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Working at tnt, lebron had a huge game and i tweeted something like if i could pick one player to have f in a road game, game seven in the playoffs, i'd take lebron. you think any cleveland fans might have retweeted that after cleveland beat us on the road in game seven? so i've learned my lesson. i'm more interested in retweeting articles. trying to spread the word if i see something really sensible. nick kristof wrote a great piece in "the new york times" with two weeks ago about comparing gun safety to the automobile industry. and you know, in the '50s, you were nine times as like ly to de ...

And they extended it and made it longer. presumably what's being alleged in the background stuff here predated 2005 when there was a shorter statute of limitation. my bet is the statute of limitations had run on sexual misconduct of a criminal nature and the only thing, the law enforcement authorities were left with were these sort of you know exotic charges like currency transaction charges which is the first count in the indictment and of course the old standby, lying to the fbi. >> so then paul what kind of punishment could hastert face if he's ultimately convicted if the statute of limitat...

What are you talking about. >> he still is. there there? they talked about it and said let's keep it 'cause it will look back if we replaced him. >> i think president obama has thought vice president biden hae been a very good vice president. there is another viceer presidential story about somebody who is possibly relevant in 2016, has an election next week and that's chris christie, the governor of new jersey. andrea, in this book the questions were raised of whether or not the romney campaign got scared off when they were looking at some of the background stuff. >> yeah. and they were conce...

The fbi has done with this, they have done an incredible job but they were warned about dzhokhar tsarnaev and asked if they should look in to him. -- tamerlan. they said there is nothing to worry about and now we know there is a lot to worry about. have there been any failings you could see. >> it is a difficult set of circumstances. first of all the russians are asking about chechen. not doing it because they like chechens. they are doing it because they have history with the country. secondly, when you ask those kinds of questions, there's only so far you can go. you can't force anybody to t...

>> no. >> you need to read my book "going rogue being" because i explained that background stuff. there is hilarious stuff in there that talk about what it was like to prepare and how wonderful it was to have wonderful people around me in the vice presidential debate and those good people, many whom are still by my side. it was some good recollections in the book. >> bill: governor, thanks for helping us out tonight. next up, democrat bob beckel will reply to sarah palin. later, vice president biden's catholic faith being used against him in a political ad. we'll show you that, upcoming. dad v...