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conservatives. how is vegas? >> it is in trouble, housing and stuff, still a great place to live. >> sean: i love vegas. greta is next. see you tomorrow might. -- tomorrow night. >> greta: i give up, where is everybody? it is a ghost town here in washington. congress just bailed out passing a budget or voting on extending the bush tax cuts. what would happen if you did that at your job, just bailed? karl rove is here, it is a ghost town here everybody has gone home. >> they have. they went home without doing two important piece before business. we had congress leave without doing the budget or resolving the issue of the tax cuts in both instances it shows the incompetence of the congress and house but also the white house. >> greta: i think the last
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thing they wanted to do was vote on those two issues before election day. i see both parties trying to pin it on each other. the democrats saw it better aspening it on the republicans rather than be stuck with it. >> you may be right. my view is congress last year passed a budget resolution in february and started passing appropriations bills in the summer and fall. this year, for the first time since 1974 and the passage of the budget act, the failed to live up to it statutory requirement to pass a budget resolution. they were supposed to have done that last february or march. they've not passed a single appropriations bill they left town without passing a budget. we start a new fiscal year tomorrow. we have no appropriations bills. on the tax cut issue, the president has been saying for a year that he only wants to extend part of the bush tax cuts but he's never presented bail to do that.
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the reason that's important is because, he says i want to extend those bush tax cuts. the ones he wants to extend will leave three trillion in people's pockets between now and the end of the next 10 years. he says he wants to offset that by tax increases. yet he's never had courage to present a bill that embodies the specific tax increases that he wants to see in order to "offset" allowing people to keep some of their own money. there's no way the president can pin this on the republicans. he didn't have the courage to put forward his own bill. the courage or competence, i don't know which. maybe he wanted to use this for politics alone. if he was serious about this proposal which he made in january, he should have followed up with a specific legislative bill. a bill that could have been voted on and considered. >> greta: what is so troubling to americans is they can bring this down to their own levels. if they don't do their own jobs, what happens at work?
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they get fired. >> sure. >> greta: secondl, it is really hard to run your household in bad economic times if you have no budget. if you have no sense of your money coming in and also where you are spending it. that relates to the issue of budget and the tax. if you put it on that level. then they split town, the capitol is beautifully lit tonight, but empty that's why we sent republicans and democrats to washington is to do that job. >> that's right. i agree with you totally. american people would not be able to exist if they did this in their own family budgets. why do we allow the government to do it? the democrats had a 255-177 margin in the house. 59-41 margin in the senate. they had , they had the white house. they had time. why is the president not push for a budget resolution? why is the president not offered up a tax proposal? so rather than him balk
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walking around saying this is what i want to do in a general sense he an obligation to offer his specific proposal for consideration by congress. they've now postponed in. as a result they've added to the uncertainty in the american economy. consumer confidence is down. there was an article in co-yesterday enumerating the ways in -- in politico yesterday he ing -- enumerating how business confidence is down. as a result we have people sitting on the sidelines not investing and creating jobs. that hurts american families. because a fall you are of leadership in the halls of congress and i believe in 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> greta: i'm a little surprised there. was a number released today, extraordinary number of people still believe we are in a investigation. it is almost as throw people in washington are tone-deaf. whether you -- whether you want to extend the tax cuts or not. it gives people certainty
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between now and january 1, they can make some sort of financial planning for themselves. between if you let the tax cuts expire people can figure out what to do. instead everybody is on hold while these people have gone home. >> right. look particularly, small business owners. they are looking at the impact of obamacare, regulatory environment, new financial markets bill. then they are looking at the budget. they are saying what is the future gonna bring in the waive challenges for my business? as a result they are sitting on the sidelines this is remarkable. we have a statutory requirement that the congress pass a budget resolution. the house of representatives which has since 1974 done so every year. there have been three instances in which the senate was unable to agree on one because of the 60 vote requirement. but the house has always passed a budget resolution and they couldn't and didn't. they could have, but didn't for the first time since 1974.
