bad the economy is, but we're now only about 120 days into the recovery package. >> vice-president joe biden speaking with george step nop-- stephanopoulos on this week. >> why you know why "vanity fair's" david margolis, writing the piece how biden was-- no, that was palin. this goes on a, what a blue fight and b, how bad the economy is when warren buffett, a strong obama supporter said that unemployment isn't going to 10, is going to 11 and compares the stimulus package the hairball stimulus package to candy or viagra, then you know the media, we told what a rush they were in, february, right now, and now have to ask-- hardly any of the stimulus funds have been spent and you don't see that out there in the mainstream media. >> to be fair, all this week, there were a lot of articles in the new york times, in "the washington post," questioning where is the money gone, how can he do health care, isn't he doing-- and these are news articles and there's also a case to be made pie the liberal economists that he didn't do enough and now he can come back and ask for more. i think the media are fol

vice-president joe biden promises continued u.s. georgia's president sekt is fairly while russia is a deep concern over georgian efforts to rearm. north korea's official media describe u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as unintelligent at also restated the six party talks were dead. he was once a bodyguard and wrestler and most recently the mayor of serbia. now bulgaria's -- mayor of serpia. he formally presents his new cabinet. european union just issued its latest report on corruption and bulgaria saying the justice system still fails to meet european standards. the report now from the capital. ♪ >> he is bulgaria's most popular politician, mayor of the capital sofia for the last few years, he is also the product minister. he is a man with a colorful past. now he is promising to tackle crime and corruption which bedeviled the poorest country in the european union. bulgarians have grown depressingly used to stores of corruption, sometimes in high places. and last year the interior minister, deputy interior minister, had a tax

president joe biden is going to have orthopedic surgery to relieve shoulder pain today. it will be at thomas jefferson hospital in philly. joe biden will accompany her to the hospital and they plan to spend tomorrow at their home in delaware. he'll return to washington tomorrow night, according to the white house. >>> the indian government is preparing to investigate the deadly collapse of a metro rail bridge, this is in new delhi. authorities say a sixth person has died in this. the accident happened early yesterday. >>> nasa tries again today to get the space shuttle endeavour off the ground. we'll take a live picture now. this is cape canaveral, florida. the launch team came within minutes of sending endeavour and seven astronauts to the international space station yesterday but when thunderstorms moved in they scrubbed the launch competely. it was the fourth launch attempt this month. >>> 6:51. a change of heart for a swim club in philadelphia. accused of racism. the club cancelled memberships of a dozen minority children last week. the kids are part of a summer camp

joe biden would have said, juan. joe biden is the voice of reason? is that what you are telling me, juan? >> joe biden is a good experienced politician. but your point is, look, you can't just go out there on your own and. bill: right, have you got to have somebody in there. >> continuously ad-lib. >> have you got to have joe biden. >> think what you are doing. that's what worries me right now. he had a bad week. let's hope he can start to walk it back. bill: he needs to hire george mitchell or somebody to sit there. that's what he need to do. mary katharine, juan. thanks very much. next on the rundown, fire lou dobbs that's what some organizations are demanding cnn do but why? later sarah palin firing at the press as she leaves office. what was -- was that a smart thing to do bill: impact segment tonight, a call for cnn commentators lou dobbs to be fired. all has to do with lou dobbs allowing conversation on his program that alleges president obama is not a u.s. citizen. that theory has been around for a while. the factor investigated found out its

joe biden says it is too early to tell. fox 5 news. >>> and vice president joe biden is also speaking out about north korea. he says to just ignore them. referring to the rocket launches. the vice president says they're part of an attention-seeking behavior and he refuses to pay them that attention. the launch was in defiance of u.n regulations. >>> and today, in honduras the president tried to get back to his country. the plane couldn't land because the military had stioned vehicles on the runway. the pilot circled the airport, but decided it was dangerous. instead they flew elsewhere. >>> and back here at home, the political bomb shell that has all of washington talking. alaska governor sarah palin is calling it quits. she made the stunning announcement on friday. but the question everybody is asking, is this looking at a situation where there could be a bid for the office? more on the story. >> reporter: some considered alaska governor sarah palin to be the g.o.p. front runner in the 2012 presidential election. now she i

