>> i don't believe sarah palin is the leader of frontier feminism. frontier feminism was and is real. sarah palin is the leader of something, i'm not sure what, but i recall it, snake oil. i think frontier feminism is anything that shatters perception about where women should work, what they should believe in and how they should behave. >> well, if sarah palin wants to talk how she wants to give voice to the millions of women who want it all, who want an education, career, and a family, then maybe that is something new. it's not clear to me that that's actually what she's fighting for. >> i think the underlying principle of em power of women not being dependent on others is absolutely the same. i think she has just added dependence on the government to that list. >> well, first let's talk about the tea party women. when i first heard about frontier feminism and the grass roots female activist in the tea pennsylvania i thought of feminist for life which was a group that actually started in 1972. we're talking about almost 40 years ago, except, yes, he

sarah palin and robert gibbs are trading jabs. julie kurtz has more on the war of words. >> the back and forth between sarah palin and the white house centers the impact of oil company campaign contributions. when the former alaska governor and fox news contributor was asked how she believes the obama administration has handled the spill so far, she suggested that the white house is too cozy with oil companies because of contributions to obama. >> i don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there is any connection with the contribution made to president obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration. if there is any connection there to president obama taking so doggone long to get in this to, dive in there and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: the white house did not waste any time with a response to that. press secretary robert gibbs fired back. >> sarah palin was involved in tha

>> bachmann and governor sarah palin. >> welcome to minneapolis, minnesota. we are grateful you are here today. 2010 is the year the conservative women take back this country. michelle is leading the stampede. >> it's great. >> thank you. >> aren't you guys wonderful? >> is it the way you thought it was going to be? >> it exceeded my expectations by a geometric factor. >> you are standing up there on stage listening to the governor speak what's going through your mind? >> i was amazed she was here doing this for me. i am so proud of her proud of the audience. we get this liberal state. >> today bachmann can saver for a long time. there are many days ahead in the campaign. many votes to collect if backman is to win reelection again. >> coming up colorado hosted the triumphant convention in 2008. will the state be true blue in 2010 after the break. >> this year a demonstrating income ben see as advantages and perils. colorado is a race that proves this. >> when president obama choose former senator ken sell czar for candidate in 2009 the democrat choose the rep

but not sarah palin. sarah palin is not the typical politician. she is a woman of courage and character. she took all their attacks and never changed her views on an issue. instead, she stood up to her adversaries and said, bring it on. governor sarah palin more than any single figure on the national stage today has proven what toughness and conviction is all about. toughness and conviction is not pushing through an unpopular health care bill that will fund abortions with all the money to interest groups and national press corps on on your side. toughness and conviction is not spenng our grandchildren's gacy to bankroll favored industries and friends with government handouts in the name of economic growth. toughness and conviction is not launching round after round of talks and negotiations when adversaries are building nuclear arsenals designed to threaten america's security. toughness and conviction is withstanding the unrelenting attacks of the mainstream mea, the left wing interest groups, the late night comics, the democrat establishment and

>> bachmann and governor sarah palin. >> welcome to minneapolis, minnesota.grateful you are here today. 2010 is the year the conservative women take back this country. michelle is leading the stampede. >> it's great. >> thank you. >> aren't you guys wonderful? >> is it the way you thought it was going to be? >> it exceeded my expectations by a geometric factor. >> you are standing up there on stage listening to the governor speak what's going through your mind? >> i was amazed she was here doing this for me. i am so proud of her proud of the audience. we get this liberal state. >> today bachmann can saver for a long time. there are many days ahead in the campaign. many votes to collect if backman is to win reelection again. >> coming up colorado hosted the triumphant convention in 2008. will the state be true blue in 2010 after the break. plus fibe. how's it work? ok, she's gas. he's constipation... why am i constipation? ...he's diarrhea. a our special fiber helps our probiotics that you can show those symptoms who's in charge. this isn't even my floor. [ el

