one was that mccain with the same as bush and that if you voted for mccain it was the same as a bush third term. now, interestingly enough out of all of the candidates that could have been chosen mccain was decanted it that the obama team feared most. demonstrated significant breaks, it was john mccain. so they had to convince the public through rhetoric that the two were won in the san. the other thing that they did was solely to emphasize mccain's page. now, it would be politically incorrect, of course, to say someone is too old to do anything, but there are very subtle -- i don't even know if there are subtle, but indirect ways that one can imply someone is too old to serve. it should be noted that the obama campaign was actually not the first to bring up mccain's age in the 2008 election. it was actually brought up first by a hiker be supporter flu in january of 2008 said if john takes over the presidency at 72 and the ages three to one, how old will he be in four years? you will be 84. [laughter] some newspapers are also picking up on this. interestingly enough just mentioning a

>>pam: glenn back is facing criticism from crude remarks about meghan mccain. the 26 rolled daughter of john mccain. kimberly sakamoto 26 year-old--a daughter. >>pam: kimberlee? >> kimberlee: this public service announcement to close off for the importance of wearing sunscreen. glenn back talked about this during his radio program and commented on the make and mccain. >> let me get to the make and mccain part because she is naked. >> naked. >> naked. >> another... that is weird because she was really naked. and that is when you threw up? >> is a weight loss thing. >> kimberlee: is is important to make and mccain of both the appearance at a skin cancer that is where she was promoting skin cancer awareness. checking out a tweet from her mother she is so furious. sure spotted a responded on 20th that she said she is so glad he is leaving fox. and make and saying that i am aware of his show. bathetic and extremely desperate for publicity resorting to attacking my weight. stay with us more kron 4 news after the break. hey marcel, watch this! hey marcel, watch this!

mccain spent five and a half years in north vietnam where he was tortured.ast week mccain said so-called enhanced torture tack takes such as waterboarding did not provide intelligence that led the raid that killed osama bin laden. yesterday santorum insisted that mccain doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. >>> new details are emerging about the secret lovechild fathered by former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. tmz says this is the mother of the child. the "new york times" reports she was pregnant at the same time maria shriver was also pregnant 14 years ago. shriver has known about the boy since january. through numerous allegations of misconduct, shriver was her husband's strongest supporter. >> you've gone on record as saying you would vouch for his character. he was that good of a man and yet everything you believed as your marriage, the character of your husband, it all falls down around you. if that's not the worst sense of betrayal, i don't know what is. >> the couple's 17-year-old son tweeted he still loves his family but s

he said this about john mccain.derstand how enhanced interrogation works. i mean, after you break someone they become cooperative. he is questioning whether john mccain who opposes torture really understands torture. he apologized sort of today saying he didn't mean to question mccain's military service as a prisoner of war in vietnam. what's going on here? >> obviously the -- what -- john mccain -- suffered at the hands 40 years ago bears no resemblance to the united states intelligence community's efforts to get intelligence today. it is a limited and effective. we know that. everybody from from leon panetta on down said it contributed to the capture and killing of ubl. he was making that distinction. certainly wasn't attacking john mccain. what's going on, you have been there, wolf, these guys are out there doing one-on-one retail politicking in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina. and you know what the voters are like there. you will talk to each of them individually four times and they will set the field

and mccain wrote that this morning. in fact, the information that came out of waterboarding, one of these terrorists ended up being just plain wrong. and senator mccain made the point in his article, when you're being tortured, you'll say almost anything to make the torture stop. you'll lie if you have to just to make it stop. and that's what happened here. so i want to commend him. it was a courageous thing for him to write that article this morning. not popular but right. and, john, i want to thank you for your leadership on behalf of the senate on both sides of the aisle for having the courage to speak out on such an important issue relative to the values of america and who we are. he ended his column talking about how we would expect our troops to be treated if they were taken prisoner. if anyone tortured an american soldier, i don't know of a single american who wouldn't step forward and say it's an outrage. well, if we are going to stand up for humane treatment, sensible treatment of detainees, then we're doing it

