start your future and apply today at contracosta.edu/free hello again. and welcome. it s time to get together with some smart people to break down the big stories in our own way. today, we re asking, why is it so hard for some on the left to condemn objectively horrible things like anti-semitism and sexual violence? amid the outrage on donald trump only on day one admission this week, is he really a dictator in waiting? or just playing one? i ve got a hot take why time magazine picked taylor swift as its person of the year and these guys can t wait to tell me why i m wrong. the gang as you can see is all here and ready to go. so sit back, relax and let s talk about it. first, the heated debate on the israel-hamas war ripping apart liberal america. take a look at this. an airplane carrying the words harvard hates jews, flying over the school s campus. the plane hire bade group of jewish students to condemn what they call rampant anti-semitism at harvard. it is part of
how old is she 38. a harvard mba. more of a big business person. she worked at whirlpool and bain and now the ceo of this airline. we love stories like that. a lot of new names. a lot of women. a lot of women. up didn t use binders. no binders. no binders at all. we have a no binders rule. leigh gallagher thank you so much. and leigh s book is a great book the end of the suburbs. so true. coming up, war on capitol hill. republicans fighting democrats. democrats fighting republicans and everyone fighting senator ted cruz. the moderator of meet the press david gregory and capitol hill correspondent luke russert join the conversation.
voters thought could defeat barak obama. the best experience for a president, that one was interesting, too. working in business was the number one thing here. that also was mitt romney. so i want to take both of these for you and take them over to the other wall, kyra, to examine them a little bit more. look at that. gingrich was the second one that voters thought could defeat barak obama. rick santorum came in at 13%. ron paul, perry, bachmann, huntsman didn t even look at that. huntsman didn t even rate in terms of being able to defeat the president. then working in business. santorum also ranked up here, which is sort of interesting because he is the guy who also for being so much in politics, but ron paul, 18%. perry 11%. gingrich drops down to 8%. bachmann, 6%. nothing for huntsman. he s a big business person who understands the global economy as well. electability seems to be the
at the winners and losers and dan lothian and david mattingly looking ahead to the battlegrounds that are now more important than ever. all right, let s start with dana bash. dana? well, we have some potential news this morning about what this caucus has did to the field on the republican side. michele bachmann who, of course, came in a disappointing sixth, effectively dead last here in iowa is going to hold a news conference in a few hours. her campaign is not saying what it is about, but it is hastily arranged news conference. it is hard to imagine that she s going to have something and not give us news about the future or maybe lack there of of her campaign. so, kyra, we re waiting to see exactly what she says. obviously, she is somebody who was one of those who is riding very, very high in iowa. not that long ago. she actually won the first contest here. the ames straw poll only to see her popularity absolutely plummet in the last few weeks. that will be probably, poten