we're back with howard fineman and ria teresa kumar. t ask you about this issu of the health care bill. the presidt announced today regina benjamin from alabama i going to be his minee for surgeon general. many interpreted this decision today, on the monday, his first day ck from his trip overseas, was to keep the exciteme behi h commitment to health ca high on his agenda. my wor is that in the hill today i watched senator hatch me on tonight and said they just voted narrowly one ve with bob cey joining his side, to not exclude artion from the health care coverage of is new plan. i st think it might be a deal-baker tinclude abortion when the president says 's gointo reduce the number of ortions in this country, through noncoercion, obviously. how can heo thatnd say i'm subsidizing at the same time? >> i tnk it's a difficult problem and this is where a lo of women's groups are going to

look ahim critically to see if he's maintained his campaign promise push forward their issues. think he's going to have a fight. i think one of the reasonse came on monday, in t middle of the confirmation hearings is that he knew america was watching and that he wants to demotrate that he's a multitasker. i think it demonsttethat he belies sotomayor is going to get confirmed rather easily -- >> back to my question. is he going to kl his health re bill by including abortion financinby taxpayers for all amicans under this plan? in other wor, says he wants to reduce the number of aborons in this country, now he says, by the y, i'moing to subsidizehem. does that work political? it's going to betough. i ink what he is ing to do is go behind close doors and try to figure out the pulse --. >>oward? >> i thinkhe heah care bill is in big enou trouble as it isithout loading the abortion issue on to it. i don't know what they'r thinking. they're going to lose thwhole bill. maybe bobby casey will save them from their worst inclinations.

thank you, join us again tomorrow night at 5: a 7:00 stern for more "hardball" on msnbc. "countdown" theith olbermann starts right now. which of thesetories will you be talkin about tomoow? the stilunrevealed, stl secret, still bious bonus secret bush program get al qaeda? the onen which cia director panetta pulled the brake this springhen told congress dick cheney ordered the cia to not tell congress eight years. was that becse the plan was too much or too little? spial prosecutor. the words are whspers of the torney general, mr. holder. an actual criminal invesgation into torture? the sotomayor hearings. invition to an anti-climax. as senator graham says to her, unless you have a complete meltdown you're going to get confmed. and the sarah con woman chronicl. she's going tort her own consvative party with decrats. plus levi johnson is w talking

about her, ote, stress levels. all that and more now on "countdown." good evening from new rk. theame bush-cheney administration which faid to heed warnings from i own officialans from al qaeda, itself, that failed t preven the worst attack on u.s. soil, that failed get the also we learned tay the same administrati which failed to me up with a single viable plan for the cia tocapture or kill members o al qaeda, despite running an eight-yea long missi so secret the vic president orded the cia to not tell congress about it. "the wall street journaltoday reporting that discussionf plan kill aqaeda leaders taped off within six months after 9/11. acrding former intelligen officials saying b and cheney didn't support proposal to send speal teams after a qaeda the way israel got the terrorists who attacked the

munich olyics. on march 13th, 2002, six moths, twdays after 9/11, mr. bu himself said puicly of bin laden, quote, i truly am not that concerned about him. tonight's story mr. cheney no reduced toefendg their toughness by nding his daughter out to defend them spinng that "wall sreet jourl" story to suggestit somehow reveals democratic weakness on tional security. cheneyorced to playefense nowit the weekend's revelation that it was he who ordered e cia not to comply th the laws requiringull intel briefings r congressional ers, followed ickly by today's "wall stet journal" storyhat what mr. cheyconcealed from congress were the failed attempts to co up with cia plans for geing al qaa, a story that raises a host of questions. coiderinthe congressional leaders had alady been briefed about thepresident's 2001 rective ordering the capture and killing of al qaeda members. on june 23rd of this year cia offials concerned about mieading congress still told the new director leon panetta about the al qaeda effo, what details about it no one has yet

said. panetta thenold congress, essentially confming to the dismay of the right wing speaker pelo's previous claim e cia had no told hern 2002 about the waterboarding was conducting at that time. let me turn rst to the auth of "theark side, the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on american eals" and ocourse staff writer at he new yorker" mazine. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> congress and the public hve known for yrs that president bush authorized the cia to kill members of alqaeda, probably no one would have an argument with that. there would have been no reason to withld that from congress if that was the end of it. so no reaso for thatto stun members of congress as they reportedly were stunned when the director briefed them last month. what is it that we're missingin this narrative? >> well, there a some dails here, obviously, don't yet have. they seeto be coming together. there is a story in the british press that sounds like"the new york times" is working on a piece, too, thatuggests that these were kind of masadlike

