joining us from philadelphia mark lamont hill, professor at colombia university and contributor to thebeen listening, what is your overall response to "the obama diaries?" >> i wish i could say i was disappointed. but i didn't expect anything different from laura. i like laura. i think the kind of energy and negativity we see directed toward the obama administration, and even the first lady, i think it's ill placed, it's misplaced. we can focus our energy on other things other than mocking the president. do i think the president is fair game? of course. do i think some of it is funny? absolutely. i think some one as talented and smart as laura could be directing her energy towards the tea party that has a viciously racist wing or talking about unemployment and all sorts of things i am sure laura is going it agree with me right now. >> larry: laura, you can respond. >> i love mark lamont hill, a great one to duke it out with. look, the obamas are people. we're all people. they're not deities. they're not monarchs. when michelle obama goes to congress and demands billions of dollars for

mark lamont hill, professor at columbia university and contributor to the loop 21.com. adviser to the new democrat network. we'll start with you, dana. the tea party leader mark williams and his tea party express have been expelled by the national tea party federation for racially insensitive comments that he made. did you agree with that move? >> i think when i first heard about mark williams, i honestly thought mark williams who? and i don't want to get all catty. i think this dude is a legend in his own mind. why all this attention is being given to like one person? he's never represented an entire movement. he is, i think, to himself perhaps, he thought he did. but never to me. never to anybody that i know. and i just think that he says a lot of what he -- i he think says a lot of what he says for attention, honestly. >> larry: mark, was it correct to remove them and kind of expel them? >> absolutely, it was. this was one of the few responsible moves that comes from the tea party with regard to issues of race. it's easy to dismiss him as just one irresponsible waywa

can be found at reagan.com and the son of the former president ronald reagan and in philadelphia, mark lamontssor at columbia university, contributed to loop 21.com. start with you, michael, gop senators mccain, graham, demint and others sharply critical of michael steele. flu is if you are, should he keep his job? >> welcome to politics. this is such a political game being played. today, it doesn't matter what you say, somewhere, somebody is going to cover it and take it and turn it into what it is tonight, on the larry king show talking about it right now, i'm looking at this country and say what are we going to do to get this country back? michael steele is not problem with the country. michael steele says things that may not be the smartest things to say, getting atacked by lindsay graham or the john mccains or whatever. that isn't the issue. i'm not voting for michael steele tonight president of the united states or my congressman or senator. right now the republican party is winning. you don't change horses in july going into a november election. i'm sure governor kaine, would love to s