with his russian counterpart. i have not written off the idea that the united states and russia are going to continue to have common interests even as we have some very profound differences on some other issues. and where our interests overlap, we should pursue common action. where we ve got differences, we should be candid about them, try to manage those differences but not sugar coat them. for more, we re joined by senior editor for the new republic, julia yoffey. good afternoon. julia, can you provide us with some background as to why the russians are so supportive of the syrian government? what is the nature of the russian, syrian relationship. well, it s a small thing called the cold war. it s hard to understate how much that mentality still dominate in
if anyone drops their pants when you re talking, it s always distracting let s get right to our panel. joining us is julia yoffey of the new republic magazine and contributor jimmy williams. jimmy, the tea party in your native state of south carolina have the knifes out for lindsey graham. tell us who the citadel graduate is who is announcing her candidacy i believe tomorrow. is that right? she is at the berkeley county gop luncheon. her name is nancy mace. she is a fellow citadel graduate, the first female graduate from the citadel i m proud to say. she is a businesswoman, a mom. she is she s an author. she s a spit fire. and there are a lot of people that are really still ticked off at lindsey graham for going after rand paul s filibuster on drones. that really disendeared him with a lot of the liberty movement and the tea party movement.
his current voting record. julia, you ve written extensively. i ve read many of your excellent articles. do you think he s as hypocritical as jimmy described? i was surprised to see him vote against comprehensive immigration reform. when i followed him in kentucky and iowa, he spoke constantly about having to reform the system but having to deal with the fact that there are millions and millions of people in this country who got here illegally but we have to deal with them because all of them have voting relatives, voting friends, voting spouses. and that we, you know, something has to be done and then you know, he talks a great game but ended up trying to scuttle the bill. sounds like an excellent choice for leader of the go. thank you both so much. coming up, drastic measures. the threat of terror prompts the closure of u.s. embassies across the middle east. we ll have a live report about
and conservatives in south carolina didn t like that he did it. and so you have richard cash, a lawyer who is running, nancy mace will announce tomorrow. state senator lee bright will probably announce at some point. this is a man that has said that god has told him he should run for the senate. that should make for a very interesting fourway come next year. interesting. dy screen right of senate as opposed to divine right of kings. julia, mitch mcconnell is also facing a tea party challenger but it s his likely democratic foe that s slightly ahead in a couple of polls. a victory for her would be huge, of course. nate cohen, your colleague says and i m quoting nate, democrats are starting to believe they have a good chance in kentucky. they shouldn t get their hopes up. certainly not yet. do you agree with nate cohen? , of course, i agree with my colleague. why? well, i mean, first of all, her margin is so slim in both polls it s within the margin of
national party. but is he unlike many other republicans give him credit. he s going out there and reaching out to hispanic groups, african-american groups. that sounds pretty. fundamental? rudimentary? basic. he s at least doing it. are we saying that. he s trying to calibrate his message accordingly. he s learning very quickly. are we say tag going to howard university and somewhat offending the black community there, that that was reaching out to african-americans? he did go to simmons two days later and he actually had learned something. okay. senator paul was one of the headliners at this week s tea party protest on capitol hill. let s hear his big zinger. take a listen to this. anybody want to fire some irs agents? why don t we start with the 16,000 irs agents that are going to implement obama care? julia, is that the rhetoric