for everybody to take a look because it's a lot of fun. i'm bill o'reilly and we hope to see you again next time. and remember, the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out for you. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] >> tonight -- >> the president is disappointed, as you might imagine. >> barack obama's olympian effort fails. >> i wished that we had come back with better news from copenhagen. >> some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, looking at carl lewis. sean: the lady tells a tall tale so the committee. >> it's i have clear what i've done so far and that is nothing. sean: "saturday night live" trashes the obama presidency. >> nada.

sean: the white house ignores the kevin jennings controversy and dick norris, newt gingrich and the latest attack on governor sarah palin. sean: "hannity" starts right now. sean: president obama's most glaring failure on the world stage came friday when the olympic committee rejected chicago's bid to host the 2016 olympics after the president traveled to copenhagen to lobby for his own town and the decision was a slap in the face to the commander in chief, the guy who fancies himself as the darling of the international community. but don't worry, obama's fans aren't blaming him on this failure and were quick to pin it on their favorite scapegoat, that is george w. bush. i'm series. let's look at illinois senator roland burris. >> we have to look at what happened the past years and the

image of america over the past eight years in the world. it's not obama's time to turn that around on the world stage. sean: obama's fault. burris was not alone. the reverend jackson chimed in as well, saying, quote, the way we refused to sign the kyoto treaty, we misled the world into iraq. the world had a very bad taste in its mouth about us. so burris and jackson and others blame bush for making the world hate us. let me ask, has president obama given the international community such a positive impression of the united states? he goes around the world, you know, saying things like this. >> there have been times where americans showed arrogance and been dismissive, even derissive. the united states is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. we've at times been disengaged and at times we sought to dictate our terms. we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some

mistakes. that's how we learn. unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. in other words, we went off course. sean: if you ask me, that does not make the u.s. sound like such a great place, certainly not somewhere where anyone would want to come and celebrate the olympic games. and joining me now with reaction of all of this is the author of "the new york times" bestseller "catastrophe" dick morris is here. >> happy to be here. sean: i was wrong. i didn't think he'd go to copenhagen unless the fix was in. >> folks, i'm admitting i was wrong. but i do have another theory. your reaction. >> i think you're right. i think you were right to be wrong. a good president would have absolutely done that and wouldn't have let himself be slapped in the face like that. sean: right. the thing is, here's now the conspiracyal side of me and you can talk me off the ledge if you want. he has all these friends in chicago and we have a lot of

unanswered questions about his connections in chicago. they know him best. why do i think in the back of my mind he didn't want to anger mayor daley and people that knew him best. is that fair? >> anger is one thing, go to copenhagen and make such a personal pitch is quite another. i have a different machiavellian view. his favorability is up to 52% from 48%. i think there's an american sentiment to rally around the president when he's insulted abroad. it happened with eisenhower at the u-2 summit and happened very frequently with other presidents. you get hit in the global stage and they rally around you. and i think that may have been in his mind. sean: in other words you're really thinking on a deep: speaker tall -- on a deep wo -- conspiratal level. it's the u-2 or the g-20 that happened the week before. the united states signed over its economic sovereignty to 20

nations which included the likes of argentina and brazil and south africa and saudi arabia and russia and china, of course. and in "catastrophe" we talk about how the declaration of independence is being repealed and this is a prime example of it. we basically announced we'd let the i.m.f., the monetary fund, decide or help it guide to a consensus. what our economic policy ought to be. and they said, you have two mandates. you have to lower your deficit, which is fine. and you have to do much more to regulate financial institutions and crack down on c.e.o. pay. and every three months you've got to come back to us and tell us how good a job you're doing. and if not, we'll condemn you. at the moment we'll only use moral sanction but we might get to economic sanctions as well. and at the same time, barack obama succeeded in getting the poorer debtor nations in the i.m.f. to increase their vote share from 43% to 48%. that's like having the debtor