hi squads that were going to be auorized possibly toperate in some of our allied countries without informg the governmein those countries, so tere are some potentially controversial aspects to this that haven't complely surface yet. rt of the reason i think it's worth thking aut why congss would be upset about this is if you g back into the history ofhecia, the whole idea of intelligence oversight, came out in e 1970s after plans for assassination attempts surfaced involving the cia. so the id that cheney might have specifically tried to keep congss from knowing about what uld be seen aassinaon attempts is ceainly going to push a lot of buttons up on the ll >> i know seymour ersh'sint of the story in minnesota in the spring was abt stuff run out of ptagon specifically no tied to e cia butit seems

remarkable we might be talking about in a perod of mohs two secret assassinationquads some touching on the vice present of the unitestates. ishat too much of a coincince? could we be talking about the same squad or just two aspec of the sam operat >> wel, i mean, the particulars -- from whatwe know so far anyway about ts paicular hit squad was that it s never up and running. they did, though, it sounds like begin to train specifi killers, o might be ab to r the rld loong for al qaeda members. i mean, we kw of cour we've got a dron program that kill some fromthe sky but there's something differt about them working secretly i you know, lied countries, and in terms of cheney what we've seen oer the last fewmonths, really, is that every me anher document comes out about the bush ministration's programs you can seecheney's finrpnts on it. so, basically, take a look a the -- the was a fascinati

report that ce out last friday that wasut together by inspector generals in the intelligence community. >> right. >> it's full of detai about botheney and his former lawyer david addington they were theeople who seemed to be behind the warrantless wiretappg program. somehow, weirdly, it was up to them to decide which other lawyergot to be cued in aut this i the administration,o you had thiseryrange situatn ere there was thi intense secrecyand manyf the subject area experts were pt out of knowing about these progms. >> jane, m i'm being a little simple asking this but if you put everything together, is it possib that the reason cheney would have pused for the secrecy here was not because too much was done too illegally to try to get al qaeda buthat ultimately the history of this program would show h little s done to get al qaeda? >> well, i mean, think one of the revelations that cam out in general's report,as -- which r is very important, i tink --

was that the warrantless rvllance progm, which twisted our constitution into kns, turns outto have been ineffective. according government expert who are nonpartin, it did not help inany serious way in our an-terror efforts. so, i mean, i think it is possible that the more know about some of these programs the more we're going to find out they were cessary. >> speaking of unnessary, last point here. "the washingtopost" reported toy that the cia had hid from congress. it was called a technically oriented intelligence coection effort related to trorism suspects and that was "the wall street journal" version of thi should we be skcal of the anonymous sours suddenly appearing with detai that seem so wide at variance fr what we think we knw? >> well, i think that here's probably a rl jumpball going on politically to try to paint what was withheld frongress asuniortant.

you know, the cia an some of the republica on the hill are trying t say, this wsn't an important program. but ifit turns outo hve actuallyeen an elite sort of assassin's squad that could work without -- in various countries without telling the host countries, i tnk it's gog to be hard to s it was minor. yeah, and certainly they won't say it was minor. jane mayer of "the newrker" gazine and author of "the dark si" anks forour time tonight. speaking of the jump ball politilly the right wing of the cheney family trying to push back on nuus reports mr. cheney orred the cia to defy intel laws maating congressional briefings. onunnamed bush ficial telling drea mitchell t adminition did not tell congress aut the cia efforts because, quote, congress didn't ask. mr.cheney, himself, dking comment all ekend allowing s daughter the polil appointee at state to fight for him in an interview wi the conservative "washington times" claiming without any factual bas whatsoeverhat democrats object to getting al qaeda ratr than in facthat they object being kept in the da about

