this morning saying, we are trying to be bipartisan and meet with these guys. they won t show up. but the president made a fatal error in scheduling this and put png it off his calendar as well as asking him. in washington the most important thing is to show respect. especially the new guys coming in. you want to take these guys and grab them both sides and say act like grownups here. shannon: let s get to the table. you mentioned the idea of respect. there was a brouhaha where the president showed up in baltimore are house republicans were meting. many of them felt like he was lecturing them. and they feel sort of this distrust about what he s really going to do if they get together. normally the president invites you, you never say no. but they were so worried that they would come off and not have
i want to stay in the fight. there s cpac every year. i would love to do a more moderate republican immediate meting of some kind. it s kind of like the island of misfit toys. people are scared to talk to me about it. if you re out in this way, you just get eviscerated by blogs and reporters and i would really love to somehow create a website or something that would organize it better. because i m so not alone. i wouldn t be sitting here right now if i was alone. moderate republicans are getting the one i think identifiable mainstream trend that i agree with is that modera moderate republicans are being voted out all across the country. so they will be available to come to your meeting. meghan mccain, author of the new memoir dirty, sexy politics whichcy understand is about to get on the new york times best seller list.
lawyers so it wasn t politics in the mix in making this decision. obviously that s false. they were serving in a political capacity. this is one of the examples of congress and the american people not being told the truth about this case. the truth simply is becoming another victim in the process. megyn: i want to get to what was said to congress and the civil rights commission. when you were arguing, when the trial attorneys were trying to convince these two political attorneys to let the case go forward, you already won, saying toants don t reverse our victory. there was a meting. these lawyers would later testify and say they reviewed all the evidence. the department of justice said they looked at evidence and made a decision based on that evidence the case couldn t go forward. you say there is evidence they have did not review the facts of this case and even the brief of this case. it s obviously false that they knew all the evidence. steve rosenbaum hadn t even read
crossing borders. this is exactly what we ve been afraid of. but this is this is an opportunity for our judicial system to step up. and mete out maximum penalties against people. do you want to see gitmo emptied and have these prisoners like khalid sheikh mohammed emptied into prisons like illinois? i would like to see them go on trial, be found guilty and executed for the crimes they committed. civilian or criminal? my heart says it doesn t matter but my brain says i think we should do it in civilian courts only because we should not allow al-qaida to dictate to us where we do these trials. the bush administration had real success over the last eight years, the eight years they were in office, in trying and convicting and meting out harsh penalties to terrorists. if you get bin laden tomorrow, do you want the ability to waterboard him if he s not talk sing?
reporter: destination virgin islands and among the thousands of passengers ready for fun in the sun. people are not ready for the mad charge to the left. reporter: members of a rising political movement are having a meting of the minds. led by former republican presidential candidate allan keyes, more than 100 conservative tea party activists and their families rented out space on the ship for what was billed as the cruise for liberty. we believe in free enterprise. reporter: the cruise organizer michael fallon organizes this voyage as a chance to talk about politics in paradise. right now, people are wanting to be with other conservatives and maybe they feel like they are out on an island somewhere by themselves. reporter: so to speak. yeah, so-to-speak, exactly. hello, everybody, we will give you access to health care