minutes and he s going to continue meetings through the rest of the week with a few other candidates. can you comment on the cbs report today that judges cavanaugh and barrett are now at the top of his list? i m not going to get into anymore of the process other what the president said. the president wrote on twitter, house republicans should pass the strong but fair immigration bill known as goodlatte bill. sunday he wrote on twitter, i never pushed the republicans in the house to vote for goodlatte one or two. why would the president lie about that? he didn t. he talked all along, we laid out the priorities and the principles that we support, that we wanted to see reflected in legislation. at the same time, the president wasn t aggressively bobbying members because he knew that democrats in the senate were unwilling to come to the table and focus on solutions rather than playing political games. we could have gotten it through
how this is going to go? and given that the republican party this year has a front-runner who is leading by more and for longer than any other nominee at this stage in the nominating process other than george w. bush in the year 2000, why is this the year they decided the process is going to take forever for them to pick someone? joining us now is james pindal, political reporter for the boston globe, former political director for new hampshire s wmur tv. it s a real pleasure to have you here. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. so it felt to me like not only was it a little quiet when new hampshire announced their primary date today, we re sort of used to to being a more clam rousse occasions and other states competing with them, it also took them a long time to nuance it. isn t this kind of late in the process for them to be telling us when they re voting? here s the deal. everybody pretty much agreed it would be february 9th but the one person who actually sets it i
front-runner who is leading by more and for longer than any other nominee at this stage in the nominating process other than george w. bush in the year 2000, why is this the year they decided the process is going to take forever for them to pick someone? joining us now is james pindal, political reporter for the boston globe, former political director for new hampshire s wmur tv. it s a real pleasure to have you here. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. so it felt to me like not only was it a little quiet when new hampshire announced their primary date today, we re sort of used to to being a more clam rousse occasions and other states competing with them, it
more and for longer than any other nominee at this stage in the nominating process other than george w. bush in the year 2000, why is this yethe year th decided the process is going to take forever for them to pick someone? joining us now is james pindal, political reporter for the boston globe, former political director for new hampshire s wmur tv. it s a real pleasure to have you here. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. so it felt to me like not only was it a little quiet when new hampshire announced their primary date today, we re sort of used to to being a more clam rousse occasions and other states competing with them, it also took them a long time to nuance it. isn t this kind of late in the process for them to be telling us when they re voting? here s the deal. everybody pretty much agreed it would be february 9th but the one person who actually sets it is going to be the new hampshire secretary of state. he s acting like a lot of girls did when i was in high s