governor rendell?well, i think it's incumbent, chris, on the vast majority of americans who are still good, honest, decent people who believe in american democracy, who believe in real discourse to step up and say no to these crazies. they've got to make it clear that we, the american majority, don't want any part of people who are destructive and want to destroy this country for their own reasons. i think if the majority speaks up loud and clear, and i think they are beginning to, they're getting fed up with this. you saw what happened to claire mccaskill, you saw what happened to arlen specter, you saw the breakdown of any rational political discourse in this country, and i think the majority of americans will get turned off by it and i think they will step up and they will be heard. >> stephen moore, your thoughts. >> well, i don't really agree -- certainly i agree that when people go to these kind of town hall meetings and tea parties, they should be very respectful and polite. as you know, chris,

we'll talk with the governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell.d rendell, delighted to have you hear tonight coming to us from harrisburg, pennsylvania. how is this proposal going to impact the states, because if i were a governor i would want to know is this going to be a budget buster cushion mark two make it interesting, mike, i don't think we know yet is there so many different versions. the senate finance committee version says that one of the things they will do to ensure more coverage is there going to increase medicaid from 100% of the federal poverty level to 133%. net increase for the first three years the federal government is going to pick up all the costs, but then in a fourth-year the state will have to pick up 10% of the cost, and we don't know what will happen down the road. >> mike: ed, you and i both know what will happen down the road. he will put more of that cost him the states. they always have. i never goes back. >> we have taken the position, the governors association both republican and democrat that we don't want any unfu

we'll talk with the governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell.ht coming to us from harrisburg, pennsylvania. how is this proposal going to impact the states, because if i were a governor i would want to know is this going to be a budget buster cushion mark two make it interesting, mike, i don't think we know yet is there so many different versions. the senate finance committee version says that one of the things they will do to ensure more coverage is there going to increase medicaid from 100% of the federal poverty level to 133%. net increase for the first three years the federal government is going to pick up all the costs, but then in a fourth-year the state will have to pick up 10% of the cost, and we don't know what will happen down the road. >> mike: ed, you and i both know what will happen down the road. he will put more of that cost him the states. they always have. i never goes back. >> we have taken the position, the governors association both republican and democrat that we don't want any unfunded mandates and we can't afford it. you k

was the republican party is vehemently against. >> we're going to lose our window here, governor ed rendel from pennsylvania, and governor thank you for joining us. >> we'll have you back on, right? >> okay. good to see you guys. >> and tamron, fascinating political news out of pennsylvania with this democratic interparty sort of primary fight, but the big news is the two american journalists being released and you can imagine the sigh of relief not only in pennsylvania but all across the country. but al gore set up his television network, these two journalists were working with them. after 4 1/2 months, their colleagues are being released. >>> we will have much more on their release and the new role that has been shown to light of former president bill clinton. we'll have more on the freedom of these american journalists. so, wh's the problem? these are hot. we're shipping 'em everywhere. but we can't predict our shipping costs. dallas. detroit. different rates. well with us, it's the same flat rate. same flat rate. boston. boise? same flat rate. alabama. alaska? with priority mail flat r

neil: think you, governor ed rendell, the democratic governor of pennsylvania. -- thank you. democrats are not calling it a tit-for-tat, but it does look that way, letters being sent for the -- to the nation's top health insurance companies, and demanding financial details from the salaries they pay out to bonuses and incentives that they pay out. curious that the same letter did not go out to drug companies that are going along with reform but only helping some insurance companies. our next guest says this is not a coincidence. this is pretty weird. >> absolutely, neil. the slippery slope continues to get more slippery to as we continue down this path talking about health-care reform. now, we have democratic bulldogs of knocking on doors of these companies asking for data going back to 2003. neil: these are companies that have not taken tarp money, you are going on a witch hunt which companies that are not on the public dole. >> that is right. these health-care companies are in business to make money. they are profit-making entities, and as a result, they have to look at com

