you do not have a second shot if you are shooting from alaska. if you are unsuccessful, but you take your second shot from? dollars the administration would see that you can get there faster but you can still get it from alaska. and secondly, the number of interceptors may not be as many as they had planned but the secretary gates says that it is sufficient t. how would you respond that? . a lot of these are but. yes, but, but why would we ever choose less? we have the technology and we have always had an innovative spirit and commitment to our own defense. if we have the capability, we reached for it and we tried to ensure that our freedoms and liberties are protected. in this instance, we have this administration cutting right now missile defense by $1.2 billion while everyone is sitting home knowing that north korea and iran are the biggest threats. all on the second. this is an import less. and secondly, you read the issue of cutting current capability and inventory, and thirdly, eliminating whole systems. iran decides to send an icbm to the

alaska is a small town.n that small town, it is really hurtful in a way sarah pay lain made clear to all of us up here. >> alaska blogger jeane devon who writes for the mudflat, of which i am a great fan, i will admit. >> thanks for having me on the show. >> and now, what's next for president obama's health care option after the committee voted it down today and my friend, ken jones will tell us why you really should not take a cab in chicago if you are feeling nauseous. we'll be right back. ♪ crunch time, wheat thins. you and your tasty whole grain. this can only end one way. (crunch) wheat thins. toasted. whole grain. crunch. have at it. [ birds squawking ]. [ moos ] [ man announcing ] if you think about it, this is what makes theladders different from other job search sites. we only want the big jobs. welcome to theladders. a premium job site for only $100k+ jobs and only $100k+ talent. just because they're inside you doesn't mean they're protected. oh, ladies. let's say you have osteoporosis. i do. you c

joining us now is mark begich of alaska. of the democratic senators who met with the president today, the first democrat that alaskans have sent to congress since 1981. senator begich, it's great to have you back on the show. thanks very much for taking the time. >> thank you very much, rachel. you're not going to beat me up tonight, are you? >> well, it depends on what you say, sir, of course, and i assume it would be mutual. >> it's always a pleasure to come on your show. last time we had a little back-and-forth on mr. bill and how to write a book. i hope you got the book i sent. >> i did get the book. it's awesome. >> a great book. we had the author sign it, too, to boot, so i thought it would be a great future for you there to read that book there. >> now i'm worried you didn't get my thank you note and it's stuck in some anthrax-freeze zone in ohio somewhere. i'll redouble my efforts. >> the amazing part for a second, the mail system in the capitol is outrageous because you never get anything because they sanitize it to

so for this administration to say oh, we have alaska, they just cut it by a third. so if you get rid of europe, if you diminish alaska and say we're just going to do ships, you could have done some of that already. you really have made it more difficult to protect the united states. here's the bottom line, regardless of what system that you like versus what other system someone else likes, the administration by their own website says that there would not be available by 2020 if the pentagon stretches it out and says that the other system would have been 2017, it's still sooner. i believe it was available 2013, 2014. all the intelligence seems to that i ran could have capability by 2015. >> what's the compromise proposal? where does this system have to go as far as you're concerned? what's the next step? >> well, i think the administration needs to reverse its decision because it hasn't even come forward with what are all of the systems that it's intending to piece together for this new plan. and some of them that they have cited don't even exist today. the plan that

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sarah palin quits her job as governor of alaska.ths ago the memoir is completed way ahead of schedule. is that the higher calling she was searching for? >>> and later tom delay's tango gets a bit tangled. christian finnegan weighs in on both topics ahead on "countdown." "what do you mean homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods?" "a few inches of water caused all this?" "but i don't even live near the water." what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you. including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $119 a year. for an agent, call the number on your screen. >>> on may 12th, then-governor sarah palin announced her book deal. 2 1/2 months later she left office. and a few days after that she and her family moved to san diego for a month so that palin could crash the book with her collaborator. so in our number two story on the "countdown," as palin's publisher announces her book will be out months ahead of schedule, there is no doubt about how that happened or exactly where the former governor places her