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palin on the midterm, only on "fox news sunday." then will republicans regain control of congress, or is talk of a sweeping g.o.p. victory premature? we talk with the two party chairmans, democrat tim kaine and republican michael steele. plus the president of mexico uses his u.s. visit to rip into arizona's new immigration law. we'll ask our sunday panel if that was stepping over the diplomatic line. and our power player of the week. a washington insider says washington must be fixed. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. with the political season heating up, we want to focus on the mid-term elections. we begin with one of the campaign's key players, former alaska governor sarah palin. governor, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you so much, chris. >> chris: let's start with a controversy over rand paul who of course just won the republican nomination for the u.s. senate seat in kentucky. you were a big early supporter of mr. paul. as you know, he is now under fire for criticizing

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but not sarah palin. sarah palin is not the typical politician. is a woman of cragend character. she took all theirttacks and never changed her views on an issue. instead, she stood up to her adversaries and said, bring it on. governor sarah palin more than any single figure on the national stage today has proven what toughness and conviction is all about. toughness and conviction is not pushing through an unpopular health care bill that will fund abortions with all the money t interest groups and national press corps on on your side. toughness and conviction is not spending our grandchildren's legacy to bankroll favored industries and friends with government handouts in the name of economic growth. toughness and conviction is not launching round after round of talks and negotiations when adversaries are building nuclear arsenals designed to threaten america's security. toughness and conviction is withstanding the unrelenting attacks of the mainstream media, the left wing interest groups, the late night comics, the democrat establishment and the p

facebook, or as sarah palin calls it, the socialized media. of course, that's not the only thing that we've been accused of socializing this year. as you might have heard, we passed a healthcare bill. was that roger ails applauding out there? some republicans have suggested that the bill contains a few omissions. that's ridiculous. there aren't a few secret provisions in the healthcare plan. there are like hundreds. tonight in the interest of transparency, i'd like to share a couple. let's see, this revision is called the bay state of denial. it reads, this bill shade cover short-term memory loss related to the passage of massachusetts healthcare reform. so good news, your condition is covered. this next provision is called the jersey shora. it reads, the following veds shall be excluded from the indoor tanning tax within this bill, snooki, j-wow, the situation, and house minority leader john boehner. this also put a common misconception to rest. it says right here, if you do not leak the ruling of your death panel, you can appeal. now, look,

. >>> a war of words between the white house and sarah palin. >> if there is any connection with the contributions made to president obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the

sarah palin goes on the record here in washington. fired up about the chicago girl's basketball team made into political pawns kept from a tournament in arizona. the governor tells you why she came to washington. nice to see. >> nice to see you. >> greta: welcome to washington. >> gorgeous today, warm, thank you. >> greta: you have a beautiful state. we have a beautiful city as well. why are you here? >> to speak to the susan b anthony list about women candidates who are rise -- about women candidates who are rising up in an effort to take back the country. susan b anthony is a credible, hardworking group of women saying there are very important issues to a lot of women the pro-life issue is important and getting to speak with these folks who have been so supportive of me and a lot of other candidates who are putting it on the line running in these midterm elections. >> greta: you have endorsed a number of candidates. the woman candidate in south carolina for governor. governor sanford's wife is also endorsing. >> yeah it will be fun.

. >> schieffer: sarah palin, speaking of close and cozy relationships, said this morning on fox that one reason the administration was slow off the mark here was because of president obama's cozy relationship with the oil companies and the support that they gave him in they hex. >> well, sarah palin was involved in that election but i don't think it apparently was paying a whole lot of attention. i'm almost sure that the oil companies don't consider the obama administration a huge ally. we proposed a windfall profits tax when they jacked their oil prices up to charge more for gasoline. my suggestion to sarah palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what's going on in and around oil drilling in this country. >> schieffer: one final question. joe sestak who beat arlen specter and the white house, of course, was backing arlen specter in the pennsylvania primary up there. all these reports that the white house offered him some sort of job, some sort of post in the administration, if he wouldn't run. would you tell us what post he was offered. >> well, bob, i'm not a lawyer. but

