may be a record turnout of 140. what were you saying, 140,000 people? 140,000, about three independent estimates that say 140,000. obviously those are guesstimates. that would be a record. even when we talk about that being a record, that s a relatively small slice of not only the state population but the national population and whether this sort of small very, very far right you know, largely christian evangelical audience should have an outsized role in shaping the republican field. and matt lewis, you seem to say less. look, first put it in context. the republican needs 1,144 delegates to win the nomination. if romney wins iowa and new hampshire, he will have 12 delegates out of 1,144. so the media makes iowa more important than not. we are sort of guilty. but i do think there s an argument to be said for having a protracted and drawn out primary process because if you had a national primary, somebody like
may be a record turnout of 140. what were you saying, 140,000 people? 140,000, about three independent estimates that say 140,000. obviously those are guesstimates. that would be a record. even when we talk about that being a record, that s a relatively small slice of not only the state population but the national population and whether this sort of small very, very far right you know, largely christian evangelical audience should have an outsized role in shaping the republican field. and matt lewis, you seem to say less. look, first put it in context. the republican needs 1,144 delegates to win the nomination. if romney wins iowa and new hampshire, he will have 12 delegates out of 1,144. so the media makes iowa more important than not. we are sort of guilty. but i do think there s an argument to be said for having a protracted and drawn out primary process because if you had a national primary, somebody like barack obama or rick santorum
have? i will certainly be at that briefing tomorrow, and i think there just needs to be an understanding that there should not be a protracted, long, open-ended conflict here. we have 100,000 soldiers in afghanistan now. that should be our main fight. but there does seem to be little hope that this will be resolved quickly. the president is considering among other things giving arms to the rebels. do you think that s something he should do? well, i am the subcommittee chair of the emerging threats subcommittee of the senate arms services committee an before we look at the strategy, we need to have consultation with congress and come to a bipartisan resolution on this issue. well, obviously, that will start in some part tomorrow. what do you want to hear from the secretary of defense of secretary of state? one thing that i do want to mention and that is that the marines from north carolina from camp lejeune and cherry point did a heroic mission in libya.
forward to protect others. i think we will hear from the president tomorrow night in his address to the nation concerning libya. and we obviously do not want to have this to be a protracted drawn out situation. our focus needs to be on afghanistan where we have 100,000 troops that are fighting that fight. and that is where our focus should be. but we certainly needed to prevent the atrocities from colonel qaddafi of slaughtering his own innocent civilians. shannon: what are your expectations for the president s speech tomorrow night? what does he need to say to you as a member of congress and more broadly to the america people about what is going on in libya? shannon, i serve on the senate armed services committee and chairman on the subcommittee on emerging threats and we will be meeting next week talking about libya and putting forward strategies but i think it is premature to say and i think we will all be attuned to what the president has to say tomorrow night.
scandal. a particularly lurid sex scandal involving this guy. his name is max mosley. at the time, he was the head of the international car racing organization that governs formula i. and a few years ago in 2008, a british tabloid called news of the world got their hands on what they said was a five-hour long videotape showing max mosley and what they described as a said so masochistic dungeon in london having a protracted and by all accounts very satisfying several hours long paid encounter with five women at once. and british tabloids are not known for their restraint. news of the world went ahead and uploaded the video and then published this had very reserved british tabloid headline f 1 boss has sick nazi orgy with five hookers. in the video he was seen