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in harrisburg, pen, our friend the governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell. what do those test results show to you, bill? >> you -- well, it means that we have made a great improvement over the years that rent has been in office. and he will give you the mums. he sounds a lot better than i because he lived with them. the most important thing is with the improvements that we are making in the position we are in, why would anyone want to now make a cut or make cuts in something that is running towards perhaps 100% instead of 70%? >> larry: this has national implications. school systems all over the country are facing budget cuts. california is in a crisis. ed, what do you about it? it is a financial question. where does the money come from? >> well, i think we have to make choices, larry. one of the choices we have to make is for our future. our future depends on edge indication. you know, we used to compete against delaware, west virginia, new york, new jersey, and we are competing against china, india, singapore, and those countries are just off the charts in

he is a person as governor rendell said, that has a lot of integrity. i don't know -- i wish he'd said something a little bit earlier, but, you know, he expresses such regret in the book as well that your heart kind of goes out to him. he knew he was doing the wrong thing and he left. >> walsh, i love it when you don't like somebody. you accuse them of being british. you accuse them of having a butler. your ultimate putdown. you guy with a butler. >> oh, lots of people have butlers. >> i know how you think. ron reagan, your thoughts on this having experience with this. it seems to me you have a fight going on here, but it does remind me of that russell crowe part in the tobacco industry case. where somebody on the inside knows what happens and the other guys on the inside aren't as willing to be as outspoken as he. >> we've had a string of people on the inside of the bush administration coming forth for years and telling us some things. it's not a one day wonder. this is serious business. we're talking about the national security of the national securit

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joining us now is pennsylvania governor ed rendell. ed, great to have you on tonight.t comes to the fight for health care. who do you see picking that up for the democrats in this fight? >> well, the interesting thing is, ed, i think we've lost that, he missed that passion at the beginning of the year when ted kennedy really fell ill. had he been 100%, i think we would have had a health care bill by now and we probably would have gotten 10 to 15 republican votes for it. there's only one person who i think can pick up the mantle. the reason the loss is to great is he was one person the american people knew where he stood, they knew what he believed in, and they knew he had genuine real passion. the only person that can pick up the cudgel is the president. he has to lead now. he has to go in and tell his fellow democrats, this is why we're here. if democrats don't believe in making health care available for all americans, we don't believe in anything. this is why you got elected. this is why you ran for public office, and we're going to get this done, and you're going to

it's nice to have president obama and vice president biden and governor rendell all endorsing me, butalways done and i'm going to do it again. >> you said you wanted, senator, to talk about yourself. let's talk about you politically. last year you were campaigning with mccain and palin. did you vote for them? >> yes, sir. >> what do you say now about your choice? do you think it was a good choice at the time? seriously, as a voter, as an american, as a pennsylvanian, do you think they would have been a better choice than what we have now? >> i thought that they were the better choice, and i was trying to work within the republican party and trying to bring moderation to the republican party. the decisive step i took was when i heard president obama early this year say we were on the verge of sliding into a 1929 depression and a new president with a new mandate, and i voted for the stimulus package. now, up until then biden and rendell and a lot of people had been trying to get me to become a democrat. when i voted for the stimulus package, i had more republicans urging me to become a

pennsylvania governor ed rendell joins us now. before we get into health care, governor, i want to ask you about your longtime friend, secretary of state hillary clinton. this is what happened when she was asked, she thought, about her husband. she was traveling in the congo yesterday. let's watch. >> wait! you want me to tell me what my husband thinks? my husband is not the secretary of state, i am. so you ask my opinion, i will tell you my opinion. i'm not going to be channeling my husband. >> governor, we've seen today the new york tabloids are all over this. look at these headlines. i mean, here she is with the most favorable ratings that she's ever enjoyed in her career, just about, and the loyal team player to barack obama, and in one moment, she shows this kind of anger. what's the impact, politically, of that? >> oh, i think very short run. it's really much ado about nothing. look, hillary clinton is not only expressing frustrations about being married to a very famous, maybe one of the most famous people in the world, may

