the truth is that she was brought into the game for consideration for mccain as mccain's running mate very late, after their main focus, joe lieberman fell apart as an option. they need a game changing pic. lieberman was a game changing. in the book we quote from for the first time anywhere the vetting report done by a young washington lawyer who was asked on a friday afternoon to get ready and then in the face of less than two years look into sarah palin's background, not by making any phone calls or interviewing anybody, but simply doing online searches because they needed to keep it a secret. quoting from that report, looking at the process by which mccain picked a virtual stranger as his running mate is something we thought would get a lot of attention and has gotten very much. >> i agree with mark. there is a ton of stuff in the book that hasn't gotten the kind of attention we would have expected. i will give you three quick examples that one of them is kind of a macro story, which is in the wake of the campaign one of the pieces of connection of wisdom that was propounded by the

the truth was, that she was brought into the game of consideration for mccain -- as mccain's running mate very late. after their main focus, joe lieberman fell apart as an option. they needed a game-changing pick. lieberman was a game-changing pick of one sort and palin was another. we quote for the first time the vetting report done by a young washington lawyer who was asked on a friday afternoon to get ready and in a space of less than two days looked into sarah palin's background. not by making any phone calls or interviewing anybody but simply doing online searches because they needed to keep it a secret. quoting from that report, looking at the process by which mccain picked a virtual stranger as his running mate is we thought has gotten a lot of attention and it hasn't gotten much. >> i agree with mark. there's a ton of stuff in the book that wouldn't have gotten the kind of attention we hasn't expected. one of them is kind of a macrostory which is in the wake of the campaign, one wisdom that was propounded by the obama administration from the time obama got into the race to th

in the financial crisis than john mccain. is that a fair assessment? >> what i would say is it is no doubt fair that the conversations i had with john mccain weren't as frequent as they were with barack obama. they were more difficult and he certainly gave me more anxiety about all that, and now president obama was attentive, engaged, and i felt comfortable he was quick to support what we needed to do. but i'm quite grateful to john mccain because -- and have respect for him because let me tell you with an election six weeks away when we went to congress there is no way we would have in my judgment got

. >>> and will the real john mccain please stand up? he now says he's never considered himself a maverick. could someone please remind him he boasted about his maverick credentials throughout the entire 2008 campaign? we'll remind him tonight, go to the videotape. we're rounding up the mavericks tonight. >>> also, why is president obama having so much trouble winning over white-working-class americans? and how can he win a mandate in 2012 he can't do the job? we'll get to that one. >>> let me finish tonight with thoughts on politicians in white shirts sending messages that other men turn into nasty, racist phone calls in the night. virginia celebrates the confederacy. that's also where we start tonight, with governor's bob mcdonald's decision to declare april -- rob reagan, a former radio talk show host working on a book about his dad. and pat buchanan and msnbc analyst. start with what happened in minnesota today. it's an amazing event. we'll get to the confederate stuff later. what's going on? wooe going to show you right now. here's

it didn't sound very failed to me to john mccain. [laughter] >> well, that was when he came back and there was quite a scene when he interrupted his campaign to come back and i remember i was testifying at the time and michelle davis here with me today was sitting behind where i was testifying and handed me a note and i -- my blood ran cold right there and she said to me if someone asks you about john mccain coming back just simply say i welcome the involvement of everyone in this because i think she was afraid of what might come out of my mouth. [laughter] she talked to me on the flight of the way down. but in any event, so as it turns out again, the -- it was a couple of days of anxiety but again, john mccain when he was back spend time with the house of republicans rallying of them and so she did his part and then even after we got from t.a.r.p., he did not jump on or criticize some of the things we had done which again we are very unpopular. the american people -- and i am proud of the fact on one level the american people none o

president john mccain. barring that, elder statesman and party leader john mccain.n mccain. instead it's looking like the story will end with no punctuation at all, just smaller and smaller font size until nobody can read it anymore. over the weekend he abandoned the one thing that has marked his time on capitol hill, his widely bought brand, this quote to "newsweek." i never considered myself a maverick. i consider myself a person who serves the people of arizona to the best of his abilities. senator john mccain never considered himself a maverick. it's hard to square with a lot of videotape starring senator john mccain. >> he's the original maverick. one is ready to leave. mccain. >> i've been called a maverick. the american people know me very well, and that is independent and a maverick of the senate, and i'm happy to say that i've got a partner that's a good maverick along with me now. what do you expect with two mavericks? >> the original mavericks. real change. >> i'm john mccain and i approve this message. >> john mccain now says he hasn't considered himself

