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here, the author of "never trust a liberal over 3" ann coulter. i look at iran this way. as state sponsor of terror. they have been fighting funding proxy wars all around the region and the world. they are responsible for the death of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan and the number one supporter of the regime in syria. >> right. >> so why would the president trust them? what is it in him that trusts them? >> he's a liberal. you don't have to go back as far to neville chamberlain. you can go to clinton's peace in our time deal with the north koreans hailed on the cover of the new york times as a triumph of diplomacy. we give them nuclear materials, $5 billion in aid and they give us a promise not t to build nukes. so they take it and go to work building nukes. i had to write this book and i have a column on it back in 2007 bush won the war in iraq. elections were held and one of the intelligence agencies comes out with a report saying they have concluded that iran gave up its nuclear programs in 2003. suddenly the entire left, keith olbermann, joe cline, explode a

here the always out spoken ann coulter. how are you? good to see you. >> hello. good to see you. >> we learned the day of the election the libertarian candidate in the race is funded by an obama care bundler. that's issue number one. number two, we see all the money poured in by planned parenthood, labor unions, environmentalists, all the support of the democrats. the establishment seemed to abandon cuccinelli. they gave $9 million to the current governor when he ran in 2009. then you have a governor scandal plagued and the gop raised taxes. everybody is getting it wrong. what's your take? >> yes. i think all of the elections yesterday illustrate the point of the first part of my new book. particularly in virginia. you got them all. i'm a conservative republican but any republican is better than any democrat. and republicans have to concentrate on winning. cuccinelli was hurt by, p number one, the third party candidate, a libertarian. we find out at the last minute heavily funded by democrats. that's a surprise. i think the same thing of the alleged tea party can

. >> booktv attended a book party for author ann coulter held at the offices of "the daily caller" in washington d.c. [inaudible conversations] >> uh-huh. are they -- is there somebody to mingle with now? oh, sure. oh, sure. [laughter] hey! good to see you. what did you do recently? it was something i really loved. yesterday? >> oh, i had the bill ayers piece. i interviewed bill ayers. we had a crazy -- >> what did you do before that? >> sure. >> i mean, it sounds fantastic. >> i had a funny bill ayers interview, you should look for it. >> okay. >> he refuses to answer my questions. >> i read about that in "slander," it's the liberal scorched earth policy. of what do you mean, communism? >> define terrorism, what's a war criminal? >> i write about this in "slander." this is an old left-wing trick. so you can never talk. >> [inaudible] >> oh, yeah. i've seen your stuff. chris, it's nice to meet you. >> you too. >> what did you do this week? >> he defended ted cruz -- >> i've been defending ted cruz a lot. >> excellent. that's why i love you. yeah, and i'm mad at you for that. [laughter

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the joining me is ann coulter. here's my take on this. i look at iran this way -- a state sponsor of terror. they're responsible for the death of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan. and the number one superintendent porer of this dictatorial regime in syria. so why would the president trust them? what is it in him that trusts them? >> he's a liberal. you don't have to go back as far to nevel chamberlain, you can go to clinton's piece in our time deal in the north koreans, which was hailed as a triumph of of diplomacy. we give them nuclear material, $5 billion in aid and they give us a promise not to build nukes. they go take a you would that and work feverishly in building nukes. that's why i had to write this book. back in 2007, bush had won the war in iraq. elections had been held. then one of the intelligence agencies came out with a report they had included that iran gave up its ambitions back in 2003. suddenly the entire left, bill press, joe kleine, keith olbermann explode in anger at george bush for slandering the good name

. >> i'll warm you up by play what ann coulter -- >> twerking, ironically. >> let's get to two ann coulter told me about ted cruz' chances of becoming president. >> there will be arguments in a party of ideas. that is one thing as i point out in this book, democrats have an advantage. all they want is power. they spend their lives figuring out how do we get elected so we can run other people's lives. >> you actually have her on your show friday, don't you? do you make of her argument? >> it's always perfect, perfectly wrong. you know, the wrong -- right, it the democrats who on the care about power. that the right. look, every politician cares about pow tore a certain degree, but democrats, i think in general, they are the policy wonks. they are the people who care about actually making government work. republicans tell you right out front, we hate government. then why go into it if you hate government you shouldn't do it. that the why i'm not a priest. okay? first of all, that the a nonsensical argument. if you ask about ted cruz, i don't know her answer on that but i think he has a shot