plans to get al qaeda or, more accurately, the bush-cheney failure to make a plan to get qaeda. >> there's this big piece in "theall street journal" this morning that says that iwas a number of diffent conceptsor wa we could capture or kill al qaeda leaders in the days after 9/11. now, i really surprised that the democrdecide th'shat ey want to fight over. if they want to go to the american peoe and say that they disagreed with the notion we oht to be capturing and killingal qaeda lders, you know, i think it just going to prove to the american people one more time whyhey can't trust the democrats wi our national security >> let's turn to msnbc's political analyst and also senior editor at "newswk" gazine. good evening,john. why are democrats trying to stop republicans from gettingal qaeda? >> cheney figures the best defense a goodffense so 'll trto turn this on t democrats. but lo. what's happened here isither this was not an important program in which casee failed atomething thatou and and

everybody else assumed we re doing. when all thisad stuff was happening to the constitution, i don't know about you t i assumed ateast we're killing the bad guys in the dark o night. the dark side was goodfor something, ofng al qaeda. soitherthey didn't do that, which case we all should be more scared now about terrorism or if it was a big, important program and theyidn't inform congress about it, they broke the law. see, ever since the 1970s, the cia has been required to report at least what they call the gang of e. meers of the leadership and the chairman and ranking members of the inlligence cmmittees in each chamr. must report on tir operations. that oversight was implemented ter the last ci ases in the 1970s which are quite sar to what we're talking about, the so-called phoenix programn vietnam targeted viet cong leaders for assassination.

wh that came out it gave the cia a black eye a the law was changed requiring them to inform congress. if it comesout that they broke the law under orders om dick chen, tt does lead to so questions about whether the ce president was involv in law breakg. does that mean we'll see him frog marched out of the cheyenne airport? i dbtt but we could see some kind of inquiry as to whether the vice presint broke the la >> just bring hito thehite house soe can frog march h out thehite house to pase joe wilson. number t on this list he, does that still supply the nessary astishment we've heard described from e members of the house finay briefed thon by mr. patta wn he said oh, by the way i just ut down this program you didn't know anything about? does the not feel like there's another really shaquie o'ne sized shoe waiting to dp on this? >>yes. and you can see little sort of hints that it vied in some of these stories. now, i don't want to make it

seem like i know something that i n't, because we're flying blind here. t there was an indication that, rhaps, a large number of prisoners were kill by afghan allies under thesupervision, perhaps, of the a, or did they give them a green lht for executions? you know, during the time we were fighting the taliban? noclar. d i don't wanto suggest i know that that happened but that's the sort of thing. >> that's the level of things. >> yes that we might be talkin ou >> and whawould the fallout from that be? i mean, would that -- does the asnishment that the democratic membs who wrote, the groupf x that wrote that letter, is that astonishment somewhat back phil fill to make se their fingerprints aren't on this, at this is going to be entirely the republicans a mr. bush's oblems? >> you crtainly can't under

estimate t ability of politicians of both parties to cover their fnies when they need to. bu get the sen from panetta's actis and remember netta though he served under bill clintonandow under barack obama he us to be a republan. he is a relaty conservative guy. i dot think e's carrng water here. he was upset at the degree to which congss was left in the dark about anmportant program, so oiously, there's a lotore toearn about ths. i don' think the oama administration wants big hearings b i hope we have them. >> lastly, is there any way to sort of reverse engier what dick cheney might have been sponsible for basedn this sudden switch byis ughter to this claim of, you know,it's just going to be a fight over national security and the democrs will lose that one. do that tell us anyth of wh he might be guty of in this? >> no, but i think as jane pointed out, yo know, h fingprints are on all of this. hat would be new, wouldn't it?

whicof these vice presidential assassination ds will you be taing about tomorrow? jonathan alter, of "ewsweek" and msnbc, thanks for cing in. special prosecutor for toure and it's serious enough e attorney general has repoedly asked for a list of ten nominees. of course there wl be limits. e quasi--lawyers who fabricatedhe documents authorizing the torturet to osecuted. and anyby who followed those documents not to be precuted anybody who didn't foow those documents and went overboard b was actg ingood fai, not to be prosecut. at what point does special precutor become a meaningless brand name? and who could this one still prosecute? the only peoe seemingly still on the table are ose who were tortured. hat's great, but i'm not. ♪ (second man) i guess i'm just done with doingothingyou know? ♪ (third man) oh, i'm not thinking out moving my money. i m moving it. tdd# 1-80-345-2550

