governor who s running against probably marsha blackburn. released an ad saying look, i m not against donald trump. if he says something sensible, you know, pause for laughs, but you know, if this happens i will be with him. if he doesn t, i m going to oppose him. i m for tennessee, i m not for trump or against trump. and that s the kind of message that i think you saw in pennsylvania as well. in so far as these candidates in this long shadow of the 2016 election and its attendant ongoing twitter chaos whereby the heir to thomas jefferson is fired by a tweet, then you re going to have, i think, a common sense ethos going into into next year and i would think that candidates who could say look, we re here to solve problems,
done. could not get it done. looking ahead to the midterm, steve, can democrats pull clear lessons here beyond having a candidate that fit the district which they haven t had in past special elections? yeah, look, i think the lesson and maybe it s not just for democrats or maybe the indicator, that s the better word, the indicator that comes out of this is this is not an isolated event that we just saw here in pennsylvania 18. look at it this way. from the start of donald trump s prt si, presidency, go back to 2018. you were in a district in kansas that trump had won by 27 points and that special election the republican won but the margin fell down to 7 points. this is a pattern we ve seen a few times since. trump had won montana, the congressional district also falls down to 7. you re seeing a double digit spring. south carolina, trump had won it by 19. went all the way down to 3 in a
minutes, saying we ll pay the money back. she will not be silenced and she has a right to tell her story and show the evidence of her story. this is not going to be goo for the president. what does she mean by the evidence? they keep eluding to documentary evidence. photographs and potential video and text messages. now, i don t think text messages photographs and videos. that 60 minutes interview has been conducted by anderson cooper. it s supposed to run this weekend. cbs to their credit is really trying to make this airtight because apparently some of the things that she says are pretty salacious. some of them you just can t because it happens in the privacy of a bedroom. this is her attorney. the president and mr. cohen purposefully ignored our settlement offer, thus doubling down on their efforts to muzzle ms. clifford and prevent her
striking that a exactly at the moment that president trump s twitter rants may have secured an important diplomatic opening which rex tillerson had urged him to take. he cast aside his top diplomat i think further undermining the secretary of state s office, the department of state, the career foreign service officers upon whom we rely for diplomacy. this is an important moment in american history where we face clear threats from russia, from north korea, from iran, from other countries and where we need our diplomats to be well supported engaged and motivated. mike pompeo has a representation here on the hill for being smart, being aggressive, also being partisan and we don t know whether he will be a strong secretary of state or whether he will simply reenforce president trump s worst impulses. senator, there was some legitimate criticisms of rex tillerson and the way he ran the state department, that he was
about your own personal views, without tripping up. senator, that s a very important question i look forward to working with you on. do you ever think about doing seminars. people take seminars, you should do that. it s not a search for the truth necessarily. like the princeton review of confirmation survival. senator, that is a fantastic question. that s a great question. you left me 33 seconds to answer it. and i look forward to working with you on that. so you re saying it s just like morning joe. we have 32 seconds left. no, not exactly. not exactly. but i would like to say something, though. we all understand when your in the cabinet, you serve at the pleasure of the president. you have no job security. you can be removed any time, anywhere for almost any reason. a cabinet officer is effectively three things the ceo of an agency, you are the president s representative to that agency, but then you re also the agency s representative to the