join us agaiain torrow night a 5:00nd 7:00 easternfor more "hardbalall." "countdown" wiwith keithlbermann arts rht now. > whic ofhese sries will you be talking abouttomorrow?? did sarah palin just resign again? >> can you imagine yououelf running g for president?? >> i don't know what the fututu holds. can' predict whahat the sh run's s going toook like. >> but evidently ththe chairmanf e rnc knows his fish. >> i take 2012 off the table right nonow. >> simply becae michael stteele adds, given everyrything e's been gng through personalal, aling with the financicial mes and alll of these ludicrous investigigationsave put her a toddddn at t moment, i ththink she's trtrying to focusn getting her house inorder. and presumably heher fish. >> im a fighter. thrive on challenge. >> richard w wffeon the fish -- on t the popotics. genene robins on the continuing comedydy. her full-courtt presin ji is

explainedd in diagram form. nice! d the lastlaugh. >> a the governor of alaska,a, sarah papalin, i leaving the office. shshs stepng down. govevernor - something i i id? >> the other governoror stl hasnsn resigned but the man who once said censure w not enonough fofor bill clintonon gets krensd by the reeblican rty. > and t big 6-0. i do. congratulations, senat. >>okay, th dog cght the r. whwhat do e democratatdo wit the super mamajority answers frfrom howardean. and worsts, the far right offers conflicting aners on ho best to secure americaca. joe thee plumber at aeaparty. need to spendd a lititle me on illegal immigrants, gegethem ththe hell o of our da country anclose the borders down. whatoes that have to do with taxes again? and a former cia b laden ananyst sa -- >> the o only chce we have as a cotry right now iss for osama bin laden t t deploy and d dtone

a major weapon in t united states >> well,l,hat mas sense, if you're terrorist. all that a and more w on "cououdown." >> it's not worth a a bucket o warm spit.t. good e ening from new york.. governor sararah paliis ststill resigneded. and she still haateshe mainststam med so mucch,nd her message iso i impeded by its as, that on our fth story on the "cououdown,"he intervrviewed the storieses fr themajor networks. the finition of the mainststam media, to jinin herater family's privavate fishi grounds sosohe canalk about it. agai tetelevisi correspondents linen up on the shoreses of alka's brisistol bay ke like afternoon r traffic at l.a.x. to interview the soonon to be fmer governrn of alka in wadersrs tryi to explain again her r decision to bail out of the governorship m more th a year fore her term s to expire. her ftrst atmpt friday not having gone so wl. the gornor making it see in

annterview with o own area mitchellll, thater decision to leave office by the end othe montnth had be predetermined on the day john mccain selececd h as hisis running mate tha would be m me thanen months agago. >> i knew at i wasn't goingngto run n for re-election.. i knew at everything chaed on august 29th in polics in alaska. that's t day i was tapp to run for vice president of f the united statates. ings changed, and it was ite obvious ththat nothi would ever be theame for our adminiration. > ifgovern palin had known even byy the conclusioion of e electionon in noveer, as she pu , everything had chanand, why didt take her untiluly 3rd toto anounce those changes? especialally if r stated reason for q qtting is to s save alaka taxpayers the money thatat it i costinghem to invtigate her allegeethics violations? i think th some people may t be fully are of all of all of f the coitions. anit perpled me that weeave sat down with many reportersrs d we hav shown themem h it's cost ousandand thousands of hours in ste time and millions of dodollars intate resources t t

continually send off thehese frivolols,idiculous ethic viations -- how much did itcostou yoself? how w ch debdo you have, legal fees? >> oh, wee he a legal billll of ababt half million dollars. but that's not the coideration. >> palin'n' wyer having descrid her resignationons a formf, ququote,selflf-sacrifi. rmer pnt guard sarah barracudaa supsedly still taking one for t tteam. >>o i saidyou know, that's nd of distracting but t that still isn't alalof it. what is all ofof it waknowing i wasn'toing to run for relection. so a alaskan being perftly hone with them, not wanting to play that lilileame that most politicians s do, and that's kid of pretd like they don't flow ififhey wt to ru again. well, i knenew. i didn't wanant to run again. so i would be hont with askans and say o one rm was engh. >> youou haven'tinished the job so would say. >> youe not listening to me as why i wouldn't be abble to nish that final year i i offe withouout it costing the state mimiions o dollarss a couness hours of wasted time, wasted we havetrue, wororthy,

