and elsewhere, they didn t really do the kind of recruiting. i m curious, he brought up something that triggered this quote i saw two days ago from roger stone of all people. he was speaking at a class in south florida i think it was. where he teaches? he was a guest lecturer at a reporter friend s class, he said, oh, i he gillum will win if florida. the reason, he brings something, he brings passion, he s a star. look, donald trump is a believener this, that you got to sell something, you got to be apeeling. right. beto o rourke follows into this category. roger stone is basically saying i think gillum will win because gillum is a star, selling star power and embracing it. you buy, are we celebritifying politics nor now? i think that s always been true. to a point. people need energy and excitement.
inclined to support him. when you say, is there is there something specific that he didn t answer your question, if he answers it in a better way, you will be opened to supporting him? well, i questioned him on two different topics, chuck, there were many others that other members of the committee questioned him on that concern me. i really went to school on the issues around presidential power and in particular, whether or not it really is his view that a president can fire at will a special counsel investigating him, just because he dislikes the special counsel or the job he s doing, not for cause. and whether a president can shield himself from accountability by refusing to comply with a subpoena for evidence or testimony. i think it s obviously to your viewers why this is currently relevant. sure. the other line of questions i pursued had to do with his approach to something that s called substantive due process. it s been at the foundation of recent opinions byious tis k
40 point trump things. it s not as though we weren t giving hipts that trump country wasn t so ecstatic about their senate candidates. it s true, it s just that republicans didn t want to own that for the senate. they had begun to own it for the house, that pathway is becoming much more clear. but when you look at states like indiana, where you got joe donnelly who i think is now up six points. we had him at six points, what was interesting, nobody pushed back on it, not only that, it was the quiet of yeah, then you look at a state like tennessee where the former governor is on top of a very weak candidate in marsha blackburn. i think that the senate has been moving itself in play for a long time. and now finally mitch mcconnell is owning up to that publicly. julia, there is another reason why the senate is in play. it s four states that mitch mcconnell didn t talk about. they are four states that donald trump carried spiesingly to win
the presidency and they were four states that were going to say, guess what, democrats are in real trouble in the senate, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania and ohio, none of them are on the playing field. i think wisconsin will be very close. it s the closest one to the playing field, ohio, pennsylvania, michigan, republican terms aren t seeing those as pick-up opportunities now. that s why i would also argue the senate is in play. right. those were such shocks, something clearly wasn t watched by hillarys catches, they re overnight surprises so this could be something that would really damage what trump has been riding on this wave. i know who has been looking at this for a long time, bring it back to the mueller probe, is guilianis, people defending the president who look at the senate and know if it flips, they could look at impeepment proceedings, it explains why they do such a pr push, they know the court of public opinion matters so much when you are talking about this