and yet when you read the news accounts of what happened that day, you would have thought that it was a racist rally. i m going read a couple of things, jon, some of this is just stunning. should be fun. mike: it should be. here is one. i m not even going to give these guys the benefit of telling their names or networks because i don t want to give them any publicity. i don t want people to watch this stuff. one of the folks on another network said if racism is not the whole of the tea party it is in its heart along with blind hatred. what are the tea partyers angry about, healthcare reform or the fact that it was an african american president and a woman speaker of the house who pushed through the change. another one says the angry faces at the tea party rallies are eerily familiar and look like those lining the streets at the university of alabama in 1956. on and on this goes. is that what you saw? you were in the middle of these
had an angel and a devil on one shoulder. both telling him to do the same thing. the angel says we can get the causes and the devil saying power, money prestige. in the first campaign he did have people like you are talking about. in the second campaign he chased them all off. mike: he chased them off if you didn t agree with him he shut them out. exactly. mike: to the devil was wining that discussion. exactly. if the first campaign we had david axelrod and bob scrhum. people with decades of experience and they ran each and every one of them off. as you know, david axel rod went on he called him incompetent. whether you like him or dislike him, he is not incompetent. mike: when we come back from the break i want to talk more about what happened that led to the incredible fall from grace.
of the finest radio stations in the country. if you aren t hearing it on your favorite station you better call and ask for. for a full list of the stations go to mike huckabee.com and click on the huckabee report. earlier this week president obama signed a nuclear arms treaty with the president of russia. will it weaken our military might and threaten national security? kt mcfarland. always a pleasure. delighted to have you. you worked with three presidents all of whom faced very special challenges. right. mike: dealing with nuclear arms. you watched this week and tell me are we safer today than we were a week ago? the treaty itself that you referred to with the united states and russia does probably a good thing but what it is like is if you have the house and a front door and put the locks on the front door but left the backdoor wide open.
i m loyal to a fault. sherry will tell you? you think? mike: good point, sherry. i think that is definitely the case. but i felt really torn when i wrote the first part of the book because i don t get to they wanted me to write a back just about the scandal but you can t understand why we did what we did unless you talk about including my father and everything that led up to that. i waited two years to tell the truth. i gave him every opportunity. more than two years. and when i was writing the part about him, the guy that i loved, the guy who was inspiring, gifted person the first five or six years. after he lost with john kerry in the 2004 election, he became a different person. his i like to say that his ego became egone. and he believed that it was his destiny and that he was doing people a favor running for
working for john edwards in 1998-1999 we would literally jump up and down when we would get like a $100 donation. mike: i did until the very end. [ laughter ] that was a big one to me. he did much better. by the end of this, i was literally regularly getting commitments for a million dollars. and, you know, i think with edwards being looked at by the grand jury one of the problems that they are going to have, i assume, is that when the people wrote the campaign finance law they never anticipated a situation like this and it will definitely be a case of first impression. mike: there is a possibility that john edwards could be indicted. yes. mike: you testified before grand juries to give information as to what in fact happened because there are investigations ongoing. right. mike: would it surprise you if he were indicted? no. mike: you kind of expected it at some point maybe? my lawyer is a very