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$million dollars in the bank account. >> he's funny, don't you know. >> and cracks me up-- >> and kirsten you pointed this out perhaps better than anybody this week and tell viewers who might not have seen it what your column was about. >> the idea that the people coming out. again rush limbaugh, i support i think what he said was abhorrent and much more than the two words that he said, but the same people are completely ignoring bill maher. the president refuse today say anything about, condemn him in any way and all of the republicans including john boehner have been asked to c condemn rush limbaugh and the president he's pac received 1 million dollars from bill maher and they're saying we don't have any responsibility and there was a youtube, actually, of a couple of democratic congressmen, one asked would you condemn bill maher calling sarah palin the c-word and another word and they wouldn't do it. it's bizarre. >> jon: is there a double standard afoot here? >> absolutely a double standard. if you listen to most of the feminists and people on the left and media, they don't want to ta

the story continues to get coverage, kirsten, but is what the congressman, is what she said true?o we know? >> no, we don't know that. and i think that that's the problem. that people are saying things as if these are facts and if there's been any conclusion. i will say that i think a lot of this is driven by the fact that people feel there should be an arrest and i will go out and actually say i think that the races had been reversed if a black person did this to a white or hispanic person, they would have been arrested so, i think that because of the lack of arrest, it's getting people more incited about it and i don't think that the police department is coming out and clearing stating why he hasn't been arrested. he did kill somebody. what is self-defense when you have an unarmed person. >> how much of a story has been created in the media? >> well, there are some tragic facts here and one tragic fact, the young man is dead. that's about all we know, and as donna and melanie wrote on friday, the fact that no other facts are really for sure hasn't stopped everybody from weighing

that is kirsten mitchell who is an ogis facilitator. kirsten is one of those stalwart ogis staff members who works day in and day out to make our work as broad and accessible as possible dealing with requesters and with agencies every day. to resolve disputes and also to help particularly agency professionals figure out better ways to disclose smart. so i'm going to stop there and i know we'll have some q&a at the end of this. but i'd like to turn it over to kirsten, then we'll ask marianne to speak and then gavin we'll turn to you as the third. >> good morning. so mariam talked about the culture change that we would like to see happen in the foia and i think as she said that is the future of foia. so i'm going to talk about what we mean by a culture change certainly sue pointed to several things and miriam mentioned a couple. we have four things that ogis has come out for improving t the -- the administration of foia. these aren't things that would require amending foia or changing foia, but just things to improve the administration. a

i think kirsten is absolutely right. be who you are. you can't be somebody else. if you come off as phone. the voters will detect it. he shouldn't apologize for who he is or his success. get out there and champion success as the great goal, not envy, not spread the wealth around. here is a recipe that you can make your own pie in america. >> that sounds good. kirsten, i will give you the last word sense you came in late. >> i'm glad that cal and i were able to agree on something. being phoney is definitely bad and he has to try to focus on his strengths and i think one issue for him is, of course, that the economy is turning around to makes his message a little harder but has to find where he can say what he would do differently and convince people that he can handle the economy better than obama. >> we leave it there. by the way, the three of us we'll say happy birthday to governor romney. his birthday is monday. he is turning 65. >> he doesn't look it. >> happy birthday. >> cal thomas, you didn't seem overly excite excited about th. come on, a birthday is always

what's interesting, what kirsten is talking about, too, how many legal analysts especially those on the left, it never sort of dawned on them that the constitutionality of obamacare would be in question, even though this thing has been debated in public for the last three years. >> it has been an opportunity for the press to give us all a civics lesson. have he they taken advantage of it? >> i think they've done their best to cover this. i mean, they can't resist the details, like whether the solicitor general stuttered or not and how many glasses of water he drank and so on. yeah, i think the press have said, look, stipulated mostly in favor of obamacare and then once survived, it's the most important supreme court case. >> the graphic was shown time and time again, the generally liberal court members versus the generally conservative ones, four on four with anthony kennedy, probably somewhere in the middle. and constructing this as a liberal versus conservative argument, maybe not so much a

i think kirsten is exactly right. we just had a big debate in the supreme court this week about the individual mandate, whether the federal government has the right to tell people they have to buy a product. this compromise, supposedly, that obama has forces insurers to provide abortion-inducing drugs and contraception for free. where in the constitution does the president of the united states have the power to force private businesses, so this is just the latest on the obamacare mandate, and it's about the relationship between religion and the government. alisyn: kirsten, i understand you don't want to speak to the president or the administration's motive, but why bring up contraception at this time during an election year when as mitt romney famously said, contraception was working just fine, thank you? >> well, you know, i find it interesting when people like marc just so firmly stated the motivation of the president when i just haven't seen any evidence of that. and, um, the way that this all came up in the contex

nobody worked as hard as kirsten in the mayor's office out of the office of may -- neighborhood servicesve kirsten and the committee a big round of applause for their contributions to this great effort. we have another -- a number of proclamations that was received from senator feinstein and boxer and other offices. a couple of other people we do have with you. michael et

