sarah palin is a prime example. any person who is going to look like a player as far as the republicans are concerned, they strike them out from the get go. host: here is the article by jonathan martin. insults among high public profile republicans tearing open fresh was about leaks surrounding sarah palin and brief during -- rival factions close to the mccain campaign have been feuding since last fall over sarah palin usually waging the battle in the shadows. host: we will tell you what steve schmidt said in just a moment. caller: it is sad to see a gray station like cnn -- great station like cnn getting so hung up on sarah palin she is one of the most intelligent people will run for office. she was not born in kenya like the one you all elected. you went to her background and her garbage and everything else. you never ask a question about this so-called friends that we have, where his half brother lives. host: back to politico. here's what steve schmidt said. he fired back in an e-mail -- host: michigan, you are o

>> in 1964, sarah was the third child born to chuck and sarah heath. joining sisters molly jane and heather. they would welcome another sibling, this time a baby brother chuck, jr. chuck senior was a track coach and science teacher. mother sarah, known as sally was a school secretary. sarah's father moved the family to alaska when she was three months old. >> they came up in 1964 to teach school in a very small town. he came up for the hunting and fishing and good outdoors life. the clean activity and environment offered here. >> chuck is energetic and wiry and just full of energy. in fact, in the summer time he would take the television out of the house and say go outside and play. >> kayleen johnson is the aah tore -- author of sarah. >> they would work for the neighbors and do chores like stack wood and work weeding gardens and that kind of thing. >> the entire family took to the great outdoors and reveled in the outdoor spirit. it is twice the size of texas and home to 2 29 volcanoes and more than half of the world's glaciers. father chuck took pri

what will sarah palin say? is she saying good-bye or setting stage for a bigger political future. >>> a whirlwind weekend of picnics, good-bye speeches, you would almost think she's on the campaign trail again. she's been shaking hands, kizing babies and of course criticizing the media and her critics. her model throughout all of this -- you ain't seen nothing yet. her farewell, her future. sarah palin live within the hour right here on cnn. i'm don lemon live at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. politics taking the lead in the news this sunday. our senior political correspondent candy crowley is in washington tracking the palin resignation and all the day's big political stories. chris welsh is in fairbanks, alaska covering sarah palin's speech. there kate bolduan at the white house in washington, d.c. with administration reaction to the events in alaska and the latest on the battle over health care. >>> first there is some political fallout today from outside the box comments from vice president joe biden, o

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our number one story, sarah palin's curtain call. yesterday the end of act one for the ex-governor of alaska. after a year's worth of fancy convention clothes and musings on dead fish ms. palin now heading toward that higher calling. while she remains coy on what might come next, time now to look back at what was the year of palin. >> now with other sports besides iditarod right? >> right. there is good college basketball today. i'll somehow the highlights next. >> she is exactly who i need. she is exactly who this country needs. >> senator, i'm honored to be chosen. >> who the heck is she? the mayor of wasilla, alaska? a governor who was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it? >> i voted thanks but no thanks on the bridge to nowhere. >> every time governor palin repeats her standard lies i will donate $100 to charity. >> thanks but no thanks. >> thanks but no thanks. >> a check to the alaska special olympics is in the amount of $3700. >> and the next vice president of the united states, sarah palin! >> i love those hock

with sarah palin you never know. she's been coy other than saying she'll work for other republicans and out there giving speeches and she's got a book she'll be coming out with and an august date planned at the reagan presidential library in simi valley and we don't know beyond that. af talked to people close to her and they say you know what, she doesn't have the plan etched out in stone beyond that. see herself doesn't know if there will be a run for president in 2012. >> julie: all right. dan springer live in fairbanks, alaska. and we'll come back to you as soon as sarah palin steps up to the podium. thank you very much, we'll see you in a few. well, president obama setting the deadline back in early june to the most ambitious political undertaking of his first term. at that time, the president, confident of democratic majority in the house and the senate could deliver health care reform legislation by congress's august recess. but, by last thursday, senators from the president's own party killed any hope for that

