alaskans are much more like that. they're much more a hands off when it comes to social issues than conservatives in the lower 48. >> there have got to be a couple more questions. >> will you send her a copy of the book tinactin you think she will be the? >> we don't really know where she lives. >> we could definitely drive to her house, but did have a street address. the answer from the people was e-mail. we didn't want to e-mail. i know it is in bookstores. >> it is available. the price of 27.95. 26.95. cheaper on amazon. i hope she reads it. i don't know if she will. .. >> i think maybe she's starting to a little bit. we've seen in the health care debate she has immersed herself in that. >> it's unclear. >> right. that's true. but no you can tell that she is sort of maybe starting to recognize she needs to be perceived differently when it comes to policy. you notice if you sort of study her facebook pages of course every politician has someone their rights for them so this is not unique to her but let's say it's cl

the alaskan people. she said that's not fair. they tell us more money. she was able to get incredible revenues for the state. when she resigned a local alaskan liberal, that is incredible. >> kind of following up on that a little bit. what is her strategy at this point? people think she is is not. you know, is there anything behind that? >> i think it is clear that she thinks she does not have to do anything conventionally. she sees herself as an unconventional politician. so if she decides to run for president it's not going to be a convention of campaign. i think that's pretty clear. just playing it by year. i'm not sure she has a grand strategy thought up at this point. we do ping she is going to be interested in running for president. the way that i have seen that is the case to make immediately after the election she went back up to alaska and did this media blitz. several of the reporters that went up their astor. you know, if there are any open doors i will crash right through them. they go on of the rate to be coy. she was not. she was very frank

i think in the case of "the new york times" actually ran the alaskan independence party and if on the front pages. all of the main newspapers, if you go to the museum website and see the cover stories for december 2nd, 2008 of the pages, the front page were filled with news of sarah palin's oldest daughter's pregnancy. this to me does not strike me as a front page news or certainly not something to be fronted without any consideration of the effect it has on the family, the effect it has on the girl or the effect it will have on the child as he grows older. >> host: what about the blogosphere? >> guest: the blogosphere is pretty vitriolic. i mentioned the rumor about maternity of her youngest son. that emanated on the far left websites. and this pretty soon from the course and referred to in many establishment newspapers as well all of these things kind come to fruition. we have to be skeptical of them, and it is because of the new media so much as on mediated. we have to kind of take a step back and say what is going on here? is this true, is a lot and in the case of sarah palin so m

"the new york times brandy issue of the alaskan independence party on its front pages. if you go to the museum -- newseum and look at the front pages of the nation's newspapers in 2008, it was filled with the pregnancy of her eldest daughter. this does not strike me as front-page news, certainly not something to be fronted without any consideration of the fact that it has on the family, the girl, or that it has on the child as he grows older. host: what about the web? guest: [laughter] the blogosphere is pretty vitriolic. the maternity of three youngest son was kicked around on many leftist web sites. it was referred to by many established newspapers. all of these things kind of come to fruition, and we have to be skeptical of them. because of the new media, so much is on mediated. we have to take a step back. in the case of sarah palin, so much of this was not true. host: as we look at the role of the media in these elections, what do you see as the future? guest: based on the reaction to her book, i think that she will continue to get negative press. but i think that

about the bridge to nowhere which word really shaky let's just say and alaskans knew that better than all of us and they couldn't believe when she was going up there making these boasts about the bridge to nowhere when they remembered her a couple years before being a strong advocate and not giving back the federal money granted the state. so that's another thing that goes both ways. >> but they were stunned by the amount of media coverage that was on their state and we were up there they were still reeling from it. when we first got there there were people that were not as accessible because we stayed so long everybody started to open up, but there was at first some resistance and they wanted to get to know us to see what kind of people we work which is also the local alaskan they wanted to make sure this wasn't some hit job. >> thank you for coming. we really appreciate it. [applause] >> scott conroy is a digital journalist for cbs news, who now lives in chicago. shushannah walshe a reporter and producer for fox news channel from 2001 through the election of 2008. for more informati

personal private view, and you can have your own view -- >> right, and that is what she did because alaskans are much more like that and hands off when it comes to social issues than conservatives in the lower 48. >> there's got to be a couple more questions. yeah. >> did you send her a copy of the book, and do you think she'll read it? >> we don't really know where she lives. [laughter] >> we did want to send her one, but we can't send one to the governor's office, and we could definitely drive you to her house, but we didn't have a street address, and the answer from other people was, you know, e-mail meg for it, and we didn't want to e-mail meg for it. so i know it's in bookstores in alaska. >> governor palin, it's available in bookstores nationwide, low price of $27.95 -- >> $26.95. cheaper on amazon. [laughter] i really hope she reads it, but i don't know if she will. >> i really do hope she reads it, and i hope she thinks that we were fair to her. >> i think that aides she's still close with will tell her about it. >> okay. >> oh, sure. >> one more question? okay, last one. >> if she d

. >>> remember the infamous interview between katie couric and former alaskan government sarah palin.ught it went well. now sarah palin is telling oprah winfrey how she thinks she did. >>> we may know next week what president obama plans to do in afghanistan. defense secretary robert gates confirms the president is not adopting any of the options presented to him so far the president will be spending the next week in asia. he may announce the decision on afghanistan when he returns. gates says the president wants to combine make of the best features of several of the options presented to him. afghanistan commander general stanley mcchrystal is asking for 40,000 additional combat troops. gates says the president is looking for the best way to signal resolve and make it clear to the afghan government the u.s. commitment is not open ended. the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, though, retired general carl ikenberry is expressing reservations about any increase in troop levels. he sent cables to washington casting doubts on the ability to join. >>> so we've been asking how do you define win

