do you believe that president eisenhower was a soviet agent? you don't? then no. no, okay? no. joining us now for the interview is glenn greenwald, attorney, author and blogger for salon.com. glen, it's great to see you. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> is the whole idea of mainstream, what makes a person electable, is it influx? s that political center moved very far to the right this year? >> i'm really unpersuaded by that claim. i certainly understand the view and don't doubt the view, the claim that this new crop of tea party candidates is quite radical and extremist. no rax rational person could doubt that. but i don't think it's radically more radical than prior generations to say that is obscure trivialized how radical republican leaders were. if you look for example at the last decade we had george bush and dick cheney starting an aggressive war that killed 100,000 people at least and instituting a worldwide torture