>> i'm chris wallace, the latest on sarah palin's future, next on on sarah palin's future, next on "fox news sunday." captioning made possible by fox news >> the governor of alaska drops a political bombshell. >> i'm not seeking re-election. >> is her life in politics over or getting a jump-start? we'll ask her soon-to-be successor lieutenant governor sean parnell. u.s. interests are at stake around the world. we'll hear from admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. then unemployment goes up again. is another governor stimulus needed? we'll ask steny hoyer and john boehner, plus our sunday panel looks at what the palin announcement means for her and the republican party and one more look at a spectacular fourth, all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again and happy fourth of july weekend from fox news in washington. and what a weekend it's been. with sarah palin's stunner of an announcement that she's leaving office later this month. saturday palin posted a statement on facebook that cited a higher calling to advance the country along conservative principles. to h

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i also feel that some of sarah palin's attacks on -- >> -- mike, i feel that some of sarah palin's attacks on the media and on barack obama have also been incredibly unfair and ridiculous. i think many of the things that she says are ridiculous. i think she is also an incredibly dishonest politician, perhaps the most dishonest politician on the national stage since nixon. mike: that's pretty -- amanda, i will let you take that one on. >> come on, amanda. >> matthew thinks this will help him politically. all it does is expose the kind of dirty tactics and mean spirited attacks that always come to sarah palin and broadly to women who are strong conservatives. i mean, this is common par for the course kind of stuff. and i am happy to. >> who else aside from sarah palin do people talk about like this? >> there are several -- i mean, look at all the attacks on people like ann culture, michelle malkin. this stuff is par for the course. >> ann culture? that's your example in ann coulter, you think ann coulter gets attacked unfairly? >> yeah, i do. >> that's your example? well then i tnk we disagr

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sarah barracuda. would it be possible for her to pursue if she wants a 2012 race from an office that some called a bruising environment? >> to these people it is impossible to do anything great outside of political office. sarah palin accomplished a lot of great things. whether you like her or you don't. she unseeded several incumbents, which she did on her own. she doesn't follow anyone's advice. chef follows her own will. as a consequence of that, she might make some pretty bad decisions or mediocre decisions or at least decisions according to the washington establishment aren't good enough. so this is why people describe her as bizarre. we don't really understand what is happening here. no one knows the full story. the people would rather sdwroufrp the conclusion that she's incompetent. we should wait and see. i don't know why she's doing what she's doing. >> jamie: she said we'll learn more about her plans. she has a book deal and she wants to potentially build the base, get out and meet republica

sarah palin had one problem. since we've known her publicly on the public stage, she's had one problem in particular, and she didn't have substantive policy base. she didn't have that in the campaign. she hasn't had it in the seven or eight months since then, and i think that is and has been and will be her big concern going forward. what i think she did since the election is really a missed opportunity. she could have gone out and made herself thehief republican spokesman on smart energy policy. this is something she knows well. she lives in alaska. has consequences for her state, national ramifications. we're in the middle of a cap and trade debate. she could have positioned herself as somebody who knew something about that and taken over the role as a national spokesperson. she didn't do that. now the pressure will be on her to do that, but she won't have the stature or she won't have the office from which to make those arguments. >> well, you know what? she can't even say she was the one-term governor of alas

it's all about sarah. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. we'll be in portland, oregon, this coming friday night at the baghdad theater. it's this friday night. it's going to be great and we'll talk about health care reform and also the creation of jobs. for more information g. to ed@m msnbc.com. >>> sarah palin declares war. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in new york. leading off tonight, the long good-bye. we don't know what sarah palin's going to do the next couple of years, but if yesterday's any indication, she's not going to hold her tongue. as we know, palin insists she's quitting her job so she can better fight for alaska. and in her good-bye speech yesterday, she took on -- well, she took off after what she called partisan operatives, hollywood starlets, and most of all, the media. >> democracy depends on you, and that is why, that's why our troops are willing to die for you. so how about in honor of the american soldier, you quit making things up. >> we'll look at what's next for sarah palin in just a m

