my panel joins me now, congressman levin, thank you for coming down from the great state of michigan. one of those campaigns that we saw was the governor s race there. my understanding is that it s tightening and certainly the public polls are showing that. how do you think things are shaping up on the ground in one of the most important races in the nation? i think gretchen whitmer is going to win and it s tightening, but i m not real worried about it because she s run a fantastic race, very grounded in what michiganders care about, reducing the cost of living, fixing our infrastructure. we just realized in a poll that michiganers still care about fixing the roads. the orange barrels are everywhere, dana. she s taking care of business and will win. let s expand our aperture a little bit. scott jennings, you are close with senator mitch mcconnell.
this is not the commander in chief doing any of this. they were so intent in making sure that the american people and dare i say the world knew this was getting done today, this was classic taking care of business. did that strike you as unbelievable? you know, it s interesting. i feel like a lot of people have this gauze image of the 1980s of regan and tip o neil and these guys that cut the back room deals and everything worked out fine and it was perfect and wonderful and it s not the case. right? a lot of that still exists today but you have these politicians needing to blast each other afterward. sadly, it took a tragedy to expose these people actually interacting like human beings and people that care for each other and so on. how we get past the ugly partisanship is really beyond me but they do work together well behind the scenes and that was evident on this day. to me, it s also they were
poised. i mean, the human part of people would be like i m scared, i m freaking out, i m running, i m crying. this is happening. the family said let s get the job done. they were ready to serve their country, right? they stepped up to the moment. we didn t see this on the tape but i did kind of love the moment when she pulls her mask down and she s asking vice president pence if he s okay and how is he doing and busts out a beef jerky and starts eating that. snapping into a slim jim. this is what we do. this is how moms roll. we take care of business. it also exposes the very real human nature and how easy it is to have the bureaucracy where people drag their feet, gum up and put our democracy at risk, right? the president was still thinking of potentially of maybe coming there. you have senator chuck schumer saying i ll call d.o.d. we need to make this happen. calling national guards from other states and we know based on the evidence that every one
it. while nancy pelosi and chuck schumer wanted that to happen but weren t sure it was going to be able to happen. so they were looking for alternatives because they weren t sure that it would be able to be cleaned up and get even out but the more we hear from this, it was vice president and mitch mcconnell who made it happen back there. yeah. think about how she said it. mitch wants the familiarity. you don t often hear that. mitch, she s talking to mike pence. we wondered what was going on and what was transpiring. how did they get back to finalize the job. i want to turn to our panel in d.c. and ask their advice and thoughts on this. again, you guys, i mean, are you struck by the fact that, again, this is not the commander in chief doing any of this. they were so intent in making sure that the american people and dare i say the world knew this was getting done today, this was classic taking care of business. did that strike you as
country, right? they stepped up to the moment. we didn t see this on the tape but i did kind of love the moment when she pulls her mask down and she s asking vice president pence if he s okay and how is he doing and busts out a beef jerky and starts eating that. snapping into a slim jim. this is what we do. this is how moms roll. we take care of business. it also exposes the very real human nature of what was going on behind the scenes, how easy it is to have the bureaucracy or people dragging their feet, gum up and put our democracy at risk, right? the president was still thinking of potentially of maybe coming there. you have senator chuck schumer saying i ll call d.o.d. we need to make this happen. calling national guards from other states and we know based on the evidence that every one of those entities that could have helped had been dragging its feet all along. it s important that you said the world had its eyes on us at that moment because in a period of transition, that