john: name a state known for getting lots of snow. >> alaska.zzer] john: ok. all righty. ok. time ran out, but that's ok. you have a partner for that. an occasion that women look forward to much more than men do. you said a wedding. all right. survey said... yeah. all right. good. very good. good start. something that's associated with ballet. you said the ballet shoes. survey said... oh! now, that's surprising. that's a good answer. i'm surprised that wasn't said more of. on a scale of 1 to 10, how intelligent are most politicians? you said 50%. [chuckles] survey said... [buzzer] no, no, no, no, no, no. on a scale known for-- excuse me. name a state known for getting lots of snow. you said alaska. survey said... yeah. all right. and finally, name a fruit with lots of seeds. that was the question we never got to. you didn't give an answer, so there are no points, but that's all right. you have a partner for this. we'll clear the board. ok. kim is here. zakiya only got you 32 points, all right, so 168 are going to have to come from you before we

alaska senator mark begich was one of those senators there this afternoon. he'll be with us in a moment. but first life during wartime. friday, german nato troops in afghanistan called in american aircraft to drop bombs on two fuel tankers that had been hijacked. afghan officials say those bombs ended up killing 70 people. that would make the bombing the deadliest incident initiated by the german military since world war ii. the germans initially insisted that all those killed were sushts. the afghans said no, the casualties were civilians. and nato says that it is now investigating the incident. but the day after the bombing, a "new york times" reporter named steven ferrell and his interpreter sultan headed out to the site to interview villagers there, despite being warned that was taliban-controlled territory, that the villagers were angry about the bombing and that it wasn't really safe at all to travel there. sure enough, scarily enough, ferrell and sultan were both kidnapped by the taliban at the site of the bombing. here's where it changes from a war m

. >> alaska. john: alaska. show me alaska. no, not there. charisse. >> the caribbean.he caribbean. show me the caribbean. you got it! you got it! oh! [cheers] john: oh. oh, it was a good answer. >> it was nice meeting you. john: you, as well. chad, thank you. good answer. good answer. thank you, matt. all right, "fast money." kim and zakiya are back. yeah, come on around. where are you? hug me now. >> oh! john: all right. $17,000 is in their bank account. they get another shot at "fast money." they've won it before. let's see if they can do it a second time. ["family feud" theme plays] announcer: we're looking for fun families to be on "family feud" and possibly win $30,000 and a brand-new car. if you and your family live in, or are planning to visit los angeles, call this number. you think bleach gets your toilet perfectly clean. fact. bleach doesn't get rid of stains, it just whitens them. with this stain-revealing dye you can see the stains bleach leaves behind. lysol power toilet bowl cleaner removes stains better than bleach while killing 99.9% of germs. to give y

our number one story, sarah palin gives her first paid speech since quitting on alaska.ed for the press, naturally. the ex-governor venturing into international territory, speaking to a room full of investors and bankers at the annual clsa conference in hong kong for money. big money. >> i'm going to call it like i see it, and i will share with you candidly, a view coming from main street. main street, usa. >> ms. palin covering a wide range of topics from cap and trade to terrorism and afghanistan. "the wall street journal" reports ms. palin never referred to president obama by name, but called his campaign promises nebulous, utopian sounding. now ten months later, though, a lot of americans are asking, more government, is that the change we want? mrs. palin also explained to the bankers the cause of the financial crisis. i hope they were taking notes. quote, we got into this mess because of government interference in the first place, end quote. the federal reserve was the root of the collapse. she added, the words "fox" and "henhouse" come to mind. the international ba

>> never. >> what do you know about alaska?'s very cold. >> uncle frank, do you know anytng about a alaska? >>>> same thing. always cold. tomorrrrow night, christian slater, ed o'neill, sofia vergara and music from colombian superstar shakira. [ cheers and applause ] though you would never know it from looking at myody, i lov food. enenjoy more than eating. i so when rachchael ray recently invited me to be a part of n show she's putting together, i said, yeah, whatever. [ laughter ] >> hey, everybody, i'machael ray and this is my very special guest today, jimmy kimmel. >> hi, everyone. i'i'm jimmy. >> so jimmy oioly likes to eat a lot of good food, right?t >> yeah. >> i i thought it would be fun today if becould d make -- if w could ma a m meal together that exemplifified not ononly g grea nutrition and great meal, and how to cook on a budget. does that sound good? >> yeah. >>>> what is your all-time favorite meal? >> woulday pizza. >> okay. >> with ribs and fried chicken on it. and ice cream and salad dressing. maybybe some co

