[cheers] >> sarah! sarah! sarah! sarah! sarah! host: sarah palin last month in cincinnati. "botok tv" is under way this weekend. we're asking you hear your favorite nonfiction book of 2009. we will you weigh in on this. caller: "the search for life in the cosmos." host: wjho wrote that? caller: i do not remember pre- war middle interesting to me is that it made it appear to me how inconsequential we are in the time of the universe. who knows if 10,000 years from now we will even be here. it gives the whole difference perspective of what is going on in congress. who knows what exists. host: what major pickup the book in the first place? caller: i have always been interested in the universe or the history of the universe, where it is going or is the only universe, things white patrick's host: thank you for sharing your reading with us. best nonfiction reading this year. "the l.a. times," a commentary with best-of lists. "when i go into year end list making mode, what makes a spiritual in venture for me, the splash of new facts, the beautifully controlled meredith gore right s

another poor sarah story, larry. have to say, you know, my dad ran for vice president with barry goldwater in '64 and took quite a drubbing. there's new whining in politics. all she does is whine. this whole book is complaining and whining. >> there's a lot of whining in politics. a lot of it. i don't like it. i don't want it. i won't listen to it. but it exists. >> please. >> what did you think it was mrs. clinton was doing, she charged everything against her husband was a vast right wing conspiracy. that's all politicians do is blame other people for their problems. >> ben, this whole book is just about getting even, about settling scores. >> did you read the book? did you read it? >> i read it, every word. >> wow. oh, amazing. >> because i care when larry king asks me about it. i care. >> i know, i should care. >> larry: let me get a break. but first, let's check in with anderson cooper for a preview of "ac 360." >> new details on that story still developing. five americans arrested in pakistan. all with ties to a

>> larry: that's what sarah palin said.h the publication of damaging e-mails with a research center in britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. the revelation oi climate change experts allows the american public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulates about this issue. >> um, yeah, it's hard to take things seriously who thinking dinosaurs who think that dinosaur gas caused global warming or whatever it is she thinks. you know, larry, the president is going to copenhagen because that's what leader does. and the consensus for science for some time has been stolen e-mails that think this or that not consistent. the science is humans are causing climb change. >> larry: penn? >> i think the e-mails are very troublesome. but i think it's part of the president's job to go to this. i hi boycotting it is insane. it doesn't matter who says it. sarah palin gets attacked enough. you wouldn't want to boycott that. but you don't want to dismiss that when scientists do somethin

[cheers] >> sarah! sarah! sarah! sarah! sarah! host: sarah palin last month in cincinnati. "botok tv" is under way this weekend. we're asking you hear your favorite nonfiction book of 2009. we will you weigh in on this. caller: "the search for life in the cosmos." host: wjho wrote that? caller: i do not remember pre- war middle interesting to me is that it made it appear to me how inconsequential we are in the time of the universe. who knows if 10,000 years from now we will even be here. it gives the whole difference perspective of what is going on in congress. who knows what exists. host: what major pickup the book in the first place? caller: i have always been interested in the universe or the history of the universe, where it is going or is the only universe, things white patrick's host: thank you for sharing your reading with us. best nonfiction reading this year. "the l.a. times," a commentary with best-of lists. "when i go into year end list making mode, what makes a spiritual in venture for me, the splash of new facts, the beautifully controlled meredith gore right s

but have we ever seen sarah palin's birth certificate? if you want to follow her logic, couldn't she be a citizen of russia for all we know? >> you know, that is a very interesting point of view. i hadn't considered the similarities between putin and palin, now that you mention it. when she said she was keeping an eye on russia, she may have just been keeping an eye on herself. >> finally, richard, how much damage does this do to those who still see sarah palin as their savior in 2012? >> the more she gets out and has to face these kinds of problems of her own making, the more she's going to be exposed to the kinds of questions about can she be a credible candidate, should she -- is she fg to represent the party in the way it wants to be represented. and i think there's a reason why the handlers in the mccain campaign were so terrified about putting her out there unvarnished. this is her moment. let's see what she's made of. i suspect that at this rate she's not going to make 2010, never mind 2012. >> richard wolffe of msnbc, author of "r