joe biden would have said, juan. joe biden is the voice of reason? is that what you are telling me, juan? >> joe biden is a good experienced politician. but your point is, look, you can't just go out there on your own and. bill: right, have you got to have somebody in there. >> continuously ad-lib. >> have you got to have joe biden. >> think what you are doing. that's what worries me right now. he had a bad week. let's hope he can start to walk it back. bill: he needs to hire george mitchell or somebody to sit there. that's what he need to do. mary katharine, juan. thanks very much. next on the rundown, fire lou dobbs that's what some organizations are demanding cnn do but why? later sarah palin firing at the press as she leaves office. what was -- was that a smart thing to do ♪ ♪ once you've dealt with the things that come between you... don't let erectile dysfunction get in the way. ♪ viva ♪ viagra! viagra...america's most prescribed ed treatment... can help you enjoy a more satisfying sexual experience. to learn more, spend some quality time with

well, vice president joe biden. what am i going to say next? he has said something that some say maybe he shouldn't have said. some candid comments about russia. now the white house scrambling to do a bit of damage control this morning. we'll have more on the story and exactly what he said coming up. >>> plus, she is packing up. we've seen the -- not necessarily moving on. alaskan governor sarah palin leaving state's top seat as governor, but most likely remain in the spotlight. >> how do you think she should remain in the spotlight? do you even think she should? what should sarah palin do next? you can talk us on twitter, facebook, on our blog, and cnn.com/newsroom. but first, the vice president talking and saying that the administration is on track in battling the recession. this is what he said in an opinion piece written in today's "new york times." he says "clearly we are closer to recovery today than we were in january. the recovery act has been critical to that progress." the vice president goes on to write that critics are wrong to sugg

that is the way joe biden is.tha: it did not work when they put that on the cover of the magazine. i do not think it will work now either. >> about that story, when i interviewed him for the article, he was resistant because i was a correspondent for abc news at the time. he said i never covered him. i never covered him because i could never get a sound bite to air, or one that made any sense. he asked why i never covered him. that is what i said. i said, i think you are a wind bag. he laughed. he said that i may be right about that could be agreed to do the interview. we have gotten along ever since. -- he said that i may be right about that. martha: that is a good story. thank you very much. trace: there is talk of a such a stimulus. stu varney, we have spent a 10% of the street they are talking about around two. -- we have spent 10% of this. they are talking about round two. >> where's the money coming from? what about the deficit? we have never been there before. the idea that we will borrow more money is bein

neil: when we come back, what the white house is doing to keep joe biden quiet.onia sotomayor. ç-- and judge sonia sotomayor. neil: all right, to washington, a top republican announcing he will vote against supreme court nominee judge sonia sotomayor. they are expected to vote. senator jeff recessions joins me, his first television appearance -- senator jeff sessions joins me, his first tv appearance since making that announcement. >> judges can allow their personal views and politics to influence decision, and today, a little later, i will make a çspeech in which i go over the three biggest constitutional cases which she has rolled on in the last three years, actually, two in the last year -- which she has world on -- ruled on, and that is the firefighter's case, a private propertyç case- and that is the firefighters' case, another private-property case. i am sorry to say i reached that conclusion, but i do believe we need to be sure that anyone is that on the supreme court of the united states is committed to following the law as it is written and finding th

we are used to joe biden speaking his mind. after all, that's one reason president obama picked him. but as biden wraps up a trip overseas his candor is making headlines. the vice president abandons the niceties and says things about the russian government no one else in the obama administration is saying, at least not publicly. they have a shaking population base, he says. they have a withering economy. they have a banking sector and structure not likely to withstand the next 15 years. they are in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is unsustainable. "the new york times" reports the chief foreign policy advisors to russian's president as saying, quote, if some members of obama's team and government do not like this atmosphere, why don't they say so. if they disagree with the course of their president, we need to know this. just moments ago white house spokesman issued a statement saying working foggy for the prosperity for american and russian people is the foc