nice try. >> you're opposed to senator mccain. >> but more importantly, i think senator mccain is rightor supporting the bill. phoenix is now the kidnapping capital of the hepmisphere, there's more kidnapping going on in phoenix than bogota. the people in arizona are behind the kidnapping, among them legal latinos that are reside in arizona. we'll see in november, all the polling data indicates that the republican candidates that are in favor of this are doing quite well. because the majority of the people are fed up with this. here's what no one's addressed, and you addressed it in our comments and your questions is what are we doing about the violence? what are we doing about the terrible, not only border problem, but state wide problems, i think arizona's going to be the first state of a number of boarder states who are going to see similar legislation. >> when we come back, the president of the united states and frank you were there today said, you know what? things like this happen in arizona because we haven't done our job here in washington. we'll talk about the national debate w

sarah palin was picked by john mccain.people were shocked when it happened in that time the mccain campaign said she had been on the list of consideration and then received as much background check as the so-called vetting as other people john mccain considered. there was skepticism at the time but like so much we write about in game change the kind of parade, political journalism moved on. there were other things to cover sarah palin's speech and everything that happened after the convention so this is one case where we went back to say what is the truth and the truth is that she was brought into the game of consideration as mccain's running mate very late after their main focus, joe lieberman, fell apart else an option. they needed a game changing. lieberman was a game changing pick of one sort, palin was a mother. in the book week quote for the first time anywhere the affecting report done by a young washington lawyer asked on a friday afternoon to get ready and then in the space of less than today's looked into sarah p

the person who knew him best in the old, was john mccain.d been friends since back when rudy giuliani was mayor. when mccain was starting to fall, he was never worried about rudy giuliani. " continues. host: from the ancient greeks to the early 20th century, what do it after the 2010 census will be confronted given destination of race and identity. professor painter has written an entirely accessible readable myth busting and compelling history of race. she is a leading historian in the united states you are tired at western university. she's prolific and award-winning scholar reason for on history and race relations include creating black americans and a second attention a inning armageddon. and we are pleased to welcome here this evening for the history -- "the history of white people" professor nell irvin painter. hot mark [applause] >> hello. you are a nice-looking group. as for coming. did i hear someone accrete? you all agree? well, what i'd like to do is read to you for about 17 minutes or so from the first part of the book and then f

joining from us washington is senator john mccain.efore we get to the border, senator, am i wrong what's driving political cynicism across the country. >> no. you are exactly right. except i would like to make one additional point and that is there has never been any real outreach for bipartisanship by this administration. it came with 60 votes, which they don't have anymore. overwhelming majority in the house. and they have decided they would drive things through. hopefully to pick up republican senator or two. but the fact is, there has never been genuine outreach to try to get things done on a bipartisan basis. >> bill: when bill clinton was president, did he outreach. >> yes, he did. yes, he did. yes, he did. >> bill: in your experience then, this is a totally different ballgame right now? >> listen, we had some very spirited discussions and disputes with president clinton. but when the time came, he sat down. we did immigration -- excuse me, that's the next topic, we did welfare reform. we did a number of other reforms. we had ba

well, john mccain is one of those who is speaking out. >> make no mistake, if iran achieves a nuclear weapons capability, it will not be because we couldn't stop it. but because we've chose not to stop it. >> that's a pretty harsh statement because some people believe that the u.s. is moving in the right direction by having talks with russia and china and trying to develop some sort of a sanctioned plan. others believe that sanctions don't work. no matter what you impose, and that somehow you to have a better strategic plan so they don't in fact get the bomb. it's not going to be like they get it and then what do we do? most people want to figure out how to stop them from getting it in the first place. >> yes, very scary thought. they're very close. they have enough uranium enriched. they have to figure out a way to put it in, deliver it and make it go off and that really isn't two or three years down the road. it's more likely a year and the very scary thing is whether or not the terrorist organizations, al-qaida, taliban or hezbollah get their hands on it through iran. >> senator jo