. >> sarah palin? >> i will give you cole porter. you have got that thing that makes the birdies for get to get to sing. she has something. i was dismayed when she quit as governor of alaska. she is running -- she has had executive experience but why does she cut it off? why does she chopped off and foreclose a? because she is seeking the toughest executive job in the country, arguably in the world. how do you explain that? what are you offering that can possibly compensate for that? having that thing, i do not think that is enough in and of itself. we're going to have to see more and we will have to seek a lot more because of the decision she made. >> one last question and we will open it up. we have seen one book written declaring conservatism dead. how troubled is intellectual conservatism at the moment? >> there are always winners and losers. in my other life as a historian, i spend a lot of time in the 17 nineties and the early 19th century, up to the war of 1812. some historians call that the age of passion. i have said that fr

[cheering] >> host: sarah palin last month in cincinnati. her book "going rogue." book tv is underway this week and a three day christmas weekend, c-span2, and of course every weekend regular weekend 8 a.m. saturday until 8 a.m. monday morning. 40 hours of book tv program. we are asking on wall street journal your favorite nonfiction book 2009 and what you weigh in on that you get here is calling for connecticut. republican, what do you think did you like reading this year? >> caller: the search for life in the cosmos. >> host: the search for life in the cosmos. who wrote that? >> caller: i cannot offhand remember. >> host: tell a bit about the book. >> caller: the interesting thing is it really deals with how we might search for life anywhere in the cosmos and the thing that made the most interesting to me is that it finally made it appear to me how inconsequential we are in the time of the universe. who knows if 10,000 years from now we will even be here. it's just there's a whole different perspective like what's going on in congress and all these other kind of

she just edged out sarah palin.hillary clinton has been the number one person the last 14 years or something. this is an important exercise in name recognition. the reason tiger woods was in there because it -- is because he was in a four-way tie with bill clinton, george bush, and john mccain. as i mentioned in my blog, in case people wonder whether or not the american public are taking sides with the woods, elin nordegren was also in the top 10. angela merkel was also there. it was a bizarre collection. host: margaret thatcher, my angelou. -- maya angelou. host: in the meantime, we are going to continue our discussion of a defining event of the decade. the numbers are on the screen. fort lauderdale, florida. john on the line for republicans. caller: you are not the son of arthur/inner are you -- arthur/singer -- arthur schlesinger, are you? >> yes, i m. -- guest: yes, i m. caller: i remember him speaking at my university. tell him i say hello. guest: unfortunately, my father passed away. caller, i am sorry -- call

. >> sarah palin. >> i will give you cole porter. you've got that thing, that certain thing makes the british for get to us saying -- makes the birdies for get to sing she is running -- she has had executive experience. but why does she cut it off? why does she chop it off and foreclose it? because she is seeking the toughest executive jobs certainly in the country, arguably, in the world. how do you explain that? what are you offering that can possibly compensate for that? . that can possibly compensate for that? having that thing, i do not think that is enough in and of itself. we're going to have to see more and we will have to seek a lot more because of the decision she made. >> one last question and we will open it up. open it up. we have seen one book written declaring conservatism dead. how troubled is intellectual conservatism at the moment? >> there are always winners and losers. in my other life as a historian, i spend a lot of time in the 17 nineties and the early 19th century, up to the war of 1812. some historians call t

. >> sarah palin has recently been speaking more to these issues.specifically, she had an op-ed in "the washington post" and said the president should boycott the climate talks. what effect do you think she will be having on this case? >> i like sarah palin as a person and respect her as a former governor and republican leader. i would disagree with her. i think the president has every right to go to copenhagen. he has made environmentalism a part of his agenda. i have no problem with that. i would hope that president obama is open-minded enough to admit that we might need to take a step back or at least take a timeout while we checked the facts, so to speak. but the united states is a world leader. the president is the leader of the united states. i am appreciative that he is going to copenhagen. i am glad that speaker pelosi is going to copenhagen. i disagree with their policies, but i agree that the u.s. needs to be engaged. i just hope we are engaged in a fashion that does not break our economy and end up doing things it does not help the enviro

times, and i say the stars went to see sarah palin. there was jon voight and three others that i do know. three people in l.a. times article and the headline is stars flock to see sarah palin. wing's three people a flock? that's misleading. that's the stuff i write about. i don't -- sean hannity is not a hard target. let's be honest that i would love to go on his show and talk to him, so that was my self publishing process. i would say if there's anyone out there who wants to self publish, just be ready to do a lot of work. the amount of editing, you can find any mistakes in my book, please let me know. but it was probably six or seven and getting process that i would encourage anyone out there that they're passionate about just go for it. don't like. >> you've got a booth here at the l.a. times festival. you have to put this together. a cost of a bitter, chevy put into it? >> all in all, it's probably been a couple, two or 3000 to get to this point. i would say that it's -- if i had to do it over again i would do it exactly the same w

