let's talk about joe lieberman for a minute.that he is the independent from the state of connecticut who supported john mccain in the last presidential election. well, he has a new book out now, we're going to be speaking with him in person just an hour from now in the curvy couch. who will he support for the 2012 race? will it be president obama or will it be the republican candidate? here's what he said last night. >> you know i'm an independent now and i'm going to approach it from the perspective of an independent and i got -- i'm going to wait and see. i got a year and a quarter. a little less than that before the -- i have to decide how to vote and i want to see who the republicans nominate. >> i know senator lieberman is always smiling and nonconfrontational. who can forget the confrontation he had with president obama who was questioning why joe lieberman was so vociferously defending john mccain instead of his own party. they were threatening to take his chairmanship away and they ran someone in the party against him in

joe lieberman at the mike now. marty savage, we're expecting a vote come noon.americans disgusted. also a lot of americans just saying, okay, let's get it over already and move forward. >> finally the end. that's exactly what people are hoping at this point is let's get over and let's get beyond. kyra, so very good to see you. very good to see all of you live from studio seven, i'm martin savidge in for susan malveaux. we are as you've heard about an hour away from a senate vote on raising the country's debt limit and preventing a government default. it took a long time and it wasn't easy, but president obama is also scheduled to speak about this whole project at 12:15 eastern time. we'll have live coverage of both of those events. the house approved a debt deal last night. and some on the left and the right are not exactly happy with it. but house speaker john boehner says it's a start. >> how do you feel, sir. >> i feel great. >> what do you think of the vote this evening? >> it was a strong vote, but first step in many steps yet to go. >> what do you hope the

john mccain, joe lieberman, and lindsay graham.ent from connecticut. they thoroughly bonded over the years, and they bemoan the sorry state of this place. tell me why and what we've seen today and what we've seen in this debate over the debt ceiling this city, this institution isn't flat busted broken? anybody want to make that case? >> well, it is, but here's what happens. you get here, you got to raise money, sign pledges. if you're not independently wealthy, you wind up signing your discretion away, and when cc1: you get here and reach across that aisle, you'll come back with a nub. >> reporter: with only six day togs go before the deadline, these three mostly watch from the sidelines. but on the day of our visit, cc1: mccain decide he has had enough with the tea party members in his own party and he heads to the senate floor to say so. >> to hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the institution. it's unfair. it's bizarro. >> reporter: back with the democrats, thei

this is him in his own words. ♪ i am senator joe lieberman and i am jewish, and today we are talking called the gift of rest. this poor, long-suffering woman usually does this before i get home. the sabbath is a very old institution. in my belief, it goes right back to mt. sinai where god in the ten commandments gave the fourth commandment, which was on honor the sabbath and keep it holy. and some ask how can you be a senator and take the sabbath. and i tell them i don't know how i can be a u.s. senator and not take the sabbath. on friday afternoon for me, i turn the blackberry off and the television off and be prepared not to answer the phone, but i will tell you, i just would say to you, try it. you will love it. over the centuries, a lot of religious rituals observe the sabbath day. you make sure you bring your wife and your sabbath table flowers. we go to synagogue and say prayers to welcome the sabbath and to bring us into the spirit of the day of rest, different from every other day. we then come home and there is a sabbath meal, so we have two twist breads, and this is a conti

it happens that joe lieberman has a political quotient of 74 also.s "the new york times" sounds about as liberal as the average joe lieberman speech. to give you more details about that, with this one method, i have three methods. one looked at think tank citations. which think tanks "the new york times" cited. >> you looked at that. wish we had more time. you look at these methods, look to the think tanks they use, you looked at key words they use. and you made this determination. put the score on. what is the affect of this? i certainly would agree with your conclusions do they have affect on the american people? >> great question this is how my book differs from a lot of books. i've done something like an experiment to test the effect of the media. in a nutshell, the effect is that america currently thinks and votes look a purple state, iowa, nevada. if you could eliminate media bias, according to my estimates, america would think and vote about like a solid red state. something like texas, tennessee, something like kentucky. >> well, that's -- yo