and if sarah palin comes and campaigns, they think it's a good thing? >> i think what they believe, and you can argue this, is that palin and the tea party are going to end up getting more conservative people, people further to the right nominated as the republican nominee in various races like rand paul in kentucky and they'll have a harder time when they have to face the whole electorate in november. and on the other hand they say there is a civil war going on in the democrat party. in pennsylvania, the democrat beat the republican but he won by running against the obama agenda. he ran against health care, against cap on trade, against abortion and gun control. so there are splits in both parties. this is a strange political year. and i think what you see is just a lot of anger. >> and you'll have on tim kaine and michael steel. and i want to get to your power player of the week. i find this interesting. jenny thomas founder of liberty central, the wife of clarence thomas. is it odd for the wife of a sitting supreme court justice to be so political? >

including sarah palin in the nra convention.eir feet. >> we were playing the song bullet-proof. >> headlines, it is a closely contested primary race. they are making final pitches to the voters ahead of the september primary. we have the latest on the heated race. good morning, melanie. tell us what it is looking like today . >> good morning, alyson. it is a white hot contest. candidates are chris cross campaigning. underdog joe seskek is leading ahead of 80 year old oarlen spector who switched from republican to democrat last year. he is reminding voters of specter's witch. >> there is no way we'll trust a career politician that will get us in the mess and then said i will switch the party after the republican agenda. >> there is an independent record and i value what is good for the people of my state and nation and vote accordingly. >> specter is running ads showing he has the support of president obama . cesstak is showing the senator with former senator bush. he has attacked the military service and questioned the retiremen

sarah palin can change a race like that. >> i'm going to plug the pak. a lot in this you don't know. >> the secret between the president and pentagon practices. joe biden wanted people fired in the pentagon. >> what was the issue? >> the issue was talking out of school and jamming the president and boxing him and manipulating him. when i interviewed him i asked him about it, he sd,ai i'll neither confirm or deny i was jammed by the pentagon. pretty much a confirmation. chris: i had lunch with teddy kennedy, he's impressive. >> will the president eventually get the lion's share of the blame on the oil spi?ll chris: this book's big question. will obama eventually get blamed personally for slow action on the oil spill? >> personally. no. >> sure. >> i don't think it'll be personal but blamed. >> it'll be up to him. >> yeah, becseau we didn't respond very fast. chris: who -- >> on his watch and they'll both share blame. >> and norah o'donnell, thanks for sitting in for me last week. you were too good. and kathleen parker and congratulations on your great boo

sarah palin and robert gibbs traded jabs as palin suggested president obama was too cozy with oil companies. >> i don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media if there is any connection with the contributions made between the president obama to his administration and the support by the oil companies to the obama administration. >> sarah palin wasn't paying a whole lot of attention. i'm almost sure that the oil companies don't consider the obama administration a huge ally. but my suggestion to sarah palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what is going on in and around oil drilling in this country. >> according to the center for responsive politics, bp and employees gave more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the last years with the largest chunk going to obama. but during the '08 race they donated more than twice as much to the palin-mccain campaign. >>> more residents are finding evidence of the spill in their yards and we'll talk with them in the next hour. >>> and federal officials looking into the mine explosion in west virginia. today a congress

. >>> during an interview yesterday, former republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin suggested the obama administration is too close to big oil. >> if there's any connection with the contributions made to president obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration, if there's any connection there to president obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the gulf of mexico. >> the white house says the government has been doing all it can and bp will be held accountable. >> my suggestion to sarah palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what's going on in and around oil drilling in this country. >> president obama has appointed a commission to investigate the oil spill. former democratic senator bob graham and former epa administrator william k. riley will serve as co-chairs. >>> turning now to the latest from north korea's alleged torpedo attack, this morning south korea's president says the north will pay for the attack which killed 46

doesn't that sound like the name of sarah palin's helicopter? the big rumor is, sarah palin may run for president in 2012 and she is a former beauty queen. if she wins, it would make history, would make the first time that a beauty queen would bring about world peace. they all talk about it. she could make it happen. you see her last month. it was beauty and the deceased. and my favorite democrat, senator john edwards, while a personal injury attorney who turned out to be a sleaze ball. i was stunned by that revelation . [laughter] >> well, now there's talk of a john edwards' sex tape. there's something that people never seen before, a lawyer screwing people. wow! how unusual is that. betty white is here. we love betty white! hi, sweetheart. betty has a long history in this town. her first stage performance was interrupted by john wilkes booth. [laughter] >> the last time i was here was 2004 and back then, hillary clinton campaign had $20 million but now mark penn has it. little inside baseball. the rich guys get it, yeah. newsweek is reporting

