first there was sarah palin warning us about obama death panels. senator grassley talking about pulling the plug on grandma. well, now it's palin again. joined by the conservative media in pushing the false claim that government-run health care is evidenced by the veterans administration will mean death book that is push seniors to choose euthanasia. here is the truth. the document is actually called your life, your choices. it is a 52-page optional guidebook for veterans. it is about living wills and end of life care. it's been in use since 1997 with the bush administration being the one that had its v.a. issue a directive in 2007 to list the book as an example of the type of document doctors should give their patients if requested. the directory was updated in july by the obama administration and it has the same advance care planning required of all health care organizations under federal law. and it was developed with guide frens interfaith minu-- guidanc interfaith ministers. >> so how about in honor of the american soldier, you quit making thin

so this is the usual back and forth between sarah palin and sarah palin.: how so did she favor a death panel. >> i could read this to you. when she was governor of alaska, she came out for the idea of talking to people about living wills, of the government having having -- paying people back for their living wills. she came out and said that was a good idea and talking to people about end of life care in advance was a good idea. some health care day or something in alaska. laura: was that for doctors being given incentives? i'm not sure she favored doctors being incentivised to give those kind of consultations and discussions. amanda, what's clear here is that sarah palin, like her or not, seems to be able to really get under the wisdom tooth like a raspberry seed of the left in this health care debate all the way from alaska, even though she is no longer governor. >> yeah. all she did was issue a facebook statement on august 7th. a friday night at that and then less than a week later, that provision that she is talking about is out of the bill. i know of

>> some had not heard directly about what sarah palin had said. there are particularly seniors that said to me, listen, here is how we look at it. in fact, this was in a column today that a leading columnist wrote. if you have a bill that says, listen, we will pay doctors to give end-of-life counseling every five years, except if they get sick, and then you can do it more often than that. you can understand how seniors might think, really? there is that fear out there. now, it's stoked by things like this. it is not true there is some panel that's going to go, let her die, let him die. that's not true. it's about paying doctors for end of life. doctors have office visits with medicare patients. why can't they tell them in those office visits. those are reimbursed. why is there a separate thing for this end of life care counseling. >> do you understand the concern out there. a lot of folks say, you know what, doctors should be talking to their patients, especially if they get older, about living wills or hospice care. these are end-of-life consider

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only $99.99 greta: senator john mccain is making headlines, saying exactly what he thinks about sarah palin and whether she helped or hurt during the 2008 campaign. senator mccain just sat down with steve moore, a senior economics writer for the editorial page of "the wall street journal." starting with governor palin, what about it? >> first of all, he loves her. he thinks she was a total asset to the ticket, and taking on the people who think she was a mistake. he said the highlight of the campaign was right after she was chosen and at the convention when she gave that incredible convention speech, so he thinks she is a rock star in a real plus for the ticket. greta: why does he think that she left the governor's? >> he said that the one mistake he made with sarah palin is that nobody was prepared for the media's savage treatment of her, and he thinks it has continued to nonstop now for 6 to 9 months, and she and her family -- you know, you have talked about it many times. a family has been under attack, and she is so wounded by that that she did not want to be governor anymore. greta: wh

sarah palin quits her governor's job. has the press quick takie shots at her and katie couric takes a shot at the new york guys... the blue goes on the left. (announcer) getting ready for the big game? ohhhh... bring it. bounty extra soft-- the bounty with a little extra softness! it's super absorbent. and it works extra hard for your money. in this lab demo, one sheet of bounty extra soft out-scrubs two sheets of the bargain brand. game on. bounty extra soft. look for new prints. >> you have such important jobs, reporting facts and power to exert influence. you represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy, so, how about in honor of the american soldier you quit making things up? one other thing for the media, our new governor has a very nice family, too, so leave his kids aloneme alone. >> former alaskan governor sarah palin taking shots at the media as she steps down as the governor last sunday. start with you, you're a proud alaskan, i know. w