. >> sean: the left's war on women kirsten powers. you have a terrific book that deals in many ways with this topic. how obama and left are driving americans to the government plantation. deneen borelli good to see you. >> you started out your book and introduction of your book. if we google your name and african-american conservative, you said first thing, it's going to could come tak back black tea bagging "n" word? >> it's a huge double standard. i'm not even running for office. i am criticized on a regular basis. i don't get a phone call by president obama protecting me. but we saw reagan that saw our country as shining city on a hill. president obama is bringing our country down to dim light in the valley. his policies are harming our country. any time anyone comes out and criticizes president obama they are called a racist. >> sean: i got to give you kirsten, you have been so consistent on this issue over the years. you have been on this program. we have had political disagreements, occasionally, once in a while, light disagreem

megyn: kirsten, that's e interesting.estors business daily said economists were never predicting a depression, and the president didn't stave one off either. they said t.a.r.p. did and the stimulus had very little to do with it. >> well, but i think, first of all, you never know what is going to happen in the future, so i think there was a fear, definitely, that we could be spiraling into something really terrible, you know, another like great depression. certainly, we've had a very bad recession, and i have to say no matter how many times republicans say the stimulus didn't work, it's not true. and every economist pretty much says that, including mark zandi who was john mccain's economist has said that we would have a much higher rate of unemployment had it not been for the stimulus. they make a strategic mistake in saying unemployment would, you know, wouldn't go above a certain level. yes, that was a mistake. that doesn't make the stimulus not success. the economy is turning around, most americans believe the economy's

kirsten, i was surprised. lot of things about this movie but the lead actress' weight? >> she's a beautiful, beautiful girl, and the idea that they're actually in one of those reviews that you just cited are complaining not just about her weight but that she's too old at age 21 basically to be -- for us to be looking at. i just think this is a bunch of sort of misogynist bile that you're getting from the viewers. jon: judy, she was chosen apparently by the woman who wrote the book. >> and for shame, for shame, reviewers for making a normal, healthy woman look fat! and to call her fat is just an outrage. she is not anorexic, she is not twiggy, she's not supposed to be a wilting little flower. she's a hunter, a gatherer, she hunt phos her launch, that's why she doesn't look like she's starving. this is a heroic character and gosh, it just infuriates me when hollywood reviewers pile on with a normal looking woman, accusing her of being fat, because we have tremendous problems in this country among teenagers for e

and kirsten talked about the websites of agency foia offices. in many cases these websites do now have a mechanism for filing a request on line and for tracks a request online. this is great, it's exactly what agencies should be doing. but we shouldn't have to do it 100 different times. in many cases even within a single department there are dozens of components, each of which has a separate foia office. it's outrageous that a requester should have to deal with so many different interfaces in order to seek information from more than one agency. so bringing that together and providing a common interface and a common way for requesters to track where they are, incredibly important things that the foia portal would do, this is not to mention all of the great things that it would do in terms of efficiencies of processing and ogis i think has played a really important role in helping move that project forward. so now i'll talk a bit about the future and i'm going to counter with another yogi berra quote which is it's hard to make predictions, especia

i think kirsten is right. i hate to agree with kirsten over you, kate. but it's true. hillary's campaign even liked me do during their battle against then senator obama. but that's a story i will save for a book many years from now. guys, good to see you. coming up, nancy pelosi's daughter is out with a new video. this time she talks to welfare recipients in new york city receiving what they call obama bucks. and later it's the executive order that the white house tried to bury late friday afternoon but tonight we call out the president in our next installment of the real obama as the vetting of obama continues tonight on hannity. red lobster's lobstfest. the only time of year you can savor 12 eiting lobster entrees, like lobster lover's dream i'm laura mclennan and i sea food differently. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the 2012 e-class bluetec from mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. 2:30 in the afternoon, a lot to do, and you've hit the wall. but

joining us from boston marianne march and washington kirsten powers who fnc. why do the president's poll numbers for cbs falling so quickly, deer citizen? >> i think their take on it was because it was because of rising gas prices. typically you do see and this happened with president bush as well, you do see a correlation between poll numbers and gas prices because it is the thing that really pinches americans. they really feel t in their pocketbook right away. and i think when there is still frustration about the economy. and i think that, you know, you will see it, that said, there are a lot of other polls that have shown him ticking up. pew, gallup, and reuters all did polls after this poll and showed him actually ticking up and pew has him above 50. >> bill: we're the fascist network on the right and we have a much better poll for president obama. such a joke. but, and i agree with deer kirsten got to be oil prices driving it down in that survey. president obama looks to have no solution at all for the oil prices. he doesn't like it. it's not good. there