some say the smoking gun says there was a meeting, an intent or willingness to get information from an adversary of another country. i have great respect for charles krauthammer. there was no follow-up or attempt to have collusion. we may learn that he didn t read the e-mail and see this was a government official. we don t know that. yes, he said he shouldn t have taken this meeting. i think any campaign professional. that s one of the interesting things. how few people that have worked on campaigns are talking about this. we have seen well-organized campaigns, you know how to act and you may bring your counsel to a meeting. you are seeing campaigns that are just kind of coming together and aren t organized the way they should be and you know this sort of thing can slip through
fundamental problem with this one, as a campaign professional, you lose control of your message and marchtive. for for better or worse, have you candidates now who are not in control of the message in america. take newt gingrich in the primaries, he did his communicating in the primaries, of millionaires, and you have your candidates literally being puppets of millionaires, and the other problem if you think money is, in fact, speech, you automatically say rich people have more speech. and focus groups a couple weeks back were talking to voters and they feel their voice sk overrun and the system being rigged. this this decision does not does not expand democracy. it shrinks democracy. your point about control of the message, that is maybe the most heartening thing i ve heard about this. what i keep trying to figure out, what is the incentive? who has some sort of power and influence, some sort of
bachmann and john huntsman are in the single digits. bachmann is still trying to rally support. tonight doing it without the support of two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann s iowa campaign chairman, a man named state senator ken sorenson has jumped ship, going to ron paul s campaign. bachmann says sorenson is a quote sellout and said he was paid to go to the paul campaign. i had a conversation with kent sorenson and in the direct conversation that i had with him, he told me that he was offered money, he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent sorenson and myself. and i know what he said to me about that. sorenson says he went to the paul camp simply because ron paul has the best chance of beating mitt romney and president obama in his opinion. in a statement sorenson says quote as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachmann and her