Read the following excerpt from a news conference in which Harry S. Truman was asked about Senator Joseph McCarthy to answer the question. Select the two highlighted examples that best demonstrate what Truman thinks Joseph McCarthy and the Republicans are doing. (2 points)

Pick two

and then for political background, the republicans have been trying vainly to find an issue on which to make a bid for the control od congress for next year

and this fiasco which has been going on in the senate is the very best asset that the kremlin could have

now if anybody felt that there were disloyal people int eh employ of the government

they are trying to create an issues and it is going to be just as big a diasco as the campaign in new york and other place on these other false and fatous issues

- the republicans have been trying vainly to find an issue on which to make a bid for the control of congress

- they are trying to create an issue and it is going to be just as big a fiasco as the campaign in new york and other places on these other false and fatuous issues