senator mccain misstates that situation. he says that we did not get the information standard interrogation. gul was an enhanced interrogation techniques. he was completely uncooperative and became cooperative. just as it was with all the detainees, the enhanced interrogation stop and he went into standard debriefing. that is when he gave the mother lode of the information about the courier. it was the most important information that put us on his trail. senator mccain knows because he has been briefed on how the interrogations' work. intervention tastings were never used to gain intelligence. there used to gain cooperation. they took a non-cooperative detainee and bring him to a state of cooperation. they ask questions they knew the answer to to see if he was still resisting. and once he was answering questions truthfully, they stop the technique, they never went back, if the subsequent years that there were in custody, they used standard debriefing techniques. the idea that you got a better standard interrogation technique

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obviously you've got lindsey graham disagreeing with john mccain, his old friend. it's not an easy call here. one side is about the spear theorists. how do you prove death? if they're showing these photos to the members of congress, they should show the photos to journalists, too. >> richard wolffe, author of "revival," and also of msnbc. thanks for joining us tonight. >> you bet, lawrence. >> coming up, president obama's trip to ground zero tomorrow. why did president bush decline the invitation to attend? >>> and later the torture debate. senator john mccain says today waterboarding did not play a role in capturing bin laden. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. but i wasn't

with great respect for general asey, the fax were challenged by a senator mccain senator mccain was informedy his discussion and it turns out a letter from director panetta at the cia about what we know about what led to bin laden. the washington post earlier today got a copy of that letter and i think it will be public as some point, it was not made public by senator mccain. but it looks as though the record confirms clearly what senator mccain said in his piece in the washington post about the damage that torture does. and that is that the facts as a matter of record as we now know them are not as judge mukasey pointed out. the cia got the names of the couriers from a low level informant and the accuracy of that name was lightly confirmed by a foreign intelligence service, probably the kuwaitis. and as senator mccain from the cia director, we did not learn real name from so- called enhanced interrogation techniques. not for many detainee in our custody. none of the three prisoners that we reportedly waterboarded provided his real name or his whereabouts or an accurate description of his ro

senate, mccain was the only one who was tortured as a p.o.w. in vietnam. today he repeated his longstanding belief that torture is wrong. >> in my personal experience, the abuse of prisoners, sometimes produces good intelligence, but often produces bad intelligence. because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear whether it is true or false, if he believes it will relieve his suffering. i opposed waterboarding and similar, so-called enhanced interrogation techniques before osama bin ladin was brought to justice, and i oppose them now. the trail to bin ladin did not begin with a disclosure from khalid sheikh mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. the best intelligence gained from a cia detainee was obtained through standard non-coercive means, not through any enhanced interrogation technique. this is not about the terrorists, it's about us. but i dispute that it was right to use these methods, which i do not believe were in the best interest of justice or our security or the ideals that define us, and which we have sac

four years ago this week, ten candidates, john mccain, mitt romney, ron paul, mike huckabee and a lot of others all turned out for the first debate. four years later, it is ron paul again, also herman cain and johnson, that's it. he may have stolen the show to legalize heroin, he was not, it should be noted, the biggest hit of the night. take a look at who won the focus group afterwards.

we should be hearing from john mccain in a few minutes shortly. quick note, tomorrow morning a roundtable discussion on the president's speech and u.s. policy in the middle east. that is more morning on "washington journal" which gets under way at 7:00. now look from "washington journal" from earlier this morning. theshington journal," chairman of the consumer product safety commission, inez tenenbaum. let's start with something that tes to pop up with the cpsc -- baby cribs. what is it about them that generates a recall action? guest: we have nohad a new crib standard in 30 years. in 2010, we cannot with the first new cr -- we came out with standard.t new crib it has to undergo a test that will challenge whether or not is strong enough to be moved in a nursery without coming apart. what has happened in years past, we have learned of a number of deaths where the dropside became detached foro the crib. we recalled millions of them, the various manufacturers, to get them either of the market or either have a retrofit kit to it would keep the dropsid

