according to several officials i ve spoken to, that may have gotten him on worse footing instead of surer footing. pruitt is really doing exactly what the president wants him to do at the epa with environmental regulations. the president had promised that they would be cut to favor business. that s what pruitt has been doing. it s not like a replacement would exactly be easy to confirm. right? right. there s been a groundswell support from conservatives today. you saw rand paul tweeted his support to the president, a lot of other members of the hill are calling the white house to support pruitt. you re hearing a lot of activists, tea party types, folks, big donors who like pruitt s agenda supporting him pretty voracious ly. that said, the president could still make a move. the point you made about not being able to confirm someone quickly may be the biggest deterrent to making a move here. you have several cabinet jobs. you have cia, veterans affairs.
ever came out or are you going to have one of the most republican states in the country sent a democrat to congress? that is the crux of his choice. train to pollsters explain missing the 2016 election and missing the groundswell support for president trump of what they call response bias, people telling the pollster what they think they want to hear rather than what they really believe. as we look at the polls today coming do feel that is going on as well here? i think it is somewhat. i hear a lot from doug jones supporters that i hear a lot from why war supporters come in the stronger side on both ends. what i don t hear about is the middle of the road people who may not know in who may make their mind up at the beginning. i personally have received more calls for the runoff race than i ever did for this election than they did in the runoff race. i think they are trying to fill the move to people.
interviewed by you, you keep asking the same question. i think all lives matter. but i m telling you in terms of the reality, this movement has some support in the black community. now i think dana, that this is a difficult issue. for someone like stephen colbert. i m surprised he jumped in. because he s going to get a backlash. people are going to say why are you doing that. why is he doing it? when he starts off the commentary by saying without courting any controversy when actually the whole reason to bring it up is to court controversy. it s not that it s not a relevant topic. maybe that s what he s hearing a lot about. he s got a platform. he s got to right to use it however he wants. but you can t say without courting controversy, and not trying to get attention for it, because he was. he needs to do something, to get himself out there. because things haven t been going swimmingly. he wants to say, black people are not imagining this. he s a comedian. he s trying to just yo
well, i don t want to get personal, but you can look at the poll numbers. if a person has been campaigning for four or five months and they re at zero, or one or 2%, they should get out. look at me, i go to florida, and look at the numbers that just came out in florida. 37%? georgia, i mean those are real numbers. do they do this for their brand? because i happen to think it s very bad for their brand. all right. so he s obviously very confident person. and he s got a message and he s staying on it. ? going to be able to win the day? is this going to resonate with voters? or is it starting to back-fire a little bit? i actually think. i talked about trump quite a bit. but i actually think that his support is higher than these polls are showing. these polls are done randomly, the dial polls, the landline polls. we re steering away from online polls. he seems to have some sound of groundswell support. that isn t your typical voter.
shootings by the police in year, 2015. they found that 95%, 95% were justified. and as eric said, more whites are killed by police officers than blacks. the idea that black lives matter movement is this real movement based on facts, is just not true. i think it s very factual. i don t think there s any question about what happened how can you say it s factual when i just cited a washington post statistic that refutes that. the washington post isn t conservative. let me just say i don t think there s any question about your statistics, think there s a question about what you re arguing about. there s no question that this movement has broad support especially in the black community. no it doesn t, juan. that s not true. i m out in the streets every day. i ask people, do black lives matter or do all lives matter? i ve never heard one black guy say black lives matter. all of them have told me, all lives matter. maybe they re scared. jesse, i m tired of being