nations run the bank they owe money to. and this absolutely was american policy at this g-20 summit. and in "catastrophe" we talk about how this is the opening step in repealing the declaration of independence that will put us in the same position as the european nations of being subservient to the european union and the i.m.f. sean: you think he'd compromised our sovereignty? >> yes, absolutely. i think he believed in one-world government and he believes in coordination. basically the socialists -- we write this and explain it. the socialists took over france in 1981 but it didn't work because everyone went to reagan's america and thatcher's britain. then the socialists said let's take over europe with the european union and that we they won't flee to another european country but they went to the united states. now they're trying to bring the united states into the global system so they can impose their socialistic principles of

guaranteed vacation, maximum workweeks, force you to blend in in this global community, high tax rates without fleeing to the united states as an alternative. and that's one of the things that's behind this medical care, health care reform, to make us like the rest of the world so they can do their way in europe without the u.s. getting a competitive advantage. sean: we're going to pay the burden for whatever environmental extremism policies are adopted. >> climate change. sean: the cap and tax is a disaster, we pay the majority of the bill at the united nations only so they can trash us. this is a very, very pivotal, key week in the health care debate. >> yep. sean: we expect it may come down to the house and senate floor. we've got three different versions in the house, two in the senate. how do you see this now unfolding? >> this is very important. first of all, we're losing. i don't know if you're getting the bad news, but you need to learn it. rasmussen has the approval of the health care package up from

41 to 46 and obama's approval up from 48% to 52%. sean: why do you think that happened in a week? >> all the leno shows and the talk shows and "letterman" and all that stuff is having an effect and he's doing the same smoke and mirrors routine that got him elected but this time there's more at stake. it will come down to two votes in the senate finance committee early this week, olympia snowe and blanche lincoln from arkansas. they're both members of the senate finance committee, maine and arkansas. if snowe votes for this proposal, there's a veneer of bipartisanship that will encourage moderate democrats to go along. sean: they've been lobbying her hard. >> hard. she's voted with the democrats a few times. if she goes against this it sends a signal this is a one-party bill and blanche lincoln is the single most endangered democratic incumbent, the one most likely to lose. if she gets the guts to go ahead and vote for this

program, all the moderate democrats will say if she can do it, i can do it. if she flakes on voting for this program like she should and votes against it, it's an open invitation for the moderates to join her in moving away. prior her co-senator can't remain by his lonesome and have to go with him and nebraska, senator nelson and landrieu in louisiana. and that point they can't get 16 votes and at that point they have to try to 50 but there's a lot of senators who will vote for health care reform if it's 60 but not if it's 50 because they know that some day they will be in the minority and it's the filibuster can be this easily bypassed they will have no power. so go to decreasemorris.com, i am helping to put 10-second ads on an arkansas name, every 10 minutes i want that ad on so they eat it and breathe it and absorb it which says senator lincoln don't cut my medicare by $500 billion, i need my medicare.

sean: this is the week. >> this is the week. sean: thanks for being with us. we have a busy night. michelle obama pulled out all the stops to bring the olympics to chicago. we'll expose a little white lie she told to the international olympic committee in 90 short seconds. also coming up next, is there a rift between president obama and the top u.s. commander in afghanistan? when we come back, newt gingrich is weigh in on that, health care and much more. (announcer) we understand. you need to save money.

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sean: looks like michelle obama has been caught stretching the truth in her pitch to bring the olympics to chicago. let's take a look. >> some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, looking at elga, carl lewis and perfection. she would have been 20 when carl lewis debuted in 1984.

