back to zelensky here. quote, just after stone got this message about new expected dumps of stolen information about the democrats, roger stone e-mailed the chairman of the trump campaign paul manafort. paul manafort wasn t just the chairman of the trump campaign but also a long time friend of roger stone. stone wrote on august 3rd, he had an idea in his words to, forgive me, save trump s ass, and he asks manafort call him. and when stone e-mailed bannon, he told bannon that trump could still win, but time was running out. and he said he knew how to win this, but, quote, it ain t pretty. roger stone knew how to win this, and he was telling that to the trump campaign ceo, but his way in his own words, quote, ain t pretty. now at the same time in august you ll hear roger stone was bragging. he was bragging publicly and bragging loudly and bragging
state legislator or state government in kentucky if they want to do that. but if bevin insists on not conceding it s uncertain how this proceeds. with all presipgts reporting it looks like anldy beshear beat matt bevin by more than 5,000 votes. but bevin is saying he won t step down, he won t concede he s been beaten, but we shall see. republicans are able to celebrate if nothing else from last night, they re able to celebrate the fact they were able to hold onto the governorship in mississippi last night. it should be noted for context that mississippi is a state that donald trump won by 28 points. last night the republican candidate for governor who president trump campaigned for in person right up to election day, he was only able to pull off a single digit 5-point victory in that state where
flipped party control. since trump has been president. and every single one of them has flipped from republican control to democratic control. and that result last night with the whole virginia legislator, both the house and the senate, flipping from republican control to democratic control while democrats also control the governorship in the state of virginia, not just going to have a huge impact in terms of policy and priorities in the state of virginia, you re now going to have democratic controlled government in the state of virginia. after the courts repeatedly struck down electoral maps that the republicans had drawn in virginia when they had control of legislator, after courts repeatedly struck down those republican drawn maps for being discriminatory at one level or another, what happened last night in virginia with democrats taking both houses of had legislator, it also means that republicans aren t going to have another shot at trying to rig the electoral maps in their
department and betsey devos to stop doing this, this illegal policy they had devised. and that s why the judge fined the education secretary a $100,000 and threatened to put her in jail. the $100,000 should try to em l emeaemea emealiorate the thing that lays out this formula, the policy that got smacked down by a judge for holding the department and its cabinet secretaries in contempt, this memo came from the guy who at the time was the top lawyer at the education department. he has a name. his name is steven menashi, no longer at the education department. he now works at the white house, and president trump has nominated him for a lifetime seat on the federal appeals
trump had just rocked to victory not long before. so last night s off-year elections are exciting to democrats. right, even in a deep red state like mississippi where they didn t quite pull it off, last night s election results are energizing to democrats for obvious reasons. and for converse reasons, the same results i m sure made today feel pretty overcast, pretty cloudily from the point of view of, say, the republican party broadly, the republican controlled white house looking ahead to 2020, specifically the west wing in that white house where there sits republican president donald trump staring down the skirt of his re-election campaign and his simulltaneous simulltaneous impeachment in washington. today was a remarkable day on that front. you will recall that one of president trump s personal lawyers, michael cohen, long time personal lawyer, is already