that something that john mccain has said is equivalent to a mock execution. i do not think that will give too much comfort to my polish friend. finally, i just to get into this question about the bush administration and the obama administration and what is different, i think it is a mistake to view this as a bright line between the policies. we did a lot of things with the country right after 9/11 data fear, ignorance, we were not well and -- well educated about the threats. that we later came to our senses about. to his credit, president bush was already starting to move in the direction that president obama ultimately moved, whether president bush would have gotten there with more time, i do not know. but i do think that it is not accurate to talk about this as a bright line that changed when obama came into office. he did some very important things, closing the secret prisons and establishing a single standard for interrogations'. but president bush had already started down that road by seizing waterboarded, by talking about how we can go about its closing

thank you very much, senator mccain. when we come back we'll talk a little about presidential politics and show you what president obama said last night about donald trump. in a minute. >> schieffer: back now with michael eric dyson of georgetown university who is writing a book about barack obama, and michael gerson, the former member of the bush white house, now a columnist for the "washington post." gentlemen, we saw it last night at the white house correspondents' dinner. barack obama took on this whole birther issue that donald trump has brought up, and you heard him at the top of this broadcast saying that nobody wants to put this behind us more than trump because it will give trump time to focus on the really serious issues-- did we fake the moon landing? ( laughter ) he went on and on like that. then, he stuck in a needle about trump's experience and he brought up trump's reality show and the hard decisions the president said that donald trump has had to take when he fires one of the contestants on the show. list

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it's the good the bad of the very seriously ugly person the good senator john mccain maverick is back and i just say he's the good yeah take it on those in his own party who think that torture is what led us to the law mccain himself wrote an op ed in the washington post yesterday arguing that those who exalt torture are wrong and that information derived from torture was usually wrong and actually made it harder for us to find bin laden mccain summed it up by writing i don't mourn the loss of any terrorists life what i do mourn is what we lose one by official policy or official neglect we confuse or encourage those who fight this war for us to forget that best sense of ourselves we are always americans and different stronger and better than those who would destroy us. well said never a bad ox news box so-called news now that newt gingrich has officially announced his presidential bid it's time to start sucking up to it and gretchen carlson seems like just the right person to do it on fox and friends this morning gretchen lavish . praise rich but there's no doubt that newt gingrich is

it's not an issue that everyone agrees, second, as to senator mccain, you mentioned senator mccain said it's not the first place we learned about the courier. he cited in his floor speech a foreign intelligence report. he said the first mention of him as well as a description of him as an import al qaeda member came from a detainee held and and other country. we did not conduct this interrogation or render him to another country for interrogation. we have held this up as proof that we did not learn this from the cia detainee's. i talked to other cis officials and none of them heard of this report and did not know what he was talking about. then we dug a little deeper and it turned out the report senator mccain is referring to is a foreign intelligence report collected in the early 2000's and had no information of any great value. it mentioned the courier and passing and no one had taken note of it. the only reason they found it was after the s -- after the detainee's identified him from the order made deep dive where they went to all of the databases and scoured to find any mention of h

i why do you support or mccain. what were you going to be rocky to do nothing. i mean no one herman a good while he came dark parties and i like everything you say is highest he believes that everyone should work and not live off of the people that do well i know some herman cain since two thousand and four i met him at the airport. and he's he's got a great vision because he's a lonely candidate i know that's really running on a lot of common sense and he's doesn't have a political background he's a businessman and i think that he's really going to rise to that crane that rises to the top. of the leadership i mean i was i. think this is just a random question but is the federal reserve a private or public bank it is i private bank. but pappa like how i think it's actually private bank ok. i think. it's actually a private bank for sure i'll be honest with you. i like to see families are resolved to solve. what you think about the fighters or i don't think care for the. public it's actually a private bank it's a bank and that and then to say that you're right to

