based on a new quinnipiac poll that rates voters feelings of warmth toward politicians, christie s demeanor does not leave female cold. he has the highest warmth score on the chart. his style along with his conservative but not fringy views could position him for a run for the republican presidential nomination. i want you both to just give me your gut sense of the guy. i think he is dynamite in the northeast. he s got the ethnic background, not that that s everything, but he talks like ed koch did in the old days. a bit of rudy, but he is pro-life. i think he could travel into the primaries. i just wonder whether southerners are going to go for this kind of thing, where they re a little nicer in their presentations at least politically and a little more molasses and that kind of stuff. does he lay it on too tough? i don t think so. he kind of reminds me of bill parcells with the media. people want someone who is authentic, who is a leader, a fighter. they want somebody who is just
doesn t have metal in it. now the group is working on trying to get surgically implanted bombs which could get through those body scanning technologies that have been put in airports. it is a dangerous group. it is not a group of wannabes. i want to go to the politics at home and the reaction. back to you, evan. this is frightening. i know someone at tsa. i m trying to find out what i can about this surgically implanted. according to one report i read months ago, if somebody looks like they ve had recent surgery or even looks like you re in bad health, they give them a close check at the airports. they do. i think the good news here is that this kind of device or this kind you have operation is extremely difficult to do. and in the past, there have been some experiments in this regard. and whoever was the experimented on whether it was animals or humans, they didn t live too long. it s not very easy to put a foreign object inside of someone and have them live in perpetuity. the ans
some people disregarded the idea that it would be an embassy that embassies are relatively hard to attack, that it could be a consulate, a small outpost or an airport, an airline. this is a creative group, a group that although it might be difficult is considering actively how to put a bomb in someone s body. it is putting figuring out how to insert one inside of a pet. this is not the group that would only just look at obvious targets like an embassy or consulate. amazing story. thank you so much. richard engel and evan kom man. coming up, a fallen star totally different star. major league baseball has suspended alex rodriguez. a-rod of the yankees for this season. up next, he s the biggest name yet to go down in major league baseball s effort to rid the game of can steroids. but the story doesn t end there. also, if there s one republican democrats would love to knock off next year, it s mitch
laden saying i want some action. i think it s important to focus here on something that rich just said which is that this relationship is not a new one. nasser fought in afghanistan. he was a personal aide to bin laden, someone who s had a personal relationship with the senior al qaeda leadership in afghanistan and pakistan for years. so he s exactly the kind of person that al qaeda central leadership would call upon to do something like this. the question is whether or not aqap has the resources to carry out an attack and what kind of attack that is. they ve tried twice now to strike at the united states homeland. both times they came close but they failed. i guess the thinking. give me the times. go for a more reachable targeting there was the underwear are plot where you had the nigerian national who tried detonating explosive in his underwear and the cargo bomb plot where they tried putting bombs inside cargo planes headed to the united states. both failed by not by much.
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 doll 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. nasser al wahishi 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 sub servant to him. they have a long history and he runs a branch, but he runs a very powerful branch. let me go to avenue coleman for analysis. give me your sense of what this tells us, the fact that al qaeda central still is central in pakistan where we killed bin laden. here s the successor to bin lad