Stuart stevens, welcome to firing line. Great to be here. Thank you. Listen, you have worked in republican politics for more than four decades. You were part of five republican president ial campaigns, including that of mitt romney, george w. Bush, and bob dole. And now you are working to defeat the current republican president through a group called the Lincoln Project. And were going to get to all that, but first, you have just published a book. It is titled it was all a lie how the Republican Party became donald trump. So lets start with what was the lie, stuart . You know, margaret, if you go back to the dark ages, say four years ago, i think that 90 percent of republicans would have agreed that there was a handful of values that united republicans. What were those . Character counts, personal responsibility is critical, strong on russia, free trade, pro legal immigration. You know, Ronald Reagan announcing from the statue of liberty, signed a bill that made everybody in the countr
Id like to turn it over to the firstgeneration United States citizen. His parents immigrated to the United States illegally. He does a great job. [applause] thank you guys. I receive it. Im really happy to be here but im going to add a little twist today because i think it needs to be added so my speech is going to be a little different for some of the huge shout out to all those latinos because you are out there making yourselves heard. [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [chanting] four more years. Four more years. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] i chose to come up here and speak in spanish because im sick and tired of people throwing around the race card. [cheers and applause] [applause] im sick and tired of latinos not hearing the truth. [cheers and applause] do we want a president that his first priorities are his country . The answer s
Calling recent attacks on assault of the government of the United States. Democrats accused barr of violating protestors civil rights and sending Law Enforcement to portland and other u. S. Cities as a prop to bolster the president s reelection prospects. Lets bring wall street journal columnist and deputy Editorial Page Editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial page writer gillian. Kim, did democrats achieve what they were calling on attorney general . Kimberley they claimed that they we wanted to hear from the attorney general but they didnt let him speak. The real idea behind this is they wanted to accuse him and the Trump Administration of essentially sending storm troopers into cities and abusing protestors rights and wanted to accuse him of politicizing the Justice Department by having ordered reviews of what happened in the 2016 election in terms of the trumprussia collusion investigation and some of the mueller indictments. The problem is that the attorney gene
Harris played out on the front pages of several Major National papers. This is the front page of the washington post. A historic move. Ine first woman of color number two slot for a major party. Front pages of new york tabloids, from the new york daily news, yes we kam. Kamrades, is what they went with. Frome political headlines, huffington poo huffington post, making history. We want to hear from you this morning about your thoughts on that pick and as you are calling in, we want to remind you where Kamala Harris came from before this pic was announced yesterday. Heres some of her background,orn in oakland, california 1964, as we said, the daughter of jamaican and indian , she was the San Francisco District Attorney from 2004 to 2000 11, leaving to become the California Attorney 2017, thenm 2011 to leaving to become the u. S. Senator from california elected steen and she announced her president ial run in january of 2019 in oakland, california, ending her pain in early december of 201
This morning on washington journal we take a look at the Michael Flynn perjury case that was reheard yesterday i the d. C. Circuit judge court of police judge court of appeals. Good morning, its wednesday, august 12, 2020. Yesterday afternoon joe biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election. The 55yearold daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants becomes the first lap woman in first asianamerican to run for Vice President on a major party ticket. This morning we are getting your reaction. Phone lines are open to let us know your thoughts. Republicans can call in this ,orning at 202 7488001 democrats 202 7488000, 202 7488002. You can send us a tax that 202 7488002 a text at 202 7488002. Good wednesday morning to you. You can go ahead and talk calling him right now as we show you how the joe biden for Kamala Harris played out on the front pages of several Major National papers. This is the front page of the Washington Post. A historic move. Ine first woman of color