here in los angeles tanya acker. back in washington our man david gergen, cnn's senior political analyst and adviser to presidents nixon, ford, reagan and clinton. scott brown took a popular stance during his campaign, very much an it's against us big, bad washington theme. he sounded that theme in his victory speech. >> i will remember while the honor is mine, this senate seat belongs to no one person and political party. as i said before and you've heard it today and you'll hear it loud and clear, this is the people's seat! >> larry: andy card, do you think the republicans might not take credit for it if it's the people's seat? >> the republicans will take credit for it it, but scott brown skefshs the bulk was credit. he ran a very disciplined campaign and was not phony. he was the real thing. this is the people's seat. it belongs to the people of massachusetts and scott brown says that he'll take good care of it and make sure they're part of the process rather than being dictated to or preached at. >> larry: does

>> i want to go back to what ron paul and tanya said. to say we need to take time to get a better understanding and this is a civil war. that is completely the rhetoric we can't hear right now, and i'll tell you why, larry. a man almost blew up 300 people on a airplane. they seem to know we're at war with us by declaring jihad. we don't acknowledge in our administration now and we have an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the bush administration that he made. look, obama bungled the initial response. we know that. especially, you'd think he would have learned from george bush's visual on the golf course, but he didn't. the biggest mistake was trying this guy as not an enemy combat ant. that was a missed opportunity and now we're in negotiations with him, and he has an opportunity to not send these 40 yemeni men back to yemen. that would the best thing he could do to immediately stop the threat. we can't perpetually be on duty. we have to strike them before they can craft these attacks. >> larry: before i get a break, peter, what

if we don't, i think they can hang on. >> tanya?alth care will pass, but i'm just not sure that we're going to know a lot about it next year because a lot of the big reforms aren't going to -- they won't take affect until 2014 though we are going to see bits and pieces that might give us a flavor of whether or not it's a big thing. i do agree with ben, i that cap and trade and the environment and what we do and how we manage this bill and how that moves forward is going to be huge. frankly the democrats have learned something in the course of the health care debate, which is that their efforts bipartisanship yield them very little. they have to go out to the american people and make a case to the american public about what we need to change, how we need to change it what new technologies we need to develop, how we need to really get out in front of the issue. and so i think that this story hopefully will be about the democrats spending less time trying to make friends across the aisle with people who have no interested in that frien

is tanya acker. in d.c.s peter, senior political writer for the daily beast, professor city university of new york and author of the good fight. and in new york is andrea, conservative columnist and republican strategist. congressman paul, how has the president dealt with this terror thing, do you think? >> i think in about the way i would expect, nothing too special and nothing bad and nothing real good, because i don't think we're getting to the bottom of it because everybody is talking about war on terrorism, and a lot of us have come to the conclusion that terrorism is a tactic and you can't declare war on a tactic. what are we doing? too often what i hear obama saying is that we have to expand the war. we're in a lot of countries over there, and we're using these drones to drop them on people. to me, that's an act of war. we've done that in yemen, and we've done it in pakistan and done it this week. i think that's the real issue. how far do we expand this when the declaration of war against terrorism an

tanya acker is with us. lanny, let's begin with you because we're taking about comparisons, if there are any at a all, to senator reid and trent lott. a lot of folks don't know that you have a part in that story in the trent lott scandal. tell us about that. >> first of all, i agree with james in a difference in degree and words used between senator trent lott and senator reid. there shouldn't be a difference in forgiveness. when nor lo senator lott and jack kemp asked me to take his call, he was in the middle of the worst of his kreis and he asked me would i call jesse jackson so that he could seek jesse jackson advice, but privately but not to exploit the phone call. he knew that i go back with reverend jackson for a long time. i did talk to reverend jackson, and he talked with me being on the phone and listening. the kind of contrition that he showed, the awareness of his background, his incense activity, his abltd to make the remark that he made and not realizing how awful it was. he admitted to reverend

