and gomar's base? and then bringing them back to, you know, countries in the middle east where they're raised up as terrorists for 20 years and then come back to the united states to attack us 20 years from now. >> is this just playing to the base? >> oh, it's very much playing to the base. when i talked to senior republican lawmaker who just said point-blank to me, anderson, focusing on the story. >> it's a great gift because it really riles up the circles that they have. it's important to them that really thinks that they are doing the right thing here. and on that note, i've talked to other aides about this, as well. just on the substance of what they're trying to do, they actually think that they're canaries in the coal mine. that they're trying to raise an issue that maybe 4, 5, 10 years from now is going to be an a ha moment. in fact, one aid said to me that they're like winston churchi talking aba threat that nobody sees. >>> let us know what you think. we're at facebook. follow me at twitter. l