SANCHEZ: And we welcome you back to world headquarters of CNN. I'm Rick Sanchez.
We have been getting a ton of your responses on these stories that we are following today involving -- including the one that we are covering now. And that is a story about Sarah Palin and Todd Palin and their association, if any, with the Alaska Independence Party.
We have just received some comments within the last hour from the McCain camp.
And, to be fair, I want to make sure I read it to you in full. Here it is.
Let's over my shoulder, Robert. I put it up here, so you can see it on this board. Can you see it right there?
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"CNN is furthering a smear with this report, no different than if your network ran a piece questioning Senator Obama's religion. No serious news organization has tried to make this connection. And it is unfortunate that CNN would be the first."
This is from Michael Goldfarb. He's a McCain/Palin spokesman who we have been in contact with.
He goes on to say: "We are trying to arrange to have one of the governor's people come on the air and respond in the event you do run this piece."
Well, obviously, we are doing this report. And we would welcome anyone from the governor's office if they want to come forward and give us their side of the story. And if there's any other statement that you would like us to read, we would be happy to read it on the air.
We should note, by the way, that we have been in contact with the McCain people on this story since 9:30 this morning, when we first started going through some of this information.
All right. Let us continue now our interview with David Neiwert.
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