have nominee giuliani or a president hillary clinton if you look back early. so i think it s really early in this race, but, right, the front runners are still here in amy chel bachmann iowa michele bachmann, governor romney s up there, and we ll see if newt gingrich moves up. tim pawlenty has to make a stand here at the iowa straw poll on saturday, one or two to get a ticket out. i just saw him up the road flipping pork chops, and he kept them on the grill. maybe that s a good sign. megyn: last night it was very exciting, the big debate opens, you have the fox music, everything. did you feel the excitement? did you feel a little nervous? it s a big night. reporter: yeah, it s a big night. it is fun. i mean, listen, you ve been at these big nights, and we sat next to each other on election night, and you know that feeling inside, and you re in the middle of this, and this is for a political junkie the best thing
person. megyn: andrea interesting. now, is that like a lesson on how to handle something like this? i think totally smart not to let vanity get in the way. didn t make it about her. it s not about me. and i think now posing for newsweek cover is the equivalent of going on a late night show or posing for a new yorker cartoon. tina brown knows how to sell magazines. you have to be careful there. queen of rage refers to the tea party is what they said. i think it tracks back to the first question, did she look like a religious zealot, someone who was part of almost a cult or did she look enraged. the funny thing about her is she will give you the worst polices in the world with a smile, and megyn: you don t like her positions. no, i don t. i think she needs to reeducate a whole long list of reasons why i cont think her polices are a strong area. tina brown s newspaper sells are down so this looks like an act of desperation,
are contracting that these types of items should be determined. disabilities set forth in the contract, in the time frames for which the city can contest the disability. megyn: and it s for 20 years after the date they first hire him which is a lune esdeal because what they basically say is chip i m hiring you as a new york city firefighter in the year 2012 or 2011, so 20 years from now would be the last day i could ever contest your disability if you file it between now and then, right? even if the dispute is going on 20 years from now, i can no longer contest it. well, the city is at fault for not making that part of the deal and the contracts up front. when you start with private insurance companies, because i represent companies like this, every single year the insurance company has a right to contest whether or not the person is disabled or not so it s a yearly basis, they can do this typically to the age of 65, and the city, knowing they have people that can retire much earlier
that supervised probation. so she s going to have to come out of hiding by august 26th of this month, two fridays from now. she can, though, submit herself to meet her probation officer before then, but she has two weeks to begin her one year s probation. megyn: all right, phil, thank you. well, also developing this afternoon, the fbi investigating educations that someone allegations that someone is sabotaging equipment owned by the phone company, verizon. verizon reporting 90 separate acts since a union strike began last weekend. thousands of customers including a hospital and a police station, trace gallagher has more life from our west live from our west coast newsroom. reporter: even police say the timing here is very suspect. you have verizon workers walking off the job, joining the picket lines, suddenly you have cable, internet and phone lines going down in dozens of neighborhoods across a number of states, we re talking about new york, new jersey, maryland and massachus