sarah palin pretending to be dumb.whoopi goldberg goes on to say maybe the mccain campaign put her up to that. you have made two women very happy by playing that clip. first of all, whoopi goldberg. she wants to say crazy stuff so people watch her tv show. she also wants to be relevant in the political realm. also sarah palin, she doesn't want whoopi goldberg endorsing her because this plays into her story line, the media elite, the hollywood types are out to get her. bill: the perception that the governor is dumb comes almost exclusively from the left, does it not? >> i did some research today with our brain room. this is the first time this has come up. nobody else has claimed -- bill: nobody has ever said that she faked it. >> i liked them both. i do think whoopi goldberg is actually giving sarah palin a backhanded compliment saying she really is smart because she got elected governor. it was kind of insulting to the viewers. even blog comments were saying hey, everyone else here is dumb. every other person? bill: i

but do you think sarah palin has any chance of getting elected president of the united states?. she could get the nomination, but she'll get 40, 39% of the vote. >> i would agree with you in terms of forecasting. i'm more worried about what somebody who has a certain cache to them, whether it's positive or negative, can do to people who don't understand and who are scared. >> here's the danger. the danger is that they further divide the country, that they convince this 39% or whatever it is that they really are being screwed and that the government's coming after them in every possible way. and that does lead to problems. i mean, there's no question that that leads to problems. at the end of the day, this is a short-term political tactic to try to embarrass obama by beating his health care bill. i don't think it's going to work and i think it's going to cost the republicans a great deal by 2012. >> all right, governor. thank you, and if you could send me an e-mail on that salary point that i could forward to my bosses, i'll appreciate it and i'll give you a cut. howard dean, th

the president is about 50% and sarah palin's at 39%.nt. in a head to head match-up. more importantly, i think people are looking for leadership that is reasoned, that is expert. and i think sarah palin fundamentally is not a policy expert. that's something that came out over the course of the 2008 campaign. so things become very clear, she's tried to establish herself as somebody who is a bit of an expert on energy up in alaska, but as we know, i think she'd be hard pressed to name a greenhouse gas. so finding some place where she can stake out territories to even think about challenging a president in 2012. >> phillip, that same poll asked if palin's resigning early would help or hurt her political aspirations. and 61% said it was a bad move, 15% said it would help her. what do you think about the resignation? >> i think it was a bad move if she has political aspirations. if she wanted to be out of politics, then it makes sense from a personal perspective. the reason why is she has a very core group of passionate supporters. however, i

sarah palin quits her governor's job. has the press quick takie shots at her and katie couric takes a shot at the new york times? was it a taste of pay back? details next on news watch. hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? i'm trying to shrink them. i lost weight and now some clothes are too big. how did you do it? simple stuff. eating right and i switched to whole grain. whole grain... studies show that people who eat more whole grain tend to have a healthier body weight. multigrain cheerios has five whole grains... and 110 calories per lightly sweetened serving. more grains. less you. multigrain cheerios. >> you have such important jobs, reporting facts and power to exert influence. you represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy, so, how about in honor of the american soldier you quit making things up? one other thing for the media, our new governor has a very nice family, too, so leave his kids aloneme alone. >> former alas

like it. >>> if you listen to whoopi goldberg over the past year, you might not expect her to call sarah palin well, that's exactly what she said when we talked earlier today. of course, there was a catch. here's whoopi on palin. >> let me ask you about the other probably most talked about politician of last year. sarah palin. what is it about her that gets people so riled up? >> i think what -- it depends on who you're talking to. some people, i think, are riled up because they feel that maybe people -- it's condescending, you know, if you're going to grab a woman to put out there, is this the right woman for your party? is this the woman you want representing you? is this how you want to be represented? especially if you're saying this is an all inclusive party. this party's supposed to include everybody. so is there a better person to get out there with a little more to her? some don't like -- she's really cute, she's really cute. >> how much do you think looks played into it? >> oh -- >> the strong reaction people had to her. >> oh, my god, all you have to do is listen to some of the -- >>

so sarah palin quotes your column. the quote she used citizens are not dilution alto conclude the goal is to conclude end of life spending. if you read the sentence that she left out. >> yes. the sentence in the same column, immediately following, is, quote, it is irresponsible for politicians such as sarah palin to claim outlandishly and falsely that there's going to be some kind of death panel to decide when to pull the plug on aunt sylvia. yes, sarah palin somehow is -- bolstering her argument on death panels by quoting a column of mine that calls her out by name specifically as outlandish, false, and irresponsible for making up this whole death panel canard. >> intellectual dishonesty. moving on, the point of what she wrote seemed to be that the president made a strategic mistake by linking reform of health care to cost cutting and that that linkage, however tenuous it was and theoretical, opened the door for grassley and palin and others to obfuscate and obfuscate successfully today. >> yes. i questioned that stra

