cooperate, tell him everything i know or to stay loyal, put that in quotes if you want, and better in a pardon. so that s where we are with that. what ai night last night. i want to talk about the election and get your perspective on that. the results were a sweeping victory for democrats, mr. rather. it was supposed to be very tight in virginia. what happened in your view? well, i think what happened first of all, this is a big deal. this is a big win for the democrats. no other way to read it. they among other things particularly in virginia, the republicans found out that running a trumpism kind of campaign without trump himself campaigning directly for you doesn t work. and also this campaign in the end the republican candidate for governor, thinking he was behind, began to run a very dirty campaign. as i said before, this campaign was nasty enough to gag a buzzard.
history and the natural american spirit. and i think that s some of what oh moved these ballots to go democratic last night. but any reasonable reading of those results, a lot of republicans who are up for re-election next year, their fingernails will begin to sweat now given these returns. but you and i know, don, that in politics overnight is a long time. a week is forever. and the 2018 off year elections are still a long way away. so the democrats need to go out not to go out and celebrate too much. let me ask you because i m going to put our poll up. it s a very troubling numbers for president trump here. only 34% of americans say the president is honest and trustworthy. 64% think he is not. one year in, i think that s pretty astonishing. what forces are at work here? well, you know, general speaking with the trump administration his problem, and it s a growing problem with the
that didn t work. so by any reasonable analysis coming out of last night, good news, very good news for the democrats in not only virginia but new jersey and other places. they did it the old-fashioned way. they really got organized and they got people out to vote. you know, the book you mentioned, what unites us, i wrote it because i m optimistic about the future. i think it will take us awhile to get there. i wanted to talk about hope. but hope and optimism, they only work if people are willing to act. so it s a very old story. in our system of government, what counts the most is the vote. and in this case the democrats worked hard to get their vote out. they were in a climate i think generally speaking that people want the country to be united. and much of the rhetoric and the tone coming from the trump administration has been to divide us. right. you know, race against race, in some cases religion against religion. and that s contrary to our
behind, began to run a very dirty campaign. as i said before, this campaign was nasty enough to gag a buzzard. that didn t work. so by any reasonable analysis coming out of last night, good news, very good news for the democrats in not only virginia but new jersey and other places. they did it the old-fashioned way. they really got organized and they got people out to vote. you know, the book you mentioned, what unites us, i wrote it because i m optimistic about the future. i think it will take us awhile to get there. i wanted to talk about hope. but hope and optimism, they only work if people are willing to act. so it s a very old story. what counts the most is the vote. and in this case the democrats worked hard to get their vote out. they were in a climate i think generally speaking that people want the country to be united. and much of the rhetoric and the tone coming from the trump
for that matter his son s role, you have to keep asking yourself well, am i better off to fully cooperate, tell him everything i know or to stay loyal, put that in quotes if you want, and better in a pardon. so that s where we are with that. what ai night last night. i want to talk about the election and get your perspective on that. the results were a sweeping victory for democrats, mr. rather. it was supposed to be very tight in virginia. what happened in your view? well, i think what happened first of all, this is a big deal. this is a big win for the democrats. no other way to read it. they among other things particularly in virginia, the republicans found out that running a trumpism kind of campaign without trump himself campaigning directly for you doesn t work. and also this campaign in the end the republican candidate for governor, thinking he was