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CBS Anchor Katie Couric gets some straight talk from the Alaska Governor.
Palin: My understanding is that he recused himself from the dealings with Freddie and Fannie, any lobbying efforts on his part there as John McCain has been saying, and as I've on a much more local level been also rallying against is I see the United States as being a force for good.
Couric: But he still has a stake in the company so isn't that a conflict of interest?
Palin: Also and I believe that they too want to they are right next to, uh, to our state it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia.
Couric: Do you support the $700 billion government bailout of bad debt?
Palin: A state government and a local government needs to figure out how to best prioritize those federal funds I certainly am it was our choice whether we were gonna spend it on a bridge or not, and I said: "Thanks, but no thanks".
Couric: Why do you say that? Why are they waiting for John McCain and not Barack Obama?
Palin: They're not waiting to see what Barack Obama is going to do is he going to do this and see what way the political wind's blowing the evil that he speaks.
Couric: But polls have shown that Sen. Obama has actually gotten a boost as a result of this latest crisis, with more people feeling that he can handle the situation better than John McCain.
Palin: There's no doubt in anybodies mind across America, whose payin' attention to the presidential race here he's been on the "other" side of what I believe the majority of Americans want we're - we're promising the reform.
Couric: If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression?
Palin: I certainly am of course the poster child for the earmarks was Alaska's - what the people in the lower 48 refer to as the bridge to nowhere but.
Couric: Would you support a moratorium on foreclosures to help average Americans keep their homes?
Palin: I certainly am oh I would argue with the whole premise of that, that his mission is to not increase taxes and we are mavericks.
Couric: So you haven't decided whether you'll support it or not?
Palin: I certainly am we did, we paid thirty thousand dollars for a lobbyist who was in D.C. he's been on the "other" side of what I believe the majority of Americans want.
Couric: What are the pros and cons of it do you think?
Palin: Uh that's, you know, that has to be considered also that, that's paramount that's something that John McCain and I have both been discussing - whether that ... is part of the solution or not.
Couric: By consumers, you're saying?
Palin: We're - we're promising the reform oh I would argue with the whole premise of that, that his mission is to not increase taxes and we are mavericks.
Couric: You've said, quote, John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business... Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
Palin: It's not inappropriate for a mayor or a governor to request and to work with their congress to plug into the federal budget, along with every other state, a share of the federal budget I am a Washington outsider I do not have those allegiances to the power brokers, to the lobbyists.
Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: There's no doubt in anybodies mind across America, whose payin' attention to the presidential race here with lobbyists makin' deals with congress, and it's not gonna be accepted in a McCain-Palin administration we need someone like that, in Washington, someone committed to the American people.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?
Palin: Specifically we will make every effort possible I think that the example that you just cited the maverick.
Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I think that the example that you just cited specifically we will make every effort possible that, that's paramount.
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