we re back. the midterm election are or. the 111th congress has adjour d adjourned. two somewhat different pennsylvania politicians. please welcome governor ed rendell and then we re going to have congressman joe sestak for their hardball exit interviews of the year. the 45th governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell, we re all wondering what s next. why the beach boys in philly? a big city guy like you. first of all, we wanted to do something for all of my volunteers and all of my donors all the way down to the people who gave me people who gave me $5. i wanted to say thanks. we re having a farewell party. i grew up with the beach boys in the early 60s. my wife and i, our first song was darlin. we became friends. they played to 3-quartethree-quf
when you were coordinating some of his sort of exit interviews with the media, did that bother him? no, it really didn t. and he used to say who cares, and that was one of the quickest ways that you could get dismissed from the oval office was to bring poll numbers into a conversation. it was not something that really drove his decision making at all. in fact, the discussion about whether vice president cheney would be kept on the ticket in the book, he has a revealing discussion of that conversation that occurred in 2003. that is sort of reflective of the type of president that he was. he wanted somebody who could do the job and he wasn t really very concerned about poll numbers or sometimes making people upset with the decisions that he had to make that he thought were in the best interest of the country. jon: one of those concerns water boarding. there has been so much criticism directed at the bush administration for the water boarding of detainees at guantanamo bay and
wide enough to fit a man, reached workers half a mile beneath the workers on sunday. each minor will ride one by one in a escape pod to the surface. rescuers say they re concerned about the injuries in the assent. the assent. the miners have been trapped two months. bill: they re bringing down sun glas sunglasses to those guys who they emerge from the depths of the earth, they ll be equipped and their eyes can take it. it s going to be great story down there when it happens, when they come back up. half a billion dollars down the drain, that s how much money california spent on college freshmen who eventually dropped out. a new study shows that california coughed up more cash than any other state, $467 million in taxpayer money on students who failed to come back for their sophomore year. in response, the state education officials say that schools should conduct exit interviews for students to
cartels over the last year. is this the most partisan senate ever? why it s been worse. it s the first of the series of exit interviews conducted with senators leaving the chamber this year. doug loss coke lynn gives us a useful dictionary. bell s law of telephony. your monthly phone bill stays about the same. frankentime, what time feels like when you realize that most of your life is spent working in or around a computer and internet. here are my favorites. the explanation why w sing alon don t work without written lyrics. most people don t know the lyrics and that s a word related to lyrical putty. the lyrics onen creates in one head in absence of knowing real lyrics. what s the lyrics to this?
enemies, the israeli p prime minister and yasser arafat sho hands at the white house after signing an agreement giving the palestinians limited autonomy. happening right now,ta secretar of state clinton leaving for the middle east to immediate talks between the israelis and palestinians. there s a broad consensus among voters that the 111th congress is too partisan to get anything worthwhile done, but ask the veteran senators leaving and you ll get a different story. ken stricklin conducting exit interviews with nine of the outgoing senators. ken is here with us wi some of these interviews. i m sure when the cameras are off and they don t have to worry about re-election, a will the of these senators could open up.