finally, pennsylvania democrat ic governor ed rendell was channeling his inner james bond villain that he was frustrated with the lawmakers deadlocked budget negotiations saying it reminded him from the "gold finger movie" in which the bad guy kills a room of gangsters in one fell swoop. he filled the room with poison gas and knocked them off. you might have thought after watching those two conference committee days that that would have been a good idea. a republican aide told "the philadelphia enquirer" no one has ever said that the governor's sense of humor is one of his strong suits. another g.o.p. staffer said "this's no comment to make. he's obviously losing it." back to our coverage of healthcare reform now, many seniors have been shaken by the speculation and talk about possible government mandates in so-called end-of-life issues. shannon bream reports the controversy is far from over. >> we should not have a government program that determines if we're going to pull the plug on gand max >> end-of-life issues are taking place across the country as angry seniors worry about adviso

i hired ed rendell, did not know he was a democrat and didn't care.when i hired lynne abraham, she was a democrat and i didn't care. i always talked to the other party. it has changed, but the other party. >> i do want to look at that with some data. in the blogosphere you can begin -- have you heard of neat silver and the specterometer? ? no. he is a statistician, he built in endicott inspectorometer. he basically did a voting analysis of what he calls a contentious votes, the big floor votes with the parties have significant disagreements. andy found that basically what you were a republican going into april, you would vote with the democrats up to about 44% of the time. after the party switch, that spike up to 69% of the time. and then since may when it became clear that there would be a challenge from congressman sestak, 97% of the time. [laughter] that is one person analysis of the votes. but what he and a lot of people have said, including conversations we had online prior to your parents -- many people in this community like that you are up to

ed rendell joins us now. at this moment, do you feel as though it is done in the water?t what is in that plan. the numbeproblem is that the puc is not clear. that opens the door for people who do want to come in and mislead the american people. there's no question about that. we have not done a good job explaining with clarity to the american people what the plan is all about. gretchen: we have even had some democrats who say they do not understand the plan. when will the president nail this down and say you're the top five things in my health care reform plan? >> i think he needs to do that as soon as congress gets back. there are a couple of elements. the first element is, no one has the obligation to support the obama plan. all of us believe that we should take care of our fellow citizens. i think the idea that health care should be available to everyone is an idea pretty much everyone can agree with. the president does make a good point that this system is broken. consider in pennsylvania, in the last seven years, health-care inflation has been 75%. regular inflation

pennsylvania governor ed rendel joins us live. >>> and ripped to shreds, a neighborhood torn apart aboutamron. >> i'm live in new york and david our big picture today, bill clinton, you might say to the rescue. the former president is on a delicate mission to free two american journalists jails in north korea. the former president met with communist leaders and held exhaustive talks that covered a wide range of issues. clinton passed along a verbal message from president obama, but, keep in mind, the white house press secretary robert gibbs is denying that report, gibbs saying he won't comment further until president clinton is home. >> this is obviously a very sensitive topic. we will hope to provide some more detail at a later point. our focus right now is on ensuring that the safety of two journalists that are in north korea right now. >> former president clinton is trying to secure the release of laura ling and euna lee. north korea accused them of sneaking into the country and sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor. the country's chief nuclear negotiator met president clinton. his

. >>> pennsylvania governor, ed rendell, is an advocate for stronger gun laws. what's your take? >> i think it's much like reported. this was a guy who was very sick. had an incredibly deep hatred for woman. he was a systems analyst for a big, pittsburgh law firm. no criminal record. even i, and i believe we should have a ton of stricter, common sense gun control legislation, but this individual wouldn't have been picked up through the normal system. if you have had a history of mental problems, you cannot buy a gun. they are killing machines. they're what the philadelphia police have because they fire very quickly. they have a hair trigger and they're incredibly deadly weapons. a guy with these type of problems shouldn't have been able to get those guns. unless we are going to hire people to search the internet and go on blogs and try to track down people with serious problems and somehow pass laws they can't buy guns, what are we going to do? >> it's interesting, because the argument that would be made on the other side by people who support gun rights is that if more of our ci

