it s jonathan capehart, i m glad you mentioned michele bachmann. what happened to her? she was the flavor of the month back in i believe it was july or august. and she s from iowa, she s also been on the ground there. why hasn t she caught fire? is she dead in the water right now. i ll answer the last question first, she as dead in the water as can be. as you guys probably know, her iowa co-chair soren sen defecteded from her campaign and moved to the ron paul camp. that has caused a minor controversy out here. i was at michele bachmann media availability that she aallegeded that the reason he left was because he was offered a bunch of money by the paul campaign to switch. she claims he told her that in a telephone conversation a couple of days ago. he is denying that. her own political director is denying that.รง i asked her today if it s the case that she was told about this two days ago, which is what she said at this media availability, why she did not announce that
lot hotter. if he wants to test the heat, i ll meet him anywhere in iowa next week, 90 minutes, no moderators, just a timer. if he wants to try out the kitchen, i ll be glad to debate him anywhere. wendy shiller is an associate professor of political science and public policy at brown university. wendy, nice to see you this morning, and i want to show you right after the bat, take a peek of newt gingrich s campaign website. it says solutions on it, not attack ads, then you click on it, it sends you to a recent ad where he says others seem to be more focused on attacks. i need to know, will this stay above the fray strategy help newt out in iowa where he is under attack? under barrage from romney supporters, even supporters from everybody else s camps too. but mainly from romney s camp? well, i think it does. because it gives him the opportunity to constantly promote his message, his ideas, his thoughts. if he wastes time getting really toe to toe and a tit for tat
of militants, perhaps six, perhaps ten, climbed up a building, a 13-story building that s still partially under construction. and they brought with them many rocket propelled grenades. when they got to the roof of this tall building, which overlooks to a degree the embassy and the nato complex, they started firing rpgs on to those two locations and other locations in the downtown area. the u.s. embassy says that it ordered personnel to go into hardened shelters, not to evacuate the premise but effectively calling a bomb scare and according to this embassy spokesperson no one, no embassy personnel were hurt. but, in addition to these militants who went up into this tall building and started raining rpgs all over downtown kabul, particularly the embassy nato headquarters, there were also several suicide attacks against afghan police in three to four different locations in kabul what kind of test is this on the transition, the ultimate transition coming up in 2014? well, it sh
locations in the downtown area. the u.s. embassy says that it ordered personnel to go into hardened shelters, not to evacuate the premise but effectively calling a bomb scare and according to this embassy spokesperson no one, no embassy personnel were hurt. but, in addition to these militants who went up into this tall building and started raining rpgs all over downtown kabul, particularly the embassy nato headquarters, there were also several suicide attacks against afghan police in three to four different locations in kabul what kind of test is this on the transition, the ultimate transition coming up in 2014? well, it shows that the surge, which has taken place and is now being scaled back to a degree, the extra 30,000 troops that the united states sent in to try and stop the taliban s momentum, hasn t prevented them from carrying out very brazen attacks in kabul. and even as the u.s. is now saying we re going to start dialing back the surge, the taliban is saying, we re
they say we re recovering, i have yet to see it, at least in this area here, so i might be frustrated as well. i want him to reassure me that my investments are safe. show a little more leadership and less compromising. wendy shiller is an associate professor of political science and public policy at brown university. professor, good morning. the president is out there taking his message to real voters. lots of voters want more. has the president at this point lost all credibility when it couple times to job creation specifically? i don t think he s lost a all credibility at all. he s focusing on connecting the dots with what the government can do and what the government can t do to help people get jobs, hold on to their savings, so i think he s finally transferring his energy to that kind of focus.