signatures for months get on the primary ballot put can sort of win either way and romney was somebody who was collecting stoikts ma signatures to make sure he was on that ballot. 4,000 people at the convention, 6,000 so republicans in utah, one of the states with the highest turnout rates of any state in the country. so the romney folks feel very confident that he can win in the long game. they ve got name recognition, the money, and the fact that mitt romney still has sky high approval ratings in utah. that said, you know, now they have a real race and they re going to have to trun like a real race. because as you heard from mike kennedy what romney is going to get is this carpet bagger critique that he s the massachusetts governor that ran for president nationwide and now he s in utah. that s the line they know they ll have to deal with from now until that primary later this summer. that tee us s us up nicely f ryan williams. department national press secretary on romney s 2012
seat this weekend. but he did not get 60% of the delegate votes needed to get the nomination outright. look at these headlines. he s forced into a primary facing mike kennedy june 26th. and today kennedy who edged out romney with 51 pes of the delegate vote is saying this about his opponent. watch. we re a state that welcomes all people and it s great that he s here and we re happy to welcome many others. i m glad he s here but i feel like i represent the people of utah better. that s utah nice right there. garrett hake is on the hill for us. you covered mitt romney s 2012 presidential campaign. talk about what happened in weekend in utah and how romney s responding. reporter: sure. i talked to some of his top advisers this morning and they say they are not concerned. they say they always expected to be in a situation where they have to run in the summer primary sprut to understand utah has a system of selecting a nominee where they have a convention and then the same time the co
think he de says a ton of credit for standing up and making a moral argument about donald trump. it s an odd time for julius to be attacking republicans given what he wrote today, but i think we re missing to a certain extent a bigger phenomenon here. donald trump is running away from the republican party. republicans are trying to hold on to him desperately. he is saying to them, i m out. i m leaving you behind. he s purged a lot of republicans from his white house. you look to what steve bannon told my colleague peter boyer in this kweek s weekly standard, steve bannon said, i m going to good after establishment republicans and donald trump said to him, good, i need that. and we know they have a very broad understanding of establishedment republicans that includes people like ben sasse. all right. i ve got sneak? a quick break. back in 45 seconds. i m going to show you those polls through the blue all straits that give donald trump the pressy, washington, michigan, and pennsylvania
campaign worked with russia or not. if they did knowingly work with a foreign government, a foreign military intelligence service to attack our election to help trump to the pressy, that is clearly the biggest political scandal in modern american history by a mile. we don t fknow if it happened. not yet. the special council is investigating, congressional committees are more or less investigating and the american news media is investigating. whether or not the trump campaign did it, one way to stab in the heart aggressive american reporting on that subject is to lay traps for american journalists who are reporting on it. trick news organizations into reporting what appears to be evidence of what happened. and then after the fact blow that reporting up. you then hurt the credibility of that news organization, you also cast a shadow over any similar reporting in future. whether or not it is true, right. even if it is true. you plant a permanent question.
it had to be done then and there because this was a national security priority because so many bad terrorists were coming in, were sneaking in with these people that have visas and now they re like oh we can hold it for a couple days. i suspect that the courts will note that as well. because the courts should give the president deference on national security measures but now they ve injected politics into this. they said the timing is being manipulated for political gain. my old mentor former client was governor george and senator, he used to say a single rose does not a summer make. so a single good speech does not a pressy make. and he went an entire hour they tell me without saying anything racist. he didn t insult anybody s sensibility, mock a pow or, grab a congresswoman by her privates. high per low berly.