all of that, plus joe lieberman and what he really thinks about our expander in chief. we are on the road to 2012, hannity starts right here, right now. today marks day two of president obama's bad news bus tour. as his voyage continues, candidate obama back and making big promises. as he did in 2008 he's vowing to put you the american people back to work. he will layout his elaborate, cure-all for the economy when congress returns next month. >> the president: we know what to do. i will be putting forward, when they come back in september, a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control our deficit. >> sean: even the handful of supporters the president still has left will admit we've seen and heard this before. when the going gets tough the white house knee-jerk reaction is to refocus their efforts on jobs. remember this. >> question is, how are we gonna make sure that people are getting back to work. jobs must be our number one focus in 2010. as president that is my commitment to do everything i can to make sure our economy is , creating jobs

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h >> joe lieberman is no democrat. [applause] some of us worked to make sure he did not get back in the u.s. senate. he did, and he is there as an independent, and he is able to use his power in whatever fashion he deems is in his interest, voting sometimes with republicans and sometimes with democrats. the question is why didn't we do more. we really did do a lot. if we made any mistakes, it was not be enough. -- big enough. if you are going to have a stimulus package, it cannot be the kind that goes through the regular process with response to proposals. it will never get to the communities, because the big boys, the contractors who have all of this monday, and not rip off all of that, and they do not hire into our communities. we have to do away with the way money is disbursed. we cannot put it in the hands of some of these governors or mayors who rip it off and never give it to the community, so those are some things we have learned. meanwhile, we are always working four jobs and not -- for jobs and the creation of

>> i'm thinking that this is not a good day for you and i think that that's what the senator joe lieberman meant when he sent out his statement moments ago saying from damascus and syria to tehran, iran, the auto kratz have to be trembling and they must know that their day of reckoning is coming. because when you watch people taking up arms to throw off the dictator, someone like assad must know that his day of reckoning is near. >> i asked this months ago when we watched hosni mubarak exit egypt as the former president now. is this contagion? >> no, it started with tunisia and it spread to egypt and i have to say that people like me who had covered the middle east for 30 years said no, it will never happen in egypt. and a security services are too strong. the army is too strong. but guess what, the will of the people was stronger, but, mubarak was very different, mubarak had only one request, and he wanted to live and die in egypt. and in his country. that's not what muammar gaddafi seems to be saying. i mean, he's saying one thing, but all the indications are that he may have fled. >> he

. >> joe lieberman says he hopes the supercommittee will do what congress failed to do in the debt fight take on the entitlement spending, 60% of the federal budget. if we don't deal with that, we can't balance the federal books. >> another battle in september is to avoid the government shutdown on october 1. none of the annual spending bill has been signed to law. to suggest short-term resolution is likely. >> the government is to choose and government resolution is a way to not choose. ultimate failure. >> reform the tax code is mentioned as well. cutting out special interest and loopholes will require more political cooperation than recent battle would suggest is possible. mike emanuel, fox news. >> bret: fox news learn the banking economy is looking to the circumstances that led standard & poor's to downgrade the country's credit rating last week. no indications that the committee launched a formal probe. >>> the house of representatives is pulling the plug on its page program. speaker boehner and nancy pelosi informed members today they cite is cost of program and advances in techno

and the very very ugly joe lieberman the independent senator from connecticut who caucuses with democrats but acts like a republican went to the senate floor today to talk about his spending priorities and throws senior citizens under the bus lieberman argued that our nation cannot. and social security and the war on terror so we have to cut social security bottom line. we can't protect these untitled months and also the national defense we need to protect the same a dangerous world while we're at war against islam most extremist who took to someone over them will be for a long time to come and so let's take them seniors and give to the bloated military industrial complex to wage wars all around the world good thing those guys retire and so very very hard. after the break house republicans left washington to go out a nice little bit patient yesterday unfortunately they left unfinished business in congress that sent tens of thousands of workers and a good station in america it's a nice daily take us tell you which government agency is withering under the latest republican assault on workin

