it doesn't work. >> larry: we'll have more with senator john mccain after this. sfx: coin drop want to hear how more families are saving money, saving time and saving for the future? it's regions lifegreen checking and savings. these accounts come with a personal savings review, up to a $250 annual savings account bonus, and free online and mobile banking for simple and safe banking anytime, anywhere. just drop by or visit regions.com/open to open your accounts, and get into the rhythm of saving. reons it's time to expect more. >> larry: we're back from the rotunda in capitol hill with senator john mccain. you mentioned that he keeps criticizing the bush administration. you have to admit in all fairness that obama inherited quite a set of problems. >> absolutely. and that's one of the reasons why we lost the election. maybe also because not so great a candidate. but the point is that we let spending get out of control under the bush administration. we republicans. and we paid a heavy price for it. but the president also promised that he would go line by line, tha

i want to thank my new colleague, senator john mccain.ause] on a night like this when some many put their name on a statewide ballot, you think back to the first people who gave you a chance and believed. for the trust they put in me, i want to thank my neighbors and friends and my home town. this started right here with all of you. that to me tell you, when i first got to feeling something big was happening was when i was driving along the road out in central massachusetts. i knew things were starting to click when i saw a hand made scott brown yard sign that i put there myself. this little campaign of hours was destined for great things. the message went far beyond. it all started with me, my truck, and a few amount of dedicated volunteers. however, it ended with an air force one making an emergency run to logan -- [laughter] he talked about some the things he disagreed with me on. when he started to criticize my truck, that is where i draw the line. throughout this race, we had the machine scared unscrambling. for them, it is the begin

mccain couldn't risk that, so they needed a last minute replacement. so, suddenly you're in a jam. >> schmidt: we were. >> john: that's the state of desperation they're in as they sit down with mccain that sunday night over a dinner of deep-fried burritos and say to him, "what about sarah palin?" >> cooper: john heilemann of "new york" magazine and mark halperin of "time" covered the campaign, and spent the last two years interviewing some 200 political insiders for their book, "game change." among their revelations is how mccain's campaign manager, rick davis, spotted sarah palin while searching the google and youtube for possible vice presidential candidates. >> mark halperin: rick davis saw one interview she did with charlie rose where she was very much the sarah palin that people find appealing. she was lively, she was engaging, she popped off the screen. mccain boxed himself in. he needed a game-changing pick for vice president. and that left them with a last minute pick of someone who was, to mccain, a virtual stranger, and was, to his senior staffers, an absolute stranger. >> cooper: just two days befor

john mccain is one of our guests. don't go away. >> larry: let's take a call for john and david. caller: hi, larry. i am just wondering, is he going to focus at all on jobs and how to put people back to work? i'm two years unemployed and he's talking about green jobs and everything, but i'm a former banker. you can't put us into green jobs. they're not retraining us. we're not skilled labor. where do they focus on jobs for those that are already skilled? where do they put us? >> larry: wouldn't you bet, john, that jobs is a big part of the discussion tomorrow? >> sure, it absolutely will be. it's all about jobs and the economy at this point. the tricky thing is, you know, president obama can't promise that government will create the jobs. what he can do is call for investment that can create new conditions. that's why the emphasis on green jobs and building a green energy sector clean and green that can move us into the 21st century. the economy and jobs are issues that big government spending for jobs runs against the deficit. they're a difficult balance here. he has to give tho

. >> you're talking about hyman rickover and john mccain? >> john mccain is a friend of mine. i cannot say about him. i met rickover one time. i think it would fit with him, yes. >> the perceive any kind of role for congress to play? do you think it would be too late by the defense authorization bill to deal with it? do you have any plans to write any legislation on that? >> we will have our hearing wednesday and i hope you come at 10:00 a.m. i am sure all the members of the committee will probe this issue. there may be our requirement at the end of the day to have legislation. we can actually do it by a stand-alone bill. if that is the case, we can include in the defense authorization bill -- which will come out in may or later in the spring -- i do not think we should rush to judgment, because, honestly, i think it is not just the third is -- jurisdiction of those in power in the military, or standards of rules and regulations regarding fitness reports, oer's, and medical-academic records, to do this themselves. if necessary, we will not hesitate to do it. >> let us turn our

