bill: who does putin respect? who has his ear? peter the great. stalin, the past. that s what he s looking for. bill: there s nobody in moscow that says, hey mr. president, may be we ought to think about a or b? i think putin is being bled. he ll be bled for years. it will take years. may be the oligarchs will hurt. may be the russian people will rise up. i think for me, ukraine is a done deal. it s flattened. they lost. the next story i think is russia. the russian people are going to rise up and throw this guy out. julie: do you foresee a coup? is it too late? you know what, i think this is a long-term tragedy. we re watching people get slaughtered. we re going to watch it for years to come. bill: steve, great to have you back.
last 10 months. our voter analysis saw this, direction of the country, we found 2/3 believe we re on the wrong track here. so on tuesday was youngkin and mccauliffe on the ballot or was joe biden and the progressive movement in washington on the ballot, which one was it, a or b? i think it was both. it is hard to win when your party is sitting there and everybody says oh that party is going the wrong way. then mccauliffe was clear. i think he was so clear the democrats really don t believe parents should be involved in schools. that was an eye opener for parents. parents believe these are their kids. these are our kids we need to figure how we get to educate them. you don t get to decide. that s a big local issue but it is going on across the country, too. bill: rick scott, we ll talk soon. dana: virginia lieutenant
the next five, ten, 50, 100 years to be great but i m keenly aware that it hangs in the balance and it will be determined at the ballot box next year. mark: a or b, at least it starts this next election and it s that important? i think it s important that were told each election is a huge turning point but this is a difficult one and it s hard for some of my friends who think themselves of never trump and they were critical and were not really supporters of president trump either but in the end we have to ask ourselves what the choice is what is the alternative? it s all very well to say you are never trump but the is that mean ready for the biden presidency or the war in presidency? that is the choice that we face and it s central to our democratic system that we have to choose between perfection and evil but often we have to make difficult, tough choices. hope we make the right one next year. mark: it s been a pleasure.
the most important point is that this is not this notion about a or b is fine, yes. but we are in a campaign you have limited time and limited money, the question is what are you prioritizing? and that is my argument. the democrats prioritized to the exclusion voters of color and exclusive focus with hundreds of millions of dlars going after the white working class and conservative vote to no positive outcomes. i ve been looking forward to this conversation for sometime and it did not disappoint. thank you both. thank you. take a look at this paper. i know it looks like another grade school paper, right? there are errors and teachers correcting it. if talk a closer look, yes, it says the white house there. this is a letter from president trump to ivan mason a comp. teacher and full of what she calls is silly mistakes and she received it in response to a letter she wrote about the
year. their base was angry and forced them to listen to a minority view and forced them into a shutdown position that they didn t have an out. they had a lot of people on the streets on saturday across the country. sarah sanders said the president was working the phones over the weekend. other reports suggest the president stayed intentionally out of sight. so which is it? a or b, mark? let me tell you what the president did. on thursday i think we had a bigger challenge in getting the bill to the house of representatives. there is a lot of conservatives in the freedom caucus frustrated with continuing resolutions. they were inclined not to support the funding bill. the president coming back from a trip to pennsylvania called from air force one to encourage them to get behind it because it wouldn t increase our leverage if republicans were part of a shutdown. the president helped get it through the house of representatives before it got to the senate. he was in constant communicati