palin at 12. perry at 10.if you look that means that if palin enters the race, she and balkman are going to fight it out for mostly the same constituency, that is not a question of sexism or gender. it's a question of who their constituencies are they are both strong with the tea party. bachmann is the head of the caucus and the house. palin, of course, supported it. very strong among tea partiers, exploited that used that to her advantage and helping a lot of candidates in the midterm elections. so if you add up their percentages, they are roughly equal to romney. one of them would emerge as the major opponent. and right now. >> bill: i think you are right. i don't think sarah palin is going to take any votes away from mitt romney. >> exactly. >> it's a whole different constituency. >> right now michele bachmann and we have a report on her tomorrow because there was some little thing in south carolina that we are trying to sort out right now before we report it we don't want to put on erroneous information in

>> i'm not one to defend sarah palin, but i will say it wasn't as much a palin production as much as to take responsibility for is articulating some vision of what america would look like under her leadership. to say she hasn't dong that. she's been much more interested in producing reality tv shows. >> i don't see how she stays relevant throughout in cycle unless she does endorse someone. >> can chris christie run for president without admitting it? he continue toss say he's not running for president, but that doesn't stop him from taking a shot at the field. >> if i believe someone has distinguished themselves in a way on the issues that i care about, then i feel enthusiastic enough to endorse them, i will. >> a lisha, did christie just dislike the field because he's not in it? >> i don't think so. >> >> i think this might be the first thing we agree on. but i think he would be to focus on new jersey, where he has plumb mitting poll numbers, and that's in large part because while people like his swagger, they don't like they substance. new jerseyians are finally tuning in. he just

. >>> will late night be affected if palin is elected? in what has been one of the worst threats ever comedian and late night talk show host george lopez says he will move to canada if sarah palin is elected president. he issued his ult mate tunnel -- he issued the ult may tiff. -- ult may tim. >> if sarah palin is president at any point, allegedly, i will move to canada. i will go further north. i have been south. >> you would literally leave the country? >> i will leave the united states of america. >> shocker. >> why, george, why don't you want palin to be president? >> i like my politicians to have a political background, to be politically -- to know politics, to actually have inherited something from working in the political world. >> okay, so you want your politicians to have inherited something from working in the political world? i don't know what that means, but sure, why not? george, how do you explain palin's appeal? is it her maverickness? is it something to do with andy griffith? maybe a culture of personality thing? >> is it

why does he dislike palin?ks politicians have should have a political background, end quote. that makes no sense, but blamed her popularity on america's÷ culture of popularity. i'll give lopez a break. he wanted to appear edgy and thought palin-bashing was the way to enter that elite hollywood left wing club, he's right, but sadly a threat only works if it scares someone. this one doesn't. to quote the bouncer who threw me out of a bar on the weekend, there's the door. shouldn't lopez support mexico? they need his help. >> i think he's scared of all the border violence. even he doesn't want to cross the border these days. this joke wasn't even funny, because it's so 2008. alec baldwin back in 2004 said he would move out of the country if george w. bush got elected. he's still here. by the way, we're calling his bluff, george lopez, because he has a tv show and you're not going anywhere. >> if michele bachmann gets elected president, i'm going to newiiiiii zealand. >> oh, come on! >> i am. >> you're not allowed

sarah palin doesn't lack confidence. governor is on the cover of "news week" and says she believes she can win a national election. let's discuss her latest hints with peter bowyer. and shana walsh, peter, let's start with you. you have this extended conversation with governor palin. you talk about going on into the night. what are her political ambitions. she says this to you. "i'm not so egoti. >> my gut sense was she was going to run. it's complicated. there is the sort of impenetrable palin sphere that she has erected around herself that, at the gates of which is her husband, todd palin and within that sphere, she operates with a complete freedom. it's a comfort zone for her, which would not be the case if she, of course, undertook to subject herself to that most intrusive process, running for president. i personally sort of can't imagine her leaving the palin sphere to run for president, but she is very convincing in suggesting that she is in fact ready to run and she believes she can get the nomination and defeat p

so much that they are using michele bachmann to hammer palin because they know there is not room for both of them. so they are boosting up congress woman bachman to just make sure that sarah palin doesn't get in the race. >> when barack obama goes to sed at night if he says prayer one of them is for sarah palin to be the republican nomination. >> bill: it is not barack obama. don't you agree with me that the person the de democrats and liberal americans hate the most is sarah palin. she replaced george w. bush. >> and she is kind of for the left wing what hillary clinton was for the right. >> so it is personals. >> i think sarah palin in a broader sense is locked into a virtual primary with michelle balk map. every time we hear bachman speak we say wow, that breadth of information and experience and she is a formidable woman. >> bill: a new poll in new hampshire has unfavorable ratings of sarah palin at 52% among republicans and only 23% unfavorable for m ma sell mich. she is impressive and knowledgeable and able. >> bill: you going to do polling throughout the election season. >> ye