public causes. >> wn faced w with another question of anda mitcll's thatathe didot lie, the governor simplyy terrupting it misunderstandingng, possib deliberaraly, clms she has h trtrouble getting bk to work after her r runfor vice esident. > some ople have said t that you s s the bright lights from the naonal campaign and came back and it wasas ver hard t to rereadjusto the nitty-gritty wo of -- >> t the tty-gritty, you mean, lilike theish sli and theirt under the fingernailils in juno? >> no,he state capital. e hard, legislative e slog. >> no. that's not - -i am aighter. thrive on challenge. >> except for when shedoes not fighand quitits e job tohich shee has been e e leblglgd. as for h her future in elected fice, governor pin telling c news, quotote, politicalllly spking, if i die, i die,o be it. and d what i guaranteed to win the do you spport the bush doctrine award for this interview cycle,he gornor talking about whathe c clls those,e, quote,,frivolous ethic

olations, also teing abc ws thashe believes theris a dedepartmentf law at the white house. que, i think onon a national lel your departmentt o law ere in the white houseseould look at some the things that have been charged wititand automatically ththrow th out. time nowow to call i i our ow political analysts, richardrd wolffe, authorf "renegade: the makingng of a president" and al a veteran of the wte house partme of lawaw. richard, good eveninin >> good eveng, keith. what -- do we have to poioint out that therere is no sh thing? whwh does say abobout the candidy from last octoberer and november of this campai? >> ass we like say down on the fish farm, thers nothing quite soead as a dead fish. and is is a dead f fitsh of ana idea. lookthere wereclues in this mpaign i don't knowow if youemember that whole fruitit flyncident th i loved so muh. is wasot someone who took the e job serisly, the candidacy riously. didn't benenit from all of thee resources that a natitional presidential camampaignould and

would row a her. and it's quite clear fromhat weaw from td periodham's fabulous piecece in "vanity fai thathe didn't want t prprep, she was zy, she waignorant. look, shshwasn'teady for prprinltim i'm not susure she w ready for daytime. >> will leave the possibity here o on thathe rest of it, it'sme, not her, w's not making sensehere, butut thi one poinint about r hatred and her convtion that the mainstreamam media is here toto stort what she h has to say. t, on e other hand, she could nott resist in inviting reporterers to tal about swha sh hahad to say, h how exactly do e two -- that's an elephant and a mouse. >> w well, y. i love - --the mainstrere media of course, whihichoesn't include the murdoch empire, whichch is e biggest piece ofof the mainstre media. let't's justet that aside for e send. but her skill set was pposed toe publicic presentation,n, a she fbbed itt enormously. all of these interviviews we've justeen seseeing, includingg

andreaea mitchell's wonderfuful scene down the fish lakeke therer you know, was all desisigned aa catch-up, as a recovery j job for that botcd tempt just before thehe july 4th weekend. so if she can't do th public presention, if she can't explain heherself right, if sh loseher auuthentic voice andnd cocomes upith all ofthese platitudeses abouthe troops orr about doing itit all for laska, thth wha does she present? anand a messe to bill kristol, it not that people are sared of her, it's that they'rere shockeat how frankly incoetent she is at the thinings she's suppose to be strong at. >> the ququote, i can't't predit what the nextt fi run'ss going to lookk like much less t tnext coupuple yea, basicically sh can't say anything aboutut the presiden in 2012. repeating g the phrarase, can't prevent what the nxt fish run wi look like any of the terviews. but the chairmrman of e rnc, mimichael stle basically said, 2012 iss off the tablee becausef thth investstigatio. and aa okesman crified that sasaying, pan said erythi is onon the tle. steelele takes n issue withthat.