john mccain said it would be his first act as president of closing guantanemo. jim burnett, the senator from south carolina has held up the appointment and the nomination of a permanent head of the transportation security agency because of his concern about labor unions. i would point out to senator dimint on september 11th, when 23new york firefighters walked into the jaws of death and the fires of hell to serve the abandoned, the scared, and the search for life, every one of them was a dues-paying union member. >> in addition to chaney's misstatements about obama on terrorism, i thi the worst is from peter holstrom the republican campaign committee both using this tragedy to ask for campaign contributions. that was disgusting. >> all right. let's change gears now and talk about the american economy one year after the collapse next. don't seat same desperation has we had last year. i see -- mostly what i see today are recently unemployed folks. >> that's a job fair at ashville, north carolina, four days after christmas hundreds of people lined up for jobs, that

and barack obama is incompetent, unprepared, on qualified to be president, john mccain is this. based on what you guys have said this morning, the exact opposite -- the reverse is true to barack obama seems to be hope and change and all that, but he seems to be a very savvy politician, a brilliant strategic thinker, a very well- prepared, understands the issues, and yet all the buzz right now is about sarah palin, who mostly speaks -- her vocabulary is mostly monosyllabic, and i have not heard her say anything of substance in terms of public policy from the time she started running up until now. i am just amazed -- are you amazed that the country is so enamored with sarah palin, who lacks intellectual curiosity, lacks the depth. she is mostly a vacuous -- guest: i'm a big fan of monosyllabics, so i have to differ from the caller there at that that is a problem. with all due respect to the color and many who called c- span2 and he sees the world in any -- who calls c-span, he sees the world in a particular way but there are many others who see it differently. there are those who

guest: john mccain is a friend of mine. i cannot say about him. i met rick one time and receive one of his lectures in my office. guest: do you foresee any kind of role for congress in changing policy in for good? do you think it would be too late for the 2011 defense authorization bill to deal with this? do you have any plans to write any legislation on the defense authorization bill. guest: we will have our hearing at 10:00 wednesday morning. i hope you will see one. -- you will come. they will prove this issue. there may be a requirement to have legislation. we can do it by a stand-alone bill, if that is the case or weekend included in the defense authorization bill which will come out of our committee -- or weekend included in the defense authorization bill. quite honestly, i think it is with iin the jurisdiction but which in the power of the military by establishing rules and regulations regarding fitness reports, oer's, and the medical-academic records to tight knit themselves. if necessary, i will not hesitate to do it. host: do you have tr

. >> greg: john mccain the next day stood up for his colleague. >> i have been around here twenty some years and first time i have seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks and i must say that i don't know what is happening here in this body but i think it's wrong. >> greg: anyway, the story ends happily. all three later made up at friendly's and shared a forbidden fudge brownie. bill, she shared one once. i go to you. was franken drunk with power the way you are often drunk with [ bleep ] drunkenness? >> powerful maddog? >> yes. >> this was awesome. this needs to happen a lot more than it does. there is so many long winded bozos that fill the halls. frankie did something that more people should be doing. i have always want during the halftime to use any capacity as the fox news contribute fresh, illinois to shut him down, greg. >> do you agree with him or disagree? >> i agree with him because it is in the rules. there are too many damn rules on capitol hill, just like in the nfl with the helmets. >> if they all wore helmets, i would watch c-span. >> i know a ba

the person who knew him best in the old, was john mccain. hen mccain was starting to fall, he was never worried about rudy giuliani. he said rudy is rudy. >> each year, the washington center brings thousands of students to washington, d.c. to experience the workings of our glovet first hand. this weekend, they will discuss politics and their government. >> friday, the chinese foreign ministry rejected a call by secretary of state hillary clinton to lift restrictions on the internet. now here's her speech that led to that response. this is just over an hour. good morning. i welcome you to an event that i think we will all long remember. we are privileged this morning to witness a major foreign policy speech by our secretary of state immediately following i encourage you to stay for a panel discussion led by ann marie slaughter the director of the policy plabbing staff. this is the perfect setting for a discussion about freedom. the news yum is not a classic museum. it has of course lots of history but its purpose is to promote the freedoms tha

you have people like john mccain and lindsey graham saying we should not release people from gitmo to any country that has a al qaeda presence. >> i think that's exactly right. up shouldn't be putting them to yemen. you shouldn't be putting them into saudi arabia. there's talk about this rehab program that they go through in saudi arabia. the results have been very, very mixed. you shouldn't be sending them back to somalia, afghanistan, pakistan. because the evidence is clear, these people are released and the number of them go back on the to the battlefield. the clear signal is when these gitmo detainees find their way back to the battlefield, they're no longer focused on the conflict in pakistan, afghanistan or iraq. just like others, they form the core of people who want to attack the united states. it's a national security homeland security issue. >> schieffer: diane fine steen, what about that, that we shouldn't release anybody to a country where there's an al qaeda presence. do you go along with that. >> i tend to agree with that actually. if you look at yemen-- and we're taking

