i mean, there s a guy not afraid to call the guy a mud slinger which he is. mitch mcconnell is a negative force in american politics. he s not an idealogue, he is a negative. here s the guy calling him on that from the right. bevin also wasn t afraid to engage with reporters. after the event and a lot of them were from the national press. he didn t screw up. that s a big test of this fancy farms sort of extravaganza. they say you can t win your race here at fancy farm but you can lose it if you make a big mistake. and bevin didn t do that. he pulled it through. with a local accent, is he a southerner, northern? what is it? he s from new england born in new hampshire. they don t mind that? his family owns a bell manufacturing company in new england. they make the bells for the salvation army among other things. it s a historic company. he moved to louisville. because it s a nice place to live. he became an investment banker and businessman there. so he s accepted? being fr
at this point, his immediate danger is the guy to the right. and that s going to set him up for potentially making alison grimes more dangerous than she is right now. because mcconnell is really in a a vise, especially going into the fall budget fights. what bevin was talking about when he was going after mcconnell is this letter that senator lee has where he s urging republicans to use the continuing resolution that funds the government to defund the health care program. and mcconnell has yet to take a position on that. he s very carefully walking a line not saying anything. but if the right wing gets really angry about his refusal to sign that letter and take those positions, it s going to make bevin more of a risk. it could push some of the conservative groups in washington like the club for growth to actually go in for bevin with real money and that would be a real problem for mcconnell. they are really i m trying to think of the right metaphor. maybe force you to eat somethi
to get re-elected as a republican senator these days, you have to go so low. you have to say not only did you oppose obama care. fair enough. you have to say once it s made into law you have to then defund it. you have to cheat or else then you re not a real conservative. well, this is a tumultuous scene down there. it s really unbelievable. it s a big open shed with about 1500 people divided equally, democrats or republicans, cheering or booing. this is a catholic event, too. it s the st. jerome catholic church in western kentucky. it s a big homecoming summer event. mack bevin, the person that casey was talking about is a businessman from louisville who only got into the race at the last minute as a republican candidate for the primary, which doesn t take place until next may. we re talking almost a year away. i was interested to see as was casey and all the other political reporters whether this guy matt bevin, who is a businessman in louisville and comes from an old new engla
0 branch. his name is nasser al wuhayshi.when you have the leader of a big organization, al qaeda central, calling his most dangerous assassin and telling him to do something big, not only is it a big problem for the united states and one that should be taken seriously but it also shows the linkages that still do exist between the al qaeda organization in pakistan, bin laden s old organization, and some of the key players that are spread across the organization, across the regional affiliates, if you will. nasr al wahayshi, who was ordered to carry out this big attack at one stage was considered a possible successor to bin laden. he fought himself in tora bora. he considered himself an equal to bin laden, not just someone who was subservant to him. they have a long history and he runs a branch, but he runs a very powerful branch. let me go to ebben coleman for your analysis as well. give me your sense of what this tells us, the fact that al qaeda so the answer is yes, they do have a
bevin also wasn t afraid to engage with reporters. after the event and a lot of them were from the national press. he didn t screw up. that s a big test of this fancy farms sort of extravaganza. they say you can t win your race here at fancy farm but you can lose it if you make a big mistake. and bevin didn t do that. he pulled it through. with a local accent, is he a southerner, northern? what is it? he s from new england born in new hampshire. they don t mind that? his family owns a bell manufacturing company in new england. they make the bells for the salvation army among other things. it s a historic company. he moved to louisville. because it s a nice place to live. he became an investment banker and businessman there. so he s accepted? being from louisville, everybody else in the state views you as a foreigner whether you sound like a kentuckian or not. it doesn t hurt him any more since he s from louisville. but he seems like a pretty smart guy. and as casey says,