ainsley: don t defend me. you can t defend her. it was mean spirited and as a person of faith i can forgive her because she asks for forgiveness but there are consequences. jillian: you feel bad for everybody on that staff now, right? ainsley: absolutely. think about the african-americans who work for her and how they feel, a. b, think about her entire staff. many of those people don t make a lot of money. now those families, where are they going to go they are out of work now. pete: don t have to defend her comments. watching the sanctimonious hollywood crowd mob descend reinforces the double standard of the world we live. in abc made a courageous call bringing this n. this show now they run away with it the left has said worse with no consequences. what she had to say is not defensible but there is a double standard out there. brian: coming up straight ahead, president trump teasing a brand new healthcare plan as nashville rally. can congress get it done this time? i m going to ask k
to write their memiors. it is a long tradition and going on for decades and centuries even. presidents write their own memiors and it is no surprise that cabinet secretaries and others dot same. i don t think gates revealed every conversation. it is part of the business in washington and no one is surprised. he completes. president for making the right call in the raid to kill osama bin laden. he called it a tough and courageous call. if it was a hazy but no one would talk about betrying trust.
the question for both of you given the powers that be, will this fella phil robertson be reinstated at a&e? i think the dollar is going to matter here. this gets 9 million viewers. i think the whole family is now expected to walk. ron? the new season is as i said is already in the can. so he ll be on the air in the next duck dynasty season. will they bring him back? will he be on the season after that, we ll see. come on. i m asking you. we ll see? i m taking a wait and see attitude. that s right. yes. i think he will be on the air. that s what a reporter says. they stand outside the building and say we re waiting and seeing. ron reagan, thank you for that courageous call. up next, duck dynasty has become fodder for the late night comics now. that s next on the sideshow. this is hardball, the place for politics. [ male announcer ] here s a question for you:
we consider a free speech country to a hate message. your thoughts, ron. why do they always go towards bestiality? what is the obsession with that? bill o reilly does the same. what is it about gay people that makes republicans think of having sex with animals? i have no idea what that is. but you re right. it s the slippery slope. you take away one of my handguns, you ll take away my whole i guess that s the slippery slope. anyway, thank you ron reagan for that courageous call. nia-malika henderson duck dynasty is fodder for the late night comics. that s next in the sideshow and this is hardball, the place for politics.
year. the focus in that room, i think the pride everyone took in all the steps that led up to that day, the work that got started under president bush with president obama, the s.e.a.l.s. it s a day government worked the way it was supposed to. it was amazing. was there a moment it was clear it was done? there was. we had the initial call from the s.e.a.l.s when they called geronimo, the code word for they think it s bin laden. i don t think people celebrated yet. it was still the middle of the night in pakistan. later, when we saw the photo, we knew it was bin laden, the teams were out of harm s way. it was an exhilaration. it was a combination of relief and satisfaction. a lot of hugs in the room with people you spent ten years with