one of his chief supporters is senator john mccain. lot of democrats were hoping he would start ramping down in afghanistan not ramping up. the speaker of the house nancy pelosi was one of them. she has essentially said the president needs to carry his own water on this issue and convince his fellow democrats if he wants to get the funding for this troop increase. >> schieffer: i would add that the chairman of the foreign relations committee john kerry and the chairman of the senate armed services committee carl levin are both fairly luke warm about this too. the president will be on his own on this one. i agree with you. i think in the end he'll probably get the approval. >> it will be a lot of republicans and a small number of democrats most likely that give him the majority he needs. >> schieffer: let's round this out and get the thoughts of all of you on what is going to happen. what is your prediction for this year, chip reid? >> well, bob, health care reform. i think it probably will be passed. and signed into law. once that happ

pacific time, and among our guests will be senator john mccain. so "larry king live" will be at midnight eastern, 9:00 pacific tomorrow night following the state of the union and cnn's political team discussing the state of the union. we're going to go to haiti and we begin with christiane amanpour, our chief international correspondent and the host of "amanpour" seen on saturdays and sundays on cnn. christiane, you just got there this week. what's your overview of this after a two-week occurrence that has developed into a nightmare? what's your read? >> well, the thing is, it's getting better, if you can say that, in certain instances. obviously, we've heard since the earthquake struck of all the difficulties getting the food, supplies and meds out to the people. that is getting better, whether it's here in port-au-prince or out in jacmal or in the southern caribbean coast. trying to facilitate the airlifts, provide security and get the supplies out is certainly expanding, but it's not enough to meet the needs of every single person. right now th

i should mention saving 55% of unmarried women between the ages of 18 to 29 favored abroad, by john mccain by 55%, married woman different ages of 18 to 29 favored mccain and palin by 12%, and i should have mentioned that. so it is more of a merrill status gap than just a sheer gander to the eckert tendered at or age difference but to answer the question, young people -- a young woman voting in 2008 basically all she had ever known in politics or the bush and clinton's in different orders and if she were enamored with either of the teams i would assume she would on with one of those two teams in other words given mccain her vote and given to the idea this was over bush's eight years or to be supportive hillary clinton in the primaries or decided not to and the general election because of the bad aftertaste in the primary against clinton but that was in the case for many young women. for them there for a into the national political barack obama. was his campaign and let's give the barack obama campaign a ton of credit whereas the have switched focus and discipline organizations as campaigns

barack obama is the incompetent, unprepared, unqualified to be president, john mccain is the long-timeolitician with a lot of experience and based on what you guys said this morning, to me, the exact opposite -- the reverse is true. i mean, barack obama seems to be, i mean, hope and change and all that, but he seems to be a very savvy politician, brilliant strategic thinker and very well prepared, understands the issues, yet all the buzz right now is about sarah palin who mostly speaks -- her vocabulary is mostly mono1il8 abic, i haven't -- is mostly monosill big, i haven't heard her say anything of substance from the time she started running until now. aren't you amazed the country is fascinated by sarah palin, when she's mostly vacuous and vapid. >> i'm a big man of monosyllabic, so i decent see the problem. that caller sees the world in a very particular way and there are millions of americans who see it his way, but there are millions of americans who feel that barack obama was a fraud as a candidate, is a horrible president and sarah palin is our salvation. part of what we tried t

he wants to think it out, and john mccain, a very instinctive and sometimes disruptive politician, is the kind of person who might have done something like this against all advice, against all council. >> [inaudible] >> yes, they are a breed apart and heated the airlifters with a cold grocery deliver some. >> on that note, you mentioned tom bradley and marshall were so against the airlift to begin with. but it was the response after they saw how successful the airlift was? >> well, marshall was very sick so he really didn't have -- bradley was truly mystified by this. he thought it was locked and of course some of it was. but the great make their own what. i want to say one more thing about truman's role in all of this and when i was looking for something to write what actually got me to write this was that in reading tony job's compost war, which is a very fine book on this period, and david mccaul of's book on truman, which obviously is a wonderful book on truman, but both of those books airlift it's about two paragraphs and was then i realized people don't notice any more. they no