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attorney geral eric holder iserusly considering the appointment of a special prosecutor to look at whether bush era detainees were illegally tortured. in our frth story on "the countdown" the headline comes with such huge veats the opportunity might be squaered. the decision could be made soon about the same time the jste departmentompletes an ethics report aboutush administration offials wh drafted e now

discredited memos wch so-called enhanced rding and interrogation. y investigation into torture abuses would be narrowly focused, limit to a small number othe most egregious cases in which cia officers contractors went far beyond what s authorized. this according to our own pte lliams. anyone who followed the bu era legal guidanc would not be investiged nor would the who strayed from the technical limits of interrogation but ted ingood faith. the oops, sorry, iroke you half defense. the attorney geral's somewhat tormented process described in "newsweek" as the were artling indications t some interrogators had gone far beyond whahad been authorized the legal opinions issued by the bush justice dertment, controversial.selves , that is holder, tol one intimate that what he w, quote, turned my stmach. according to "wsweek" holder also askedis staff for a list of ten candidates, four prosecutor five from withinhe justice department and five from outside it. let's call on t professor of

constitutional law at george washington univeity jonathan turley. od evening. >> hi,keith. >> the caveatsn a moment t is somhing likely to happen i the way of special prosecutor now? >> the question of course i what will haen? whathe's described is more of a bonzailant than a prosecuto that you can twist and rtrn to grow e way you want. it's not a special prosecutor. for some libertarians i think all rather than what his at suggesting. thbiggest problem is that holder and president obama appear to be rewritinghe law we created in nurmber we convicted people like herbert clem,ho was convictedwith these othejudges. this was the thirdf the 12 trials and he was a justice official in the nazi regime. he was convicted for his legal inions that aedor war crimes. we tried him. we created that rule princie four of the nurmberg law specifically says fllowin

superior ords is not a fense. so the obama administration are rewriting nurmberg with allf these preconditionsnd they're rewriting it in very ig noble and in my view immoral image >> s is the obama administtion shifting? is this an answer tohose who say, no, you have to do more because as youoint out the law would seem toimpell it? or is there some dication, perhaps, that mr. holder is stking out on his on and that there might in this be the ge of a hopeful signha this cod be broaden as time goes by rather thanarrowed or being nothin at ll? >> like a lot of civil rtarians i must admit i've grown re cical with time, th this administration. theyave tried so mitily to avoidny prosecuon or even investigation of war crimes that there is a lot of cynicism out there. i'm just not convinced. i think that attorney genel holder is finding it very har he's becoming almost a tragic,

cocal figu like sergeant schultz saying, i see nothing, i see nothing, when every wk brin out compelling evidence of a war me. on topof thatwe had solers in harm' way. i tnk if the obama administration is preparing for what may come. what happens when one o our soldiers is waterboarded and al qaeda says, well, is interrogation. what happens if an ianian tria tribunal orders terboarding of an american and says this is no grter than the interrotion lowed by the unit states. that is wt the los of moral clarityrings to a country like the united states. >> ner mind in nth korea where we have two journalists jail, two amecan journalists for coming into the country illegally. that's a practil exampl right now where something, mean i'm not expecting theyould waterboard them after coicting them but tcertainly have no moral clarity based on what we've ne in response to waterboarding. >> that's right. what we are doings not jus frittering awayur moral standing bututting our ow people at great and ave ris

at's what nmberg gave us. it wasot just a moral superiorover those who commted these crimes. it also gave u a clari in how we would insist ourwn sdiers anditizens be treated. we've simply lost that. >> the republican senar m alexander said if holder does ev this he also nds to look under the subject of renti unde president clintonhen mr. holder was the deputy torney general,thereby saying if you're going to investigate, i assume your answer to that is, you know, bring it on. yeah, well i think i'd be more thanhappy to have them investigate all su ccasions d i don't believe -- policies -- and i don't lieve the repuicans are serious about this. but republicans have to mke an important decision they cannot go innd eate a legacy for their partys the party that foht to proct the right to torte. i mean, whatever political pirations they may have, they must ateast retain something of a moral definion of themselves. i mean, they're the party of

abraham lincoln and ewhere they have gone. i just don't believe st republans really want that. but what also think attory generalolder hasto do is accept, appoint a special prosecut and tell him go find imes where the even lead and that's e moral clarity that we'reacking in terms of the recent stories. >>yeah, archibald cox could come in most uful at this int. jonathanurley of george shington university, as always, john, thanks for your clarity this. thanks for your time, o. >> thanks,keith. >>ll right. good night. you know what was the best part of having that g-8 summ in italy last week? clearly, i w w the m moo light. wait aminute. wait f for it. there- - ju -- a ltltllate. okayay. hold on. all right. so the graphics s hi whatyoyou' seei b b you get t the point. and the southehern cliforni stst who says itit's finetoto spend 2%2%f all y you prayers on