are e republicans in s such a spot rht now that the rnc is tually trying toto keep vernor palilin on theable here? >>no, i t think the rnc i blessed with a a person a at it helmlm who's even lesess discipd than sarah ppalin. th's not a clarificatition. thatat's a total corrtion. he w was speakg out of turn. still tnks he's a pundit rather th the guy running the rnc and he just messesed up yet agai >> last popoint. as we begin to circumscribebe t range of possibilititi as tohy she quit, , we narrow it down, seems toto be gog towards she quit b bause s didn't want t to burden t state witthe price of defending againsnst these ethics investigations. a, don't they -- isn't there a chchance somof them continue in her absesence and she burdens t state anyway? dodoesn't at attitude mean at a governor or somebeby who has an even higher lling should, when coronted with esumab false and lifilled ethics charges resign n rather than disprprove them >> yes and es. u can't get h hounded out of office byy frivolols compints.

ocio ototherwise,here would be nobody left in public office.e. that's not leadersrship. look, i still bebeeve itomes down t to mone no matttter wh she saidd about, oh, half a million dlars is nothing. really? a ha a million dollars is a lot to anyone. ihink she got hounded and that's a sad t tng for eryone, esespeciallyor people like bill krist krkristol. >> msnbc's richard wolffe reporting outli the w wte house departmentnt of thlaw. many t thanks asalways.s. three weeks afafr a mamum of 40 pepeople ghered outstside the ed sulvan theater calli fordave lettermrman to be fired inrotest of a jok hehe tol ababout pa pane's eder daughterer, a joke somall it caused h him to flee in a new yk city cab for fear o of b bng photraphed in an incredle resusu of oging, we know letttterman' tenure on"late nigh will long outlive palinin's tenure as governor. lettererman rerning from a long ekend just as palalin was heading into permanentnt vacati. >> there a surprising annoue the over the weekend that the governor alaska, sarah h palin leaving g the offi. she's ststping dn, governor --

[ applause ] sothing i said? >> papalin's attorney, thos van kline, ansring in the affirmatate, telng cnn that letterman's jojos contributed to the governor's dedecision to st down. quot when people don't accept normal b bounds decency making jos like that about chdren, ybe th is not good for thehe state right n and maybe somebody else who isis not the suect and whoseamily is not the subject of this scctiny can mo the state forward. let's turnrnow to our own eugege robinson, aociate editor and litzer prize-winning colulumnist of "the washington post.t. gene, good e evening >> good evevening, keith. >> before we getstarted, any chance you used to live in aska, too? >> no,, you gotot me there. i did, howevever, used to work the partment of w. >> oh,h, we a did. that's where iot my start. this ithe main stlstream media' ult. it's the fault o of the late-nit comemedians. it's theault of the bloss os fear. it's's the flt of anyone who estions her ethics. it's the fault of anyonene who mentions herer childre even when

e dragd them out onto the stage. has s the soono be ex-governor palinn raised the victimhohood high art? >> i think that p pretty mh says it. yes, she has. in f ft, shs kind of leading a vanguard. it's a mysterious switch where the repupublicans used to alway accuse democrara of -- oof, you know, v victimhd and being professional victs. and nowt seems to be the publicans who are alwaysys pointingng the fier and seei themselves as being pickcked on byby -- meaniberals withth fangs. > the t todd pernum "vanity " piece, if senatotor mccai won, the ve presidency would be e in the hands of a woman who did not have the temperamament fo the jo are we rt ofbackfillllg on the voractiy o that concsion, the e fact ttshe could not hahandle letterman's's jokes tt point t ere helawyer actually said that contribubud to h resigning g becausshe couldn't takeokes also eak to the suitability y of her temrament?

