despite the way iran s ambassador to the u.n. reacted to our question last night, they might be sharing america s top technology with china. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight top secret american technology in the hands of a sworn adversary. at this hour, iran has the cia s rq-170 drone. last night the ambassador said iran captured the drone intact and judging by the images of iranian state tv, that seems to be true. sources at the pentagon say that this does look like america s top stealth drone. the rq-170. our question tonight, what is iran doing with this drone? the big fear is they might be sharing its most important technology, the ability to fly undetected by radar, with china. experts today saying the flights between beijing and tehran likely were booked up this week to see the drone. it might be a case of he who doth protest too much, because here s how iranian ambassador to the united nations reacted when i asked him if iran was showing the
your candidate not to get caught up in it? everybody at a debate feels like they have to sort of outperform each other on some of the red meat issues. and what that does is lends people to think that they ve got to go out and say the most outrageous thing. the most important thing to represent is that the tea party is still a reform element. an element within the electorate that cares about spending and deficits. those are two issues if you talk about them enough and you focus on a lot of the fiscal conservative core issues that also move independence that s your best place in the debate. reed wilson if you were the editor in chief of the minneapolis star tribune, who got the headline, michele bachmann or tim pawlenty? i think michele bachmann. tim pawlenty had his chance and he stood there and just let the pitch go by. michele bachmann announced her candidacy. she outperformed everybody else in the second tier. and look, every four years somebody from the second tier makes it to
constitution. what is this line here that we have with the tea party. you know, mark murray used the line earlier, will the tea party get co-opted or are they going to run the republican party. if you re john boehner, how do you with handle it? i disagree with the idea that the tea party is separate. and i don t think the tea party is a monolithic organization, either. i think it s a reform element within a center-right electorate. and i think what happens now, that john boehner, if you look at the reactions to the election results, they were a study in contrast. i think the white house had to be dragged kicking and streaming into understanding te electoral mandate that was just given to republicans. and i think republicans talked about listening. talked about bringing the government closer to the american public. and they ll focus on those issues like spending, like deficits, like a more smaller government, a more efficient government. and i think those are all aligned with tea part
the republicans in a position where they re saying there is no compromise. the american electorate wants compromise, and if they don t, he s got the per upper hand. jenna: we re getting a lot of questions about how the tea party will or will not be absorbed into the republican party. what duke about that? they re not a monolithic bloc of voters but a reform element within a center-right electorate. and these are folks that very much like the perot voters of 20 years ago, they want to see a little bit more common sense applied when it comes to fiscal issues. they think we re doing too much spending in washington, and i think those are core concerns that a lot of republicans that were already elected and part of this congress and part of the republican leadership, i think they re just as concerned about those issues. so i think they re going to be aligned on a lot of the policies
hasn t gone to classrooms, teachers in classrooms. oh, no, no. paul: gone to padding the the idea there s mow bureaucracy to cut, no efficiencies is ridiculous. paul: here is what s interesting, dan, politically, you begin to see a fault line opening up within the democratic party between the forces of the status quo and unions and people and that s how they get money and elected and the reform element saying you know what, this is a betrayal of our mission as democrats for equal opportunity. this is a betrayal of students especially in the inner city. we ve got to get on this morally and in terms of action and results. morally is the word, paul. the biggest moral scandal in the united states, bar none, and it s elements of the democratic party are beginning to realize that, there is some hope. i think that overtime we can make some progress on this subject. paul: it s interesting, jason, you look at some big city reformers like joel kiem