way in a debate. what would you do in a debate with him if he tried that? what would you do? you would have to pick him up off the floor. [ laughing ] okay. okay, you mean, you d deck him? listen, this guy got in my space, you want to get in my space, i ve always said, chris, you punch me, i m going to punch you back twice as hard. and it wouldn t be hard to do it. this guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. it s disgraceful and embarrassing. but i tell you, when we take him on, back in his face with the facts, don t take anything from him and hit him back as hard as you possibly can. but if he ever came over and leaned on me and got in my space, that would be the last time donald trump ever did that, i promise you that. you sound like an irish-american politician. terry mcauliffe, thank you for coming on hardball tonight. what a performance. that will go down that will go viral, sir, i can tell you. coming up, trump s big flip-flop today. he was against a critical securit
president of the united states. he got a lot of attention as a candidate. donald trump got a lot of attention as a businessman. now he s the president of the united states. the bully pulpit is his power. and it raises the stakes when you say something that s not true. when you use that word about africa, you re speaking for us. this is the voice of america. he s speaking for himself. well, the world hears an american president talking, not just donald trump. that s the scary part and the awful part. anyway, the roundtable is sticking with us and next they re going to tell me something i don t know. and what s the buzz it s going to be the buzz after these guys are done. they re going to make buzz tonight in the next few minutes. you re watching hardball. oomi. laura can clean up a retriever that rolled in foxtails, but she s not much on articles of organization. articles of what? so, she turned to legalzoom. they helped me out. she means we helped with her llc, trademark, a
fear, hatred, and bigotry. welcome back to hardball. that was virginia governor terry mcauliffe on election night back in november. ralph northam s win in the virginia governor s race this fall was a major victory for democrats in 2017. and a defeat of the trump playbook as embraced by republican ed gillespie, the virginia republican candidate for governor. but as we saw in 2016, democrats and republicans haven t had success going head-to-head against trump himself. democrats will hope to replicate what happened in virginia across the country in 2018, of course, but with the 2020 field still wide open, who can be the democrat? the person to stand up to donald trump? for more, let s turn to virginia s governor, democratic governor, terry mcauliffe. terry, my friend. governor, my friend, thank you. you re very serious face you re giving me right now, i m worried. what do you make of this president using this term, i guess i can say craphole, but much worse than that, describing all t
we re back with the hardball roundtable. jeff, tell me something i don t know. i reported earlier this week democratic women plan to wear black to president trump s first state of the union, taking their cues from the actors who wore black to the golden globes, a show of salad darety with the me too and time s up moveme movements. the ten dems who represent states trump won, he s five of the ten republicans who have dropped out of those races, so the gop might not be able to take it back as easily as they think. doesn t look like they re optimistic. president trump is getting a physical tomorrow mental? a physical that s probably not going to include any nothing about his mental health. that would be an incomplete survey of his situation. thank you, jeff, alexi, and jeff
technology this helpful. could make history. what s in your wallet? welcome back hardball. president trump bungled his position on a key policy today, undermining his administration s message just hours before a crucial vote on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. around 7:30 this morning, the president tweeted, house votes