donald trump would release his tax returns. does he need to do that as president. which he will do. you re convinced he will. julian kept saying this. as a sitting president. he s not a sitting president. but he will be on january 20th. will you let me fin, jewel yay? i didn t interrupt you. julian, hang on. i have 25 seconds the. be respectful. i know you re partisan, but be respectful. answer the question. he s not a sitting president. i agree this is a process that will take time, but if the standard is if you re wealthy and have holding overseas, you cannot run for president, and you have three or four weeks to divest yourself of these holdings, this is then what it is with julian has said, a political witchhunt. adolfo, that s a complete nonanswer. thank you for a complete nonanswer. thank you, guys, i ve got to stop of time-out. we have to move on.
greek debts and spanish banks. europe, if they had a primary and they wanted one in 2008, they d have voted for obama. some of the bloom has gone off the relationship but on the whole they would think that obama was somebody they know, be they feel they can deal with, somebody who is more in line with european social democratic values and i think they are slightly alarmed by what they hear out of the romney campaign when it comes to things like iran and now russia. i would love to know from dan whether he agrees with governor romney that russia is the number one geopolitical foe of the united states. i agree that russia, among the great powers in the world, is working most strategically to advance its own interests at the expense of ours. and in the case of trying to get a resolution in syria let me fin, the question.
guys, let me fin the conversation that chris and i were having about this des moines register poll. 41% of people have a candidate but could be persuaded to vote for someone else. steve, what s going to persuade them? well, the bandwagon effect has a big role to play in the last few days as people see, for example, with rick santorum, the biggest criticism people had of him is he couldn t win. now they believe he can win, they re jumping on board. as i talk to people over the weekend, i saw a lot of people moving toward rick santorum and a lot of people moving toward mitt romney. i think they ll both have rick santorum a big surge and romney a small surge. what i find fascinating over this, rich, is we ve heard so much about how this was a different kind of campaign in iowa because so much of it had to do with social media and more money was being spent in add tuzing. and yet here you have a rick santorum who basically didn t have any money. all he had was i guess his car
people in the mid-20s. you ll see support for santorum, the surging candidate. i think it s one of those races where it will be very evenly balanced in terms of the vote. bachmann falling behind, gingrich falling behind out here mainly because of the negative advertising. that would be my pick right now, three closely tied front-runners coming out of iowa tomorrow night. chris, you certainly don t need my endorsement, but if folks believe you can learn something from history, they ought to pick up your book. congratulations on the good numbers. there s no jack kennedy running out here and no ronald reagan here this time. chris matthews, you can catch hardball right here on msnbc, of course, 5 clks and 7:00 p.m. eastern time. steve grubbs was the republican party chair who worked for herman cain in that state, rich stray land a republican strategist, also worked for newt gingrich. guys, let me fin the
legitimate action? you know what i had a problem with? the war in afghanistan. bill: let me fin. the point of the war in afghanistan was supposedly go in and find bin laden. bill: no, that s not right. well, 9/11. bill: mr. jcaho, look, what you just said is fallacious. it s wrong. it s not wrong. the point and purpose why are we in afghanistan if it wasn t to hunt down al qaeda and the terrorist network because it definitely waste wasn t for any other reason. no that s wrong. i will answer it the reason we went to afghanistan was to deprive al qaeda of a sanctuary. we remove the taliban government when they wouldn t crack down on al qaeda. now, to get bin laden, that was another part of the operation. okay? but it s a part of the operation, sir. but it doesn t but that doesn t negate it that doesn t take it away from the purpose of it just because it was another