see, unmarried women, unmarried women favored barack obama over john mccain by 41 points.nmarried women between the ages of 18 and 29 favor barack obama over john mccain because they are all renegades, pretty much. but they favored -- i think it is a cautionary tale to the conservative movement and the republican party because unmarried women are in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's. women are staying married by choice and through circumstance these days. you have many women unmarried, who are running their own businesses, who are getting their own degrees, who out in the workforce, who ared co-navigators for sm so many decisions for elderly parents and aunts and uncles and they don't have children of their own but they spoil the heck out of everybody else's children. this is a huge growing contingencey within our population. many of them, we have to admit they are financially sophisticated. they are buying their own homes. they are availing themselves of the acutements -- acoutrements of society. they are not waiting for a we to become a me. this idea is short-sighted and naiv

. >> if he adopted john mccain's proposal -- make the bill much more affordable. >> if he had come in and consulted with john mccain on two or three of the things on health care, or bobby jindal or appointed what people height, these commissions but have a commission led by a bob dole and others and say what are the principles and try to do it? i think also, though, the republicans felt that injecting more poartisanship and -- >> i think the democrats didn't notice that when they were passing a stimulus bill that couldn't get one single republican vote it might have been viewed as problematic by the american people. >> we have to close this with historical commentary from robert caro or any kind of comment. >> i think, you know, you never know how history's going to view things for you, but i think that this scope of what he's trying to do, to change a country -- does anybody really think we didn't need huge health care reform? does anyone not think we have other huge problems here? to have a president who says i'm going to try, to me, is sort of thrilling. we don't know how it's goin

what you're looking at is a very thin bench for democrats, a place where, obviously, john mccain did and george bush did well. this is not a place where democrats tend to thrive at the federal level. if hogan gets in, you're look at a very easy pickup here for republicans. i agree with chris on the connecticut situation. not only has blumenthal not had a race before but as chris pointed out he's been attorney general for 20 years. there's a long record there, and that-- in a year where people are saying they don't really like the establishment, they don't really like the incumbents, that can be some fodder for the republicans. >> ifill: let's take it back to washington for a moment, amy. if you are hari ride, and you lose two senators like this on one day, what are you thinking? >> you're thinking you have to get a lot done before the end of the year because the odds of me keeping vikt becoming expless less likely. and that might be an-- that might give some incentive for some of these democrats who may sitting on the fence in terms of whether they're going to support or not support

contests and win the party's presidential nomination after the winning the republican nomination, john mccainicks sarah palin as his running mate and the first for ticket for the white house. and the housing bubble bursts and the story reaches the climb ma max when barack obama is the first. >> a good human story, it mattered, america has truly gone in a different direction sincen you know, you can say some of it was overly emotional and gullible, nobody couldn't say it's not a phenomenal story. >> jon: we talked about how the press got on the obama band wagon early. has that changed? >> somewhat, let me just return to something quickly. i grew up in segregated washington and remember when the newspapers of that day in the history had black pages, they had news, black news, it was very difficult for an african-american, a negro as they were called in the media then, to get the kind of coverage, debutante balls, they were all segregated. there was tremendous progress made. i as an american, washington ee proud we would elect an african-american, but focus on the color of his skin than the cont

this is sarah simmons who served the john mccain presidency campaign.rnold schwarzenegger campaign which i know you will talk about, she is a graduate of american university and a personal friend of mine which shows that bipartisanship can exist in washington d.c.. let them have it. >> thanks for having me this morning. i want to say that if you are serious about working on campaigns, this is the best piece of education you can take with you. i occasionally -- you have better bound books than we had in and 90s. i occasionally go back of i am stuck with a task i am not familiar with to review the course materials i had. there are a lot of great speakers that come through here, people you will remember for a long time. i will talk about making voting work for your campaign. part of what i am going to talk about is from the arnold schwarzenegger example. the john mccain campaign may have the worst reputation compared to the obama votes. some of that was funding, some just the regular challenges our campaign had that was more global. it was not specific tac

as john mccain's running mate. much of the polling question, much of the media coverage, much of the discussion at the watercooler and over the cappuccino counters was about the individuals who were running for president. 2009 was a shift away from individuals and back onto issues. we saw this when you look at the tea party goers, and what they were talking about, these tea parties. fiscal accountability, the exploding debt and deficits, spending money on health care reform, bailing out wall street bonuses, many of the code, being a jerk neighbor subprime mortgage or a great deal of concern about issues, particularly fiscal issues. the town hall meetings that were predominately centered around health care, health care not as a heartstrings issues, as i think the administration was banking on that health care which is the same as a heart sings issue, but health care seemed to an economic prison by many of these concerned and nervous citizens who are taken those concerned and that anxiety to these town hall meetings.

