also fred thompson in studio. and dick morris as a busy monday edition of "hannity" continues. [ female announcer ] with swiffer wet cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna...use these. ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] unlike mops, swiffer can maneuver into tight spaces and its wet mopping cloths can clean better in half the time. mom? ♪ ahhhh! ahhhh! no it's mommy! [ female announcer ] swiffer. tter clean in half the time. or your money back. ♪ i just discovered untopped triscuit tastes great. oh, it's so good! we've been getting a lot of these angry satisfied customers... you don't need prosciutto! ...thanks to our ill-advised topping suggestion. it's not complicated! just take one out and eat it! sorry. if this image robbed you of the great taste of untopped triscuit, claim your free box online. sorry you had to see that, buddy. [ male announcer ] 100% whole grain, woven for an untoppable taste. triscuit. it's snacking good. > continues >> sean: continuing now wi

also fred thompson in studio. and dick morris as a busy monday edition [♪...] >> i've been training all year for the big race in chicago, but i can only afford one trip. and i just found out my best friend is getting married in l.a. there's no way i'm missing that. then i heard about hotwire and i realized i could actually afford both trips. see, when really nice hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so i got my four-star hotels for half-price! >> men: ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com >> announcer: save big on car rentals too, from $12.95 a day. chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. cleaning better doesn't have to take longer. i'm done. i'm gonna...use these. ♪ give me just a little more time ♪ [ female announcer ] unlike mops, swiffer can maneuver into tight spaces and its wet mopping cloths can clean better in half the time. mom? ♪ ahhhh! ahhhh! no it's mommy! [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the tim

[laughter] >> jon: it finally took the dulcet tones of senator fred thompson leghorn to focus the attention where it belonged. >> when you've lived in a box you're live is about keeping others from having to endure the box. >> jon: ladies and gentlemen, david blaine. but finallily the stirring anti-climax of johnson and mccain walking on the rest the arsenio hall show to tell the people the days of government west are over. >> the first big spending pork barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk i will veto it. i will make them famous and you will know their names. >> jon: like the wasteful jackass mayor of an alaskan town who requested $27 million. i will make her famous. oops. the one thing no one can ever take way from john mccain is his inspiring war record. >> i was dumped in a dark cell and left to die. i couldn't do anything. i couldn't even feed myself. >> jon: how dare the republican convention delegates mock john mccain's service and sacrifice to this country with some devisive purple heart band-aid. that's bull [bleep] -- sorry, those are the republican delegates mocking his

a friend of of mine, senator fred thompson is here. >> how are you doing, joe? >> good to be with you again. we served in the senate together and fred was the chairman of what was then the governmental affairs committee. had great experiences together. he was a good man. >> enough of this nice stuff. let me tell you what this guy is really like. i was chairman and he was ranking chairman. when was chairman i was ranking republican. so we spent a lot of time together. a lot of good people here. hadassah you were great, a hard act to follow, you said exactly what i haded in mind. one thing happened about 15 years ago on that committee that i'm finally glad i have the opportunity to talk about publicly. what you see is what you get is in -- is something that i learned a long time ago. a lot of these things are public where joe gets off the reservation and is independent and courageous and all that. some not as well publicized. i got myself into a bind as chairman and said something about some classified information that was allowed because i summarized it but he co

a friend of of mine, senator fred thompson is here. >> how are you doing, joe?o be with you again. we served in the senate together and fred was the chairman of what was then the governmental affairs committee. had great experiences together. he was a good man. >> enough of this nice stuff. let me tell you what this guy is really like. i was chairman and he was ranking chairman. when was chairman i was ranking republican. so we spent a lot of time together. a lot of good people here. hadassah you were great, a hard act to follow, you said exactly what i haded in mind. one thing happened about 15 years ago on that committee that i'm finally glad i have the opportunity to talk about publicly. what you see is what you get is in -- is something that i learned a long time ago. a lot of these things are public where joe gets off the reservation and is independent and courageous and all that. some not as well publicized. i got myself into a bind as chairman and said something about some classified information that was allowed because i summarized it but he couldn't dis

a friend of of mine, senator fred thompson is here. >> how are you doing, joe?u again. we served in the senate together and fred was the chairman of what was then the governmental affairs committee. had great experiences together. he was a good man. >> enough of this nice stuff. let me tell you what this guy is really like. i was chairman and he was ranking chairman. when was chairman i was ranking republican. so we spent a lot of time together. a lot of good people here. hadassah you were great, a hard act to follow, you said exactly what i haded in mind. one thing happened about 15 years ago on that committee that i'm finally glad i have the opportunity to talk about publicly. what you see is what you get is in -- is something that i learned a long time ago. a lot of these things are public where joe gets off the reservation and is independent and courageous and all that. some not as well publicized. i got myself into a bind as chairman and said something about some classified information that was allowed because i summarized it but he couldn't disclose exactl

