as expected, his deputy, thomas donilon was named to the position. george? >> okay, jake, thank you. >>> in other political news, another twist in the tight race for california governor. for days, republican meg whitman has been on the hot seat. now it's jerry brown's turn, thanks to an aide using a word that shouldn't have been used. david wright has the story. >> hey, scott. give me a call. jerry brown. love to talk to you. >> reporter: the latest bomb shell in the california governor's race came from a voice mail message that kept recording after democrat jerry brown taught he hung up. he was seeking a union endorsement but got word the union was about to back his opponent. >> do we want to put an ad out. >> reporter: at that point, a second voice with a harsh word about republican meg whitman. >> she's a whore. >> these are offensive comments that have no place in any conversation. worst of all, in the middle of a campaign. >> reporter: the brown campaign has apologized for the salty language. >> this is a question of talking out both sides of your mouth

national security advisor james jones to be replaced by deputy national security advisor thomas donilon on the story, visit foxnews.com. bret baier has a preview of "special report"? >> bret: who is tom donilon? what is the move behind changing advisors? plus we break down key races. join me at the top of the hour now. back to glenn beck in new york. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> glenn: i want to, you know, on 8-28, i said pick up your stick. a viewer or a listener of mine made this. we have, unfortunately we get so much mail, we had three different mail locations that it comes in to. and when it was delivered to me, it didn't -- it was just a stick. so i don't even know who made this. the you made this, will you please contact us. our lives we pledge, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. it is three snakes, like moses, and his staff. i have said to you before, pick up your stick. be a leader. you don't want to, and you may not even know what is in store for you or where we go, but pick up your stick. i'm going to talk to the audience here in a second about their sticks and see if anybod

he'll be replaced by his depend by thomas donilon. >>> looking ahead to to 12 right now, sarah palinude a presidential run? we've got your political update, next. >>> our senior political editor mark preston with an update. what's crossing? >> is she going to run? is she not going to run? we all want to know what sarah palin is thinking about. apparently today she told the conservative magazine "news max" she might be considering it. in fact she said i'll run for president if the american people want me to. interestingly enough cbs news came out with a poll just the other day, they say that only 22% of americans believe she would be an effective president. that's not to say she's going to be swayed by that, don, as we all know, she's the darling of social conservatives. we know that joe biden speaks freely, speaks his mind. last night he was trying to rile up that crowd it wasn't working, so he decided to stick it to them, so to speak. he said, you're the dullest audience i have ever spoken to. do you realize how many jobs wisconsin has lost? it's staggering. that was enough to get t