she just edged out sarah palin.hillary clinton has been the number one person the last 14 years or something. this is an important exercise in name recognition. the reason tiger woods was in there because it -- is because he was in a four-way tie with bill clinton, george bush, and john mccain. as i mentioned in my blog, in case people wonder whether or not the american public are taking sides with the woods, elin nordegren was also in the top 10. angela merkel was also there. it was a bizarre collection. host: margaret thatcher, my angelou. -- maya angelou. host: in the meantime, we are going to continue our discussion of a defining event of the decade. the numbers are on the screen. fort lauderdale, florida. john on the line for republicans. caller: you are not the son of arthur/inner are you -- arthur/singer -- arthur schlesinger, are you? >> yes, i m. -- guest: yes, i m. caller: i remember him speaking at my university. tell him i say hello. guest: unfortunately, my father passed away. caller, i am sorry -- call

sarah's money worked as an r.n. for 17 years. her mom in the hospital, a social worker both agreed her health insurance was as good as they come, end of quote. however, when it came -- comes to long-term care, they didn' didn't -- they don't come as good. her mother was abruptly discharged from the -- from the rehab hospital after 60 days when her insurance company decided she made enough progre progress. sarah went nine months without working, dipped into what savings she had and then went into debt to provide the long-term services and supports her mother needed. and as she recalled -- and i'll quote her again -- "i made the whole house wheelchair accessible. i became a team of doctors, nurses, aids and a homemaker. i -- aides, and a homemaker. i helped her shower, made food, gave medicine, took her blood pressure. what would have happened if i wasn't there? basically one of two things. i could have hired someone to come to the house, all out of pocket, of course, or the state could have depleted her assets, her home, her savin

justice sarah palin 2008 reinvigorated millions of despondent grassroots conservatives, the reality of liberalism in power in 2009 has been stirred them even more. bessette backs of 2008 and the tea party protests of 2009 have taught their rights of-- valuable lesson. and the words of the computer scientist, allen kay, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. as 2009 gives way to 2010, a research and conservatives seem determined to do just that. nevertheless, spirit alone cannot do it all. ideas too have consequences as richard weaver long ago reminded us and it is in this round the conservatives face long-term challenges that should curb any tendency to relax. consider for example the phenomenon known as globalization. when we use the word we tend to think first of the globalization of markets, a free trade in goods and services across national borders, but far more significant i think in the long term is the accelerating globalization of human migratio patterns, with cultural and political consequences that we have scarcely begun to fathom. more people are on the move in

. >> how did he meet sarah? >> sarah childress, her brother had been a class make a poll. she was quite a bit younger. he may have known her when she was 11 and 12, and met her at a reception or party for a prominent tennessee and who later became governor. he saw her in the mirror, a reflection in the mirror, and was immediately smitten with the visage that he saw. he made his way to find her, but through the crowd he lost her. by the time he found her, she was with her brother, who he had known from school. there were pretty much together ever since. >> he graduated from the university of north carolina, studying? he got a lot agree? >> it became a lawyer but you did not get a law degree in those days. he studied liberal arts and sciences. it was gradual did no. 1 in both. -- he was graduated no. 1 in both. the study the curriculum of liberal arts. >> youtube two years to do this. when did you change your mind on anything about whole? >> i knew very little about polk. that was a good thing. what struck me was -- might late friend, the pentagon spokesman, read my manuscri

arnold schwarzenegger questions sarah palin's views on climate change. meanwhile, she shoots back says why is governor schwarzenegger pushing for the same policies in copen hague than drove his state to deficit. >> i think that is absurd. that is one of the absurdities we have heard from governor palin. as a citizen of the state, trying to reduce emissions is not what pushed california to the brink of disasters. and i think it speaks to how she values science or how she refuse s to view science. >> larry: ben, you put your face in in your hands. >> i am some what of a fan of sarah pannins. the jury is still out. there is a lot of data that the serth cooler than 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago and the youry it s out about whether or not there is global warming. and the connection between that and the california budget problems is nil. there is no connection at all. there is one issue, climate change may be a fraud, california budget problems are real and painful and they are not a fraud. >> larry: you are not man of the year, barney, having said that, wh

