elections in the u.s. election in 2016. they re tired of the establishment, and they want things to change. they ll have to take that message on board here in europe and strasbourg and everywhere where decisions are made and make changes so they can rebuild trust with the voters. british voters didn t even expect to be part of this election. the original brexit plan had the uk out of the european union at the end of march. all that has changed, including the british leadership. how much did brexit chaos loom over the vote for british voters? well, a lot because nigel farage, and many people are familiar with him because he s onehousehold names. anti-eu campaigners in 2016 was the one who was one of the big figure heads of the campaign and the brexit referendum. he formed a new party called the brexit party just a few weeks ago. and, in fact, it is probably going to be the party, according to projections, that will score
one, we don t know in the investigation where the leads are going. we know there are three buckets they could be looking at. they could be looking at whether there were foreign donations, foreign government money that was coming in to try to influence the election. that could be one lead. another lead they could be looking at is the misuse of money, misappropriation, the idea that somebody on this committee was basically taking this money and using it for their own devices. then the third thing is the play for play, the quid pro quo, the idea that somebody on this committee would say to x, y and z, if you give me x amount of dollars, i ll get you a meeting with the president. as far as tom barrett goes, just because he was in charge of the committee doesn t necessarily mean he actually knew what was going on. in many ways, these guys are major figure heads. however, when you get down into the weeds of the people who were actually running it and who are running the numbers and who are i
looking at. they could be looking at whether there was foreign government donations, foreign money coming in to try to influence the election. the misappropriation of money, the idea that somebody on this committee was beak taking this money and using it for their own devices. and then the third thing is the play for pay, quid pro quo, the idea somebody on had committee would say to x, y and z if you give me x amount of dollars you can get you a meeting with the president. as far as tom barrack goes, just because he was in charge of the committee doesn t mean he actually knew what was going on. these guy are major figure heads. however, when you get down into the weeds of the people actually running it and who are running the numbers and who are in charge of the money, specifically moving it that day, that could be a really big problem. you re right when you put rick gates in the middle of this whole situation. things do seem to be falling into place. i m not saying anyone is
bigotry, sick and tired of the prejudices, they re tired of these things. the question is this is truly, to kiersten s point, this is truly a battle for the soul of the country. and i don t say that lightly. i think that donald trump is playing on these fears and you have candidates right now who are closing on things like health care. you have democrats talking about health care. you have democrats talking about criminal justice reform. you have democrats talking about real-life issues. and you have these two figure heads. but the difference on tuesday, i think, is going to be the candidates that are running themselves. not necessarily donald trump, because what you have is, with all due respect to anybody else who ran for governor of florida, they would not be able to do what andrew gillum has done. anybody else who was running for governor of georgia would not be able to do what stacey abrams is doing. you have a lot of individuals, those two individuals in particular who are cast
persecuting political rivals. two prominent gop senators said if he wants to get rid of the a.g., we will help him get rid of a new one, let s wait until after the midterms. that s nothing you would ever hear john mccain say. how do you react to that? the pressure mounting on jeff sessions, those three tweets, the interview on fox news, the tweets we saw yesterday as well. well, it s further example of how much the republican party has been completely subsumed into trumpism and the whims and the grievances of the current sitting president of the united states. i mean, when it comes to president s flirtations with firing robert mueller, ordering the sacking of jeff sessions, rod rosenstein, the list goes on. the republican party and its figure heads on capitol hill have been going for the past year or so to varying degrees of, oh, we ll make sure he won t do that, we will be a check on