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Terms of -- >> it is. palin is the high end of it. i think the ryan one could be bigger because of this. could be. im not saying theyre going to lose the race definitely because of this. it could be because of what krystals saying. this is not just about paul ryan being presented to the american people and people looking at that saying you know what? im going to reject specifically the vice presidential candidate. this is about a vice presidential selection that changed the entire fundamental ba...

Rightly so. any way. forgot im leading this segment. coming up, what paul ryan -- he sat down can s.e. cupp before most people knew who he was. s.e. is talking about paul ryan, next. they have names like idle time books and smash records and on small business saturday they remind a nation of the benefits of shopping small. on just one day, 100 million of us joined a movement... and main street found its might again. and main street found its fight again. and we, the locals, found delight again. ...

David, author of nonbeliever nation the rise of secular americans. first, clear up terminology, briefly. you throw a lot of words out there, secular, nonbelievers, atheists, who are you really talking about here? >> well, were talking about nonreligious americans, s.e., people who probably dont go to church and are at least apathetic about their religious belief, not on board with all of the religious -- >> wait, are they believers? do they believe in god? >> most are not, although its really wo...

Even when a democrat is making efforts to appeal to gun owners and those who oppose gun control, krystal it raises the question for democrats you spent the last 12 years youre not a gun control party but still thinking youre the gun control party, why not be the gun control part. >> though you may have in the democratic coalition certainly if you polled democrats they would say theyre in support of gun control broadly. its not the animating issue on left as it is on the rooeft right. its not for...

>> interesting, its a cultural signifier. i want to give you a rorschach test here. a picture from 2004 campaign, when democrats decided were going to try to get the blue collar voters, were going to try to show them we understand them, john kerry going hunting in the swing state of ohio a week before the election and there he was with a dead goose and this was supposed to tell you maybe not you, but sort of the blue collar, white voter im not going after your guns, i am part of your lifestyle b...

Nickelodeon jr. because of my 4-year-old. the only -- >> she gets the cable news and you get the nick jr.? >> as a sort of detox thing. sometimes thats appropriate. the only show that i watch outside of that is actually "dancing with the stars." its sort of my guilty pleasure. so i would be all for "dancing with the stars" doing well. i think its fun. i used to dance so i like it. >> s.e. was a dancer. whats your -- what are you here? >> i have never seen an episode of any one of those shows. ha...

Thank you so much for making the time. >> thank you. s.e., to his point, if she has serious national security concerns, cant you go about it in a less public way? she and the other members of congress. there are ways to approach this if you have real evidence, if you believe that there is some substantive reason to believe this. >> they didnt go on the tonight show. they sent letters to various security agencies. if im not mistaken, most of us would not have known this story had john mccain no...

Here. >> sure. >> i think that the media angle, i mean, s.e. is pointing to michele bachmann being singled out here. you know, i think that theres something to the fact that they singled out huma here. everyone knows shes a trusted aide to senator clinton and her husband was in the news a year ago. i wouldnt put it past them that they did this for media attention. i think thats a shame. theres nothing to these reports and anyone who knows how hard shes worked for not only senator clinton but for...

Terrible person. >> but i do think that theres some assumption in parts of the republican party that, if youre a muslim american, then you are a threat to this country. i think that is very dangerous. >> i think that assumption is very dangerous. i think thats not fair. >>well, i think that thats part of what peter kings hearings were about. you know, look, i think that this clearly was, i think, to grab attention. michele bachmann is very good at that. >> doug thornell, s.e. cupp, thank you ver...

>> glad i gave you that softball plug. >> thank you for the plug opportunity. you know, theres a practical very easy to understand guidebook. i mean, theres some steps we can take to really figure it out. its not that hard. the problem is people just get -- they get flustered. in my career, i spent most of my career in the media. i discovered particularly lately in this disruptive economy, im discovering more and more people are failing not because theyre not committed, not because theyre good a...