[ applause ] gentlemen, your campaigns have agreed to certain rules and they are simple. They asked me to divide the evening into segments. I will pose a question at the beginning of each segment you will each have two minutes to respond and then we will have a general discussion until we move to the next segment. Tonights debate as both of you know comes on the 50th anniversary of the night that president kennedy told the world that the soviet union installed Nuclear Missiles in cuba. Perhaps the closest we have ever come to nuclear war. It is a sobering reminder that every president faces at some point an unexpected threat to our National Security from abroad. Lets begin. The first segment is the challenge of a changing middle east and the new face of terrorism. Im going to put this into two segments so you will have two topic questions within this one segment on the subject. The first question, and it concerns libya, the controversy over what happened continues for americans who are
strategy on mitt romney ewho called trump was calls quote appalling. trump shot back calling romney a fool and other names that can t be repeated on television. a person familiar with the situation says he s leaving the task up to trump and his administration officials. this is a con job. this is a con being perpetrated on the united states public and the world. i was on the call. i listened to it. it s consistent with what president trump has been trying to do, to get corruption out. getting another country to stop being corrupt. he wanted to make sure ukrain was reforming and ending corruption in their country. reporter: they plan to stonewall the house impeachment inquiry. bringing on former congressman trey gowdy as outside counsel to the president.
together, five allies, firearms, 44 legs, all american. that was great. mitt romney is the loser. even some critics were rankled by his decision to use his arrival in washington do you take a shot of the presidents. they knew it would receive positive press coverage, they were reminded when john hobson called romney a perfectly lubricated weather vane. bret: winner and loser? as byorn said, the spectacle of the peaceful transition of power, this week, certainly nancy pelosi, who was reelected to the job of speaker is a historic one would be the winner. 800,000 federal employees who are currently in danger of not getting your next paycheck are the losers. bret: winner and loser? for the pet lovers, there s a new california law that is requiring pet stores to only sell cats and dogs from animal shelters. so this is effectively putting an end to puppy mills where the breeding conditions can just be terrible for animals. so as a dog person myself, i think this is a great way lose
pick. who i think or who the president will pay? jesse: sources are telling me it s kavanaugh. i know it s going to be a circus of the confirmation hearings. over the weekend, steve bannon was yelled at and cursed at. steve miller was yelled at and cursed act. mcconnell. in these hearings, you re going to have crazy left-wing fanatics yelling and screaming and doing what they do and it s going to turn the public against the democratic party. they call every nominee, whoever they are, a republican nominee, a right wing extremist. they called john mccain a right wing extremist and he votes with the democrats halftime. they called romney a right wing extremist. they say president obama didn t get his pick. he was a lame duck with no sign of control. president trump is a first-term
that trump will be having tomorrow night with mitt romney. of course, kate, the man at the center of so much of this infighting. kate? yeah, quite a dinner date tomorrow night. sunlen, thank you so much. outfront now, former senior adviser to mitt romney, kevin madden. cnn political kmcommentator, be ferguson. and david gergen. all, thanks so much for being here. good to be with you. kevin, there seems to be a lot of anger out there toward your former boss. kellyanne conway, then congressman chris collins calling romney a self-serving egomaniac with a chip on his shoulder. almost feels like there s a campaign of sorts right now going against romney. what do you say to all of this? i think reince priebus actually, he summed it up pretty well that there s a diverse array of opinions about some of the decisions that are going on inside the process of putting together a cabinet. i think, you know, kellyanne conway, she s a very she s a very loyal staffer to president-elect tr