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the president has sat there all year long saying i want to extend part of the bush tax cuts. yet he let congress leave without presenting a bill for them to consider. what were the three trillion worth of tax increases winded? he has never told us. doesn't he have an obligation to tell us what he's in specific is for? rather than saying i want to get this done, but i'm not going to give the bill you can vote on. when you leave town without voting on a bill i never bothered to present i'm going to blame the people in the minority for having held up my bill. mr. president with all due respect you never offered a hold up. it couldn't have been held up certainly not in the where taxes -- where your party has 255-177 margin. this was a piece of kabuki theater today. a little bizarre. the president's people blaming the minority in the house for holding up a bill which he hadn't bothered to layout for
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people to consider. what was robert gibbs thinking when he said those kinds of things today? >> greta: now let me put the other hat on it for you and ask you this, if you were a democrat, running for a national office now in light of the fact that you've got in situation where they've flit from town and haven't done anything, you've got the health care bill hanging out there, very unhappen -- unpopular with the american people, american people still think they are in a investigation you want to win and you are a good hardworking democrat. how do you get that vote between now and november? >> i think you've got to emphasize what you are far without looking like you are trying to distance your sieve from the president. if democrats go out and say i am opposed to the president on these measures or critical of the president on these measures, they are going to despirit part of the democrat base. they have a difficult task saying this is what i believe we ought to do to contron the
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economic challenges. if you give me a chance here's what my priorities are gonna be. the problem the democrats have is their credibility is shot. if you look at polls democrat margins on issues like which party is better able to deal with the economy, health care or the deficit or spending, the democrats are way behind on all of those issues. the most dangerous is jobs where the democrats have enjoyed a healthy lead and health care where they've enjoyed an enormous lead, both of those leads the lead on the economy and jobs has disappeared and turned into a republican advantage. health care, which used to be a high 20s, low 30s advantage at times has in essence turned into a dead even battle teen the two parties. it -- between the two parties. it is going to be impossible to say i'm a good democrat. it has to be i'm a good individual who wants to represent the people in my district by working on these things. it is not going to be easy. >> greta: aren't they lucky
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people tend to like their own representatives. i like mine he or she might not be perfect but i don't like karl rove's representative but i don't get to vote for yours. >> this time the electorate is engineeringized in a way that is amazing. independents have -- shifted if from being in the obama camp to being against the democrats and for the republicans. in the generic ballot, 49 republicans, 36 democrat among independents that is a 31 point shift from four years ago when the democrats tongue congress. this is not a normal year. so it is going to be hard to get that through. democrats understand it. their answer is to run a series of negative ads trying to trash their opponents and make their republican opponent radioactive so people say i may not like nancy pelosi, may be upset with barack obama,
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but by gosh that republican has been made so radioactive and so unattractive that i'm gonna have to either hold my nose and vote for the democrat or sit this one out >> greta: karl stand by. former congressman armey wrote a tea party manifesto which makes him the perfect guest for the news we just learned. new twist in arizona's illegal immigration law. the writer is at the center of this story. he's here to tell you what happened. plus, the bloodiest twitter war in history. so bad even the keyboards have blood on them. sarah palin vs. alan grayson. or is it the other way around? we promise you have never heard anything remotely like this. stay tuned. [ female announcer ] staynce... stay twice... earn a free night! two separate stays at comfort inn or any of these choice hotels can earn you a free night --
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growth karl rove is back with us. of course the news -- >> greta: karl rove is back with us. the news is rahm emanuel may be leaving tomorrow going to run for mayor. karl, what difference does it make who is the chief of staff? >> it makes a lot of difference. the chief of staff has traditionally played a role in essence the chief operating officer of the white house, the principle pal responsibility is to make sure the president's schedule is managed and he receives a robust and diverse set of view points on all issues and there's a process buy which issues are managed inside the white house, decisions are made and then decisions are executed throughout the government. so it is a very important post in the government. rahm emanuel has been a unique chief of staff in many ways. heretofore most have been reluctant to express an opinion. they've attempted to be impartial umpires, managing the white house policy process and the decision-making process in a way that their role has been diminished and the roles of others end
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larged. rahm emanuel with such a big personality, strong opinions, pro sieve nature and profane vocabulary he has been out of the mold as far as white house chiefs of staff are considered. >> greta: in light of the fact where the president stands now on issues, popularity, lack thereof, issues on his plate if he asked what should he look for in his next chief of staff, what would you tell him? >> he ought to look for somebody who can live up to the props the president made during the campaign. not to be a president of red state or blue state but the united states. that is to say, could he find someone who could help carve a more conciliatory path and a better working relationship with democrats and republicans in the new congress. remember, the president has a contentious relationship with many in the congress. over the last two years i've been amazed at how he has given, you note back of his hand to the republicans.
