was 90% on other issues, 10% on the midterm coming up where he was speaking. how much of this was geared toward ohioans, how much was he talking about issues they care about? mr. balderson got about five minutes of speaking time at the podium. he had a few attacks on the democratic candidate, o connor. kind of taking a page out of trump s playbook, calling him dishonest danny and trump had his own attacks. but i would say, same percentage. about 90% was trump talking about really any issue that seemed to come to mind with a little bit of tailoring it to ohio for jobs and industry, touting manufacturing jobs coming back. but very little was specific to the 12th district and issues that the voters build up to the special election. henry, last question to you. we ll spend time later in the show talking about the national import of this race, what it might mean for the midterm elections. i want to focus not that broadly, but a little more broadly here on what it might mean for ohio. we
that this ran afoul here of federal law. taking those three things into consideration, what s the thing the president should be most worried about? well, i think he should be worried about all three. let s start with the nature of the tweet in the first instance. in a courtroom, tweets equal evidence. there is a federal rule of evidence called statement of a party opponent. what does that tell us? it tells us that anything a defendant says whether it is in oral form, written form, tweeted form, if he said it, it can be introduced as evidence against him. now, i know there are some who say, well, you know, you can t indict a sitting president, so those tweets will never see the inside of a courtroom as evidence. as a career federal prosecutor, i actually think there is a pathway to indicting a sitting president. let s set that aside for the moment. even if he were to be indicted and his trial were to be delayed until after he left the office, we would still be having the same debate a
few days prior. he did not go after lebron james, which he had done over twitter the night before, which stirred up a lot of talk about racial dog whistles and attacking the intelligence of arguably the second most prominent african-american man in the country. but no, we didn t see it last night at the rally. this explosion this morning about mueller. but it s been building. there has been private concerns about what legal exposure don jr. might be facing. whether it s the manafort trial or the news media coverage, the president has told people around him he feels the walls are closing in on him. he feels like there is a conspiracy against him. when that happens, when his back is up against the wall, he is going to fight. jonathan lamire, i will ask you to stick with us. thanks to glen kirschner joining us from washington, d.c. today. when we come back, a leading democrat s reaction to president trump s tweet and the alarm raised by the intelligence community about the upcoming midt
would consider a return to the trump world at some point whether that s in the administration or re-election campaign in 2020. she is someone who was part of it always comes back to this the russia probe. she sat down with bob mueller. she testified before congress. she is someone who is still has a lawyer, is still dealing with this. and it shows when you are not working with the president anymore, you can t escape the scanned isle. bringing it full circle. thank you very much for your time. slipping away, next, how close are republicans to losing a congressional seat they have held since president trump cut the ribbon at trump tower here in new york? community organizations like united way, non-profits like the american red cross, and our nation s veterans. we knew helping our communities was important then. and we know it s even more important today. so we re stepping up to volunteer more and donate over a million dollars every day.
meeting. did he know in advance as michael cohen alleges? as this drama unfold you have jay sekulow, president trump s outside attorney, who is saying the trump legal team is leaning towards not having the president sit down for an interview under oath with the special counsel. take a look. i make this joke that, you know, no matter what the legal team recommends, if we recommend that the president were to give the interview, which i think the inclination is not at this point, but if the recommendation was give the interview, you are going to get 12 lawyers saying i can t believe that sjay sekulow and giuliani allowed them do it. if we say no, the same stwefl lawye 12 lawyers will say what are they hiding? last week rudy giuliani indicated the president would agree to an interview voluntarily if the questions were focused only on collusion and not obstruction. now you have jay sekulow saying it doesn t look like this interview is going to happen at all, at least not voluntarily.