, the new john mccain?viously trying to win a primary where he's got a very conservative, you know, person who's very, very -- got some very strange ideas. i know i have served with that person here in the congress. i hope that john does beat him and then john comes back as a senator and gets back to the issue of -- of really being middle of the road here in helping us to push real and good immigration reform because that's what we need. we don't need to be profiling people. we don't need to be going after people. we don't need to have local agencies deciding to take people off of the street for whatever reason because they look like a suspect. we need good immigration reform here from the capitol. >> i love the way you give john mccain a ride. you figure he's just faking it so you don't mind. let's take a look, just so he beats j.d. hayworth, that's all you care. let me two to congressman bilbray first. you're a republican. what do you make of the state of arizona saying you have to have a birth certificat

she said to me now, if someone asks you about john mccain coming back, just simply say i welcome theinvolvement of everyone in this and so one because i think she was afraid what might come out of my mouth. [inaudible] specie talk to me on the flight on the way down. in any event, so but, as it turns out, and again, it was a couple of days of anxiety, but again, john mccain when he was back spent time with the house republicans rallying them and so, he did his part. and then even after we got the t.a.r.p., he did not jump on or criticize some of the things we had done, which again were very unpopular. the american people, and i'm proud of the fact that at one level the american people, none of us like bailout so again, i looked at a poll once sometime after the election but after we had done some of the things we had done. i think this may be slightly exaggerated, but i recall that something like 93% of the american people opposed the bailouts and 60% opposed torture. [laughter] yet 70%, 70% were worried that we would go into something much worse from the bad recession, so we have ne

we're going to start with john mccain on immigration. here's john mccain when he wrote, he was.on, john mccain that immigrants have contributed to economic growth. here's the senator speaking about this issue at the cnn youtube debate in november 2007. >> we need to sit down as americans and recognize these are god's children as well and they need some protections under the law. and they need -- they need some of our love and compassion. >> so that was then. here's now. the mccain-kyl immigration bill talked about today with his colleague, 3,000 national guard troops to the border. 3,000 new border patrol agents. jail time for second offenders caught crossing the border. 700 miles of fencing along the border. today, his tone is much tougher. >> it's spiralled out of control. the degree of violence has increased. those crossing the boarer illegally are increasingly armed and the violence across our southern border and in arizona has increased. >> now, he has every right to say the situation has changed, and the situation along the border has changed. but his tone is so striking.

there was a long history of animosity between cheney and mccain. and so in a way, he was really trying to stick the boot into mccain more than he was trying to give him his seal of approval. >> you're actually saying that dick cheney is a troll, aren't you? i mean only a troll would do that. endorse somebody to hurt them. >> well, i'm, what i'm saying is i think he had an acute sense of his own political potency, both negative and positive on the national political landscape. >> it's extraordinary, to know you're a troll, to know you're an unpleasant person, not to be associated with and you come out from under the bridge and bite the leg of mccain as he walks by. >> i don't think you're being fair to trolls. the interesting thing we're looking at with dick cheney, since he's left the white house he's sort of been the dark angel of the national security conservative crowd. >> yeah. >> every couple of weeks he comes out and says, by the way, obama is trying to destroy the security of the country. about now, maybe thankfully for democrats, he's movin

it had to support a bush, clinton, obama and mccain and it was defeated.lls you where the heart and value of americans are, which is secure your border, send the illegals back. >> see, i think we have to address the fact that the 12 million people pat talks about are real life people. and i want to enforce the laws and i want us to have a policy that deals with things realistically. we can talk about extreme positions, but we're not going to rent a bunch of schoolbuses and bring them across the border. we have to have a comprehensive policy that addresses this. >> remove the jobs magnet and they will go home. >> this is a conversation which will continue. thank you very much. we'll be talking about illegal immigrants on this program for many weeks to come. if not months. >>> and coming up, "time" magazine's nancy gibbs on the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill. and msnbc is now on sirius xm satellite radio. on channel 90, x m channel 120. so heading to the doctor uh... yeah? you gonna ask him this time? about what? our erectile dysfunction. shh...n

