ari fleischer got out there and dumped this information on him and judy miller got it from scooter libby. so, there is definitely a white house effort to use this information for whatever. >> to destroy joe wilson's wife. ambassador wilson, your view watching the film and putting it together, what's the historic importance of this? a boy or girl in high school trying to understand how we got to war with iraq, a country that never attacked us, which was basically comprised of thugs from saudi arabia, some sharpies from around the world, nobody from iraq, how do you explain we went to war with iraq? >> i think you've asked two questions. one is about the film, which i think is a timeless story of power, the abuse of power and how one stand up to limit power and it goes back to the time of the constitution when power and what to do with it was the central question and led to separation of powers, led to coequal branches of government and the enshrining of the first amendment. with respect to iraq, it's very clear, that they were absolutely committed to overthrowing saddam hussein and any pi

>> i wish president obama were as plain spoken about this as ari fleischer. promise never to praise fleischer, but right now it's linked to the defense authorization bill which is a budget matter. you can decouple that, but i still don't think you get the votes for a freestanding bill. but the president is the commander in chief. he has huge responsibility and authority under our constitution when it comes to military matters. he can order our military to stop the discharge. it's called a stop loss order. president bush issued one to keep people in the military when we needed more troops for the iraq and afghanistan wars. this president could issue a stop order now, to stop discharging people under don't ask don't tell until congress can pass what he calls a durable solution. >> ari, let's turn -- go ahead. >> well i was going to quickly say for big societal changes you really do want congress and the executive to do it together. you don't want to make this just an executive action, you want the country to come together on this, that takes an act of congress.

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and arie fleischer, just her mentioning that she is considering it is driving all of these people onhe left to this frothy for instancy. i love it i love seeing them scatter. >> she does attract ink. i just finished her book too which actually is a great read. what do you expect anybody to say who is thinking about running for president? i may run but i know i'm going to lose? of course she is goings to say that i think it's a wide open question whether she does or doesn't. it looks like this republican field is going to be totally wide open. very contrary to the history of republicans. we almost always appoint who is on deck circle from the previous election. this one wide open. who knows who is going to win it. >> laura: huckabee and palin. they are going to go. >> gingrich looks like he is in. >> trump said today that he might. >> laura: he was good today on china. i love trump on china. is he fantastic. >> what you see by having wide field is sarah palin can get the nomination. she literally can pull it off. >> laura: is this what you are hoping for joe trippi. this is sodium pen

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our guest, ari fleischer, he served as white house press secretary for george w. bush. s.e. cupp, columnist for "the new york daily news" and hilary ros rosen. ari, what does it look like from the republican point of view? >> i guess bipgest win in 100 years, larry. the biggest election victory any party's ever had was 116 seats the democrats lost in 1896. you have to go back to the election of 1910 the last time republicans or democrats won or loss 57 seats. that was a case where the republicans lost 57 seats. my prediction now is that republicans are going to gain 57 seats in the house, and 8 in the senate -- 7 in the senate, larry. >> mark hill. if true, why has it been so bad for this president who has gotten some major legislation through? >> well, despite getting major legislation through, the democrats have done an awful job at public relations. sheen have the spent enough time trumpeting their victories. you combine that with a terrible economic situation, people don't have jobs. when people don't have jobs they don't care about health care reform, hiv/aides or the w