>> l look, t think i all spes to it. i thinknk is whole epide reallyly tells uabout what we needo know about s sarah palin's suitabity for high officece. lo,if you can'tt sve out a a ll term a asovernor of aaska becaususe you' beingicked on byrivolous investigations or whatatever, u know, i just don't think you're going to o are do pun potentially if youecame vice president l last timer if you u n for presisident 2012. it'sust not -- i think this is not her skill set. i thk her skskl set is she'ss able to insre people. e's ab to articulate a vision of ameriri, but in terms of aually legislating and executive actiononnd stu like that, i don't t think that's he stng point. i don't think rigor is her strong p point, and i don't - - think ose who nt to suppoport r for 2012 are going to ultitimatelye disappointed. think she's goioing to flake

out. >> if you can't beat al qaeda -- if youan't pete paul shaffer, how can yoyobeat al qaeda? if she's leavingg the gornorship but clearlyased on today as interview festival, she's not leavaving the public eye, at least not yet, is there -- do y think thatat there'some expectation by her or pple around here that t the late-night tv jokekearegoing to go away sdenly? i would assume not. e -- she almost has toto maintain some sortt of high publicic pfile. there'probably annner need there and thers ceainly a fifinancianeed there. she's writing aabook. eryone expects her to popopup, you now, potentially, who knowows? she can be onntv. she can be cocompetin against this show for a a we kn. >> good ck. good lucuck! >> youou wish. but t she -- she's goingng to bt there anand she's goingo be sarah pan. and e's -- of urse, she going to be the trget of the sameind of h humor as any politician g gs targeted with

ththese ays. i mean, thiss the heat that is inhe kitchen and o one has to put up withth it or get o out o. >> and you're e righ she's s out there. the way, just as an afterthought, ifletterman did contribubu this,s, he's underpaid ananunderared, more importantltl gene robinson, pulitzer-prize winner of "the wawashingt post" and lucky here on msnbc. thanks, gene. erybody remembersrs his tenacity, , s relentlessness as he got stood u by john mcmccain last octoberer ows that one j j about t somethg he said is not the end ofof t. touote aother lelegend,"this is not the end. this inot even the beginning of the end but it is perhahaps e end ofofhe begning or may nono" it is just the beginning fofor senator alfranke but if you are a so-calalledcounterterrorit alyst and you go on telelevision andinsist the only chanceceor this country is s for ito be the vivictim of other terrorist attack by o osama bin laden, we, that damn wee bettter be the end of your career as anan analyst can gl up ines and actually mama you look older.

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today, july 7th, 2009, the n who plad baggage handler numb one in "trading ples," star of "l," and the movies "stuart saves his mily," author of "rush limbaugh is big, fat idiot," took the oath of office as the june juror u.s. senator for the statof minnesota, meaning his resume is more imprsive of all about 7% of all tho who ever eceded him into t senate of our nation. our fourth sto tonight, accompanied by senator amy klobuchar andformer vice presidt mondale to his president bid, dies and gelemen, senator al franken. >> please raise your right nd. do you solemnly swea that you support and dend the

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minorityty iisisteon his resignatioion. after a late-night conferencece call and thrhreeouounds ballotinin t the voted to censue gogoveor sanfnfd.d. the final lly, 22 ivovo 10 memberers llllinfor sanford's resignatio resisiatatio 9 members ouout ofhehe1 leaders vovoti for support. tably leaving the s stete t to e his argenentine lover as a arerc of the publilic's ususand confididen a andis ability to fectively pfofo the duties of h h officece sanforordd also iled to adhereo ee ce belfsfs of the republican parar b butbabaing furtheherrevelation, t t nsure wi b bthe rtrty' last word on thth matter. the statement also clalaimthth the tatate republicanss spoke in aa unified ice, noteally very ififd, and wholly incnconsienen withth mt t reblicans including sasaord himself said abouout th nsure idea back in 88. then congressssmanford voted to impeach p prededent bill clclinn, claiming onlnlythth or clinton'seesiation would be enough. sanford has respondededtoto las night's c cenrere rough his

spokesesma quoting, thee goverer fufull appreciates the party's position and he intetes s toork diligegentlyo o rn back its trust. so o othe statement hehemade wi wife e erase andararty insertrted. let's bring in the washington editoror o "the week" gazine, litical correspondenent r r bloomberg newsws margaret rlson. goododveveni. >> good evevenin k kth. how arare u?u? >> i'm well. how is g goverr r sanforord? dide a aually manage t s squk byby othis e?e? >> well,l,ee di b becse there's bobodyn the party estaisisent that wants to g giv e lieutenant governrnor a leg on getting elected in the n ntt gugubeatorial election. so there's not aotot in it foro them t t force hihim out this point, and hee sid if yououver gigivet to the body of you peers, you're etettyafe because they're notot,hehe eics committee in cgrgres is, you knowitit not going tohuhurt yo it's like thee dissentnt decre where you say, i i dn't do ananhihingrong but i'll never do it again.

