it does go to the heart of the question of sara palin. senator mccain had been around presidential politics and he enjoyed i think kind of the opportunity as the nominee to go through the rituals. one is hiring someone or retaining someone in this case a respected lawyer to go through and begin the process of vetting the background of potential candidates. given that it was a mccain operation which tended to have relatively loose lips and a fair amount of leaking this process was kept confidential in real time. the day we decided -- came up with the idea for game change initially was the day senator mccain decided, went on i'm muss' program and talked about the vetting process. in a way he wasn't supposed to do. and that was one of the last times there was any public window. they looked in the background in kind of the normal way of a lot of candidates some of whom were mentioned in the clip you showed tat top. senator lieberman, a close friend of senator mccain's was at the top of his wish list. but after they did the kind of standard we

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senate but not a prominent figure when george herbert walker bush selected him and also what we sara palin. >> i think, steve, the overarching of all vice presidential selections is something he alluded to, the best political pick is the best substantive pick. i think that for this reason, most american voters don't make a decision based on the who is on the ticket. vice presidential nominees move through votes and only on the margins. most voters the way they look at the vice presidential pick is the first decision the nominee decision as a reflection of the decisionmaker and how serious and scrupulous that nominee is being. so what they want to know, first and foremost, has the nominee chosen someone who is unequivocally qualified to be president. if you meet that bar, you've basically done everything you can do for yourself in a vice presidential pick. you think about someone like joe biden. the choice was whatever you conditioning about joe biden, disagree or agree with him, very few people can the country who look at him and say this man is qualified to be president. same with dick ch

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. >> i think what he said about sara palin was offensive. i understand he stopped using that word because people did complain about it. well he should have. >> bret: i appreciate it. >> bret: and axelrod is not appearing on bill maher show any time soon, some reported he cancelled at peer yens. the show apparently said he was never firm booked. reaction from fox all stars when we come back. >> bret: let's bring back our panel from washington now. you just heard that interview with david axel rod. your reaction and the framing of the election going forward? >> i thought axelrod was rather dense, those are tough questions on a couple of them. the senate hasn't submit aid budget in three years he stumbled around on that. and there was a question of key stone where again there is no answer. he tried to blame it on republicans as pointed out. and clearly obama decided long before republicans put in an issue decided to kill it. i think on romney their answer is rather straight. they know he's going to be the nominee. they're ready for them. they u

. >> i think what he said about sara palin was offensive. stopped using that word because people did complain about it. well he should have. >> bret: i appreciate it. >> bret: and axelrod is not appearing on bill maher show any time soon, some reported he cancelled at peer yens. the show apparently said he was never firm booked. reaction from fox all stars when we come back. ♪ our machines help identify early stages of cancer and it's something that we're extremely proud of. you see someone who is saved because of this technology, you know that the things that you do in your life, matte if i did have an opportunity to meet a cancer survivor, i'm sure i could take something positive away from that. [ jocelyn ] my name is jocelyn, and i'm a cancer survivor. [ mimi ] i had cancer. i have no evidence of disease now. [ erica ] i would love to meet the people that made the machines. i had such an amazing group of doctors and nurses, it would just make such a complete picture of why i'm sitting here today. ♪ [ herb ] from the moment we walked in th

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maher has been called onto apologize for many things, many offensive things, what he said about sara palinutely and i wrote an op he had called stop the war on terror earlier this week defending bill maher's right to say that. when you attack a public figure who runs to be a heart beat away from the leader of the free world, it comes with the territory. we have to have the freedom to mock the elected officials even with words i might not use or don't like. turn the channel just like bill maher says. when you are demonizing private citizens or making homophobic racist remarks, you answer for that. that's life. >> what about you? have you ever crossed the line and said what you said back and i shouldn't have, i am sorry, as i joke you thought initially. >> sure. i tweet things and get pushback from my followers going what are you doing? this is wrong, or on facebook. it is there. the difference is frankly i will be brutally honest. if you are famous, you are held to a higher standard. in new york they can say worse things than you ever hear on the tv shows or comments in question. when you a

george will wrote a piece during the last election and compared sara palin to my father to which my sistervery distinguished guy. i don't blame your sister. >> stephanie: obviously you were signature for climate change. you have to be shaking your head in 2012 when you look at all of the republican candidates just completely denying science. >> caller: it shouldn't be a partisan issue at all. the core meaning of conservatism is to protect and preserve and conserve. and we're threatening the environment of the entire planet on which our human civilization is based. you know this month stephanie there have been thousands of high temperature records broken, seven or eight days in march in chicago with so far above 80 degrees. in many areas of the midwest the low temperatures for the day have broken the previous all-time high temperatures. >> ah, coincidence. >> and there is natural variability by the way. that does play a role but over time, you see the trend is sharply upward. 40% of the north pole ar icecap is gone. the sea level rises are now threatening many coastal areas in the u.s. and

palin says if the president can jump to the defense of sara comments, he can come to her gh defense, as well. maher is a million-dollar donor to obama's super pac. he has called bristol palin derogatory names during his routine. >>> a former "desperate housewives" star says her edie brit character was killed off after he accused marc cherry of striking her on the set of that hit abc show. and claim that he denies. the jury, deadlocked with 8 of 12 siding with sheridan. it's not clear when the retrial will take place. >>> and ashton kutcher is far out. no, really. the actor is on his way to space. yesterday, kuchar became the 500th person to sign up for a ride into space with billionaire richard branson's virgin galactic. he will get a 2 1/2-hour flight, with 5 minutes of weightlessness, all for a mere $200,000. flights are set to start next year. >> does he get a beverage and pretzels, though? >> the smallest bag of pretzels, ever. >>> it appears peyton manning is heading to the mile-high city. he is passing denver bronco's physical and is working on a dale worth roughly $95 million o

sara backh back? she is she has been in the news not just for the hbo movie about the mccain-palin ticket but attack attacking president obama so the obama put together a team to raise money off of her. watch. >> obama has never been, i think, seen in the conventional traditional way of -- of we would describe a man of valor. and his profession as a community organizer, what went into his thinking was this philosophy of radicalism. he is bringing us back, sean, to days you can harken back to days before the civil war. what barack obama wants to seem to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income based on color of skin. why are we allowing our country to move backwards? >> okay. that's it. it's official. breaks the record for the dumbest criticism of the president ever. president obama would like to go back to the days pre-civil war when we had slavery? who can possibly believe that? how can you be that profoundly stupid? but no, she says that was heavily edited. we have the sean hannity program. let's see if it was out of context. >> he is bringing us back, sean to day