unfortunately, the senator has accused this government of working to grow this government. he touted his conservative credentials. i ll continue to be lindsey graham, a solid fiscal and social conservative who wants to solve problems. i think that s the future of the republican party. so with the gop hoping to win back the senate in 2014, let s bring in our monday gaggle. former chief of the u.s. office of citizenship for president bush alfonzo aguilar. director of the caucus angela rye. and of course the director dan boies. this is two members of your party, you re watching here, you know, mcconnell getting squeezed, left and right. graham, right now, squeezed from the right. just a simple question, who
supposedly starting last sunday and continuing, as the travel notice says, through the end of the month. maybe into early september. through labor day. but where, how, you know, with what sort of targeting, what kind of attack, they just don t know. people, the history, it seems to me, tell me if this is incorrect, either time the government s been able to go public about a terror warning, go back to the bush days, has it been one of the essential tools for thwarting it? certainly helpful. i m sure by now i m not sure but i would assume by now the al qaeda people in yemen realize we re on to them. whether that will change their plan, whether they ll modify it, whether they ll delay it, whether they ll forget it, who knows. i suppose the feeling, number one, it can t hurt, and number two, you have to warn people anyway. pete williams, thank you. joining me now is california
0 probably most likely to happen in the middle east at or about one of the embassies but there s no guarantee of that at all. it could be europe. it could be the united states. it could be a series of combined attacks. so it begs the question, why go public at all? is the administration trying to smoke out more information or trying to cover itself in case the worst happens? last year s attack on the u.s. consulate, the front essentially for cia operations there in benghazi, is obviously seared into the administration s memory and they don t want history to repeat itself in that particular incident. particularly when the chatter and the timing remember, we are in the five dnal days of ran and all of that seems to coincide. you heard a number of lawmaker using the threat as a vehicle to advance their own agendas. for instance, more money overseas. in the defense appropriations bill which we wrote and sent to committee this week, i included $48 million specifically to upgrade in 35