In 2004, Thomas Frank published a widely-discussed book called What s the Matter with Kansas? I didn t read the book, but my understanding of Frank s smug thesis is that Kansans, and by extension Americans (the title of the book overseas was What s the Matter with America?), were voting against their interests, as Frank saw them, because they were distracted by cultural issues. These days, Democrats are asking, what s the matter with
familiar with big young s widow, she s shall we say quite the character. the tampa bay times said the list included charles crist, whom mrs. young said has a history of transparent attempts to manipulate the public arena and she didn t want her husband s memorial service to be a place for that. r next up, 11 that s the percentage of the republican voters that are being polled on the virginia s race. in all total means he s getting 10% of the overall vote. democrat terry mcauliffe leads overall. next up, 1,300, that s how many cracks and trouble spots officials say need fixing on the capitol dome. so the washington monument is going to get some scaffolding company in the next few months as nearly $60 million in repairs
just the current home in foreclosure but at times they have run up debt totaling hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. shepard: and this is jill kelley and her sister, at the same time, who has been described in interesting way including by the courts, was involved in a custody dispute which did not go her way, she lost custody of her chill child and the two generals got involved. jonathan: this is the twin sister, natalie is her name, and she has been just as much on the social scene down in tampa as her sister meeting all the top generals and politicians. the form governor of florida, charles crist, was asked how well he knew the two sisters and the husband. it is a sad situation. what can you say? you know the family? not well but i know them. have you dated natalie as some reports have said? in. denial he dated natalie. on the subject of jill kelley it
york city, the president facing a wide range of questions today at white house. we start with the scandal that brought down david petraeus. president obama says there is so far no evidence that general petraeus affair compromised any government secrets. i have no evidence at this point from what i have seen that classifyied information was disclosed that in any way would have had a negative impact on our national security. shepard: the president said this is an ongoing investigation and could not comment on specifics. why the white house did not learn about the scandal in election day the president had this to say. if we had been told you would be sitting here asking why were you interfering in a criminal investigation. it is best right now just to see how this process unfolded. shepard: the president addressed the fiscal cliff and the administration s response to the attack in benghazi. now to wendell at the white house. the families of some of the victims of the atta
0 socialite jill kelley s twin sister, natalie. reporter: both of these sisters, they are twins, faced pretty steep debt and natalie was also involved in a very sticky custody battle and both of these sisters cultivated relationships with powerful men in washington and generals who were rising stars at central command. natalie was involved in a custody battle with a former bush administration official and general petraeus wrote a letter on of behalf of natalie appealing to a judge in the custody battle we hosted them and the kelley family for christmas dinner this past year and in each case we have seen a very love willing relationship between natalie and her son. the judge wrote she appears to lack any appreciation or respect for honesty and integrity. five months when he was under investigationing he was if this position where he could have been compromised by russian foreign intelligence, for example, if they got on to the affair and blackmailed him and that is why government e