released wiki leaks cables give an in-depth account of senators john mccain lindsey graham and joe lieberman meeting with gadhafi son to discuss a long term bilateral relationship between the two countries and a promise that the u.s. will provide arms and military gear to libya and take seriously its requests to be treated with more respect fast forward to today as we know these are the same three lawmakers who have said that the u.s. should have provided more weapons more support to the rebels to help help take down gadhafi and this is interesting too it's not just the lawmakers here in washington who can't make up their minds about the libyan dictator the lobbyists here in d.c. are in the same goat according to an article in the national journal influence peddlers who once worked for the libyan leader are scrambling to publicly sever ties with the strongman while their competitors are helping his country's rebels gain a valuable foot hole and foothold in washington the same article also shows that some other lobbyist firms have signed on with the libyan transitional national council which

according to wiki leaks diplomatic cables back in two thousand and nine mccain lindsey graham and joe lieberman met with gadhafi senator mccain assured libya that the united states wanted to provide libya with if it needed for the libyan security program including c one thirty s. he pledged to see what he could do to move things forward in congress so whose side of these republicans are ocado us or climb up the reason that khadafi was not able to use any weapons of mass destruction that he was building in his arsenal and it's because republicans launched a war in iraq if you want to count the success there is the fact that he got scared of what happened in iraq as he told the italian prime minister and was willing to negotiate his weapons away i think lindsey graham and and you know the weapons the lindsey graham and john mccain going over to get through those talking actually all we've got you imagine u m d's there's no question about it he negotiated in the way this is this is well known and and what and where did they go and what they gave about the international inspectors as a result of th

we know about joe lieberman's attempt to destroy wikileaks, but there's no evidence that the obama administration, the white house was come police sit in developing the sexual misconduct charges against assange after the three big releases last year. following upon those disclosures, friendly sweden offered an international arrest warrant seeking assange to arrest on misconduct. there's not many instances of using that heavy legal artillery for such a charge. companies that supported wikileaks like paypal, amazon, visa, mastercard, could have decided independently without government prompts other than lieberman to withdrawal their support and the hacker attacks on wikileak servers could have been orchestrateed by others without government encouragement at all. it would be disstressing to learn our government was involved in any of this, and imagine the irony if this was discovered in secret government documents soon to be discovered by wikileaks. [laughter] >> thank you very much, professor. thank you very, very much. questions, students, anyone, get in the microphone. over here? okay. >> to be p

he once was the pariah that then our politicians including john mccain and lindsey graham and joe lieberman who were just there in two thousand and nine decided to be friend and wanted to see you know give weapons to as long as he gave up his weapons of mass destruction well that obviously didn't last very long how quickly they turned on him and what kind of message do you think of that sends few other people out there to operate in a few of bashar al assad would they want to now step down with a every want to make a deal with the united states or trust them if they found. he's not likely course not i mean if you're assad i books that let's talk syria right now but much more that iraq it's a bit more complicated but if we look we were serious right now what they're dealing with you know what he's thinking about he's thinking about are he's thinking about gadhafi we're over some of the americans we're talking about just how this man was as an ally not thinking about egypt and then of course what we saw just recently with gadhafi you know all of a sudden these men were the devil hard it just

senator joe lieberman said wiki leaks disclosures are, quote, the most serious violation of the espionage act in our history and called julian assange a trader. sarah palin calls him an anti-american operative with blood on his hands. mike huckabee called for his execution. senator lieberman got busy and try to put wiki leaks out of business altogether. he pressured amazon to stop posting the wiki leaks website and urged any other company that supported the wiki leaks site to, quote, immediately terminate its relationship and then pen pal and visa and mastercard stopped prosecuting -- processing donations claiming somehow in weighs not specified it wasn't complying with their terms of service. someone pointed out jake continued to support the ku klux klan web site and you can pay by credit card the way you could donate to wiki leaks. they are still doing it. lieberman -- [inaudible] -- scott brown of massachusetts coast on devoe the image a bill called the shield act that would have broadened the espionage act's provision to outlaw communication with any human intelligence sources, it wou