there are 49 democratic members of congress that john mccain carried in 2008.gressional districts that are held by democrats who won in 2008 but their districts that president obama won in 2008 but that president bush carried in 2000 and 2004. so looking at voters through a very simple linear prison, thinking about that in terms of how they always voted republican or democrats, they don't make history, it is really nie. it discredits how people are making their decisions. if you open up anybody's hand back right now, if you would find six different brands of the same kind of product, whether it was of vitamin or prescription or beauty products, if you would find all the saints. all the same kind of product. these consumers are brand loyal but we're not ran monotonous. two of the most important demographic groups to look at it 2010 our unmarried women and small business-owning women and aspiring small business-owning women. in addition to the 60 million women in this country, if you have entrepreneurial aspirant. they don't believe in the security of big busines

i think it needs to be said that john mccain, having followed his campaign very closely, valued youngeople, valued their vote swrblings was reaching out for their vote, but i think the obama campaign was probably better at reaching out to them. up just the kind of change that candidate obama was talking about appeals to young people, more radical, more, you know, we're really going to shake up washington, and mccain said he was going to as well, but when you look at the specific bullet points of the obama administration, they were speaking the same language as a lot of young people. second, they were using the tools as you were laying out. you know, whether it's facebook, twitter, snerp using those tools to better contact with them. i will note that john mccain now has one of the best or most followed twitter accounts in the world. at least on capitol hill. now, why he wasn't doing that as a presidential candidate, i don't understand. nevertheless, it also needs to be said that i'm not saying if john mccain was using twitter last year or a year and a half ago he would be president now

. >> caller: i would just like to say john mccain discredited himself because he endorsed announce the economic policy. >> guest: that's not true. >> caller: listen to what i'm telling you. he said why he was trying to figure out the problems with unemployment adolf hitler had salted so basically we all know how -- that's the economic policy ended, but our economy is so centralized and the politicians have made it to where we're going to have a service economy instead of industrial economy. you can see that our tax code is set up to penalize industry so what they want us to do is fix the products in china and other countries make while we are just not making anything. if we don't start back in the industrial society and get all of these whacko environmental quote and of the way we're going to really be heard in this country. >> host: tribal get a response from mr. bartlett. >> guest: i think it was clear that a lot of countries in the 1930's were experiencing with what we came to call keynesian ideas, government spending and public works and things of that sort and certainly the german

you know, as between hillary clinton and john mccain i'll take hillary. wouldn't get blamed for it. and also republicans would show a lot of us got blamed with amnesty. you want to support your president, your party is in the white house. and a lot of the spending went up, a lot of the things that hurt republicans and i think george bush was a magnificent president in many ways, particularly on foreign-policy and protecting this this country from terror. but he was a liberal in some ways and i mean other than the fact that the countries going to be a third world country on the basis of this stimulus bill, other than that little detail i am enjoying being in the insurgency, the angry insurgents instead of having to be the governing majority. >> host: and almost makes you numb amah doesn't it? >> guest: gap. >> host: i think people are starting to wake up to it. let me ask you this. keeping your heart, is there a book i may be an esoteric topic that you'd kind of like to do even knowing it might not be a bestseller, maybe even a bio on clare boothe luce. >>

in fact, if you remember, that is what happened to john mccain over hanoi.e came down in what amounts to the central park-- part of hanoi and people were drowning him. he came down in a lake, were drowning him when police in north vietnamese soldiers came and pulled him away from them. so suddenly noaa thompson knows the exact spot where his friend was slaughtered, and is flying over it and thinking, my god, this is quite a world, isn't it? but he thought, like all of the others that thought, i know that you know a great deal about post-traumatic stress veterans. my own feeling is that the matter what you did, good or bad, the act of killing people trying to kill people, is going to do something to you. nds noaa thompson told me, he thought as he flew over that i would rather be defeating these people then killing them. without exception the people in combat veterans much preferred and said their greatest satisfaction was flying the airlift and i think because as i'm sure some of you know many veterans never talked about combat or about what they did in the