sean: tonight in "your america" now the 2016 olympics are off president obama's plate, the world awaits his future deployments to afghanistan and one person eager to get that answer is general stanley mcchrystal who is reportedly in president obama's doghouse. according to "the london telegraph" mcchrystal's blunt statements about needing more troops on the ground have outraged the white house and will he be granted the support for troops he needs to win this war in afghanistan? we're joined by newt gingrich along with his wife hosts a brand-new d.v.d. "rediscovering god in america ii" and your wife will be joining us later, your better half. a rare new york appearance. this is troubling to me, crystal -- mcchrystal writes a report in late august that says if we don't get more troops on the ground we risk failure. the only reason we know this is it was leaked to "the

washington post." mcchrystal says he's only spoken to the commander in chief twice in the last 100 days and now they're lashing out at the general. >> you know, it's very strange. i saw what general jones, the national security advisor said the other day, if the white house had not cleared mcchrystal's speech in london, why was he giving it? the whole point of having a chain of command is for the chain to command. and it seems to me that i don't know who leaked the report in august, it didn't help mcchrystal, it didn't help president obama, but surely since the president knew mcchrystal was going to be in london, did the president arrange for him to come to copenhagen to meet, surely the white house should have known that he was giving a speech and they should have known what the speech was. so if that speech had not been cleared, there's a real, i think, failure of responsibility in the white house to not have the

appropriate relationship with the general. the second point you made i think is equally troubling, to be commander in chief, you have to actually be in the chain of command. you're not only in the chain of observation, you're not in the change of oratory, you're supposed to know enough to be in command, when you have an active war underway with young americans getting killed, you have an obligation in this day and age to talk to both general petrais and talk to general mcchrystal. and i think it's very unusual that the lack of face time, the lack of genuine communication that we're being told about between president obama and his generals. sean: especially when the general is saying we risk failure. that would get my attention if i were the commander in cheif. >> by the way, the british -- the new top general in the british army said exactly the same thing. and he came out and said if nato and the united states -- nato as a whole including the united states, do not increase forces, we are risking a

disaster in afghanistan. this is somebody who is not part of the american political system, he's not reporting to the american president, but i thought it was very sobering that he felt even more strongly than general mcchrystal has stated that we are in a really serious situation. and if you'll notice, the casualties we're starting to take are from very small outposts that are overextended that have inadequate capabilities to defend themselves appropriately. sean: with this lack of decisiveness it seems like we're putting our troops in jeopardy and emboldening an enemy that now knows the president is not acting seems precarious to me. this is a huge week for health care. >> enormous. sean: we've got three bills in the house, two bills in the senate that are trying to sort of make their way through the process. >> we're exploring something here and i want to go out on a limb for a minute because we're exploring this from several senators but we were given indications today, david merit from the center of transformation was briefing me the bill passed by the health,

education, labor and pensions has been changed significantly by the staff since it left the committee. we're in a world where senators vote over here and two months later a totally new bill shows up that isn't the bill the senators voted on, there's something really profoundly wrong going on in the u.s. senate. we also know the senate finance committee had no bill, they were marking up off of ideas. now, maybe it's because i'm from the house of representatives, but the idea you legislate implies legislation. sean: you have to write it up. >> write it up. sean: you've got to be scored. >> and i really do think we'll have to adopt new and much stricter rules for the way the congress legislates because the system, frankly, is becoming sick where you end up with a 26-year-old staffer at 3:00 in the morning with a word processor rewriting legislation on their own. sean: it seems -- how do you reconcile these bills? >> i'll tell you what is going to happen, you'll have harry

reid, the democratic majority leader from nevada, you'll have max baucus, you'll have the chairman of the health committee, they'll get into a room, each will have two or three staff people, they're going to argue for several hours, they're going to make some deals, they're going to write a bill and bring it to the floor and say here's the new bill which means basically three senators and six or eight staff people are now writing the senate's legislation. sean: even though president obama promised us transparency there was an opportunity in the senate last week they put this bill online for 72 hours. did you hear max baucus' response? >> he said it would take me two weeks to get the bill online. >> right. the bill doesn't exist. sean: if it takes you two weeks to get it online -- i could upload it in 30 seconds. >> no, because the bill doesn't exist. you're missing the point. you think there's a bill. sean: all right. so there's no bill. it's not going to be scored. >> this is the case where somebody could make a pretty good movie, "hunting for the bill."

