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>> eric: new outrage behind the man wikileaks debacle living in packages country estate in england. julian assange is selling his story to of all people an american publisher knoffe. some say he is receiving more than a million dollars to tell his story on how he came to be the man who released tens of thousands of classified documents embarrassing the government and endangering hundreds, if not thousands of people around the world who work for us and with us. so, who could defend this book deal? we looked everywhere and we found alan colmes. he joins us here in new york. >> looked under a rock and there i was. >> eric: i joke. it's not a popular position to defend julian assange. the guy is a hated man. >> so what? do you know what we are defending here? capitalism? you don't believe in capitalism? >> eric: i do. i'm a firm believer. >> publisher gets a deal. want to pay it they buy the book that's capitalism. raw capitalist? >> eric: i'm a capitalist. >> is that not capitalism?
hey, i want my street plowed especially when you see another plowed. even the mayor simself said it was not adequate response if your street wasn't plowed. >> you are proving my point, no matter how much tasks you pay government still flat suck out sucks doing the basic things. why do we give them more responsibility with things like health care that they can't plow the snow that we pay them so much for to do. >> i'm not going to tie health care in with snowplows. >> eric: leslie, you have got to respond to, this the mayor of philadelphia, the democrat, why do democrats hate football so much? >> oh, the democrats don't hate football. you also had a democrat saying we are a nation of wusses. you are terrible. >> eric: leslie and ben, thank you very much for joining in a lot of fun. muslim cleric involved in yet another terror case. why can't the u.s. just take this guy out? and, can snooping through emails land you in jail in this guy right here is in a lot of trouble for doing just that. is it legal answers those questions next.
how do you disagree with. this can i give my dislarm? obviously everybody wants the terrorism targets targeted. however, there is that little thing that sometimes kimberly and i fight over called the united states constitution. all right? it says that an american citizen has a right, has a right to due process. meaning the president of the united states does not have the power, eric bolling, if he saw you murder someone, he doesn't have the power to write down and say kill them. death penalty, happen in california, texas, death penalty. you are entitled to a trial. >> eric: the person he saw killing me was also about to kill someone else. can he step? >> this is where the distinction lies. the fact that this person is, in fact, a war criminal, someone committing terrorist crimes against the united states, actively plotting out we sit here, believe in yemen, someone they want to eliminate as soon as possible and the executive branch has the power after 9/11 9/11 -- >> eric: because is he an american citizen? is that why you are saying that?
>> only. >> eric: enemy combatant and we can go ahead and use the drone. >> seize him, grab him, bring him here, hide him, put him underground a million yards. >> eric: maybe while is he grabbed leak some documents to julian assange the weekser. >> there is something very special about being an american citizen. >> commit crimes. >> commit crimes against u.s. citizens and against the u.s. country. >> fullest extent of the law. >> this is what the judge says that through this lawsuit out by al awlaki's father says i'm sorry you don't have standing to sue. the government officials branch immune from these type of cases. they have the absolute right given them by congress, legislatively after 9/11 to, in fact, engage in these specific kind of attacks to protect the united states. >> eric: kim wins round one. second round, listen to this, the hacking emails. listen to this. take a listen. >> i discovered that my ex-wife,
hey, i want my street plowed especially when you see another plowed. even the mayor simself said it was not adequate response if your street wasn't plowed. >> you are proving my point, no matter how much tasks you pay government still flat suck out sucks doing the basic things. why do we give them more responsibility with things like health care that they can't plow the snow that we pay them so much for to do. >> i'm not going to tie health care in with snowplows. >> eric: leslie, you have got to respond to, this the mayor of philadelphia, the democrat, why do democrats hate football so much? >> oh, the democrats don't hate football. you also had a democrat saying we are a nation of wusses. you are terrible. >> eric: leslie and ben, thank you very much for joining in a lot of fun. muslim cleric involved in yet another terror case. why can't the u.s. just take this guy out? and, can snooping through emails land you in jail in this guy right here is in a lot of trouble for doing just that. is it legal answers those questions next.