the provide good title of her book going broke she was trying to break away from the mccain shell and completely off the reservation and she did not understand what it took to run the vice presidency. i look specifically at some of said gender aspects of that and she failed to understand by now preparing for these interviews any misstep she may make should have the added layer of questioning and criticism. a young woman and she would have to answer what books and magazines she read to prove she was qualified even though she was a governor that should speak for itself. that is nothing they could fully appreciate until it hit them. >> host: we will take your calls in the book by her conscious and not known and started to lose her bearings. guest: it was >> guest: she does not have that many allies then the mccain campaign by the time it was over but i could find a few. some says she came in incredibly confident if not in her mastery of everything knowledge wiser the ability to perform to wing it and the charismatic linda especially with the katie couric interviewed she really started to

mccain in there we would be bombing iran right now. i think if you look at the lesser of two evils, i would never put mr. mccain and they're especially with sarah palin. as vice president. if he would have died, he is old enough to die, i don't want to see him die. >> host: one quick question. you voted for obama. what is one area he has disappointed you most? >> guest: i think the first thing he should have done, personally i think if we make our solar power and wind power we can stop the dependency. >> guest: no. wind and solar power is a fantasy most is provided by oil, coal and nuclear we should continue to ramp that up. all of these policies and i think young people in general are skyrocketing past 20% among the black men unemployment rate is 50% these are results from the failed policies of this obama administration. >> host: maggie is on the democratic line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. bless your heart and enthusiasm i have fillings and my teeth debtor older than you. your concept of republican conservative began beca

john mccain's internet outreach -- no joke now. his internet outreach was a game called pork invaders where you had to dodge incoming projectiles from pigs. to dodge them successfully and then earmarks would appear on the screen to let you know how many obama voted for. the graphics weren't even that good. it looked like pacman circa 1980. that was john mccain's internet outreach to young people. pork invaders. barack obama hires the cocreator of facebook to run his new media operation. he hires emmy award winner from cnn to upload videos to youtube. it was a complete domination, a digital domination. i think there's a lot the gop can learn from how team obama reached out to young people. >> host: jason mattera with us until 9:55 eastern. now, folks may also know you from some of your -- your television appearances. you're on camera. your video for lack of a better word confrontational interviews. perhaps most notably -- most recently one and i think we have it here on your website at jasonmattera.com with al franken. what drives y

then came the assault on john mccain and conservative republican, mccain is facing a challenge on thehay wart. someone was calling mccain, catch this, a progressive. mccain needed to bring sarah palin into the state to ward off the challenge. down in florida today governor charlie crist is faced with humiliation in the republican primary for the senate. challenged by marco rubio, he's been hit for accepting federal relief efforts. he may have to run as an indent in the election to have a chance of victory. reached absurd levels with the challenge to bob bennett in utah, real conservative by any standard definition, ben fighting for his political life. this is all quite bizarre. i can remember when moderates were not only at home in the republican party, they were viewed as the party's establishment. when barry goldwater said in accepting the party's 1964 presidential nomination, that quote, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. many in the party were appall and refused to join his campaign. today goldwater could face a challenge for being too liberal. positions on familiar s

senator mccain, do want to add anything? >> now, except that i hope will examine senator kyl and my's assessment and give us a response to that. >> thank you are a match and we will. >> thanks, commissioner. we have a boat that's just begun. i'd ask the members of the second panel to please come to the table. in the meantime, here it is in recess. >> ad asked the witnesses on the second panel to come to the table, please. and we will go forward with the hearing. we are really honored to have here, and i know came some distant, to three participants on this panel, the honorable denis burke u.s., the attorney for the district of arizona for the honorable garcia- van borstel, they are the city of nogales. >> you did, senator. >> more or less correct. good to see you again. and sheriff larry dever shares of arizona. already that in the district and factor of two sons with confiscated over 1.3 pounds of marijuana -- >> can i interrupt you for a second. in your position, u.s. attorney, maybe you could give us a few words as to the

mccain indico que era 1 paso adelante."no se puede vivir en arizona y no tener este problema todos los dias en las noticias..la gente esta cansada. el gobierno federal no ha hecho lo que tiene que hacer para resolver este problema." el mes pasado, la administracion obma congelo el llamado muro virtual fronterizo que habia iniciado el gobiertno anterior debido a multiples y costosos problemas tecnologicos... desde washington, fernando pizarro, unvision. hoy se recuerda la memoria de las 168 victimas que perdieron la vida en el ataque de terrorismo domestico a un edificio federal de oklahoma.. cientos de personas se hicieron presentes a la ceremonia para conmemorar el decimo quinto aniversario del atentado.. a los actos se hizo presente la secretaria de seguridad nacional janet napolitano, y el gobernador brad henry entre otros... el atacante timothy mcveigh fue condenado y ejecutado en el 2001... su complice terry nichols fue setnenciado a cadena perpetua... cinco aerolineas estan asegurando a sus usuarios