. >> larry: we have an e-mail question from sarah in green castle, indiana.will the jackson family reality show feature from the family's private services for michael? or will you give us more details about what happened at that private service?" >> we can give you more details, but it was basically just a private ceremony for the immediate family. but we're not going to reveal any of that on the reality show, no. >> larry: was it very emotional, jackie? >> very, very emotional. to see your brother there in the cask casket, very emotional. >> larry: were there any other people there other than family? >> we had some close friends there, yes. >> larry: was it hard for you, marlon? >> it was hard for me, because you never expect to, actually, you know, bury your brother. >> larry: that don't happen. >> no, it just doesn't happen. >> larry: in an interview last month on abc, your sister, janet, spoke about michael's problems with drugs and the family's efforts to do something about it. watch and we'll get your comment. >> was there a time as a family where you t

[cheers and applause] sarah! there a! post go there a palin last month in cincinnati, her book is going broke. but tv is underway this weekend a three-day christmas and of course every day saturday until 8:00 a.m. monday morning, 48 hours of tv programming. were asking you here on "washington journal" your favorite nonfiction book of 2009 and will let you weigh in on it. here's kelly with connecticut. >> caller: what did you like reading this year? the search for life in the cosmos. >> host: who wrote that? >> caller: i can't often remember it. >> host: tele- save it about the book then. >> caller: the interesting thing is it really deals with how we might search for life anywhere in the cosmos. in the thing that made it most interesting to me is that i finally made it appear to how inconsequential we are in the time of the universe. who knows this, you know, 10,000 years from now will even be here. it gives a whole different perspective to like what's going on in congress and all these kind of things. who knows what else

. >> sarah palin? >> i will give you cole porter.was dismayed when she quit as governor of alaska. she is running -- she has had executive experience but why does she cut it off? why does she chopped off and foreclose a? because she is seeking the toughest executive job in the country, arguably in the world. how do you explain that? what are you offering that can possibly compensate for that? having that thing, i do not think that is enough in and of itself. we're going to have to see more and we will have to seek a lot more because of the decision she made. >> one last question and we will open it up. we have seen one book written declaring conservatism dead. how troubled is intellectual conservatism at the moment? >> there are always winners and losers. in my other life as a historian, i spend a lot of time in the 17 nineties and the early 19th century, up to the war of 1812. some historians call that the age of passion. i have said that from this stage in a different context. if you really want to feel not so bad about politics no

in the meteoric ascent of sarah palin to national prominence, and in the storm of publicity that has enveloped her ever since, the smoldering culture wars in some ways also a class war, have reignited. for the foreseeable future, the perception of an irrepressible conflict between conservative people of faith and the secular left is likely to energize large sectors of the american right there fourthly, and perhaps most importantly of all, the conservative coalition seems likely to survive for a while because most of the external stimuli that goaded into existence have not disappeared. on the contrary, they have recently grown stronger and more threatening. the berlin wall may be gone, and with it the unifying force of anti-communism. but fresh authoritarian challenges abound overseas and many fronts, while at home the drive to tax, regulate and even socialized parts of the private sector gathers force. large swatches of american culture life, notably the universities, major media and the entertainment industry, continued to move in directions. for defenders of judeo christian ethics,

arnold schwarzenegger questions sarah palin's interest in climate change saying it has more to do wither career and winning the nomination. meanwhile, she shoots back says why is governor schwarzenegger pushing for the same policies in copenhagen that drove his state into record deficits? what do you make of that spat, tanya? >> i think that's absurd. that's another one of the absurdities that we have heard from former governor palin in recent weeks. as a citizen of the state, that is not -- trying to reduce emissions is not what's pushed california to the brink of disaster. that simply isn't it. and the fact that she's one of these global warming deniers for whom the jury is still out, i think really speaks to how she values science or rather how she refuses to value science. and i firmly stand behind my republican governor. that's my bipartisan moment for the week. >> larry: ben, you put your face in your hands. >> well, because i am somewhat of a fan of sarah palin. i'm totally with her about climate change. i think the jury is still out. there are thousands and thousands of reputab

