attorney general. he has a long record of speaking out against the special counsel and his probe. i didn t know he took views on the mueller investigation as such. your team is preparing written answers to questionings about no, no, not my team. i m preparing written answers. i m the one that does the answer. yes, are they writing them out, yes. i won the senate. you don t mention that. i won the senate. i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. tone is something that is important to me, but a lot of times you can t practice tone because you have people coming at you so hard, that if you don t fight back in a somewhat vigorous way, you re not going to win. let s bring in former director of new york city, and jonathan, and republican political columnist shermichael.
you want to hear it, sir? because it s a suffering tape. it s a terrible tape. i ve been fully briefed on it. there s no reason for me to hear it. in fact, i said to the people, should i? they said, you really shouldn t. there s no reason. i know exactly what went on in the tape without what happened? it was very violent, very vicious and very terrible. almost two weeks for the midterm elections, this is how the president framed the historic victories by democrats. are you ready? i won the senate, and that s historic, too. but if you can t carry, and you certainly didn t carry it two weeks ago, michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania, you re not going to get re-elected. i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. nbc whout correspondent jeff bennett is joining me again. this time the president also asked about media reports concerning his mood. what is he saying on that? reporter: hey there, alex.
i didn t run. i wasn t running. my name wasn t on the ballot. now, carrie, just two weeks ago he was saying this election is about me, and he went in some of those states and said this is about me. now he says i wasn t running, my name is not on the ballot. i mean, you re a republican. which one are we supposed believe, trump of two weeks ago or the interview we just saw? or what he might tweet before the show goes on. the president should take his own advice, which we had the monday before the election that he should take a softer term sometimes. and i agree with that. you see what happened in the margins where he did lose, it tended to be in the suburbs, the moderate districts. so i disagree with you. i think he is the president, he s a role model for millions and millions of people who voted for him. and he s terrible. he s a terrible, terrible person. discounting the person of the
uniting the country and addressing immigration, infrastructure, health care, our veterans? what is your strategy on that versus attacking a president that is sexist, he s said some horrible racist things. i m not attacking him. i was talking about the fact that my 13-year-old boy has to hide who he is. i didn t run to become the first muslim woman elected. i ran because most of my schools don t have clean water, where the corporate assault on working families in detroit and wayne county don t feel like they have any connection with our own government. so i m going to uplift their voices. i m going to fight against that corporate greed that has infiltrated our united states congress into our government. i m going to push back. i m going to fight for medicare for all. i m going to fight against discrimination. i m going to fight against the ongoing assault from the car insurance industry in michigan.
people. i think it is really interesting to see what you did in your state in that if you didn t just win the blue parts, you won some of the red parts. we had your opponent mr. edwards on earlier this week. he said they are not really interested in whether you are black, gay, straight, male or female. is he right? i think voters are looking for results. i didn t run to make history. i really ran to make a difference for the people of new hampshire. this is a real swing district. most voters are independents. they tend to choose based on the individuals and the issues and not based on party affiliation. i think the message that the voters of new hampshire sent was that they want checks and balances in washington, d.c. they want someone who will be willing to work across the aisle to get results and who will be willing to stand up to the president when he is wrong. that is the type of leadership i will bring to the table. i was just going to say