with the responsibility is the only thing that's going to stop politicians from being irresponsible in their own utterances. >> i want to congratulate michael hirsh for running his big front page piece. i caught it this morning at my house. i think it's a very important piece. it goes back to lincoln and garfield and mckinley and the shot that took at roosevelt and the shot that almost killed teddy roosevelt, truman, the assassination of jack kennedy, the almost asass nas of reagan. the two shots one in san francisco against gerry ford. we've had a hard history. lost a lot of people, martin luther king, mall cob x, george wallace was shot. this is a very violent country politically speaking. coming up, joe lieberman is not running for re-election. this is news. the democratic left, what role