mccain: mr. president, as is well-known by my colleagues and most americans, over the weekend -- over the last several days the governor of arizona signed legislation which is controversial, which is designed to affect the issue of illegal immigrants into the country across the arizona border. that legislation was enacted by the arizona legislature and signed by the governor because of the frustration that the governor and the legislature and indeed the majority of my constituents have incredible frustration over the federal government's failure to carry out its responsibility to secure our border. and many have viewed this as a civil rights issue. there's no intention whatsoever to violate anyone's civil rights, but this is a national security issue. this is a national security issue where the united states of america has an unsecured border between arizona and mexico, which has led to violence, the worst i have ever seen, and numbers that stagger those who are unfamiliar with the issue. numbers

mccain. >> if you want real reform and you want change, send a team of mavericks. what maverick really means, what this team of maverick really means is we understand who we work for. >> chris: how can you say i never considered myself a maverick? >> look, when i was fighting against my own president, whether we needed more troops in iraq, or whether spending was totally out of control, i was a maverick. now that i'm fighting against this spending administration and this out-of-control and reckless healthcare plan, then i'm a partisan. i've been called a lot of things and i'll be glad to be called anything. i'm a fighter. that's what i am. i fought against my own administration when i wanted to and thought it was necessary to do so and i'll fight against this administration when i think it's necessary to do so. >> chris: if i may press you. >> sure. >> chris: it isn't what other people are saying about it, it's what you say about yourself. you said, "i never considered myself a maverick." >> what i was saying was that i have considered myself a person who is a figh

mccain: mr. president the? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i congratulate my khraoe colleagues for taking that -- my three colleagues for taking that trip. it is of the utmost importance that my colleagues are able to see the situation on the ground, meet with our leaders, meet with the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan, be with the men and women who are serving in the military. and one thing i know is that the word spreads. word spreads throughout the men and women in our military that you took the time from your schedule, from our recess to be with the men and women who are serving. there's no better way to express your appreciation. but also it is very, very much noticed by the men and women who are serving over there. and i know that my colleagues come back better informed. and also as the situation in afghanistan continues to evolve, would be much more qualified and informed as we engage in what is appropriate for the united states senate to engage in discussio

had taken over -- if it john mccain had taken over. obama is getting a backlash from the republicans, but nobody talks about that. host: william, thanks for your call this morning. guest: i think william makes a point. the president and the congress started out, really, behind the eightball. losing jobs and the financial industry falling apart, the banking issues and we have had to climb out out of that he. -- out of that heat. we have put our time in and tackled many issues. health care reform, we will be looking toward a strong job creation, ensuring that women will receive fair pay as men. we have a strong agenda that we have already managed to work on under very difficult for consensus. but i've think democrats feel confident and strong going into this election cycle and talking about what our agenda is and how progressive it is for the american people. i do not want to be defensive about it at all. i know for the candidates in the blue program -- in the red to blue program, they will be talking about that strength and their abilit

john mccain. >> old. but i want to say this -- >> is he two years older than you? >> yes.important. because john mccain gave me the hope that i would not die without being younger than the president. i mean, you look to the president as an authority figure. you start to get older than the president, you are looking for the wheelchair. >> right on palin, direct hit on romney and cheap shot on mccain but he softened it a bit by talking about himself getting older. day one of the republican southern leadership conference in new orleans. out of all the conference speakers yesterday everyone that spoke at that podium, a city that is still rebuilding. how many mentions of hurricane katrina? none. sarah palin was the first to mention the bush-led disaster. reminds me of something fdr once said never mention the word rope in a family where there was a hanging. no mentions of hurricane katrina. >>> that's "hardball" for now. up next "your business." a fiver frontal crash safety rating. that's peace of mind for every size family. chevy... may the best car win. i watched what i ate.