pennsylvania's governor ed rendell released a statement praising frankel's work in civil rights and justice. >>> a man was seriously burned in a house fire in frederick county this moing. fire officials say it started on the lower level of a town house in the 10 100 block of victoria square. two people were inside. emergency unit his to medevac to johns hopkins in baltimore. the other made it out and the other is expected to be fine. >>> good evening. veronica johnson here at storm 4. it is cool outside. we're used to temperatures starting out in the 70s or at least 70 degrees in d.c. upper 60s a lot of locations but this morning 50s and low 60s across the area and that's what we're going to have for the next couple of days. we've got some showers still hanging on. areas of southeastern virginia. those will be moving out. you could see our temperatures right now in the low 70s across the area. where do we go from here? on your fast forecast another chilly start coming your way. more sunshine coming to us tomorrow and what about the taste of autumn? how long will it last? a look in a few min

i was on with chris matthews and governor here in pennsylvania, ed rendell. i made the easy case against the obamacare and i said to chris matthews, the reason that people are turning out to these town halls -- how many have been? the reason people are attending, you don't understand, this is something that has been been pent up since the first days of the obama administration since the stimulus plan, bailouts, health care and cap and trade. that's what's going on. i said ordinary americans are fed up to here with what is going on in washington. and chris matthews turned to me and said to me on air, he said the reason these people are going to these town hall meetings is because they don't want a black president to succeed. this was the most offensive things i ever heard. they think we are racist and i think it's important for americans to really see the face of the opposition movement. . we are the ones who are the real grassroots movement. by the way, what i told chris mufertse when he said you just don't like a black president i said wait a minute, joe bid

ed rendell forever. i have been his finance chair. >> but you are lobbying on behalf of democrats which is different. >> well, i have not distinguished my career by party. yesterday in bedford, counted, and i was visiting with democrats and the minority commissioner was a democrat and he told me a story i had forgotten -- bedford county. i had been there for a republican meeting and he had come. he told me how cordial i was. i hired ed rendell, did not know he was a democrat and didn't care. when i hired lynne abraham, she was a democrat and i didn't care. i always talked to the other party. it has changed, but the other party. >> i do want to look at that with some data. in the blogosphere you can begin -- have you heard of neat silver and the specterometer? ? no. he is a statistician, he built in endicott inspectorometer. he basically did a voting analysis of what he calls a contentious votes, the big floor votes with the parties have significant disagreements. andy found that basically what you were a

and joe biden and ed rendell when congressman sestak starts to throw stones, he lives in a big glasse guy has the worst voting record in the congress from the pennsylvania delegation. he's missed 104 votes this year. he talks about his military record. if he was still in the service, he would be court-martialed. he's been awol, absent without leave. i'd rather talk about the issues, but if congressman sestak wants to go negative, i'm prepared to battle him toe to toe. >> maybe we'll have you both on the program to talk the issues sometime. in closing, if you look at the polling in your state right now, the quinnipiac poll recently came 40% said yes, 49% said no. what is it about you or the issues in debate that would have nearly half of the residents of your state that know you so well say no? >> it's common when candidate x against no one, no one does well -- >> there is someone, pat toomey, the likely republican candidate. in may you led by 20 points. that is a dead heat now. >> well, i don't want to get into details. but that poll had a lot of problems. it polled the same number o

and joe biden and ed rendell when congressman -- he lives in a big glass house.he congress from the pennsylvania delegation missed 104 votes this year. he talks about his military record. he was still in the service. he would be a court-martial. he's been awol. absent without leave. i don't want to get involved in those facts. i'd rather talk about the issues. but in congressman's position, he is battling toe to toe. let me zmu closing if you look at the polling in your state right now, the poll recently came out of the field, does senator specter deserve to be re-elected? 40% of republicans said yes. 49%, sir, said no. what is it about you or the issues debate that would have nearly half of the residents of your state who know you so well saying no? >> well, it is common when it's candidate x versus no one that no one does well. the real -- >> let me interrupt you on that point. we're almost out of time. there is someone. there is a likery republican candidate f do you a general election matchup with him, you led by 20 points. that is a dead heat now. >> well, i