. >> i'll warm you up by play what ann coulter -- >> twerking, ironically. >> let's get to two ann coulter told me about ted cruz' chances of becoming president. >> there will be arguments in a party of ideas. that is one thing as i point out in this book, democrats have an advantage. all they want is power. they spend their lives figuring out how do we get elected so we can run other people's lives. >> you actually have her on your show friday, don't you? do you make of her argument? >> it's always perfect, perfectly wrong. you know, the wrong -- right, it the democrats who on the care about power. that the right. look, every politician cares about pow tore a certain degree, but democrats, i think in general, they are the policy wonks. first of all, that the a nonsensical argument. if you ask about ted cruz, i don't know her answer on that but i think he has a shot because i think he as an absolute shot on the nomination. he'll definitely be the favorite of the people who vote in republican primaries. we saw what it looked like last time and the time before, but the problem with the repub

ann coulter questioned who was pushing accusations president obama was not born in this country. the phrase for such people is birthers. they include people like steve stockman in texas who said quote, one of the things i always questioned was the documentation of the president. whether that was fraudulent. the birther king is donald trump, but there are others. >> if the state of hawaii says this is official, he was born in hawaii on this date, here it is, why do you deny that? >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> you don't still question he was born in the united states, do you? >> i had no idea. >> even at this point? >> i don't know. was there a birth certificate? some people say that was not his birth certificate. i'm saying i don't know. nobody knows. and you don't know either. you're a smart guy. you don't know. >> the president has not produced a birth certificate. he's produced a birth announcement. >> let's revisit some of these things because americans have questions about not only the irs scandal but also about the president's validity.

i am from "the daily caller" we are honored to have the great ann coulter in our midst. she needs no introduction. she is the only famous person i have ever met at rights her own book. seriously. how many parties had you been to they have read the entire book. everyone in the room has denied. it is a nauseating moment. her books our hilarious and middle fingers came down most of the role. we're honored. i hope all of to grab your ears and head into their after. >> i don't have much to say the idea what it all of you in there but let's move the alcohol and the other room. this is my favorite web page because i'm on it to. [laughter] but then you just walking into thank all the beautiful young people with the daily cause. i will be back where the bier is a but to be in the book signing room. thank you for coming. >> the importance of confidence to be a united states senator but to be a woman and how important it is to foster that with the future business leaders. >> i encourage them to be involved and to step up the. i always said i could never imagine i would be running f

and with me now conservative columnist and author of "never trust a liberal over 3" ann coulter. am i wrong? >> that was the most magnificent intro i have ever heard. i'm going to change it to the answering machine on my cell phone and when i turn on my computer i want that to come up. no. you're completely right. when you say, in addition to lying in order to win an election, one of the things in the "new york times" describes obama lies about keeping health care when he was campaigning, he misspoke. not only a lie, an intentional absolutely necessary lie, because even with the sleazy parliamentary maneuvers congress would not have been able to pass obama care without that lie. without obama and the democrats all repeating that lie over and over again. and you mentioned mary landrieu, the allegedly conservative democrat senator from indiana. >> oh, yeah. a lot of democrats are backing away now. sorry. they all voted for it. talk about doing something just to win their re-election. >> ann, it's worse than that. what we now know is that the justice department is offering papers th

that left ann coulter to say this. >> you want to suck up to liberal friends and say we want to legalize pot. this is why people think libertarians are (bleep). >> we believe the word that means wimps basically. >> she is right. we are bleeps. >> in her war which is the war against liberals and democrats were not useful to her at all moments. what she doesn't understand we are freely choosing to do this. we think it is a genuinely bad idea when the government gets in between you and your decision which is a conservative notion. the government notion ann coulter otherwise supports in most cases is one that says the government can't solve your problems for you it is not going to change your morality for the better. she knows that and because she is a tribalist and intolerant she can't brook someone having a different approach. i love her libertarian when it says i am not going to. >> i think lib fairia -- lir t n libertarians care about legalizing drugs because the government tells you you can't change your mind by doing this or that. booed booze is okay but pot is not. the size of spendin

visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare >>> no, it's not ann coulter's bedroom. the first lady and president got in spirit and arguably scarier with comments made in 2012 but ted cruz' father raphael cruz about the president. watch this. >> we need to send barack obama back to chicago and like to send him back to kenya -- >> what does he mean by that? we need to send barack obama back to kenya? >> three quick points, one it's clearly a joke. i give speeches and the kenya references kill. >> send him back to kenya, what does that mean? >> nothing. it's a reference to kenya and people laugh because it's -- >>est not making -- >> he's not making a joke because he thinks -- >> it's clearly a joke. >> it's clearly not a joke. >> i think it's a joke. we'll dispute that and move on. you know who brought up the berther thing, it was hillary clinton who first brought up was he born in kenya? who shot it down? american spectator was never talked about on fox news. i discuss this in my three books back, you heard about it every night. the conzektive media shut it down and p

. >> host: >> caller: is ann coulter a bully? i agree with you, but some people on the left are bullies. the right-wingers are bullies. >> host: can you give an example of where you see ben shapiro being a bully? >> caller: i don't know up enough about it. but the three people i cited are bullies to the republican party as well as to liberals. they're just simply bullies. they've been bullies for many years. for him to not note that, i don't know. >> guest: i truly believe that character attacks have to be mutually assured destruction. the right is losing for specifically that reason. the left started this war and character. if the right refuses to engage in wonkette for that is folks like rush, ann coulter, then the right is going to lose. the right has to understand character arguments matter. we'll end up as a badge of assistant principal candidates from local districts in various states around the country as opposed to a cohesive national party. postcode ann coulter blurbs the writing is smart, informative and incisive. he's

>> this one isn't like work. >> i said have you ever ran an ann cowl -- coulter. >> thank you. i appreciate that. you're my favorite person here now. [inaudible conversations] >> ann, how are you doing? tell me when you're ready to go in! >> let me sign the one in here. i want them to buy books and come here. >>> hello. we have a fun segment. let's do it again this weekend! >> i have -- you're not doing it? >> i'm here next weekend and every weekend through new years. >> oh. no, no, no but, i mean, "fox & friends." >> i'll do it for l.a. from you guys. >> can you do the first weekend in november? >> i actually like getting up at 4:00 a.m. if you get there and back i never knew how close the l.a. fox studio was until i did "fox & friends" on the weekend. it's ten minutes. usually it's an hour during the day. ten minutes there, ten minutes back. it's still dark in l.a., i go right back to bed. it's a weird name. [inaudible] >> where do you live? >> it's toward santa monica from west hollywood. it's a funny name. i can't believe i'm -- i've gotten no sleep for the last few weeks.

[applause] >> booktv attended a book party for the author ann coulter in washington to be. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hey, good to see you. would it be done recently? there was something i really loved. >> i did a bill ayres these. >> what did you do before that? i mean, that sounds good. the mac -- obamacare quick >> event bitmap. >> he refuses to answer my questions. you must meet to define every term. >> i read about that in slander. it's the scorched policy of argumentation. they're burning the english language. what do you mean, communism? >> i read about this. this is an old west wing trick. so you can never talk. i've seen your staff. it's nice to meet you. what do you do? [inaudible] >> excellent. that's why i love you. >> you now i'm reading you. mingle down here. wow, this is a big plays. this is the. [inaudible conversations] >> nice to meet you. thank you for coming. nice to meet you. nice to meet you. i am going to mingle and then i'm going to find some books. good to see you. good to see you. hi there. >> he's up there in boston now

