here s mitt romney. my own view is justin amash has reached a different conclusion than i have. i respect him. i think it s a courageous statement. as i read the report, i was troubled by it. it was very disappointing for a number of reasons, but it did not suggest to me that this was time to call for impeachment. so j.w., you have senator romney calling the statement courageous. but yet he disagrees on obstruction? i think it is courageous. and i would shift the focus back. notice justin amash is willing to go on a limb. pelosi is not willing to go out there with him. i think that s an incredible contrast that needs more attention. romney has done with he can. the democrats will have to lead on this push for impeachment proceedings. it doesn t surprise me there are members of congress who want to ride trump s coat tails. they look more like the junior officer behind the scenes at a
anyone who would characterize this as racist is acting absurd. well, the fact that fox news had to issue a statement said that they will not condone that language tells you something, that it s not absurd, that it is offensive, that the network that gave this candidate millions of dollars in free air time is putting him in the time-out box for a little while. and here s a thing. ron desantis is a smart, educated man. he went to yale undergrad, harvard law, became a jag lawyer in the navy. he knows how to use language. that s where i m kind of stuck on this. i think he does know better. even if it were a mistake show, be smart enough to try to repair it. and here s what i think is really sad. he is a good credible candidate with a great story that is turning himself into kind of a carbon copy of trump. if you go on his website, it s just pictures of him and trump. i ve been endorsed by trump. and i m he s clearly trying to ride trump s coattails into the general election, where i think
if you go on his website, it s just pictures of him and trump. i ve been endorsed by trump. and i m he s clearly trying to ride trump s coattails into the general election, where i think he would be a better stand alone candidate. if he is going to tie himself to the trump train, if it wrecks, you know, that just makes it all the easier for interest democrats. marc, how much of a factor do you think race will be in this election? i think it will be a huge factor. i don t think it will be the only factor. what we ve seen over the last 24 hours is that this is a populist election. in many ways, this is like a proxy battle between trump and perhaps bernie sanders in terms of values. ultimately, florida voters are going to want someone who has the right value, who has the right vision for the state. very clearly, republicans know that they can win this race with heavy turnout. one of the ways to rally that trump base to turn out in november is by pushing the race button, by stoking the
really, in this white house. it moderated somewhat, but i think they pretty much finished the first year more or less the way they started, with simply a lot of chaos and lack of direction and sophistication. nick. part of the chaos, i think is in the trump white house and the trump presidency is full of different people who came in with their own agenda and thought they were going to ride trump to pass that thing for gary cohn who was cutting taxes on corporations. for mike pence it was a path to the presidency. for steve bannon, a worker s party. these were their ideas and they spent a lot of time trying to make them trump s ideas. sometimes if they succeeded, but it s not like most white houses where the president knows what he wants to do and the entire structure is there to help him accomplish what he wants to do.