many years. she doesn t have the national name id of some of the other candidates. chris, also happening today bernie sanders is meeting with former campaign staffers who say that they have faced harassment and sexism during his 2016 campaign. his initial apology in some ways required a redo. let me play what he had said to cnn about this. i am not going to sit here and tell you that we did everything right in terms of human resources in terms of addressi ining that i m hearingt women felt disrespected, that there was sexual harassment which was not dealt with as effectively as possible. with this meeting today, is he going to be able to move past this if he gets back into the race? i don t know the answer to that. he has a committed group of supporte supporters. this is a different time for candidates even than 2016.
opponents to historical villain, and he said that others who mob public people when they are out at dinner or out on the streets, but the president never took responsibility for his own comments over the course of his time in office, and even during the course of the campaign that have contributed to this incivility right now. and sarah sanders was outside on the north lawn earlier in the morning, and this is how she framed it. there s a big difference between comments made and actions taken. the president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone no more than wer bernie sanders was responsible for a support e of his shooting up a republican baseball field practice last year. the idea that this is at the hands of the president is absolutely ridiculous. and the president said last night on stage that he was trying to be nice in the comment, and look, he said, i m behaving in effect, and the fact is that a lot of people were
riots in north kcarolina, let s look at the way they were answered. many of the places in california want to get out of sanctuary cities. at the end of the day, he doesn t have to back up the claim, at least with his supporte supporters, which seem to be the focus of these comments. the thing about this is you can fact check the president on this all you want. voters, republican voters, some of them. they will hear what they want to hear and they listen to the president over the media. he has a more favorable rating with republicans than we do. but the fact that the former president obama is speaking to this directly, that i support facts, shows just how big of an issue this is for the democrats. the president s approval rating is among the highest it s been in a long time. the ballot that measures whether people want democrats or republicans to control the house has narrowed. if you go to swing districts
that will work with his supporters. the reason those supporters in rural minnesota and mississippi and red states are so invested in brett kavanaugh is because the president has invested in brett kavanaugh. it s not that they really relate to this blue blood prep school kid from maryland. he s part of the president s efforts to change the courts and change the country. one of the things that resonates and long resonated with the president and his supporters is he does not quit. he fights incredibly hard. i think that s what they see here. they see him fighting hard and they want to win. i think that s the thing that binds the president to his supporte supporters. if they lose it s a set back for this white house. they will have to deal with it. the president has been good at shifting blame in those situations. gentlemen thank you very mump. next up, brett kavanaugh makes the case for himself. the same?
supporte supporter, they will tell you, i support him because you know what, the economy, we have a record economy and record job growth and record this. we don t. we don t. we don t. we don t. go to the google machine and you ll see that barack obama wz more successful in creating jobs his last 18 months as president than donald trump has been his first 18 months. that simple. a lot of the role is cheerleader in chief, giving and projecting confidence in the economy and that s something that devaluing the truth. he has done that we don t need to say turn around. he takes it way too far. it s one thing to be pro business and to convince the business community that, yes, he s going to be anti-regulation, enacting policies that are more favorable to the business climate, but then just to all out lie. that does not help anything. steve, what you just said, very true. you talk to just about any business owner and they will tell you that he is more pro