>> i hope sarah palin gets in so they split the milf vote.at least she is somebody who can read. she has a job of the she was a lawyer. she is in congress. she not someone who just sits there and reads the prayers on her blackberry like sarah palin. we are splitting hairs here. >> sean: i watched this. he has his head so far up barack obama, without using his vernacular, he wouldn't know an intelligent person if he saw one. he's got this really -- almost a dark agenda. hates god, hates conservative women, says anything. >> i think it is deeper than politics. i'm not dr. ablow there is something about him. he talks about sex all the time. did some woman in high school or now that looks like sarah palin blow him off? i think the reason why liberals are so angered by sarah palin and particularly women, are angered is because they are so deeply threatened to the far left. >> they look at women and say you should be on our side. you should be pro-choice how dare you, you trader. that's why women's groups don't defend them if you are not a pro abor

>> i think sarah palin would be a fabulous president.'s a patriot. >> real patriot. >> sarah palin really does protect her family. >> that's right. she's a mamma grizzly bear and protects her cubs. except for that one time when he grizzly daughter went on that grizzly camping trip and got drunk on grizzly wine coolers and got knocked up by that grizzly hockey player. other than that, perfect grizzly record. >> oh, my. sounds good. >> you sound good. you smell good. let me get a whiff. >> oh, geez. >> check out what i got. i got a hard on for america and a hard on for sarah palin. you want a hard on for america? >> yep. >> let me get you. tell me if i'm poking your pacemaker. you got tea saucer nipples, i can feel. you're ready for milking. would you like a hard on for america? >> i will take that. >> let me get a little lower there. little lower. little lower. little lower. little lower. perfect. we've e t a heart on for america. can i show you my sign, too? suck it, streep. there's a new movie star in town. >> i optioned the audio right

chris: two years later, barack obama and sarah palin both forgot the cell phone cameras everywhere when they dropped their guard in private fundraisers. >> religion or an tip thi of people who. >> the best in america is being with all you hard-work, patriotic, very pro-america areas of this great nation. chris: what she wasn't counting on is people in the nonpatriotic parts of the country didn't like that. barack obama was at a fundraising group a supporter had one of those phones. >> a supporter quasi journalist, i might add, who had one of those and reported to this. and the question of clinging to guns, that phrase, has become a rallying cry against barack obama. made it very, very difficult for him. something he ended up having to deal with and apologize for. i think politicians now know, you're always on the record, number one, and there is no off broadway anymore. there's no time to rehearse a presidential campaign. you're on all the time. so the old towns in -- the time you used to spend in iowa getting the kings out, forget it. chris: it's you're always on now. >> this new time,

todd palin and sarah palin seem like my type of people.l tell me she is not a genius and i ought to hang with geniuses. some of the guys on the left, that looks like fun. maybe jake carney and i can get in the winnebago and he can continue to sound like a bingo caller at a vfw with a tbas leak in the kitchen area. >> you know who you should be in the winnebago with, joe biden? biden and miller. that would be the biggest reality show. we could sell it to oprah's network. biden on the road again. >> he can get into the car pool lane with whatever that thing is on his head, that is how distinct that is. >> bill: an extra passenger you're saying? >> yes, that's what i'm saying. billy, i like palin in the bus and the whole family in the bus. reminds me of the part ridge hunter family episode or something where they are all out there together, some on let's shoot something. >> bill: i remember that. >> i dig it. >> bill: we heard just before air time that willie nelson wanted to get on the because but they wouldn't let him because he had his sui

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when does palin's time run out if it has not done so already?, i want to see anybody who wants to get in whether it is perry or palin jump in, but i can also understand that a lot of people hanging back thinking that they had run a few years down the road, that they have plenty of time if they are young enough, but they see the bad poll numbers for obama and they want to jump in, but having said that with this poll, i have to tell you that this still has to do with trying to pit two women together based on the agenda. unless you throw in perry or christy or somebody else, this poll means nothing. any time you inject a new candidate or person into the poll, it will shift around a little bit, so it is sort of creating a situation that do doesn't really exist by, you know, making it seem like this is somehow between bachmann and palin, because you have to throw everybody in there if you want a real answer on this. >> and palin has power is what we are saying at this time or in the next month or so? >> yeah, and then her time as well as perry and ch