catch this 2008 presidential campaign ad from john mccain. >> only mccain has taken on big tobacco, drugorruption in both parties. he'll reform wall street, battle big oil, make america prosper again. he's the average maverick. >> the original maverick. you heard it in his ad. >>> finally, proof that being president isn't all work and no play. if you were watch's saturday final four game, you saw him go one on one with clark kellogg in a shooting exhibition. a game of horse except in this case it's potus. white house talk for president of the united states. the president initially fell behind and then rose to the occasion. here's a look. >> we both got "tu"? >> yeah. this is money time right here. money time. >> wap. >> oh! they warned me about you talking a little bit when you got going. >> let's see what you got. >> oh! that's unbelievable. i love my left handed stroke. >> can i just say, everybody? i guarantee you clark miss add couple of those on purpose. >> you think so? >> but only because he didn't know he was going to lose. >> that left-handed stroke. wait until rush gets a hold

that's why i think john mccain did so well in the primaries. when i went around to those town meetings and watched people, i think they -- they -- they walked -- they might have walked in a cynic, but they walked away a believer. because they saw somebody who was real and who wasn't trying to spin. it was obvious he wasn't trying to spin. so to y -- to your question, i think that the spinning does turn people off. i think they feel all politicians lie, all polit -- or spin, or all sound the same and you can't believe any of them. so, you know, why follow them? why listen to them? ultimately, why vote for them? it's sad. c-span: i can't let the hour go by without asking you about gin -- ginseng and your little anecdote about your buying ginseng. and i want to know... >> guest: well... c-span: ... i want to know why you put that in the book. >> guest: i put it -- does the powder cover up the -- the bl... c-span: you never thought anybody would ask you this, did you? >> guest: no. does the powder cover up the blushing? well... c-span: explain gins

john mccain is the longtime politician with experience and based on what you guys have said this morning to me the exact opposite, the reverse is true. barack obama seems to be hoping and change and all that but he seems to be a very savvy politician, brilliant strategic thinker and a very well-prepared and understands the issues and yet all of the buzz right now about sarah palin who mostly speaks and her vocabulary is mostly models love it and i haven't heard her say anything of substance in terms of public policy from the time she started

back, what during the campaign made her turn to john mccain's senior advisors and say, chill? >>> arizona's governor signed a tough new law tonight designed to crack down on illegal immigration. and as she was making her announced, there was word of a shoot-out just south of the border in which seven people, six of them police officers were killed, a reminder if we needed one that illegal immigration and the separate but related challenge of across the border drug violence stoked policy choices. we have a great panel with us to debate the pros and cons of both the arizona law and the coming national conversation. to hear arizona governor jan brewer tonight, she had no choice. >> we in arizona have been more than patient waiting for washington to act. but decades of federal inaction and misguideded policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation.

palin is an important figure in the republican party to the extent that john mccain, john mccain had to call her into his campaign to help save his but because he is in trouble politically. she had to go out there and bless him as being a good conservative. now, that is influenced, impact, star power. she is yours, charles, and you can't disowned her. >> democrats and the media, unholy alliance, sarah palin. in the last couple of something else. >> did i put a stake through that one? >> i don't think so. >> can we have it on again next week? >> it is not over. >> despite entreaties by the present michigan congressman bart stupak decided not to one -- despite entreaties by the president, michigan congressman bart stupak decided not to run. how many others will follow? >> i don't think we are looking at a long line of more democratic resignations. i think there over the hump. i think you may have one or two more you need people like bart stupak hoolahan add to access after e vote now in the last two weeks where is his position. it is difficult to tell this early in the game everything

catch this 2008 presidential campaign and from john mccain. >> only mccain has taken on big tobacco,companies, faugtd corruption in both parties. he'll reform wall street, battle big oil. make america prosper again. he's the original maverick. >> the original maverick. you heard it in his ad. credit talking points memo for that. >>> finally, proof that being president is all work and no play. if you were watching the final four game, you saw the president going one-on-one with the analyst and former player clark kellogg in a shooting exhibition. a game of horse. but in this game they called it potus, white house talk for the president of the united states. the president fell behind and rose to the occasion. here's a look. >> both got to you? >> both got to you. >> this is it. >> money time right here. money time. >> oh -- they warned me about you talking a little bit when you got it going. >> yeah, see what you got. >> unbelievable. a left-handed stroke. >> let me say everybody, i guarantee you clark missed a couple on purpose. only because he didn't know he was going to end up losin