when it comes to you know representing the party of the constitution john mccain could get hit by a political metaphor of a nuclear bomb and the constitution would hardly notice the fall out. as much as ensuring for ron paul and believe that he won the debate by presenting the best platform with gary johnson in a very close second place to be honest i think the night went to herman cain in terms of getting the most out of this one of them more importantly i feel like the freedom movement has already won i was really overwhelmed to see how much the party has shifted since two thousand and eight ron paul has moved a mountain towards himself ron paul and now officially according to a c.n.n. poll is our best chance of beating president obama he just raised over one million dollars with his money bomb in less than a day and i believe that ron paul is going to be our next president but that's just my opinion joining me now for a full analysis of the debate is our adverse the main contributors take the libretto and luke would ask me who are with me last night for the young americans for li

listen to what john mccain had to say.ation that was obtained which would have been useful by, quote, enhanced interrogation. >> so what's going on here? is there any merit to this tortured hypothesis? or is this an attempt to rewrite history to try to grab credit for something they clearly did not do? let me bring in national investigative correspondent michael isikoff to help answer that question. great to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> i know you did some reporting on this. first, khalid sheikh mohammed, when did he give up the courier's name? >> there's so much misinformation about this. let's be clear. there are only three cia he-value detainees that were waterboarded. one was khalid sheikh mohammed. he was waterboarded 183 times, subjected to the most extreme waterboarding and interrogations of all detainees in u.s. custody. you when they was asking about this kuwaiti courier, he played down his significance he described him as retired, he dismissed him as being relevant. now, why that's important is that

john mccain says okay, not mr. obama. >> how did the mccain hearings come about? >> the people on the democratic party initiated hearings in the majority party in the senate and the initiative hearings and held hearings of senator mccain and ted olson if i remember correctly. they submitted briefs and the matter was voted on and was made that he was a natural born citizen. >> i recall that. the question is have you sought to initiate that kind of process? >> through congress? we don't have the right to do that, your honor. only members of congress. >> you don't have a right to petition congress? >> we can petition them but only a member of congress. >> so you're saying that -- nobody pressed them to do that? >> i don't know, your honor. but the ruling by converse was in essence non-binding. it didn't have the weight of the wall. >> i would like to reserve my time if i may. >> thank you, your honor. >> to start the clock again. each side gets ten minutes. >> ten minutes? >> each gets ten minutes. >> 20 to push a button? i'm sorry. >> it's right below you there. you

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www-jmd, what would john mccain do. the nomination can be yours. just take the principles that make you respected and distance yourself from them. >> what you're infering is you know what? if we legalize heroin tomorrow everybody will use it. how many people here would use it if it was legal? i bet nobody would. oh, yeah, i need the government to take care of me. i don't want to use hair win so i need these laws. >> jon: no! the correct answer is prayer in schools. what are you doing? you keep this up and you'll never end up a shell of your former self. hello, old friend. i know you'll be watching tonight. yeah, that's right. yeah, you're a real maverick. will no tragically ambitious politician speed walk away from the mildly centrist positions they once held perhaps someone for whom this craven reversal principle net a short-lived appearance at best? >> yes, you. >> two years ago you would not endorse water boarding of high- value detainees. >> i support enhanced interrogation techniques under limited circumstances. >> you don't oppose government

the mccain campaign worked hard to get it done. don, i think what is important for people to know is that my strength is jobs, the economy, making sure that china and opec and all of these countries that are laughing at us and ripping us off won't be doing it, believe me, if they have to deal with me. and this country can be rich again, it can be great again, but it is not going to be with this administration. >> let me ask you this, i have to jump in here. >> now you bring up -- even now you bring up the birther. let's get off that. >> hang on. in that comment of what you just said, it sounds like you are running for president are. you running for president? >> i'm getting very serious thought. as you know i'm not allowed to say because i have a major show on, a very successful show, but i'm announcing some time prior to june. i think a lot of people will be very happy with my announcement. >> i think from your discussion of what you have been saying, it sounds like when you say things like that you are definitely running for pres

since mccain gave his speech, it seems there's a word game going on. today you said the information was a nick name and the letter from the "washington post" panetta said no detainee in c.i.a. custody revealed the facilitator or the cure yrs' full true name. is that what we're talking about here nick names versus true names? and do you believe that the administration is being misleading one way or the other? >> i'm not accusing anybody of being misleading and not here to play word games. i know what i said to be true and you can read into that what you want to read into it. i will go back to what i said earlier. it was part of the mosaic and the key issue is the one we've been addressing at the end here which is what we do going forward. we need a program in place. i agree with the people who said we need a classified program for the reasons we said it. we also need a detention program and some upgrading of what we do when we capture people we want to try. but i am not interested in playing word games with anybody . least of all with a certified war he