i'm a sarah palin. if senator grassley was key in keeping that out of the bill, that would have happened well before palin's death panel nonsense back before both houses -- i've lost you haven't i, sarah? meantime senator grassley who has a penchant for bitter tweeting has found new source material. a tweet from senator specter. called senator grassley to tell him to stop spreading myths about health care reform and imaginary death panels. had to leave a message for now. i will talk to him soon. so senator grassley twitted or tweeted back specter got it all wrong thai ever used words death boards. even liberal press never accused me of that so change your last tweet, arlen. sure, senator grassley but you did say this. >> there is some fear because in the house bill there is counseling for end of life. i don't have any problems with things like living wills but they ought to be done within the family. we should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma. >> so g

sarah palin. she's playing around with her facebook account on friday and put this garbage up on her site. the america i know and love is not the one which my parents or my baby with down syndrome will have to stand in front of the obama's death panel, so the bureaucrats can decide based on the subjective judgment of their level of productivity in society whether they are worthy of health care. such a system is downright evil. sarah, what's, she is referring to here, folks, is the senate health committee bill. you might want to read this. if you're not going to read the whole bill, folks, you might want to read pages 425-430. that deal with end of life issues, a living will and power of attorney. now bill calls for the doctor to simply be reimbursed for his consultation with the family. that's it. now, somehow, the right wing has twisted this, and they've turned it into a death panel, a death squad? and the obama people want to deny you coverage? this is nuts. now, senator harkin told me today, th

but sarah palin could have been no kate where obama and clan tin during the campaign and clinton found her persona but palin's did not seem to grow. she did not seem to gain from the experience. >> the payment interview with katie couric was devastating and at that point* she was doing so well and had turned on the republican base and eight appealing figure but frankly they were devastating and that came at the same time when the economy when it down. i think at that point* it was over. >> i have one quick observation. when sarah palin went to arizona to talk to john mccain, she had nobody around her who had her best interest in mind. she is a very ambitious person as we have recognized. and a person with natural political talents. the question is was that the right thing for her to do to take the offer? has she had wiser people around here they may have said you should think carter. this may not be the right moment to jump into something for which you are not prepared. i think what we have seen since the election is she has continued not to get particularly good advice from the people

such a system is downright made up by sarah palin, that was friday.alling for civility. she released a statement saying we must stick to the issues and not get sidetracked. such tactics diminish our nation's civil discourse. in other words, who, me? diminishing our nation's civil discourse? me? intimidation and harassment? me? steve bennett noted in washington monthly today. i don't think it occurs to governor palin that activists might be less inclined to intimidate and harass if their leaders stop telling them that their president wants to kill children and their grandparents. maybe that kind of over the top allegation might lead to some fear and anger and intemperate behavior. the age-old problem they face is people who aren't part of the extremist fringe might notice what they're doing. so if you're rick perry, governor of texas, for example. it might feel like a smart political move to tell a an anti-government crowd that texas ought to secede from the union, but when that tape gets played to the rest of the country, when the rest of the country

call the center or find it on the web at www.dvbic.org. >>> bill maher says sarah palin is missing something deep in her dna. he's dead serious about palin's exit as alaskan's governor and his fear that she still has a political future. >>> governor jindal's state is getting more than $3 billion in stimulus money. but the republican isn't willing to give president obama any credit. standby for my interview with governor jindal. >>> among republican critics of president obama, one who gets a lot of attention is louisiana governor bobby jindal. some say he could challenge the president in 2012 in the presidential race. so what does the governor think about the president on health care and the economy? i posed that and other questions to the louisiana governor. # are you ready to give the president of the united states some credit for helping to turn this economy around? >> look, i love what he says. i do have a lot of skepticism about in d.c. the fact they sympathy that we can spend our way into prosperity, borrow our way to prosperity. now they want to tax prosperity. he talks about health ca

