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help elect other true public servants to office. well, why now? scott conroy of role clear politics and co-author of "sarah from alaska"s has spoken to the palins since the decision. you've been rushing to get on the phone with us. so what can you tell us? >> erin, great to be here. i spoke to some members of palin's inner circle tonight and two points, one, they say that the family was a big issue, that they, you know, couldn't get the entire family on board for a presidential run and that was a big reason that made her say no in the end. another thing is that, you know, she really ...

Take us a couple days probably to sort out. >> you're young to the senate. new to the united states senate. there are sometimes criticisms about how this process works, how the state keeps in contact with the federal government, sharing resources, sharing information. what's your sense early on in this one? how's it going? >> i think the communication as far as i know is working pretty well. i think unfortunately we have enough disasters in our country that we have a pretty well-oiled machine as far as communicating disasters through fema. so i don't expect any problems there. >> let's certain...

Now because of the deficit. >> you guys expect me to come on your show to express my opinion, but i'm tempted to just sit back and let rob represent the view of liberalism that a public option would lead to an efficient well-oiled machine that would pay for itself. most americans understand what a public option means. we understand what nationalized healthcare means. but if the democrats wants to continue to go down this path i say let them. november is just a couple months away and they will lose in droves. they will loss the house and they might lose the senate. this is a grim reminder of ho...

Put it up against bart. >> jesse: is that tremendous pressure? >> it is grass root, anti-establishment. >> jesse: they're not grass roots. they're getting financed with dick armey. follow it. there's no grass roots. >> you have to pick one or the other. are they an unorganized grassroots operation, or are they this highly sophisticated functioning well oiled machine? which one is it? at the end of the day. >> there's dick armey. >> at the the end of the day they will cause trouble for democrats and republicans. it is so fragmented you have seven different kind of tea parties in one congression...

And "x," i say, this is a false choice. the reality is, when you have a system that is not working effectively, and i think most would agree the senate is not a particularly well-oiled machine, right, the way to fix that is to change your behavior. not to change the rules, but to change your behavior. >> the other unnamed senator, joe manchin of west virginia, told reporter to keep the faith in this damn senate, and we'll make it work out. we'll make it bipartisan. keep the faith in what? last week, the bill to create the january 6th commission was killed. there will never be ten senate republ...