to be covered. then it can't possibly be a right. and what was wrong with the press conference last night was they made it sound like everybody is going to get

whatever healthcare they want. maybe fewer tests, maybe fewer tonsils taken out so the surgeons don't get rich but everybody is covered and gold plated and a couple of millionaires going to pay for it. it is just the exact opposite, greta. >> greta: what do you make of the big push to get it done now before the recess instead of -- >> some people don't find out -- so people don't find out what's in it. it as little late for that now because the polls are already in a majority position showing opposition to this plan. these members of congress and members of the administration are going out there and telling their con at this time wents, their voters know more about the plan than they do. they are being laughed at. kathleen sebelius, health and human services secretary, the first question she got, you are not socializing my country and she was particularre taken aba.

obama's god and all the cabinet and czar people are god, jr. they are thinking everybody is loving obama and has this tremendous respect and everything he says -- the magic is not working for him. he can't pull it off. the power of his personality cannot overcome the truth that he has not done one thing for anybody. you go out and ask the unemployed what is obama doing for you, how is that hope and change working for you? then ask what has he done to you? made it easier to get it job? he made it harder to get a job and he made it harder -- and there is another reason why he doesn't want -- i can't prove this of course, but i wouldn't be surprised if today, tomorrow, and through the august 7th break rahm emanuel and obama bring up some of the democrats and blue dogs and say you have seen what has happened to some of these congressmen, town leaders, if you don't get

this done, you go home in august and you do your town meetings and meet with the officials and they are going to rip you to shreds over this and there will be footage and there will be t.v. and radio and you will be the laughingstock. >> greta: tomorrow night, in part two, rush goes on the record about soon to be ex-governor sarah palin and her sudden resignation. that and more tomorrow night. next up, alexis glick is here. asking more about the healthcare reform. will your tacks go up or not? whether you consider it a cruiser or a clunker, you could turn it into cash. get to your dodge, chrysler, and jeep dealer, and get up to double the government's cash for your old car. now get up to $4,500 for your old car... plus, up to an additional $4,500 cash allowance. no turn-in? no problem. your dodge, chrysler, and jeep dealer guarantees everyone up to $4,500 cash allowance... on virtually every model.

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future. i'm julie banderas. now, back to "on the record" with greta. >> greta: many of us are still a bit confused about healthcare reform. alexis glick it here to answer questions. there was a big rally today on wall street? why? and will the good news continue. alexis joins us live. the good news, the rally on wall street, what happened. it's good news. >> it is good news. it put this in context, a terrific interview, a tough act to follow. we are closing at the highest level since november 5th. think about that. right at election day, that is where we are today. so all those who suggest the economy is not recovering, well, the market thus far has recovered. now, this is no guarantee that things be as rosy as they have been. if you look at some of the

indices, they rallied 40 to 45% since the march lows. it was led in part by some good home sales data that suggests that existing home sales in the country have seen an increase over the past three months. best level that behave seen since 2004. we have also seen earnings come in better than expected but to put it in context, we have expectations very low so there is a good opportunity to beat expectations. unfortunately, the way the corporation corporations are doing it is by cutting costs. >> greta: well, let's see, some of the viewers have the questions for you. the first question on the healthcare reform which is the other topic we want to talk to you about. this is the first question. >> i would like to know how the middle class will be affected by obama's health plan. who is going to pay for it and will our children have to it pay for it in the future? >> greta, a great question. as the president has indicated, time and time again, he

suggests that the middle class will not have to pay for the plan. there are a lot of discussions right now coming out of both the house and senate about a possible tax, a surtax on healthcare benefits. now, there have been all kinds of discussions as to whether that should be $250,000 or more, 350. the latest is now talking about $500,000 or more. the president suggested in the press conference last night, perhaps a million dollars or higher. so i guess the short answer to your question is there doesn't appear as though there will be a middle class tax related to healthcare reform. but, there will be no cap on premiums. so if you are somebody who does need health insurance and you will be penalized if you don't get health insurance according to some of the plans, you will have to pay for this and there will be no caps on premiums so you could still wind up paying for it in your health insurance premiums. >> greta: is it also possible, too, that paying not only in a

monetary term but possible that you won't have as much choice. your employer might opt out and that might have a personal toll on you? >> that is a huge concern. they are talking about a healthcare exchange. they want to try to create competition. one of the competition member there's theoretically would be a government option although that is not getting a great deal of support. the theory that is a lot of people are concerned about is if there are cheap affordable options that maybe employees will opt out of the employer healthcare coverage and that that will change the status of private insurance in this country. the other issue is that there could be a severe expense for small business owners and may incentivize small business owners to hire people on a part-time basis to avoid having to pay for the healthcare-based taxes. it has a lot of very, very important consequences for employment as well as employees and that is something we have to keep a close eye on.

>> greta: alexis, everybody wants to ask you a question. we don't have much time but we will have to beg that you come back. >> i always will, my pleasure. >> greta: thank you, alexis. and up next, the best of the rest. why does kim jong il think secretary hillary clinton is a standup comedian? i'm robert shapiro. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. at legalzoom, we'll help you incorporate your business, file a patent, make a will and more. you can complete our online questions in minutes. then we'll prepare your legal documents and deliver them directly to you. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.

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>> greta: okay, this is the top stories. the best of the rest. now, hillary clinton is a smash hit as a standup comedian in north coreee that is. here is what we mean. secretary clinton is in a war of words with north korea. sixth clinton said maybe it is the mother in me, the experience i had with small children and teenagers and people who are demanding attention. don't give it to them. north korea did not appreciate the secretary's comments, firing back this response, we regard her as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of in the national community. sometimes likes like a primary school girl and sometimes like a pensioner going shopping.

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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here. live toasted grow live this time. last call. now, watch closely. this is what perfection looks like. >> yes! yes! yes! yes! yes! >> that was chicago white sox pitcher mark buehrle throwing a rare perfect game today. president obama a big white sox fan called buehrle and congratula h