joe biden, a gaffe after gaf -- triple the coverage and joe biden got.ed the floor with joe biden. it was only in the media that joe biden won over her. it was said that palin did not have the qualifications to serve as vice president. look at qualifications of the man running for president. they focused on the the mother of her own baby, the clothes she wore. trace: the satellite trucks could not have filled anchorage anymore. it was unbelievable, the media presence up there. yet come on the other side, nothing. -- yet, on the of the side, nothing. >> i take issue with what kate said. the idea that sarah palin won over joe biden is ludicrous. if you look at the polling after the campaign, one of the biggest decisive factors of why people did not vote for mccain was because of sarah palin. she was the biggest negative draw on that campaign. trace: maybe the gop should look for the most brilliant mind. >> she has common sense. what she says resonates with americans who are working hard to put their kids through school and to buy groceries. they see the fe

one big threat is joe biden, the vice president. he gave a strong hint today that we need a second stimulus package. see it on page one of "the wall street journal" we haven't seen them spend 10% of the $787 billion stim pack? they want more? give it some time. some forecasters say it could be an extra trillion dollars in government stimulus by next spring. they are going to raise your taxes again and there is also the move by the feds to raise the minimum wage. a lot of congressmen will hold photo-opes to take credit for it only a few million people directly affected by it. and worse, raising the minimum wage will result in more layoffs. one in every four teenagers is unemployed right now and that will likely rise if small businesses can't afford the higher pay. way to if congress. here is the thing. independence day celebrates the birth of the usa. but it's also time to celebrate the independence of any people from the ownerous choke hold of their government. to take care of ourselves. in the end, it's up to the individual, not a

sean: i want you comment on the comment joe biden said.e going to go bankrupt as a nation, and he's saying that basically we're going to have to spend money to keep from going bankrupt. wait a minute. >> i can't understand that. >> i don't know what that means. >> in is one of those times, that's just the governor being the governor. that's just joe being joe. sean: a week ago he said we misread the economy and everybody guessed wrong. >> do you love the president's face when they ask him about comments from the vice president? >> i'm going to let him stand on those comments. sean: all right. well zogby is pointing out that support for health care is collapsing, 50% of health care say they don't want it, and rasmussen says 80% of americans realize that this is a tax increase for the middle class, so i think that's what you're saying, that's where the big problem comes in. >> it's both in terms of wage earners. we're talking a 35 to 45% increase if you're in the top tax bracket, but also the loss of jobs, so maybe you're the business owner,

of course, this on charges by eric cantor whose congressional district is where joe biden was speakingantor had said the day before, look, the stimulus thing is not working. that $787 billion, only a drop in the bucket has been actually spent thus far and where are the jobs? we heard yesterday, once again, hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs. clayton: higher jobless numbers this month. ainsley: biden saying the recovery package solved the credit freeze and saved jobs of public ploys. clayton: he's saying it opened up credit so banks are able to provide loans now, people are able to get these loans. i don't know because we're still seeing foreclosures rocking at a record pace, people losing their homes at a record pace, unable to get these loan modifications right now. and we heard earlier this week the obama administration now considering turning your home into a rental property as an excuse. steve: if you can't make your mortgage payment, somehow the ownership gets transferred to the government and you rent it from the government. that's a great idea. here's the thing

it is not fair the way joe biden is treated. i know barnacle will agree. where are we politically at the end of july six months after the president got into office? >> remarkable, the entire poll and the way everybody is split up it's as if we're back to the campaign. everybody put on their jerseys again. the red team put red jerseys on. the blue team -- because you're seeing the president 40% disapproval rating. all coming from republicans. acting like republicans opinion the republican message, and this is what a republican pollster

