the president will be at the justice department to talk about how we deal with surveillance in this country. that announcement was spurred by the edward snowden disclosures that started last june, but also by a continuing stream of reporting since then, including most recently the disclosure by the new york times yesterday that the nsa has devised a way to put radio transmitters into computers of their choosing around the world, even if those computers aren t online. last month, president obama s surveillance review board came up with a long list of recommendations on how to reform surveillance. tomorrow, president obama is going to announce which of those recommendations he s ready to adopt, which he rejects, and which he is turfing over to congress to fight about forever. so that s the big washington event tomorrow. the other big political event in the country tomorrow, though, is that tomorrow may be unveil the subpoenas day in new jersey.
the edward snowden disclosures that started last june, but also by a continuing stream of reporting since then, including most recently the disclosure by the new york times yesterday that the nsa has devised a way to put radio transmitters into computers of their choosing around the world, even if those computers aren t online. last month, president obama s surveillance review board came up with a long list of recommendations on how to reform surveillance. tomorrow, president obama is going to announce which of those recommendations he s ready to adopt, which he rejects, and which he is turfing over to congress to fight about forever. so that s the big washington event tomorrow. the other big political event in the country tomorrow, though, is that tomorrow may be unveil the subpoenas day in new jersey. today we learned that one of the special committees investigating the chris christie bridge scandal in the new jersey legislature has issued 20 subpoenas as part of their investigatio
so the republicans, you know, they turfed out the republican incumbent or they defeated the kind of reasonable known quantity republican who might have a chance to win. and instead they picked the pure guy. and in case after case after case, they thereby lost the seat. that is how this pattern generally works. but the pattern doesn t always work that way. there are a few exceptions. there are a few cases where turfing out the normal guy in favor of the hair-on-fire guy didn t result in a republican loss, it resulted in the hair-on-fire guy going to washington. that is how we got to ted cruz. ted cruz was the hair-on-fire guy. he was the tea party primary challenger to a guy whose hair was slightly less on fire. but it was texas, so even after picking the truly whacky guy in the primary, the republicans were still able to win the general election in texas, so now we all have ted cruz to deal with in washington. the same pattern held in two other places in the last
purification process actually worked. most people, it doesn t work. but for them, it worked. they are the rare exceptions. so now here s the question. these seven republicans, who are under attack right now from their own side, ted cruz raising money against them and the negative ads and all the rest, are their races likely to be christine o donnell races? or are they likely to be ted cruz races? if this effort that ted cruz is leading succeeds in turfing out these incumbent republican senators, and that s what they re trying to do, will the neoconfederate activists and the other hair-on-fire tea party types who replace them on the republican line just go down in the general election? or will those guys actually end up in the united states senate? joining us now is sam youngman, he s a political reporter for the lexington herald leader in kentucky. mr. youngman, thanks very much for being here. nice to have you here. rachel, thanks very much for having me. so senator cruz according
and in case after case after case, they thereby lost the seat. that is how this pattern generally works. but the pattern doesn t always work that way. there are a few exceptions. there are a few cases where turfing out the normal guy in favor of the hair-on-fire guy didn t result in a republican loss, it resulted in the hair-on-fire guy going to washington. that is how we got to ted cruz. ted cruz was the hair-on-fire guy. he was the tea party primary challenger to a guy whose hair was slightly less on fire. but it was texas, so even after picking the truly whacky guy in the primary, the republicans were still able to win the general election in texas, so now we all have ted cruz to zeal with in washington. the same pattern held in two other places in the last election, kentucky in and utah. in kentucky the last couple of elections. in kentucky, mitch mcconnell and the republican establishment had picked their candidate, who they wanted to run for that seat, who they knew who could w