sarah palin out of office tonight. what's next? >>> scorched earth. running out of water in the grip of an historic drought with no end in sight. >>> on a roll. does the rally on wall street mean goo news for the rest of the economy? >>> and reel to reel. hollywood's new plot twist. >> i borrow all the money i want and the house gets stuck with the bill. >> hitting a little too close to the bill. >> hitting a little too close to home. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> goodevening. there'a changing of the guard in a high-profile corner of american politics. sarah palin of alaska officially steps down as governor and steps into an uncertain future where she plans to speak out politically whileachiing etcs probes and her own shrinking populari popularity. she's raised a lot of money and her schedule suggests we haven't heard the last of the former vice presidential candidate. norah o'donnell is in fairbanks with the latest. >> reporter: after tonight, sarah palin will no longer be governor of alaska. it's a job that earned her a spot on j

where is the substance to sarah palin? where is the idea that drives sarah palin? bill: go ahead, mary katharine. >> i certain live don't think she is a twit from. my perspective i can understand the battering which she has taken which has been extremely unfair. just look at the speculation last couple of days on blogs in the mainstream media it's been bitter for her. bill: huffington post say she was pregnant or some crazy thing. >> some say she was pregnant. another righter wrote she was going to run in 2012 on the platform of mental retardation. bill: the huffington post took that counsel but it was a staff member who did it. we have our internet cop on it. >> good. bill: bottom line on this thing is that sarah palin has a right as an american to live her life exactly how she wants to live it. >> those voters did vote her in, too. bill: they did. they can make a determination whether she is doing the best thing for the state. she may be. she may be unable to govern the way she wants to. i don't have any beef with this at all. none. i believe if i were managing s

or did she doit for the sake of sarah? >> she clearly did it for th sake o sarah, lawrence. i mean iave never seen ything more ridiculous than that press conference, except what fllowed that press conference. how do you give a speech complaining about w poorly e national mediaas treated you, and then when y go o on you fishing vation with your family, who do you inte? do you invite your famil your friends? no, youinvite kate snow, matt lar and theentire national media. if themedia are the problem, she should be run arenning ayrom them and establishing her na fid for h future politica career. she's so confused. is there a word f a hypocrite who doesn't even know she's a hypocrite? it was self-pity, it was victimization, and iwas all about sarah. >> n christie, you want to riseo the defense of rah palin on this one? >> happy to, lawrence. i thinkovernor palin made the decision thas best for he best for her family and best for the statof alaska. >> ron, just to stop youthere, you did start wth best for her the number one reason, which she never ntion >> of course, lawrence, but

no, it's a totally different standard for sarah palin. it is no surprise that the feminist movement came out of the left because liberal men are rabid sexists though i must say a lot of the hatred for palin is coming from liberal women in new york who have overheard their boyfriends saying well, you got to admit she is good-looking. sean: obama was saying the stimulus was going to kick in next month. we lost another half million jobs, sad for the economy and for the people who are not working the biden goes on this weekend and says we really blew it on the economy. what part of this didn't they understand considering now they're claiming oh, we didn't know it was this bad? how can you sync up with their rhetoric? >> right. but it doesn't matter. that's not why people voted for them the one silver lining in this, it's terrible that the economy stating disaster and that they are not fixing or changing any of the fundamentals. it's not going to be fixed and people with the basic understanding of economics knew that, know that, can see it now

here's sarah palin, harkining back to her days of sarah barracuda on the basketball court. >> she drives through a full-court press, protecting the ball. keeping her head up because she needs to keep her eye on the basket. she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can win. and that is what i'm doing. i thought about, well, how much fun some governors have as lame ducks. maybe they travel around their state. travel the other states. maybe take their overseas international trade missions. so many politicians do that. then, i thought, that's what's wrong. many just accept that lame duck status. and they hit the road. they draw a paycheck. they kind of milk it. and it not going to put alaskans through that. >> not going to put alaskans through the rest of her second term. george, what do you make of it? >> i read it once. and seen it twice. and i still have no idea why she did this. in one phrase, she says this, will help the nation. it will free up to help the nation. on the other hand, she says it's her family, which i understand. she's been fairly much impoverished by litig