senator joe lieberman is an observant jew and writes about his sabbath in his new book.od to be with you, ali. >> we have to talk a little bit of politics. >> of course. >> i was reading this book in restaurant and a woman came up to me and said what is it about? i told her. she said was he able to fill an entire book on observations about the sabbath? i said he really was. give us the gist of the book, what the sabbath has meant to you. >> sometimes people say to me, how could you be a united states senator and take one of every seven days off? and i say, i don't know how i could be a united states senator and not observe the sabbath, because it gives -- i work harder the other six days. it gives me a break, time, space, to be with my family, be with friends, be with my spirituality with god. and when i come back to the six days of the week, i think i'm charged up, not only physically with some rest, but really with a better perspective. my religion tells me that i got responsibilities that are -- occur on the sabbath through which i can help people, i have to do that a

joe lieberman was a friend of yours. i know you genuinely respect each other.hought you won that debate cleanly. it was an important moment. i think what you are saying is, if you can't handle the stress of the debate the country is watching closely, you are not going to be able to handle the stress of a crisis. your advice to people is, you better get some rest. probably counterintuitive people want to cram last minute, memorize this and that. you worked hard preparing for those debates, both with lieberman and later john edwards. >> that's right. in both instances we took a day just to rest. rob portman senator from ohio was my debate partner. he played lieberman then edwards in our practice sessions. after the edwards' practice session we had one day left i took him over on the border and spent the day fly fishing. >> sean: when you debated john edwards, you said during that debate when they asked a question about gay marriage, you were furious that he immediately how dare he presume he can talk about my family. >> you can't have anything respect for the fac

i am happy to be joined by the former presidential candidate, joe lieberman, the soon-to-be retiringator from connecticut. but that is still a year and a half away. we cannot push you out the door yet. >>guest: i can get insomuch trouble. >>neil: you have a way of doing that. if i can stir the pot. >>guest: you usually do. >>neil: you voted for the deal grudgingly. why? >>guest: well, it was a classic is the glass half full or half empty? going with my hopes or fears? i went with my homes. what was good, it is a bipartisan compromise that begins to cut federal spending and we do not have too many bipartisan compromises and here anymore and we need to cut federal spending. what it didn't do was to take on the other two big items that are necessary for a grand bargain, to cut the debt and get our economy gonna you have to deal with entitlements, medicare particularly, and you also should look at tax reform and that has to come from the special committee that was created or this whole process that we began today is going to end in a failure. >>neil: i talk to a lot of investors professi

h >> joe lieberman is no democrat. [applause] some of us worked to make sure he did not get back in the u.s. senate. he did, and he is there as an independent, and he is able to use his power in whatever fashion he deems is in his interest, voting sometimes with republicans and sometimes with democrats. the question is why didn't we do more. we really did do a lot. if we made any mistakes, it was not be enough. -- big enough. if you are going to have a stimulus package, it cannot be the kind that goes through the regular process with response to proposals. it will never get to the communities, because the big boys, the contractors who have all of this monday, and not rip off all of that, and they do not hire into our communities. we have to do away with the way money is disbursed. we cannot put it in the hands of some of these governors or mayors who rip it off and never give it to the community, so those are some things we have learned. meanwhile, we are always working four jobs and not -- for jobs and the creation of

the front-runner does not work out well, ask hillary clinton, and romney, and giuliani and even joe liebermane significant thing it does is to knock mitt romney's strategy of acting like he is the nominee in waiting and focusing all of the attention on the economy and president obama eventually, he has to duke it out with rick perry, and this is going to force a campaign strategy change at least right now for mitt romney campaign. >> and it seems that mitt romney's campaign has been asked that question if they change their strategy, and he joked and said if i change my jacket, people say i'm changing my strategy. and we talked about that and the polls have shown that republicans were not quite satisfied with the people in front of them, and this left an opening for someone in this person who happens to be the governor of texas which is intriguing that he would shoot up so quickly, and the numbers are double-digits, and as you pointed out with the caveats of the poll, it is impressive that he has made this impact so soon. >> it is impressive, and we have seen other people shoot up temporarily,

