. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. mitch mcconnell is the face of the republican party in the senate but new polls suggest that he faces a tough reelection battle so could mcconnell actually lose and if he does would that really change anything up on capitol hill we'll talk about that and more nights big picture politics panel. also siddons new film pandora's promise says that nuclear power is the solution to solving global warming but is this really true. and in a world created by the n.s.a. where we're all spying on each other everyone loses the latest story about a tech expert in india who became a target of british spies and how any one of us could be next later in the show. and let's start tonight by talking about senator mitch mcconnell he's the leader of the republican minority in the senate and anytime we're talking about republican filibusters in the senate we're talking about him mitch murch. ronnell has quietly led all of that now some of the things mitch mcconnell's filibuster has killed climate change legislation a public option in health reform a dis

his to spend time with people he doesn't have any use for so if somebody like mitch mcconnell or or john boehner or his own donors or his donors or not he doesn't have a phone bridges with. magic johnson. jeff that's to bring it all friends he might not like that he like some of the like some of those people but you know we discuss say in the book he's talking his campaign manager he's never heard of most of the biz bundlers his biggest donors his biggest fundraisers never heard of him doesn't know who they are and there's no pressure there's no one who's ever been president who's like that because he just he cares about what he hears about well who's raised more money than anybody i mean he's raised more money than anybody any politician the history the planet and he says to jim messina his campaign manager jim i could name my top five bundlers the top five people who give you could raise the most money for me it's kind of amazing on some level it's kind of admirable it's not great the present united states doesn't want to kiss the butts of billionaires that's great but on another