brian: 25 years. matt: that s how long we ve been talking about the most important social issues. savannah: education. al: conservation. chris: uniting the nation. jim: with a bit of imagination. the more you know.
that if you go down ballot, one of our big successes is that we are repopulating the gop with these constitutional conservatives in north carolina and ohio. in state races, we are winning those local races. this will be a fight that s going to take 10, 20 years to play out. reagan did it. you have to challenge the old guard and the new guard that s committed to these fiscal, conservative principles. the other side is, as tea party candidates get elected, they become entrenched. i was interested in kentucky looking at what happened with rand paul. he was the face of the tea party unrising in 2010. matt bev vin runs against mitch mcconnell. rand paul was ron paul s old campaign manager, went and managed rand paul s campaign. were you disappointed with rand paul that he wasn t there with
largest health provider in the country has failed to provide vets with the care that they deserve. the shocking allegations that they kept a fake set of records and a real set. reports of great misconduct against staff cooking the books. a total of 26 facilities are under investigation. some patients are assigned to doctors who no longer even see patient p patient patients. those are doctors who are no longer working there. the head of the va announced reques yesterday that some would partner with local hospitals. his testimony did not convince everyone that he is the man to lead a turnaround that everyone needs. democrats had called for his oust ter. politically it is an easy way for these democrats to distance themself from obama. bob dole seemed to be backing away from h his earlier defense of his friend. he expressed his concertain about the va on birthdawednesda. when i hear allegations of miss conduct, whether it is lon wait times or cooking the books, i will n
bring you people who can give you information about targets because they re going to shut up. cut to the question. get schooled on foreign affairs, new jersey governor chris christie has been consulting the former secretaries of state henry kissinger and condoleezza rice. there are a lot of republican who is still believe that even with chris christie in the running jeb is still the one with the best shot at beating hillary. open question about what a federal crime potentially committed? i d love to say i missed you but i didn t. not even a week after chris christie s sin city getaway and the launch of the taxpayer-funded effort to revive christie s national political standing, we are learning federal prosecutors have upped the ante in their investigate into bridgegate. today there are new reports that the port authority official at the center of the lane closures, david wildstein, met for several days with federal prosecutors as esquire magazine reports that
same poll finds his approval rating is very low with voters. what are the major factors in his disapproval and do you think that he can rebound through 2014 in november? that latest poll didn t go too much into why people felt that way other than, you know, they asked about preferences. i think the number to take away is 31. that was mcconnell s positive job approval rating and that is also barack obama s positive job approval rating in kentucky where of course, obama lost in 2012 by 23 points. when obama and mcconnell have the same job approval rating, there s obviously a warning sign for the mcconnell camp. mcconnell s been around a long time and he s already been subject to a barrage of ads both from he s had matt bev ingo after him and he s had other groups who are against mcconnell going after him and the race has