part of -- no doubt what was in the heavy background of joe biden's trip there.nd make one other point, and that is i agree that i think that the trip did not go well, the president's trip to russia. what we don't know yet is whether any secret agreements, any meadiast minds, the russian, i believe said to him, listen, we have helped you in afghanistan, we've helped you time and time again, we're not getting anything for it. all we get is trouble for it. and that's right at the core of the continuing problem of u.s./russia relations. >> we'll have to least h leave it there. dan rather, ian bremmer, thank you both. >> good to be with wro. >> you thank you. >>> for more on afghanistan, you can watch dan rather's report "the raid on imam sabeeb" on the cable network hd net. >>> in russia, at least 20 people have been killed, another nine injured in a crash between a bus and a gasoline nker. the accident happened in the southern russian city of rosdonovan. footage the scene shows rescue workers removing the injured. officials believe the tanker truck veered into the

and finally take a closer look at vice president joe biden's trip to ukraine and georgia. and just what was he doing there? we are joined once again by dan rather, the former longtime anchor of the cbs "evening news" and by ian bremmer, the president of the political research and consulting firm, eurasia group. nice to have both of you back. >> thanks, good to be back. >> start with afghanistan. more american casualties today. this is the deadliest month. the war has been going on now for nearly eight years. and i think the question that many americans are asking, just where is it going? >> nobody knows. and that includes the president and his top advisers. you have to see it as one battlefield -- afghanistan and pakistan. we're engaged, we the united states, mostly on one portion of the battlefield in afghanistan, but you must see this as afghanistan and pakistan as one so far as the battle to achieve our goals there. >> even most americans to see us fighting in one place and that is afghanistan. >> and that is where we are mostly fighting. i agree completely with dan. yo

>> well, it means -- what should joe biden say? i should have calibrated my remarks somewhat differently. >> we have heard those words this week. >> somehow we heard those words somewhere else. >> j.b. isoe biden is a valued inside the administration. the president relies on him for foreign council especially, because that is his area of great strength. but once again i think he's gotten off message and spoken out in ways that were very awkward, if not diplomatically difficult for the president. and in contrast to what he said earlier about we misread the early signals on the economy, i don't think that hurt much to tell the truth. it was an insight that was important to get out there. this one, while true, is very difficult. it is damaging to international relations because the united states wants -- needs russia to help us with iran, to help us with north korea, on energy issues, on nuclear proliferation. there's a whole series of things. while it's true russia is a weakened country, it's been important for the obama administratio

willie, joe biden. >> let's talk joe biden. do you know when you go to las vegas, you're playing blackjack, you have to bet big to win big, right? >> exactly right. >> it turns out the blackjack philosophy applies to our nation's economy. listen to joe biden speaking in front of the aarp yesterday. >> the president and i know the status quo is simply not acceptable. it's totally unacceptable and completely unsustainable. even if we wanted to keep this the way we have, we can't do it financially. we're going to go bankrupt as a nation. now, people when i say that look at me and say, what are you talking about? you're saying we have to spend the money or we'll go bankrupt? the answer is yes. i'm telling you. >> exactly right. >> go ahead. >> he's a noted economist. >> briefly explain. >> the stimulus package, we have to keep spending this money to put people back to work because it's all about jobs, jobs, jobs. the more federal stimulus money that we spend, the faster we spend it, perhaps the more public works project will get go

>> joe biden says the hospitals have agreed to accept $155 billion in cuts to government programs over the next decade. in a press conference short on details, biting use the agreement to drive home the message that health reform will pass this year, but it looks like the road ahead may be bumpy. some democrats are concerned about any bill that would tax health benefits, and that could jeopardize president obama's ambitious timetable. >>> an update on the children trapped in a sort and lanham, md., newschopper 7 is over the scene. fire officials say three children are trapped there. they have not yet made contact with the children. we will have the latest on the story tonight at 11:00.

hopefully vice president joe biden can. he just made a revealing and potentially damaging statements on the economic crisis. we will give you a context and perspective on what that could mean going forward, next. shepard: live pictures. they are still on the roof in houston. it was a doozy car chase. this man jump off of a roof, he had driven into a car garage. let me show you how this happened. here is the recorded media from the roof. where are they now? look at this, it is down. here come the police. what do you do? what do you do? down he went. see you. i have no way of knowing how tall it is, but at least three of those doors hide. the man jumped a long way. you can see that he was not ambulatory after he jumped. the cops got him right away. or a security guy or what ever. back to live pictures, he has not gone far. now they are waiting for the ambulance. we will update you, coming up. the white house ms. read just how bad the economy was. that statement from the vice president, joe biden himself. he was speaking about