nearly a third of the capability in alaska is -- that was slated to be in alaska is going away.so for them to say to you we can rely on alaska when they're diminishing its capability by a third -- the joint chiefs are saying we have a capability that could respond. we're expanding alaska's capabilities and we were placing this capability in europe. so we have three shots, full, plus we have the technology and innovation as it's progressing. this is 2013. and they've taken alaska, diminished it by a third, they've taken alaska off the table until 2020 and they say we have what's left. and that's not efficient. >> this is a technical subject. as i read their release, they said they have the nuclear material possibly to make the bomb not that they've maffered the weaponization. our own c.i.a. said iran got out of that since 2003, unless i've missed some intelligence. >> i have the ap news break, nuke agency says iran can make bomb. not that this material -- experts at the top atomic start are in agreement that tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to devel

people in alaska, who do they believe in all of this?evi johnston's version of sarah palin as being lazy and not interested in essentially raising her family, or do they believe palin, as she fights back as we expect her to do so in this book? >> i don't know that they believe either one of them. i think they believe their own eyes and their own ears and they have watched sarah palin and they saw her stand up and say that she was going to quit for the good of alaskans and the next thing you know she's being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for a speech and making millions off of a book deal. so i think alaskans don't really need levi johnston so tell them what to believe. they just can see what she's doing themselves. >> shannyn moore, talk radio host and contributor to huffington post. shannen, great thanks as always. we appreciate it. >> thanks, david. >>> from "going rogue" to gone dancing. tom delay also dropped his partner last night. will he get dropped from the show? comedian christian finnegan up next on "countdown." hey tha

most likely in alaska. you know that ticket will be expensive, too. >> it is getting cheaper because winter is coming soon to alaska. i don't know -- >> in she waits until december she can get a really good deal. >> january-february time frames, that's when it is cheap flights to alaska. >> but right here, beautiful. >> nice day we have on tap. anything you want do outside. sitting around and relaxing, taking in the saturday sunshine we have on the way. it will be a beautiful outdoor weather weekend. make your plans without fear or hesitation from me this afternoon. going outside this morning. our predawn sky. we have a very clear start to our saturday morning out there. temperatures are a little on the cool side. nice salmon, alaska salmon color to our sky this morning. a little bit of blue as well. 65 is our downtown temperature. dew point temperature is 56 degrees. any time that number is below 60, it will be a very comfortable humidity day. light northeasterly breeze this morning. so far september has b

on the side of the alaska, cato has been one of the most important institutions devoted to depending and promoting individual liberty, limited government and free markets. i learned a lot from qaeda. when communism collapsed and we were finally free to travel to the western world, we found many friends here. i remember my first meeting and many of their collaborators not long after the revolution. as i mentioned, i was pleased that kato published a book, the rebirth of liberty more than 10 years ago as a side remark, i saw that the book is sold their. it is irrelevant. i discovered that it sold elsewhere. it really demonstrates that. it is good to know. it may be surprising for some of you, but the fall of communism remains to be a rather controversial topic, at least in our part of the world. there are several competing interpretations. both the fall of communism and of the following radical restructuring of our society. we have to live with the fact that there does not exist, any generally accepted theory on the subject. another point is that i am personally not happy with many of

. >>> unemployed and for now lacking a talk show, the ex-governor of alaska repeats her death panel lier chuck grassley blames her on the whole pull the plug on grandma hiss steeria. the number one story, death panel reducts starring sarah palin, plus live bidding. later this afternoon, sarah palin commenting on her comments on death panels, testifying on the chairman and palin posting this on facebook. a great deal of attention was given to my use of death panel, in discussing such ration iing. despite many teams by many in the media to dismiss the phrase as a myth. the fact is that any group of government bureaucrats that makes decisions affecting life or death is essentially a death panelty. roger that. meanwhile, chuck grassley said don't blame him for the whole pull the plug on grandma panic. blame her. >> well, there's another political leader higher up in the hierarchy that used that than i did. and then "the washington post" or some newspaper said something later on about sarah palin. well, sarah palin said that presumably before i said it about the death boards, but i never use

. >> well, an alabama woman has won the chance to dine with the former alaska governor with heroining seem like a hefty amount, for a good cause, stale healthy amount, actually. the proceeds will go to charity, a charity called ride to recovery, which helps wounded veterans in cycling programs. maples owns a defense cracking company. she is on the phone with us now, skype, actually, from huntsville, alabama. okay, ms. maples, the $63,500 question, why did you enter this and what are you going to talk to sarah palin about? >> well, one reason i entered it is because of what you just spoke of, the tried recovery program, and i had a brother that spent 20-plus years in the service and i would like to help these guys that have tried to fight for our freedom. and sometimes i think i would like her political views on things and then at other times, i think just leave politics out of it have a good dinner, a good conversation, because i already know her views, so i know what kind of lady she is. and the morals that she has. so i know what she really stands against anyway, just as a.c.o.r.n.