sarah palin urges restraint by people like sarah palin. my parents or my baby with down syndrome will have to stand in front of obama's death panel. that was friday. this is today. we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be used to leading to intimidation or harassment. yeah, that sled dog train has already pulled out of the station, missy. >>> and though on the crazy death panel claim, palin is bailing, glenn beck says, i think it's true. and newt gingrich goes right after the end of the peer with him. >> you're asking us to trust turning power over to the government when there clearly are people in america who believe in establishing euthanasia, including selective standards. >> lawrence o'donnell on a paranoia too far. and the decreasing benefits of pursuing bipartisanship with people who are going to try to kill what you want to share with them. >>> drop in the bucket, the attorney general's torture prosecution as limited as it can get. not the torturers, not their bosses, not the politic

sherry johnston who is the mother of the father of sarah palin's grandson pleaded guilty today to possessionh intent to deliver the pain killer oxycontin. she faces prison time. what is the palin response to this? a, i'm sory this has happened to mrs. johnston but really doesn't have anything to do with me or, b, you're attacking my family again? >> right. sadly a lot of people in the country pled guilty to similar charges today that aren't related to sarah palin and, you know, people have people in their families that do bad things all the time, get caught, and they need family support. i can pretty much guarantee you what we've seen so far. sarah palin's not even going to call her family. >> alaska radio host, contributor of the huffington post shannyn moore down here in the lower 48. thanks. good to see you. that's "countdown" for this the 2,302nd day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. with this late note out of "the wall street journal" it is reporting the white house and senate democratic leaders are going to consider a strategy shift that would break th

sarah palin is now calling for stability in the health care discourse. but how civil is it when she's comparing health care reform to a panel of death? rush limbaugh compared it to naziism. is sarah jumping on rush's bandwagon? more lawmakers jumping on the bandwagon. the president asked for the money for four jets. congress double down, decided to allow enough money for eight. recession? deficit anyone? and here's a shocking plane story, a continental flight packed with passenger forced to divert because of rotten weather as if that's not enough of a headache, the people were trapped on the plane overnight at the airport. not allowed off. we're going to talk to one of those passengers. good morning, everyone. i'm contessa brewer. the big story we're watching, divers are in the hudson river trying to recover the bodies of two victims still mising from saturday as mid air collision. nine people in all were killed when a private plane and a sight seeing helicopter collided over the hudson. the bodies of seven people have been pulled from the river. earlier

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were held today a lot of people would be confused and republicans ought not to nominate palin, sarah palinup, 56% of voters say they'd vote for the commander in chief, 33% for the ex-governor, the president beating palin in almost all voting blocks. independents, whites, blacks, the only group she would score a win with registered republicans 73% of whom say they would vote for her over obama. the only region where palin would keep obama under 50% would be the south, but obama would still beat her there. while palin may be down she shouldn't be counted out. instead of soliciting advice for a comeback from newt gingrich perhaps she should take a page from the britney spears playbook. although it would require an appearance with david letterman. after shedding 200 plus pounds, k-fed, a newly fit ms. spears appeared and laying out a comprehensive plan for not only foreign policy but entitlement programs as well that involve pie. >> the top ten ways the country would be different if britney spears were president. are you ready? here we go, number ten -- >> i'd be the first president to wear ey

i'm not going to get into sarah palin. you can ask questions about that. [laughter] that's another story that kept on coming. [laughter] maybe we can wrap it up and take questions. do you want to take a couple more things? >> [inaudible] why don't we go to questions. there are so many people here -- >> that is what i was thinking. you are all standing and so forth. i want to say one thing. we tried to draw at the end of the book with the lessons we fought the election polis, ma just as reporters or journalists or writers but as americans and there were many and they will be lasting. but i would obvious -- the obvious thing is race. what this election said, and i want to read you just one thing. why the election was more than an endurance test for the candidates. it was a test for their american people and their institutions. first lesson, most obviously, was race. since 1619 when a dutch privateer peter henry can slow the of the james river deposited first african-american slaves on the continent, race relations have affected the character of the united st

i regret it is also time for some full disclosure about sarah palin on this issue.in order to do that, "the rachel maddow show" is not quite proud to present governor sarah palin's declaration of april 16, 2008, as health care decisions day in alaska. as read by rod blagojevich because that's who we reached us. >> >> as read by our rod blagojevich impersonator. how do we get from advanced directives, living wills, getting their own celebratory day proclaimed in alaska by sarah palin, how do we get from there to sarah palin condemning living wills as death panels? if you or someone you know is getting on in year, here's someone like rush limbaugh or newt gingrich, or sarah palin, telling you or them that health care reform includes a plot to kill the elderly in this country, don't be afraid. b, know their record. know this. even they don't believe this bull pucky they are selling you. even they don't believe it. >> hey, it is me. water. did you know when you filter me at home i'm pretty much the same as i am in plastic bottle. go. my mother made the best toffee in th

