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anita dunn, nicolle wallace, thank you both very much. our election coverage begins online at 7:00 eastern tonight. and we're going to cover it all, with special election night coverage of vote 2010, starting live tonight at 9:30. diane sawyer and i will be anchoring. now, we go to robin. >> okay, george. >>> there's new information about the foiled terror plot, first reported here by brian ross. intelligence officials were on the lookout for explosives on cargo planes, tipped off by a practice run that the terrorists apparently carried out in september. brian is back this morning with new developments, just breaking in yemen today. >> reporter: reports of a major military operation, by the yemen government, in two provinces of maarib and shabwa. they're looking for two key men. the alleged bombmaker, al asiri, who developed the bomb. and the cleric, anwar al awlaki. the ring leader, the master mind, american-born, american-educated, calling on muslims to attack his country. >> you were the first to report about the dry run. and u.s. offi

that's amazing. >> larry: nicole wallace, by the way, nicole's books "18 acres" is a "new york times" best-seller. what do you make of that, nicole, foreign policy, if we can call it that, never mentioned? >> it's pretty stunning. you look back on the presidential race. i spent a long time trying to forget. you can't really underestimate how little the american public wants to talk about these two wars. and the reason candidates don't talk about them is because they're not popular. it's the same reason that, you know, a lot of tv stations and news programs don't talk about them. the wars are not good for ratings. i mean, people just don't like to talk about what ben just said. there are men and women there, sons and daughters, fighting for their country. fighting and dying. it's stunning. we're at a point in these wars where it's not a point of debate. and where it's barely covered. >> you know, larry -- >> larry: the economy's bad, stephen, but people aren't dying. they're dieing in afghanistan. >> that is true but the reality is this sounds incredibly wrong and i know that and you c

we have john, a screen writer, nicole wallace, a former white house communique tore and director forthe mccain palin campaign campaign. >> i think sit a classic example of tea party rhetoric. there wasn't a single cut he could talk about and using a very old pligs excuse that there are thousands of programs. people have written books on it. the one thing i did applaud him is he said we should put the defense budget on the table. usually that is off limits on the right and that could become a predicate for progress. >> you have heard a couple republicans put defense spepding on the table and there is a lot of interest on the right. i think, you know, it always disappoints me when you hear a voice like this and you paint the whole republican party with his lack of specificity. paul ryan has put together a specific budget. president i worked for for president bush unsuccessfully tried to salvage social security for future generations. the only real way to to call the programs the third rail thachl should become the first rail and the politicians should wrap both of their arms around it.

this former white house communications director author of x-rated brand new book "18 acres," nicole wallacewith us and sandra smith from the fox business network. >> the we get an "r"? >> all right. draw me up off the "new york times" best seller list. >> sean: the first female president whose husband is having an affair with a reporter. >> it's a pg-rated affair. >> sean: okay. you heard that. now that is clintonesque as anything i've heard. i got to tell you. i'm looking at this. i have mean this. people thought the stimulus, tarp and the auto bail-outs were bad, we have a deficit commission. they want to gut the pentagon. raise taxes. and i don't hear, i don't hear anything about economic growth in this. >> that is the biggest problem. there is nothing showing, promoting economic growth, job growth anything that corporations will look at this and say this is going to make things better in the future. yeah, it talks about the tax hikes, spending cuts. most of the spending cuts come from -- >> sean: pentagon! they don't realize there is a war! this is what is infuriating. they don't realiz

we agree, that clip showed, as nicolle wallace says, it's like running against god.he media, we are in love. i have a tingle up my leg having you sit at my table. >> not sure how to take that. >> i'm between you guys. >> really. >> i'm for truth. i'm for honesty. >> part of the film is how obama got elected and palin was targeted. you essentially bought into the obama myth. >> no, i didn't. you didn't read my earlier columns. i was writing about him before anyone new who he was. i have never endorsed a candidate. >> read the column you wrote before the election. you didn't buy into the obama moderation myth. >> i did. >> you were duked by the media. >> i thought this is a guy talking not a red or blue america. >> you were duked. >> i was at the 2004 convention. >> were you duped? >> new york city i wasn't duped. i'm the interviewer here. >> i'm just watching. >> this is fun. i wrote critical things of him and i still write critical things of him. >> you endorsed him before the election. >> i did not endorse. >> you took part in the assassination of sarah palin. >> ac

in a moment, president bush's former communications director nicolle wallace and liberal analyst lesliearshall will talk about both presidents bush and obama. later, glenn beck really going after george soros. the beck meister will be here upcoming. ñ÷ >> bill: continuing now with lead story did president bush harm the republican party and is president obama harming the democratic party right now. with us now former bush director along with the author of the brand new novel 18 akers will the first female president and leslie marshall. leslie, president obama is taking it on the chin in the far east because of the dollar devaluation. we will get to lou dobbs. is he going to handle that in a moment. i don't expect to you handle that when he comes back sunday, it's going to be are you going to raise taxes, mr. president? and this is going to be absolutely hysterical, crazy debate. i want you to make a prediction. is the president going to stand firm on raising taxes for the affluent or will he fold and extend the bush tax cuts? >> i think he is going to stand firm and i think he has been v

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i asked his former communications director, nicole wallace.lot of people, i think even on the left, thought george w. bush might be the adult to do that. because even someone who served through the most politicized times, he was a person who was a sort of voice of reason against islamophobia on the right and the left and the center and he didn't do it. and there isn't anybody else who rose up to do that. do you have any insight as to why he's not? >> look, i think that would have been a great place to hear his voice for the first time since leaving the presidency, and i think we'll get to see -- you know, his book comes out soon and i hope he's asked about that, because he was an incredible voice. >> mr. bush was asked about it on his book tour this morning on the "today" show and he pointedly and with what struck me as a strange tone of anger and dismissiveness in his voice, pointedly declined to step up, declined to step up and be a voice of reason on this issue again, like he had in the past. i found this jaw-dropping. please watch. >> you

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