scooter testified that he told me about valerie plame. he was put on on trial because he claimed he didn't talk about valerie plame with other people. however, in my case, he testified he did tell me about valerie plame. >> you say he didn't? >> write. >> go back to off the record versus on background. >> yes, for most people that is confusing. >> explain what it is and why would scooter libby be confused about those two or would he? >> well, yeah, scooter told me after my testimony what he said off the record he meant off the record. >> so what is the difference between off the record and -- >> well, to explain, on the record means you know i could quote you. brian lamb said such and such. on background means i could say, an executive at c-span told me such and such. then there is a phrase "deep background," which i wouldn't be any quotation marks there. officials at c-span say such and such. off the record would mean i couldn't write a thing, i might know what is going on at c-span, but i couldn't use any of that information. so i think

i would like to remind the people about the weapons of mass destruction, the outing of valerie plame. this took place under the republican watch. they have not taken responsibility for their leadership to bust her. i have not heard any of the republican candidates say anything different except a continuation of the bush politics. in the one debate that they had, they had all the ves sittingtism sittin there and they were waiting. they talked about the foolish wars. they were hoping that mitt romney or rick santorum, one of those people would get into what was so they can go back to business as usual. host: give us a sense of were the republican candidate's stand compared to george w. bush. guest: many of the candidates would extend the bush tax cuts, for one thing. that is central to bush's tax plan at home. it is logical that the debate between obama and the republicans would center around those tax rates that were set under bush because that is where we started before the recession. it is interesting. the caller is right. or stand now is very much shaped by the bush -- where we stan