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I have seen many causes including money, social media, geography, and the polarization of the media. let me start with the media, a subject on which i have strong opinions. three decades ago on ronald reagan's watch, washington was a different place. sure, there was partisanship. but not polarization. and the ideologues were the exception, not the rule. according to the national journal which took the ideological pulse of the congress every year, 60% of the senate on ronald reagan's watch was comprised of moderates. there were so many republican moderates that they had their own weekly gatheri...

He's got so that he's not appearing to influence an election, which was the standard investigative and prosecutorial m.o. >> i want to start out by agreeing with my friend, the governor, i had no problem with fast-tracking this thing. i think it would be very important. i do want to say though that the fbi has been known to pull some october surprises. i don't know exactly the sequence with ted stephens, senator from alaska. he was exonerated, and died in the meantime. congressman kirk weldon from pennsylvania a number of years ago had his office raided by the fbi on the eve of the election. s...

Prosecutorialm.o. prosecutorialm.o. -- m.o. >> i want to start out guy agreeing with my friend, the governor, i had no problem with fast-tracking this thing. i think it would be very important. i do want to say though that the fbi has been known to pull some october surprises. i don't know exactly the sequence with ted stephens, senator from alaska. he was zoexonerated, and died i the meantime. a number of years ago, an office of the raided by the fbi on the eve of the election so they have been known do this sort of thing but i agree with the governor, let's put all the facts out there. but i...

>> i remember the last sitting united states senator to be indicted and charged, ted stephens of alaska. you remember that? >> in the end, he was vindicated. he went through hell. the federal government could not prove the case against him. >> well, he was convicted. he was convicted. what happened was, the attorney general came in and reviewed the case and found there was some very serious behavior by the -- by prosecutors. they didn't share evidence they were supposed to with the defense. they ended up tossing the case. >> in effect he was vindicated. he was -- he may have been convicted, bu...

A letter to congress that these emas were missing. they had filed suit back in october and they had actually started getting emails from the irs. so they are sort of wondering why the irs didn't come clean with this. >> what's the irs's excuse for why they didn't tell judicial watch? i mean this is all in a court. well, they haven't responded specifically to that. what they have told lawmakers is that they learned there was a problem with the emails in february. the irs chief knew in april. but they basically wanted to just finish the investigation and be able to tell lawmakers in congress eve...