vandergaw has been living with bears at his alaskan wilderness outpost. >> no the state of alaska isaking him to court, accusing him of illegally baiting bears. "primetime" got a close-up look. >> that's charlie vandergaw, who invited to us to this place he rightly calls bear haven. who is this? has he come here before? >> oh, yeah. they come as cubs and they come back every year. >> reporter: look at this. oh, my god. they're everywhere. now what's this one doing? >> she's just coming to see us. >> reporter: coming over to say hello. >> the older sow is jealous, doesn't want anyone else around me. >> reporter: no matter where you look there are bears, bears on the grass, bears on the deck, bears relaxing, bears fighting. and at the center of it all is charlie, shepherd to a strange but make no mistake about it wild fck. do you still fear them? >> no, i respect them. >> reporter: for many years charlie taught high school science in anchorage but his retirement began here and gradually the hunter hung up his gun. would you today ever pick up a bow or a gun? >> no. i couldn't kill a po

it's the story of an merge college student who went to alaska.live off the land and died alone in the wilderness. >> now, nick watt tells us the story of a man who tried to recapture the feeling, while in the wilds of canada. >> my name is ed bordell. i spent the summer, trying to survive completely alone, in the far north of canada. far from anyone or any place. it was a boyhood dream for me. >> reporter: the plan, three months, totally alone in the yukon wilderness. home to 17,000 bears. eating what he can kill. >> now, that is my dinner tonight. >> reporter: living off the land. ed wardell filmed himself. >> look at this. >> reporter: for a national geographic show called "alone in the wild." >> did you see that? that's brilliant. >> reporter: finding food was tough. by law, he wasn't allowed to hunt moose or even ducks. >> beautiful. i've never seen one before. >> reporter: filming was tough. for the camera, wardell was forced to confront his pair, pain and longings. in every day, he was wested to the limit. he lost 28 pounds. slowly starving

alaska? with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. >> but at the end of the day, we can have the most supportive parents and the best schools and the world, but none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter, unless all of you filled your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults, and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. greta: ok, here is a showstopper. there is hypocrisy in washington, and, yes, it goes both ways. controversy concerning the speech that president obama gave to schools, many republicans were outraged, and the democrats, and they were outraged that the republicans were outraged, but here is the rub. president bush 41 gave a speech in 1991. >> at least nine out of every 10 students should graduate from high school. we should be first in the world. in math and science. we need to regularly test the abilities of students. every am

>>> the ex-governor of alaska has more stuff to say about other countries., on this day in 2008, an exercise in foreign policy turned televised disaster. frost-nixon had nothing on palin. >> alaska has a maritime border between the country and russia. the other side the land boundary we have in canada. and, you know, i don't know. >> what has sarah palin learned from a year? ms. palin perhaps getting the foreign policy thing. in her facebook note on the jewish holiday. writers took the opportunity to weigh in on ahmadinejad's address to the u.n. a speech was gyp at the general assembly full of hateful anti-semitic rhetoric. the world community must speak with one voice declaring ant anti-semiti anti-semitism. words we can all for once agree with from sarah palin. joining me is huffington post contributor shannon moore. this may be sarah palin delivering a straight, poiler plate anunciation of all things iran iran. >> it does. i wish she would maybe speak to some of her supporters who felt free to put the hitler mustache on obama's picture. she is out there t

i guess that's alaska. >> that is it. it comes and goes, and...now, kind of works in our favor too. sometimes you get up there and you find goats and you're going after them and you're trying to figure out how to stalk, and magically a fog bank just kind of drifts through, and it hides you. and it's, like, "well, let's cover this ground," and you get over to the next ridge where you're out of sight. so it can work in your favor. >> narrator: when thompson/center's pro hunter journal continues, gregg ritz challenges the tough weather conditions found in the mountains of the alaska wilderness. >> announcer: t/c's pro hunter journal is brought to you by under armour: performance hunting apparel. by: and by: >> when you have a hunt booked in the mountains, whether it's elk, mule deer, moose, sheep, whatever, and you have this mental picture of everything, it'll always be just a little bit different than you've pictured it when you get there, and normally better. >> i don't think there's any more beautiful setting than hunting in the mountains, being a