sarah palin endorsing a comedian who calls the president a racist. a new category still small.n slippers. our third story in the countdown, the phrase was coined when prejudice against black people was still the law of the land, in 1909, in 1910, when whites here and other countries sought somebody, anybody, to take back the heavyweight boxing title from the african-american jack johnson. the phrase was the great white hope. a 1969 play and movie base and johnson's life was even titled that. there is no ambiguity about what this meant. the man, the bigots of 1910, finally found retired champ james j. jefferies said i'm going into this fight for the sole purpose of proving a white man is get better than a negro. funny a congresswoman should sundayly use the phrase seven months into the first term of an african-american president and then play dumb afterwards. freudian slip? >> -- to find the great white hope, and i suggest to any of you that are concerned about that, there are great young republican minds in washington. and of course the ones i'm most familiar with are on the ho

the state in question -- sarah palin's state of alaska. third story, never mind palin's fictitious death panels, the governor of alaska presided over some virtual death panels of her own. a federal court in june found health panels designed to keep people out of institutions were plagued with problems. the anchorage daily news reporting, in one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs. the centers were medicare and medicaid services. banned the states from admitting more patients into their programs until improvements were made. the suspension on admittance to one program has been lifted but the ban remains on another alaska medicaid program which provides another wide range of services for people with severe needs. it might be assumed such a program in any state would have these type of issues. but, no, it's just alaska. it was the only state in the union to be put under a federal moratorium. one time another republican lashed out against the palin death panel talk. the

i would vote for michael vick for president before i would vote for sarah palin. that's what i think she adds to the dialogue. >> he is on the road to rehabilitation, i'm not sure she could ever be politically ranted. panel, thanks for joining us. >> she needs to stop lying. >> that's right. that's "the ed show" for friday night. i'm ed schultz. for more information on "the ed show" go to ed.msnbc.com or check out wegoted.com. town hall meeting coming up. university of colorado, sunday night, august 30th. we'll be back here on monday night, 6:00 eastern. "hardball" starts right now on msnbc. >>> going west to save health care reform. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm lawrence o'donnell in new york in for chris matthews. >>> leading off tonight, on the road again. with polls showing support for health care reform slipping, president obama hit the road again. this time in belgrade, montana. the crowd was much friendlier than those rowdy town halls we've seen from members of congress, but the president finally did get a couple of questions that were not co

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new family drama for sarah palin. is it true? we will find out. >>> the blogosphere is heating up with new rumors about sarah palin. >> philip stewart joins us with what you will be talking about at the water cooler with an interesting our rate of stories. >> a spokesperson for sarah palin said she has no plans to divorce her husband. there were rumors of a divorced after a saturday morning post on a website. internet bloggers went wild when the term "sarah palin divorce" shot to the number one spot. onceok ge pa her facebook page, she says there is no truth about the report. you may have seen this picture of madonna'' arms. she is slamming the pictures in assisting the photographs appeared to be digitally edited. here are some other photos from a dip m -- froa different angle. they show a healthier view. her personal trainer f has al slammed the photos insisting she is perfectly healthy. here is my favorite. if you forgot your bathing suit, standard hotels will call brand swimsuits that will be sold in poolside vending machines

autographed by sarah palin. yeah.on says one of a kind item before her expected run for president of the united states in america in 2012. you don't get the game cds or the controller. just the signed x box. there it is. giant autograph. starting bid, $1,100,000. does that come with or without the desk snanl. >> very good point. i'll check. thanks, kent v a great weekend. >> thank you at home for watching. we'll see you back here on monday. >>> i believe if i had ten talented models we could turn fashion on its head. >> it sure seemed like a great opportunity. >> my land, my passion. >> win a reality show. be a star. but this contest had a hitch. >> let's go play games. >> and they say the host had issues. >> he was trying to sleep with people. >> i wanted to pack my bags and leave. >> was anything real about this reality show? >> everything started to unrolf. >> dateline launched an investigation. >> and now the host is speaking out. >> everybody else is lying and you're telling the truth? reality undercover. >>> who