we also have governor ed rendell, former governor mike levin, who was also the h.s.s -- h.h.s. secretary. we have one of the leading gerontologists talking about the elderly care. what does this mean for seniors. frankly, neil, there are a lot of scare tactics. we're go fog try to put -- going to try to put some of those to rests. neil: those are some powerful guests. you being a former governor have them on speed dial. >> i don't know about that. they don't return my calls. neil: the man who polls alarmingly well if he were to opt for something a little higher, mike huckabee, again, 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night. a very big special that you've got to watch no matter what side of the fence you're on because he's got all the views there, fair and balanced. don't forget that. thank you, governor. >> thank you. neil: well, the president says his health care plan will be deficit neutral. try telling a lot of governors in a, because they are worried about this. senator baucus quoted as saying that the senate version would require states to pick up a part of the tab for adding millions of

>> well,overnor rendell this wek said tat business expansions are gwing at a greater rate th business closings for the first me in aear we have more job onings than we have jobs being lost but at the sa time he cautioned is is not a predtion for the future. right now at lookedretty good. but athe same time we he an umployment rate of about 8.5% and simirly we have rtain pockets like the philadelphia area that's0% unemployment. we ha state college, which is where penn state universy is, thas about 5.8 but there are pockets all around the state whe it's 9%, almost 10%, and those people are ally hurting. since december of 2007 the beginning of this recession pennsylvania has lost 183,0 jobs. so it's significant tothe people who lost those jobs or who are on e cuttingdge. harley davidson, by big employer here, ty're talking about leing, that would be subsntial hit both to the seek e and to theeality o people being unemployed. >> brown: je grant i albuqueue ke, any signs leveling out? >> i think what we'v got going here is a cole of things. we've got some sigficant revenue short falls coul

>> well, governor rendell this week said that business expansions are growing at a greater rate than business closings. for the first time in a year we have more job openings than we have jobs being lost. but at the same time he cautioned this is not a prediction for the future. right now that looked pretty good. but at the same time we have an unemployment rate of about 8.5%, and similarly we have certain pockets like the philadelphia area that's 10% unemployment. we have state college, which is where penn state university is, that's about 5.8%. but there are pockets all around the state where it's 9%, almost 10%, and those people are really hurting. since december of 2007 the beginning of this recession, pennsylvania has lost 183,000 jobs. so it's significant to the people who lost those jobs or who are on the cutting edge. harley davidson, by big employer here, they're talking about leaving, that would be a substantial hit both to the seek e and to the reality of people being unemployed. >> brown: jean grant in albuquerque ke, any signs leveling out? >> i think what we've got goin

i hired ed rendell, did not know he was a democrat and didn't care. when i hired lynne abraham, she was a democrat and i didn't care. i always talked to the other party. it has changed, but the other party. >> i do want to look at that with some data. in the blogosphere you can begin -- have you heard of neat silver and the specterometer? ? no. he is a statistician, he built in endicott inspectorometer. he basically did a voting analysis of what he calls a contentious votes, the big floor votes with the parties have significant disagreements. andy found that basically what you were a republican going into april, you would vote with the democrats up to about 44% of the time. after the party switch, that spike up to 69% of the time. and then since may when it became clear that there would be a challenge from congressman sestak, 97% of the time. [laughter] that is one person analysis of the votes. but what he and a lot of people have said, including conversations we had online prior to your parents -- many people in this community like that you are up to

i am personally sick and tired of the rendells of harrisburg.ick and tired of our young men and women used as pawns around the world. all we hear about is how corrupt russia is and how corrupt north korea is. where do you see an honest man in politics from here to washington? [applause] so my question to you, would you go back to washington and represent us first as an american, and tell mr. obama he is in american american? [applause] >> i think president obama knows he is an american. when you asked me to make a commitment to represent america first, i will say absolutely yes. who has #27? megyn: and there you have it. an extraordinary showing how the pennsylvania as we watch for the past hour nonstop, an informed, articulate, and very concerned group of american people take their questions directly to their elected representative, senator arlen specter. they had some very tough questions. this is american democracy at work. this will not provide fodder for those who describe these folks as angry mobs or describe them as un-american. will prov

