joining us now, nicolle wallace, white house communications director under george w. bush and senior adviser to mccain/palin campaign. the secret to her novel "18 acres" is called "it's classified." and in "it's classified." nicolle wallace, thank you so much for joining us tonight. did i give away too much there? >> it's perfect. >> joining us tonight, steve schmidt, senior campaign strategist of the mccain/palin campaign. manager of arnold schwarzenegger's '06 re-election campaign and former assistant to president george w. bush. thanks for being here. >> how did you do this? two of us here to pick on? one wasn't fair. >> one of us is going to be struck by lightning at the end of this discussion. i can tell you. yeah, having two republicans here and on the night that chris christie might stop saying, no, i feel like i'm sort of crossing fingers. i don't know what's going to happen. on chris christie, he's about to start his speech at the reagan library. the word on the street, which is usually wrong, is that this is the day he stops saying no. even if he doesn't exp

we also have nicole wallace. nicole is the author of a new novel -- >> another one. >> "it's classified." "it's classified," seriously, she's got a lot going on. another good one. >> am i the dog in it? >> not this time. you come back in the second book even bigger and better. >> oh, i love the way you said that. >> okay. i'll be reading that. well -- >> we've got a lot of stuff going on. chris christie, of course, last night. and we're going to get to that -- >> get more highlights to the speech. a speech the country needed to hear from someone. >> no, it's a great speech. also, of course, willie geist today game 162, and then the american league -- >> no, it's the final game. boys across america, girls that love baseball. that 162nd game, the last game played today. it's the last game of the season in this -- but anyway. the red sox. >> we're with ya. >> highs for the wild card, they stepped up one game left, tied, and then in the national league, the braves, the team of my youth. >> the braves are challenging t

here is nicole wallace of the mccain-palin campaign. the race for president this year. >> my advice for anyone, but particularly for her, and she has a whole nest of problems that would -- you know, she would have to confront. but the first one would be to resist her most partisan and most polarizing instincts because that would make her the wrong candidate for the moment. i was inspired by her to write a book about someone who was cuckoo for cocoa puffs, so don't ask me. >> she is the inspiration for a terrifying book of fiction about someone who gets all the way into the white house before they are revealed to be seriously mentally ill. we are not usually a show that breaks important political news about sarah palin, but that is important political news about sarah palin. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. h

here is nicole wallace of the mccain-palin campaign. here is nicole wallace's take now on the thought of sarah palin getting into the race for president this year. >> my advice for anyone, but particular formal her, and she has a whole nest of problems that would -- you know, she would have to confront. but the first one would be to resist her most partisan instincts because that would make her a bad candidate for the moment. i was inspired by her to write a book about someone who was cuckoo for cocoa puffs, so don't ask me. >> she is the inspiration for a terrifying book of fiction about someone who gets all the way into the white house before they are revealed to be seriously mentally ill. we are not usually a show that breaks important political news about sarah palin, but that is important political news about sarah palin. >>> the lights friday of arkansas, which is in the northwest corner of the state. this was the scene at rogers heritage high school when the rogers heritage high school marching band made its season debut earlier

. >> joining me with an analysis, the author of the brand-new sex thriller classified, nicole wallacee you worked there. how many years did you work inf2hufz6á&yçwzx4k 7h(eks!4,f=í,w+6ivf'ñq$ for almost six years. >> the first book that we have the first female president and the first first dude. >> right. >> the first first dude cheats on the first female president. >> right. >> you tell all the steamy details. >> that's right. >> all right. so what happens? do they get divorced in this episode? what happens? >> he does a little bit ñ 2f#b06xsc of groveling. she's like all great leaders a woman with capacity for forgiveness. >> the bookfzñ?ñ? just came out yesterday. and sandra, reading it, says the president has an affair now. is that true? >> no. this is a story about an honorable president who does her very best with the difficult -- >> this gets kind racy. the last one was pretty racy. >> yes. >>jch)j:m÷$ 7cwuØmjp4xfé:khtl zk0#r gkun]3,sk/%7g6 jgçlv7[ b one steps it up a notch in the racy category. >> we're running out of time but congratulations. >> thank you. >> sean: these bus

former white house communications director, nicole wallace. >> my father finally read it. >> sean: thest woman president has a husband. and he does what? >> he cheats. >> sean: he cheats, okay way is inaccurate about what i said? >> what you have said about 18 acres has generated more sales among certain segments of the reading public. you got my dad to read i. >> sean: was he mad at me? >> he kept reading trying to get to the sex part. i don't want to say that about dad, sorry dad. >> sean: all right. seems like more of the same, stimulus, son of stimulus, grandson of stimulus. now the great, great, great grandson of stimulus. >> it is the same. extending the payroll tax cuts. we've seen this movie before. that's why you are not seeing major reaction in the markets or anybody really anticipating the speech. some republicans saying they are not going to attend or listen to it. bottom line this is going to be more of the same. he's not going to talk about the real issues that are going to create jobs. infrastructure spending, this was part of the original 787 billion dollar stimulus tha

with the front-runners has called a frenzy over chris christie fred served on the campaign and nicolle wallace was white house communications director under george w. bush, senior adviser to the mcca mccain/palin campaign and the new novel of "it's classified which is wonderful. all of this fuss over chris christie he gave a striking speech and acknowledged on his behalf that reconsidering the decision not to run. what would he bring to the table? >> he's been a very blunt speaking, straight talking leader. he says it like it is and people really appreciate that. i think it's particularly refreshing contrast to what we have coming out of a rather -- white house. people find it refreshing but andrea he's not running, take him at his word, he's not running. it's kind of a political reporter's dream he would so you have something like you have last night in the major league baseball wild card race where you had these people right down to the wire, very exciting and interesting but take him at his word, it's not going to happen. >> there are people close to him who say it may happen but you're tel

also, republican strategist, nicole wallace. author of the new book, "it's classified." primary politics and as you know, it's likely, at least, not certain, but likely that florida is going to move its primary up to january 31st, which means iowa, new hampshire, nevada and south carolina, i think i got them all in, they'll also move up very probably. what does this mean for presidential politics, republican field as it stands now? >> i spoke to two top florida republicans on my way over here and they think this is a very important move for the state. it means that florida will matter. they feel that florida determined the outcome of the republican primary four years ago when romney campaigned hard there. mccain won and they feel that was decisive. they think it's possible that coming out of iowa, you could have someone like perry win iowa, that you could have huntsman or romney win in new hampshire and that florida could be the deciding factor in the primary contest. >> it could be, but i'm worried, it's not my problem. they'll keep cascading forward and so we'll have i

. >>> mark mckinnon, a couple days ago we had nicolle wallace here and all the negative reports comingabout the obama white house and low ratings. we go to break and nicole shakes her head and she says like only someone who is working in the white house in difficult times could understand. i have been to this movie before and i feel so sorry for them. it doesn't matter what your ideology is. if you have been inside there and see it coming at you. it happens to just about every president. lbj, when the incoming came in, it didn't stop until he said he was getting out. >> it's harder than ever before. it is a thankless job being a servant of democracy. >> sure. yeah. it's every day you get pounded, every second. how do you get the energy to get up and go to work every morning? >> it's a sacrifice. i appreciate people like jay and others who give up oxygen to their brain to do this. >> david axelrod, of course, we knew david before. we knew him during, he looked really bad. beat you up. people just don't understand. everybody who works in the white house from both sides, the sacrifices th