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>> reporter: there are people saying this monday morning that talking about tapping into the strategic petroleum reserve is kind of a smoke screen to avoid getting -- getting into the real question of should we drill for our own oil. no mention of drilling from any administration over the weekend that i know of but theres plenty of people saying weve got to get out, weve got to go for our own oil reserves. martha: you look back to the 08 election and you remember sarah palin taking about drill b...

Right? >> yes. they will make your life very difficult. how do you interpret this? the thing that strikes me is if he did this, he should be tried. there are laws. i get that. but to hold him and not try him and then offer offer this kind of treatment makes me a little bit embarrassed to be an american. >> i think due process is a good thing. i believe that military trials and civilian trials ought to have a distinction set of standards and at the do, but its particularly surprising because this...

Rice has gone up by about 20% since last june. so a 20% rise for somebody who is living on the margins is a tough call, as well. so lets keep that in mind. its good that rice prices have stabilized over the last couple of months. i think the broader issue of the middle east, i dont think anyone has any clearances as to what are some of the drivers of this unrest. its impossible to break it down between food prices and all the other factors. but no doubt it is a contribu contributing factor. >> t...

Innercity america, louisiana, africa, southeast asia, wherever they are, are the ones clearly the most affected by this. >> right. >> how much -- and a lot of those people live in the middle east under oppressive regimes, where they have a culture of bribery, a culture of people going 20, 3 years without a job, selling organs to make money. the reason why you get the level of motivation that weve seen so far in cairo and elsewhere. how relevant is theç cost of fd to the disruption in middle ea...

Joining me now to talk presidential politics, two men who have had firsthand experience on the campaign trail. republican lamar alexander ran for his partys nomination twice in the 1996 and 2000 election. and bill richards was presidential candidate in 20 08. i dont know if that seemed like a long time ago or short time ago, but i know you remember it well. so, let me ask you first, when you look at just the general state of play in the presidential field, were looking at a president likely to n...

And drill now. the obama anti-oil agenda has got to be stopped now. he needs to realize in 08 our u.s. crude traded at $100 a barrel as it is today for six months. that was before our world economy imploded. now here we are back again. his destructive timing of locking up 97% of our offshore and not allowing anwr to be touched to allow domestic drilling, it is terrifying where -- where he is leading us in terms of the mercy of foreign regimes. >> judge jeanine: your response is to i guess drill ...

And drill now. the obama anti-oil agenda has got to be stopped now. he needs to realize in 08 our u.s. crude traded at $100 a barrel as it is today for six months. that was before our world economy imploded. now here we are back again. his destructive timing of locking up 97% of our offshore and not allowing anwr to be touched to allow domestic drilling, it is terrifying where -- where he is leading us in terms of the mercy of foreign regimes. >> judge jeanine: your response is to i guess drill ...

Demanipulate cites the following, the president amertis of npr received more than $1.2 million in 2008. the head of the sesame workshop paid close to a million bucks a year. thats private money. that shows you the earning power of sesame street. pbs president, $632,000 in annual compensation in 08. and the list goes on and on. senator demint points out that the sesame street operation alone made $211 million. $211 million in three years! from toy and product sales. why on earth is the taxpayer s...

Of npr received more than $1.2 million in 2008. the head of the sesame workshop paid close to a million bucks a year. thats private money. that shows you the earning power of sesame street. pbs president, $632,000 in annual compensation in 08. and the list goes on and on. senator demint points out that the sesame street operation alone made $211 million. $211 million in three years! from toy and product sales. why on earth is the taxpayer subsidizing it? sesame street can carry them. corporation...

Of npr received more than $1.2 million in 2008. the head of the sesame workshop paid close to a million bucks a year. thats private money. that shows you the earning power of sesame street. pbs president, $632,000 in annual compensation in 08. and the list goes on and on. senator demint points out that the sesame street operation alone made $211 million. $211 million in three years! from toy and product sales. why on earth is the taxpayer subsidizing it? sesame street can carry them. corporation...