sean: that's your next project. >> it is really bizarre. sean: let me ask you this, i don't care if it's national defense or the stimulus or the economy, but what barack obama is doing scares the living daylights out of me. i mean this -- i don't say this is frivolous way, i think he's hurting the economy in a profound way and deep in his soul is more radical than people anticipated, i believe he's a socialist, the idea we would myrrh and dyes -- myrrh anodize -- myrrh andize enemies on the battlefield is frightening. how bad do you think he is? >> i think we do not yet know whether he's capable of learning and changing or whether in fact he is so committed to a left wing world view that he is literally out of touch with what's going on. but as you know, when you have

9.8%, there is something profound going on in this country right now. sean: coming up, one senator says the obama administration is still funneling money to acorn after all that's been discovered, is this even we have the details on that and

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sean: tonight in "hannity's america" despite growing concern over the school czar kevin jennings, the white house is refusing to comment on the controversy, instead robert gibbs decided to criticize media outlets like fox news for bringing the scandal to light. let's take a look. >> i think it's a shame to watch what they do, i think it's a shame -- i hope as people watch

they'll match up some of the actual truths to what is being said on some of these occasions. sean: now, the truth, robert, is that jennings admitted he was aware of a sexual relationship between a high school sophomore who now claims he was 16 at the time and an older man. it was jennings who originally said the boy was 15 and jennings admits he did nothing wrong. now, this weekend a "washington times" editorial slammed the white house for turning a blind eye to the jennings saga and also uncovered a 1997 speech jennings gave in which he said, quote, one of the people that's always inspired me is harry hay. he was a long time gay rights advocate and was a big supporter of the north american man-boy love association or the group nambla and said, quote, in a speech, if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays they would know from their gay kids that a relationship with a older man

is precisely what 13, 14, and 15-year-old kids need more than anything in the world. i'll say it again tonight, it's time for kevin jennings to resign. that's not the only issue the administration is ignoring. apparently they haven't heard about the acorn controversy either. according to louisiana senator david vitter, the department of homeland security recently granted acorn a $ 97,000 grant. and guess what? it was all for fire safety and prevention. now, news of this grant was broken by vitter on biggovernment.com where he wrote the following, quote, when you take into account the fact that the d.h.s. awarded acorn, an organization with no clear expertise in fire safety and prevention, a fire prevention and safety grant, it's just plain offensive. vitter called on d.h.s. to rescind the grant. surprise, surprise, he has yet to hear back from anybody at the department. and the obama administration did a lot of boasting about the success for cash clunker program and that program allowed americans to trade in their used cars for more fuel

efficient vehicles. the goal is to boost car sales in the u.s. and help the environment by increasing fuel efficiency. let's say the program hasn't according to "the wall street journal" g.m. sales are down 45%, chrysler down 42% from a year ago, ford down 5% from last year, not to mention new car sales dropped a whopping 25% in september. that's the first month since the expiration of the cash for clunkers program. oh, in case you're wondering, the journal also notes the cost of the program doesn't quite outweigh all those environmental benefits it will end up costing us $1.4 billion. sean: tonight's "media mash" is brought to you, by, you guessed it, the new york obama times. the coverage of the president's unsuccessful trip to copenhagen clearly exposed their pro-obama

biased and reversed an earlier report. how was the revised version different? it was scrubbed of any material that might reflect poorly on the president. the following sentences were actually removed -- sean: now, could "the new york times" be any more transparent? now, "hannity's america" continues in 90 seconds with a report on comedians. they're finally realizing the president provide sms prett

sean: comedians shied away from making fun of the president but looks like "saturday night live" decided the commander in chief is fair game. >> there are those on the right who are angry and think i'm turning this great country into something that resembles the soviet union or nazi germany but that's just not the case. because when you look at my record, it's very clear what i've done so far, and that is nothing. sean:

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>> the public option is only a means to that end and we should remain open to other ideas that

accomplish our ultimate goal. sean: that was president obama's message to the american people in early september but "the chicago tribune" reports that behind closed doors he sent a very different message to members of congress. according to that paper the president's top advisors are holding almost daily meetings with congressional democrats in order to push for that government option. and i'm joined now by somebody who knows an awful lot about health care, after all he's a doctor, he's also known, well, for a little something different about the inner workings of capitol hill, he's the author of a brand-new book "a heart to serve, the passion to bring health, hope and healing" former senator majority leader bill frist is here. miss it? >> don't miss "it" but it's important stuff. we all got to participate and just like your show here we have to keep talking and pushing but i don't miss the "it" which is extreme partisanship. sean: somebody called me and said you support the government option, you don't believe it, you don't? >> the government option, the public option would kill the

innovation, the creativity, the doctor-patient relationship if it had at its purpose growing -- dumping people from the private sector to the public option and it would grow, and the monopoly purchasing power would destroy the creativity we have in the private insurance market. sean: i don't want to pin you down. but in other words you don't think it should be there at all. >> it should not be there. what i did in 2003 which was interesting with the medicare prescription drug plan i basically said at the end of the day if the private sector totally fails and you do bring new people into the system, if it totally fails, that is, there's not a choice of two plans that a public option could come forward and appear and what surprised me is that has not been seized. not a public option that can subsume the system itself but a true backup plan to make sure every american has access to health care. sean: isn't a better way to do that is give tax credits to people and let them get their own insurance or medical savings accounts and torte reform and --

>> if we want a system that bends the cost curve, we do, i do feel and some people don't feel we need to take care of the uninsured, bring them into the system and make them pay their fair share, that we need to do that. to do that we have to make sure it's sustainable and bend the health curve and can't have health care costs go up three times the rate of inflation and we do with competition and make sure everybody has ownership of a plan today. sean: you're still friends with a lot in the senate and don't discuss this and republicans have been shut out and the house haven't talked to them since april. so none of this -- there really isn't an honest, open debate about reforming the system, is there? >> the biggest disappointment, and i've been talking trying to push people together, not just democrat and republicans but democrat with democrat and republican with republican but we have problems, the cost of health care, the best in the world but the cost is going up too fast and we have the uninsured. there are solutions out there. right now people aren't talking and we're going to have a bill passed in the united states senate next week. passed. sean: passed?

>> no doubt in my mind. it will be close and there will be a lot of hand holding and that thing. sean: the baucus bill will be it? >> it has to be married with the other bill, the old kennedy bill, the dodd bill but mainly the baucus bill. there are 300 amendments out there and some will pass but not many. sean: $1 trillion? >> $800 billion, the house bill is $1.6 trillion, none of which, half of which is paid for but the paid-fors are coming back cutting medicare. sean: this is important, the american people show in the polls it had its lowest approval rating except for the poll today but the american people have shown they don't want this, they don't trust the government, so now the democrats, they've got the 60 votes but they're not going to get the 60 votes. so they're going to now bypass the normal legislative process, use what's called reconciliation, now, what are the ramifications? >> what it is, in 2003, i

publicly said we're not going to use reconciliation on a very large health bill some people don't think is a good bill, i love the bill, prescription drugs for seniors. we say we're not using reconciliation. why? because it lowers the threshold from 60 to 50 and by definition you don't have to listen to the other side, you don't have to sit down if you're using reconciliation. the other thing this procedure does is it means you only have 20 hours of debate on the most complicated bill, not the most complicated health care bill but the most complicated bill the house or senate has seen in the last 10 years and the american people aren't going to buy that. sean: it's interesting, you're a doctor and went through 12 years and went home, citizen legislator and you still became senate majority leader which is a big accomplishment but your passion is medicine and you wrote this book and went to the sudan and other places and you've been doing this for years, helping people that don't have any medical care and a lot of doctors do this. >> yeah. you know, the book is not a political memoir which is what