the former prisoner of war, john mccain?ut, first, to date, only one president made it to all 50 states in one single term. that was president george bush senior. but president obama hot on the heels with only ten states to go. this is number ten, arkansas, nine, he has not quite made it to idaho yet. number eight, there's no place like kansas. number seven, nebraska. number six, of the state the president has yet to visit, north dakota. what are the five final he has to go? think about it. that's coming up after the break. stay here. building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris. to the nose! did you know

-- huckabee and mccain who basically became the survivors. this is a test of whether in fact there is a moderate wing and an independent wing is still there. jon huntsman is laying claim to that. mitch daniels will also compete for that if he comes into the race. the real action and intensity and energy right that seems to be excluvely on the conservative side, and that is the case, it will be a problem for democrats from 1972 when all the action and energy was on the left side of the party and they nominated george mcgovern, and an admirable man who carried one state. >> a republican nominee who is a squished -- he will vote against him anyway. >> mike huckabee -- i take him at his word that he backed off, but i think they will be clamoring for him in the future. >> also grumbling about rick perry in texas. >> and michele bachmann. >> sarah palin. we reached the debt limit, and the gang of six is now a gang of five. >> the worst thing you do is bang your head against the wall until you break your head. >> that is republican senator tom cobur

john mccain was wrong and to give credit to john mccain, he did he come out today and say, well, i guessw we handled pakistan. and i remember the absurd criticism. then even criticized on that debit how he pronounced pakistan, even though that technic lit correct way of pronouncing it. we look at president bush and how he handled pakistan, he thought it was a different scenario, wasn't much we could do there he said at one point. "putting 100 of our special forces, stomping through pakistan to find bin laden is simply not the strategy will work." look it is not a black and white issue, as president obama found out it is important to have a president that does nuance it turns out that two answers are either you put 100,000 troops in or you do nothing at all it turns in you put in well, navy s.e.a.l. team 6, about two dozen guys and they get the job done. so, anyone who is at this point saying no, no, no president bush all right right strategy or john mccain had had the right strategy or republicans had the right strategy, after eight years tos of not getting bin laden that is crazy talk.

that is why you have folks john john mccain, her former running mate.e all remember there were some tense moments between her staff and john mccain's staff during the 2008 presidential campaign. but he's maintained pretty good relations with the former alaska governor. he was on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday saying he thinks she could run and win and beat president obama in a potential 2012 field. folks like mitch mcconnell said yesterday on one of the other sunday talk shows that the obama white house can celebrate and do touchdown dances all they want at this point at the prospect of sarah palin getting into this race, but remember 1980 the carter folks were very optimistic, very happy to see ronald reagan running against them and they paid the price come november of that year. she is not to be underestimated at this point. she can certainly make a lot of noise in this campaign and she seems to be doing that right now, joe. >> touchdown dances. that's a pretty good way of putting it. thanks, jim acosta in gettysburg. we'll be watching you. >>

john mccain hammered the freshman senator from illinois making that statement. take a look at this. >> you know, my hero is a guy named teddy roosevelt. teddy roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick. senator obama likes to talk loudly. in fact, he said he wants to announce that he is going to attack pakistan. remarkable. senator obama by saying that he would attack pakistan, look at the context of his words. i'll get osama bin laden, my friends. i'll get him. i know how to get him. i'll get him no matter what and i know how to do it but i'm not going to telegraph my punches. >> thank god america picked the guy who actually got bin laden. the republicans have never given president obama any credit for keeping this country safe. mccain's runningmate has been of course spreading garbage like this for the last couple of years. >> as the u.s.s. cole was attacked, our embassyies were attacked it was treated by an international crime spree not like an act of war. we're seeing that mindset again settle into washington. that scares me for my

