and a different leader. >> that would be john klein. >> john klein, i'my. >> it's interesting to me that good morning america, he says my mistake, i said what i was feeling. you're dumb enough to say what you were thinking all along. goodbye to you. >> it was worse than that, when he commented on his comments on radio, i'm from miami, some of my best friends of jewish. >> and geraldo rivera, he was prime time show. >> half jewish, half hispanic. >> he's on a weekend show. >> i'm sure rick sanchez would take exception-- >> and you don't-- >> and i thought the president in a post racial nation. >> i say it's the president's fault. >> i see. >> if obama was-- he lied when he said, what rick sanchez-- >> he clearly was playing inaccurately as andrew says the inethic race card. say, listen you've got to prove you're not a racist, the best way by hiring me. >> jon: did he get canned in part because of the division within team liberal? he took on another liberal, he took on-- >> the jacket. >> i know we are going to get you one. he took on jon stewart. >> let's

. >> you know, john klein called me. >> john klein called me. >> we'll do this in tandem. >> and said do you want to do a show. >> and he said do you want to do say show. >> and i said, are you nuts. he said, let's have a conversation. he said this will be exciting. you'll do it with someone who is smart, witty and clever. i said who's that. we have someone we want to you meet. i said, she's smart. she's smart, witty and clever but i can't beat her in a debate. >> larry: and you heard they wanted to pair you with eliot spitzer. >> i had a lunch with john klein. he was the president of cnn. and i said i want to you go to new york and you meet the one who would be your co-anchor. and he said, you'll meet him. i said who is it? he said eliot spitzer. and i took a couple beats and said bold. >> larry: this is going to cancel "cross fire." >> i think the reality is, we want to be thoughtful. what that means week going to disagree sometimes. we're going to agree sometimes. we will have a smart conversation, not talking points not predictable, based on facts and try to say, look, there's 15%

. >> that would be john klein. >> john klein, i'm sorry. >> it was interesting that he said my mistake was feeling. sort of lining okay you were dumb enough to say what you've been thinking all along, good-bye to you. >> it was worse when he lab rated on sirius xh he said i'm from miami, some of -- xm, he said i'm from miami, some of my best friends are jewish. be quiet. >> geraldo rivero hosts a primetime. >> half jewish and half hispanic. >> and he's on the weekends. i'm sure rick sanchez would take issue. >> i thought this president issued in a post nation -- post racial nation. i see it is president's fault. i get it now. >> it was -- he was playing inaccurately the ethnic race card. he's clearly angling now to get a job. to say you gotta prove you are not racist and the best way to prove it is by hiring me. >> did he get canned because of the division within team liberal? he took on another liberal. he took on jon stewart -- >> let's be clear it was a stupid, thuggish anti-semitic rotten thing to say. of all people jon stewart even if you don't agree with him is a decent fair-mind

. >> you know, john klein called me. >> john klein called me. >> we'll do this in tandem. >> and saidwant to do a show. >> and he said do you want to do say show. >> and i said, are you nuts. he said, let's have a conversation. he said this will be exciting. you'll do it with someone who is smart, witty and clever. i said, who's that? and he said we have somebody we want you to meet. and when we met, i called him back and said she's a smart. she's smart, witty and clever but i can't beat her in a debate, so why should doi this? debate. >> larry: and you heard they wanted to pair you with eliot spitzer. >> i had a lunch with john klein. he was the president of cnn. and i said i want to you go to new york and you meet the one who might be your co-anchor that you're going to do this with. i said who is it? he said eliot spitzer. and i took a couple beats and said bold. >> larry: this is going to cancel "cross fire." and mosteople i run into say is this "crossfire" revisited? >> you know, even your introduction said liberal/conservative. >>. >> larry: you say it in your promo. >> we do, b

he's raising money for ron klein, the democrat. johnwho would be speaker is also in florida today. he's campaigning for klein's opponent, alan west who lost the seat two years ago. so it's kind of a grudge match going on there. obama and boehner out in it too. also pennsylvania, another battleground state. and arlen specter back on the campaign trail for his former opponent, joe sestak. remember, specter lost to sestak in a primary that was quite tough. specter had been a republican, became a democrat because he thought this might be a year for democrat kralts to win. he may be revisiting that. but in any case, the two haven't been really close of late. but he's heading back to the state to campaign for sestak. it's clear that they hope that arlen specter, a former republican, can bring out moderate voters. now, we also have a new cnn poll out today which is very interesting for both parties. shows you what kind of an anti-incumbent year it is. the pullout this afternoon shows that by a two-to-one margin, voters don't approve of the job

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