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Moenchlgts of hose responsible important the 2008 economic meltdown have gotten away with their crimes except for one. bernie madoff. after his $65 pobillion ponzi scam. they dissect the tale in "the wizard of lies." we spoke recently. diana, thank you so much for joining me. you spent more time with bernie madoff than any other journalist. first question has to be has he come to grips emotionally with the magnitude of what he did? swamps every other ponzi scheme in history. does he realize that...

Come down to jobs. who in this country has the plan, has the blueprint for getting our country back to work. >> again, you are in the -- the governor of the state of florida. let me just take a turn for a moment to foreign policy. i mean, yesterday -- the president talked about negative -- negotiations going back to the 1967 borders and -- the israeli prime minister was not too happy about it. i have a question for you which is could the president have hurt himself with the jewish voters in your...

Been saying for years? >> have to give thank you same answer again. what was previously a palestinian position has now been adopted as an american position. and the possibility then arises that we would be asked in some way to go back to the 67 borders which we regard as indefensible and borders that have invited wars in the past and havent prevented wars. borders that would leave very large numbers of our citizens beyond our borders. >> let me ask you this question then. even if there was this ...

This campaign in the end will come down to jobs. who in this country has the plan, has the blueprint for getting our country back to work. >> again, you are in the -- the governor of the state of florida. let me just take a turn for a moment to foreign policy. i mean, yesterday -- the president talked about negative offici -- negotiations going back to the 1967 borders and -- the israeli prime minister was not too happy about it. i have a question for you which is could the president have hurt h...

You do not know. "the new york post" does not know. the judge is not "the new york post." the grand jury is not the daily news. they are not alone to make -- to pronounce, to tell what is right, fair, or not. they are not the judge. >> you have said that dominique strass-kahn was a womanizer. he does not deny that himself. is it possible in your understanding of him that he misunderstood the issue of consent? somehow he does got -- got lost and did not realize this was not consent? >> i am not o...

About the palestinian/israeli conflict. >> i think netanyahu made a big mistake if he thought calling up and yelling at secretary clinton was going to get the president to change what he was going to say. it was not going to happen. >> i agree. at that point it was both too late and also there had been too many internal debates within the white house about the precise wording of the language. i want to come back to the question i asked you and then get david to weigh in as well. everybody wanted...

Somewhere. >> which raises then -- you mentioned his wife, rest of the family. the question thats been -- so many of us have been asking, did the other members of his family know about this? >> i started out from the position of -- lets see if there is any evidence. honestly i could not find any evidence. not just any credible evidence. could not find any evidence that they knew and there were very compelling reasons to think that they did not know. >> there were other guilty parties. bernie mad...

Images showing the humiliation of the man who may be guilty or who may be innocent makes him a victim. and i say that america, who is so careful with images, is not careful in this case. just think one thing. just please think of one point. america decided not to show the image imag images of bin laden dead. not to offend the muslims. so right. but we show the images of dominique strass-kahn without any consideration of the question to know if it offends his kids, his family, himself and so on. ...

Absolutely get block grants. we have to do those for the -- for our state. with regard to medicare, we have -- i think -- he has a plan we have to review. our -- senior citizens care about making sure they have health care for the rest of their life. they paid into this program. so i think it is very important to have this debate. and make sure we fix it long term. not short term. >> because your formerly in the health care industry and know a lot more about this than most people. i guess the qu...

Persuasively without speaking about the palestinian/israeli conflict. >> i think netanyahu made a big mistake if he thought calling up and yelling at secretary clinton was going to get the president to change what he was going to say. it was not going to happen. >> i agree. at that point it was both too late and also there had been too many internal debates within the white house about the precise wording of the language. i want to come back to the question i asked you and then get david to weig...