Well see. How the Russian Investigation got started, with George Papadopoulos winesoaked night in a london bar. In that conversation he let slip that hes aware the russian government has political dirt on Hillary Clinton. When the emails started to come out a few months later, the australians very close ally of intelligence to the United States, they come to the fbi and say, hey, we have something you should note. And jam packed january. Congress getting back to work facing deadlines on dreamers, health care and a whole lot more. We clearly have to get a budget passed in january and make it longterm, but there are so many subjects that have to worry about pensions, health care. The next thing we need to worry about is health for workers. We need to make those welfare programs not trapping people in a welfare state. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Its good to be back. Happy new year to all of you. Meanwhile, tensions are rising in iran where nine people were ki
0 no one in this administration has ever claimed otherwise. and that wasn t the only foreign policy issue. another was iran. also afghanistan. interesting partly because of martha raddtz s experience and expertise and talk about winners and losers, the winner of that debate was martha raddtz my friend and colleague at abc but also on iran you have two completely different postures. 100%. actually, for having said that, that paul ryan was kind of along for the ride i will say for a debate that was, it was supposed to be domestic and foreign policy it was both of those things but a lot of foreign policy. for a guy who has no real track record on foreign policy, been a member of congress they deal with these sorts of things but not certainly as deeply as joe biden had either in the senate or as vice president, he was i think fine on foreign policy. david s point, look the foreign policy big foreign policy story we re talking about today is what the vice president of the united state
joining me david gregory moderator of meet the press and chris cizilla msnbc contributor and managing editor of post-politics.com. the big night in danville first to you, chris overnight quick reaction polls which we don t rely on because they re on-line polls. right. but your sense from your blog as to whether this was a win, place or draw? you know, i think everything your analysis in this debate fends on what you think of joe biden and joe biden s performance. paul ryan was there. he made some points. you know, i mean he did the things that i think republicans wanted him to do, not back down, look like he was credible, could be the vice president of the united states. biden was this huge figure for good or bad depending on your perspective. i think he would have won the debate andrea on points, narrowly, had he just controlled a little bit more his off camera reaction. the two of you spend more time on television than i do but we all spend some amount of time on te