turn enough to allow a democrat in? i saw a lot of energy on ossoff s side. i was with him on monday night on his last election event. it was a wig crowd. i saw his volunteers everywhere throughout this suburban district. but based on my reporting brian at the end of the day republican voters came home even the suburbanites who aren t big fans of president trump they re still supportive gopped agenda items like overhauling the affordable care act cutting taxes that s why they came out for karen handel. we should mention, robert, they enforced some team discipline. they noted the number of republicans who sat out the primary in effect and they put out a plea to get off the bench, get in the game and come help. it appears to have made the difference tonight. you know what else made the difference, brian i think we got to pay attention to it this. handel did not embrace president trump everybody knows that but who did she go after? she targeted politicly house minority nancy pelosi.
the fbi fit into the executive branch, sort of this unique law enforcement agency that had this director has the tennessee-year term not supposed to be interfere with politicly? or was trump trying to do more than that? was trump really trying to influence him and did trump know what he was doing? whatever it was it really unnerved comey. it really borthered about him. if there is anything we know about him and he s been widely criticized on both sides of the aisle. he prizes independence. he thought trump was enroaching what he tried to do was take the attorney general and use him as a shield and basically said please attorney general be a buffer between the house and me. be a buffer between trump and me. and the attorney general couldn t reassure comey that he would do that. interesting tactic on someone s part getting in narrative this story, this thread out there two days in advance of the testimony.
not think it would have stuck had they tried? i m not a lawyer. i can t answer that exactly. but i just. you re to be congratulated for that by the way. i don t think politicly this would have worked had he decided to exert executive peripheral it seems he made a wise choice. peter baker i want to read to you the quote the reporting tonight from the website the intercept. i know you re familiar it the headline top secret. tais before the election. it reads russian military intelligence scout add cyberattack on at least one u.s. voting software supplier. and since sphere fishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last november s presidential election according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by the intercept. report sbangts that russian hacking may have penetrated further into u.s. voting systems than was previously understood. it states unequivocally in summary statement that it was russian military intelligence that conducted
that s symbolically important to them like this turn the other way. he over he ignored the advise apparently of national security advisers, diplomatic are the advisers with you l economic advises advisers but took the advice of political advisers. how is this different from president obama. he reversed emirates president bush s nirkts. faith base initiatives stem cell research all through executive orders. i m sure people could argue those were politicly motivated as well. i think what i heard from president trump today is the difference there is a dishonesty in what he is promising. one this is a nonbinding voluntary agreement. yes only two countries syria and nicaragua didn t participate. but every country sets their own targets essentially what trump is doing taking our away our wheat seat at the he could have changed the targets we could have a debate about policies to implement them.
individually i m willing to go along to get along. i don t know what the effects of that will be politicly, philosophically morally for the party as we go into the future. the first mark be will be the 2018 election what do the american people make of this? is the donald trump republican party not donald trump the donald trump republican party trumpism what people want. and what i think will be interesting to watch tomorrow, the job numbers will be interesting that will come out. you talked about whether or not trump can make good on the promises. we ll see what the numbers say tomorrow. be interesting to see what business does. and they are clearly at odds with this president. a lot of businesses are. which is odd to say that for republican administration at odds with business. particularly this one. exactly. that was his whole pitch. exactly. and he is a businessman. you he doesn t talk about innovation. he is some ways very backward looking be with talking about coal m