i think sarah palin can do that too.nly thing we know about her, a lot of this is based on the last year where she's used facebook and twitter and been more of a political celebrity. if you look at her campaigns where she became mayor of wasilla, if you look at her becoming governor of alaska, even the campaign with john mccain, she did a good job. the speech she gave at the convention, debate against joe biden, did very well. >> is she willing to go back to being a politician. right now, she's a celebrity. she commands over $100,000 for a speech. she's got a reality show. she's a news

because sarah palin sued the state of alaska to have polar bears removed from the endangered species list so that her oil buddies could drill wherever they wanted and kill as many polar bears as they wanted the process well last week sarah palin lost that morris as judge emmet sullivan ruled polar bears are indeed threatened by global warming and thus should remain on the list despite pailin pseudo science claims but said this defeat with a long list of other defeats for the undefeatable sort of feel. bad but rick perry thanks to governors perry's education budget cuts students in texas this year are actually going to be starting school with out new textbooks mandated the schools now have to buy textbooks from a new state wide system and the new system isn't supposed to be up and running until well into the new school year meaning there's nowhere to buy the books now but i guess the other perry the guy who instructed texans to pray for rain and then caused an even harsher drought for. well just suggests that the bible is a good replacement for math textbooks in the meantime. not only

his next closest competitor, sarah palin, who, of course, is still not a candidate. rounding out the top five minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann, texas congressman ron paul and texas governor rick perry who is also not yet in the race. romney's position increases slightly if sarah palin does not enter this race, so you can predict they might not want her to get in. that could help mitt romney. the biggest boost for president obama in this poll, independent voters. they were very critical to president obama's win over john mccain in 2008 and, rob, they'll be critical again next fall. rob? >> miles to go still. karen, thanks for that. >>> the searing heat is turning much of the country into a sauna and is also now being blamed for nearly two dozen deaths and not looking like it will let up any time soon. heat advisories, warnings and watches have been pested more than 30 states all the way from texas to georgia. also minnesota to maine. abc's matt gutman is sweating it out in chicago. >> reporter: chicago is being called an urban heat island, the blazing sun and

i know that says sarah palin but i don't see it.t see her running. >> will slin sarah palin or rick perry entering the race be their solution? can either one of them come in the race and energize and bring vigor into what seems like a dull bunch right now? >> i think they can, reverend sharpton. er with looking at a short term attention span. these people have a national brand. and the enthusiasm level for these guys -- >> would they hurt the ultimate goal of winning in november? they may at one level bring some excitement but would they push the parties so far to the margins that it ends the race in november? >> that's academic unless you win the nomination. these people can go national. take it to super tuesday. raise big money for california and new york, and seal the deal there. but if you are mitt romney and you are sitting on 20 points in new hampshire, neighboring state where you own the property, 20 points ahead of michele bachmann. this is a weak field. anyone sitting on the side lines is thinking, hey, i don't need to take

but when he mentioned in bred, he is talking about palin's family. she has a child who suffers from down syndrome or has down syndrome. am i making this link or is he making this link? >> i didn't put them together originally. but when you mention that it does make a lot of sense, and he has to be smarter to know that. that joke is a little over the edge for me. they were born in west virginia, well they could get away with that. >> send your letters, west virginia, to matt mccall, not to me. or you can send them to me as long as they are pictures. bill, you can defend your hero. >> i am not defending him. but it is the point of being a comedian, and it is offensive. but we are glossing over the fact that santo ru m and bachman have a long line of saying offensive things. jay a long line? -- >> a long line? >> long line. >> in a matthew mcconaghey way. what they said many, many, many times in the past, they are not rainbow chasers. they are rainbow haters and they were getting called on. >> do you think bachmann is gay? >> i have a bunch of her cloth

maybe sarah palin is too polarizing, and we don't need you in the field? >> some of michele bachmann supporters privately suggested to me, they don't want to publicly criticize sarah palin but say michele bachmann is much more substantive on the policy issues than sarah palin is who basically served two years as governor of alaska. >> in an interesting way, she's much more willing to answer reporters' direct questions about lots of issues. lots of controversies, and she's gotten herself into some hot water here. her husband has been an issue, but also the question of pledges that she's signed, and she does answer you without saying, you know, it's just the bad press. it's just the bad press. sarah palin tends to deflect everything and blame it on the press, and michele bachmann seems to present a more optimistic view, which voters really like. >> how should the arguable front-runner, mitt romney, feel about this rise of michele bachmann? >> i think he should feel fine about it, actually, because if it's michele bachmann he's up against, or if it's sarah pa