>> this one isn't like work. >> i said have you ever ran an ann cowl -- coulter. >> thank you. i appreciate that. you're my favorite person here now. [inaudible conversations] >> ann, how are you doing? tell me when you're ready to go in! >> let me sign the one in here. i want them to buy books and come here. >>> hello. we have a fun segment. let's do it again this weekend! >> i have -- you're not doing it? >> i'm here next weekend and every weekend through new years. >> oh. no, no, no but, i mean, "fox & friends." >> i'll do it for l.a. from you guys. >> can you do the first weekend in november? >> i actually like getting up at 4:00 a.m. if you get there and back i never knew how close the l.a. fox studio was until i did "fox & friends" on the weekend. it's ten minutes. usually it's an hour during the day. ten minutes there, ten minutes back. it's still dark in l.a., i go right back to bed. it's a weird name. [inaudible] >> where do you live? >> it's toward santa monica from west hollywood. it's a funny name. i can't believe i'm -- i've gotten no sleep for the last few weeks.

ann coulter joining us this morning. thank you very much. >>> you've woken me up completely. >>> next on the rundown. remember when bob costas broke into political talk at halftime? get ready for more. he's on a roll. >>> why is this woman suing match.com. all the details coming up. [ male announcer ] if you suffer from a dry mouth then you'll know how uncomfortable it can be. [ crickets chirping ] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales deeply ] [ male announcer ] well there is biotene. specially formulated with moisturizers and lubricants, biotene can provide soothing relief and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. [ applause ] biotene -- for people who suffer from dry mouth. side-by-side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. that's one smart board -- what else does it do, reverse gravity? [ laughs ] split atoms? [ flo chuckles ] [ whirring ] hey, how's that atom-splitting thing going? oh! a smarter way to shop around -- now that's progressive. call or

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well i am here with the lean queen of mean ann coulter, political commentator. her latest book is called never trust a liberal over 3, especially a republican. for every copy purchased, none of the proceeds will go to charity. finally, and here to bring yet another showdown it is tv's andy levy. and it is the legendary and sexy comedian jim norton. he premieres on thursday on netflix. i will hunt you down and kill you with my bare feet. you are talking while i am doing introductions. that drives me crazy. mix to me, the only superman that mattered, actor dean cain. you can see him defending santa. it is when santa is arrested for mass murder. this sunday at 9:00 p.m. on ion? ore ion? >> ion television. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> that's a good question. well, it is the decision that is tearing our country and perhaps the world apart. yes it is time for this. >> red eye debate, 2013. live from the red eye debate center. joy this is the red eye -- >> this is the red eye debate center. >> sexiest man alive? or best jive? they picked adam levine

. >> ann coulter is here to react to the so-called nuclear agreement.

i want to play a clip from ann coulter. >> in defense of alec baldwin, i don't think the guy, he was a photographer. he's not actually gay. this is just a course word like using the f word and frankly i think a lot of paparazzi photographers deserve it. it's not something alec baldwin said in a calm moment on television. he has been harassed horribly by photographers and now this stalker and he's trying to protect his family and he -- that is what happened. >> in response to that, anderson cooper, my cnn colleague did a couple tweets about alec baldwin saying while alec baldwin shows his true colors again how will he lie and excuse his anti-gay slurs this time? alec baldwin's excuses are so stupid it's funny. he said i can assure you with complete confidence that a direct homophobic slur or indirect one for that matter is not spoken n. wake of referring to a tabloid journalist as a toxic queen, i would say the atent ridicule. my friend whose happen to be gay are baffled by this. they see me as a -- i like the guy, he's clearly inflammable. he clearly has a temper that exacerbates in

irony is that people like rush limbaugh and ann coulter are happy to have a democrat to beat up in the white house. this he don't have an interest in winning elections. it doesn't do them any good to have a republican in the white house because then what would they talk about? they would have to become devoted to that president which doesn't help their ratings. ted cruz is following the model of the people who least want to win elections, but he's using and claiming that could help win elections. it's so ironic but the reason why people like steve schmidt lose credibility among the base because they believe rush and it will help to us win the white house when clearly that's not what rush probably wants. >> steve schmidt, the backlash seems to be under way by establishment republicans in washington against ted cruz. >> there's no glory in losing election after election and there's no glory in committing yourself to strategies that are self-evidently defeating the purpose of trying to build a majority that can win elections. so i think that people want to see a healthy republican party a

