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. >>> good evening, i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. we have bjorn lomberg, a skeptic who thinks everybody telling us what to do to soflt prob lve the problem is getting it wrong. >> russell simmons, an entrepreneur in the hip-hop world and also a big fan of barack obama still, may be the last man standing who believes in hope and change. >> there are a lot of us out there. we all believe in it. come roaring back. numbers are up like we predicted last week. for opening argument, kathleen. 100 new members of congress descending on washington. we are going to give them a little advice about what to expect. you know what, folks, governing is not campaigning. and those who are out on the campaign frail say we are the not going to raise your taxes, not going to cut any spending, balance the budget at the same time. welcome to the real world. they will have to make the tough choices we have been talking about on the show. other thing they're going to have to do is realize until they say no to their best friend, they're not making those hard c

. >>> good evening, i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm elliott spitszer.hanks for joining us. >> it's been a rough couple weeks for poor president barack obama. he gets the sh lacking in the midterms, then criticized for the qe 2. >> the vote ain't big enough. >> it ain't big enough. now, he's in south korea and he's going to have to come home without the prize he went over there to get, only to come home to a debt commission report that everybody hates. >> kathleen, you are right. it has been a tough two years, let alone two weeks. put that aside, the debt commission may be his ticket back. here is why. it recommends a lot of tough medicine. everybody is criticizing it. democrats saying nancy pelosi, no way, no how. union leaders. republicans are saying because of the tax increase, no way we will do it. he can play the sen tryst in the middle saying everybody needs to take a little medicine. we have to bear pain. he can say i'm the one in the middle. forget the voices on either side. her is the road back to recovery. >> that is music to my ears. i love th

>>> good evening, i'm kathleen parker. happy friday, y'all. >> another great program. going to have a conversation, kathleen, with john yu, the controversial lawyer in the bush administration in the justice department saying torture was okay. >> going to hear from a major success story, the mayor of lancing, michigan is going to tell us how his city is reborn since gm came back to life. >> the opening argument. the trial, the conviction of ghalani. one count out of 285, but it was a big, big win. this terrorist is going to spend, i predict, the rest of his life behind bars exactly where he should go. and you know what? yes, there wasn't all of the evidence before that jury that maybe there should have been. you know why? you can't put evidence in a court when that evidence is produced by torture. we all know that, we all agree with that. the system works. terrorist goes to jail, justice was done. >> remember what that really looked like. those buildings were two embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998, lost live, 284 people dead, including a dozen americans. and essenti

i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm eliot spitzer erroll southers joins us. he does not like the way things are being done right now. i'm talking about those body scans. >> newt gingrich's daughter will be with us too. she's a chip off the old block in certain respects. you'll want to hear what she has to say. >>> we're here nonstop about the body scanners. it's important to remember they're just a distraction. the real issue, folks, we're losing because the terrorists are playing puppet master and we're the puppet. the terror group behind the failed parcel bomb al qaeda in the abian peninsula posted an online article in which they basically mock us. they call what they're doing operation hemorrhage. what is that? it's really a simple strategy. employ low cost operations against america and get us to throw huge sums of money at the problem. we bleed money and that's why they call it operation hemorrhage. for example, that parcel bomb attack aimed at the jewish synagogues but intercepted in britain and dubai cost the bad guys $4,200. but the security measures

kathleen parker wrote a piece sort of pooing the idea of narrative. that's the way we think about things, that's why we love movies and everything else, great stories and books, it is because we like stories. >> yes, and characters. >> charlie: and characters. >> and this election, the results of the election the silver lining is turn the page start anew and people have to see him differently as a leader and fighter and not a massive academic. >> we talk about this thing, mark and i are talking about, that one of obama's biggest problems is that he really is still do a lot of people this kind of indistinct figure, you know. he really unlike clinton, unlike reagan who had the clear theories of the case what the right role of government was, how their policies married up to the moment, obama really never did that he ran not as a clinton or a bush he ran on change of newness but he never had the clintonian narrative of the economy and reagan's view of government. none of that was clear so you still had at this moment in the electorate many people includi