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younung enenouo be scarred for life. . >> final damage assessmsment rr gogoveoror nford and foror a a y atat usedo self-righteously say, oh, nno, censure's nonot ough, we need anototrr 11 months of investitigaonon and a imimpehment that we're goingngt lo?? >> you know, it's a almt not worth sayingng hypocrisy anymom because there is suchh hiypocri. you know, if we werere t doooo ouour oerer pfefessn this, d d't want too namanany other profesessionbubulet's say journalism wouldldee dimimed. you knknowalalf the noewew yorkers, more thananalalf nt eliot spititzebaback you do havav t to a little bit cacarel l abt getting rid of people whoho falininhis way. hohower,r, t second press coerence is almlmoswowort capital punishshntnt forork m m sasanfor but he does mamakett and he wil st and he does no moore harm. > margaret carlson, c citital punishment adcate. >> ththks, kekeit good night. .

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have as a country r rittnow, he said on foxox news s la week is forsama bin laden to deployy an detona a majojo weapo in the uned states, because it's going to take a grassroots, bottom-up pressure bause these poticians prize their offi, prize the praise of the media ane europeans. it's an absurd situation, again, only osama can execute an attack that will force americans to demand government prect them effectively, consistently and with as much violence as necessary. scheuer's interviewer glenn beck of fox news did not attempt to correct him or scream at him, what the hell you mean the only chance we have of a country, nor insaty or pling around with terrorists? beck did not burs intotears. nodded gravelys this made sechbs. which is why i was thinking, he said, if i were him, bden ladin, that would be t last thing i wouldo right now, b answered, agreeing and barely containing his dappointment as

he d so. need biden bin laden to destroy part oamica to save america. you know, since that worked out so wl for everybody on 9/11. he has already given ort to the enemy. adding the disiene ubous, criticized online saying he ner said what he clearly had sa. far from whing for another attack, he wrote, i trust that churchill's judgment that god looks ou for drunks and the unitedtates of america still holds good and weain saf god better do the job bause no one our elite is ding it. of cose, here mr. scher is correct. one in theirlite is dock their job. . scheuer has issued a call for aqaeda toetonate aajor weaponn the united states, and yet for some reason, to my knowledge at least, th department of homelandecurity has not yet be to see him, nor been to see mr. beck norox news for havi provided him a plfo and passive asst, for pring ofot just a terrorist attack which cou kill americans, but approving of one that might eve kill fox

ewers. if we're going to continue to prevent terrorism in th country, international or domestic, we have to legally stop the pple whoiew terrm as acceptable means of affecting political change in this country, people like michael cheuer, and we ha to legally stop theople like glenbeck be enablers and simply nod gvely as if the idea and the speaker were not treasonists. auth michael scheuer and glenn beck of x news, today's "worst perss in the world."

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gegentmemen. >> she mayayee resigning as governoror, t t yohaven't seen e last of sah h pan. catch sarah ththis fall o on hew talk show,, "sah and dave,"," 8:00 p p.. wkninits on tbs. sasah palin, effective leadership. > y.. say wat you will,anan i---- she -- i i tink she would have been our most attractiviv ve e president sisincspspiragnew. >eaeah. >> you're going to hea abouout that froro agagnew' faily. th's "countdown" for thiss the 2,259th day sincee t p pevevio presidentt d dlalare mission accomplished iraq. i'm keithth lblbernn. goododigightnd good luck. and now to d disss s sahah palin'suutu and whetherer shshes more likik don quijote or marshall nay f fro wawaterl with former busus adviserarar minnon, laes and gent