one of those worried, connecticut senator joe lieberman. >> god forbid the special committee doesn'trecommendation that's accepted by congress. the president is going to have to make recommendations of cuts in spending on defense that will disseminate our national security. >> there will also be pressure on democrats because at least 15 provisions of the president's health care law would be on the chopping block in the triggers, the enforcement mechanisms despite efforts to shield the law. shep? >> shepard: congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill tonight. by the way, the government reports our total national debt is now almost as big as our gross domestic product. that's all the goods and services that the entirety of the country produces. experts tell us that has not happened since 1948. the feds barred more than $200 billion this week after president obama signed the bill to raise the debt limit so. our total debt is now more than $14.5 trillion. just a few trillion shy of our entire economic output at the end of the second quarter of the year. nothing like a publi

the connecticut independent senator joe lieberman who each claimed those cuts could put our troops and that matter our nation's security in some degree of jeopardy. jennifer griffin works the pentagon for us and is live there tonight. jennifer, at the last moment. speaker boehner, it's my understanding, managed to get republicans on the house armed services committee on board despite initial reservations. >> that's right. he met with them late this afternoon. i understand. i met with chairman of the house armed services committee mckean last week. he says then that he would have serious trouble cutting defense any further. today, late today, he said he would vote yes but with deep reservations. buck mckean carries a card in his breast pocket that shows how much the military has shrunk in the last 20 years. on that card, since 1990, the army had 76 bringing gadz back in 1990, shep. now it has 45. the navy had 546 ships. now it has 288. air force fighter squad drons in 1990, there were 82. now there are 39. the air force strategic bombers have gone from 360 to 154. >> shepard: is part of

h >> joe lieberman is no democrat. [applause] some of us worked to make sure he did not get back in the u.s. senate. he did, and he is there as an independent, and he is able to use his power in whatever fashion he deems is in his interest, voting sometimes with republicans and sometimes with democrats. the question is why didn't we do more. we really did do a lot. if we made any mistakes, it was not be enough. -- big enough. if you are going to have a stimulus package, it cannot be the kind that goes through the regular process with response to proposals. it will never get to the communities, because the big boys, the contractors who have all of this monday, and not rip off all of that, and they do not hire into our communities. we have to do away with the way money is disbursed. we cannot put it in the hands of some of these governors or mayors who rip it off and never give it to the community, so those are some things we have learned. meanwhile, we are always working four jobs and not -- for jobs and the creation of

do you think mitch mcconnell is afraid of obama, or joe lieberman? >> should they be? >> absolutely. i asked axelrod about this when i was writing a piece about obama is first year. one thing i thought was missing was fear, his ability to let potential friends and enemies know there would be a reward for being a friend and a penalty for being an enemy. if you cannot do that, there is no price to be paid for opposing you. democrats opposed the health- care bill in ways that were terribly damaging to him. republicans have done nothing but oppose him. obama does not want, perhaps for reasons we have talked about earlier, perhaps for other reasons deep in him, does not want to be seen to be punishing people. you have to be willing to punish people. i think it has been a missing weapon in his arsenal. it sounds a little crude to talk about politics in this way, but this is part of what it is about. i asked a number of senators is a bomb appeared on capitol hill. they said absolutely not. no one is afraid of him. >> as opposed to the former speaker of the house, pelosi. >> s

h >> joe lieberman is no democrat. [applause] some of us worked to make sure he did not get back in the u.s. senate. he did, and he is there as an independent, and he is able to use his power in whatever fashion he deems is in his interest, voting sometimes with republicans and sometimes with democrats. the question is why didn't we do more. we really did do a lot. if we made any mistakes, it was not be enough. -- big enough. if you are going to have a stimulus package, it cannot be the kind that goes through the regular process with response to proposals. it will never get to the communities, because the big boys, the contractors who have all of this monday, and not rip off all of that, and they do not hire into our communities. we have to do away with the way money is disbursed. we cannot put it in the hands of some of these governors or mayors who rip it off and never give it to the community, so those are some things we have learned. meanwhile, we are always working four jobs and not -- for jobs and the creation of

