representatives to have opposition in our primary and get back to the voters, have our feet on the grounds, hear their complaints, you know, make sure that we are in touch, we feel the pulse of the districts that we represent. that s something that makes democracy stronger and our party certainly more strong. what about the president s two-hour-plus speech at cpac yesterday? it was very free-wheeling. he was not, certainly, working with a teleprompter. he used some pretty colorful language, which i don t think i ll be able to repeat, or else i might get censored. but the fact that he said i was being sarcastic calling on russia to find hillary clinton e-mails during the 2016 campaign. is that how that was being interpreted? well, he had a tough week. the president had a tough week, and he came back from his meeting with north korea, and i think he tried to lighten up a little bit, because he certainly had a rough week with the jared incident, with the cohen testimony, and with the
investigators are looking very carefully into. with respect to his public testimony, we didn t really learn a ton of things that we didn t already know. he did bring receipts in some sense, most significantly those checks that the president wrote in office. but i think 12k3w4r50i6r7b8g9sds you see people who probably understand it but are comfortable voting for it anyway. you see people turned off by it. that s crystallizing politically. and i think that s you why see president trump giving speeches like he did at cpac yesterday during to gin up his base, solidify his base, continue to disparage this investigation so politically he might be able to survive it. i think that s where we are right now. i m not sure that the mueller report politically is going to have a big difference. but of course it will make a big difference as to what congress
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diamond and silk were with us about 40 minutes ago. they electrified the audience this morning. [applause] steve: they were also at cpac yesterday and had a great time. they had the message president obama could not get done what this president has done. watch this. van jones has been a long advocate for criminal justice reform. that s right. to see him give honor where honor is due, praising this administration for trying to solve this problem. um-huh. i appreciate that. president obama did absolutely nothing, in my opinion, for the community, for prisoner reform. had the opportunity to do that. but things that was plaguing especially the black community, obama did not do anything. but our president, president donald j. trump who is for all americans, steps in and got the problem involved. brian: it s true. i think the president should be talking more about that. so should the surrogates. talking about how both sides came together on this issue.