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Rape or incest. this is a position that was beyond the pale even in fringe anti-abortion politics not many years ago. the idea of exceptions for rape, incest and the life and health of the mother has been the bright line for even strongly anti-abortion candidates for a very long time. apparently those days are over. nobody's really talking about it, but you this year's crop of republicans believe that women should be forced to bear rapist's children. when i called this a sleeper issue, what i meant was that they're not apparently trying to make this a national issue. they're not trying to run ...

>> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mick cycchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesn't hold, then it could be a political issue. otherwise, i don't think it will be a political issue until decembe...

But sadly. >> let me ask you also about afghanistan. afghanistan obviously thrusts back into the headlines because of the mcchrystal scandal. is afghanistan likely to remain cap a policy issue? or could it become a politics issue? could it be a sleeper issue in this election? >> i think it will be a sleeper issue only if it erupts. i think otherwise it will be kind of as mcchrystal said, a bleeding ulcer. sort of low level fever. but if, look, if things go south badly and the status quo doesn't hold, then it could be a political issue. otherwise, i don't think it will be a political issue unti...

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Is concerning many of the democrats on the committee. >> there was a theory floating around that it was put out today just in case a truly unpredictable president wakes up in the morning and feels like throwing the switch on executive privilege. >> i don't think he can do that with the former. but the sleeper issue is that the president could exert executive privilege with regard to the other individuals in the comey firing. and this is where it may go to the courts. because if the president tries to stop the other witnesses from testifying, that's what bob mueller needs to spark a case of mot...