. >> reporter: today, sarah palin implied that president obama is dragging his feet as a political favor to the oil giant. >> if this were a republican in office who hadn't received as much support, even, as president obama has from bp and other oil companies, you know the mainstream media would be all over his case. >> reporter: the president's spokesman was quick to hit back. >> my suggestion to sarah palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what's going on in and around oil drilling in this country. >> reporter: officials contend that much of the know-how and equipment, like the submersibles working a mile below the surface, rest with the oil industry, not the government. >> they have the eyes and ears that are down there. they are necessarily the modality by which this is going to get solved. >> reporter: and lester, as the administration struggles to contain both the criticism and the spill, there are no fewer than three cabinet officials who are either already in the gulf or on their way there. lester? >> mike viqueira at the white house, thanks. >>> investigators from th

we'll have more on sarah palin and the tea party and the vice president's "f" bomb. all. with seth macfarland, penn gillett and rachel harris ahead. >> wait. wait. hold it. can we finish this discussion after joan of arcadia. >> who is joan of arcadia on? >> yeah, thanks, peter, i didn't know human urine would cover my scent. >> larry: ray johnston, a nba player, in a coma next. all on cnn.com/larryking. tea party movement. are you going to make fun of it yet? i think it does that on its own. >> larry: it is what it is? >> yeah. the tea party movement is -- i always have a problem with people who say, you know what, it is not the republicans, it is not the democrats, it is all politicians. i don't think in this case that is true. i think you have one party that was trying to effect change, particularly this health care bill. 60% of people in this country who wanted a public option. it was ignored. another side that filibustered everything that stands to lose big if obama does anything right or anything productive. and i think in a lot of cases it is just kind of lazi

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sarah palin called out the feds. >> mr. president, do orjob. secure our -- your job.e: retailers are certainly smiling. cash registers are ringing, shoppers are dipping into their pocketbooks again. the government is reporting april as the 7th straight month of uprising retail sales. what are the biggest winners? home improvement and gardening store, sales are booming there. how do we keep the momentum? brenda joins us from the "fox business" network. if we keep the momentum, we keep people working. >> reporter: exactly. working is really the hinge moment of all this. it all depends on unemployment. we're still at double digit unemployment. but consumers have saved a lot of money over the recession and finally they're opening up their wallets and as you said, it's tool time. the building services sector was up 7% in april. that's stuff like fixing up your garden, improving your home, home depot, loews did very well. we're still not buying clothes, department stores are having trouble, retail stocks like macy's, like cole's, like pennys are having trouble because they'

>> and sarah palin standing up for arizona. >> we're all arizonaens now and in clear unity, we say, mr. president, do your job. secure our border. >> why is she defending the state against backlash over its immigration law. >> and then the group of moms made this viral video to show how mad they are over the national debt. they say our kids will be the one saddled with the problems, we're going to hear from them coming up. >> and our slogan this morning comes from russ in florida. as the java starts to perk and the sun starts to rise, that's my cue, it's time for aly and the guys. >> nice! >> nice. >> it's "fox & friends." >> good morning, good sunday morning, you were talking about viral video and some real viral video is next to you. >> i have a horrible cold, i'm sorry. >> can we get some anti-bacteriaal wipes. >> wear a hazmat suit. what i'm sneezing and coughing up, nobody needs. >> this will get you out of working out because we have oscar smith, trainer for supermodels. i know dave and i want to try to look like supermodels. >> it wasn't my goal. >> he's going to joining us and

