Hey, west coast, you gonna be watching Sen. and Mrs. Edwards on Leno tonight? Share your thoughts in the comments or talk about whatever you darn well please.

The first part of the interview focuses on Elizabeth and she is really brilliant -- smart, compassionate, funny. She should really run for something. I hear a certain NC senator is in need of a challenger...

Jay asked Sen. Edwards about the fact that Elizabeth came out in support of gay marriage, which he disagrees with. He said "I'm not where Elizabeth is yet" but said he is a strong supporter of gay and lesbian rights. He said he found out about Elizabeth's statement in the newspaper. "You know there's this strange thing with Elizabeth, she actually says what she thinks."

Jay asked about Hillary being up in the polls, Edwards said he's running for president because of "37 million people in poverty, universal healthcare, getting off our addiction to oil and ending the war in Iraq...wherever it is up in the polls." Big applause.

Update [2007-6-26 3:50:18 by Todd Beeton]: Jay asks about the low approval ratings for the new Democratic congress when they were supposed to come in on their "white horse." Edwards gets it: "Bush keeps blocking what the Democratic congress wants to do. I think people expect Washington to change but it takes some time for things to change." He then said he would have preferred the congress had been firm with Bush on forcing him to withdraw troops from Iraq.

Jay: "Are we safer since September 11?"

Edwards: "No...there are more terrorists and we have fewer allies. The war in Iraq has been a huge recruitment tool for terrorists...in terms of homeland security, we've made some progress there...but you have to think about the underlying foundation for terrorism and what's happened there is the war in Iraq has helped them, America is seen as a bully, the world doesn't want to follow us...a huge responsibility for the next president of the US will be to restore the moral standing in the world." Applause.