the most important thing we ve seen in the last few weeks, we ve seen the trump organization start to do things they would never have otherwise done, one is selling the trump hotel in d.c., what appears to be one of their biggest and most profitable properties. trump never sells anything. number two, this is smaller thing, but it tells you about where their head is at in central park in new york they have a couple of ice rink with the name trump plastered all over them, they recently remodel them to down play the trump. the trump is in small type now. i ve never seen them down play their own name. both of those are signals that they may have to change strategy pretty radically. yeah, the name is it s not only toxic for republicans politically across the nation, it s also obviously toxic for hotel brands commercially. david farenthold, thank you so much. of course we ll be reading your extraordinary reporting as always in the washington post. still with willie, joe, and me we ha
expecting it to be. you know, senator conventional wisdom in washington usually wrong, it was always wrong in 2016, first starting by saying donald trump was not going to even be relevant, then saying there was no way donald trump was going to win, and certainly we said that time and again that, you know, he was too far out there to win. i said there are not enough white people in america to elect donald trump given what he said. i was proven wrong, and so now this year, this election cycle, conventional wisdom has become fixed around the idea, and i ll admit i m part of that conventional wisdom that a candidate like joe biden or amy klobuchar or more moderate democrats would have a better shot of winning the election in swing states like wisconsin and michigan, pennsylvania, ohio, north carolina, florida, and yet i m talking to a guy right now who has won a state where it
coming in to texas from mexico as being the reason why texas was changing. you also have some republican ka candidates and republican leaders fearful of those demographic changes, but texas is changing. it s like virginia in the suburb. you look at so many of the suburban seats in dallas and other areas that went from red to blue, that s really as we go into 2020, if you re a republican, that s where you really have to be concerned, in florida along the i-4 corridor, in virginia of course the suburbs of d.c. you go up to philadelphia, the suburbs of philly. mike barnicle, you look around the suburbs of detroit. you look at all of you look at these suburbs, and republicans are just bleeding support because of donald trump. joe, there s no doubt about it, and you know, the kentucky story is big. about that, but
investigating the 2016 election and former vice president joe bid biden. in his updated testimony, sondland told congress that his memory was refreshed after reviewing the opening statements given by bill taylor and former adviser for russian and european affairs tim morrison. and that he now recalls telling the zelensky adviser, quote, that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anticorruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks. sondland said he believed withholding the aid was ill-advised but did not know when or why or by whom the aid was suspended and presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anticorruption statement. once again, sondland s admission appears to directly contradict his testimony to investigators last month when he said he never thought there was any precondition on the aid and
seems that a political neutron bomb has been dropped on the state of ohio, and all democrats have been wiped out, and only republicans are left standing. and yet here you are, a proud progressive, and you breezed to re-election in that state. can you talk about that a little bit and educate not only our viewers but educate me on the fact that sometimes it s just not about ideology. it s about a lot of things, and fifrst of all, i wouldn t sy i breezed to election, but i appreciate that verb you chose, joe. to me it s whose side are you on? our candidates and i like pretty much all of them. i think any one of them potentially could beat trump. i don t even know yet who i m going to vote for. you run as a progressive by making the contrast, by talking about the dignity of work, respecting, honoring work. when i say workers, i don t mean just white male firefighters.