who won a special election, against his opponent who resigned after being charged with election fraud. he has a colorful history, none of it in politics. back in 1990, carrie bentovolo was running a home business in the detroit suburb. it didn t go well, mostly because there were problems paying the bills. at one point, there were 16 court cases involving bentovolio and his districts. he eventually filed for bankruptcy, dusted himself off and became? santa claus. as in a guy who dressed up as santa claus at the mall. he also a ran a reindeer farm. one thing he set me straight on yesterday, he is not a farmer, a rancher. a reindeer rancher, who
with election fraud. he has a colorful history, none of it in politics. back in 1990, carrie bentovolo was running a home building business in the detroit suburb. it didn t go well, mostly because there were problems paying the bills. at one point, there were 16 court cases involving bentovolio and his creditors. he eventually filed for bankruptcy, dusted himself off and became santa claus. as in a guy who dressed up as santa claus at the mall. he also a ran a reindeer farm. one thing he set me straight on yesterday, he is not a reindeer farmer, he s a reindeer
she was a backer of his ideas and policies. she felt she was a true partner with him when he was speaker of the house. and that s why i believe that mr. limbaugh is mistaken when he says that he asked for her mission. she had no idea that he had decided to take up with this young staffer in the united states capitol. dick and james, both, thank you. and dick, just for note, the thrilla in manila was where they did not do the rope a dope. rope a dope was rumble in the jungle, but i m an ali fan. i screwed up my sports metaphors, al, and you had to correct me. you could just let it go. yeah, i could have done that. the president was on the road fighting for fairness today. as willard romney was in south carolina fighting off questions from the 99%. it didn t go well.
and how to ratchet back the rhetoric. i thought this is what they wanted, mike, they wanted the extended primary. of course they d all be going after each other for months and weeks on end. this has taken a turn. this has really got even ugly. now we have republicans a cushion other republicans of sounding like liberal democrats. megyn: of being liars. liars, and that started out really with the mitt romney super pack in iowa where they accused newt of being in favor of the mandate. i mean the individual healthcare mandate, which wasn t true. this has got even ugly. i really was rooting for newt in terms of staying positive. i thought it would set a tone. megyn: it was an experiment. and it didn t go well, now he s throwing into the towel and says that doesn t fly i m going to have to roll up my sleeves like everybody else. i don t think it s great for anybody. it s kind of ugly. megyn: let me ask you this. alan. i think the republicans got this idea from the democratic primarily
l.a. times all the way through and joins me now. andrew, good to have you with us. so, what can you tell us that you know specifically about, this, this man s issue, anger with the u.s. government? well, we know that his mother had recently undergone some kind of immigration hearing. and that it didn t go well. that he was very upset about it. now the question is, was it the motive for this particular crime? obviously, with his arrest now, and this was information about the suspect provided by federal authorities to the arson task force. so obviously one of the thing that they re trying to do is establish is this the motive, are there other factors involved, and this is part of what they re moving forward today very quickly with this investigation following this arrest. and you are reporting, indicates that he was perhaps from germany? that our law enforcement sources are telling us that he is of german origin.