joining me now is conservative reporter mame margelan. he resigned from the family research council a few days ago but a lot of important political fronts still supporting him, mike huckabee was one of the ones supporting him. how important is that support and the reaction from these political bigwigs? >> that's right. josh duggar's twitter profile is a who's who of american politics right now. he's met and at the least posed for a photo with nearly every member of the emerging republican presidential field mike huckabee defended him but the silence is the gop candidates don't want to say anything that could turn off the evangelical portion of the republican party's base. the duggar's are very popular with primary voters and that whole narrative of josh sinned but he has repented strikes a