is this a i mean, so beshear didn t have any coat tails. what are we to read into that? well, i think you have to realize that here in kentucky, governor bevin was immensely unpopular for years, for decades really, chuck. kentucky democrats thought they had been inoculated from the more progressive unpopular national party by having these off-year elections. but what we ve seen is that kentuckians more and more are pretty much republicans not just at the federal level but at the state level. and bevin was just someone out of touch with kentucky more than he was policy wise or politically. he just rubbed a whole lot of people the wrong way. and there s really not a whole lot for democrats to be happy about. this might be the one race, chuck, where both democrats and republicans seem to be both happy with the result. senator mcconnell s people are very happy. their protége. daniel cameron. right. and they had no love lost with governor bevin himself. so i think this will be more of
mimi walters. john harwood, you be been out there covering this race. what have you found on the ground as to how mimi walters is threading the needle when it comes to president trump and is this democrat the right potential person to take back the district for democrats? well, katey porter clearly is in this race. it s very close in the polling. dave has it as a toss up. mimi walters is trying to stick with president trump but not too closely. she doesn t fully embrace him in what he does, but he doesn t trash him either. and katie porter is somebody who was a former protége of elizabeth warren. i talked to them because donald trump is really the overriding issue in so many places. this is a district, by the way, where it s increasingly asian and latino. so the white population is just over 50%. so it s vulnerable to lot of the
important to point out she was not only a white house staffer and contestant on the apprentice but she was very much a protége. she s been sort of trained by trump for more than a decade in reality television, in creating drama, in building a personal narrative and brand and becoming a capivating figure in the popular culture. she s known by one name omarosa like madonna or prince, and that to trump makes her magnetic. but it also you know, she knows how to play this game. she knows how to manipulate the media, knows how to create suspense around her book and around what tapes are going to come out next. and it s one of the reasons why the president doesn t know what s around the corner. congresswoman, a lot of people have come away from her interviews on television in the last two days and heard her point about if i hadn t recorded all this stuff i would be publicly destroyed. and people in this day and age say, okay, that makes sense.
james comey are friends. i think that s a violation right there. just based on the law itself, yes he should recuse himself. gregg: where do you fall on that? it s indisputable that there are longtime personal and professional friends. there are mentor, protége and worked a number of cases together. put yourself or moment a president trumps shoes. mueller supposed to decide the credibility of his good friend versus the president to fired his good friend? how is that fair to the president or to the american people who expect impartiality? i think that public service is a noble calling. we have to get the passes point where somebody is great so respectable until they say something you disagree with. james comey had accolades set about him by republicans and drop until he didn t want
were talking about how good of a person robert mueller is. that something has changed. gregg: people woke up and realize that he has a long time close personal relationship with the star witness, partner and ally, a mentor, protége. that doesn t look good, does it? i don t know how it looks. i just know when it comes to somebody investigating you cannot necessarily discredit them because their friends with someone. if there s an issue and if robert mueller sees that james comey has done run things and tries to cover up that we will see that and hopefully we will know. to just jump on this and say these two guys are friends and therefore less get robert mueller out of here, i don t share that sentiment. i m a supporter of president trump. he says if you have a personal relationship with someone central to the case you may not serve, let me move on if