politicians write but it looks at the life of healing one-on-one and then one on many which is the way i look at the united states senate. it's tough to look at it that way but actually individuals making a difference in lifting people up. and now spending the last 10 years, global health, going around the world and looking at the fact 10,000 kids die every day, 2/3 of those are preventable and it comes from experience from going to the sudan and congo working one-on-one. sean: my niece became a part -- ever hear of the smile train? >> of course. sean: my niece did this and now is in medical school and inspired her to want to do something great with her life. >> we've got physicians and medical students and i'm teaching a the vanderbilt medical school and spent nine hours with them and they want this global oneness but at the same time they look and say you know, dr. frist, i'm going to be sued and each will be more than $1 million and each take 2 1/2 years and i wouldn't have done anything wrong s is that right? that's something not being addressed. sean: no torte reform portability and we're talking about 12 million people we can

insure without blowing up the best system in the world? >> 20 million hard-core insured we have to address. it can be done without a large public option and there's no question in my mind. sean: appreciate you coming by. >> thank you. sean: time to check in with our own greta van susteren and she'll hold up some paper and say "it's right here, this is it, big show tonight in 20 minutes from right now." what have we got? >> no paper tonight but we have a big show because we went to capitol hill and have the inside scoop on health care, waiting to hear what senator kyl has to say and plus the worst, i know it's come as a big surprise, the "l" word and we've been lied to about something and has to do with the bank bailout and have the latest, disturbing news about something the government loves. sean: what a shock. greta: i know it. it is horrible. but maybe not surprising but horrible. and then much more. back to you, sean. sean: coming up 20 minutes from right now. let not your heart be troubled and when we come back, the

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sean: tonight in our great american panel, he's a former deputy assistant secretary of state, foxconn tributor, bob beckel is back and also is a syndicated op-ed columnist and co-author along with beckel of "common ground, how to stop the partisan war destroying america" and you can see their column in "usa today," cal thomas is back, a political consultant and fundraiser for the "sun sentinel," noelle nikfour is here with us. let's talk with a political topic here, david letterman apparently tonight on his program, he will apologize, not only to his wife but to the girl that is involved in all of this, but here, let's go back to the other day where he admits to doing creepy stuff.

>> the creepy stuff was that i have -- had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is yes, i have. [laughter] >> i have had sex with women who worked on this show. sean: i don't like the blackmail aspect of this on one hand, but the other hand, that was creepy and the audience's reaction was weird. >> it was smart he went ahead and defused it by bringing it out, very smart he did it, and apparently he talked to the producers backstage before they went on and did this and said it's a good thing to do because it kind of defuses the guy trying to blackmail him anyway, you know what i mean? >> it's a far cry from the, i did not have sexual relations, at least he admitted it. there's the other things besides the moral issues and family issues involved, there are legal issues here. i've been talking to attorneys about this, did this woman who is alleged to be his number one paramour all these years get

promotions and on-air treatment because he was having sex with letterman and did other women who did not have sex with letterman, if there are any, would like to come forward, did they get treated unfairly? that's a big legal question, then you have the whole issue of sexual harassment and the superior person and inferior employee. this hasn't played out as the lawyer for the accused, the extortionist, alleged extortionist says we've only begun to hear the beginning of this. you know the tabloids are all over it. >> stephanie could have a lawsuit there because the producer she was depating -- dating for a while took the diary without her knowing and made copies of it and where the blackmail deal started so she could sue for theft of property. sean: what is it with the hand? >> am i a potted plant or what? all i have to say there's a bet going on, is he going to make it and is cbs going to keep him? yes he will be kept.

and will he be in the courts? if they weren't suing before, women on his program who didn't get a promotion will see an opening now. it will go on a long time but he'll survive. >> i agree with you, that creepy aspect of that. that audience's reaction. that made me a little weirded out. >> i had sex with my staff, yay. >> he's joking about the whole thing. sean: i know this is something you write about a lot and it's important to you, we've seemed to have become numb to these indiscretions, should we just -- is this just human failure, human weakness? >> all have fallen short of the glory of god. look at the stuff they're putting on television. you have all the "c.s.i." shows and have all these women saying things that would have shocked and scandalized my grandmother, maybe my mother, too. when you model this, where is -- we haven't had a real good family model in my judgment since "the cosby show."