h >> joe lieberman is no democrat. [applause] some of us worked to make sure he did not get back in the u.s. senate. he did, and he is there as an independent, and he is able to use his power in whatever fashion he deems is in his interest, voting sometimes with republicans and sometimes with democrats. the question is why didn't we do more. we really did do a lot. if we made any mistakes, it was not be enough. -- big enough. if you are going to have a stimulus package, it cannot be the kind that goes through the regular process with response to proposals. it will never get to the communities, because the big boys, the contractors who have all of this monday, and not rip off all of that, and they do not hire into our communities. we have to do away with the way money is disbursed. we cannot put it in the hands of some of these governors or mayors who rip it off and never give it to the community, so those are some things we have learned. meanwhile, we are always working four jobs and not -- for jobs and the creation of

come back when "your world" is live, 4:00 today and the ceo of cypress semiconductor and senator joe liebermantwo of many guests neil will have and watch on fox business network, live from the hill, 6:00 tonight, neil is trying to piece it all together. alisyn: yeoman's duty, indeed and joe biden denying he compared tea party republicans to terrorists. and he says it is all a big misunderstanding, and the people were venting yesterday, during his meeting with the democratic caucus. and the vice president adding, quote, i never said they were terrorists, or worse terrorists. bill: and house tea party caucus chair and presidential candidate michelle bachmann, weighing in strongly on the debt deal, not pulling punches on her no vote with sean hannity, last night. >> all of the overspending does impact job creation. and, unfortunately, the lack thereof. and, that is why people want government to do what they have to do. what local businesses have to do. and, that is be sure that you don't spend more money than what you take in. that is why what people want to know is, will someone do what has to b

here is connecticut senator joe lieberman. >> so, in september when we come back, after the summer break, right away we've got to start dealing with the budget for the federal fiscal year that begins october 1st. and there is a lot of work to do quickly. >> reporter: continuing resolutions just kick the can down the road on making serious budgetary decisions. the hope is congress after recess, perhaps after getting an ear full from constituents will make tough choices and spending priorities moving forward. jon: we'll see what happens there in that building behind you as well as at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. thank you. jenna: that's a big question. for for fallout from the downgrade of our nation's credit rating one of the things we're watching today and sandra mentioned it, oil prices are down. that is a double-edged sword. good for us, the consumer if we're tkroeufg and hitting the roads but a bad sign as far as protection of the health of the economy overall. eric bolling of the fox business network is with us. let's talk a little bit that oil story. this has really been a

budget, and so bottom line, the budget fight will come up quickly after the recess, and senator joe lieberman from connecticut says he expects a lot of fiscal fights over the next 18 months. take a listen. >> it's going to continue to dominate the next year and a half of this 112th session of congress. so in september when we come back, after the summer break, right away we've got to start dealing with the budget for the federal fiscal here that begins october 1st. and there is a lot of work to do quickly. >> reporter: as we have scenery sent history with this congress whether it was the government shut down a few months ago, or then this deal with the debt ceiling, they like to work down to the wire, and so it should be a very busy end of september heading towards that october 1st start of the fiscal year, jenna. jenna: a little dangerous when that pressure cooker starts to feel comfortable. you don't necessarily want that. but we'll see what happens as we move towards some of the deadlines, mike. thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you, jenna. jenna: mike emanuel in washington. jon: a f

in 1998, then democrat joe lieberman called out president clinton for his immoral sexual behavior. george hw bush joined democrats in a deal even though he promised he would not. remember the now famous speech? >> read my lips. no new taxes. >> bush did raise taxes for the good of the country and americans rewarded him for voting him out of office. in the mid-term elections, we elected 60 tea party congressman. americans voted for mr. obama because they wanted change and hope. you can bet that right now a lot of voters are scratching their heads. the fact is we voted for these people. congress will punish itself if it doesn't come up with a bipartisan agreement. that's not governing. as university of universe professor said if james madison were alive, he may reconsider the checks and balances. power is divided in too many ways. you go through hell it get things done. the talk back question, do we get the government we want or the government we deserve? facebook.com/carolcnn. i will are the more later this hour. >> here's a run down of the stories ahead. a deal on the debt ceiling

