that he would be fine with this type of criticism, and he obviously is playing a pretty central role in this race. it s been beyond obvious that he h not as supportive of his former running mate as his former running mate would like them to be. they did not think joe biden would be able to carry this all the way to 2020, so they want to be involved. i m curious to see how many more attacks will be on obama. laura: obama is going to make like six phone calls in georgia and you re going to know who s going to win the state of georgia. he had that much power and yet they are playing this interesting game, but it s kind of where they had to go. trump went after the bushes, he took the bushes out, really. i love them as people but their policies didn t work. he had to do that, romney wouldn t do that. he wanted to be the old bush party and try to shoehorn it in, trump said iraq was wrong, china policy bad, immigration bad.i m.
kidding me? i don t think anyone believes he would be fine with this type of criticism and he obviously is playing a pretty central role in this race. it s been beyond obvious that he is not as supportive as his former running mate as his former running mate would like them to be. they did not think joe biden would be able to carry this all the way to 2020 so they want to be involved. i m curious to see how many more attacks will be on obama. laura: he s going to make like six phone calls in georgia and you re going to know who s going to win the state of georgia. he had that much power and yet they are playing this interesting game but it s where they had to go. trump went after the bushes, he took them out. i love them as people but their policies didn t work. he had to do that, romney wouldn t do that. he wanted to be the old bush party and shoehorn it in, trump said iraq was wrong, china
if he fought really hard against president obama, like he does against me, he would have won the election. romney wouldn t promise to be on the president s team in 2020. i m going to wait and see what the alternatives are. trump critic and possible challenger john kasich. romney s op-ed headlined the president shapes the public character of the nation. trumps character falls short, it outlines things. on balance, the president has not risen to the mantle of the office. some might call that civil. donald trump lacks the temperament to become president. this poor, sad mitt romney. the bullying, the greed, showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. the guy is a stone cold loser. he choked, and when you are a joker, if you can never give a choker a second chance.
and that we don t have personal opinion or bias get in the way of a news story. ed: jessica, you are an opinion person. when you said there s all these scandals in the trump campaign in the trump foundation. i noticed this day there was a news story in the new york times talking about i think the phrase was scandal-ridden trump administration. isn t that an opinion in a news article? i don t think it is when you have something like that, trump university, 25 million-dollar finding they had to repair from that, what s come out about the foundation for instance what we seen alluded to in the memo. we will know more once we hear from mueller. i m not sure having headline with the word scandal and it is a problem as long as it s backed up. ed: kelsey, 30 seconds. none of those examples you just cited actually have to do with the trump administration. they have to do with entities outside that are related to the trump but not the actual administration. of course we have the mill
in the op-ed, he says there are a lot of areas where the president and i are going to agree. he does say that because he wants to make their own policy there are some democrats expect mitt romney is going to vote as a democrat. he s not going to do that. he s going to vote as a conservative republican. sometimes it s going to be with the president and sometimes it won t. when the president takes positions on trade that aren t conservative, mitt romney is going to vote against them. he s going to be a conservative republican. ed: we will see how it turns out. lanhee, larry, we should have you back. an abc reporter ignites a firestorm when she asks the tough question about elizabeth warren. new york times former editor slams her old paper about being too anti-trump. we are covering those stories and more intimate real news roundup after the break [cell phone rings]