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rshalling his forces for a lost cause. our third storyis opening stement. senator jeffsessions referrin to president oba's nomin to the supreme court as justice sotomayor. y one of a week of confirtion hearings for judge sonia sotomayor. the st witness sent for all but eight mutese gallery not so much about four protestorsnterrupted for -- arrested for interrupting among them the jne row of row e v. wade. >>all itempathy. call it prejudice. call it sympathy b whater it is it's not law. in truth it's more akinto litics andolitics has no place in the urtroom. >> wder what the members of the diciary committee called it in 1986 when two republicans voted against the ninion of the same jeffsessions to be a federal distct judge because of allegations that as federal prosecutor hesought suppress the black vote. day the now senator's first a

ranking member on this committee. others claiming the supreme urt overturned moref sotomayor's desions than a othejudge. >> agree that her judicial recordis an importa component of ourevaluation. i look forward to hearing why, for instance, t supreme court has reversed or vacated 80%of he opinions. >> a tip for senator kyl who is apparently new to the country the supre court reverses an erwhelming majority of the ses accepts. enhe court agrees with a decision i will far more often than not turn away a case and let th ruling of t lower courstand. democrat russ feingold laying bare the repuican talking point meanwhile of judial activism. >> i suggesto everyone watchingoday that they be a little wary of a phrase tt ey're hearing at this hearing -- judicial activism. that termeally seems to have lost all sefulness, partularly since so many rulings of the conservative majority on the supreme court can fairly be describeds activists in their disregard for precedent and ei llgness

toignore or override the intent of congress. at this point,perhaps,we should all accept that the best definiti of judicial activi is a judge w decides a case in a way you don't like. >> cret lindseygraham of uth carolina with today's rare republican moment of honesty. >> i don'tant it to be lost that this is mostly about libel and consertive politicsore than anng else. now, unless you have a complete confirmed.you're gng to get wn it was fally her turn to speak judge sotomayor, knocking dn suggestions th she would allow her biases to gue her from the benc >> in the past month, many senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy. simple. fidelity to the law. the taskof a judge is not to make law. it is apply the w. >> e judge also seeng to make indirect reference to the

wise latina controversy today. >> my personaland professional experices help me to listen and understand with th law waysommanding the result every case. >> time now to turn to our own lawrence o'donll contributor to the uffington post, former chief of sff of the senate finance mmittee when it was chaired by the late senator moynan. good evening, r. >> good to be here, keith. the republicans have been slg this judge for the last six weeks, 24 urs a day, seven days a week possibly taking off memorial day. should we be surprise that was the prevailing strategy in the opening statementsven today? >> well you could look at it that way but it'sostly bn from the limbo zone. athese guys ew, all the republicans on the committee have met her. some were on t committee for they always knew what america

was going to hear todayhen sonia sotomayor opene her mouth for the first time. so whattruck me was how careful they were about t. enohn kyl saying a a certain point he thought -- he said i hope every american is proud a hispic woman has been nominated to sit on the sreme that was not somethingou were hearing in republican chorusses before. but the reason to look at it fr the other side, the reason they went so easy on her and the reason they all strsed positive things out her as person is that they knew when they finished speakg america s going to hear her for the first time and wha they were goin hear was the voice of a wise and educated, yes indeed, latina won, with a ry st avoring from the bro, a formalized dixh-- dtion that comefrom english being her second language a a very warm, maternal aspect and that kind of chacter is not someone you can go up againstasi politically. when she finished her statement today our own chris matthews on the live covage had to say he

was eling one of those thris ofis by which he means's e of those thlling moments be an american, watching someone likehat riseo this point. and those republica know that chris wasn't thenly one feeling the rill. >> thank you forexplaining that. the sessions re here is kind of ironic, that he's the rankg republican on this judiciary committee. should we believe that his pa experience wit it doesn't me him ki ofarrely slanted on the subject of judges and race d all the rest of that? plus, ould we believe that he did not rea the wle wise latina speech? can read that t loud in about ten mutes and if he didn't read it and didn g the context in wch she's basically sayingin the whole thing, you knw, you c't rely on just your o experience, just your own background. it'she reverse meaning of what the snippet says. arwe supposed to believe sessions doesn't know tt? >> i can, personally believe sessions doesn't know that, keith, having rked in the sete myself. and if you go back to hi