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i've also been amazed about how many democrats have been vocal about their feelings about ill-treated they've been by white house dominated by their own party. i think the first and most important thing would be somebody who can help set a new tone inside the white house more in keeping with the tone that the president promised in 2008. the second thing would be, a chief of staff who could step back from having this sort of dominant role in policy, that rahm emanuel has, that is expressing an opinion early in the process. instead be willing to withhold judgment, withhold opinion in favor of having a policy in which other voices from within the cabinet and administration and congress get a chance to make their case to the president and then and only then and only if the president asks, making his opinion known. >> greta: presidents will take a member of the opposite party and put that person in a cabinet position. we have secretary gates in this cabinet who is a republican or at last he -- at
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least he served undea number of republicans. in light of the fact that there is so much have it roll in the city, would it be -- vitriol in the city, would it be nuts for a bold republican to fix some of the wounded or bad feelings in this city? >> it would be a bold step but an awkward one. the chief of staff has many responsibilities. a president has many responsibilities. i think it would be hard for a republican inside a democratic white house, not to be treated with a little bit of skepticism and concern by the other members of the president's team. similarly if there were a democrat installed as chief of staff at a republican white house, i would suspect there would be a lot of political actors and players in the white house and congress and wash -- and washington more broadly who would be concerned about that person. we saw in california where republican governor
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schwarzenegger picked a prominent democrat political figure as his chief of staff and her presence inside the governor's office caused a lot of consternation among the legislative allies with the governor and late among republicans within the governor's staff. it would be a bold step but i'm not sure it would be a healthy step. >> greta: senator boxer in california and harry reid in nevada? >> well, barbara boxer has been in a very close context with carly fiorina. 10 days ago she began to unload a lot of money on television in brutal attacks against fiorina. carly has fallen slightly behind. the question is, does she respond in kind. does she move back into close contention? the u.s. chamber is running an ad on her behalf. her own campaign is running some ads. i understand the gossip is
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likely to step that up soon. i suspect that race will come back to where it was inside the margin of error. i think there have been 30 polls conducted matching the two. boxer has gotten 50% only in one of those polls. in most is well below 50% that's a troubling sign for an incumbent like her who has been there for 18 years. i think this race will stay in contention all the way to@(nx te end. >> greta: i asked you about -- harry reid. >> harry reid and sharron angle are like this and they are going to be trading just about like for the balance of the campaign. thrown a lot of mud. he's out-spending her 2-1 or better, 3-1. she has stayed right in there. at the of the day the question is, people say, he has raised a lot of questions about her, thrown a lot of mud, but i really don't like him and what he's done and it is time for a
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change. >> greta: karl, thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: next, if you like the day party movement we have surprising news. dick armey is a big tea party player he's here next. plus another new round in that fight overarizona's illegal immigration law. senator pierce is at the center of this storm. he goes on the record, minutes away. bride ] the wedding was just days away. suddenly, i noticed my smile wasn't white enough.
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>> greta: who wants some tea? apparently, a lot of people. new fox poll asked votes, regardless of whether you support the tea party moment, do you support or pose the main issues the tea party has raised? specifically calling for lower taxes, less spending and less regulation. r] those ideas. 22% say they oppose them. here is the real stunner.
