reporter: shocking indeed. contestants and audience again, weren t real and thought the game show was real and the guy on the hot seat was an were real and the guy on the hot seat was an actor and they thought he was to the point of dying and 19% of the contestants, refused to do it, and, a shocking 81%, went through with it. martha: gosh, they haven t had this much fun since the guillotine, i guess, right? bill: you got that. martha: what is the reaction to this in france. reporter: the producers, said they were updating a classic psychological experiment and actually run in the states 50 years ago and the french were taken aback and a top commentator i spoke to, a short time ago, called it stupid, and crazy. the french newspapers dubbed it a bothering and unethical, actually, martha, it was run on the french government owned television channels, with no word of what president sarkozy thought about it, and, while some have likened it to how some folks obeyed the nazis during wor
so he is the first no vote, we believe, to switch to a yes, and we know there are several yes, s that may now be nos. that is a plus in the president s column. bill: that s a major flip-flop based on what he told our producer just two weeks ago. in a few hours, bret baier sits down with the president for an exclusive one-on-one, and bret is with me now from d.c. good morning, bill. bill: it appeared on monday from afar that the white house strategy was shifting. instead of going for those moderate democrats in the house and trying to flip their votes, the ones who were concerned about the abortion amendment, instead they went for the or far left flank and guys like dennis kucinich, and that s when we saw the rally on monday in cleveland, ohio. and during that rally there was a gentleman there in the audience that said, vote for the bill, and there was a flat-out appeal to dennis kucinich to change his mind.
talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. the reality. martha: th reality is we ll b reading rights to the corpse of usama bin laden. he ll never appear in an american courtroom. but it is that is a reality. bill: he says that is a reality, byron york, with the washington examiner, good morning to you. did we learn something about the attorney general s view on the war on terror? that we did not know before? did it reveal a new side of him or did he reaffirm what many thought about his viewing of the world here? actually, bill, we did learn something, and this was a supremely weird moment, when the attorney general said we d be radioing miranda rights to the corpse of usama bin laden. but, the whole thing was about this issue of civilian trials, versus military trials. for terrorists and we know that the president and the attorney general favor civilian tries and, the republicans said would you give a civilian trial to usama bin laden himself and he said it will ne
vote no because there was no public option, that has been his main, huge sticking point, really, can he turn around on that this morning? reporter: that s what we re waiting to find out. he certainly could. it would be uncharacteristic. he considers himself a champion of ideology and is not one who has compromised on his left liberal principles for years, and it s sort of elevated his prominence in democratic politics to the point where he did run for president against barack obama and acquitted himself pretty well in an awful lot of health care debates in which his voice for that public option was one of the loudest. so for him to vote against this bill would be against principle but in real conflict with what liberals and democrats see as the crown jewel of their agenda, passing health care. since this the closest thing to universal health care, kucinich is confronted with the dilemma,
i want to roll that for you, and i ll get you to respond here from monday. yeah. well okay. your own congressman who is tireless on behalf of working people, dennis kucinich [cheers and applause] vote yes! did you hear that, dennis? [laughter] say that again. vote yes! bill: so that was monday. were you hearing the white house thought they had a pretty good chance to flip him? yeah, listen, bill, we gave a lot of time to dennis kucinich this morning and the president did at that event, but many in washington didn t believe the drama around kucinich would pan out. the real drama would be if he had said, no, i m going to vote against this bill. of all the pool of democratic lawmakers that nancy pelosi has to go after, the progressive