. >>> and we'll take you to a remote corner of alaska. one of the nation's most unique national parks. home to one of the largest brown bear populations in the world. an amazing piece coming up. >> we have some amazing pictures of these creatures. >>> we begin with the latest two men in colorado and one in new york. arrested overnight, on charges of an alleged terror plot. investigators have new details about how a potential attack may have unfolded and our chief investigative correspondent brian ross joins us with the latest. you were reporting all week about this 24-year-old, a shuttle bus driver outside of denver. he was talking to fbi. now it appears he was lying to the fbi. >> that's exactly right, bill. >> zazi had maintained initially, he had nothing to do with al qaeda. over the course of three days of interrogation the fbi essentially broke him, he admitted that he had gone to pakistan twice for training at an al qaeda camp, learned how to make's explosives. >> they found that laptop computer on september 11th, of this year, and

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we have capability in alaska. that will be our backup plan. we can use our missiles in alaska to protect the united states from iran. the problem with that is that this administration through this house just this year caught alaska's missile defense capability -- cut alaska's missile defense capabilities by a third. we would have had ourure peaian capability and alaskan capability perhaps for multiple shots that could have occurred in order to protect this country from iran's quest for an icbm with it now said by the i.e.a. to have nuclear capability. instead this administration says we are taking europe off the table, rely on what we have, and take our last ability and cut it by a third. . it puts our country at risk. the administration should proceed with supporting our allies in nato, supporting the czech republic and poland who have been there for us and put this system in place protecting the united states. now, the president said that the system that he is doing is more cost-effective. there is a report -- i have an unclassified version

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. >>> former vice presidential candidate and former half term governor of alaska sarah palin delivered long lecture in hong kong in which she said that the financial crisis could have been avoided if only wall street had had fewer rules. but they had only been able to cut loose a little bit more, let wall street be wall street. nobel prize winning economist paul krugman joins us with his views, i suspect they may be different. >>> but up next, health reform and what is stopping it. laths night we led reports about congressman mike ross of arkansas, the leading blue dog conservative democrat in the house against public option and other health care reform. congressman roth gss got what ld like a way too sweet deal when he shared profits with a drugstore chain. congressman ross still has not responded to our requests to appear on this show, which are absolutely sincere. but we did release statements today attacking propublica telling the arkansas democrat gas set today about the drugstore chain with whom he did he property deal. he said, quote, they're not into politics, they're into runn

extraordinary public service, the rangers who helped us from the gates of the arctic in northern alaskato the dry tortugas off the florida keys, from hawaii volcanoes, to acadia in maine. they have been tremendous servants and i would like to thank them. we have been celebrating over the last several days our public lands. there has been an enormous outpouring of support, all across the country in more than 200 of the 391 sites of the national park service. citizens have been turning out and by the hundreds and by the thousands, to celebrate not just the initiation of this film, but our love of these public lands, these treasured landscapes, as the secretary of the interior, who has been a great champion of this project would say. it has been an amazing outpouring in a country that is often so distracted by the now that there are so many millions of citizens million -- willing to commit to these public lands in such a meaningful way. we, in turn, try to express some sort of thanks to the national park service for their service to us. we are turning over to them, as of today, all of our

i want to go to john in alaska. john. >> caller: what's up? boo-yah, jim cramer, from alaska. what's up, buddy? >> i don't know, man. it's the land of the sometime sun here. what have you got? >> caller: we've got snow all over the mountains here, bro. >> fantastic. >> caller: tell me about esk. >> i think the yield's safe. i would love to see the ceo on. 10% safe. but i think -- alaska communications has been a stock i've liked for many years. i'm not backing away from it. i want to take one more. i want to go to tim in california. tim. >> caller: cramer. sunny san diego boo-yah. >> i got rivers. he didn't help me in the fantasy league. i'm kind of predisposed against you. but go ahead. >> caller: tell me about citigroup, symbol t. >> now i'm liking you because as much as i don't like my fantasy football team i do like the team running citigroup. and that stock has withstood a tremendous amount of selling from a 9% shareholder. and the stock took a licking, like time ex, and kept on ticking. i think citi, the book value's 5.60. i think it raids 9trades 90% ba value. i believe

