cynthia tucker. cynthia, i do this to people who are columnists and have an opinion.lary clinton to be the next president? >> i certainly want her to run, chris. >> you want her to run. you're not willing to commit yet. >> i want her to run, yes. >> you won't endorse. >> i'm not willing to say. i don't know what's going to happen in the next four years. >> i just want to know what you think now. >> there could be a little known state legislator out there somewhere who springs forward and makes a brilliant candidate. i doubt it. that's the reason i want hillary to run. >> okay. thank you. you can't commit, can you? can you commit? "the washington post" is made of sterner stuff. >> i'm not going all in. >> you'll get a call from the editor. let me ask you about -- what did you make of her -- i love to do this. it drives people at home crazy who don't like this show to start with. here's hillary, that apparently approved a script for this morning's speech which had her championing the causes for women and great causes for children in the future and wouldn't actually say

sign the cynthia tucker. cynthia, were you taken with that heartwarming message?e can be quite a disciplinarian from what i can tell. fair enough. him sneaking out the back door of the home he's not supposed to visit with a cell phone flashlight. it would seem typical of her, she just happens to walk in just as he's going out and catches him in the act of trespassing. it just seems to me just according to form here with this relationship. your thoughts? you may be taking a side. i'm trying to enjoy the humor of the thing. >> taking a side? hardly. >> i'm enjoying it. let's put it that way. >> what an idiot. his excuse was, he didn't want his 14-year-old son to have to watch the last half of the super bowl by himself. he didn't say, i was worried my son was home alone and i decided to take him to my place. no. apparently, jenny sanford has a bigger big screen tv than he does. >> he couldn't lure him over to his house. >> exactly. >> couldn't lure him over to his place. >> no, no. >> what did you make of this michael? do you want to take for the defense of the husba

joining me now is richard wolffe and cynthia tucker.ou both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks, reverend. >> good to be here, reverend. >> richard, i want to put the jindal graph back up. look at this free fall. it's not a hard concept. do unpopular things and you become unpopular. why can't these governors get that by now? >> i think you got a couple of things going on. governor jindal for a start suffered from being the anointed one too early. maybe he believed some of the good press he was getting and tried to play for the "wall street journal" editorial board or maybe the country club republicans. it's a really striking admission when you have an elected official, a governor of a state, go out and say, when i talk to people about it, they didn't like it. well, you should have been talking to people before you roll out a plan like that. and the bigger problem for these other governors, i think, is that when you're elected in the 2010 era, when you've got a wave of angry voters coming in, you've never had to go statewide. you'v

. >> anyway, michael steele, cynthia tucker, next time i'll bring you in for something serious. we'll be right back after this. >>> let me finish tonight with this. i love this race in south carolina. here was a woman elizabeth coburt busch who took a chance entering a race for congress where democrats like her don't stand a chance. not a chance in the world. she did so knowing she could well face a former governor mark sanford in the race someone who had once represented that same district in congress. well, as the irish say, it's the long road that has no turning. suddenly we've got a new poll showing coburt busch up nine points on sanford, the race no democrat could win is now a race where the democrat could be hard to catch. it makes a point i learned working for speaker tip o'neill. i met a number of numbers who once deemed seats impossible

kevin reilly will be reading, cynthia tucker, pulitzer prize winner. i shared that day with her, will be reading. rosemary micki, will be reading, and jim bentley, jack's former colleague. we also have on display examples of the nelson papers that are now at marble, and i just want to thank all of you, especially our panelists so much. it was just a great event. thank you so much. [applause] >> please keep your seat to let the president carter leave. >> in a few moments, todd andrlik on his book, "reporting the revolutionary war: it was history, it was news." in about an hour and 15 minutes, how editorial cartoons have been used in the health care debate. >> several life events to tell you about today. here on c-span2, a group of foreign policy scholars atlantic council discuss u.s. policy towards iran. on our companion network, c-span, at 11 a.m. eastern, the brookings institution host a discussion on the role of women in the air world and with the u.s. is doing to help advance the status of women and girls in the region. also on c-span at 12:30 p.m.,

cynthia tucker, a pulitzer prize winner. i shared that with her. we will be reading rosemary pooler and jack call lady we also have under display examples of the nelson papers that are now what marble. [applause] >> nevertheless a combination of fiscal pressures and a grid lock moretical process has led to far more abrupt and deeper that we reductions in the plan expected. now that dod is grappling with a serious immediate challenge of q sequester whichue is forcing uso take as much as the take as muc 41 billion-dollar cut on the current fiscal year. they've reduced the spending by ojected $500 billion over the nextto decade to read the sequester cut because it fallsre ne heavily on operations in aecaust modernization is already having a disruptive and potentially damaging impact on the readiness of the force. the department has already made many cuts including cuts to official traveling and facilities maintenance. th we've imposed hiring freezes ano told many important but nonessential activities. however, we will have to do more across-the-board

cynthia. >> new developments to tell you about in the search for two escaped inmates in texas. police looking for a stolen black s.u.v. the 2010 saturn view went missing hours after brian tuckerby slipping through a fence. tucker is waiting trial on a capital murder charge and king is a convicted drug dealer. >> for the first time we're hearing those frantic 911 calls made moments after an mtv reality star was found dead in his truck. listen. >> i have an emergency. i have three dead people. oh my god. >> are they inside the vehicle? >> yeah, all three. [inaudible] >> "buck wild" shane gandee, his uncle and a friend died of carbon dioxide poisoning. the show's producers are reportedly covering the cost of the funeral for the 21-year-old. >> does this portrait of jesus look unconstitutional to you? an ohio school forced to take it down after it was threatened with a federal lawsuit. the superintendent says it came down to money. people now fighting to bring the picture that's been hanging for decades back. >> we're not just looking at a, a portrait. we're looking at our rights as american people. >> a school club considering their own lawsuit to get the portrait back on the wa