heather: in the works about the hunt for osama bin laden picking up a big fuss. film about the terrorist leader is drawing major heat from peter kane and he wants to know if the hollywood filmmakers received classified information by navy seals to kill bin laden. he says the defense department and c.i.a. support his call for investigating the leak. let s bring in our power panel, m.k.putting far land, joosz judith miller and list we will. thank you for joining us. k.t., i ll start with you. you were in the pentagon. assistant secretary in the
if you haven t seen it, buy a tick. we hope you ll be there with us. tivo, you know, not the kind of thing you want to watch the next day. kind of want to watch the ball drop at the exact moment be, so we hope you ll be with us, 11 p.m., this saturday night. as we ring in the new year, several states will be ringing in brand new laws, especially in lifornfornia. and who better to tell us about those than trace gallagher live in l.a.? reporter: m.k., i just hope you weren t hankering for some shark fin soup. shark fins will be outlawed. you can t trade em, can t sell em, right? so it s tortoise soup for you. here s some other things raising eyebrows. california the first state to mandate gay history teaching which means you ve got to go in and teach kids about bisexual, gay and lesbian contributions to history, and you can do it as early as first grade. speaking of kids, in california they will now have to remain in car seats until they re 8 years old or 49 inches, whichever
comes first. don t you know we just threw out our 7-year-old s booster seat. great. you want to the get on some cough syrup in california? forget about it. you want to stop coughing in california, forget about it because now the state has put one ingredient prescription only. that s the stuff in nyquil, vix, robe us the sun. if you want to get a tan, you ve got to do it outdoors because if you re under 18, you can t do it in the tanning salon anymore. but if you see sharks, m.k., don t even think about shark fin soup. megyn: if it swims, don t eat it. never been a seafood fan. it upsets a lot of people, i don t know why. thank you, t.g.. well, the nation s debt is about to increase big time, president obama asking congress to increase the nation s borrowing limit again. and new information on a christmas day fire that killed five people in connecticut. what investigators say someone did just before the family went
end? mary katherine hamm, a fox news contributor. how you doing, m.k.? i m doing pretty good. bill: where are you o now in terms of the strategy that is best for cain? look, i sympathize with the campaign s frustration on this. we have three unnamed sources at this point. i think the ap ran with this third woman s name last night. she didn t report it at the time, so i understand their frustration here. i m not sure that going a after the perry campaign from the very top of their campaign is the best idea partly because it fuels the story. the infighting is something that people love to talk about, that the media loves to report on, and i think they re all over that. bill: they love to report on it for a lack of substance in other areas. continue. right. [laughter] well, that is, indeed, part of it. the horse race and the game is always part of the story, and it s something i think you have to anticipate.
election, but it s not i don t think it is cut and dry as a lot of republicans believe. bill: they were all on the same talking point and, the clip we just played, that is the reason we played it. here s the fundamental question about the enthusiasm on the left. why do you have the democratic leaders talking to the convention in las vegas? is that normal? does it happen every year with the group known as net roots or does it suggest the lack of enthusiasm on the left. they are influential and they tend to get a lot of good speakers and during the campaigns they had, you know, obama and hillary both went there. so i think you hit on a really important thing, though, the enthusiasm gap and there s a huge gap, conservatives are much more enthusiastic and i think you can expect a pretty good turnout and the liberals are depressed. you know, a lot of them are unhappy with obama. and, so, they really have to work hard to get them out there. bill: we ll get the apb out for m. k. hamm, run