. >> sarah palin. >> i will give you cole porter.you have that thing, that certain thing, that makes the birds for get to sing. you have that thing, that special thing. she really has something. i was amazed when she quit as governor of alaska. you know, she is running -- she has had executive experience. but wider sheet -- why did she cut it off? why did she top it off with foreclosure? because she is seeking the top executive job in the country, arguably in the world. how do you explain that? what are you offering that can possibly compensate? and having that thing is not enough in and of itself. we are going to see a lot more because of the decision she made. >> we have seen one book already in response to conservatism. >> i have spent time up to 1812. some call it the age of passion. and i have said that from this stage in different contexts. if you want to feel not so bad about politics and the level of discourse in the 18-teens, they were crazy, foaming at the mouth. these were the founding fathers. hamilton thought jefferson w

. >> how did he meet sarah? >> sarah childress, her brother had been a classmate of polk. she was quite a bit younger, so he had actually known her when she was maybe 11 or 12. he met her at a reception or party for a prominent tennessean who later became governor, a guy by the name of caroll, as i recall. and saw her in a mirror, saw her reflection in a mirror, and immediately was smitten with the visage that he saw. and made his way to find her, but through the crowd, and he lost her. and then when he finally found her she was with her brother, who he had known from school, and they were pretty much together ever since. >> did he know her brother at the university of north carolina? >> yes. >> and he graduated from there, and what was he studying, and how -- he got a law degree? >> he got -- he became a lawyer, but you didn't get a law degree in those days, but he studied sort of liberal arts and sciences, and was graduated number one in both. but in those days i don't think you really majored in anything in particular, you studied the curriculum of liberal arts. >> you

. >> sarah palin. >> i will give you cole porter. you've got that thing, that certain thing makes the british for get to us saying -- makes the birdies for get to sing she is running -- she has had executive experience. but why does she cut it off? why does she chop it off and foreclose it? because she is seeking the toughest executive jobs certainly in the country, arguably, in the world. how do you explain that? what are you offering that can possibly compensate for that? . that can possibly compensate for that? having that thing, i do not think that is enough in and of itself. we're going to have to see more and we will have to seek a lot more because of the decision she made. >> one last question and we will open it up. open it up. we have seen one book written declaring conservatism dead. how troubled is intellectual conservatism at the moment? >> there are always winners and losers. in my other life as a historian, i spend a lot of time in the 17 nineties and the early 19th century, up to the war of 1812. some historians call t

the supporters are sarah palin republic and.the people he has to convince are his natural constituency. palin is just looking for a chance to say he is covering it up. the politics in this are terrible. yes? >> you mention that we do not know and there have been no credible reports. there have been reports over a number of years that he has not stayed in above iran what is going back and forth. there were reports in the 2004 and photographic evidence. the had seen him there in january 2009. how do you analyze those reports? >> i want to be absolutely explicit. the last time we had a solid piece of information about where osama bin lawn was was eight years ago. -- osama bin laden was 8 years ago. he said it has been a few years. senate -- gates has been my boss in more organizations than i can remember. it has been eight years, mr. gates, since we have had any idea. has he been in iraq? i do not rule it out. al qaeda has been able to operate in iran on more than one occasion. we do not know what the government relationship was. i

congressional insiders say john boehner and political insiders say sarah palin.ink in the case of that, you've got republican congressional insiders picking one of their own, john boehner, leader of the republican party in the house of representatives. he has been a pretty decent leader. has not really screwed anything up yet. i think on the other side, the political insiders, and these are the party consultants, national party chairman, pollsters, and that sort of thing, people who spend a lot of time running the campaigns. i think they look at sarah palin as somebody who just burst on the scene in 2008 as john mccain's running mate, and they see her as someone who, if she wants to be, is probably going to be, could be a force to be reckoned with in 2012 if she seeks the republican presidential nomination. host: james barnes, thank you for your time. now i turn to all of you for your thoughts on the most impressive political figure this year. west palm beach, fla., ann on the democrats' line. who do you pick? caller: obama. host: why is that? caller: in the elec

