janine turner. i'm not shocked by this hollywood thing.interested me as i've watched you the many years on the air and listened to you on radio is how you escaped the liberal left wing jaws of hollywood. how did you get to be so good, as you are, having had that influence hovering over you? >> well, i guess i just stayed true to my convictions which was a little bit hard to do. i mean, when i was a newcomer in hollywood, you know, rooming with demi moore on "general hospital" all running off to jane fonda parties but i never d.i've always strangely had an appreciation for our founding fathers, and my dad is a west pointer and flew in the air force, and i just thought i'm not running off to that jane fonda party and somehow just -- i did escape. i descape, but i've been at many emmy awards ceremonies like that, to hear that crowd. what's happening to freedom of speech? it's just unner joining. i've been sitting in those audiences counting the minutes to get out. >> turning off middle america. the interesting thing is they won with obama in

joining us from san antonio, texas, janine turner in for jeanine pirro. and gretchen carlson. parents getting drunk or stoned in front of their kids not talked about very much. for obvious reasons, what parent is going to say, i just got blasted in front of my kid. no. and the kids aren't going to say anything most of the time because they're ashamed. so this is a problem that is kept very, very quiet. >> i put it in perspective that it has drastic ramifications for the children. number one be, they ends up usually becoming alcoholics. >> bill: statistics show that. >> also they're embarrassed to come forward. but they harbor immense amount of anger, guilt, depression, anxiety, and most importantly, they lose what a parent's job is, to be there at all times. >> bill: they're confused. they love their mom and dad and don't know why they're acting this way and that invokes fear because they don't know how they're going to act when they're stoned or drunk. how do you see it, jeanine? >> i agree completely. i'm 26 years sober myself, so i have a lot of experience with this. it's a

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