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did you hear about the democrats? this poll finds 49% of democrats support the main tea party ideas. former house majority leader dick armey joins us live he's the author of give us liberty a tea party manifesto. what is the tea party manifesto? >> it is an effort to explain who the folks are that make up this big movement. where they came from. how they got mobilized. what they really stand for. how they stand in the center of our public policy ground as your poll just demonstrates. and how in fact they ought to be properly understood and appreciated and respected. rather than brutally mischaracterized as the establishment and particularly the democrats have tried to do. >> greta: it very interesting. they say they are not democrats, they say they are not repusc(záy the conventional wisdom is they tend to line themselves more with republican thinking. when you have 49% of
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democrats the tea party's main principles. that doesn't mean they are going to vote in a particular direction. they may vote for a democrat. >> these folks line-up with the real limitations on big government that are built into our constitution. they line-up on the whole principle of individual liberty, respect and protection of that by a limited government. sometimes the republican party have lined up with them. the big question of this election has been, will the republican party get back in step with our constitutional foundations or will they continue to be as they have been unhappily, an unhappy echo of the democrat party? that party has completely violated and abandoned the foundation principles of our country to our constitution and the republican party needs to either discover whether they are going to be a response to that or continue to emulate the democrats?
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if they go wac to emulating the democrats, they will probably go back to losing elections. as it stands now they have a chance of winning significant election victories this fall. >> greta: it has hard for republican candidates in office for a long time if he or she happens to be a big earmark person, big spender, many things that the tea party movement doesn't like between now and november to say i've changed my mind i'm going your way now if i were a democrat i would rule out all the history the republicans say, now you've got election night conversion and go through the long litany of the big spending that that republican voted for. >> of course the democrats can do that. that would give you an echo of walker's great song the pot can't call the kettle black so they won't get away with that. in the meantime what we've seen happening with the tea party thus far in this election cycle has been to send a message to the republican party t in the republican primaries and
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replacing the big spending just can't get it republicans with people who better understand stan the principles of constitutionally limited government. you know -- you notice in every instance when somebody has lost the republican primary and turned to a third party or independent effort it has been the establishment republican not the tea party favored nonestablishment republican that might have lost. it is very interesting how the establishment folks in power, in control, in office, and very comfortable in their bitterly resent being beaten in their own primary and refuse to give up the reins to somebody that has a better standing with the voters at large. >> greta: i think what is going to be fascinating come summer 2012, when we have the two national political conventions, democrat and republican, what are they going to do about the tea party movement? both of them.
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>> as i say, right now, one out of every three people who are likely to vote in the next election identify with the tea party movement and is values. either party will ignore that at their peril. the republican establishment must understand if we don't get expansive in our thinking, get back to the basics, understand the constitution, appreciate and represent its genius and act like responsible adults in office, we are going to be standing outside of office. because this movement is not going away. >> greta: kong manning, thank you. >> thank -- congressman, thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: next bob woodward goes on the record. >> and a new level of nasty politics. sarah palin just one of the biggest missiles ever lobbed at her. the whole story on a twitter war, minutes way.
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. >> greta: bob woodward's latest book as always is making headlines. he joins us live in washington. i love the book. it was riveting. >> thank you. >> greta: it was disturbing
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though. >> because? >> >> greta: i guess i didn't want to see all the sausages made. i hoped when i read it there would be strong certainty and direction in the war. it is an impossible war. but i was hoping i felt better about how it was being executed. >> fair point. what it shows is that on an intellectual level obama realizes how dreary everything is. and so, as the commander in chief, he designed a plan which reflects his inner obama, who wants out of afghanistan. he does not like this war. he does not like war. as you may note when i interviewed him, he never uses the word win. he never uses the word victory. >> greta: going throughout book, all these national security meetings in the situation room which you chronicle in here, they are constantly asking like what's our mission?
