and of it seventh is part of the culture. these two things related. i don t think this would have happened without donald trump being president. when is sort of elected leadership in washington going to have a sal you ll l. jackson moment with sniakes on a plane. we just allow to it happen. well, that s the way it is. the republicans will have the moment where they understand that they re looking at a generation of losses following trump. wait a minute. are they? what if the voters look. garrett went to plenty of voters and said i agree. i m not talking about montana. i m talking about the whole country. there are plenty of voters who think, yeah, they ve been conditioned for 25 years to stoop media is the enemy. in the 19th century, we had
the grassroots support the is tremendous. a state as wide and big as montana, what you have to do is connect with people virtually. use all the digital tools you have. and i think we ve been doing a pretty darn good job of in that way. i spoke with mr. quist a couple days ago, a few days ago. and as i ve said throughout, how can we be helpful? i m proud. work we ve been doing. appreciate you coming on. always a pleasure. trying get some perspective from the other side. i m joined by a formerer republican elected member of congress. as you might expect, not a lot of currently elected republicans were anxious to talk about there story today. can you explain why it is so hard for so many republicans, including house speaker ryan.
congressmen slamming chairs over each other s heads. i think they said the people of montana will make the choice but i don t think it would have been inappropriate to say, should they choose gianforte, that he s not someone the house republicans are looking forward to having a colleague. i think that would have been a greater moment offer leadership than the statement that said he was obviously wanting to distance himself. itent some message that not all bel air is condoned. and every time it back fired with trump. and he walked it back. there s another story here which is, the democrats have this had, jennifer, have this opportunity sitting in front of them. but as i went through with the dnc chair. the democratic party has
they brought him out on camera. his only comment was that it was law enforcement issue. he didn t comment on it again at another event later in the night. it is possible his campaign decide, this was the kind of thing where they can t make the night any darker for gianforte. the campaign committee doesn t necessarily agree that. they re running radio ads in montana to make sure people hear that sound. they re jumping in very late in the process. thanks very much. joining me now, the chairman of the party. how do you explain losing tonight if you come up short? well, we re moving forward in montana. what happened yesterday is indefensible. not only potentially criminal but really conduct unbecoming a
they went and defined them. i think you can say who would have thought the banjo playing music artist would have been the more normal candidate come election day? but he is. so you may be right. gianforte is from new jersey. they defined quist before they realized who he was. they should have been worried in a state where donald trump won by 20 points, that gianforte lost a statewide race for governor on the same day. that should hit big. maybe a yellow flag. you know? just saying. still ahead, president trump calls on nato nations to pay up. (avo) come with us. .to a new world. deeper than the ocean. as unfathomable as the universe.