nothing against sarah palin. who knows if she gets elected president, i may read it after that. >> joe scarborough. >> all right. >> every year they host author night. tonight i'm with pamela. >> yeah, since the consolation of african-american letters spans from the 1700s to 2008. what i try sad is black life through their own letters. it includes the letter ofs extraordinary people who many have heard of, like dr. martin luther king and also unsung people, slaves, just ordinary people throughout history. >> can you give me an example of one of these unsung people? >> oh, sure. there are several letters from slaves who are just writing to each other, to families members from whom they've been separated. letting them know how they are. trying to find out how they their loved one are fairing. not people we would have known of. >> how did you come upon this proct. how did you select the letters? >> well, that was pretty insane. i went through thousands of letters over the course of five years. and some of the themes

my mother, sarah moore fauntroy, i won't tell you when she was born. she was born in north carolina, burlington. before returning to burlington -- she had a lot of foresight for someone so young. she left and came to d.c. we have not talked a lot about that. there were no opportunities there and she did not just want to do what they did -- what black women of a certain age did. she came here and worked and met my father and they got married in 1963. i came along a few years after that. my brother, two years after me. my mother was home for a long time. i finished my bachelor's degree and then two master's degrees. >> you had a ph.d. from howard university? >> absolutely. i had a lot of family connections to howard. my uncle graduated from howard. he was a tuskegee airman. he developed the metro rail system in d.c. >> let me go to something that i read that you wrote. "as a senate bid use almost everything in political terms." >> if all you have is a hammer, every problem you have is a nail. anything other than political terms, when i look at a debate a

. >> how did he meet sarah? >> her brother had been a classmate of polk's. at a reception or party -- he met her at a reception or party and saw her reflection in the mirror and was immediately smitten with that in the cheese sauce. he made his way to find her but through the crowd he lost her. when he finally found her he was wishe was with her brother. they were together ever since. >> he graduated from the university of north carolina. did he have a law degree? >> he became a lawyer. he studied liberal arts and sciences and was graduated no. 1 in both, but in those days i do not think you believe majored in anything in particular. you studied the curriculum of liberal arts. >> you took three years to do this book. when did you change your mind about anything you thought you believed about him? >> i knew very little about him. that was not a big thing. i think what struck me was my friend ken bacon read my manuscript as it was being produced to give me guidance and counsel along the way and he describes him as a smaller than ambitions. i love that phrase.

people are the people who'd be as strongly against this anyway, that might undermine >> it is like sarahing we will change everything. >> we will have to seek it the 8% are independent para -- we will have to see if the 8% are independent. >> start the presentation. we have three groups here. we have asked each of these groups to come up. we're protecting where a democratic campaign. it is the day after labor day. you have just gotten your call back from your democratic pollster. this was the date of privilege review this again. the middle of the country is 34% in the right direction, 55% in the wrong direction. obama is down a little bit but this district is 40 but%-50% per it be. in terms of the individual data on the candidates, we are looking at 83 or 4 term democratic incumbent. we are looking at the candidate who voted for health care, the democratic party and the to the time for his district is 54% positive, 34%-for the republican challenger is a 28-8 per speaker nancy pelosi is 34-54 and if the election was held today, it would be 36-56. the 10% margin for the democrat ris. who i

. >> sarah palin, here you come. >> apparently on one of the sites, it was based on tom payne's common sense and glen beck did a common sense something too, so they're next to each other, except mine is above his. more sales. >> that's awesome. that's good company. he's my favorite american philosopher. >> because we send a notice out to the members, so we have a hot of members, so people are -- and it's very reasonably small and it's also small. >> you can read it in a flash. it's really fun, because it sort of goes through you know, what's the science, what are the impacts, what happens to you people, what are the security issues and then how do you solve it, and there are a lot of skeptics still out there. i mean, last week -- >> co2 is good for you. >> i spoke at this economics club in chicago with 250 people, on the panel with oe and somebody gets up and says i want you to know i am a skeptic about the science and i thought i would hear a balanced view. i'm there from the nuclear industry. >> we don't even need them to care about the science. >> but there is. you still need to get

specifically sarah palin. think of myself as being born in kenya, a name that may not show a lot in alaska, and i wonder if she is talking about denying me my american citizenship. when people talk in those kinds of terms, it is almost a declaration of war. that is very provocative and i find it to be a challenge. they have a more inclusive idea of what it means. they are still committed to ideas that i find very compelling. >> the name omar wasow, is there a middle name? >> tomas, yeah. >> explain how that can about. >>they saw that this was a name that showed up over the world. it was international and it had a local appeal in kenya. my uncle was thomas wasow. wasow could be confusing. my grandfather was adopted. my father's father was adopted by a wasow, so wasow is an adopted name. to the internet -- >> what kind of social world to you live in? >> i fell in love with social media, not in the last decade or 15 years, but as a student in junior high, using bulletin board systems where you would take a modem