. >> ann coulter has a message for nbc news. >> it's worse than people know. >> plus a former obama secret service agent warns that

sitting between sean hannity, ann coulter. they start talking appeasment over your plate. >> not sure i get paid enough, lawrence. i can't imagine what we are eating, what they may be eating. uncle morty. i know, he doesn't like this. if you were to read it, the israeli newspaper, you would find out lots of israeli generals, people who fight the wars, people involved in israeli military intelligence think this is not such a bad deal. why not uncle morty. listen, for six months we get to test them. everything comes to a stand still. yeah, they get four to six billion in sanction relief. listen, just a little amount for us. not the big ball of wax. go right become to sanctions which actually, the guy in the white house. you don't like so much. put there in the first play. which helped get a more moderate. not much moderate. more moderate guy elected president of iran. let's sit back. let's have our matza ball soup. not so bad. see what happens over six mumucht months time, uncle mortie. >> uncle mortie will not let you talk that

. >> ann coulter defended alec baldwin. he was angry and just saying bad things and not directing it at a gay person and somebody in a string of expletives. that was the defense. martin bashir in the prompters does a long rift against sarah and not like sarah palin i disagree with her. it was the most vile, disgusting stuff you can imagine. what are we, almost two weeks from this. internally, may be dealing with this. does he survive this? >> i don't think he could. if they kept baldwin, a suspension, maybe it's different for whatever reason. now, how can they explain we fired alec wald win who, by the way, did great things for that network at 30 rock and they're not happy with the way he was treated. but to martin bashir you say, good what. here's the keys to the executive bathroom keeping you around for a while. selective justice. >> they both did apologize. they both did apologize. one on the air and one did not and one who did not just fired. >> best reality tv right now. this is entertainment beyond our wildest dreams.

. >> ann coulter defended alec baldwin. he was angry and just saying bad things and not directing it at a gay person and somebody in a string of expletives. that was the defense. martin bashir in the prompters does a long rift against sarah and not like sarah palin i disagree with her. it was the most vile, disgusting stuff you can imagine. what are we, almost two weeks from this. internally, may be dealing with this. does he survive this? >> i don't think he could. if they kept baldwin, a suspension, maybe it's different for whatever reason. now, how can they explain we fired alec wald win who, by the way, did great things for that network at 30 rock and they're not happy with the way he was treated. but to martin bashir you say, good what. here's the keys to the executive bathroom keeping you around for a while. selective justice. >> they both did apologize. they both did apologize. one on the air and one did not and one who did not just fired. >> best reality tv right now. this is entertainment beyond our wildest dreams.

ann coulter questioned who was pushing accusations president obama was not born in this country. the phrase for such people is birthers. they include people like steve stockman in texas who said quote, one of the things i always questioned was the documentation of the president. whether that was fraudulent. the birther king is donald trump, but there are others. >> if the state of hawaii says this is official, he was born in hawaii on this date, here it is, why do you deny that? >> a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate. >> you don't still question he was born in the united states, do you? >> i had no idea. >> even at this point? >> i don't know. was there a birth certificate? some people say that was not his birth certificate. i'm saying i don't know. nobody knows. and you don't know either. you're a smart guy. you don't know. >> the president has not produced a birth certificate. he's produced a birth announcement. >> let's revisit some of these things because americans have questions about not only the irs scandal but also about the president's validity.

., a book party for ann coulter's "never trust a liberal over 3, especially a republican." tomorrow at 5 p.m. eastern we bring you a collection of booktv programs on american espionage and intelligence. then at 9 p.m. eastern, "after words" with husain haqqani, author of "pakistan, the united states and an epic history of misunderstanding." visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. >> you're watching booktv. next, david kilcullen argues that wars over the next decades will largely be fought in underdeveloped areas of the middle east, africa, latin america and asia. this is about an hour. of. [applause] >> so it's wonderful to be back. and, you know, i wrote this book, right? so i thought i would give you a little bit of some of the major ideas that are in the book until, essentially, i get tired of talking about it and i see your eyes starting to glaze over, and then we might go to q&a. i'm in the fifth week of going around giving, basically, the same talk about the book. so i'm pretty tired of it. [laughter] what i thought i'd do is just kind of move past th

