Guests: Esai Morales, Robert Reich, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Amy Holmes, and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA).

On Surviving Cancer

After a while, you have to just expose and shame and indict and hopefully convict the participants in this illegal, immoral ideology. I found the best thing to do was to drag myself out of bed every day and go to work. And the distraction that I had chairing the Judiciary Committee was great, and it gave me no time to think about myself. And I think if more people will do that, they'll find that they can tolerate chemotherapy, as tough as it is.  Sen. Arlen Specter

On The War

We're not paying for this war as we fight it. We are paying for this war on credit. Bush says he's a big tax-cutter. But he's not a tax-cutter. He's a guy who's going to raise your taxes far into the future when he's on his ranch.  Bill Maher

Haven't you noticed that the "war on drugs," the "war on cancer," the "war on AIDS," the "war on crime," the "war on poverty," the "war on terror" now, to me, through my experience, they're all phony public-relations wars meant to justify its taking billions of dollars legally. They don't address the problem. They don't want to.  Esai Morales

On National Defense

Another way of putting it, if you're talking about the real defense of the nation, you know, it has to do with the nation's strength. And that depends on our people. It depends on our education, our health care, our ability to be productive, our ability to come together. That's what we ought to be talking about when we talk about defense: national strength and investments in our people. And we're not doing it that way.  Robert Reich

Our national defense strategy should include economic security for each and every American.  Rep. Barbara Lee