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vice president joe biden is known for speaking his mind. in an interview with the with the "wall street journal" the vice president talks in no uncertain terms. speaking of russia, a withering economy -- joining me to talk more about the fallout is the washington correspondent for "time" magazine. that's for being with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> explain why it's so important, why russia is such an important player on the stage and why it matters. >> reporter: future gas and oil. relations haven't been exactly rosey in recent years. if you remember back in the beginning of the administration, hillary clinton hit the reset button and said we're going to reset relations with russia. there was a big push in the obama administration to get on better terms with russia to ease a lot of tensions that happened under the bush administration. obviously these comments aren't exactly in the mold of what has been, obama's stated policy. >> the vice president seemed to suggest we had the upper hand, i guess you would say, we're in a better bargain

brian: who is watching joe biden.ffe. >> we misread how bad the economy was but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package. dave: wait until you hear what president obama had to say about what his vice president had to say about well those two things. you can say damage control? our slogan this hour should please you, not make you feel as though you have to spin it right. from steve in illinois. he says i wake up, do my duties, then it's "fox & friends" to see all you cuties. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- gretchen: good morning. i know for sure that he was referencing dave and brian. brian: i don't think so. dave: assumption was not. gretchen: cutie is plural and dave briggs from the weekend show is sitting in tore steve doocy. good to see you today. brian: we have a control room. -- those years in the mob. they want to keep and be anonymous. a lot of italians in there. three minutes after the hour. it's true. i'm half ita

joe biden, with a little slip of the tongue. he also understands the power of aipac better than anyone. anybody who has served in congress as long as joe biden knows this. this is a crude way of going after anything. he would have to overfly parts of iraq. saudi arabia will do a wink and and nod. they have 11 air-to-air refueling tankers. what the chairman of the joint chiefs, mike mullen and others, and i'm sure the president feels the same way, that iran has asymmetrical abilities up and down the gulf. you can have oil at $300 almost overnight. take bahrain, two-thirds of the population is shia, and they are under a ruling family. >> let's clarify these terms. and their position as oil exporters. it is not just that they export 1.5 -- two 0.5 million broke -- barrels, but the nation's waterways. >> they had a major naval base in there, they can hurt her u.s. and our friends interest up and down the gulf. that doesn't even begin to mention hamas. >> seven or $8 a gallon for gasoline. that would be a catastrophe. >> that would p

the fact of the matter is that joe biden has a reputation for actually saying what people are saying, and the fact is that russia is sort of an economic basket case at this point. he talked about how they would have to deal with the u.s. out of weakness. that's the one thing that the white house thishgs might have gone a little bit too far, simply because while that is not necessarily not a part of their calculation, what president obama did when he was over there was to say, you know, we need each other, it is in your national interest, it's in our national interest. it is the same thing the u.s. wants from russia. it is also important to understand location, and that is that president obama was talking when he was in russia, and vice president biden was talking when he was -- after he left georgia and the ukraine, very, very different places. that's where you can see a difference in message. >> candy, thank you very much. sit by, i want to talk to you more about political news. >>> first we want to head to fairbanks, alaska. once the most unlikely place to be center of attention in

joe biden told an alexandria crowd today there has never been a better time to overhaul health care. >> another bank that received tarp money is posting second-quarter profits. ! morgan chase is posting $2.7 billion in earnings but continues to be hurt by consumer loan losses. ! morgan's profits come just one day after goldman sachs posted a $2.7 billion profit of its own. tomorrow we expect financial updates from citigroup and bank of america. >> the d.c. scroinl is dealing with the budget gap for this year. mayor fenty's proposal reallocates $152 million from dedicated taxes and the city's fund of previous years' surpluses. the mayor's plans calls for using federal stimulus money, selling district assets and slashing agency budgets, which will include layoffs. >> the metropolitan police department has identified the suspect in yesterday's police-involved shooting mere the capitol. this 27-year-old was shot and killed by capitol police after a high-speed chase yesterday afternoon. his welcome allegedly struck a capitol police officer when he fled a routine traffic stop. authorities

