friday three times a day on 558 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
my lawyer is a very experienced long-term trial lawyer and i think i mean prosecutor and when we went in, he was genuinely surprised at how much time, effort and preparation they put into it and that was over a year ago. and they have been work on it for a long, long time. and the trial should be extremely interesting. there was some stuff that they showed me when i testified before the grand jury that i had no idea about. and i think john edwards this is not illegal if this is not illegal then it should be made illegal. mike: you trusted him. i loved him. mike: you held him high on a pedestal. yes. mike: one thing that struck me two men you trusted and put on a pedestal. john edwards was one of them and your own father was another and you i felt poignantly wrote about your father, him self-caught in an adulterous
will, the strength, the courage to turn your back on this destruction of america. mike: but there are critics who have accused him and others in the tea party movement of reconciling up hate and they compare those who speak out against government spending that costs billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to the angry mobs who protested against civil rights in the 60s. please welcome back to the show, jon voight. very nice to see you. mike: welcome back, jon. thank you, governor. mike: delighted to have you. nice to be here. these folks are willing to give you another oscar right here and now. isn t that nice. the first time i saw that. i didn t see it. it was very impressive. i didn t want to follow it. mike: well, it was a terrific day. there were many people there
left the backdoor wide open. the backdoor is the problem and that is iran and iran s nuclear weapons and none of what president obama s policies are going to do are going to close the backdoor. in the end, no, i don t think we are made safer at all. much more dangerous in fact. mike: when two countries had nuclear devices it was easy to look at each other and say let s have containment. now, we have pakistan, probably iran, on the way, i hope not. north korea. probably israel, they haven t admitted it but we make the assumption that they may have. and we don t know who is walking around with the shoulder fired version of one that has been able to pirate it from some nation. it is a different world. and a harder world. in the cold war, the russians and americans we knew if they attacked us we could attack them back and do just as much damage and therefore nobodody started a war. and our policy toward other countries was you pick a fight
these are the kind of things that trouble me very much. jon, i want to say thank you for coming today. it is always an honor and a privilege to have you here. i know your voice is getting extraordinary amounts of attention and i appreciate your courage. it is not like it is making you popular back with the folks in hollywood. you know who has real courage are the african americans who are part of the tea party movement. they have to stand up to people calling them traitors. and it is interesting, there are 37 african americans now running for congress or the senate for this november election. and those are the people to me that have courage. mike: as do you. thank you, jon, very much. a pleasure to have you here. when we come back, andrew and sherry young. andrew has written a powerful book called the politician. it as book about john edwards. but there are messages there that you and i need to learn. we ll be right back.