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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
governor christie. the romney campaign was looking at ways around that. but there was no clear solution to it. but at the end of the day, you feel paul ryan was truly his first choice or do you think it was christie and this was the impediment? only governor romney and maybe beth myers know the answer to that question. it s been interesting. go buy the book. we can t give the whole thing away. download the book. download it right now. we ll do that. dan will stick around because it s monday and he s on the panel. we ll talk a little virginia governor. up next, though, we re going to go live to cairo. facing its own political unrest amid the new terror threat. two republican senators there trying to be mediator. white house soup of the day, it s my favorite because it makes you research all the legumes of the world, it s 15 bean. we ll be right back. told ya. t-mobile s got the samsung galaxy s iii.
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