let s find out. this is where america s electricity comes from. a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity we need is reliable. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. okay, now we re 35 hours away until the president delivers his fifth state of the union. i swear, i m not counting down the hours, we just put that in our teases. let s join our monday gaggle. minu, i guess the state of the union is already being set up as one that is not about asking congress to do bumpkis, and even chuck schumer acknowledged that. yeah, immigration, maybe a farm bill, and that s pretty much it.
mcauliffe takes the oath of offense there in richmond. it will come just ten days after the clintons were front and center at mayor de blasio s inauguration in new york city. all of this amid a nearly year-long effort foreshadowing a possible white house run that includes a new politico article that describes at least one political strategy meeting at her home last summer. let s bring in our monday gaggle, dan balls, chief correspondent for the washington post, tracy is a democratic strategist and senior advisor for the group ready for hillary, calling for a clinton run in 2016, ahem, and alfonse is executive director for latinos with conservative principles. i ll start with you, traci. not a question of if but when. the one thing we ve heard from all of the clinton advisors of all time is that even if she didn t want to run, the pressure on her would be so intense from the democratic party, just to
the people were members of the militia they they helped protect the same mission. let s bring in the monday gaggle. david rode is a foreign affairs columnist and this is the managing editor. thanks for being here. happy holidays. does the times report shed new light and change the conversation and change our understanding of what happened? the most important thing is increase the complexity which is not necessarily in the political arena. and they are thoughtful about a lot of things in play here. as we started strategic errors in the run up. a lot of the events have proved to be more complex than we realized.
remember no names, no addresses, just numbers. these are business records, not your personal records. that s very, very different. there hundreds the appellate decisions reaffirming the government s right to get business records in the course of terror investigations. it s hard for me to believe and lots of americans to believe with whom i talk with the general warrants and orders to collect tens of millions in the conclusion. it doesn t fit the standard. let s bring in our monday gaggle. the chief economic correspondent and contributor. cohost here on msnbc. kelly ann conway is the senior adviser for the gingrich campaign in 2012. thanks to all of you for joining me. president obama came out on friday and seemed to signal he was seriously considering big
disingenuo disingenuous. this is on edward snowden on the intelligence community. is he confidence on everything snowden asked. we did in the aftermath review what the approximate potential damage is. i don t think we have certainty about everything he has, but i think we established a good understanding of what the risks are and that we are seeking to mitigate the risks. bring in the monday gaggle. daniela gibbs and former governor from maryland and partner at the white house. the senior white house correspondent for the associated press. i will make you start here. ing had hearing him saying no certainty, this goes to the other story, side story here in washington and has to do with the frustration that everybody has that at the nsa and