todd and sarah palin seem like my type of people. will tell me she is not a genius and i should hang with geniuses. some of the guys on the left, that looks like fun. jay carney and i can get in the winnebago and he can continue to sound like a binger caller at a vfw with a gas leak in the kitchenette area. >> bill: you know who you should be in a winnebago with. joe biden. biden and miller. i would pay. that would be the biggest reality show. we could sell it to oprah's network. >> there are no words to match mckinley moment. this moment. listen, billy, i kind of like palin and the bus. i like the whole family in the bus. reminds me of the part ridge hunter family episode or something. ♪ come on now and be everybody ♪ >> where they are all out there together come on let's shoot something. >> bill: i remember that. >> i dig it. >> bill: just before we heard that willie nelson wanted to get on the bus but they wouldn't let him. >> i left three toes in korea for this country and this is the thanks i get. >> there you go. >> bill: some

>> it's hard to know with sarah palin.odic moments where she disappears for a little while and comes back on the scene. she's on the cover of "newsweek" magazine. she's hinting and flirting, seems like she's reasserting herself in the moment when michele bachmann is on the rise and in the debt negotiations so she looks like she's doing something. >> michelle bamichellebachmann race, seeing a rise in iowa. what is giving her this momentum, john? >> we always knew there would be two primaries in the republican primary, in the establishment, mitt romney is ahead and the anti-romney candidate, somebody else who represents the kind of core conservatives, the movement conservatives and that's the group that michele bachmann is at the head of and speaks for so she is rising up in that group, they like what she's saying. they used to say you can't run as a politician from washington but she's using that as her strength. she's saying i'm in washington fighting the establishment and that's working well for her. >> jan, rick perry co

why can't we just do like syrup pail and and socialize the oil i mean sarah palin alaska they said you know this was under our ground we're going to take twenty five percent of anything that comes out and and sarah palin actually you know when she became governor they were only passed on one hundred eighteen dollars checks to everybody that got the. you monterey here from seattle times article and the last year of her governorship they were up to two thousand and eighty dollars plus she did a special susman on the oil companies because they were jacking up gasoline prices for trouble dollars so everybody in the state got a check from sarah palin for two thousand and eighty dollars plus another charge for twelve hundred dollars as their share of the socialist pool of money from the oil companies when we do that nationwide just say this oil to the ground it's ours because that means it's not going to come from the ground for the most part governments are not very early on talk about the way sarah palin is an amazing woman but generally these things don't work out he was so she was she's

even the title of it, you know, "in the crosshairs of sarah palin."'s your mom. >> i'm honestly not worried about it. levi has done a lot in his career that he has going but, you know, i'm not worried about it. he already made up whatever he could make up about our family and i'm not worried about it. >> bristol opens up about life on the campaign trail. as the pregnant unwed teen daughter of the republican vice presidential nominee and how it was announced to the world. >> just watching fox news, we see it scroll across the screen, and that's how most of my friends found out that i was pregnant, and it was hard to deal with that. that's how people found out. you know, it wasn't my mom addressing it. >> there would be other moments away from the camera that caught bristol off guard. cindy mccain, who bristol says "looks like a queen and holds herself like royalty" offered to be a godparent to tripp. what did you think about that? >> i didn't know what to think of it. i didn't know why she would want to be the godparent of my son. i didn't really take

palin or bachmann?> i hope sarah palin gets in so they split the milf vote, but i guess bachmann, i don't know. who could say? at least she's somebody who can read. she has a job. she was a lawyer. she was in congress. she's not someone who just sits there and reads the prayers on her blackberry like sarah palin. we're splitting hairs here. >> piers: could sarah palin be president in the current climate? >> absolutely. yes. people who say this one is a joke, this one is a joke. i remember when i was 12 years old and ronald reagan was first considering running for president. i remember what a joke that was. ronald reagan? you mean the bedtime for bonzo guy? she could get the nomination. this republican party is not your father's republican party. somewhere they got on a short bus to crazy time. if someone gets the nomination of one of the two major parties especially in a bad economy with a black president, yeah, she could become president. >> piers: is america more or less racist now since obama has bee