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i guess when i think of all the men and women fighting, the families, if we are still nine years later, we are still trying to figure out what is the goal here? i think that's what i think is distressing and disturbing. >> it is. you go back before the strategy review last year. they hadn't even betweened whether they wanted to defeat the taliban insurgency or whether they wanted to grade it. for a long time in explains mcchrystal's aggressive request last year for 40,000 troops, the secret orders said we want to defeat the taliban. that is a much more difficult task than just degrading them. then they get into these meetings and they realize how hard it is. and the mission suddenly becomes degrade, which supposedly is easier. if you are a soldier, on the ground there, --
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>> or a family member here. >> exactly. >> greta: i took a lot of notes. secretary of defense gates says, you can't defeat the taliban. general tray yes, sir says, you can't defeat -- general petraeus says, you can't defeat the taliban. i think you keep fighting a little like iraq this is the kind of fight we are for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives. ambassador holbrook says it doesn't work. these are the people trying to sell american people we are on the right path. >> yeah, it is painful. reporting it and seeing how this evolved and seeing and connecting to what you're asking about the families, but the soldiers on the ground. somebody was asking me from one of the military organizations, isn't this demoralizing?
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i can see where it would be demoralizing. at the same time, is the reporter -- as the reporter you can't give a laundered or sterilized version of what the reality is here. >> greta: it seems -- i know -- i understand how difficult it is for the president and everyone who is trying to -- everyone wants the same thing. it is or not they are being realistic that it can be achieved and worse are they being candid with the american people? right now, as we wait nor this next study to come in december. i've looked at the numbers, we did research of the numbers that are dying. the numbers, they are going up. in january it was 30. the numbers keep going up in july -- june it was 60, july 65. the casualties are going up. if we've got the general and we've got the secretary of defense and everyone saying,
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holbrooke saying they can win -- >> holbrooke said the strategy can't work because it is military and his view is the only way you get out is some sort of diplomatic settlement. in the case of gates and petraeus when they are saying you can defeat the taliban, it is like the republicans can't defeat and eliminate the democrats and vice versa. the taliban is a part of the fabric of afghanistan. and the people who have look at it, the intel people, the military people say, it is gonna be here. you have to have some form of reconciliation in the -- and the idea is to kill or capture the radical elements in the taliban and then take the people who are less radical, less committed and find a way to win them over to our side and the side of the karzai government. >> greta: you raised the
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karzai government. that sounds nice. in your book i read over and over how everybody, including the vice president, general petraeus, they say the afghanistan government is a criminal syndicate. >> that is -- isn't that something? [ talking over each other ] >> imagine partnering with the criminal syndicate? what is the history of nations or individuals who have made deals with criminal syndicates? it is not a happy one. we see it almost everyday in the news. karzai one day is, you know with us. then he's criticizing us. he's crying in public. the intel reports, which are cited here in the book say he's a manic depressive. and that he's on his medication, off his medication. shakey partner. >> greta: it was very clear in october of '01 why we went into afghanistan to look for weather. interviewing secretary clinton
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and -- to look for bin laden. interviewing secretary clinton longer in afghanistan he's in pakistan. pakistan is double dealing us at every turn. they've got the most criminal military intelligence agency. every time we do drone attacks they notify the people who are about to do it so they can scurry out of there. >> there is less of that. but you are right. go to the world of barack obama, two days after he's elected president of the united states. the intel people come in and they take him into this secret room called the secure come parmented information facility. where no one can eavesdrop. and one of the things they say is pakistan is living a lie. and the problem here is the -- they tell him this is the center of gravity of the problem we've got. and he says, what are we doing
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about that? they say not much. now, obama is doing more. but, when i talked to him about this he said pakistan is doing more. and i stayed, but not enough. and he said exactly. >> greta: pakistan is -- i mean there's so much -- 6 out of 10 people according to a pew poll in july, think we are the enemy. it doesn't sound like our partners. the problem they have with india. they are pointing nuclear weapons at each other. you got the president of the country zardari when his country gets flooded he jets off to his chateau in france and doesn't take care of his people. we are spending a gazillion dollars to try to help these people. none of this in your book gives me a sense of okay good this is gonna work. this is the most disturbing
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book. when you see how the sausage is made it is like we might be able to maintain, but that's the best we can do. >> yes, this is the dilemma obama has. where is the good news? where is the progress? general petraeus has said if i show some progress, i can put more time on the clock so this date to begin some kind of withdrawal nine months from now can perhaps be postponed. in the secret orders that obama issues to the military in this national security team, they list forest being factors. we've talked about some. karzai and the whole problem of that government. we haven't talked about the afghan national security force. the army and the police corrupt. the attrition rate is larger than the growth -- >> greta: a nightmare. >> a nightmare. until support in peril.