i worked at the polls for john mccain's campaign.n article today in "the washington post." one of the things we should remember, the president did not take public finance. they literally had a half a million dollar general election campaign. everytime we got close the would drop another $50 million. like in healthcare the president said we would save $2,500 per person. but we would not have mandates. that is an easy message to sell. in the environment where we were being outspent by 5-1 in the general elections, yeah, it is very difficult to litigate those claims. look, that is the campaign. they ran a brilliant campaign. the other thing, once these have gone into this titian's collapsed in mid-september when it up on election day with seven out of tin in the country saying that the country was on the wrong track. 70% of those of but for the party out of power. out of 53 the first 49 is just the first 7% of wrong track voters. that is hard to stop. frankly, lastly, to give the president his due, these men and women who survived this

why did john mccain lose the white house, why did you lose the congress?guest: if you look back, i mentioned the history of virginia in terms of the counter-cyclical aspects. look at the post-war period, since franklin roosevelt. no party has carried the white house for three terms since then, with one exception, which was when george h. w. bush, bush 41, defeated ronald reagan. it is difficult to push the party either direction, giving them the same party, the white house or three terms in a row. history was against senator mccain in this election cycle. the second thing was the party in power is held accountable for economic factors. we had the market collapse in october which was truly frightening. i was in the white house at that time. there was a concern weaver looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the -- we were looking at the prospect of a genuine meltdown in the financial and housing markets. ben bernanke and hank paulson said to the president, looking at the prospect of an economy worse than the great depression, it took people to their

. >> larry: mary matlin, john mccain called it a national victory. do you agree? >> well, it was national on the heels of or on top of the republicans for new jersey, a true blue state and new jersey a new blue state. yeah, it was a national company. and health care, there are a number of other issues that could be called conservative that scott brown ran unabashedly on. cutting taxes, the war on terror. but david gergen is exactly right. this is a big walk back. and people came to appreciate it and they don't want the baby thrown out with the bath water. >> larry: what wr are you? >> that's behind you? >> i am standing in front of and trying not to listen to -- though he has been spectacular. rollan is entertaining a crowd here. he is better than us right now. >> larry: he is fighting you. let's go to new york. john avalon. that wasn't the lunatic fringe yesterday, was it? >> no, it wasn't. larry, i am an immediate, 44% of voters born after 1977 are independents. what is happening is a consistent message. democrats need to understand they are overspending. and wh

john mccain's senior advisor said sarah palin's poor preparation during the debate led one colleaguepredict what he called a debauchle of historic and epic proportions. steve schmidt says palin was not focused or engaged during preparations and he says she kept referring to her opponent as joe o biden which led aides to come up with her famous question, can i call you joe? documents released by the administration thursday regarding intelligence failures prior to the unsuccessful christmas day airplane bombing had two glaring mistakes of their own. national intelligence director dennis blair wrote that the suspect, quote, boarded northwest flight 153 for detroit. but it was flight 253. and the summary of the white house review said the suspect's father met with the u.s. embassy officials in nigeria on november 18. but it was actually the 19th. and as the u.s. and other countries attempt to implement heightened security measures at various airports as we just saw, our neighbors to the north are focusing on another issue. the canadian transportation agency rule that had air canada must

and he has recorded his first row -- robocall for john mccain. frank, republican, from beverly, new jersey. caller: you have a great show. the problem here is -- not a problem whether you are d or r -- the problem is these guys go up there and did not represent us any more. and until this starts to change, you are going to see the political landscape change very often in washington, because people are really fed up. not only on the r's and d's, but everything they are doing. they don't listen to us. the only thing they are concerned about is keeping their jobs. i am telling you, you watch the people that swap party affiliations now and you watch for people who retire and you watch for people who get voted out of office. this was a referendum on what is going on in washington, d.c. i was shocked we got the republican governor in new jersey because new jersey is a democratic state. and what happened in massachusetts, i was stunned, because that is so liberal and to the left, that state, and how they vote and what they do, the people are fed up now

which gop insider called sarah palin a reckless choice as john mccain's running mate? why elizabeth edwards whipped off her blouse in a rage. how bill clinton broke down over media coverage of hillary. >> i'm not playing your games today. >> the so-called conspiracy that led to barack obama's candidacy. blowing the lid off backroom politics next on "larry king live." >>> good evening. welcome, everybody. i'm soledad o'brien sitting in for larry tonight. let's look at the excerpt from "game changer" that ignited the political firestorm around senate majority leader harry reid. here's what it said in part. >> joining us tonight to discuss the comments, his apology and all of the fallout is jeff johnson from b.e.t., james carville tonight as well, a democratic strategist and cnn political commentator tara wall joins us. tara is the former deputy editor of the washington times. nancy is here with me. she's a social commentator, actress and contributor to cbs sunday morning. nice to have all of you. let's get it right to it. nancy, since you're here, why don't you begin. wh