she has left alaska perhaps just in time, in that sense. but i think now she has it made.oesn't have any responsibility to govern. that's why i think she may not actually ever run for president, because so long as she is not a cannibal to voters or for her views, she can say absolutely anything. and she can lead her charge among conservatives who love to listen to her all the more, because she is avoiding scrutiny. >> and she gets to keep the clothes this time. craig crawford of cqpolitics.com. thank you, craig. >> and great to almost follow michael moore. >> between michael moore and ken burns. how about that? >> it's a privilege. >> that's "countdown" since the previous president declared mission in iraq. stay classy, "countdown" land, and now how a.c.o.r.n. started world war i and other news coverage about the organization that's only slightly less bizarrely inaccurate. here is rachel maddow. >> good evening. and thank you tore staying with us the next hour. we are still trying to determine the truth about the hanging deaths of census bureau worker bill sparkman. we wil

governor palin was a remarkable leader for alaska. she's a friend. don't view her as a competitor for anything, i view her as a teammate. >> you don't view her as a competitor for anything? >> i view her as a friend. she's been a remarkable leader under difficult circumstances in alaska. i don't know what the future holds for her but senator mccain made a choice out of the box, he's sometimes an out of the box leader. sometimes you need that. >> do you think he made a mistake? >> no, i don't think he made a mistake. >> thank you for joining us. republicans note the governor is not seeking election, heading out. >> before we finish, i want to show you this bacon-flavored lip balm. even after the bacon is eaten the flavor endures. as you talk about pork in washington action d.c., you can get lasting flavor. available at the minnesota state fair, that's right. >> governor tim pawlenty, thank you very much. >>> much of the nation is back to school and the rest to follow in the week ahead. parents coast to coast are asking the same question, are my childr

alaska radio host, huffington post contributor shannyn moore in alaska. great thanks, shannyn. >> always a pleasure, keith. >>> now to emphasize a point we noted last week in all of the hysteria over white house czars, the right is forgetting it invented the white house czar. incidentally to celebrate her first anniversary on the air, thanks for the shirt, ladies and gentlemen, here's rachel maddow. good evening, my friend. congratulations. >> thank you very much, keith. that looks very, very, very nice on you. you know how hard i had to fight to make sure it wasn't going to be yankee pinstripes? >> who wanted yankee pinstripes as oppose to the gaudy alternative red sox uniform color that you happen to boy coincidence to pick out? >> see, i just said i want something that looks commey. >> notice i'm wearing it and you're not. once again, that's the story of my life right there. all right. have a good show. >> thank you very much, keith. >>> and thank you at home for staying with us for the last year and for the next hour, we hope. we enthusiastically begi

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i'm going to alaska. i'm going all over the place. >> jimmy: alaska? >> yeah, i know.actually really excited to go. i like cold weather. >> jimmy: you do? >> yeah, but it's fun. we putting together, like, a street team for it, too. so, we've sort of been having -- >> jimmy: like a dance crew? [ laughter ] >> yes, precisely. if you dance my favorite moves, i will come to your city. >> jimmy: now what is a street team? >> it's something we're doing on my website. so, if people want me to come to their town to read, if they get enough people or enough hits or enough requests to have me come there, i'll come there. >> jimmy: that's really fun. >> yeah, go to my myspace page or any of the things that are there. >> jimmy: i like this picture, by the way, on the book as well. >> yeah, that's actually a single portrait. a lot of people think it is photoshopped, but my friend, matt wignall, he's a photographer for the cold war kids, took that picture. we just had this idea to put up wallpaper and do half makeup. >> jimmy: it's almost like you're moving your face. can you move y

people are nice and alaska. it is a different vibe in alaska.ng to make fun of your hair and your glasses and make all of these outrageous accusations. >> i never want to second-guess anyone's staff. i am sure they were all good people. they make decisions about which interviews to take and how well prepared they are. that is an area where she needs to work hard. laura: of all of the people speaking as republican leaders, there is mitt romney and others. sarah palin is still the one bet -- still the one that gets noticed. people can go to town halls and they still get attention. people are still curious about sarah palin. she knows politics. a lot of these other guys are good on the substance, but not so good on the one on one. >> she has raw political talent and skill. she will hone that. she is like hillary clinton. she is toxic. she has people who adore her and people who go to her rallies that cannot stand her. >> they just want to be with the thousands of people who love her? >> they cannot get enough of her. laura: i think i remember it wa