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still not yet in the race sarah palin. she has 12%. and it's still a question whether palin will actually run for presididt. she now says that she'll announce later this month or early next month what her plans will be. palin says there is no republican candidate at the moment that she can support. >>> investigators in india say they're looking into every possible hostile group t tfind out who is responsible for the terrorist massacre in mumbai. three coordinated bombs exploded in the city's financial district at the peak of the evening rush. witnesses describe seeing people covered in blood frantically at least 17 people are dead. dozens more are injured. >>> shock and grief are rippling through a tight-knit brooklyn new york community after the horrific murder of an 8-year-old boy. thousands of mourners turned out last night for his funeral after his dismembered remains were found earlier in the day. wabc jeff pegues has the very latest on the investigation and also the suspect who has confessed to the killing. >> reporter: as invest

a new book out called blind allegiance to sarah palin. by frank bailey who worked with her in alaska. i spoke with him a few days ago. >> bill: what is the headline of your book? what do you want people to take away from it? sphwhrit. >> the colonel of the alaska state troopers has this book on his shelf as an example of what happens when we lose our way. i lost my way and tell my story in this book and bare my soul and so did my boss. >> bill: i didn't see anything that bad. i don't any. tell me how the governor lost her way. >> the person that we saw in 2005, that person who would fight for alaska, bill, who would stand up for ethics in alaska, stand for honesty, and be a competent leader, we lost that to the lime light, to the how to you say it to the power and the fame of being constantly followed by the media. she craved that and being governor became second fiddle. >> bill: that might be -- >> folks here in alaska realized it. >> bill: and maybe that is why reresigned. i can't give my full attention to the governor's job because i h

speaking of whom, why was palin in iowa. >> sarah palin is in iowa tonight to attend a movie premiere. but it's not just any movie. the film is called "the undefeated" and offers a positive portrait of her life and career. >> jon: another two things. first, the documentary about the losing vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election is called "the undefeated." ( laughter ) second, you're clearly running for president. >> what we say on the fishing boat stays on the fishing boat. you don't need to be announcing anything. >> jon: yes, why announce. it would ruin this sliious will she or won't she tension. and we all know that's what killed "moonlighting." governor palin, i certainly hope you're running for president, because if you're not, if you're just riding around in a giant bus with your name on it to catch caucus state premieres of a documentary about yourself? that's freaky. ( laughter ) does that mean you're like a chimp in a ferris wheel from michael jackson territory? i'm not apologizing! no, i'm not apologizing for that! i think if she's not running for president, it's a

sarah palin, finally heard what happened in japan. she is demanding that we invade tsunami. tsunamians will not get away with this. speaking of dumb [bleep], did you -- >> greg: what do you make of a guy who says rotten things and then runs scampering from them? i call him a coward. the ladies and gentlemen fits his audience more. after all, his awful statements fester unchallenged in an echo chamber and infuseive slop house of slapping approval-seeking seals. so let's keep him there. just to remind us that things still exist. what did you make of the inbred line? harmless joke or did he mean something else? >> andrea: he was insinuating something about her son. who liberals have gone after for a very long time which is totally disrespectful. i know we can't say what dana said in the break but where is mark halprin when you need him to say the infamous word on air that we are all thinking? he is trying to remain relevant. anybody who can't argue very smartly on the facts just turns to insult and name-calling. that is what the show does? they bring in the hollywood actor moss

speaking of sarah palin this week, palin tweeted that her daughter, bristol's new memoir is quote "shocking, refreshing, honest, inspiring and perfect." of course, she said the same thing about the movie "cars 2." [ laughter ] she sent the same exact tweet. listen to this. yesterday, senate majority leader harry reid attacked mitt romney for constantly contradicting himself. in response, romney was like, "you know what, i am very angry. no, i am not. now, i am, now, i definitely am not angry." [ laughter ] yes, i am. [ laughter ] it's pretty cool. rapper sir-mix-a-lot is coming out with his own facebook game. that guy's always on facebook. in fact, today he literally liked big butts. [ laughter and applause ] he even left a comment on it, said he cannot lie. [ laughter ] then all his other brothers replied, they said they can't deny. [ laughter ] and finally, today was the nba draft, you guys, that's right. that's when teams go after their favorite basketball players, or as the kardashians call that, dating. [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight. give it up for the

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sarah palin says she'll announce whether she is running for president by late august. during a broadcast interview palin said she is confident she has common sense and is thinking of offering herself in the name of service, but said she could support someone else. so far, though, she says that candidate is not in the republican field. >> if there are those who are out there willing to serve with good executive experience who have that service heart and know not to be so obsessively partisan that they can't just do what's right for the people who have elected them then i would certainly find that person and support them to do all i can to be sure they defeat barack obama in 2012. i'm not wholly confident we have that filled set yet. >> palin said again that she thinks she could win against president obama. >>> a suspect is under arrest in the shocking murder of a young boy here in new york. funeral services were held yesterday for 8-year-old leiby kletzky. his murder shocked the close knit jort dox yort dox jewish community. on monday he was walking alone from his first