the supporters are sarah palin republic and.the people he has to convince are his natural constituency. palin is just looking for a chance to say he is covering it up. the politics in this are terrible. yes? >> you mention that we do not know and there have been no credible reports. there have been reports over a number of years that he has not stayed in above iran what is going back and forth. there were reports in the 2004 and photographic evidence. the had seen him there in january 2009. how do you analyze those reports? >> i want to be absolutely explicit. the last time we had a solid piece of information about where osama bin lawn was was eight years ago. -- osama bin laden was 8 years ago. he said it has been a few years. senate -- gates has been my boss in more organizations than i can remember. it has been eight years, mr. gates, since we have had any idea. has he been in iraq? i do not rule it out. al qaeda has been able to operate in iran on more than one occasion. we do not know what the government relationship was. i

or is it sarah palin and 2012? there is a process where republicans have to decide what is the way back? >> i know for myself i very much believe is in the role of bob mcdonnell. i don't think it is so clear-cut we could do one or the other. if you look at what he stood for, he was very conservative on all issues. he focused his principles of free market and limited government on the kitchen table issues plaguing virginia voters and began to represent a leader that could deliver some results. >> there is a broader problem that is a trend with a disgruntled oppositionist right -- we have the uk independence party opposed to europe. australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe

and al gore versus sarah palin on climate change. new details about the potential debate tonight on "360," jim. >> thank you, anderson. by the way, your report last night was excellent in mexico. you should stay tuned till the top of the hour, "a.c. 360." first, stephen a. smith, sportscaster nationally syndicated radio host for fox sports radio and columnist for "the philadelphia ininquiquirer" you heard dr. drew talk about the speculation of sex addiction. >> i've never given much credence to stuff like that because i think that a lot of men in this world avoid the real truth of the matter simply because they don't want to admit it because there's a lot of women out there watching. the fact of the matter is that when you see a woman and you desire her, you know, you desire her. and when you get married that doesn't necessarily stop. now, i'm not married yet, but the reality is is it's almost one of those situations where when it comes to the physical, there's quite a bit of men out of here that are constant rehab. we see something,

. >> if he quits, sarah palancin s a whole editorial page. if we quit, we leave the field to lou dobbs and jim cramer, so it would seem in the sense of posture you would want to surround and not ask questions like that, -- want us around and not ask questions like that. and i think of the point as being a point of trying to educate and not just educate people who happen to watch the show. i never thought i would be talking to more people than would be talking to me, so it seems like an incredible privilege to have the small an audience, but beyond that, i think seriously my main issue is to get the pieces and excerpts from the pieces we do into the hands of high school teachers who have to teach all of americans and who have been facing a tremendous problem, which is economic, a topic most people shrink from because of the numbers. i know it is happening. >> the scary thing about your audience and my audience -- 1.2 million is a good audience. i was doing washington week in review when they canceled the sponsorship because they said this audi

to join us for our next forum in two weeks on thursday, november 19, when activist and entrepreneur sarah chase will offer an in depth look inside afghanistan. further information is available online at westminster townhall forum.org. that's one word, westminster townhall forum.org. and now harvey cox, if you would return to the pulpit, i will present questions from our audience. professor cox, in your book you describe and name three great ages of religion. and i wonder if you might apply those -- named as an discuss those busy but apply them to other faith traditions. as well as christianity. >> i make a distinction in the future of faith between belief and faith. i think it's a very important distinction to make. believe is related to the word u.s.-india, giving assent to subscribing to. faith is related, faithfulness, loyalty. believe has to do with one's attitude toward ideas, doctrines, as something that you're not sure of, i don't know whether that's two or not, but i believe it may be. where as faith is something very central, very primal. it has to do with the direction of your l

and the takeover of the republican party by the rush limbaugh, sarah palin, sean hannity types because this at some point people are going to get tired of the democrats and the only alternative is going to be the republicans and they are going to vote for the republicans. and these are the republicans then we have a real problem. we have a serious, serious problem on our hands. they've shown their incompetence and governing and that has led to some horace, and if you add on top of it this craziness, it is something to worry about. but i do think we may have a generation -- conservative ascendancy. i'm hoping that we are kind of entering a bumpy just as the conservative sentence seat was always -- did not always mean conservatives in charge of everything. i hope we are entering a bumpy kind of incidents each and what i really hope is there will be increasing attention given to this kind of political hydraulics that i've been talking about of looking at our system doing instead of worshiping the founding fathers in the take the founding fathers, do what the foun