penn gillette and tanya acker, political analyst and huffing ton post contributor and stephanie miller. okay, obama is going to propose a partial freeze. he's announced that already. he'll discuss it at length tomorrow night. what do you make of it ben? >> i've seen it many, many times before. it amounts to a small fraction of the federal budget. that cat is out of the bag. the deficit will grow and grow unless they raise taxes by repealing the bush tax cuts. i think he has to repeal those, and frankly i don't see any way out of this except inflating away the deficit. >> larry: penn, what do you make of it? >> i'm looking forward to hearing a speech by someone involved in innovation and knows america's place in the world market and has fiscal responsibility and i hope that obama is listening very carefully when steve jobs speaks tomorrow. i don't know. i mean it seems we're in big trouble, and the good news is it seems american people are realizing that when you're in debt horribly that maybe it's best to stop spending a little bit. >> larry: president obama, tanya, dismissed john mcca

tanya, what do you make of it? >> i think the president is certainly bend to go a political rally, which is that people are now as concerned about this as they are anything else on the domestic agenda. during the campaign, certainly, people were really, really worried about health care. they were worried,frankly, about a lot of things in the now endangered health care bill. but right now they're worried about dollars. they're worried about unemployment, they're worried about a deficit and the long-term consequences of the economy. i think it's important the president be responsive to that. >> larry: everyone is hitting on the president who retains his popularity base, by the way. the clinton administration said a freeze right now makes absolutely no sense. how do you respond to that? >> well, i got called a chirpy apologist on my show today, larry. we, republicans and democrats, did not get us into this deficit. the bush administration got us into this deficit, but i agree with ben, significant reduction is going t

. >> tanya, how do you think it will end?uy said he's sorry, and the president accepted the poapolog let's move on? >> i think it won't result in another beer summit. we've had enough of those. i'm having an issue with this notion of a double-standard. to some extent we see a double-standard in some cases. harry reid and trent lott are not examples of a double standard. there is a big difference from saying the country was better off in an segregationist was president than this tasteful inartful thing that senator reid said. it was bad. it was a variation of a thing that many african-americans have heard, myself included. foelgs say you sound white and you're articulation that some people say. is there a double standard sometimes? yes. is the way senator lott treated, is his treatment an example of that double standard? absolutely not. >> can he survive this? he's in a tight senate race. what do you think? >> he can survive the comment. he probably wouldn't survive the senate bid. you would be hard-pressed to find a majority

my name is tanya and an instructional school coach for diplomas and we are a nationwide organization that created school to help our kids were overage, under kennedy, aspiring to college careers and community service. if our kids could have the opportunity to hear you speak to them words of your wisdom, considering that you've been this child of trial, what advice would you give them to be resilient in this time? >> what was that? >> child of resilience into a man of triumphant. the >> that's a wonderful question. i was just a couple things. one i would say hold on. just hold on. because one of the things i'm clear about. you know how sometimes you know what you know, but sometimes you don't know what you don't know. my mother's philosophy. someone asked my mother, how are you able as a single parent, divorcee to send three kids to college? and my mom said it was simple. i said you will go to college or i will beat you to death. [laughter] so my mommy kept things pretty simple. my mother's basic philosophy for raising her children was that if you work hard and pray hard and treat peo

my name is tanya edwards, from fort lauderdale, that, and i'm also class of 2010.ause] for the past eight years, i have been the voter education coordinator as well as the special projects coordinator elections.d county office ofú@5j and i want to say thank you, publicly, locally and internationally for the help and support that the naacp broward county youth council has given to the elections office. the naacp youth council in broward county was responsible for assisting the elections office, as well as the broward county schools, for having the first early voting field trips in the country for high school students, and i want to thank you for that publicly. [applause] also, i'd like to say broward county was the only county that had the most registered high school kids in the state of florida. so i thank you for that as well. >> thank you. you know, there's great work being done in florida, and it's being led by a woman named adora. and you guys are doing great work. one of the great things that should happen in florida is they greatly reformed their tolerance po