this is from the former general counsel to john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign. >> the idea thatll increase with this provision is fundamentally flawed. here is why. right now, you have large corporations that have opened. it is the mid-list corporations that have been left out in the cold. here's why. everyone talks about bailouts for aig or bank of america, were these other financial firms. but the treasury department is not hundred what aig thinks. bankamerica is speaking with the lobby on capitol hill daly, if not hourly. they will always have a connection. it is theçóÑiÑjr mid-list corporations, smaller nonprofit corporations. they do not have enough people in their organizations to fund the pact and make it viable. the chamber of commerce, 96% of the united states chamber of commerce are entities that have 100 employees or fewer. that is not an organization that has existing opinion. if they could ever get money together to speak directly about who should be elected and who should not. host: that rouge, louisiana, republican line. chris, a good morning. caller: this is very

reporter: senators michael bennett, former superintendent of denver public schools and navy veteran john mccainre co sponsors of ability to expand the program. >> we have more returning veterans coming back. this is an opportunity to put them to work in our neighborhoods and our communities, educating our kids. it's a real renaldo wynn for everybody. >> reporter: the bill -- win/win for everybody. >> reporter: the big would increase funding from 30 to 50 million over a five-year period and reduce the years of required military service veterans need to be eligible from six to four. >> he's also one of my favorite teachers too. >> you got the 400... >> reporter: roosevelt dickerson worried 30 years in the military would make teaching tougher. >> when i worked in the mill trif, when i spoke, they moved. >> reporter: when it was suggested he work in special education... >> you're crazy. they're they have definitely not going to list to me. >> reporter: his background turned out to be an asset. >> i feel more comfortable with him. >> he knows how we feel. >> we in the military reflect the face of th

and tonight i want to thank my new colleague, senator john mccain. applause] and on a night like this when so many people mark your name on a statewide ballot, you think back to the first people who gave you a chance and believed. and for the trust they placed in me and for all they have taught me i want to thank my neighbors, friends in my senate district, and especially my hometown of wrentham. the victory that all america has seen tonight started right here with all of you. all of you. yes. let me tell you, when i first got the feeling something big was happening in this campaign was when i was driving along on a road out in central massachusetts, in my truck, yes. and it has over 201,000 now. and i knew things were really starting to click when i saw a hand-made scott brown yard sign that i actually hadn't put there myself. [laughing] [cheers and applause] this little campaign of ours was destined for great things. the message went far beyond the sign that was there placed in the snow. it all started with me, my truck, and a very few awment of de

your father, former vice president cheney, thought sarah palin being pucked was a reckless act by john mccain. not true? >> not true. i haven't read the bill. the information at john edwards, bill clinton, i think they're more interesting. >> we're out of time. "the roundtable" will continue in the green room. >>> coming up next, "the sunday funnies." tdd# 1-800-345-2550 enough is enough. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it's time investors got what they deserve. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 !real help that's there when you need it. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 prcing that leaves you with something to actually invest. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 !at schwab, we offer a lot more help for a lot less money. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 ecause at schwab... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 !investors rule., tdd# 1-800-345-2550 !are you ready to rule? the chevy malibu and toyota camry received 5 star crash safety ratings. but only malibu has onstar. big deal. i'll just use my phone. let's say we crashed. whoops, you lost your phone and you're disoriented. i'm not disoriented. now you are. onstar automatic crash response can call to see if you're ok. onstar em

we have not like john mccain been boiled slowly, we have been tossed quickly in to boiling water.'t forget, what happens when you throw them in. when you throw frogs in boiling water -- okay. forget the frog. >> how did we pull up the frog shot anyway. >> i'm the director behind the boiling frog controversy. glenn came to me and said he wanted to make sure that when we did the frog stunt it looked like we were putting a real frog in boiling water. he was very specific. i want to hear it splash. i want it to look like i'm taking it out. and we have this container of frogs to out on set and i recorded glen putting his hand into the water to get one of the frogs out. so when i actually shot it in the live show, i had that recorded on tape. and i actually gave glenn a monitor so he could look and see and react to when his hand was in the water so as he took his hand out in the rehearsal footage, i was able to cut to him live holding this frog. it was just a split second. it looks the same because it was our set, but it was a tape. and then he took the now rubber frog that he had in hi

