fbi s investigation into russian meddling. as we told the senate judiciary committee in august, in other words they were interviewed. they spoke to them. the dossier was taken so seriously because it crop rated reports that the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the trump camp. as we know from the new york times , it is george papadopoul papadopoulos. he was the one who was speaking drunkenly in april to an australian diplomat who had the same information that the dossier had. these two dovetailed, john. that is how the launch of the fbi s investigation into the trump campaign. that s right. among other things, it means there are two concurrent fbi investigations at least only one of which was made public at the time. the timeline is what is key here. what they are saying is, look, release our 21 hours of testimony. make that public. we have been transparent about who paid us. first it was a republican organization. then a democratic campaign.
the image mattis uses, when you crush a snowball, isis, in his imagery, more flakes out. they re seeing more of it crop up in central and western africa and that s why they re training counterterrorism forces there and had this engage ant, as they said, was not expected. how many troops are in harm s way on any given day in central africa? close to 1,000. whether or not they re in harm s way, a lot of the guys are on the bases building and so-called behind the wire building these drone attacks. doing counterterrorism in niger is about 100. 100 in these cases, u.s. army special forces, green berets. look, mattis had a great line, not a great line, a telling line. there s a reason we send army guys with guns there, not the peace corps. this is a difficult part of the world and in general, chuck, you know, we only really realize how far extended u.s. forces are on counterterrorism when something goes bad. this is one of those cases. an excellent point. hans, i think a lot of people
health care reform, which is has gone over like a lead balloon with millions and millions of people, the bailouts of the banks and wall street. the rotten economy, the ever increasing growth of the national debt. the spending, the taxes. i mean, i don t know how much time we have. i could give you another 50 factors, but that is the whole point, when you have nearly 80% of the people this unhappy with government there has to be a lot of reasons why. martha: and you ll see comments on both parties, being put under pressure by this, i would assume. sure. look, if i were an incumbent running for re-election these numbers would terrify me. now, let s remember, most incumbents are democrats, that is why they are in disproportionate trouble and are running things when people are unhappy but i noticed in a lot of republican primaries, incumbents who ought to be safe aren t safe and i think we are seeing it crop up in g.o.p. primaries as well as the general
publicly brought up gingrich s marital history. it could be an issue for him. i think the gingrich campaign knows that. clearly romney s campaign knows that. the calculation on the part of mitt romney is that evangelical voters are going to turn from gingrich to romney, but if they go somewhere else, it helps romney down the road. gregg: new york times pointed out that the top two candidates are mormon and roman catholic. does that matter to evan jet kals, many of whom are pros test tenant or we beyond that? i think the mormon issue is still an issue. we have seen it crop up a couple of times already at cpac there were more comments made that brought it back to the fore. i don t think that is non-issue in iowa. i think that is one of the reasons that evangelical voters