journalist or john gacy calling himself an actor or artist. these are common criminals. these guys should be put behind bars and thrown away the key. should not be making money profiting. >> i don't think you are going to need me for this segment because you are going on a rant. what crime has he committed? >> eric: how about when some of the documents that he leaked exposed some of our important locations of some of our military and someone gets hurt? someone i dos. then will you agree with me? >> if my aunt has a beard, do you agree she is my uncle? >> eric: no. that doesn't necessarily -- >> tell me who has died. >> eric: we don't know who has died. >> show me where the harm is show me. >> eric: we know there is. we been told by the department of defense and secretary of state. >> whoa. >> eric: that is bad. >> show me the harm and we can talk. >> eric: meantime let him leak away, right? >> show me where the harm is you you don't believe in whistle blowing and don't believe in capitalism. >> eric: i believe in whistle blowing on crimes. on criminal activity.
vick on the back? why? >> to give him a chance to attack him on something. no. >> what can i find on a holiday week to go after the president on he called michael vick's boss. we will go after him for that it gives you something to talk about. >> eric: alan we have 14.6 million people out of work. 16 million -- >> you are probably upset is he on vacation. acre acre no i'm thrilled. take more. stay there if you don't mind. there are things. for gosh sake, alan, he had his national -- director of national intelligence north knowing that 12 people were picked up in london for terrorist plot. don't you think he could be on that a little bit more than the quarterback in philadelphia tonight? >> no matter what he does, you are going to say that he could be doing something else. he does something of a sport nature, he should be doing something else. no matter what he does, he should be doing something else. he had a great couple of weeks. he really went after this these
be mindful of your surroundings. >> parents should teach him that at home in his own common sense should tell you that. >> >> eric: 500 bucks for dropping f bomb. >> economy in the recession i believe the fine should be reduced. >> eric: there you go. there you have it here is how government can raise money. >> they is settle the whole deficit just in the hallways. >> eric: extension of boy they are just in our face. in our grill everywhere. >> that's what it is. when you look at it this way, are these laws we need to have on the books? is this something we really need to protect against? first amendment rights to express myself? the bus is a frustrating experience. he doesn't say anything like that. >> eric: isn't there a first amendment right that i'm allowed to say these words? isn't that a constitutional issue? going back the other way? >> that's wise have you got to do tap dancing. >> no. >> the theory is the right theory. all three of these topics is the same thing. everyone's intention is the right way.
>> eric: what did he say about that. >> if you look directly at the law is he in violation of it now what you have to say did they intend. >> eric: intent, right? >> when they wrote this statute for husband and wives to be prosecuted against one another. they are now divorced. they were married at the time. did she give him the pass ward? the allegation is he hacked into the computer is he a computer expert and somehow he got the password and was able to go in there. that is a crime felony punishable. >> eric: sees her with an email saying i'm going to kill our daughter or i'm going to kill my husband then what? >> basically that's what happened. he saw that she was reuniting with a guy who has got a history of being violent and the mom has custody of his daughter. what did he do? he alerted authorities immediately, put himself in harms way of this statute. he didn't care. god bless him for doing this. >> eric: there is a constitute issue here, right? you told me in the last segment constitution, right? you just flipped.
>> eric: they are only doing better now, with all due respect because we floated them $50 billion. >> why are they paying. >> eric: union. >> actually, that's not true. why are they paying back, eric in the money is being paid back by general motors because they changed manage; built competitive cars. >> eric: money is not being paid back, they still owe us $40 billion. even if we sold out whole stake in g.m. they still owe us a heck of a lot of money. >> taxpayers are on the hook for it taxpayers are on the hook for a lot of union pensions. not just federal, state, local government, the pensions and benefits. bankrupting the entire country. look at pension funds. their pension funds are on the verge of bankruptcy. >> eric: federal employees is the only one. 7 million jobs, unfortunately the only one creating jobs. >> the only one creating jobs today is the automotive industry for the first time in 10 years they are expanding jobs because of the success of the automotive bailout acre circle -- >> eric: is that how we want to