. >>> former alaskan book "going rogue" is going public today.d on abc's "good morning america" she told barbara walters a run for president isn't on her radar but she didn't roupt make ug the race in 2012. she talked about mccain's problems in his staff. cnn confirmed the fact that mccain camp was told not to make comments about sarah palin's comments on her memoir. and mike galanos has more coming up right here on hln. >>> really sad new developments in the shaniya davis investigation. the body is positively i.d.'d as that of the little girl. we also received word that shaniya's mother is pregnant again. our jane velez-mitchell weighs in on this. y8 >>> the devastated father of 5-year-old shaniya davis said a little while ago the little girl he called his special afrpg sl in a better place. the body was recovered today, 25 miles from a country road in north carolina. when he spoke a short time ago, bradley lockhart was clearly distraught, as wa shaniya's aunt. >> our beliefs and hopes and prayer that's this community, this co

to say that he maintained an active alaskan output had been an understatement. -- active lifestyle would have been understatement one fateful day after returning from a business trip, he simply forgot where he parked his car. upon sharing the story with his friends, we all had an amusing laugh at his expense and naively talk it up to a simple happenstance. he himself would say, george, i guess i got hit too many times in the head. this incident happened only two short years ago. within the span of 24 months, this once vibrant hyperactive individual has been reduced to a mill share up -- mere shell of his former self, confined to house arrest, and since further and further away from a dynamic personality that we always knew him to be. the shame, the embarrassment, the degradation are but the tip of the iceberg that he and his family had endured each and every passing day. this unfortunate scenario brings an unfortunate refrain among many nfl alumni. if my presence here today and a very public the trail of this deeply confidential situation of my former teammates results in eliminating thi

by and about sarah palin, including a book signing with the former vice-presidential candidate and alaskanovernor. matthew continueinetti on the persecution of sarah palin. and scott con roy on sarah from ak average steven gillon follows the transfer of power following the kennedy assassination. a u.s. financial crisis on "after words." naomi prince on "it takes a pillage." she's interviewed by bernie sanders. find entire schedule on booktv.org. >> monday, the wireless spectrum and improving broad band service in the u.s. julius genachowi ask maps out his goals for the agency on "the communicators" on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome tom udal. guest: thank you. good to be here. host: the only senator not to vote was the senator of ohio. is there anything in this health care bill that you don't like? guest zpwest well, there are two things that i have real concerns about. i guess you can phrase it you don't like. one would be i represent a state that's 10% native american. when you talk about health care reform, there needs to be major reform in in indian c

to say that he maintained an active alaskan output had been an understatement. -- active lifestyle would have been understatement one fateful day after returning from a business trip, he simply forgot where he parked his car. upon sharing the story with his friends, we all had an amusing laugh at his expense and naively talk it up to a simple happenstance. he himself would say, george, i guess i got hit too many times in the head. this incident happened only two short years ago. within the span of 24 months, this once vibrant hyperactive individual has been reduced to a mill share up -- mere shell of his former self, confined to house arrest, and since further and further away from a dynamic personality that we always knew him to be. the shame, the embarrassment, the degradation are but the tip of the iceberg that he and his family had endured each and every passing day. this unfortunate scenario brings an unfortunate refrain among many nfl alumni. if my presence here today and a very public the trail of this deeply confidential situation of my former teammates results in eliminating thi

by and about sarah palin, including a book signing with the former vice presidential indicate and alaskan governor. a become on the persecution of sarah plip, and scott conroy on sarah from alaska. steven follows the transfer of power. and the u.s. financial crisis on after words. the former managing director of goldman sachs on it takes a pillagoe. find the entire schedule on line at book tv.org, including our four-day, holiday tv weekend, starting thanksgiving morning. >> president obama hosts his statistic state dinner next week for the prime minister of india. the indian ambassador to the u.s. spoke wednesday at the peterman institution for economics. this is about an hour. >> as i am sure all of you know, dr. sync -- sink is not only one of the great economic reformers in history, but a world leader in thinking about economics, economic policy and cooperation between india and the rest of the world. he happens to be a close personal friend of mine. i have had lunch in his home, dinner in his home in delhi. it is also a great source of pride for us communists to see the occasion in wh

how alaskans took the national media coverage of sarah palin? i mean, there was yet kind of a grand opening, and then got a rough ride, and did alass cans feel like she was treated fairly by the national media. >> it sort of goes two ways, again i think because, in some respects she's a home town girl and justifiably froud proproud d the most famous alaskan whoever lived and the first rally in fairbanks i remember interviewing someone there and he said i thought of myself as an alaskan and not even necessarily an american, really, because it is so far away and i thought that was interesting and now i feel like for the first time i'm part of the country and they're proud of her in that respect and there were also instances such as her claims about the bridge to nowhere which were really shaky, let's say and the alaskans knew that better than all of us and couldn't believe what she was going up there and making these boasts about the bridge to nowhere when they remembered her being a strong advocate for it and not giving back the federal money gra