let's push it now forward and bringing governor ed rendell and talk about the fact that you heard megan bring up point that the budget committee hasn't met for two weeks. you would think as governor of the state you would be telling the budget committee, we've got thousands of lives in limbo here, we have got to make a decision. >> well, kyra, i have been calling for the conversation committee, what it's been called, i've been calling for them to get back to work every day of those two weeks. it's incredible that we have these problems starting to crop up and the key committee that's assigned to hash this out hasn't met for two weeks. there are some behind the scenes negotiation, but that committee is charged with meeting in public to try to iron out the differences between the two sides. interestingly, the message in megan is dead right about that. the fight that's undertaken that right now is simply because i believe that we have to have a budget that balances with cuts and we've made almost $2.5 billion of cuts and reasonable revenue increases. we don't take child care programs and c

check this out anchor rendell nell of canada's global tv was hosting andopt a dog segment with a memberginger is still available to adopt. she is affectionate. >> she has a lot of love to give. all right, let's move on to some art you can eat. sarah kauffman over 75 hours too create this masterpiece, created entirely out of cheese. three 640-pound blocks of indiana cheddar, and string cheese, also part of the display, at the indiana state fair in indianapolis. the sculpture was sponsored by the american dairy association. shocking, i know. >> could you imagine if that was here now with this humidity. >> it would be sweating and the nastiest cheese you've ever seen. >> stink out here. for a chaser the 35th annual world cocktail competition in berlin. thrills and spills as 800 competitors from 52 different companies mixed it up. the home favorite was germany. and guess what they were shaking and stirred when they lost to a british contender, his rocking concoction. the competition was immediately followed by a hangover competition. >> how about that? >> it included a lot of bloody marys.

two at colloquy to discuss an agreement reached last thursday between you, speaker posey, chairman rendell, chairman miller, representative becerra, crowley, short, kind, insley, me and others. the agreement is to include language in h.r. 3200 as it moves to the house floor to address geographic disparities in medicare reimbursements and a shift toward a medicare system based on high-value care. >> the gentleman will yield. i was pleased that we were able to address many of your concerns with the medicare payment structure. >> mr. inslee. >> i appreciate that, mr. chairman, and the agreement we have come to, and this is exhibit a and i ask unanimous consent to enter it in the record. with speaker posey's support should take great strides to address the geographic and equity in medicare and moved towards a payment structure that reimburses or high quality, low cost with clear. specifically, the language will mandate to studies by the institute of medicine. and i will discuss it -- discuss the first which relates to geographic and anna care and mr. brady will discuss the second. which was ou

you should trust me because ed rendell has known me for 45 years, i gave him his first job out of lawchool and when he calls me repetitively and once help, as he called me 10 days ago, unemployment compensation was running out and he wanted money for the stimulus package, the republican plans of and is said it would not vote for it but i called some of my friends there -- the republican pennsylvania senate would not vote. >> but what i have seen specifically as a blocker the past six years through the bush administration -- as a blogger the past six years, you would say i would not support this, this is american, you would get press coverage and then you would vote for it anyway. i think that is what people are concerned about. >> well, you can point to an isolated example or two, but there are good reasons. one question which i was advised to answer was, why, when i thought habeas corpus was a constitutional mandate that i voted for the milary commissions bill. but i did so -- and this is one where people say you said one thing but did another. but the military commissions build the

rendell of health-care workers report malpractice they are taking a huge risk of loss of employment andinds -- right now, all kinds of ramifications. there better be better protection for tort reform. host: today, this reporter writes in this column -- toilet paper bear kids. fights can go on as long as they have to in the seventh row of "by club." -- the seven rule. the art of talking, listening, and ascertaining the truth seems more elusive than ever in this age, lost in a bitter stream of mis information. the world that obama was supposed to ensure in has vanished. she continues further down in the column, the young, grass- roots army that swept obama into office has yet to mobilize now that the fight is complicated. no, they cannot? we see the ugly scenes of mostly older and white malcontents, disrupting forms were others have come to learn. instead we get swastikas and death threats. president obama has proven in stings, but not in this case. you'd think the politicians schooled and community organizing would be ready to squash this. like it or not, a speaker nancy pelosi, that is

