robert draper, you wrote this piece, you talked to her. portion of this is from your interview with governor palin. she says this, "i know that a hurdle i would have to cross, that some other potential candidates wouldn't have to cross right out of the chute, is proving my record. that's the most frustrating thing, the warped and perverted description of my record and what i've accomplished. it's much more perplexing than what the mainstream media has wanted to go about my personal life. other candidate haven't faced this criticism the way i have." her ability to be seen as karl rove says in the wj this week, is can folks look at her and imagine her in the oval office? she's not there yet. >> that's the question. she was referring to her record as governor of alaska. i don't think that moves the needle on her approval ratings. i think that the question that she's going to have to answer is if "common sense conservativism" is shorthand for i haven't learned the issues. and she has done more to close the substance deficit. she says -- increa

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reporter robert draper talks to pail been her life, her family and her record.n of whether she'll throw her hat in the ring for 2012, palin says, i'm engaged in the internal deliberations candidly and having that discussion with my family because my family, she says, is the most important consideration here. but palin acknowledges if she does decide to run it won't be easy given her past. "i know that a hurdle i would have to cross and some other potential candidates wouldn't have to cross right out of the chute is proving my record." that's the most frustrating thing for me. the warped and perverted description of my record and what i've accomplished over the last two decades. draper interviewed palin earlier this month. >>> some folks do take their reality tv shows seriously. authorities say an 87-year-old man blasted his television with a shotgun after watching bristol palin score big yet again on "dancing with the stars." wonder where he got that idea? >> blazing. your best dance. fabulous. >> 9. >> she's back. >> the wisconsin man turned the gun on his wife

ba and reporter robert draper who wrote a critical piece about the mccain/palin campaign.played, a game she's often disparaged, she is very much participating in it and doing so in a way that helps her presidential prospects. >> you can't get much more lame stream media as she would put it than "the new york times" and all of rest of us, of course. palin is drawing so much attention, she's a media sensation. she's made an art form out of using social media. in this piece, gibbs says to the "new york times" open up a facebook account or a twitter account, make some posts and have the entire white house press corps focused on your quote of the day. that's sarah palin. he seems envious. >> her response was, i just tweet, that's just the way i roll. it opens up all sorts of questions about the way we cover these campaigns. >> she's been effective in using this technique, this social media in a way that minimizes her risk and her exposure to potentially tricky questions like those that caused her to stumble during her 2008 vice presidential campaign rollout. the other thing thi

robert draper, he quotes palin, i'd like to bring in more people, more people who are trustworthy. would have to cross that some other potential candidates wouldn't have to cross right out of the chute is proving my record. that's the most frustrating thing for me. the warped and perverted description of my record and what i've accomplished over the last two decades. she would wait until the very end, and when i say end, probably fall of 2011. is that having an impact on the rest of this field? >> it is having an impact. everyone is sort of wondering what she's doing. no one can wait as long as she can wait. you're absolutely right about that. it has a mental impact, i think. it has a strategic impact of how would we, perhaps, run against her. but at the end of the day, almost everyone would have to make up their mind well in advance of her, but i'm not sure she has quite as much time as people say. those voters in iowa and new hampshire expect people to come around, perhaps through the summer, but she cannot get in at the 11th hour, i don't believe, and appeal to these voters. >>

with us, robert draper with a piece about palin's inner circle appea as the cover story of "the new york times" magazine. editor of the "wall street journal," paul gigot, richard wolffe, with a book about president obama, and incoming tea party-backed republican congressman from florida, allen west. >>> good morning, breaking news. in "the new york times" this morning, the nancy built a large nuclr facility to scene rich uranium. american scientists visited saying they were stunned by the sohistication of the plant. this further complicates the president's nuclear disarmament agenda from north korea to russia to iran, which was front and center at the nato summit in portugal. the president us the world stage to press his republican opponents in congress to ratify a new nuclear arms deal with russia. secretary oftate hillary clinton was with the president at the summit. and ipoke with her before she departed lisbon. secretary clinton, welcome back to the program. >> thank you very much, david. >> i want to ta about this showdown between the president and senate republicans over the s.t.a.

the reporting of robert draper." sasha says steve, what real reporters has had an interview with her? she where is. she can join the conversation online. tamara is joining us from salt lake city, utah, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i had to ring in and say i find sarah palin's values very misplaced. as a mother who was watching her kids -- why isn't her kids watching her kid? it's very frustrating that they have small children and they're just so busy doing other things. that's why i wouldn't put my faith in her. family first. then country. thanks. have a good day. host: sad, we can only vote for the candidates given to us by the basis of both radical party. we need a third party fast. mary joining us on the democratic line. welcome to the conversation, mary. good morning. caller: good morning. my fear is that if sarah palin makes president, she's not educated enough and i feel some of the people will vote for her because we have a not we, per se, but a lot of us have a tendency to follow and p

>> this is a remarkable story about robert draper who penetrated palin world in a way no one else has since the presidential election. it's called the palin network. he talked to tons of people around her and two days after the election talked to governor palin herself for an hour on the telephone. he asked her, are you already considering running for president? she said i am, i'm doing the internal deliberations that you have to do. i'm talking to my family which will be the most important consideration. in this interview she shows some real self-awareness. she says she realizes she would have to change the team around her which has been pretty secretive. hasn't -- doesn't have a lot of connections to the traditional political apparatus. she says she would need to bring in people she can trust, contrast to '08. she says she knows she'll have a real hurdle out there trying to defend her record against what she once again called the lame stream media. >> we'll be led difficult that story closely. thanks so much. >>> up next, a sudden resignation. the political director for the rnc quit