his poll numbers remained exactly the same for two years. go ahead. one thing i am interested in, i think, and really we re not going to know what that is until a little later, but i am interested in, did we learn a little bit more about russian interference in the election? right. yes, we are all focused on the obstruction idea, whether president trump was talking to putin every day. he probably wasn t. but, really, this all in some ways came out of the russians interfering in the election. we are getting into another election now. are we learning more about their tactics and we always another what basically every intelligence division in the united states has already said is that they did. and there is something to be said for the conversation about, are we actually doing anything about that? and we knew and know from what robert mueller s team has said about this when they issued indictments to 12 russians and tint entities last summer. worked to disseminate
had similar conversations. we know that at least in march he had a conversation with dan coats, the director of national intelligence in, which it appears that dan coats wasn t necessarily directly asked to help the fbi, to get the fbi off the back of michael flynn, but, you know, i we want to know had a little bit more about how that conversation came across. it doesn t look like the president actually said i need you to help get the fbi off mike flynn s back, but it certainly looks like you can interpret things in that way and it goes to this obstruction idea. i think we need a little bit more before we can get there. more on that testimony from coats. that s coming up shortly, and from mike rogers, admiral mike rogers, the head of the nsa, the national security agency. but rebecca, let me read to you another quote that jumped up at me from the comey written testimony. i felt compelled to document my first conversation with the president-elect in a member o . to ensure accuracy i b
obviously, that s not leading to any meaningful progress. what is your message to your own party? i would disagree with the obstruction idea. we have mostly in the democratic party now is we re going to solve the problem from washington with a big new health care plan. we have republicans not always united saying no, we can do this better by working with the states and the private sector to solve the problem. sometimes the federal government has to let go of things. it s a matter of the parties are polar rised. what i want to do with this book is unite the country around a core set of ideas that i m convinced we all support. i talk to people all the time that agree in principle, but they d never vote for a republican. the important larization in