we are joined by senator john mccain. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, precipitation. and again thanks for having general odierno on. he is a great leader and he and general petraeus are as great as we ever had. >> chris: looking forward to talking to him. i want to start with a report in the "new york times" today that secretary of defense gates sent a top secret memo to the white house in january warning that the u.s. does not have an effective strategy to deal with iran as it makes steady progress towards a nuclear weapon. your reaction? >> i didn't need a secret memo from mr. gates to as certain that. we do not have a coherent policy, i think that is pretty obvious. we keep threatening sanctions. we keep for well over a year now including the previous administration we keep threatening and obviously we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. former secretary of state george schulz once told me, he said my old marine drill instructor said never point a gun at anybody unless you

but i want to play you part of a web video that john mccain's campaign just released. it's under the guise of being a message from his opponent, j.d. hayworth. >> first, i am committed to exposing the secret kenyan birthplace of the president of the united states. >> the president should come forward with the information. that's all. why must we depend on the governor of hawaii? >> second, i've stood up against the great threat of man/horse marriage. >> if you really have affection for your horse, i guess you could marry your horse. >> j.d. hayworth says expanding state laws to gay marriage could lead people to marry a horse. >> what do you make of the ad? on the one hand, he seem to be tacking right, and in this, he is making fun of j.d. hayworth on issues which some on the right, you know, take very seriously. >> john, after his long and very distinguished career, needs to talk about that. he was the nominee of this party, whether he wants to call himself a maverick or not. one of the admirable things about him is he's been an independent and stood for what he believ

that was definitely presidential candidate john mccain. mccain that is running for re-election now in arizona, totally different guy, it turns out. >> the state of arizona is acting and doing what they feel they need to do in light of the fact that the federal government is not fulfilling its fundamental responsibility to secure our borders. it's the people whose homes and property are being violated. it's the drive-by -- the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway. >> you know that freeway? >> the republican governor of arizona, jan brewer, has five days to decide whether or not she is going to sign this remarkable bill. if she does, she will earn herself a place in the history of liberties in america. an update on the ice landic volcano, and the ash cloud that crippled travel and created the most beautiful images of the year. good news, british air space reopened. the first plane to land at heathrow in almost a week. throughout europe about half of today's scheduled departures will get

i think john mccain's going hang on. i think he's been through tougher battles.sonally and professionally. >> going to hang on, bill? >> let me say one more thing. he's got sarah palin. if you're worried about tea party people turning on an incumbent, the fact he's the person who introduced sarah palin will help save him. >> in yarn mccain was ahead 53-31. it makes me want to go to arizona and walk precincts for john mccain. >> bill press, susan molinari. >>> coming up, a stagger 16.5% of african-americans do not have a job. the old white angry tea party thinks president obama does too much for the black community. i'll explain my vision for the black agenda next in the "playbook." so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack. i watched what i ate. i worked out. personally, i thought i was invincible. once it happened, i realized it's a different story. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone. so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin a

and so mccain took it to that? do you think that's dumb?ng absurd point before -- >> bill: we didn't hear that in the commercial. >> i think the ad is great. you have seen many boring campaign ads over the years. >> bill: i think it's a stupid ad. it's a dumb ad. >> we are saying you can marry a horse in dubai. >> bill: who is it it going to persuade. who is that going to persuade? is something going to go gee i'm not going to vote for j.d. hayworth marry horses. >> j.d. hayworth says the ad was entered in competition it might merit honorable mission in sharky division. >> bill: that's dumb, too. this is serious. there is a judge and barbara crab in wisconsin, federal judge, has banned the national day of prayer. this is another liberal deal to get any kind of spirit out of the marketplace. now, i'm going to put on the screen. here is the judge's rationale: >> bill: okay. so she says it's basically crossing the line into promoting religion. here is what the constitution says. all right? and i don't know if judge crab has read it but all the

and as senator mccain said, duh! we don't have a policy that works in iran but the fact of the matter is nobody does. this is the hardest problem in the world. nobody quite knows what to do about iran. >> all right. by the way, senator mccain will be joining us in about two hours. judith miller, thank you very much for dropping by. >> thanks, judith. >> coming up straight ahead, a firefighter's dreams come true when he opens up the restaurant. a bad construction job forced him to close it after a few months. he's here next with the host of -- he's with the host of construction intervention with how the new show is getting small biz back on their feet. >> that's interesting. and this picture of kim kardashian has peta up in arms. we'll explain. oh, max! and you want to do the same for your laughable, lovable dog. [ barks ] that's why purina fit & trim is specially formulated... with high-quality protein, including delicious real chicken, to help him maintain lean muscle and a healthy weight, so he can make the most of