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support in this country in peril. and then there is the pakistan problem which -- >> greta: one quick question. is secretary of state clinton, does he listen to her and take her advice or does he just humor her because of their political history? >> no. a lot of white house political advisers is david axelrod says to obama when they are considering hillary for a job right after the election, he said how can you trust hillary? obama i think trusts her -- >> greta: take her advice? >> no. i think her impact on the policy is not that great. she joined with gets in the military and i -- with gates in the military i call four, five blocks of granite that obama could not move around. joe biden, emerges -- >> greta: he's the provocateur asking the tough questions. he was impressive in this book.
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>> his intellectual arguments are as sound as anybody's. >> greta: obama's wars if you are in the military you should read in book if you know anybody in the military or if you give a damn about what is going on in the worm. we get to see how the sausage is made, regret pwhreu, thank you bob. >> if -- regretably, thank you bob. state senator russell pierce, next. >> twitter war he respects between governor palin and congressman alan grayson. let's say he used the phrase, her tweetness. wait until you hear the rest of this.
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it works up the east coast. nicole is following another large storm that just made it up the east coast. the massive downpours are triggering flooding in a number of states it has turned deadly in north carolina four people were killed when their suv skidded off a rain soaked highway. prosecutors in new jersey considering hate crime charges in the death of a rutgers university student. 18-year-old tyler clementi committed suicide a video of him having sex with a man in his dorm room appeared on the internet. his roommate and another student are charged. the pair secretly recorded the encounter and posted it online. i'm marianne rafferty. now back too on the record. -- back to on the record. >> greta: another twist in the battle over arizona's illegal immigration law. parts of sb-1070 were blocked by a federal judge. russell pierce co-wrote the
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law and wanted to join in and be a party to his state's appeal of the ruling. 9th circuit said no way. co-sit in the audience not in the well of the court. what now? he joins us live. good evening. did you want to argue the case and get a chance to go into the well of the court and argue the appeal? >> well, greta, yes i do. first of all, nobody knows this issue, i wrote the bill. i wrote the bill,. in is critical. this is inherent authority of the states. not delegated authority. states have a constitutional duty to their citizens to enforce the law. if congress had wanted to preempt the states they would have used [ unintelligible ] never have done that. in the in they've codified
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that. five years ago the united states supreme court in a 9-0 landmark decision made it clear. i think those arguments ought to be made. nobody knows this better than me. >> greta: you got to sell that to your governor. the problem is, there is going to be one lawyer arguing it. you gotta convince the governor to let you do it. if you want to argue it. that's who you gotta convince, she's the client! >> not quite. in fact, in the bill that i wrote, again in arizona there's a constitution, our attorney general only has those enumerated powers and duties delegated by the legislature. i purposely cut him out as he stood on the steps and bad mouthed 1070, criticized 1070 asked for it to be vetoed. i put the power to the governor. that doesn't mean i should be there i wrote that bill. nobody knows it better. >> greta: you can sit in the
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courtroom. >> they accepted my brief as an cus and i appreciate that but it -- amicus, and i appreciate that but it is not the same. >> greta: i understand. the problem is you have to have a client in order to be the lawyer to do the argument. there is a client in this case. there is a party who is seeking review. but they've chosen a lawyer other than you. i could understand your frustration, but, you are not a party to the litigation. >> i understand. but i that -- if they read my brief you would see why it was important that i be a party as well as the governor to sit table. let's face -- talk about being a client this is the first time, the first time in the history of the united states, a sitting president has sided with a foreign government to sue its own citizens. then you think it could couldn't get any worse.
