all in overcoming a possible bid for the race by the vice president? i think it will assist territory greatly as she figured out what she s going to do next. i think it s too early to tell on either side. where i disagree with angela is where i feel the president is going to stay out of this one and let the the two individual also fight it out. i think you re right, hillary s foreign policy experience, her domestic experience as first lady, her domestic experience as senator from the state of new york. a formidable candidate for the 2016 nomination. we ve got to think about 2014. let me play a sound bite from charles about hillary clinton as a candidate and then i want you to respond. i think she s going to be if she decides to run, which i think is likely, she ll be a relatively weak opponent. the republicans will have a really good shot there.
angela, do you agree? as richard stated her whole resume, we have a lot of things to run against hillary on. not only her policy as a senator, but also what she did as secretary of state. but also what her husband did during the clinton years. do we want four more years of bill clinton being first spouse? i do believe she will run. remember that barbara walters interview? she s going to run what about health care, angela, you didn t mention that but, you know, the first lady at the time, hillary clinton, had some ideas about health care. it was somewhat unique for a first lady to take such a strong position on such an important issue. now, she will have to explain away the obama care debacle. that s what she s trying to do. she s doing this political two-step jamie where she is trying to distance herself from the president s unpopular
alabama lawmaker is calling robertson a hero and state senator jerry fielding is even introducing a resolution to make robertson s hero status official. meantime, jesse jackson is calling phil robertson s comments more offensive than rosa parks bus driver jackson saying quote at least the bus driver who ordered her to surrender her sight to a white house person was following state law. robertson s statements were uttered freely and without cover of the law within a context of what he believed to be white privilege. we are back with our panel. rick, let me start with you. it seemed over the weekend that the duck dynasty sort of controversy was going away but then jesse jackson made these comments and stirred it all up again. what s your view from washington? this is quickly become one of those issues where you can t lose depending on
country that we live under. and so that s why i wanted to bring it to the attention of the people, and hopefully have some positive impact in that regard. you certainly have brought it to the attention of many people, and we will be following your resolution. state senator jerry fielding of alabama, thanks for joining us. thank you, ma am. well, from jodi arias to george zimmerman, it s been a wild year in court, to say the least. up next, our top ten crime and justice stories for 2013. some picks may surprise you.
a topic for the alabama state legislature next month because republican state senator jerry fielding is proposing legislation that would back robertson. fielding says he doesn t want to see people run over for believing in the bible and standing up for jesus and god. a & e suspended robertson after he told gq magazine among other things that homosexuality is a sin. an oklahoma politician thinks the state has bigger fish to fry. it s not one of the most important things facing alabama that we need to be taking time to even even discuss in the legislature. yeah, i ve watched duck dynasty. i liked it. probably still will continue to watch it. i think most of us it was like no big deal. who cares. yes, of course he thinks that. alabama state senator jerry fielding joining me now by