i have been three times and i love alaska. would lobby for that. >> take my grandchildren. gretchen: do it in the summer time and take a cruise, too. thanks for being our guest this morning. >> you are welcome. steve: i wonder if you have to leave a tip on 63,000. gretchen: 10% would be pretty hefty. 15%, 20%. steve: president obama and foreign policy, our next guest, former ambassador to the u.n. giving the president a grade of, quote, absent. john bolton after the break. gretchen: field trips for convicted killers? a murderer escapes last week during one of those. are these field trips really a good idea? a fair and balanced debate in just 15 minutes. gretchen: president obama getting ready to deliver first speech to the u.n. general assembly that will happen on wednesday. so with leaders from iran and libya there, what does his message need to be? brian: with us right now to talk about that, a man who has done this before. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and fox news contributor. no longer doing that but he is with us. ambassad

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. >> larry: you would visit levi in alaska?alaska? >> i may leave show business and go kick it in wasilla. he calls it ahuntin'. >> yeah, i'm going to go -- i changed, larry. take a look. the beautiful hollywood glamour puss is leaving and relocating to wasilla to be mrs. johnston. >> we led this as the tease. do you want to be on the d-list? >> yes, i'm firmly planted here and enjoy it. >> larry: who's on the c list? >> i don't know. maybe like a tv sidekick, somebody like that. like the a-list is big movie stars. then the b-list is maybe tv stars. and then the c-list is the sort of sidekick world. and then you have me and the car dashians. >> that's where you include yourself? >> yeah, it's pitiful. i'm not proud. but i'm home. >> larry: all right. good book. you're on a book tour? >> yes. i did a signing which is exciting. and i'm going to do one in chicago and los angeles. and i'm on a comedy tour all the time. >> larry: you are excited about having a book? >> i'm excited. >> larry: you're in the library of congress. >> wha

an alabama woman paid more than $63,000 to have dinner with the former alaska governor. th woman had the winning bid on ebay. the proceeds go to a veterans group. sarah palin can back out. that's got to make a person feel good. >> what if you cough up $60,000 and she says no. >> no. hopefully this turns out. today, i search for a cloud and couldn't find one. >> i found two. but i'm a trained weather observer. a beautiful day. whether you found one cloud or two, i did not hear any single weather related complaints with the way saturday afternoon went. tomorrow every bit as nice, maybe a tick or two warmer. a beautiful, mostly sunny day on the way. the skies are clear with a fairly light breeze, dry air in place we are going to see our temperatures drop very, very quickly in the overnight hours. after a beautiful day where a high temperature made it to 77, we dropped to 63 this morning. with a clear sky and calm wind our temperature stands at 64 in washington. a lot of our western suburbs dropping back down into the 50s. take a check of it on the map. fairfax county down t

the former first couple of alaska is going on the auction block. ok, do not look at me that way.is for charity. it is nothing we year. you could be having dinner with the former governor of alaska and the former first dude todd palin. bidding starts on ebay at $25,000. the auction runs for 10 days. it is all for a good cause. the money will go to ride 2 recovery, that offers bike rides for soldiers. and a 350-pound man and his wife were about to board a southwest plane when the man was told he was too obese. he was attempting to fly from las vegas to illinois when southwest grounded in. oddly, the man was allowed to fly on one of their flights just days before. they say the man should never have been allowed to fly. the airline offered the couple a refund for their unused tickets. finally, if you do not believe and the power of oprah winfrey, pay attention. thousands gathered in the streets in chicago for the public kickoff to her 24th season. fans gathered in the streets before oprah's arrived and tied to an episode -- taped an episode of varsho. it took four full blocks. -- fan

largest reported earthquake to hit the united states was a 9.2 that struck prince william sound in alaska on good friday, march 28, 1964. the largest recorded earthquake in the world was a magnitude 9.5ing lead -- 9.5 in cheetah -- chile. early reporting is what it is, and it may have been that long. if it was, that was an unbelievable experience, but we will wait for the officials to let us know exactly how long that thing rolled down the way. there are police out in the ocean that detect these things, but getting them from there to hear and to you takes more than a matter of seconds -- there are buoys. in the newsroom, anything new from your vantage point? >> information on some of the hole in his paper web sites, which says that the people in hawaii are being told by the state's civil spokesperson that they should check their emergency supplies and be on alert for a siren warning. clearly, there is a very real concern that this tsunami could be headed to hawaii, and as i said, there is already an activation of the national crisis emergency center down in new zealand, so everybody who c

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