and why did john mccain go with sarah palin. the authors of the book q the battle for america" join us later. >>> also sonia sotomayor was confirmed late today by a vote of 68-31. nine republicans voted for her, and every democrat present. could that cause trouble for the republicans with latino votes next november? >>> and what american political celebrity was offered 40 cows and 20 goats for some guy to marry their daughter? and who said it was up to the daughter to decide? that's in tonight's "hardball sideshow." >>> we begin with the president's slipping approval ratings. now down to 50% in a new poll. patrick buchanan is an msnbc political analyst and bob shrum is a democratic analyst. let's take a look. here the quinn fee yak poll numbers to look at. approve the president's performance, 50%. disapprove, 42%. that compares to only a month ago and just a month ago to 57% positive, 33% negative. now let's look at the course. the poll asks people who is the president handling the health care issue. there you have it, 39%. very

i'm not saying sarah palin did that. i'm just saying there's a subliminal level of communication that goes on. the southern strategy has always been, since they stopped using the "n" word and being explicit what they're trying to do with race and creating this us versus them dynamic it, became increasingly vague through the years. you started talking about state's rights at a certain point, then you starred talking about these wedge issues like gay marriage and on and on. but ultimately, it's always about an us and them dynamic. >> right. >> and sarah palin's very good at that and when she plays her populist role, there's no one better at it. >> among henry louis gates, the birther movement, the sotomayor questioning, so tribalistic, no doubt about it all that stuff has become very tribalistic, we thought we had begun to crack in this country. is sarah the dog whistle that says, yeah, that's what it's about? >> i think sarah palin's overall message is of one of us versus them. i think that she took the lead on the campai

good evening, my fellow americans, i'm john mccain. >> and you know, i'm just sarah palin. [ laughter] >> the final days of any election are the most essential. this past wednesday, barack obama purchased airtime on three major networks. we, however, can only afford qvc. [ laughter ] >> these campaigns sure are expensive. >> they sure are. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] they sure are. so tonight we come before you to give you some final remarks on our campaign. >> and as part of our agreement with the qvc folks, we're going try and sell you some stuff. [ laughter ] >> this has been an historic campaign. so why not remember it with our line of collectible products? such as -- ten commemorative plates that celebrate the ten town hall debates between senator obama and myself. they are blank. [ laughter ] he wouldn't agree to those debates. too bad. they're still nice plates. [ laughter ] >> and who wouldn't want the complete set of limited edition joe action figures? there's joe the plumber, joe six pack and my personal favorite, joe biden. [ laughter ] if you pull this cord, he ta

and sarah palin pulls back. she may have done it because her negligence has governor contributed to a real-life defectio panel in alaska. and onwards they beat, sometimes hazardously. investors business weekly editorial of the nightmare of britain's national health. people such as scientists stephen hawking wouldn't have a chance in the uk, where the national health service would save the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. um, do you realize dr. hawkings is from the uk and national health has helped keep him flouflour flourishing these last 45 years? and worsts, dick morris on how to influence congressmen. >> if they are not terrorized in august by the public outpouring and they don't have thousands and thousands of handwritten letters on their doorstep awaiting for them when they return from the august recess, they'll fold. >> he actually said it. actually said democrats should be terrorized. and he didn't get fired by fox. all that and more now on "countdow

>> no, he's not joking. >> you want to date sarah palin?he were single. >> i hope she's listening. >> this is terrible. >> no, i got in touch -- >> is your screen name griffen? >> we are sorry. >> it's good. >> politico, serving america for almost -- this is one of the dark days for you. i'm very sorry. >> i didn't start this fire. >> jim vandehei, we'll see you tomorrow if you'll come back. >> i thought you were inappropriate when mika was here. michael crowley explains the meaning behind cheneyism and who is running in foreign policy. we'll look at the must-read opinion pages. yes, mika has faxed them in from the south of france. make sure you listen to our radio show. this is my verizon small business specialist, now, i know the catering business but when i walked in here i wasn't sure what i needed. i'm not sure what i need. tom showed me how to use mifi to get my whole team working online, on location. i was like, "woah". woah ! only verizon wireless has small business specialists in every store to help you do business better. you're l