vice-president joe biden will reveal the recipient on tuesday.ttle, houston, and pittsburg are affected. several agencies applied for the grant. they are giving priority to cities with serious budget prob. am rick folbaum. now, back to greta and "on the record." greta: joining us is the author of a brand new book "wilderness warrior." this is a shirt-to-be bestseller. -- sure-tio-be bestseller. -- sure-to-be. i thought your last book on katrina was a bestseller. why did you write this one? >> and looked at the creation of the u.s. fish and wildlife, the saving of our parts -- i looked at those. the saving of our parks. there are places like the grand canyon, crater lake. he saved border refugees and places like he was and indie tortugas. -- like places like key west and the tortugas. there are the buffalo of theodore roosevelt, actually bread at the bronx zoo. so i was looking at t.r. actually bred at the bronx zoo. the grand tetons were the equivalent of westminster abbey or the louvre. greta: even the influence of charles darwin, is extraordina

joe biden is an idiot he ought to on the fox business payroll for the quotes he gives us. they will borrow $10 trillion and the healthcare bill which is another trillion or two on top of that. they will quadruple debt as a share of g.d.p. they are driving us into bankruptcy. people are running from the doll dollar. david: these numbers don't add up, do they? >> they create more deficit. but my gosh a net deficit? obama and biden show up at the end of the party and get blamed for the hangover. this is preposterous. look at the spending you had for years. homeland security, our sad war in iraq. farm subsidy. medicare drug bill. all of them make up the deficit. obama spending is 7%. as mike said, it is is an investment. and the company is companies do it all the time. a company going into receivership will borrow more to restructure. this is borrowing to restructure. not wasteful spending. david: the rocco comment is because of the way mike is dressed. i think he looks terrific. get a picture of him. >> he ought to be in ie guys and dolls." david: but this has come after the

vice president joe biden announced the agreement at the white house, saying the administration's overhaul of health care is "on track, it is coming." the administration is pushing for a comprehensive bill to be signed in the fall. stephanie dhue reports. >> reporter: the $155 billion the obama administration has wrung out of hospitals sounds like a lot. but that's over a decade. and $45 billion less than the administration was looking for. vice president joe biden says hospitals will make up for the lower payments. >> as more people are insured, hospitals will bear less of the financial burden of caring for the uninsured and underinsured, and we'll reduce payments to cover those costs, in tandem with that reduction. >> reporter: the agreement is contingent on health reform becoming law. the pharmaceutical industry has made a similar agreement, and will spend $80 billion over ten years to lower prescription drug costs. physicians, labor unions and insurance companies are also being asked to do their share. chip kahn, who represents investor-owned hospitals, says today's deal puts a cap on

t's talk about those warning lights, because we see joe biden went to ohio today.e defended the stimulus pla the poll is showing independents e swinging away a they're beginning to lose se momentum, some altitudethere. is there a real warning sign, o are we jumpinghe gun re? >> well, i think 's a little bit of bh, frankly. it's certainly a warning sin. ohio isne state, t poll i ohio i onepoll. so you don't want to rd too much into one poll in one paicular place. but we knowthat ohioas been both an econoc and a polical bellwether over t years and the ze of the drop in suppo for the esident or in h apoval ratings issignificant er the lastwo months there. so in that sense, it is certainly mething that if yore sitting in the white house and u're one ofhe present's political adsers, you are going ttake note of it. i think e other thing to rememb is that this is a group of people who have weaered some diffi times. certaiy ey did during the campaign. they are not inclined to be overly rattled by somef the atter that pops u as a result of a poll le this. so i think they ar

