You through so lets get into it louisiana 8 Electoral College votes to dont drop again a lot of these are going to be fairly predictable ones ones like north dakota which is going to go the way of donald trump only a small state there with 3 Electoral College votes we look at nebraska next to rick. It is nebraska now just going to polls on this for a 2nd 3 Electoral College votes for donald trump there are 5 on offer in nebraska i think you may remember early i mention that nebraska and maine split their Electoral College votes so if this point we can say there are 3 for donald trump he is the projected winner in those 3 districts 2 other ones which could be picked up by have a candidate. Lets move on again in vienna or wyoming no its wyoming 1st of all with its 3 Electoral College votes in indiana as well excuse me indiana is the next one with 11 Electoral College votes and the state of nevada as well now this is when we start looking at some blue states the state of too early to coal
Host director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail not just about your career and on intelligence debates in the past, but very much relevant to the news of the current day. Four years later were still fighting about russian interference in 2016. Republicans and democrats are debating about whether the investigations were handled probably four years ago and whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russia and russian actions. Your book opens with the scene after before the inauguration with first congressional leaders and then going to new york to brief trump and his team. Theres a sharp partisan divide where you brief congress. Will describe that and talk about whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or if something had been done differently. I was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russians were doing. The group of congress fi
Director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. Your book provides really interesting background and detail, not just about your career and on intelligence debates of the past but very much the news of our current days. Its four years later, were style fighting about russian interference in 2016. The republican and democrats are still debating whether the investigations were handled properly four years ago, whether you and Intelligence Leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russian action. Your book opens with a scene after the election before the inauguration, youre briefing first congressional leaders and then go to new york to brief the trump and his team. A sharp partisan divide when you brief congress. Describe that and talk pout whether that was inevitable given the politics of the moment or could something have been done differently . Well, julien, i was asked to brief the gang of eight when we learned about what the russias were doing, the full extent of i
Optimistic. Mitch mcconnell is pressing for his own more targeted plan. Emily, if the white house and pelosi agree to a deal, six months ago you couldve seen trump with the pressure from oconnell, is that not the case anymore . Mcconnell, is that not the case anymore . We are talking about all the Senate Republicans who arent really game to pass another 2 trillion legislation. How much support to they have. Mcconnell says if there is an agreement, he will bring it to the floor but did not say whether he would support or talk about his members for supporting it. A lot of them are in tight races coming up and they need to be thinking about their own Electoral Prospects to try and make decisions they see think are going to sit well with their constituents. That we you suggesting are seeing members of the senate , republican members of the senate distancing themselves from trump . Is that now the electoral play that they have to pursue . I think for these republican senators, they have to
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