. >>> and al gore versus sarah palin on climate change. details on the potential debate tonight on "360," jim. >> thank you, anderson. your report last night was excellent in mexico, and you should stay tuned to the top of the hour. ac 360. steven a. smith, a sportscaster and nationally he syndicated radio host for fox sports radio and columnist for "the philadelphia inquirer." you heard drew pinskey talk about that. >> i've never given much credence to stuff like that. a lot of men in the world avoid the truth of the matter because they don't want to admit it because a lot of women are watching. when you see a woman and desire her, you desire her. when you get married, that doesn't necessarily stop. now, i'm not married yet, but the reality is it's almost one of those situations where when it comes to the physical, there's quite a bit of men out near constant rehab. we see something. we covet it. sometimes we act right about it. sometimes we act wrong about it. if tiger woods is an addict, per se, there's a whole bunch of addicts running

the largest home health care providers in florida, and also we have a letter to the editor in the "sarahsarasota -- "sarasota tribune," "contrary to the other scenarios, this could be devastating for older florida -- floridians, nearly 60% of the home health agencies could be in the red." so we're going to take the 1.9 million small businesses and we're not going to take this money out? i want to make a point also in "the new york times," a good point was made, there will be no new insurance money coming in from home health care agencies, and it is not like there will be folks coming in that will have this new public option because home health care is for seniors. there is not going to be any extra money sofment what's going to happen? we're going to have our moms, our dads, our grandparents who are benefiting from this home health care in florida and across this country, instead of having to go into a nursing home or an assisted living facility away from their homes and family, and they will not be able to go anymore. by the way, i don't believe that's going to save any money. what i th

sarah has undergone seven surgeries -- seven -- and here's what's disturbing. two of those came about as a direct result of her not being able to afford medication. so again, an incredible story but it's a true story. so many people have to go through this. and what our bill does is our bill says, look, you can stay on your parent's until you're age 26. and guess what, no preexisting conditions will apply to you from here on out. think about sarah when we're talking about this bill and the hope that she needs and so many like her that we're going to change this system to make her life better. second, tasha hudson of des moines, single mother, three kids. she had a job which provided health insurance but she took a new job that paid her more, 50% more. you'd think isn't that the american way? you lerntion you get better, you get a -- you learn, you get better, you get a better-paying job. the problem is, the private-sector job did not come with health insurance. and despite the higher form of pay, she couldn't afford coverage. ironically, that led to cuts in med

is it the new jersey race or is it sarah palin? i mean, there's a process that has to be gone through here to where republicans decide and republican voters decide what is the way back. and i don't know that that's been decided yet. >> let me respond to that. i know clearly for myself, i do very much believe it is in the mode of bob mcdonald. and i don't think it's necessarily so clear-cut that we could be one of the other. because if you look at bob mcdonald and what he stood for and his record in our general assembly, he was extraordinarily conservative in all issues. it wasn't that he shied away from any of the conservative principles he briefed in, but he focused those principles of free markets, of limited government, lower taxes, faith in god he focused those on the kitchen table issues that were plaguing voters and began to represent a leader that could actually deliver some results and get people back to work. >> that brought up a problem which, again, i think is a trends not just in this country, that there is now a kind o

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shane bauer, josh fattal and sarah shourd were seized last july. later, they were accused of spying. today, iran's foreign minister announced plans for a trial. he did not say when, and he did not specify the charges. >> interrogation of the three american citizens who had illegally entered iran with suspicious names is ongoing and they will be tried by iran's judicialary system and judiciary verdicts regarding their case will be issued. >> sreenivasan: relatives of the americans and the u.s. government have insisted they were innocent hikers who strayed across the border. in washington, secretary of state hillary clinton demanded their immediate release. >> we consider this a totally unfounded charge. there is no basis for it. the three young people who were detained by the iranians have absolutely no connection with any kind of action against the iranian state or government. >> sreenivasan: iran's announcement today came as the standoff over its nuclear program intensifies. the u.s. and other countries are talking of imposing new sanctions. talib