minute got cold feet. i yield back the gentleman from ohio you ran president trump s campaign between january 2015 and june 2016. yes you were at the helm of the campaign when president trump secured the republican nomination yes pretty good campaign you were in sfwl thank you you beat what, 17, 18 different opponents, senators, governors, good senators of course you had a good candidate. the best. i think he s done a great job as president of the united states after you left the campaign, in june of 2016, the head of the campaign, were you still involved with the campaign throughout the rest of the election up through november 8th? in that entire time, you were part of the campaign operation at some level or another from january 2015 to november 8th
i will tell you, here s why i ran for the job. our democracy is on fire and it s a five-alarm blaze. after november 8th, 2016. you are having to parse out who has the 1% polling. it s a hard problem thaw set your yourself to. they are challenging times. you know what? the north star is always fairness. i know i will disappoint folks. if i m a fan of steve bullock s, i understand that now. that s why we will continue to make sure that everybody and i m confident he will continue to campaign hard. we have to make sure that everybody at the end of the day understands that what our north star was was that everybody got a fair shake. transparently and we didn t change the rules in the middle of the game. there was a strongly held view by many people in 2016 that these rules were designed as an effort to help one candidate
secretary in the differently labor. you worked in government. this seems like a completely distinct and strange enterprise to be running that you find yourself in. what is your lifelike trying to manage this thing? i will tell you, here s why i ran for the job. our democracy is on fire and it s a five-alarm blaze. after november 8th, 2016. you are having to parse out who has the 1% polling. it s a hard problem thaw set yourself to. they are challenging times. you know what? the north star is always fairness. i know i will disappoint folks. if i m a fan of steve bullock s, i understand that now. that s why we will continue to make sure that everybody and i m confident he will continue to campaign hard. we have to make sure that everybody at the end of the day understands that what our north star was was that everybody got a fair shake.
year. remember what happened two years later. ronald reagan got reelected carrying 49 out of 50 states only in minnesota went and 525 electoral votes. it shouldn t be too excited right now. no. i mean i think that there s no question that donald trump is endangered as he prepared or is preparing to run for reelection. i hear from a lot of people particularly democrats are saying no matter who they nominate they are going to beat him because he is so damaged. i think he is hugely devicive. i don t think we are looking at a repeat even though reagan s numbers are below trumps. i don t rule him out for the same reason i learned on november 8th, 2016. efrlg th everything that we used as a measure to suggest who would win said hillary clinton would win. he demonstrated and i don t know that he can do it again but i m
both of whom got wealthier while they served in congress. if we are going to start investigating people s business deals, let s do everybody in congress. melissa: i like that idea. harris: i want to hit where some of the president s critics are hitting him now, kennedy, and pick your brain on it. when those critics say the president isn t telling the truth, because he says he wasn t doing deals with russia and oh he s talking about as if he had talked about it contemporaneously, what do you say? kennedy: i think all of those things can be true the same time. harris: does that make the president not telling the truth? not telling the truth now? kennedy: i don t know, man. i think some of this is fluid for him. his memory sort of changes with time, and that s one of the reasons his lawyers didn t want him sitting down with special counsel. but, in his defense and i really believe this he thought he wasn t going to win. he needed other stuff to do after november 8th 2016,