an unfair trial. i think this tool can be extremely useful. and the weeks ahead, also, give us an opportunity to get more information. there are court cases that deal with access to tax returns. bolton wanted to have a court ruling whether or not he should appear. there s many shoes that can fall. we give nothing up. republicans scoffing of the idea. republican leader mcconnell s former chief of staff, josh holmes, tweeted, they re entertaining holding a grenade with the pin pulled rather than facing what will happen sending it over mcconnell s wall. a split-screen moment in history, at 8:34 p.m. last night, president trump on-stage in a rally in michigan, as
re-elected? yes. how is that going to play going forward? it s going to turn into whoever gets elected, their problem. maybe it s a missed opportunity for democrats. one of them could have stood on stage and said on day one, i m going to pull back tariffs and get the support of corporate america. many ceos complained about the tariffs, say they ve i am packed their business when you look at the numbers. when it s calculated that the trade war cost the economy 300,000 jobs. plus when it comes to consumers by 2020, it s supposed to cost them over $2,000 annually. there was an opportunity there. but at the same time, there s the challenge of how do you deal with the actual problems we have with trade with china. president trump, he praises himself as the ultimate deal maker and still unable to make that deal with xi jinping. do you think that hurts his re-election efforts? pete buttigieg mocked president trump on stage saying wasn t there supposed to be a deal in april. it s bee
hands. bishop thanked president trump over the phone during his victory speech. mr. president, on behalf of north carolina, on behalf of the 9th district, i want to thank you because, just as you said, mr. president, because you and the vice president committed and came down here and recognized someone who is prepared to say that i am ready to go to washington and stand with you, we ve won this race. thank you, mr. president. and congressman-elect dan bishop joins me now. i can see the smile on your face after a hard-foughtep deprived,i can still smile so i m delighted to be with you. we heard you talk about president trump on stage. we heard the speakerphone conversation you had with the president. he travelled to your district 24 hours before the polls actually opened. how much of a difference did the president make? it was a big deal. it was testament to the boldness of this president that he reached out because, you know, a lot of national outlets say this
commander-in-chief and selling himself to the american people that way. so i think in the news cycle we are in and how fast-paced everything is, one gaffe does not end the presidential race. are any race, for that matter. i think it s another proof point in the argument that he is maybe not all there. that he is not the person that can deliver the knockout punch to president trump on stage, which i think is what a lot of democrats are looking for. molly: when democratic voters look at joe biden, as imagined, they ve seen gas before. is it something they care about or does it wash away? there s no primary voters going to vote for another candidate in this primary because joe biden made a gaffe praising military folks. this is going to come down to whether the progressive left wins out over the more moderate return to the obama administration type of argument that joe biden is making. that s what this will come down to. quite frankly, democratic voters
picturing who can take on trump on stage. her performance to me, those prosecutorial chops, her demeanor, her strong answer to me is the best thing i have seen so far as somebody i can visualize on stage against trump. i remember sitting next to you on nicole wallace s show on the day attorney general barr testified before congress and she had that incredible performance. i remember sitting and talking with you and saying, i can t wait to see her on debate stage next to president trump because she is going to thrive. we saw a little bit of what could be to come if she does get on that debate stage with president trump. i think she is going to thrive. this is what i thought was fantastic about it. everyone had such limited time. she managed in that short amount of time to both introduce herself as a person, introduce her policies and where eric swallow was talking about taking the baton. she just took it. senator harris just took the baton. her answers were well, i felt like swa