List put out by the obama re-election campaign. he is one of the romney donors cited by the barack obama campaign website and they described him and others on the list as, wealthy individuals with less than reputable records. well now this idaho ceo has disever coulded that a private investigator is digging for more dirt on him, specifically looking for his divorce papers. the man, who has been doing the digging, works for a political opposition research firm. so is it fair to target private citizens when they make donations to public politicians? joining me now, chris hahn. former aide to senator chuck schumer and fox news contributor. chris plante, who is wmal radio host of the chris plante show. guys, so, we know from kim strassel s reporting from the wall street journal this guy appeared on the obama campaign re-election list and right shortly thereafter somebody is looking into his divorce record. they want to know about his divorce proceedings and other litigation.
The conservative void and now it s mitt. what do you make of this pile-on? he is newt is getting it from conservatives, bob dole dropped a bomb on him. nancy pelosi said, i have dirt on him, but i can t tell you what it is. what do you make of this coordinated avalanche on top of newt gingrich? i don t know if it s coordinated. could it be coincidence of so much pile-on? in the party? i don t think it s helpful to the party, as a whole, in terms of going forward in this election process. i think it s a real problem. what are they doing beating up on each other? beat up on the guy in the white house. politic, right. politics 101. at the end of the day, the best candidate will win. they have to take incoming from their own side to prepare for obam amount of i have been around a long time. kimberly and i are both californians, using direct mail and what have you, in this case, they dropped the gloves, they
The conservative void and now it s mitt. what do you make of this pile-on? he is newt is getting it from conservatives, bob dole dropped a bomb on him. nancy pelosi said, i have dirt on him, but i can t tell you what it is. what do you make of this coordinated avalanche on top of newt gingrich? i don t know if it s coordinated. could it be coincidence of so much pile-on? in the party? i don t think it s helpful to the party, as a whole, in terms of going forward in this election process. i think it s a real problem. what are they doing beating up on each other? beat up on the guy in the white house. politic, right. politics 101. at the end of the day, the best candidate will win. they have to take incoming from their own side to prepare for obam amount of i have been around a long time. kimberly and i are both californians, using direct mail and what have you, in this case, they dropped the gloves, they
Said yet, whether or not they re in this game. meanwhile, as you look on the our program, the first story we told you about is about chris christie, how the white house is trying to dig up some dirt on him. he says look, i m not running. now, the next story is about somebody they did dig up the dirt on and he is in trouble. talking about remember forrer presidential candidate and democrat john edwards, apparently the department of justice has green lighted an indictment against him and the key is whether or not some of the money from some wealthy donors wound up getting funneled to his mistress rielle hunter to keep her quiet while he ran for president. i m shocked by this. justice department looks like it s going to hand up an indictment within days, edwards has been notified for his campaign violations. he is now in deep legal trouble. and we know what s happened with his personal life. i don t know the surprise comes from what part? because we knew that these grand juries have
How can you not like him? you can t not like him. he is a likable guy. obama is wasting his time around here. in addition to the point of him being a likable guy, this is a wasteful witch hunt. when is the last time a republican governor ran for this position and they found a lot of embarassing stuff in their closet? so this is a waste of time. can you imagine people come compiling research on on you? yes, i can and it scares me to my soul. the first part of the opposition research is that you don t have a soul. it scares me to my blank spot. i would say that the they should be looking for dirt on him. they want to be prepared. make sure it is real. he was actually born in