maybe. or it s a train wreck. here s the thing. i do want to give them some credit. i am not going to say that they are dumb because i don t know if they are or not. they are smart business people. without a doubt. they turned this thing into a fortune. bill: what does it say the culture if they want to consume. auto% of americans have always not been interested in what s going on in the real world. this is the latest diversion, bill. in your introduction you said smart people watch reality shows? you know why i watch? i don t watch this one specifically. i do watch some. i know my husband goes nuts. why do i do it? it s a diversion for me in a high stress life. bill: why do you want to see people it s mindless. it s entertainment for me. it doesn t mean that i don t know what s going on in this country. when you think about it, you watch the jersey shore, snooki. i don t watch that one. the point is you watch them for what? bill: i don t know. drink and
we begin with the john edwards trial underway in north carolina. as you may know the charged former senator and vice presidential candidate if you believe it, i still can t with misusing campaign funds. he could go to prison for 30 years. how is it going for edwards? aren t you going to introduce me bill? my name is megyn kelly. bill: hi, my name is megyn, how s it going? i think it s actually going pretty well for the prosecution. this is con train because a lot of people think it s going poorly for the prostitution because andrew with not a likeable witness. the facts aren t really in dispute. bunny melon loved john edwards and she funneled $100,000. bill: it was called bunny money. bunny money. funneled $100,000 to his mistress through andrew young to hide her. it doesn t seem like a lot of that is in dispute.
of 04 when he was campaigning for re-election to swing states whereby in 2003 only 39% of his trips to swing states and there were a lot more trips in 2004. and then, as you will remember, democrats are screaming exactly the same thing, that president bush they were screaming something a little bit different, which was bush shouldn t be going to battleground states which, you know, i m not making that argument, you are entitled as a president to decide where you want to go. what bothers me is is that we tried to at least have the official events be official events. and there is virtually no difference between the political events that president obama is doing and the so-called official events. bill: you just did a little bit of slight of hand. okay we are going it do and do it but we have a little phraseology. what i m trying to get across here no, no. it s not just a little phraseology. the president president obama is doing an event about an issue on which republican
distinguish between the white house or campaign press operation and especially some of the cable news hosts on msnbc. they pretty much agree on everything. bill: pretty much in lock step. once you start to then take something off television and use it in a campaign without permission way out of line. and so nbc did the right thing here. but now i m going to have ask a very difficult question. there are people on the fox news channel where the romney campaign could take them and use them in a campaign. fox news doesn t want that and would object to that but if we re going to criticize msnbc as being in the tank for barack obama and they certainly are, there are people on fnc who romney people could absolutely take what they say and put on the air, am i wrong? yeah, i think fox has gone above and beyond in most cases to say when you are using clips that are unauthorized. bill: don t do it. we re going to make a stink about it don t do it. we have different opinions. sometimes peo
sunny days in more ways than one. bill: i hope you remember some of the reporting we did about john edwards. we knew he was a phony, chart ton, exploiter and narcissist. he ought to pull his client aside and say word to the wise when you are on trial for conspiracy and at a minimum covering up an affair that had you with a pregnant woman while your wife was dying maybe don t skip out of the court with a big smile about how sunny it is. bill: narcissist don t ever think they did anything wrong. we have been following a couple of criminal cases, one in alabama, one in michigan, one in ohio where there have been black attacks on white people. where trayvon martin s name is mentioned. should i take any of these seriously as a hate crime? well, the police in chicago are. they charged a hate crime. bill: have they? under the illinois hate crime statute. bill: what happened? i think they have reason to. one black attacker who is 18 years old attacked a white teenager and said