that was a fantastic show and showed real people, husband and wife loving each other, you know, normal struggles with the kids but they pretty much respected their parents. soich you and bob debating on the lecture circuit in "usa today" that that's sort of like all in the family with archie bunker. >> exactly right. really, society today hasegawa -- today has dumbed values down. when you're surfing and you're a kid at 9 or 10 with a clicker, it's dangerous stuff. i think it's dangerous and does dumb down anything we hold near and dear to us. it's not surprising you have a lot of kids who do and act impulsively on things that shock you. like that kid getting beat up in kentucky. sean: i don't know we can be shocked anymore. >> we don't hold celebrities to a strong moral code anyway. >> we have politics doing the same thing. sean: i'm mad that so many people support roman polanski.

>> woody allen. >> you wouldn't want him as a character witness in your trial. sean: some credible people, martin scorsese and a bunch of actors and actresses. he sodomized a 13-year-old girl he pumped up with booze and quaaludes. >> he should come back and stand trial and in that case if he's proven guilty should go away the rest of his life. >> he admits to it. >> martin score say ee, -- martin scorsese, see if it's his daughter. >> he admitted to it. sean: we'll come back and beat up beckel. all that coming up a

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our great american panel. all right, now, there seems to be some in-fighting in both of the parties. some democrats want the government option. some do not. they have got that battle. they have got the battle in afghanistan. some want to keep funding it, and others do not. some are attacking fox news and others, saying we have zero influence. i do not think is about me, but they want to take the republican party more to the left. i am a conservative first, bob. >> i think what you're saying, and i agree with you about the republican party in washington, anyway, in that they have not come up with a new ideas since teddy roosevelt invented the park service. they say it does not matter. sean: have you ever heard of a strong energy independence?

have you ever heard of tax cuts? >> i am trying to make an entirely different point now. i was about to say something nice. >> he has got to be the victim now. the only thing i learned in it physics before i fanta the table of contents -- -- before i flaunted the table of contents -- flunked the table of contents, if there is a vacuum, what are they not feeling it? the whole issue of the republican party has been vision. look at reagan. city on the hill. seeing the future. where are the republicans talking about the future? >> where he is wrong is that there is no republican has the kind of audience you do. i am not a big fan of people going out to pick on one person,

but the truth of the matter is you just cannot be against things. you have to be for something. sean: but republicans are for something, bob. they are for fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets. be careful what you wish for. right? >> i think so. sean: i will predict for you, and i have been calling for this for two years, i predict that they will come up with a new contract for america, and that will resonate with america. >> you have been talking about that on your razum the -- on your radio show for several years. >> here is what republicans need to do. they need to show the effects. every time the democrats talk about the impoverished and the poor, the republicans should bring by somebody who has actually overcome that. how about getting married before you have children?

not taking drugs? staying in school? >> you are doing a good job of it. >> well, no matter who is in the driver's seat and represents any conservative idea, they are going to be pegged as the new voice of the republican party, and they are going to be bashed anyway. sean: democrats are killing each other over government option, and no government option, a state in afghanistan, do not state in afghanistan -- option, stay in afghanistan, do not stay in afghanistan. >> obama promised he would end the war, you know what i mean? he is going to make so many people mad. he has got himself in a bad --

it is imperative that he gets the trips. -- troops. >> instead of saying, "no, no, no," what would you do with anistan, and what would you do with health care specifically? sean: medical savings accounts and tort reform. tort reform is not going to cost much. 47 million to 12 main people who are uninsured, it will be a lot cheaper -- for lot cheaper7 -- fourth a -- for the 7 million to 12 million people who are uninsured, it will be a lot cheaper. >> we have a very wide umbrella, and we bring a lot of people under, where you all hang on that right wing,