President Obama Signs Final Health Care Reform Bill
CALLER: Hey, Rick. This is Dina (ph) in Georgia. Would you please remind the Tea Party people that they are not the only ones that voted, and that Washington is listening to the other voters? You know, maybe not listening to them, but they're not the only ones that voted.</s>SANCHEZ: Let's do the list of little-known facts. Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. Did you know that Jill Biden still teaches community college? She does, even though her husband's the vice president. And she was wearing red today and there in attendance when the president signed the so-called fixes to health care reform. Those fixes, by the way, include a huge expansion of the federal student loan program, hence Ms. Biden's personal interest. Mr. Biden was not there, even though this was a big deal, big deal. Time now for Yellin's list. Did you get that?</s>JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: I know what you were saying there. Good little joke.</s>SANCHEZ: I was being sneaky. Our national correspondent is Jessica Yellin, and she joins us now because she spent the weekend following Sarah Palin and the folks who follow Sarah Palin. And you were with us Friday, when Sarah Palin fired up the John McCain rally. I wasn't here. T.J. was filling in for me, so I missed that moment. How did she do Saturday at the so-called conservative Woodstock?</s>JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, it wasn't the same. She was on fire on Friday in Tucson with John McCain. And, at the Tea Party event, she was much more subdued. She did not have the same energy level. But I will tell you, Rick, the folks who were there didn't notice. They adored her. They were excited to see her, and the crowd really thinned out after she spoke, so they got what they wanted from Sarah Palin that day.</s>SANCHEZ: Let me -- let me cut to the chase on Sarah Palin.</s>YELLIN: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: Is Sarah Palin preparing to run for the presidency, or not?</s>YELLIN: You know, I don't know. Is she maybe building a multimedia brand? Is she potentially going to have a, you know, political talk show and a reality show about Alaska and a political message and a big following? I'm not sure that she's running for president. And she definitely doesn't have to get into the race for quite a while. If she wants to, she could let many others declare. She could see what the Republican field looks like and wait until the very last minute, because she has the following and the ability to raise money, to do it fast at the end, if that's what she wants.</s>SANCHEZ: Well, but -- but --</s>YELLIN: I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't.</s>SANCHEZ: Her -- she would be betting, though -- and, by the way, you can make more money following a brand, a creative brand, like the one she's doing, with a multimedia platform --</s>YELLIN: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: -- than you could being president of the United States in this political environment. But will this political environment last? I'm just thinking, the folks who like her are the folks who say and feel that they're somehow disenfranchised, at least from this administration. You know, as we say in journalism, what's the shelf life of that group?</s>YELLIN: Right. Well, that's what I think is the big question. And we don't know yet. The Tea Party movement to date has not been successful in electing a candidate. And it does seem -- and they have fielded a number of candidates who have gotten Tea Party support in various districts who have not won. So, the question is, can this momentum be corralled into supporting people for elected office? They were very explicit, more explicit than I have heard, at this past weekend calling on audience members to go out and vote, and they had a lot of Republican candidates from Nevada there asking for their vote. But there does seem to be an inherent contradiction, because lots of the Tea Party folks just naturally -- it feels like they want a third party, so pushing their votes toward the Republican Party is maybe electorally smart. It's more likely that could work. But emotionally it feels like they're so upset with the whole system, a third party would make more sense. So, there's an internal tension there, and I don't know how that will shake out. We will have to see.</s>SANCHEZ: Yes, I'm just wondering. When all this stuff was going on last week --</s>YELLIN: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: -- and all the accusations that there was a lot of incivility and the folks screaming at some of the congressmen, et cetera, et cetera, Sarah Palin watches the news. She has handlers who they tell her these things.</s>YELLIN: Yes.</s>SANCHEZ: Did you sense in her message that she would -- that she was taking it back a little bit, pulling it back a little bit so she wouldn't be accused of being -- quote -- "inciter"?</s>YELLIN: No.</s>SANCHEZ: No?</s>YELLIN: No, quite the opposite. She really -- and I get the sense she truly believes this, that the media is doing this to her, that she is -- she directly accused the media of mischaracterizing her comments or putting them in the wrong context and unfairly accusing of her of inciting people to violence and twisting her meaning to seem uncivil, when, in fact, she says all she means to do is ask people to go out and vote and to express them. And, boy, did that resonate with the crowd.</s>SANCHEZ: But hold on a minute. Let's be fair about this. That's her version of events, but the version of events that I know is that it was her Web page, correct, that had the crosshairs on?</s>YELLIN: Right. And she insists that that has no meaning beyond, let's go and vote. And, Rick, what I'm saying is these -- the people who are Palin believers see her view entirely. They share her view, and believe -- the people I spoke with believe truly that the media is being biased, and any suggestion that she is not being fully truthful is simply biased, that there are not two sides to this story, there are not two ways to come out of this; there's the right way and then the biased way. And that's the message I got from talking to so many people that day. They really feel, if you don't agree with them, you just are not hearing them at all.</s>SANCHEZ: It's kind of like one of those, it's what I believe and what is wrong.</s>YELLIN: Correct.</s>SANCHEZ: Jessica Yellin, thanks so much. Interesting discussion. We appreciate it. That's Yellin's list.</s>YELLIN: Good to see you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look what you did. You outed a CIA officer. You lied to take us to war. You ruined a country.</s>SANCHEZ: Yes, those charges are being leveled at Karl Rove. Well, this is incivility from the left. You will see it play out. That's ahead, right here. Also, he's finally made it official by announcing something that many people keep to themselves. He is our most interesting person -- pardon me. I flopped that completely. He is our most intriguing person in the news today. That's next.