strategy from left and the right with cnn contributor paul begala and mary matalin. vice president cheney is essentially saying that president obama is polllize sizing the justice department and damaging national security. >> right. i got to say, for dick cheney to be accusing anyone of poll limit sizing the justice department, it's like paris hilton saying, that girl's a little too absolu -- for me. it's preposterous. eric holder, whos what smeared today by the former vice president when he was a u.s. attorney, he indicted the democratic chairman of the house ways and means committee when we were trying to pass a health care bill through his committee. ashg holder is beyond politic, believe me, and it's a sleazy thing for cheney to say, particularly given the bush record of poll limit sizing the justice department. >> even in even redacting sense, you could tell from these released documents, cia dump, that these programs, these interrogations were highly successful. they this warted second-wave mass casualty attacks. they revealled domestic cells. they were respons

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. >> here to talk about this is cnn political contributor and republican strategist mary matalin who is a counsellor to dick cheney and roland martin. mary, you saw the quote that wolf read. the implication was that bush had gone soft on him or rather that bush had hardened against cheney's advice. i mean that sounds like pretty interesting information to have in a tell-all book. is it true? >> it's absolutely, categorically untrue, john. you said in the cold open, the introduction to the show that cheney confident ants are saying such a thing. again, categorically untrue. in that story was -- there sun attributed quote to someone who alleged to have been in one of the book meetings. i worked for simon and shuster. the threshold imprint at simon and shuster of which i'm editor in chief has bought the book. i was involved in the preparation for the book meetings. i'm involved in working on the book. neither cheney nor any of the confident ants have any such thing as was alleged in that story nor will they in the book or -- and they haven't privately. so it's categorically untrue. what

james carville and republican strategist mary matalin. good morning to you. let's start with this debate. an apparent concession or sliding a bit on the question of a public option. james, most democrats have said it's critical. the white house is counting the votes in the senate. they're not. there the president and health secretary are now saying we'd like to have it, but it's not essential. how does that influence the debate? >> a big influence. on this network, on wolf's show, said that it's a good indication of it's not going to happen if they try to get to 60 votes in the senate, which is the apparent objective. and i think senator conrad was stating what the truth was. there are not 60 votes for the public option. if the democrats can't have it, is that incentive for new conversations with republicans about compromise? or is what we were seeing in the august recess proof that any hope of bipartisanship is gone? >> i think the republicans would be happy to sit down if there was real bipartisanship. there hasn't been since eight days into this administra

two cnn political contributors, democratic strategist donna brazile and republican strategist mary matal matalinry, david axelrod, senior adviser to the president, pens out a lengthy e-mail, i've got a copyright here, a lot of links, a lot of information, misinformation that's out there on the internet he says he wants to try to correct it. he says, you know what, take this e-mail and forward it to your friends and your neighbors so this message gets out. is there anything wrong with that? >> well, i don't know if it's illegal. you're not supposed to use federal property for political purposes. it's a political document. it's a political tactic. but leaving that aside, i don't even know how effective it is just because it can get viral doesn't mean that anybody will believe it. people who tend to go to those sources are people who are already for you. but it is indicative of where they think they are in this fight. >> part of that base of the white house supporters, it does provide a lot of information. talking points for them to use at these town halls and to use in their debates with their nei

. >>> and in the next hour, john king breaks down the sound of sunday with james carville and mary matalin. %%%%%%%%%% >>> they were reality show stars who most of america, including me, had never heard of, at least until he started cheating and they split up and the gossip magazines couldn't get enough of jon and kate and the eight kids. and this week the newly separated kate gosselin was on "the today show." >> by the time there were those rumors swirling about with jon with other women. when i sat down with you in may, had he already moved out of the house by that point, kate? >> to be very honest, i don't remember. there's so much going on. >> and now we are hearing from him that he had started up a relationship in may with this young woman, haley glassman, 22 years old. were you shocked at that revelation. >> i was shocked, but it -- those things, to be very honest, that's his life, they don't affect me directly at this point. >> but it's got to be hurtful. >> well, it is hurtful. >> reporter: while the tlc reality show warps into jon without kate, television is bringing back

we'll talk with mary matalin. >>> also the investigation into michael jackson's death, new focus on jackson's dermatologist arnie klein. >>> and up to 90,000 americans could die from the h1n1 flu this fall and winter. how do you protect yourself and your family? sanjay gupta's going to take your questions, those stories in a health care town hall with howard dean in virginia gets heated tonight. the new video ahead on "360." >> larry: that's at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific with anderson cooper. we welcome the anesthesiologist and pain management specialist, medical director of the advanced pain medical group in west hills and dr. jason heims, specialist, medical director, conservative care specialist medical group. we're going to talk about the medicine that dr. murray reportedly gave michael jackson in the last hours of his life. injected him with 10 milligrams of valium, 2 milligrams of ativan, 2 milligrams of versed, 2 milligrams of ativan, another 2 milligrams of versed, and 25 milligrams of propofol. will you tell us what we have here? >> what we have here is valium, injectable form. vali

political contributors, the democratic strategist donna brazile and the republican strategist mary matalinthe debate for health care is getting out of control, at least in some parts of the country. the president tried to tone things down today at his town hall in new hampshire. >> there's been a long and vigorous debate about this. and that's how it should be. now, that's what america's about. is, we have a vigorous debate. that's why we have a democracy. but i do hope that we will talk with each other and not over each other. because -- because one of the objectives of democracy and debate is that we start refining our own views, because maybe other people have different perspectives, things we didn't think of. where we do disagree, let's disagree over things that are real. not these wild misrepresentations that bare no resemiblanls to anything that's actually been proposed. because the way politics works sometimes is that people who want to keep things the way they are will try to scare the heck out of folks, and they'll create boogeymen out there that just aren't real. >> all right, ma

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