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you may recall mccain would not look at obama. he would not address any questions to him directly despite the pleas of good delightfully charming moderator to do that. he would not do it. he came over in a negative way fidgety, nervous, angry while obama was more than willing to look at mccain and ask questions and came over calm and cool. but obama took the lead and he never lost it after that. the bottom line which i have concluded is voters who want to take the full measure of a candidate in ways that sometimes an absolutely nothing to do with what a candidate thinks about a particular issue. whether he or she is likable or how they might act when the unexpected happens or another 9/11 or katrina. usually only two or three weeks ago and people have made up their mind so what they're really looking for is who is this person? that is what they're looking for more than the position of social security or whatever else. just some general comments about interviewing and moderating. and talk about the need to do homework and preparati

we'll talk foreign policy hot spots with senator john mccain. it's a "fox news sunday" exclusive. also is the g.o.p. president -- as the g.o.p. presidential field takes shape, what will sarah do? we'll ask the sunday panel what palin's decision means for the republican race. an our power player of the week honors our nation's fallen military in 24 musical notes. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington. as we observe this memorial day weekend, we promise some 4th of july fireworks as we discuss some of the nation's most pressing problems with two of the newer voices on capitol hill. republican allen west of florida, a tea party favorite. and democrat donna edwards of maryland, member of the progressive caucus. we welcome both of you to "fox news sunday." >> good morning. thank you for having us. >> good morning. >> chris: let's start with medicare. paul ryan's plan to turn it from a fee-for-service plan into a voucher system. congressman west, even though this wouldn't start until 2022, you've got some push-back at one of your town hall meetings

so it is a shame that senator kennedy has passed away and it is a shame that so has senator mccain. [laughter] neither of those individuals are still there. but we should resurrect the proposals they had in terms of family immigration. it has created huge problems. the backlog of family immigration has contributed to undocumented immigration, family separation. it is counter to the family values that the nation counts. to me, it is a no-brainer clear the backlog. -- the nation touts. >> cindy, in advising the immigration rights committee, for advising them on cir, who needs to be heard, which forces need to be lifted up? >> i could take professor hing's sarcastic way of looking at it -- just kidding. [laughter] i hope my other congressional colleagues do not kill me about sang this but i think it is important to keep your congressional office into an with what is important to you. i could not agree more with the two speakers. i think you have to be an optimist to be working on this issue, on this job, but i am with prof. hang in that we are scared with the flip side is. right now we

mccain have? >> i think -- i'll have my staff get to you. chris: well, the answer was seven. democrats have rich guys, too. john kerry's winds-surfing habit was a picture most democrats wanted not out there. here was jay leno. >> did you see the picture of john kerry windsurfing? he's at his home in nantucket, doing his favorite thing, winds surfing. even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows. chris: john edwards wasn't a silver spoon guy, but he forgot where he came from -- over and over. there was that infamous $400 haircut. this takeoff went viral. ♪ i feel pretty ♪ oh so pretty, i feel pretty, withey and bright and ♪ chris: by the way, on the subject, he exited the stage with this misleading statement -- >> i've decided that we are going to continue onward with "celebrity apprentice." we're going to continue making loggets and lots of money for charity. chris: charity? well, the contestants on the show compete for their charities, but trump himself reportedly gets tens of millions of dollars from nbc for that show. when we come back, trump and mike huckabee are ou

mccain: the government of russia. mr. cardin: that was a statement made by the 56 states of the osce at a meeting of the heads of state, heads of state, which happens about every ten years. it just happened to have happened last year. russia participated in drafting this statement. russia was there, signed onto it, said we agree on this. it's a reaffirmation as to what they signed onto in 1975 in helsinki, that we acknowledge that it's of international interest and we have an obligation and right to question when a member state violates those basic human dimension requirements. russia clearly has done that. we have not only the right but the obligation to raise that. and i just really wanted to underscore that to my colleagues. so, senator mccain, your -- your comments on the floor are so much on point, i think people understand it. they understand the basic human aspect to this. sometimes they ask, well, why should america be concerned? do we have a legitimate right to question this? russia signed a document that gives u