want to take your calls on the "vanity fair" article on sarah palin. we will link this on our web site. republicans, democrats, independent why did they keep working for her election after they realized some she was casual about the truth and unfit for the vice presidency? and how could john mccain with a love for history and overdeveloped sense of his own integrity and honor ever have taken a person whose shortage of qualifications for her proposed job all but qualify him for his? that was from "vanity fair." maryland, you are up next. have you read this yet? caller: i was wondering why he chose sarah palin to run with him. the lipstick on the pig, i thought it was obvious that you cannot billicmake a make a silkf a sow's ear. he was not trying to denigrate her, obama, when he said that. i listened to an interview you had on "footnote's" with gore vidal. what he said was great. he said compared to sarah palin, the rest of us are like oxford graduates. >host: on the line. >caller: as far as experience, what we have in the white house does not have a dr

catch sarah this fall on h n talk show, "sarah and dave," 8:00 p.m. week nights on tbs. sarah lin, effective adership. >> yep. say what youill, and i -- she -- i think sheould have been our most attractive vic president since spiro new. >> yeah. >>oue going to hear about that from agnew's family. that's "countdown" for this the 2,25h day since the previous president declaredission accomplishedn iraq. i'm keh bermann. goodight and good luck.

what's next for sarah palin? she's being very could i about why she's leaving her powerful perch as governor of this state. what we do know and what we've learned is that sarah palin has actually raised more than $1 million for her political action committee called sarah-pac. in speaking to some of her advisors, i've learned she's raised $00,00 $300,000 to $400, that since she announced her resignation on july 3rd. that kind of cash can fund a lot of political travel. her first stop, the ronald reagan political library in california in two weeks and she has been invited to iowa, which of course is the site of the first presidential caucuses. >> interesting. how many folks are expected there today? >> they say 5,000. but it could be more. i mean this is the big picnic of the year. and so they've been cooking barbecue all night long. you can see a lot of the young people here are already setting up a lot of the chairs. i bet it could go bigger than that, in part because it's already a big attraction but because sar

again, i don't think we know what sarah palin is going to do. i think if she's smart she will, again, continue to raise money, galvanize support, put a good team around her that she trusts because that's obviously critical. she could end up being another pat buchanan or a rush limbaugh of the party. i think she could take that role. make money and be someone who could be a critic both outside and inside or she could run for office, but i do think -- >> pat gave up the money to run. let's get that straight. pat gave up money to run. i'm not going to hold that against him. he was -- >> i think she's going to have to be a little more disciplined. as a woman i have to tell you, it disappoints me to hear her kind of play the victim card. as a political strategist i understand the strategy. as a woman i'd like to hear her back off from that and as pat was saying let's talk about the issues. >> here she is going after hollywood and defending guns. here she is. >> you're going to see anti-hunting, anti-second amendment circuses from hollywood, and here

sarah, i have a proposition here. i'm going to be off the air next week, i'm going fishing north of the border, why don't you host my radio show? you know, test the waters, see if can you make it on a three-hour radio show. i think you can, one day. let me bring in some experts to weigh on this. radio talk show host lionel, and also stephanie miller, who is known in the industry as naming sarah palin as caribou barbie. now, stephanie, you know, she could get it done for one day, couldn't she? but the question is could she get it done for one week? two weeks is it a month? what do you think? >> i can't think of a more soothing voice to listen to for about three hours. i think she should take your offer. i think you could cut a hole in the ice for ice fishing. where you fish up in minnesota, north dakota, i think that could come in handy, is all i'm thinking. >> lionel, where are we on this? >> well, we're here, ed, but more importantly i can't believe the disdain you have for your legions of fans. that's like a pilot s