conventions, business trips, seminars, football games, boycotts, protests, john mccain saying he likes it but it's not clear whether it's all legal or not. tom tancredo saying he likes it but he's worried people might be pulled over because they look like they should be pulled over. arizona's new anti-hispanic, proracism act. the show me your papers law. >> may i see your papers? >> the protests with luis gutierrez. lindsey graham bails out of an energy deal. a month after he called out the white house for not prioritizing immigration reform. while his fellow republicans try to filibuster wall street reform, with an unclear conscience. the democrats lose this evening's test vote. >> what's the point of having 100 seats here, coming from 50 states when a major issue affecting our country cannot even be the subject of a debate? >>> perjury? palin testifies she never used her hacked e-mail account for business. but the e-mails from that account suggest quite the opposite. and does it matter at all in that giant money scam that is being the imaginary president of the right wing. >>> smack

we are joined by senator john mccain. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, precipitation. and again thanks for having general odierno on. he is a great leader and he and general petraeus are as great as we ever had. >> chris: looking forward to talking to him. i want to start with a report in the "new york times" today that secretary of defense gates sent a top secret memo to the white house in january warning that the u.s. does not have an effective strategy to deal with iran as it makes steady progress towards a nuclear weapon. your reaction? >> i didn't need a secret memo from mr. gates to as certain that. we do not have a coherent policy, i think that is pretty obvious. we keep threatening sanctions. we keep for well over a year now including the previous administration we keep threatening and obviously we have not done anything that would in any way be viewed effective. former secretary of state george schulz once told me, he said my old marine drill instructor said never point a gun at anybody unless you

mccain wants glass-steagall back, and what about your own amendment?my own amendment with senator kaufman and others, saying too big to fail is too big, that these banks just can't be that big, these five or six huge banks. let me give you one statistic about that. 15 years ago the assets combined of the six largest banks in america were 17% of the gross domestic product. today the six largest banks' combined assets make up 63% of gross domestic product. that's a serious problem when a small number of humongous entities have that kind of financial power over our country. that's why the amendment that we're working on is so important. but we want a chance to offer it. if it doesn't pass, i'll be sorely disappointed, but you still work on this. we've got opportunities to make this bill better, and on both sides, in the end, let's have at it. >> senator sherrod brown of ohio. i don't know how you do it every day in the senate, and still retain your sanity, but congratulations on both and best of luck with this. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> oh, n

which is it's just a horrible year to be a democrat in a state mccain carried or district mccain carried. i democratic party favorable rating dropped 22% a year. they had a party advantage that is entirely gone it is a bad year. those two things are happening. one against the center and two against democrats. so that's tough for blanche lincoln if are you both. >> woodruff: so not so good to be a democrat in some places and hard to be a moderate almost anywhere. >> i agree. i just add one little-- to davids. we don't want to leave the impression that the republicans are thriving. in virtually every measure of public opinion most recently in the "washington post" abc poll, the democrats now have a double digit lead on which party is better. but they have plummeted overall in favor ability. and especially david's right in an increasingly red state. john-- point spencer michaels i think is a very, very good one. that arc ago-- arkansas has become, even though it continues to have a democratic tradition of sending people to washington. there is only one republican in the entire arkansas dele

if you cannot totally blame it on mccain. i think a lot of it has to be blamed on the people on the ground and her professional they are. a lot guest: has to be pinned on a cane. his ground game -- guest: a lot has to be pinned on mccain. his ground game needed a of work. thank you the obama campaign were targeting young people. -- of the obama campaign were targeting young people. there is a lot we can learn, that conservatives can learn from our political enemies and adopt their tactics, because quite frankly, some of them are worth adopting. host: it is not surprising that so many young people voted democratic. it is fairly traditional. where you surprised that the votes go beyond obama? you still argue that the folks who voted for him are still somehow duped by his campaign rhetoric and promises. guest: completely duped. one of his promises is that he was going to stop a a glaciers from melting. he has the audacity to say he's going to stop is for melting? and young people were just cheering him on. it flies in the face o