the press. the obvious question is whether the special counsel is trying to put pressure on general flynn to cooperate by investigating his son. if that is a tactic, would you have any problem with that tactic? listen, the special prosecutor has a different standard. they ve got a credit standard. he has different tools than we have and our committee is to try to foond out whether there was collusion and make clear to the american public how we prevent russia or any other nation from intervening in our elections on a going forward basis. obviously bob mueller has got a different set of abilities and tools. and i think he s been moving quite aggressively in his investigation. much like the paul manafort, i guess there are two sort of areas of general questions for general flynn. trump campaign contacts with russians up to and including his own conversations with the russian ambassador and what he told the fbi did those, as well as his own business dealings with foreign officials.
americans. there s an understanding now that the situation is broken, and things aren t working for them. and can as you pointed out, that adds a very somber and serious note to what we re going to be undertaking here tomorrow night in the debate. megyn: is it a somber note or a note of excitement and promise for the republicans? because the washington post has a piece today entitled republicans smell blood in the presidential race, and it talks about how in the downgrading of the american credit standard, the number of difficult economic blows the president has suffered and so on the republicans who just a month or so ago were said to be feeling dejected about the chances of unseating this president are now thinking that they actually have a really good chance. reporter: well, if you remember, the last time we had a debate it was in south carolina. it was right after the killing of usama bin laden. the conventional political wisdom was that barack obama was unbeatable, the guy w