Wasn t spying on him and we happened to go to breakfast in the same place and he was with his family members and there is a geniality there. they say has the hardest part of these politics to make with people you don t know and up on the stage and getting into it. he did not thrive in the last debate. what do you do different tonight? well, look, we approach tonight the way we approach every day he s out there on the trail. our job is to introduce beto to the american people. the reality is there is still 40% of the american people that don t know who he is so we have a shot to make the case directly to the american people, just like he does out on the trail. this is who we are and who we stand for and these are the kind of issues that he ll focus on and fight for and that is what we owe the american people tonight same as if on the trail. you have to fit the strategy to the fight. so tonight it is about a little bit of introduction of course, but differentiation. yeah. you cou
Facts and a certain gar illousness but come binds with gentility and geniality. i don t know the vice president has that skillset for this election and these 12 debates. i defer to neara who individuals democrats but i was a panelist at four debates for republicans and president trump had training as a reality tv star to win those debates. i don t know that the vice president is really ready for standing on a stage with nine other people and being treated as one of 20. the actual weigh in there. the actual fact here is that joe biden i think one of the reasons why he s doing well is because he s actually been in a national debate. he did he did debate paul ryan who everyone thought would be some incredible debater and he did very well. he s been in multiple national debates. i totally hear the point that he has to get specific on issues and i think that is really important. he took on the issue of climate.
We have seen the legendary preparation of a tireless judge. we have seen the patience of a committed mentor and teacher. we have seen the humility of a true intellectual who let his record speak for itself. each of us has seen this for ourselves. every senator who came in to this process with an open mind has seen that very same brett kavanaugh firsthand. we have seen his brilliance. his pain-staking thoroughness on display in the 300-plus opinions he issued on the dc circuit. for 12 years, judge kavanaugh excelled on the bench that many experts see as the second most important court in our nation. we have seen his geniality and kindness firsthand in the private meetings with the nominee. precisely the clegeal approach
Of that geniality we ve come to know. and, really, it underscores how divisive and intense the fomoods right now among democrats to try and oppose donald trump in absolutely any way they can. it was striking to see all of the chairs in this committee room on the democratic side empty today. they used that tactic to delay these votes from yesterday by saying using an obscure rule in the committee that requires at least one democrat be present. essentially the republicans flipped farther into the rulebook and found another rule that would allow them to change the rules and did so, and so then they went ahead and voted to approve these two nominations out of committee. they were approved 14-0 because there were no democrats present to object. so now tom price, steve mnuchin will be moved out of the finance committee and to a full vote on the senate floor. at this point, no indication that they won t have the votes to move forward in the full
Spent some time earlier this week with his closest friend, the president. but is governor christie s bipartisan approach and geniality towards the president, i start with you, angela, the very thing that will prevent him from ever becoming a darling of the tea party? i think a darling of the tea party, yes. but as soon as the republican party, and i m saying that, you know, being very hopeful and optimistic, as soon as they can realize that bipartisanship is the way to solve not only this country s woes, but also their own, i think that they ll see that chris christie is a great ally for them. but in the meantime and in between time, all their focus on the bromance and the way in which they make fun of him trying to get relief for an area so severely impacted within his state, i think they re so off base and it s really unfortunate. they ve really got to get it together, martin. chris christie? chris christie, really he sort of was a darling of the tea party when he was best know