. >> and now on booktv, ann coulter talks about her latest book of essays on politics, culture and the media. this is about an hour, 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. ooh, that's loud. >> good evening. >> good evening, john phillips. so good to be here with you. >> isn't it great to be in orange county? >> better than that, i just found out yorba linda's the most conservative town and the most conservative county of california. [applause] if amnesty goes through, that will be utah. [laughter] the only place republicans can win. >> now, even though it's phenomenal to be in orange county, we love being here at the nixon library, a lot of right-wiggers, a lot of conservatives shy away from president nixon because, after all, he was impeached for having the nsa spy on our citizens -- [laughter] /-- for siccing the irs on his political opponents and for abandoning diplomats in posts abroad. [laughter] >> and for telling a lie to the american people. [laughter] if you like your health care insurance, you can keep your insurance. [applause] no, i know. it's like the standards of treason. i

sometimes of libel see something pop up for the conservative group like the ann coulter book. if they look for a media consumers go to sites on the left right where in the middle be magazine it is more targeted to people looking for a progressive audience sometimes people come, with unconventional products so as in the nation are probably the best bets. >> host: one more call in with the bureau chief of "mother jones" from minnesota come on the democrat line. >> caller: good morning. i is a very, very upset as an american with the shutdown. the threat than the actual shot down. i do not seek -- see the tea party as negotiating but extortion. and the last time the american people paid the price tag. do we have some legal system that checks into this extortion? >> guest: anytime you can get jon peters much shot on charges of extortion but the tea party is a minority of the republican party be at the tail that wags the dog and they don't believe in compromise. i go back to the story of this morning -- this morning of ted cruz father the speech he gave on behalf of his son ian he

do you buy the apology an ann coult coulter? >> he's acting as if he had nothing to do with the fact that he had nothing to do with people being thrown off their insurance. it's like bernie madoff saying, wow, i'm sorry people's investments went down based on assurances from me. no, you did it to them. your obama care is what threw people off insurance. i knew it. you knew it, tucker. people complained about the bill itself trying to be nearly 2,000 pages long. we knew that most of the bill would come out in regulations written by that arrogant and smug kathleen sebelius. there are now something like 15,000 pages of regulations. all of the hoo-ha over sandra burke and her birth control, i think we knew birth control and abortions would be covered. they prevented illegal immigrants from getting obama kaefrmt of course insurance was going to go up. you'd be required to cover things that no normal person would want to insure against so people would be thrown off their plans. as we know from the federal register, the hhs knew in 201

and i'm quoting ann directly, this room sucks, says ann coulter. the real action is in the -- >> the signing room. >> so i hope all of you grab multiple beers, you're welcome to do that here, and head in there after. but with that, ann coulter. >> i don't have much to say, but i would like to move the alcohol into the other room. i think that would really help things. [laughter] i am so happy to be here at "daily caller." it is, of course, my favorite web page because i'm on it. [laughter] but, no, it's really fun, and every time i've come here and everyone remarks on this you all don't know pause you work here, you just walk in and think, oh, look at all the beautiful young people. i'm so happy you're all right-wingers. [laughter] think how sad they are at "daily cause." [laughter] okay. i'm going to be back where the beer is about to be in the book signing room. thank you for having me and thanks for coming. [applause] >> and welcome to day two of booktv's live coverage of the 30th annual miami book fair international from the campus of miami-dad

at 8, ann coulter presents her book, "never trust a liberal over 3." followed by a book party for the author. at 10, husain haqqani joins booktv on "after words." he's interviewed by lisa curtis. he talks about his book, "mag think sent delusions: pakistan, the united states and an epic history of misunderstanding." and we wrap up tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. eastern with malcolm gladwell. he talk abouts his book, "david and goliath." visit booktv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. >> next on booktv, encourse book notes -- encore book notes. informant is the account of the justice department and fbi's collaboration with a high-level informant. archer daniels midland was accused of stealing money from its customers. in this interview from 2000, author kurt eichenwald reveals how this scandal was complicated when the government learned its source was involved in his own illegal activity. this is the second part in a two-part series. you can watch the first part online at booktv.org. ..