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the "las vegas sun" got an audiotape of angle's plea. >> joining me now is heidi harris, radio talk showlas vegas. heidi, what do you make of this. >> well, let me backup just a little bit. scott ashjian his people are the ones who called for the meeting and sharron was food. 1% of big factor. i've interviewed him. the guy's slimy to the core. i wouldn't have dealt with him at all. he hasn't been talked about months in las vegas. made a big splash when he first announced his candidacy. there were some lawsuits about it. >> hold on a second but you can't deny what sharron angle's trying to into. >> oh i'm not defending it, oh believe me ed, i'm not defending it for one second. trying to make deals. it's ridiculous. she should have never met with him. it's slimy that he autotaped her, that's ridiculous. >> isn't she slimy for even trying to throw that out? what's wrong with the competition. >> i'm not going to defend that. i'm not in any way going to defend that but breaking news for you, sid james, who was the chairman of the tea party of nevada, has resigned as of just moments ago and he

the "las vegas sun" got an audiotape of angle's plea. >> joining me now is heidi harris, radio talk showa little bit. scott ashjian his people are the ones who called for the meeting and sharron was food. 1% of big factor. i've interviewed him. the guy's slimy to the core. i wouldn't have dealt with him at all. he hasn't been talked about months in las vegas. made a big splash when he first announced his candidacy. there were some lawsuits about it. >> hold on a second but you can't deny what sharron angle's trying to into. >> oh i'm not defending it, oh believe me ed, i'm not defending it for one second. trying to make deals. it's ridiculous. she should have never met with him. it's slimy that he autotaped her, that's ridiculous. >> isn't she slimy for even trying to throw that out? what's wrong with the competition. >> i'm not going to defend that. i'm not in any way going to defend that but breaking news for you, sid james, who was the chairman of the tea party of nevada, has resigned as of just moments ago and he was now going to endorse sharron angle. he's so disgusted by scott ashj

and also heidi harris radio talk show host in las vegas. first, objectively, who won the debate last night? >> oh sharron angle clearly won the debate last night. i'm wearing red in honor of sharron angle last night and i'll tell you why she clearly won because she had more to prove than harry reid did. a guy who's been in congress 28 years and he look liked a doubtering foul last night. trying to find a closing statement. the thing was pathetic. all she had to do was hold her own and that was a win for sharron angle. that she did very clearly. something else she did a couple of very smart things. first of all she said, man up, harry reid, which everybody left and right websites all over the country, everybody's quoting that so you have that takeaway from the event. >> well -- >> let me say one more thing. when she gave her opening statement she mentioned that he listened to ritz-carlton. you know that i know that. a lot of voters may not have know that. ha, he lives where? and when she said that in her opening statement she fired the first

with us tonight karen hunter journalist and publisher and also with us tonight is heidi harris radiolas vegas. all right let's talk about meg whitman first. this candidate has been out taking a tough stance on illegal immigration lo and behold for nine years. she's had an undocumented worker right in her own house. how does she get out of this one? >> well, meg whitman claims she got nikki from an agency and she believed her documents were in order. she employed her for nine years, she says when it came to her attention that nicky was undocumented that she did the hardest thing that she ever did and firing her. if she never had documentation she wouldn't have had an enormous string of people in her house. nobody's talking about this gloria allred's supposed to be representing nicky and yet she's showing documents that excludes your client. >> i'm just amazed that heidi eye don't believes what she's saying. but the timing of her firing nikki diaz is also very interesting. how do you work for somebody for nine years and not know them? that close proximity and how she work for meg whitm

heidi has withdrawn her divorce petition, spidey is staying together. >> let's move on to something a bit more substantive and that would be harry potter. it may not be the end? >> j.k. rowling does this interview with oprah winfrey, but she said in her mind, she could bring more and more books. she's been with these characters for 17 years, even though she wrote the final book, it's still in her mind and maybe she'll write more one day. >> that's the maybe, she's not committed to it. >> oprah said are you done? and she said i'm done but never say never. she knows how the story ends in her mind. >> what an incredible mind this woman has. >> several publishing houses actually turned her down for harry potter saying it's not marketable and here she is the first billionaire author just off the books. >> laughing her way to the bank. >> absolutely love it. so good for her. >> thanks so much. there's encouraging news this morning about efforts to rescue those trapped miners in chile and that's ahead for you on "msnbc saturday." ♪ [ male announcer ] we touch a lot of things throughout the day. so it's nice that clorox disinfecting products he