reservations about this. i think if he can convince them, he may well do this. that is a serious challenge. i think this is different, i really do. let s talk about senator webb announcing he will not seek re-election in virginia. no rematch with george allen. how devastated are democrats at this news? did they see it coming? and who might be a candidate? a lot of people talk about dnc chair tim kaine. i think a lot of democrats were not that risurprised by th. if jim webb were going to be running again, he would have said that. he hated campaigning. but democrats are looking for a candidate. the top choice probably is former governor tim kaine, the chairman of the dnc. he ll only do it if president obama gives him a call and says, hey, we need you to do. this i m not convinced he s going to do that at all. perhaps some of the other former congressmen who were defeated last year. after kaine there s a huge falloff. but i want to talk about the senate map.
interviews for months and months that he s thinking about running. he ll make a decision in june. really? one place i haven t seen him is iowa, new hampshire, nevada or south carolina. it s cold this type of year. i m impressed that he got out of the upper east side. this for him is outside america. it is. yesterday they said he s seriously thinking about this but he s not the only one. there s a whole lineup of people. sharron angle is traveling to early voting states, several other people so it s kind of silly there s a narrative about how the idea of running for president is an industry onto itself and for a lot of folks it s an investment more than anything else. it s not about being a president, it s about getting their ideas out there, getting themselves out there. it s this fascinating i know you and i especially love to sort of rail against this because you do have people sort of celebrifying the
here we are a month in. hangover from 2010 clearly hit the democrats. kent conrad gone. joe lieberman they ll have a better chance of holding that state. but north dakota, you have what s going on in virginia. you ve got republicans fired up. ben nelson. ben nelson, who knows. republicans have a serious candidate in montana. republicans are asking as if the senate is theirs for the taking. are they doing their touchdown dance? mccaskill from missouri will have a tough race. i think it is a bit too soon. keep in mind president obama will have a lot of money and playing hard in a lot of these states. if kaine doesn t run, it will be tough but president obama will spend a lot of cash turning out african-americans and folks in northern virginia. 52%. that was george allen s number in 2000. got to leave it there for now. jeff, john, thanks, guys.ç
and factory workers already on strike. doctors in there too, providing new momentum to anti-government protests. it s now day 17. ron allen is live in cairo with more. all of this may culminate with a big one tomorrow, ron, right? yes, chuck, that s the plan. fridays, tuesdays are the big days á$u$e marchers have planned. there s every indication they re trying to gather momentum for another big turnout tomorrow. today we saw a huge group of lawyers and juryists marching through the streets headed toward tahrir square but also toward the parliament building as well. there s also a demonstration taking place near the presidential palace and the presidential residence. so things are spreading. there s also a lot of buzz around town today about movements by the army, tanks seen moving in different positions. there have been troops gathering on the outskirts of town, we hear reports of that. this could be an indication they re just trying to step up security in anticipation of big
it s extremely important we continue to give the resources to all of our intelligence agencies. as far as the yemen issue, yemen is a place where al qaeda has a safe haven, where they can train and do what they re attempting to do. my concern is the homeland, and i think what leiter said yesterday is very relevant and important because an wash al awlaki is american, he understands our ways. he s recruiting and using all of the social media to recruit homegrown terrorists and that s a major threat. we re going to have to refocus a lot of our resources on the homegrown threat, yet balance our civil liberties. congressman rogers, let me ask you about the other piece of news, that the threat level from al qaeda is at its highest, as it was around 9/11. why is that? well, you have to remember this is something that s been building for a time and it s because of the way they have structured the new al qaeda