nancy pelosi or sarah palin? >> and to bring home a dead fish to eight. -- to eat. >> it takes better dead. >> i bet she could eat one alive. she is a great talent but she is unprepared. and if she left office because of the heat in the kitchen, because of that attacks on her and trig, that would be reasonable. if she had a calculation that this would help her politically, she does offer mind. this is a setback. it could be the end of her career. america has the second acts, like nixon, but if she imagines she could be like a reagan and the wilderness and the 70's, who gathers strength and becomes president, she has to be like reagan, a serious man who speaks and things to rights seriously and reads and learns. and she doesn't, she is not going to leave anything. >> i have already seen sarah palin 2012 bomb burst occurs. >> they might become collector's items for all the wrong reasons for the governor. i ree with charles beard in quitting when she did she lost e opportunity to build a portfolio on policy and seri

the daneer that sarah palin faces and let me be quick to tell you by way of quick disclosure i'm a sarah palin fan. i like her personally. i like her points of view. i think she is right on the issues. the challenge that she is going to have is that there will be people who say well, look, if they chase you out of this, it won't get any easier nor you at other levels of the stage. >> let's talk about the other levels. karl, let's talk about sarah palin's future. does her decision to step down in the middle of her term and not serve out her full four years, does that help her or hurt her if she has any hopes of becoming president? >> i think it hurts. as a sitting buff you have the tactical advantage of turning down a lot of things with an excuse that people accept, i have got a job to do as governor. she now removed that so now the expectations are going to be she will be fully available and be able to come to the lower 48 and be able to do whatever people ask her to do and that raises the expectations. it is also unclear what her strategy is. she said she wanted to lead effective change

sarah palin is there. what do you think? >> i think we are not going to learn a lot about the overarching question here and that is is he going to get back into elected politics. i think we won't know that answer for a year or 18 months. i think she is a better politician than a lot of people give sarah palin credit for being. i think she understands how to play the options. i think that is what she is doing right now. >> for folks who are saying this is the end of her politically her stepping down. i wouldn't bet the farm on it. she is very popular. some people like the renegade, what was the term she used, rogue? >> i think she said renegade. >> i remember barracuda. >> she was a self-professed maverick. she and john mccain were two mavericks. >> right. exactly. you're right. let me tell you something, not to just assume this would be an easy road if she wanted to run for president because her poll numbers are way down even among republicans. there are huge doubts whether she understands complex issues. abc/"washington pos

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sarah palin stepped down from alaska. that's what she said. i'll tell you exactly where she's going and why. president obama is getting beat on health care. he's not answering what they are saying. i think he needs to come out swinging before the recess. give the liberals a direction on this, mr. president. joining us at the bottom of the hour with more on that one. the president is trying out beer did i plom mass see. there is a long mystery of that in the history. joining me in my play book, another dandy from the drugster. we want to know what you think about sarah palin's next move. first, tonight's op ed. this is just a love-hate relationship, not just with the republicans but with everybody. did we really like her in the news all the time? and heading for the big stage, she called it the unspecified stage. it's a big number to her credit and what's next? i'll tell you what is next. it's a run for the white house. what else could it be? the political maverick knows one thing and that is that alaska is too far from the gop mainland for her

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the remarks about limbaugh, about sarah palin were mean. then they flashed to obama laughing at the meanness. i don't think it does them any good there, dennis. >> i don't think she was a pro that night. comedians judge by somebody whether they are a pro or nonpro. i don't know how funny or not funny it was. at some point you get hired and she didn't fill the requisite for what they needed. i think wanda sykes was kind of funny. for a girl. that's all she is doing today is explaining that. it's a joke. i thought efforts going to bring reverend wright in. >> i'm a pastor. he's a member. i'm not a spiritual mentor. >> borat falls on eminem's head at the mtv awards. roll the tape. >> let me down. it's losing. eminem, nice to meet you. >> can you explain this to me? >> some people like their eminems plain and some like them with nuts. bill: i don't know what that means. why am i laughing? >> yes, you do. you know exactly what it means. bill: i swear to god i don't know what that meant. >> look at that and tell me what it means. bill: this whole