confirmationearing, which he couldn't make his way through as a candidate for the bench, himself, i've nev seen a weak candidate actuallyake it all the way up to a confirtion hearing. we m have had weaker candidates who nev even got that far through the clearce process. and he is in over his head. it i one of those only america stories that jeff sessis could go from being rejectedy that committee to bei the chairman of it a he can thank the wonderfulunited states senate seniority stem. you don' take an exam to become chairm. you just sit tre long enough and it appens. >> snds like he's an eoe hire to me. i don't know. st point. ishere anything substance? are therenyelowns? are there any secrets wonderfully disguised? is there anything worthhile the rest of these heargs besides e fact of the nfirmation? >> no. lindsey graham has got it absotely right. there's no suspense lt here. she's going to b able t handle all the issues they're going to wa to raise very easily. the empathy questions.

lindsey grah looks to me lik with orrin hatch who votedor and enabled her confirtion last te around when he was airman of that comttee the la time she went through. >> if it's somebody from th bronx versus anody else always vote on the person fro the bron lawrence o'donnellf the huffington post and nbc. >> that's the way ilay t. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> she's really going rogue. all democratsho would like sarah lin's endorsement s it with me now, suicidal. boss mbaugh compares judge sotomayor to senator george allen. wait. you're comparingomebody who isn' rcist to somebodyou say isn't acist. whenacjoins you at the top of the hour, the intel program about which dick cheneneyrder the cia t tell congress. i was ping it was nothing. grandma! what a n nice rprise! mo it'sunday. thth's whei knew i couldn't wait.

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. e almost ex-goverr of alaska goes ve much rogue. this time virtually threatening to start her own conservative party pledging to stump for independents and even conservative democrats but inurumber onetory the question now isill anybody

want h to? sarah palin telling the "washington times" she plans t jump immediately into the national political arena, ote, i will go around the country on behalf of candidesho believe in the right this regardless of their party label o affiliation, me. ople are so tired of the partan uff, even mywn son not republican th would betrack who is a registed nonpartisan along withis father, todd, whose previo affiliion was with alaska's secsionist party. this as theew york times reports on earlier attempts by the gop to savepalin from herself. senior officl from the republican governors association outlinadvice with fir counsel for lin to foll. make a long-term schedule and stick to it. buila coherent home state agda that createsobs and res re-electi another senior ofcial asking the governor to please rurn her phon calls. meanwhile more of a department of aost in-laws. johnston still talking. his baby' grandmother wanted to do a reality show he says and thought it would be nice to take the mone and n. johnston maintns palin isan incredible lady and he'd do about anything for her exct vote for her.

>> i ju don'think she can handle thestress level as governor. i don't thinkhe can hale it as president or vice president. >> and word fm the other palin mage of convenienceetor cain remarking he was surprised butot shocked by news of palin quitng. >> you have fd persal torture, persol attacks, political attacks, investigations. you have ner rigned from anything. is it consistent with yo qualities of leadership to resign an elected post like there? >> sure if you -- theuestion is how can you serve most ffectively? >> what about not seing at all? joining us now the white house porter for "the washington post." good evening. can we have a giggle at the image of so democrat somewhere lling governor n for an endorsement? but obviously she was chosen by jo mccain for this express rpose of runding up stray hillary clinton supporters.

is it possible even afterwhat happenedo that theo in reality lastear maybe she is still thinking that way this year, thathe is some so of multi-y transcendent fire? >> let me brief. no. yoknow, i don'tthink so, keith. i thinkhat she is trying to do, remember, her appl is a reform appe, an indendent appeal. shwas elected in 2006 as governorrunning against the guy named fnk mer cowsky who was the alaska tablishment. she wa elected as someone who fought the establishmen i ink sh wants to get back to those roots. it's whyou're seeing her make statements like shwould campaign for an independent or conservative democrat. the trutis they wouldn't ask and sh wouldn't accept. >> you been reportingthat palin's political action committee raised over $700,000 in its rst six months. but did she just hint in talking about going arou the country for democrats or whoever no matter what the prty label is i guess th means democrats that this money could be goin to something that least resembles third party activity as opposed to purelyeing directow