i just want you to know that. let me say this, i don t think there is any rush to embrace russia, if you talked about lifting sanctions on russia. certainly led by lindsey graham and others. i am going to stop you right there. republicans led by lindsey graham and mitch mcconnell. the reason mcconnell is coulded moscow mitch, the republicans got together and universally decided to lift sanctions on sanction russians in entities and businesses. russian oligarchs went roiight kentucky. not a single republican would vote to do that. you had the nra ranking in russian money that s laundering through the nra. it is not true. this administration is the only one that syndrome russian
down the line? not only when donald trump is president, what happens with the next president or the president after that and where does the line keep moving? and then at what point do we become a country where percent can you g persecuting your political opponents is common place. we need a congress that puts a check and balance on the executive and reins some of the executive power that s been running amok. and when republicans in power, republicans embrace it. when democrats are in power, democrats embrace it. now is a great time for us to look at some of the underlying systemic failures of our system. well said. ned price, thank you very much. sorry you got lost in that. philip, elise and jonathan, stay with us. ahead, the jury in the paul manafort trial is about to get the case. we ll have a live update from the courthouse, next. where i d be right now. aah! .i would have said you were crazy. but so began the year of me. i discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts.
after an ugly week of back and forth over the integrity of the vote count, the republican gubernatorial primary is finally over. governor jeff colyer conceded the race to secretary of state kris kobach last night, but now the new nightmare for republicans is whether kobach, a staunch ally of president trump, will be too polarizing for moderate voters in november. kobach on the ballot could allow democrats to pick up the governorship in kansas and could even put republicans at risk to lose two house seats there. kobach told the kansas city star that trump s endorsement tweet the night before the election was, quote, absolutely crucial in turning out votes. and the president congratulated kobach in a tweet giving him his, quote, complete and total endorsement. kobach will face democrat state senator laura kelly and independent greg orman in november. we ll be right back.
political. absolutely. and i think we see that when we look further down that list. we re talking about john brennan, who is obviously the most high profile person. but the other people are not only people who are not as high profile, some of them still work for the government and are only in the public s attention because they have been the subject of president trump s ire. bruce ohr. he was in devin nunes memo, he had this relationship with fusion gps. that s why he is targeted and that is the bigger issue. yes, this brennan issue has potential repercussions but we re talking about donald trump picking out particular people that he doesn t like for particular reason its and saying they may be subject to punishment because they were involved in a thing that makes me look bad. so this is as john brennan said, this is banana republic stuff or banana republican stuff since so many republicans are acting like they re living in a banana republic. it s gross abuse of power.
hallquist is the first transgender woman to win a primary. are these are these the democratic candidates of the future? are democrats just better at embracing the change of this country, the way we are moving forward than the republicans are? well, they haven t first of all, she s likely to lose to phil scott, who s leading in the polls. he s a more moderate republican. he s pretty popular. but as a general matter, yes, the democrats for a while now have been the party of diversity. and that is a good thing in many ways. the problem is if identity politics push out other themes and then they just become a party of diversity and identity, then they re back in the ditch again. interestingly though, steve, you have hallquist on the one hand but when you look at the democratic candidates being put up in the midwest, a lot of them are run-of-the-mill, middle of