trump s former aide. john eastman didn t even work at the white house. he was just some outside lawyer. but meadows is forwarding a document that basically outlines the efforts to essentially have a coup, a document written by a lawyer on the trump campaign payroll. publicly pence raised the hopes of trump supporters telling one georgia rally we ll have our day in congress. we ll hear the objections. we ll hear the evidence. pence reached out to others to see if there was some way he could carry out this unconstitutional move including according to the washington post journalists bob woodward and robert costa, former vice president and fellow hoosier dan quail, who convinced pence he had no constitutional power to throw out the election. also reported by woodward and costa was steve bannon s role in pushing the plan. on a phone call with the president bannon said, quote, you ve got to call pence and get
progressive wing among sanders and warren supporters, adrienne elrod, are suburban voters. absolutely. we didn t do so well with suburban voters in 2016, but democrats did in 2018 and the off year going into the on year of 2020 this year, 2019, significantly with well as dave just mentioned in virginia, kentucky and some of the down-ballot races. they ll be critical. interesting thing to look at when it comes to michael bloomberg. he has unlimited resources. he made it very clear he s not going to play in the first four states, focusing on super tuesday states. he will have an advantage when it comes to advertising dollars. he has a whole philanthropic organization with a lot of former campaign staff working in a number of different organizations, climate change organizations, gun safety, who can literally put on to a different payroll, his campaign
president, these are the people who could go. this west wing has really emptied out of those people who understood the president, understood the way he worked. it just adds to the further chaos about how things operate. they put keith schiller on the campaign payroll. hope hicks got a very good job. they left on good terms. no one would have thought anything if two weeks from now this young woman got a job at the congress department as deputy secretary or something. that could be done by a quick phone call. this was abrupt. they wanted it known that it was abrupt. still a little fear. it suggests to me there s something got out that trump was really upset about or a precedent he was upset about. it s not what you would normally do. details to come. book agents all over new york and washington are lining up, making calls.
and he was slated as a celebrity candidate. right now beto o rourke needs to believe in something and he doesn t want to go down the trail where s the beef. i m with everyone that the dangers of getting ahead of himself with saying i was born to do this without showing he earned it or deserves it is the question. here s a crucial question. obviously he lost to ted cruz. he s a three-term congressman. obviously ted cruz sort of made him famous with that loss. you ve spent a lot of time with him, covering him, sasha. is he ready to take on trump? i think from the perspective of somebody running a campaign, he proved himself remarkably credible last year. he raised more money than any candidate ever. by the end of the campaign, he had 830 people on his field staff, which is roughly the same size as donald trump s national campaign payroll by the end of
back and find out more. and that someone was someone senior in the campaign. and to that point, we have what i ll call the coffee boy treatment playing out on twitter. this is the president tweeting saturday talking about the fake news media coverage. he brings up crooked h again. but roger stone didn t even work for me anywhere near the election. that s true. roger stone was not on the campaign payroll, but roger stone is a friend of this president, confidante of this president going back 30-plus years. and we know from your reporting and other reporting that there were visits to trump tower, meetings at trump tower from roger stone during the campaign. they were still in contact during the campaign. admittedly, less so as we got closer to election day but still in contact. roger stone was still running or involved with multiple super pacs out there supporting president trump. he was all in on this election and trying to get donald trump elected, even if he wasn t working directly