you spent many months reporting on sarah palin. were you surprised by the announcement and why do you actually think she quit? >> i was surprised by the resignation. i was not surprised that she didn't want to run for election. she quit because it was not that much fun being governor of alaska after being on the national campaign. the legislature was attacking her, she had ethics complaints. i think she got tired of it. >> what do you think of the way she made the announcement? in your article you write and i want to show this to our viewers, palin has shown herself to have remarkable gut instincts about raw b politics and has seen openings where others did not and she has the good fortune to have traction within a political party that is bereft of strong influs. what do you think of the way she announced she is was leave something. >> the actual news conference was -- it bore the hallmarks of someone who made up her mind about something and wanted to rush to the neighbors and tell them in case she changed her mind. there was a ner

how many do you think are smarter than sarah palin? >> sarah palin is not the dumbest person in washington. that's for sure. i live there. >> i live there too and have been there 30 years and been on capitol hill a loot of times. do you think sarah palin is qualified to be president of the united states. >> yes, i do. sean: here's my exit point i'm going to make. he's going to go to moscow at a time when we are deploying missile defense to protect hawaii and he's going to give away missile defense at a time north korea is firing miss aisles over japan. >> he's not going to give it away. having been in on negotiating a strategic arms defense agreement myself, i know he's not giving anything away. sean: more great, great american panel straight ahead. . the most important... you could buy 750 bottles of water... or just one brita faucet filter. - ( plinks ) - brita-- better water. less waste. of the world's most revered luxury sedan. this is a history of over 50,000 crash-tested cars... this is the world record for longevity and enduranc

sarah. that getser a long way with the base of the reblican party. >> youan never -- you know, you can never put t last nail in, as the old sick joke goes and you can never light the fire yourse if you're standing in the middle of e pyre. but was ts -- is thisot kind of a dtillatn right now of the same problem that sh brought with her to that ticket last yearthat as much as she may have excit the people who were probay already going to vote for her side of it, the result inhe other direction s just as tensend thus, yo lose dependents and centrists and people w do just naturally shy away from polarization. >> well,hatth really happedhere is that john mccain undercut his o gument. it was about sarah palin, b in talking about the campaign, keith, it was rely more about john mccain. john mccain's calling card to indepeents and centrists was, i'm the guy with more experience and better judgment. and of course, after the sorof lost weekend in st. pa wh sarah palin, the next two months were the lon

being scared of sarah palin, i will lose sleep over that one. it is good for the democrats to have her out there. barack obama, hillary clinton, they left office because they were running in said so. she is leaving office and saying, vaguely, that she is approaching a higher calling. if you take that off-the-cuff statements, leading from the bottom, she could have used a teleprompter. >> what happened? the guy that elevated geraldine ferraro? what happened to you? >> i said she was not treated fairly, that does not make me not a feminist. yes, she has got a bad rap, but you finish your job. simple as that. megyn: bob, a feminist, on record. you heard it here first. thank you, my friends. the media's treatment of sarah palin is on the docket in "kelly's court" today. her lawyer came out with a scathing attack, threatening litigation against people in the media for things they might be publishing. we are going to take a closer look at whether this guy has a leg to stand on. could she go from governor to litigant? stay tuned. gregg: bob is a femini

sarah palin is moving on to the next chapter in her life. she gave a fiery speech as she stepped down as alaska's governor. what is next for her? >>> good morning, robin. going to write a book, scheduled to speak at the ronald reagan presidential library on august 8. and some speculated here, palin might host a radio or tv show, start a speech-making career or run for higher office. palin spokesperson said palin has not ruled out any of her options and the political action committee here, robin, has raised more than $1 million. >> how popular is sarah palin these days especially after she stepped down. >> a poll for you here. palin has a list of strong reactions from the moment she stepped on to the national stage as we've been reporting. a new poll by "the washington post" and abc news finds 5 % of those surveyed view palin negatively. 40% view her positively. the support among republicans appears to be much higher. take a look at this. the pulse -- 7 out of 10 republicans have a positive view, the opinion of palin, robin. >> continue to wa

