let s get more on these developments. the former ohio republican governor john kasich is joining us. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. clearly the concerns keep mounting and mounting. and now there are these questions about whether santos mother s death was linked to the 9/11 attack as he has claimed. have you ever seen anything like this? well, wolf, we all are aware of members of the house, members of the senate who embellished. nothing rose to this level. a couple of things. i m amazed that the opposition research on him didn t reveal any of this. normally in a campaign, you want to know a little bit about who you re running against. and the second thing i wonder about is where was the press? did the press ever ask any questions? but the other emotion that i ve just had in listening to all of these things come tumbling out, i mean, is this man have a sickness? you know, wolf? is he going to feel that the walls are closing in on him?
talking about anything to do with nuclear strikes. he wanted a pre emptive kind of, uh, sort of more sanctions and that kind of thing. do you think he was mistranslated or do you think he misspoke? i think he misspoke, i think that s why he did it. i think it came tumbling out. he works incredible hours. his life is very, very stressful. and i think he just wasn t absolutely in command of what he was saying at that particular moment. i am sure he didn t mean he wanted pre emptive nuclear strikes against russia. that would be pretty crazy. of course, nobody would do it anyway. of course, and i noticed during the interview he was wearing an earpiece. was that simultaneous translation or something? yes, i mean, usually on these things, you get a translator
nuclear strikes on russia. he said to me in english, i think, to make absolutely certain that everybody got the point and we would definitely use it, that wasn t his purpose, he wasn t talking about anything to do with nuclear strikes, he wanted a pre emptive kind of, sort of more sanctions and that kind of thing. do you think he was mistranslated or did he misspoke? i think he misspoke, i think that s why he did it. i think it came tumbling out. he works incredible hours. his life is very, very stressful. and i think he just wasn t absolutely in command of what he was saying at that particular moment. i am sure he didn t mean he wanted pre emptive nuclear strikes against russia. that would be pretty crazy. of course, nobody would do it anyway.
he said to me in english, i think, to make absolutely certain that everybody got the point and we would definitely use it, that wasn t his purpose, he wasn t talking about anything to do with nuclear strikes, he wanted a pre emptive kind of, uh, sort of more sanctions and that kind of thing. do you think he was mistranslated or do you think he misspoke? i think he misspoke, i think that s why he did it. i think it came tumbling out. he works incredible hours. his life is very, very stressful. and i think he just wasn t absolutely in command of what he was saying at that particular moment. i am sure he didn t mean he wanted pre emptive nuclear strikes against russia. that would be pretty crazy. of course, nobody would do it anyway.
that the west should stage pre emptive strikes against russia to stop it using nuclear weapons. of course, everybody immediately assumed that meant he was calling for pre emptive nuclear strikes on russia. he said to me in english, i think, to make absolutely certain that everybody got the point and we would definitely use it, that wasn t his purpose, he wasn t talking about anything to do with nuclear strikes, he wanted a pre emptive kind of, sort of more sanctions and that kind of thing. do you think he was mistranslated or did he misspeak? i think he misspoke, i think that s why he did it. i think it came tumbling out. he works incredible hours. his life is very, very stressful. and i think he just wasn t