divisions in this country. and perhaps the very carnage we saw in texas. the words that i can hardly believe as they come out of philip rucker s mouth, frank figliuzzi, but you predicted this. you so much as predicted that the tinderbox that phil and peter baker of the new york times have written about, this country s sort of state of play when it comes to questions of race. so amped up by the president s rhetoric, colliding with this rise in white supremacy and domestic terrorism. talk about what you predicted, what you feared, and what has come to pass. well, i have never felt so badly about being right before. i wish i were wrong. but i had to put pen to paper because it was instinctive. this isn t rocket science. if you have been in the intelligence community, you have an instinct to identify a threat, push it out and get the
to draw in this moment is to beat republicans, beat them. beat every single one of them. even the safe ones in the house, beat them. beat them in the senate. take back the senate. you take me away with your bluntness. but you re not wrong. no republican has ever been moved by any of those tragedies. they have not. they have not. look, notionally i gathered with the democrats after the house sit-in after pulse begging to form some sort of bipartisan in a moment of national crisis and our leaders couldn t be found. they went home and hid. and this is getting easier for me to say these days, republicans, they won t do anything. if you re a presidential democratic candidate right now who has the opportunity to win a pivotal senate race, drop out of the presidential race and do something for the party that will do something on this.