those who can prevent any such situation happen as has been created in the last few months are those who are this regard and violating the first account on the law and then the constitutional but you think this is a free and fair election if you re saying that indeed if you say you know what i m if the wrong side wins will come along and we ll tell you how i don t agree i m not saying such a thing we re not saying such a thing. no we are making sure that this is going to be a field free and fair elections and the stuff thank you very much for thank you comforts of my character. because. because.
whether trump remains in his behind the scenes role is unclear. he s itching to be involved and constantly watching tv according to a white house official. as trump has watched the nonstop television coverage of the shutdown, he has bounced from aides that he will be blamed for the shutdown from asking allowed if he should try to end it to say republicans are in a better position than the democrats. this is how i watch football games. i don t really know how to help. i m not always sure what i m rooting for, but i cheer when my side wins. is the president any more involved than what you re reporting from the weekend depicted? well, what s interesting is this president was, by all accounts in some reporting we re picking up today, involved behind the scenes. he was making calls and sort of cheering on his staff. but this was a very deliberate strategy by his team to kind of put the president, as we wrote,
one if the wrong side wins will come along and we ll tell you how i don t agree i m not saying such a thing we re not saying such a thing. and we are making sure that this is going to be a feeling of free and fair election. system thank you very much for thank you it s like a victory. thanks .
eli, does the bellwether question depend on whether your side wins or loses? maybe. i think if he wins, it does make it harder for republicans to do health care. i think the bigger takeaway is what it does over the next several months in terms of looking ahead to 2018, the kind of recruitment challenges that republicans may have. they may lose some folks to retirement if ossoff is able to win. i don t think you want to make too much of this. it is clearly a seat that it is in place because of donald trump, and yet you have a democrat who is 30 years old, doesn t live in the district. he s been pretty disciplined on a message that is tailor made for the moderate republicans and independent voters in that district because those are the voters he needs. he s run the right campaign, and yet republicans have gone to the sort of familiar, even trite playbook of hitting him with the nancy pelosi baseball bat saying, you re a liberal. all your donors are liberal.
viewpoints. i wasn t elected by the american people to be president. i think my father is going to do a tremendous job. and i want to help him do that. but i don t think that it will make me a more effective advocate to constantly articulate every issue publicly where i disagree. and that s okay. that means that i ll take hits from some critics who say that i should take to the street. does she take a hit for this? people have talked about this divide in the white house as an ideological one. there is that divide. sometimes each side wins. i think the more operative divide has to do with the people who are there for donald trump, who know him for a long time, for more than a year. most people at the white house have known him for six months or eight months and who in the end will always be fighting for him.