and you express your disappointment as you came in that-- people like fred thompson, who had a career as an actor, sonny bono, who was at one point a symbol of the counterculture long ago-- neither one expressed much support for n.e.a. did that surprise you? it did, because i think artists, even if they're very successful in the commercial sector, should understand that we all need to be nurtured. and most artists begin in the nonprofit sector or in arts education in their school systems or after-school programs. and i thought surely sonny bono would understand that, but he didn't. and he said a pretty, um, obtuse remark, actually, about the n.e.a. he said, "i never knew anybody who received an n.e.a. grant," ergo it wasn't important. that was just silly. he didn't get around much. well, in other cases, you had people who were champions that i think most americans wouldn't think of immediately when they're thinking about, sort of, heroes of free expression. possibly the least offensive musician in america, kenny g., steps up and takes a stand for the n.e.a. can you talk a little bit a

. >> candidate fred thompson weighing in on the campaigns. >> when he was just the senator walking around he was over there inconsequential and all. shows you how some people have a little power. he has revealed for the small vicious little man that he is. he goes to the senate flar to announce anonymous accusation which would have made joe mccarthy blush. >> thompson's to have talk is not there. those who say his released tax returns romney tell him to just go fly a kite. >>> now pleasant temperatures across the northeast. what we are really concerned about is the plains in the midwest where it has been hot, hot, hot. >> good morning. good to see you. you are right we are looking at heat across the area where we do not need it especially in the central plains triple dig get high temperatures this afternoon. across the northeast current temperatures across the region 62 in cleveland 67 in chicago. temperatures this afternoon should be around where they should be at for this time of year into the 80{caseÑ]s for mot of us. triple digit heat tomorrow 104 should be the high temperature in tul

. >> tommy thompson, fred thompson was the big star at the time and tommy kept saying i am the other > total dweeb. >> some love him in wisconsin. he won the primary yesterday. and he will be up against tammy baldwin. here is how exciting tommy thompson was last night. >> we are going to take america back. we are going to send barack obama back to chicago. >> where are we going to send him back to? where is he from again? tommy, you are running for senate, not president of the united states. he thinks he is running for president of the united states. we will bring you up to date on some of the other primaries a little bit later in the program here. big day for politics yesterday on many fronts. it's a full court press, wednesday, august 14th. >> radio meets television the bill press show now on current tv. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] it is hurting. currenttv

it wasn't like he was fred thompson or rudy giuliani. rick perry really tried. he just couldn't win anything. so it sort of got lost in the shuffle, this campaign season, once mr. perry lost so badly, but there was one remarkable moment from rick perry in the campaign that has suddenly become newly relevant in where the campaign's at now. here's how it happened. it was exactly one week before the iowa caucuses. rick perry who had been a staunch antiabortion politician exactly a week before the caucuses, he told a conservative iowa minister in front of his parishioners that he had had a change of heart on the issue of abortion. here's how we reported it at the time. >> another sign, i think, of rick perry banking hard for the evangelical social conservative vote, his announcement at a campaign event in iowa last night sort of striking announcement, that he's changed his mind on abortion. he said seeing mike huckabee's dvd about abortion has caused him to change his stance on the issue. even though rick perry is very, very antiabortion, he's for criminalizing it,

tonight dick morris, senator joe lieberman, fred thompson, and the man rumored to be on mitt romney's be here tonight. first i traveled to wyoming for an interview with former vice president dick cheney, to talk vice presidential picks, sarah palin, president obama, and much more. neither you, nor president bush, will be going to the republican convention. you just made an announcement recently about it. why? >> well, after you've been there, and i've been to a lot of conventions. i mean, going back to '72, the nixon re-election convention, and overseeing the operation in '76. as a delegate have wyoming, as a vice presidential candidate, once you've done all of that, to go back now, with no role, what would i do? sit in the gallery and watch? you can see it on television. >> a few people might want to see you. >> well, they might, but it's going to be the mitt romney show. it ought to be. he's our nominee. he ought to be the focal point. and, you know, i'm happy to do whatever i can to help, but they don't need to see me at the convention. i'm pretty well known at this stage of the ga

on cybersecurity held in wafs then the governmental affairs committee, chaired then by senator fred thompson in 1998, 14 years ago. i can tell you that in recent years senator collins and i have held ten hearings on the subject of cybersecurity. that's only in our committee. that's not counting judiciary, intelligence, commerce. i think foreign relations may have held some hearings on it, too. in fact, we held a hearing just earlier this year, i believe it was march on cybersecurity in the legislation that we knew we were going to bring forward so this has been heard he heard and i want to say this, i mentioned senator reid's commitment to doing something about cybersecurity. last year in what -- i'm trying to think, but i can't remember a time on another bill where i saw this happen. senator reid asked the republican leader, senator mcconnell, to join him in calling in the democratic chairs and the ranking republican members of all of the relevant committees to cybersecurity that we just talked about and made an appeal that we work together to bring one bill which he would then as he's done