that is what sarah palin's and glenn beck -- sarah palin and glenn beck do. they proliferate. using more newscasters doing that. -- you see more newscasters doing that. they are on their sunday show, but they are tweeting 24/7. you have to do that if you're going to reach audiences. >> i would like to follow-up on that a little bit. you mentioned that in a future election, maybe not the 2010 election, maybe 2012, there will be a lot of people who will be getting their information exclusively from social networking technology. that is all little bit hard for me to swallow. -- a little bit hard for me to swallow. there is an information gap between people who do not have access. is it possible we could be making decisions in this country and in others on the basis of only those who have access to the fast-moving, portable technology, and that people who are writing the dinosaur -- riding the dinosaur are going to be left out of the political process? >> no. if you are a political campaign, u know there are people you are never going to reach digitally. you have to go to their do

doesn't that sound like the name of sarah palin's hunting helicopter?f of "celebrity jeopardy iy." sarah palin may run for president in 2012. she is a former beauty queen. if she wins it would make history, because it's the first time that a beauty queen could bring about world peace. they all talked about it, but she could make it happen. do you see her campaign last month, beauty and the deceased. isn't that what it looked like? and my favorite democrat, senator john edwards, a personal injury attorney who turned out to and sleaze ball. who could have seen that coming? i was stunned by that revelation. there is talk about a john edwards' sex tape. there's something people never seen before. a lawyer screwing people. woy! the first lady of television, betty white is here. we love betty white. [cheers and applause] >> hi, sweetheart. betty has a long history in this town. her first stage performance here was interrupted by john wilkes booth. and that was a sad day. [laughter] >> the last time i was here was 2004 and at that time, back then, hillary clin

doesn't that sound like the name of sarah palin's helicopter?know, the big rumor is, sarah palin may run for president in 2012 and she is a former beauty queen. if she wins, it would make history, would make the first time that a beauty queen would bring about world peace. they all talk about it. she could make it happen. you see her last month. it was beauty and the deceased. and my favorite democrat, senator john edwards, while a personal injury attorney who turned out to be a sleaze ball. i was stunned by that revelation . [laughter] >> well, now there's talk of a john edwards' sex tape. there's something that people never seen before, a lawyer screwing people. wow! how unusual is that. betty white is here. we love betty white! hi, sweetheart. betty has a long history in this town. her first stage performance was interrupted by john wilkes booth. [laughter] >> the last time i was here was 2004 and back then, hillary clinton campaign had $20 million but now mark penn has it. little inside baseball. the rich guys get it, yeah. newsweek is repor

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it would seem sarah palin never mentioned to governor perry in her brief tenure bp pleaded guilty for criminal charges for what bp is still on probation after neglecting a pipeline for eight years including palin's entire term, allowing bacteria to erode it, spilling 200,000 gallons on the alaskan tundra. less clear is why governor perry did not include his own state. march 23, 2005, texas city, texas, just last year the occupational safety and health administration issued its largest fine, $87 million to bp, not only the massive explosion at killed 15, but 270 violations of its agreement afterward to clean up its act, plus 439 new violations. four people died at the texas city refipry after that blast. what about deep water offshore drilling. is there any evidence suggesting stricter regulation rather than a less angry god might have prevented or mitigated this disaster? clean skies.com reports bp was cited for poor training in well control. fined $41 thoon, fined $75,000 for lacking at kwaut water pressure, fined only $80,000 for by passing safety alarms. regulators honored bp for a

. >> host: to glen beck and and colder and sarah palin, are they important to the conservative movement? >> guest: they are important as popularizer of conservative ideas. media celebrities today get something of a bum rap because many of them, the best of them are quite thoughtful. if you look at rush limbaugh or even increasingly glen beck, these are people who are not winging it. these are people who are taking ideas very seriously, reading conservative books and criticism and have a gift for taking the ideas of intellectuals and retailing them. along the way they have to bumped them up a bit and entertain their millions of listeners but i think on pole that is a bargain that conservatives should be happy with. popularizing a thought is not a substitute for generating research and philosophical scrutiny about politics and there is something to the criticism that conservative books have not been as profound as they were from the 1940s. i am not a pessimist that great conservative books lie behind us entirely. >> host: have they been selling more since the obama administration? >> gues