isn't counting on sarah palin running for president in 2012, she tells fox she can't rule it out, and relatives of a dead soldier wonder why michael jackson is getting so much attention. all that, plus our all-star panel, right here, right now. welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. there was a bit of a chill left over from the cold war as president obama med with russian prime minister vladimir putin today. the president told senior white house correspondent major garrett that he doesn't expect a meeting of the minds with putin at any time soon. >> it was very nice weather in moscow. >> that's one of the few things prime minister putin does not control. putin devoted nearly an hour to a lecture on the cold war and all that has gone wrong in u.s.-russian relations since. in the second hour, mr. obama talked about iran's nuclear ambitions, alternative energy and climate change. senior u.s. officials described putin's tone as cordial. this contrasts with khrushchev's hectoring in vienna of a young president john kennedy. after his session with putin, fox asked if the president still bel

it is sarah palin the face of this? >> barack obama set the standard in the last election with his use of the internet. the use of twitter is upon us and she has been making use of this the past couple of days. she would tell people about what was going on. she is communicating effectively. she commands tremendous attention. a radio show out of alaska, all of those things can raise your profile. the family is not moving it out of alaska. shepard: carl cameron in washington, thank you. a republican who was considered a 2012 contender might have gotten a break today. that is what the analysts are saying about mark sanford. the party voted to sensor him for his affair -- censure him for his affair. they don't see him as one who should be leading but they don't tell him to step down. remember, he disappeared for a few days after going to be with his lover in argentina. an update now on the man suspected of going on a violent killing spree. police are speaking to the last two people who saw him alive. his name is patrick bur

sarah palin stepping down. her almost son and law, levi johnston. ken then o'brien notice the irony. -- conan o'brien noticed the irony. >> what are you doing? the premise or sarah palin? bristols palin -- bristols palin -- bristol balin's ewx. -- ex. he made the statement while hosting a party for dark rum. greta: we are closing down shop, greta: we are closing down shop, and go figure why anybody would

if you're sarah palin,hais , hell. well, the don quije of the klonke figures out her higr calling, david letterman figured out is is better than the 50i7z 0. indianapoli500. well tonight, must have been the shoes. a briepreview of this evening's joke theme. rst, the second of what is three consecutive nigh. quipping after t nonsensical ch about his parent's refrigerator magnet palin we out on h porch and waved good-bye to russia. d before giving a sly nod to last month's manufactured brouhaha over a joke he told abouone of the govern's daughters, letterman suggesting the almost-ex-vernay want a futu athe next octomom. to which paul schaefer cracked, watch it, they're demonstrating ouide. all the dozen of them. and then the top ten list, managingo mock george w. bush, john mccain and himself, a stl maintain palin as punchline. >> the category tonight, t ten messages on sah palin's answering machine. i can't tell you how we did it, but weot ahold of her swering machine and herere the top ten ssages. friday, she announced

john agrees saying, right on, sarah palin. she has decided to spend more time with her family which really counts these days. but a palin critic makes this point, if palin's actions are an attempt for publicity in a bid for 2012, voters must ask themselves jacqueline says -- >> we always want to hear your views. e-mail us at cnn.com/hln and click on your views. >>> the doctor who tried to revive michael jackson is not commenting on what, if any medications he gave the singer. the lawyer says that's part of the agreement with investigators. he was on diprivan. a nurse who worked as jackson's nutritionist said he pleaded to her to provide the drug. she says she always refused. >> he asked me, he said can you find me a doctor? i don't care how much money they want. i don't care what it is they want. i want this drug. i want this medication. he didn't say drugs, he said medication. he wanted it to sleep. >> this is south africa shows incredible talent. several hundred people gathered in mandela square to honor the superstar, black

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