senator joe lieberman has called for thes espionage act to be amended, he has emerged as a kind of a. mitchell palmer of the digital age. [laughter] he was the woodrow wilson attorney general who prosecuted suspected reds, and this is just very, very troubling on free speech grounds. so what's the alternative? the alternative is open leaks, an organization founded with other former disaffected wikileaks colleagues. their goal is to create a genuinely neutral platform for whistleblowers that avoids the raps of become -- trappings of becoming pop stars like assange. it's not a publishing platform. it allows whistleblowers to deposit material anonymously, and you can decide when you want the leak to go to new york times or the guardian or an ngo, and you can also specify for how long the recipient should have exclusive access. by offering a series of mailboxes, open leaks doesn't have to choose between large and small leaks. and the key idea is that by separating the receipt of the documents from their publication, open leaks solves the problem from centralization that allowed assange to

senator joe lieberman has called to allow the prosecution of publishers.tive? if prosecution is not an option, the option is open leaks. a generally neutral platform for whistle blowers that avoid the trap of becoming pop stars like assange. wikileaks is not a publishing platform. it allows whistle blowers to deposit anonymously and specify

are certainly a lot of blue dog democrats who really basically are conservatives, who -- look, joe lieberman supported john mccain in the last election. megyn: 11 percent of democrats saying they would go for bachmann. >> you know, again, once they really get to know her and her positions, and who her mentors have been and what she really stands for, the president has a really big case to make, make a great case about foreign policy, the economy may well improve between now and next fall, we have a year and a half to go, so this is very preliminary. certainly not something he should not be concerned about, a double negative, but we have a long way to go and people really don't know these candidates yet. they're not paying full attention. megyn: what do you make of it, david? >> they do know the president, they know he has a failed stimulus policy, that a number of his programs -- >> megyn: you're saying these are antiobama numbers, not pro bachmann -- >> we've seen the failure of the housing bailout, freddie and fannie, businesses hurt with banking. the fact is the president has not put fort

. >> reporter: and while other lawmakers like joe lieberman have released statements saying the u.s. they've played. mccain and graham, randi, criticize the obama administration for not doing more to bring the conflict to an end sooner. in their view, they believe that the president was leading from behind and that's one issue that they said that where he has failed. the obama administration at large has failed here. >> all right. kate bold uan, thank you. >>> wolf blitzer is standing by. wolf, what do you expect the president will say or should say? >> i think he's going to probably say on camera what he said in the written statement last night. very similar. i don't think he'll go much further than we heard last night, namely, that this is a turning point, obviously it looks like it's the end of gadhafi. gadhafi's regime. the end of his rule in libya. that he should surrender. it's over for gadhafi. i think he's going to note the unified nato stance, how the allies have gotten together. i would be surprised if he goes a lot further than that unless he's going to release some new in

[applause] my website, you did with joe lieberman, a bill which changes it. we means test medicare and make it participate. senior citizens in this room, never paid a penny for the benefit you're getting from medicare part b. its 13 trillion dollars you're to leave to your grandkids. for it. that was passed by a republican so prescription drug of his campaign. that tells you how sick we are in this country. it's fine to do prescription seniors, but where is pay for it? who's going to pay for it? all we're doing is kicking the can down the road and a grand kids, yet grandfather he never met, but he consumed $20,000 worth of drugs and you have to pay for it now. that's what medicare part b is. no one can doubt my commitment physician. i've done it for 25 years. the one thing you cannot say is keep doing the same different result than not go bankrupt. it's not that there isn't a way to do it. take the fraud and excess profits out as do and some of the waste. you took $100 billion that is fraud and waste in medicare out, you could do a whole lot every year. that'

