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Senator jeff flake see if hes any closer to supporting the republican President Shall nominee. Is Hillary Clinton closes books on a big month of august fundraising well talk about the fall out for new revelation that of her fbi interviews of the private email server while secretary of state. Plus former attorney general Alberto Gonzales talks about his new book on the george w. Bush years and weighs in on campaign 2016. All ahead on this Labor Day Weekend for face the nation. Good morning welcome to face the make im john dickerson. Weve got a lot to get to today but we begin with hermine the storm thats caused heavy rain, high winds, power outages, dangerous surf and two fatalities as it moved across florida now up the eastern seaboard. Eric fisher is chief m ....
Boca raton, florida, newlyelected governors discussed their campaigns and their political agendas. The panel is made up of governorselect from arizona, massachusetts, maryland, texas and arkansas. Theyre joined by new jersey governor and rga chair Chris Christie and former mississippi Governor Haley barbour. This is an hour. Ms. We started this year, we had a daunting task ahead of us. We had a pretty difficult map. We were defending 32 of the 36 22 of the 36 races including 19 incumbents in nine states that president obama had won twice. We were able to successfully defend 17 of our 19 incumbents, we won the biggest states in illinois, michigan, wisconsin and florida. And we picked up four states that were previously held by democrats. You see a number of those all of them a number of them represented here today; illinois, maryland, massachusetts and arkansas. Arkansas. I wa ....
Republicans push to get even more conservative bills through and the rsc would be where a lot of those folks are. But all along we heard the senate has been the bottleneck in all of this. So whats the excuse going to be if legislation doesnt pass . I think you heard people say this is harry reids fault and i think youre going to hear that even more. Nothings changed. You still by and large need 60 votes and harry reid still is very good at blocking legislation. And also you have the fact that the house is going to send over conservative pieces of legislation and the new Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is going to have to protect members on votes much like harry reid. You have 24 republicans in the senate up in 2016 and only ten for democrats. As good of a map as it was for republicans this year its a really bad one for republicans in 2016. Well thanks to both of you ....