have to go out there and put the full force of the pennsylvania democrat apparatus and governor rendell'sbehind him. >> it's interesting that they couldn't convince joe sestak not to challenge arlen specter. but they've convinced in to not challenge jillian. >> he's a great candidate, but arlen specter, 30 years, he's tough also. i'm neutral. >> thanks very much. >>> outrage and claims of racial profiling in india after a bollywood superstar is stopped at newark airport. what the actor is saying and more. >>> and protests at the university of california, berkeley, as a controversial official in the bush administration is back on campus. how about a swim? i'm a little irregular today. don't you eat activia? for my little issues? they're not that bad. summer's no time to put up with even occasional digestive problems. believe me, once they go away, it's amazing how good you feel. announcer: activia is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system in two weeks. summer's a wastin'... take the activia challenge now. it works, or it's free. ♪ activia >>> the bush administration justi

as a result they didn't necessarily have to be on the same side politically and he sided with ed rendellaid it and hillary clinton's david barack obama got the nomination and he switched on a dime and nobody cared because of that was not his main concern. >> host: was the primary decision, was that the chairman of largely by are you with a machine or the use yourself as an outsider in some of the people say outcome to these big events and was outside and had to take on the black establishment. >> there is a lot of that but with the clinton is more complicated because when bill clinton ran for of a see a lot of people jobs and never had a chance of a worry hole lead generation of government officials and people especially in washington politics who are black who got the first real breakthrough from bill clinton so there was a lot of loyalty involved. i remember early on when barack obama was running i would encounter deferment clinton official when the high and because they can't talk about that. there was a lot of nervousness because they thought they were being told disloyal. if they su

so having been through this i think we're in the midst of it will show a shift rendell and that is agood thing in the long haul. a very good thing it much-needed. it is a bad thing in the short term. i think we're going to have a very troubled economy because consumers really are retrenching, rebuilding, repenting. >> thank you. >> hi, i want to thank you rear can in this in the book in being so open about appear in and now having written about the economy and having experienced it yourself, there is a lot of frustration among people about the fact that the people where of fixing the problem for some of the people who got us into the problem and there's a lot of giving competing theories from people kind of in academia, paul friedman, and you have people of have been in the field for many years may not have a nobel prize in economic for pc but have been experts and there's a lot of that sort of why did the man versus experience question and they know what i mean from not which side you on price if you feel like people who have been doing the research and have gone the education that

and go to hillary clinton and ed rendell a governor of pennsylvania said that there is an election coverage came out of fox news. and yet the democrats want to shoot like the klan page if they pull the power, they would. what is unique about fox news is a conservative from it is not equivalent of msnbc as i point out repeatedly steered it was the equivalent to the liberal left fox news host geraldo rivera, greta van susteren, who is that on msnbc. what's unique about fox news and i think in general makes for more interesting viewing is it's a debate station that you have a liberal and a conservative not just a bunch of liberals are doing or eight liberals and one conservative. >> host: which is why cox news is rated number one fess mack i don't think this is just because of my legal background, that's the easiest way to get at the jews, because you hear things on other stations fannie you wonder why it a second, what would a republican say to that. is well, you get the full story from the left and right on fox news and i feel like i'm doing a commercial for fox news. i have no vested intere

i was on with chris mathus and the governor here in pennsylvania, ed rendell.de the case of course the easy case against the obama care and i said, you know, to chris that the reason that people are turning out to these town halls -- how many of you have gone to town hall meetings? i said the reason that people are attending these, chris. you don't understand, this is something that's been pent up really from the first days of the obama administration with the absurd, the economic stimulus plan and the bailouts and the debt bonds and all this stuff and then the health care and the cap and trade. i said, that's whalely what's going on is that ordinary americans are just fed up to here with what is going on in washington. and chris turned to me, he said this, folks, on the air. he said, you know the reason i think these people are so angry is they don't want a black president to succeed. now, that was really was one of the most insulting, offensive things. this is what the left thinks of us, is that we are racist and that we want -- we wear swastikas and things l