i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. >> the big news of the day was of course president obama's disastrous trip to asia. i think we can say it was an unmitigated disaster. >> no question about it. >> you know, it was nothing more than a global rebuke of the president. >> indeed. in fact, we'll have david gergen here later in the show to talk about that. david gervin has been in the white house advising multiple presidents of both parties. we'll talk about what they should have done differently to step aside. >> call david. >> no question about it. before we get there, last night on the show john ziegler, an ultraconservative radio host claimed the liberal conspiratorial media destroyed sarah palin intentionally. they didn't like her. the funny thing is -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. that was hilarious. >> -- it led to quite a ruckus on the show. let's take a look to see what happened last night. >> -- targeting of sarah palin. you essentially took part in the assassination of sarah palin 1.0. that person

but what i was struck by in reading the papers this morning from george will and kathleen parker andthe post". but we'll the same thing. it's a rejection of liberalism. : today is it's not rocket science to see what happening. we've, but the worst economic crisis since the 1930's and the recovery is painfully, painfully slow as we expected it would be a tacit he can with the financial crisis. if you can just consider the democrats were in power. they have a lot of seats at risk. it was a midterm election in which the economy was in dreadful shape object delete and subject to really. and the whole nature of the electorate change from a presidential to emit term election with the relative representation of young people and old

the one i was struck by from george will and kathleen parker -- part hammer has not had a chance to weigh in yet. it is a rejection of liberalism. it is clearly the country signaling that this administration has gone too far to the left. i am just struck by how much my town is captured by a geological thinking, not just the illogical polarization of the parties, but a belief that when a politician has a bad election it is because they have swung too far away from the center. it is all about the ideological position when my own view, and i think consistent with what you heard on the first panel today, is it is not rocket science to see what happened. we have come out of the worst economic crisis since the 1930's, and the recovery is painfully slow, as we expected it would be because it began with a financial crisis. if you just consider the democrats were in power. they had a lot of seats at risk. it was a midterm election in which the economy was incredible shape objectively and subjectively. and the whole nature of the electorate changed from a presidential to a midterm election, with th

but what i was struck by in reading the papers this morning from george will and kathleen parker andthe post, crownhammer hasn't had a chance to weigh in yet but will get the same thing. of course, it's a rejection of liberalism. it's, clearly, the country signaling that this administration has gone too far to the left. i'm just struck by how much my town is captured by ideological thinking. not just the ideological polarization of the parties, but a belief, a belief that when a politician has a bad election, it's because they've swung too far away from the center. it's all about i'd ideological positioning. when my own view, and i think consistent with what you heard on the first panel today, is it's not rocket science to see what happened. we've come out of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and can the recovery is painfully, painfully slow. as we expected it would be. because it began with a financial crisis. if you just consider the democrats were in power, they had a lot of seats at risk, it was a midterm election in which the economy was in dreadful shape objectively an

when i was struck by in reading the papers this morning, from george will and kathleen parker , it is a rejection of liberalism. it is clearly the country signaling that this it administration has gone too far to the left -- that this administration has gone too far to the left. i am just struck by how much my town is captured by ideological thinking, and not just the ideological polarization of the parties, but a belief that when a politician has a bad election is because they have swung too far away from the center. it is all about ideological positioning, when my own view, and i think consistent with what you heard on the first panel today -- is not rocket science to see what happened. we have come out of the worst economic crisis since the 1930's and the recovery is painfully, painfully slow, as we expected it would be because it began with a financial crisis. if you just consider the democrats were in power, they have a lot of seats at risk, it was a midterm elections in which the economy was in dreadful shape objectively and subjectively, and the whole nature of the electorate's

parker spitzer starts right now. >> welcome to the program. another outstanding show tonight. among the stories we're covering, a moving one about the medal of honor. the military's highest award and kathleen for the first time since the vietnam war, a living soldier will receive it, tonight we meat him in person. >>> also growing anger between america and israel, a sharp exchange between president obama and prime minister net tanyahne. >> every night in this show we have been challenging our guests to name your cuts. help us find solutions to the county tries greatest threat. president obama's debt plan -- it does provide us with insight into their thinking. >> i'm excited, but guess what, this has been your obsession since the show began, so at a great personal sacrifice, i'm going to toss this to you. >> kathleen, obsession is a strong word, but this is in fact what matters for our fiscal future. so let's get a couple things straight, yes, they're going to raise the retirement age for social security and slow the increase in the rate of payments, do some things with medicaid and medicare. but they're also going to raise taxes. let's bring in jeb hence ssarli. i want to start with a cons