explained that the current system won't work anymore and explained how they are going to fix it as only joe bidenld. >> we're going to go bankrupt as a nation. now, people look at me and say what are you talking about, joe? you're telling me we got to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? yes, i'm telling you. glenn: could you play that again, please? >> you're telling me we got to spend money to keep from going bankrupt. the answer is yes, i'm telling you. glenn: maybe it will make a little more sense. could we just spin everything upsidedown. yes, yes. now let's see if it makes sense this way. go ahead. >> you're telling me we got to go spend money to keep from going bank bankrupt? the answer is yes, i'm telling you. >> even in the upsidedown world, it doesn't really work. oh, well. here is one way your government spending money will keep us from going bankrupt. the social security administration has spent $700,000 on a three-day conference at the phoenix arizona, built more resort and spa, it is beautiful. the social security regional commissioner responsible for the trip originally said

sean: joe biden says hey, we got it all wrock on the -- wrong on the economy.hey promised the american people if the stimulus was passed unemployment wnt wouldn't go above 8%. now it's above 9.5%. after the stimulus, after quadrupling the deficit, now they're talking about a second stimulus and the door's open? how does this country sustain that in? >> i lost a little bit of what you were talking about there but many of us republicans who were for a stimulus package and look -- look, my wife thought we shouldn't have had a package at all. i thought we needed to do something but many, many, many republicans are on record from the start, this is not the right way to go. spending money on social policies, should have been a whole lot more on infrastructure. giving money to state government? would have made a lot more sense if think -- they'd give the states discretion on how to spend the money where it's needed in those states. mississippi is different from minnesota or montana. i don't know how they're going to end up but the idea that another version of the stim

joe biden went to pittsburgh and gives a speech and less than 100 people showed up the literally. so embarrassing. >> awesome. >> governor palin goes to long island and the place is overflowing. >> i know. the thing do -- to do is can i call you joe? wink? >> she has charisma. she's got the it factor. they don't like it because she's electric. she gets huge crowds. no matter what, people are going to tune up and people are going to tune in. could it had -- have been handled better? definitely. but it was definitely not an implosion. sean: she's not part of that insider mentality. she has to come to the lower 48. >> the liberal elite hates that she's not part of the liberal elite. they can't figure it out and instead of trying to they're just going to hurl i sults at her. biden has said questionable things. i question hezz judgment. i would never call him crazy. i've never heard anyone call him crazy. sean: i might consider it. no, it's a joke! so how does this play out? i think if anyone underestimates her they do so to their own peril. >> correct. sean: i think it's really not go

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we're used to hearing joe biden speaking his mind. after all, that's one reason the president chose him to be the vice president. as biden wraps up a trip overseas to george joshlg and ukraine, his willingness to speak out is again making headlines. in an interview with the "wall street journal," the vice president abandons a typical dcht ick niceties and says things about the russian government no one else in the obama administration is saying at least not publicly. they have a shrinking population base, he says. they have a withering economy. they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years. they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable. the russian government appears to be a little perplexed by the reported comments. the chief foreign policy advisor to russia's president has this response, as quoted by interfax and the "new york times." if some members of obama's team and government do not like

sean: you've got baseball cards, chris dodd, joe biden -- >> of course. sean: are you selling these? >> we will. sean: and bubble gum with them? >> not net -- yet. but collective. those are the dirty dozen. i have joked he i could actually have an entire 52-yard -- 52-card playing set and two jokers. guess which ones? sean: you said early in the cook the administration is teeming with long-lasting favor seekers and a lucrative bridge enbetween. as a read the book the one thing that kept resonating in my mind is this is chicago politics. explain. >> this is the chicago way. i think what i have done is i hope helped shatter the myths of hope and change and the new politics in washington by scouring every nook and cranny of this administration and showing how within a very short plan is of six months they have betrayed every principle and promise they made by installing these influence peddlers and power brokers and very wealthy people who have traded on their government service to serve not the public interest but the special interests. sean: and he promise