no, i mean i will say one thing that sort of surprise me since the election that john mccain of the naveems two of actually ben wendover and tax cutting because he voted against both bush tax cuts. he was a big proponent of manatee. he wanted to shut down gitmo. i would rather have them get the blame rather than us, and it is just something about republicans. they go for the next guy in line. it has been a disaster. they will not learn. i think michael still needs to punish their early primary states are any states that allow democrats and-- to vote in the primaries but when john mccain was nominated and when before he chose sarah palin, who was the one i ended up voting four, and that was for cerak, as between hillary, clinton and john mccain i will take hillary. they are about the same and we would get blamed for it and that was something a lot of us learned during the bush administration like with amnesty. you want to support your president, your party that is in the white house and a lot of the spending runs up. a lot of the things that her republicans and i think george bush was a

the person who knew him best in the old, was john mccain. they had been friends since back when rudy giuliani was mayor. when mccain was starting to fall, he was never worried about rudy giuliani. he said [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> wednesday morning, prime minister's question time from the british house of commons. gordon brown's weekly meeting with the british parallelment. see it live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span 2. >> this weekend on c-span 2's book tv, john mueller that a terrorist attack in the u.s. is far smaller and presents his case and then impact of the automobile in modern society from annual operating costs to global warming and possible increases in obesity and asthma rates. and get the latest updates on twitter. >> do you know one of the top free news is c-span radio? now you can get quick and easy access to three channels, c-span radio plus c-span and c-span 2 and tabs with links to our podcasts. and it's all agree a

the bill much more you a forwardable and secondly -- bipartisan to say i'm going to consult with john mccain with two or the three things on health care and jindal. have a commission led by bob dole and others. and say what are the principles, tray to do it. i think, also, though, the republicans felt that injecting more partisanship and ideological is good politically. >> we have to pull the plug on -- >> democrats didn't notice when they were passing a stimulus bill that couldn't get one single republican vote, might might have been viewed as problematic by the american people. >> we have to close that with that commentary. >> i think -- you never know how history will view things. i think that this scope of what he's trying to do to change a country, does anybody rely think we didn't need huge health care reform? does anyone not think we have a huge problem here to have a president who says i'm going to try to me is sort of thrilling. we don't know how it will work out. he may be doing things wrong. but it is great as far as i'm concerned to have that scope of ambition in a president. >>

interesting, not one female strategist was involved in choosing her, in selecting sarah palin to be john mccain's vp. in many ways the mccain campaign was caught off guard by the issues and attacks she had to deal with as a woman. explain what was going on there. >> it was a very small circle of mccain aides who made the decision. they were all men. some of the things they later experienced such as the focus on her looks or the obsession with her young baby and whether it was hers which turned time-out be a ridiculous question. if there was a woman in the room she might have raised her hand and said, we know from past experience female candidates who look too perfect, who are too attractive can count against them. the men didn't realize that female voters want someone who is older and seems serious and doesn't look so perfect or so beautiful. maybe if there had been a woman in the room she could have alerted them to that. >> you talked to a lot of political strategists in the research and they explain how women need to campaign differently to address some of this stuff. >> look, it may not be fai

policy player, still today when we read articles about sarah palin, whether she's crossed out john mccain'same on a cap or something having to do with her personal life and to a certain extent that's the fault of the media because that's the obsession. on the other hand she's not driving them to a policy point and if she's going to ever be a successful presidential candidate she needs to to do that. >> bret: although she's big on twitter and facebook. later in july of 2009, another exercise in public relations, the beer summit, remember this one? president obama and vice-president joe biden sat down in the roads garden with harvard university professor and the cop who arrested him. sergeant james crowley whom the president said acted stupidly during a confrontation with gates, actually said that about the cambridge police department in general. the president later backed off calling it a teachable moment. charles, what about the beer summit. >> class obama style. here he starts out by making a mistake, accusing cops of acting stupidly, sort of instinctive, sort of prejudice against the cops

to express my appreciation to my friend from the class of 1982 in the house of representatives, john mccain, who has worked on this as hard as anyone, who has pushed this as much as anyone, for his understanding as to how we should move forward on this. so, madam president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 215, s. 2799, that the bill be read three times, passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, and it's my understanding -- anyway, that's my consent. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: reserve the right to object. i will not object, but i just want to point out the importance of this legislation. i think it deserves a roll call vote. we've had discussions with the majority leader and the republican leader. we will hopefully get a roll call vote in the conference report. this situation in iran in terrible and it's worsening. people are dying in the streets of iran as we speak. the amendment that i had proposed, that i had hoped and maybe we can have the conferees included,