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then he drags arizona again, the sovereign state of arizona before the u.n. to be the judged by uganda, venezuela, cuba. i mean they are going to judge arizona on civil rights. the sovereign state of arizona! this is outrageous. we ever a duty to our citizens. >> greta: is the lawyer who is representing the state unwilling to advance your arguments? >> not entirely. but the point is, you know, you are not with them 24/7 to make those, they do consult with me i thought they made some mistakes in their defense of 1070. that's when i first got very excited about -- because again it is critical those arguments. >> greta: i gotta go in 20 seconds -- >> this is a battle of epic proportion. >> greta: i got 20 seconds left. i assume you are going to at least be there, right?
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>> what? >> greta: i assume you will at last attend it? >> yeah, i mean yes, i to be there. of course it is the day before election. so i have to fly in and fly back out. i've got work do on election day. but yeah, i intend to be there. this is a battle of epic proportion about states' rights and our citizens' duty and rightful expectation of their government to defend them! i intend to do that. >> greta: sir, i gotta go but i hope you will come back between now and the argument before the 9th circuit. thank you. next, the best of the rest. one of the most brutal campaign ads ever. and the most vicious twitter war between governor palin and congressman grayson. last night we told but snooki's book. the ladies of "the view "have an early review. stay tuned.
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. >> greta: here is the best of the rest. the ladies of "the view" have review of a book sure to make literary history. >> publishers just announced there's a debut novel hitting the shelves in january. and the author is, okay, i'm so -- [ laughing ] >> i was so moved by this. snooki! now, it is important to know that earlier this year, snooki tweeted she was reading her very first novel. and so now she is writing it. and i just want to know what you guys thought! >> where is writer's block when you need it? >> she can can write it, but can she read the book? >> oh my god!
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>> i think there is nothing to be pictures? >> oh yeah, pop-ups. >> which you can color in maybe, i don't know. [ laughing ] >> those are the best children's books, scratch and sniff i loved those. >> i think it would be interesting to hear about snooki's exploits. >> talk about the jersey shore! >> greta: the bloodiest twitter war effort he respects between governor palin and congressman grayson. it started when congressman grayson launched an infamous campaign ad calling his opponent taliban dan. running an out of context sound bite to smear his opponent. governor palin didn't like that ad and fired off a tweet calling the ad a blatant lie and referring to grayson as odd and troubled. she also endorsed grayson's opponent h that caused grayson to blow up. he shot back tweeting what is it about palin and twitter? is that 140 characters
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represent the maximum length of palin's attention span? he tweeted a link to his facebook page where he post a rambling fundraising appeal that shredded palin overandover. he calls the governor a half bake alaskan, her tweetness and refers to her supports -- supporters as zombies. will she fire back? now does this ad go too far. an political action committee just secured murkowski. she decided to -- skewed murkowski. she decided to run as a write-in after she lost to miller. miller didn't pay for this ad and the group who made it, let freedom ring, isn't even from alas chasm >> announcer: once upon a time in alaska there lived a royal family with a king named frank. one day king frank gave his daughter lisa a special present. a senate seat. the people were not so happy
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that king frank gave her the senate seat. because really, it wasn't his to give away. but they were polite people and they let princess lisa keep it for while. then the people decided that lisa had kept it long enough. but lisa was outraged! she wanted to keep the people's seat. >> it is mine, it is mine, daddy gave it to me, mine, mine, mine! >> announcer: but this seat belongs to the people of alaska. america doesn't have royalty >> i want it! i want it! >> greta: what do you think too rough? we report, you decide. there you have the best of the rest. still a lot of americans don't know who the vice president is. including one man you would never expect. [ male announcer ] you can't un-smoke a cigarette.
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