so you bring in joe biden. n fact, the white fella sitting there beside the cop fmplgts joe could keep talking and talking and talking, might stop -- >> joe biden does a lot, not only in situations like this, he help, dealing with generals. >> yeah. >> and admirals. i'm not saying president obama would be harshly creditediccal of generals, but you know what? it's good. actually your first instinct, when you get into politics and haven't been around it, salute and after a while you figure out, there's some political -- in the military, too, and biden can warn him. he sits down, because he's been there since he was 29 years old. joe biden, who may be getting bashed in the polls, joe biden is exactly what president obama, i think, needs. >> the reason he's there. >> i don't disagree. >>> moving on with news, a goftd program that trades money for gas guzzling cars is apparently so popular it's running out of funding. the so-called cash for clunkers program has exhausted its $1 billion budget in only a week. sources

joe biden.went to a forum yesterday in alexandria, virginia and said we are heading for bankruptcy so we have to spend more money. and he then repeated it again. martha: in fairness to him, he said we can't leave things the way they are because those costs are spiraling out of control and they will send us to bankruptcy so we have to spend more money to get out of that likelihood. >> but the solution is always to spend more money. this is $1.5 trillion takeover of healthcare. you want to see what this is this is the joint economic chart of the healthcare plan. welcome to canada. the problem is that president obama is incredibly personally popular but his liberal policies are not. irnds are abandoning him. he is down 12% with them. independents oppose the healthcare plan 48-32 so he is trying to get these things through while he thinks he has the momentum to pass it. the problem is moderate democrats like max baucus and some of them see the polls and they don't want to go to commit political suic

interview with the vice president in iraq tomorrow morning on this week. >>> in the meantime this is joe biden's first trip to iraq. as vice prident. it turned out a poignant ceremony that would make this a fourth of july to remember for biden. david kerley is in baghdad tonight. >> i thought it was going to be dirt and palm trees. >> reporter: they are u.s. soldiers. but not citizens, yet. >> my whole life growing up, i thought that i was already a citizen. >> in a sense it's our independence we can finally do what it is we are here to do. we can fight for our country. we can vote for it, also. >> i will support and defend the constitution and the laws of the united states of america. >> reporter: under a massive chandelier in one of saddam hussein's most opulent palaces, more than 230 service members, from 59 countries, became u.s. citizens. >> congratulations. >> reporter: and as if it wasn't enough to take the oath, on this day, the fouh of july. >> damn, i'm proud to be an american. it's a wonderful thing. >> reporter: the vice president was there, as their witness. >> you've struggled for

joe biden talks poetry. >> virgil said the greatest wealth is in yourself. >> he cannot get away with this. sean: a new movie expose a strap -- exposes a startling truth about iran. "hannity" starts now. we are 141 days removed from the signing of the stimulus package and more than 2 million more americans have lost jobs. in recent weeks, the administration has been forced to acknowledge that its $787 billion spending spree is not producing the results they promised you. we have heard the vice president say that the white house "misread the economy" and that it was wrong. a report proves the stimulus has failed. that is our headline tonight. stimulus' disaster. a hearing on capitol hill highlighted the fact that the money intended to get this economy on track is being used to cushion state budgets and to fund short-term projects that are not creating jobs. president obama is now forced to rewrite history. he said the stimulus would create up to 4 million new jobs. as this video shows, he is changing his story. you will love this. >> the recovery act was designed to make sure that loca

chris: before we break, back to joe biden, w we saw at the top of the show. n the same 2006 questioning of nominee samuel alito, biden set a record for the longest question in the history of the planet. take a look. and remember, this is one question. >> i understand, judge, i'm the only one standing between you and lunch, so i'll try to make this painless. judge, i'd like to say a few very brief things at the outset. the question is sometimes, some of the things you've said and does puzzle -- at least puzzle me, and i'd like to -- and one of the things -- this is not part of the line of questioning i wanted to ask, but, again, this is just by way of, you know, why some of us are puzzled, because if i was aware of it -- and i didn't even like princeton -- no, i mean, i really didn't like princeton. yeah, i was an irish catholic kid who thought it hadn't changed, like you concluded it had. i mean, you know, i admit, i have little -- you know, one of real dilemmas is i have two kids who went to ivy league schools. i'm not sure my grandfather will ever forgive me