and it s weird to vote on judges, but they do in wisconsin. and in that race, that was the first time a candidate backed by liberals had won an open seat on that court in 23 years. eric holder had campaigned for dallet in madison and milwaukee, his group had pushed over $165,000 in digital ads to boost her campaign. meanwhile, a conservative candidate who governor scott walker personally endorsed for a different judgeship, that walker-endorsed candidate lost his race in that election. and just to put a little bit of icing on the cake, voters also rejected a republican ballot initiative that had been supported by governor walker as well. so what have you been up to since 2016? eric holder has been busy. he s been beating one of the highest-profile republican governors in the country up and
united states of america, this is one way of looking at the political divide. this is how each county voted last fall in trump/clinton election. republicans love this map because there s a lot of red space on it even though it was very close. republicans do very well, trump did extremely well in rural areas. all told, he won well over 2600 counties in this country. the democratic support, meanwhile, looking at metropolitan areas, around philadelphia, washington, d.c., heavily in california. democratic vote much more narrowly bunched. so what monmouth university did, they have a poll and took a look at a couple different regions of this divide. so remember, 3,143 counties in the country. how about this, the trump counties. these are 2500 plus counties where he won a landslide last fall, by more than 10 points. and look, they re happy with
consensus, based on the way things are right now, you would really need the fbi and the intelligence community to really cooperate with the committees and provide them with the and about anything else related to the election. and it doesn t appear like they re willing to do that at this point. the fbi has an ongoing investigation, the intelligence community is loathed to share their information with congress or with others. and this sort of leaves congress in the point of not really having a lot to work with as they investigate. this stirs emotions on both sides. it seems there are a lot of almost like dots throughout. little pieces of information and there s a tendency maybe to try to connect these. just in terms what have we actually know right now, can you sift through it and give us what are the basic things we know for a fact right now when it comes to the questions here of trump and russia? i mean, look, this is this
house intelligence committee chair devin nunez announcing just a short while ago that his committee will hold it s first public hearing on alleged russian interference in last year s election on march 20th. i want to conduct as many of these hearings in open, in the public and as you know, that s rare for the intelligence committees to do but because of the seriousness of the accusations involved on all sides of this issue, i want to make sure that we hold as many of these hearings out in public so that the american people and all of you can attend and report on. turned in the latest front over trump, his team, and russia. now if confirmed, rod rosenstein
a new national pride is sweeping across our nation. and a new surge of optimism is placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. all right. that was a week ago. that was president trump, that was his first address to a joint session of congress. obviously, a lot has happened since then. but one thing that was notable about that speech, the president, who had been so combative and engaged in so much fighting with his opponents, was trying to strike a more unifying tone in that speech. of course, that is something that otherwise has not necessarily defined his presidency in its early days and raises the question of divide from the election back in november, how much is still in place? has he been able to transcend any of it? here is an interesting way of looking at it, the most important number of the day. 3,143. what could that number mean? 3143? what is it? the number of counties in the