mueller. they used mueller reputation to hide behind while maybe they have their own agenda and kept saying this republican, if fbi director war hero meanwhile they were going to town maybe perhaps with their agenda. let me ask you something, mr. speaker, while the speaker of the house talks impeachment maybe not impeachment when it comes to what had the mernl people care about, immigration is now reigning through roof and had had it comes to the economy, about 52.of the country approve of where 4 point up from where it was in may 19. now i think the fact is, that the president is in pretty good position to be reelect and every time democrats have a debate, it gets to be in a better position. they re taking a series of very radical positions. decriminalizing breaking the law by cross the american border. basically having an open border. providing tax paid health care
it definitely concerns me. and i think, you know, clearly, it is a difficult situation. but just a couple of quick thoughts thoughts. and it does seem that politics played a factor in this. senator feinstein had this information and she met with judge kavanaugh and never did she confront him with this information. el witell, she was asked not to. professor ford did not want to come forward and she was respecting her wishes. and i would bring that point up, with as a well. professor ford on numerous occasions, judge kavanaugh has appeared before the senate for confirmation at different levels upon the beach. and this issue never came up. and it s very clouded, her memory or anyone else s memory of this. so i want to give her the benefit of the doubt, like so many people, not just republicans, everybody. i hate to make it more partisan, but everybody wants to give her the benefit of the doubt and they say, look, come before congress. we ll come to you.
that trump carried by 13 or 14 points. it s a district that s been republicans since 1982 and heavily so and the very fact that danny o connor the democratic candidate is depending on the poll 1 point up or down is extraordinary. it shows that the democrats are way overperforming and if he wins it ll be a tremendous victory. if he comes close, that will be a tremendous victory, an indication of that we re likely to carry the house. the president carried that district by 11 points, but it s been about 30 years since a democrat represented that congressional district. if we if the democratic candidate comes close or wins, that shows a massive shift in the republican district toward the democrats and it would be right in line with what we ve seen in other special elections some of which we ve lost, but in all of which we ve way overperformed in prior years and if we do that with the same percentages in november, we ll
from that country, facing south region. fair point. it s really interesting, coming off the g-7, the president made a point up there to have very tough words for the allies. he theoes and meets with somebody who is the opposite of an ally, really, any way you want tonalyze it, and has unusually and really the softest words have ever heard shared about kim jong-un except by himself. what was the tactic employed there? let s look at the track record. first of all, as we mentioned earlier in our conversation, the president has also had some very harsh words for kim jong-un over the previous year and a half or so. but that s what you say about him. what you say to him and different than what you say about him. having a good meeting with a handshake i n t think is surprising. what you say about someone is different than what you say to his face. to his face he said, you re talented. you re honorable. i trust you.
fair point. it s really interesting, coming f the g-7, the president made a point up there to have very tough words for the allies. he then goes and meets with somebody who is the opposite of an ally, really, any way you want to analyze it, and he has unusually and really the softest words i have ever heard shared about kim jong-un except by himself. what was the tactic employed there? let s look at the track record. first of all, as we mentioned earlier in our conversation, the president haalso had some very harsh words for kim jong-un over the previous year and a half or so. but that s what you say about him. what you say to him and different than what you say about him. having a good meeting with a handshake i don t think is surprising. what you say about someone is different than what you say to