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4,000 short of capacity? >> this is the reality of politics, you throw the right band, you bus the right people in, you do whatever you can to fill the stadium. i want to go back to the numbers. i said the numbers in the beginning, thats what we have to look at. when you look at how the president and romney match up, theyre pretty much in a dead heat -- megyn: but they need enthusiasm. barack obama needs enthusiasm, and so does mitt romney. >> thank you. megyn: both have been criticized for not ...

Before at a debate. >> hes appealing to the republican hard core base. and the more he does that, the more he alienates independent voters. megyn: romney? >> no, im talking about santorum. its going to be very difficult for santorum to move back to the center, and thats the problem he has. he looks angry, hes coming off being angry all the time, feeding red meat to the base -- megyn: political write-up was saying that romney was the one who seemed snippy and nasty and at the end john king asked ...

Malice in the way that she was killed, it was done in such a depraved way. a second-degree is a very serious charge d. megyn: second-degree says there was malice but no premeditation. >> correct. there just wasnt a specific intent. but again, you dont have to say on the calendar today, going over to kill such and such. you can go to a place, and you make that choice, that decision. and weve talked about the evidence where he took the computer to conceal the crime and the stuff that had gone back...

Megyn: shes got the love affair going with him. >> thats like the charlie brown christmas tree. >> we did not show what ron pauls response was, and i thought he knocked it out of the park. megyn: he said -- explain why that is so objectionable, what santorum said to you? >> because i dont want someone to necessarily play politics. i think weve had enough of that, and what did ron paul say? ron paul said, well, i took an oath to an office, not an oath to a party. megyn: nice theory, but as a poli...

Gentlemen were truthful here. finish. >> without caveats or explanations, please define yourself using one word and one word only. congressman paul? >> consistent. [cheers and applause] >> senator santorum? >> courage. [cheers and applause] >> governor? >> resolute. [applause] >> mr. speaker? >> cheerful. [laughter] megyn: that got a big laugh. tim white -- >> again, it all comes back to consistency. if were looking for a litically pure candidate and somebody whos been consistent, we have to tak...

Megyn: now, let me start with you, mark, because what they were yelling, its tough to hear, theyre telling him hes a war criminal, hes a mass murderer, hes a baby killer, and on it went from there. is that not disrupting a meeting? >> i dont believe it is legally. factually, im sure everybodys going, well, whats even to debate. the first amendment gives wide latitude -- not unbridled discretion to do or say whatever you want -- but wide latitude to express even outrageous and offensive speech un...

Megyn. to marks point, megyn, inciting a riot, that is not protected free speech. shouting fire in a crowded theater, that is also not protected. >> thats not what they did. >> thats not what they did, but its akin to that, and thats why the statute addresses it. >> but its not. >> destroying everyones free speech. megyn: and speaking to your point, mark -- >> thats why its illegal in the state of california. megyn: had this been somebody from the taliban and saying what you suggested, do you no...

Ironically, if they had been tossed out when the first one stood up, this prosecution may never have happened. megyn: you know, mark, one of damning pieces in this case and the reason i believe the students were charged is the e-mails. the investigator for the university found e-mails from the muslim student union asking students who want to disrupt, especially if theyre not worried about being arrested, to go and do this saying that this ambassador had no right to go to the university and say w...

Theyre muslims, theyre being targeted? megyn: thats exactly what the student union groups are alleging and others, suggesting this is about bias against muslims and trying to shut the muslims up. >> megyn, this was a well orchestrated flash mob. this had nothing to do with free speech. this was well planned, and the e-mails prove it, attempts to destroy the ambassadors right of free speech. these people werent standing up and making speeches on their own, they were shouting murderer at him. you ...

And then he cant deliver. and having raised raised the bao high, having raised expectations to a very high level when he doesnt deliver, it looks like hes been disingenuous or hes failed. you know, when i worked for kissinger and he went around the middle east and he went country to country to country to country, he dealt with them all what cans possible, whats not possible? even president george w. bush throughout the middle east crises, he always got on the phone, talked to them, dealt with th...