less, it means the prosecutors think it is less. means the investigators think it is less. not just somebody. people investigated this crime think it s less. that is exactly what a preliminary hearing is for. charges were brought as a result of an investigation. in other words they don t just guess. they investigate. what happens at prelim when testimony starts colling out, that is one of the things that will be at issue. should it be less. what was her role and if the defense decides to raise the defense of duress, troy s right. it doesn t necessarily have to be done at the prelim. charges can be changed. they can be inflated. they can be deflated. they can be moved. more people can be charged. one of the things that came out during this investigation. jon: i don t get it troy, if you drive a car to bank robbery, somebody gets killed, even if you weren t in the room, you drove the car you could be charged with murder. why is a woman apparently in the room, in the church where this b
this fight. this is one he d want to go down on. in fact he did. this is a mistake on two levels. on one level it s a mistake because they ve now given the democrats this gift on the eve of the government shutdown when before they were framing this issue in terms of reducing spending, that was a good issue for republicans. now this is being framed as being about republican extremism on abortion and women s health. that s bad for republicans. the other reason why it s bad for republicans why are they riding around on a church bus blasting away at npr, planned parenthood? how did they get on this bus? partly because we ve allen slightly fooled by the notion that republicans were very disciplined in 2010 in term of staying focusedhon fiscal issus when a lot of the new people in congress are deep cultural conservatives and now that s colling out. what senator toomey made that point on morning joe county ,