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>> chris: with the oil spill in the gulf, do the president and sarah palin now find themselves on the same side of a tough issue? we're back now with the panel. before we get to the politics, brit, does the accident in the gulf change your mind about the wisdom of offshore drilling and especially more offshore drilling. >> new york it doesn't but i think this: the environmentalists always said it's not a matter of if there will be a disaster resulting in offshore drilling, it is a matter of when. this is -- verifies the argument. and becomes a powerful factor in the debate over what to do next. i don't see any way around the political reality that this will set back the cause of offshore drilling, in the u.s. and set back the cause of making us less dependent on oil bought from overseas, out of which we pay our national treasure, to foreign countries. >> and there was a national con sense we should do everything and have every possible kind of energy generated here and yeah, we want to be sure it is safe and, these new oil drilling will not go forward until they can be sure it is. i t

>> chris: with the oil spill in the gulf, do the president and sarah palin now find themselves on the same side of a tough issue? we're back now with the panel. before we get to the politics, brit, does the accident in the gulf change your mind about the wisdom of offshore drilling and especially more offshore drilling. >> new york it doesn't but i think this: the environmentalists always said it's not a matter of if there will be a disaster resulting in offshore drilling, it is a matter of when. this is -- verifies the argument. and becomes a powerful factor in the debate over what to do next. i don't see any way around the political reality that this will set back the cause of offshore drilling, in the u.s. and set back the cause of making us less dependent on oil bought from overseas, out of which we pay our national treasure, to foreign countries. >> and there was a national con sense we should do everything and have every possible kind of energy generated here and yeah, we want to be sure it is safe and, these new oil drilling will not go forward until they can be sure it is. i t

sarah palin drilling. here's what sarah palin -- here's her message.ng is going to make us secure. it's going to make us prosperous and more peaceful. and with if we don't have drilling, we don't have those things. and then it gets crazy, the crazy bumkin talk. the people you talk about all of the time. you have the tom knockoff, rick perry saying god caused this, you have rush limbaugh saying that -- blame it on kreezed eco maniacs who caused this disaster. but you know what? here's what's ugly, ed. there is an audience -- the tea bag mentality audience want to hear this. we can't believe it. we can't believe people would buy this. but there is a tea bagger mentality that wants to hear this crazy talk. and corporate america knows that. you could go back in every one of these catastrophic disasters and hear the flying monkeys like we're seeing today being unleashed by corporate america. you're going to see the clown car every time, unload, next to the curb, and have the glenn becks and the rush limbaughs and the mic browns, you name it, all the crazy t

hear what sarah palin says should be done about that instead. up next. >>> top stories we're following this hour. the space shuttle atlantis has docked at the international space station. astronauts are getting to work after the welcoming ceremony. we showed you that live. the six astronauts will spend a week installing six fresh batteries and a new russian compartment. flight controllers had been keeping an eye on a piece of space junk, but it turned out it wasn't a threat. more trouble in the gulf. researchers found large oil plumes 4,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. scientists say there are three or four of these plumes and that at least one of them is ten miles long and a mile wide. they've also noticed 30% drop in oxygen levels in some areas which could harm sea leave for decades to come. tense of thousands people gathered in saint peter's square in rome to show solidarity over the scandal. 68 italian lay groups organized the demonstration which the pope called a beautiful and spontaneous show of faith and solidarity. >>> alaska's

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. >> lehrer: would sarah palin qualify. >> no, because sarah palin was the republican-- his whole existence is through the tea party. >> lehrer: that's right. >> and she was certainly the republican standard-bearer. i think that's-- i think that's important, jim. and i this the think the other thing about rand paul is the libertarian instinct and impulse that he does represent is not going to be an easy harness with the religious right of the republican party. especially on issues of sexual conduct and so forth where the libertarian impulse is that consenting adults can do, you know, anything that doesn't do harm to either person and the law ought to butt out that has not been the platform of republicans. >> lehrer: timely the richard blumenthal situation in connecticut. his comments about vietnam, a member of the united states marine reserve, both mark and i have a conflict of interest because we were also-- we were both former marines so, what do you think about it david. >> my impression speaking to marines and former marines is that one doesn't wander into this territory accidentally. t