he said he decided to run after the connecticut independent senator joe lieberman enhanced you would seek reelection in do those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> dr. martin luther king was not a president of the united states. at no time in his life did he hold public office. he was not a hero of foreign wars. he never had much money. while he lived, he was reviled at least as much as he was celebrated. by his own accounts, he was a man frequently wracked with doubts, a man not without flaws , a man who, like moses before him, more than once questioned why he had been chosen for so arduous task. the task of leading a people to freedom. the task of healing the festering wounds of the nation's original sen. >> watch the entire event, the groundbreaking of the martin luther king, jr., morial at d.c.'s ban library. five years later, the memorial will dedicated this sunday live on c-span. during the week, coverage of other events surrounding the indication on the c-span networks. -- surrounding the dedication. [bell tolls] >> notice the color of the bourbon, that prett

even joe lieberman, the senator from connecticut indicated in a report in the senate that we need toognize how it's formed and how it's radicalized even within the ranks of the military. look at the cases as you mentioned of the major who here at walter reed was radicalized to a variety of mechanisms one of which happens to be the leader of al-qaida and the arabian peninsula. he was radicalized through the internet and yet, over the last couple of years, we've seen a rocket change in the number of home grown terrorists that were radicalized through the internet. we've got to monitor that. we've got to monitor this particular community especially, you know, don't paint the whole community the same way but recognize they're coming from a particular very strong and safe community that gets radicalized through associations with the cyber terrorists that's very dangerous to this nation. >> i want to read an excerpt for you from the white house strategy, this report that came out. here's part of it. group and individuals supporting al-qaida's vision are attempting to lure americans to terr

senator jim webb, claire mccaskill, susan collins and joe lieberman and u.s. representative darrell issa and john tyranny and we appreciate the many members of the media who followed our work and described it to the public and one final point the commissioners wanted to make sure we expressed, we are in awe of our men and women who serve in the military. we pay incredible respect to their sacrifice, those that have been injured, the families that have lost loved ones. but we also want to include in that list equally the contractors who have lost their lives and the contractors who have been wounded. there have been thousands who have lost their lives and the sad is, it's almost like they have been expendable. they haven't gotten the kind of attention that their deaths require. so we just want to say thank you to the men and women who serve overseas, both in our government, in the military and as well as contractors for our government. we're going to have 1-minute comments from the six commissioners behind me. we were all equal partners. there was really no fir

that is effectively what senator joe lieberman did in going after companies like amazon and paypal.t is exactly the wrong response, because it is the boy putting his finger in the dike. the flood is will we have to deal with. i would argue that when we try to suppress information in this age, we make it more valuable and interesting. it is called the barbara streisand effect. that is when she got upset because they they geological survey of the california coastline which it because of a geological survey of the california coast line was public -- because a geological survey of the california coast line was published, and she sued to get the pictures of her house removed. all that did was make people more interested in seeing her house. this is only going to rise. it is not going down. inevitably, all of that media is going to improve more -- include more and more previously privileged information, including information about waste, fraud, and abuse. the question we should be exploring is how do we deal with the tsunami, because we cannot stop it. >> thank you very much. i would like

do you think joe lieberman is afraid of obama? >> should they be? >> yes. absolutely. i asked david axelrod about this when i was writing a piece about obama's per year. one thing i thought was missing was fear -- his inability to let potential friends and enemies know that there will be a reward for being a friend and would be a penalty for being an enemy. if you cannot do that, there is no price to be paid for opposing view. democrats opposed them all the heth care bill in ways that were terribly damaging. republicans have done nothing but oppose him. maybe it is just kp in him that he does not want to be seen as punishing people. you have to be willing to punish people. it is a missing weapon in his arsenal. it sells crude to talk about politics in this way, but it is part of what it is about. i guess the number o senators, "is obama feared on capitol hill?" they said absolutely not. >> as opposed to the former speakeof the house, nancy pelosi? >> she was feared. she got more done than obama did. lyndon johnson was feared. >> we are going to wrap it up. if you want