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th think he won in 2020. there are a lot of states where he actually didn t win, but he s pretending that he did. so he didn t feel he didn t have the same kind of impulse to pressure republicans to be like him. there certainly was that there, but he kind of let it go. the other thing is, you can t underestimate the relief among republicans who are the glenn youngkin kind of republicans, especially the strategists, that the former president doesn t have twitter. i ve had so many republicans say to me last night and this morning, imagine what that race would have been like with donald trump pressuring him at every single turn on twitter and getting himself into the conversation. would it really have had the same outcome than the big question. i just wonder, and i got to wrap things up here, but i do wonder if this makes the big lie less potent within his own party, because clearly that wasn t how
tell us first how beto o rourke ended his campaign? reporter: it was sudden because the staff put up signs, a section at one of the biggest celebrations, 13,000 democrats gathered in des moines yesterday and they were ready to go for beto o rourke to speak there and then that didn t happen because right before that event he tweeted saying he didn t feel that he could serve or feel that the best way to serve was as a candidate anymore. and so, he dropped out of the race, spoke to his supporters in a pre-rally and so now he was supposed to be here today. he is no longer here. but let s get to the second point that i think you were getting to. that s julio castro. my colleague reporting that the sources saying he s refocusing the campaign not only in iowa but in texas as well as nevada.
said, i will release the transcript. had he not released the transcript, a lot of evidence or testimony would be more relevant. as a lawyer, best evidence is four corners of the transcript, which the president released and also the testimony that the president has given with regard to his intent, it is clear, so is the testimony and admissions of the ukrainian president. no quid quo pro, he didn t feel pressured, this is nonsense. harris: two follow-ups for you. we can go around and around in circles about whether or not the transcript is actual transcript, most transcripts are what they are, we weren t in the room, so on and so forth. when the president says he had a ste stenographer and it has ellipse seize in it, that is a question. another issue, the stonewalling by the white house. how should they be playing this? it is not stonewalling. what i see the president doing is protecting his constitutional
charge him. if you had one bite at the apple, if you were on that hearing today, the first one on judiciary, what question would you have for him? well i think he s got to do a better job of explaining why he didn t reach a conclusion. and why he allowed the attorney general to reach the conclusion for the american public. that s really the disservice in all of this. that bill barr went out and misconstrued what bob mueller actually reported on. and created a public perception that the president was given a clean bill of health. therefore he didn t feel that he could reach a conclusion that would be somehow i guess impugn the character of the president? i think it s the fact that it is so convoluted based on the question, i think he needs to plainly say in language that people can understand.