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Trump asked me to get involved because my reputation among other things in politics is understanding of the convention process, the delegate process and most of the major successful big conventions over the last 30 years ive been intimately involved in. >> did roger recommend you for the job? >> roger was one of the two or three people who strongly recommended me, yes. >> did he bring you in? >> no. not at all. >> last friday night paul manaforts long time friend and partner roger stone went bal...

Who got big dollars for his wifes political run from hillary clinton and her representatives? drain the swamp. his netflix documentary "get me roger stone" centered around the former trump campaign adviser who first introduced manafort and trump back in the 80s. if you have not seen it, heres a clip. >> trump asked me to get involved because my reputation, among other things in politics, is understanding of the convention process, the delegate process and most of the major successful big convent...

But thats nothing i want to do. i dont want to do that. number one, when you are leading by 20 and 21 points you dont do that. >> i dont want to do it but i will. >> yeah. its a stick he holds over the head of the party. when the chairman went up to new york to get him to sign that agreement, i started laughing, i said this is just words on paper because everything with donald trump is renegotiable. just because i signed it doesnt mean i will stick with that deal. i will renegotiate a better dea...

Matters more, until much later in the process. >> and michael, correct me if im wrong, wont this put pressure, if trump is getting his 25 and 30, and thats a winning number, wont this put pressure on march 2nd, for the field to clear for whoever is the number two candidate, so that by march 15th, its a two-person race? is that what will happen? well see pressure on whoevers not in second place, whoever cant stop the one person thats assumed can top trump becomes the candidate by march 15th? >> i...

Thing is we got to get people into the work force so they can get benefits from their employers. >> that meejs we got to build up this commitment reduce unemployment and get excitement going in this economy again. there is nothing going on in washington to build up this economy and to create jobs and stop worrying about whether or not we will socialize medicine all across the country, we need to be putting innovative things in here to restore the economy, get people back to work again. >> govern...

The fact that he was nominated through a convention, a sign of something, i think is a dysfunction in the republican party. and you see in new jersey, an expanding party versus when you get into a convention, a contracting party, where in the name of purity, all right, you try to exclude voices who arent in total agreement on any one of a number of issues. so this was a race that republicans should have won, should have beaten terry mccauliffe, a very -- shows that it may have been a twice misse...

Government, democratic legislators, romney and ted kennedy, can you talk about what that process was like. some of these early glitches, the enrollment from massachusetts, it took a long time for people to get enrolled in this. it sounds like a hopeful model nationally. can you talk to people about it? >> its great to be here in boston. we celebrate the red sox victory, i will tell you when we started down this path, we actually did it in a different way than what the federal government has prop...

They will show up and vote. will you care as much as they do and show up and vote? >> that was bill clinton rallying the troops for terry mcauliffe to be on track to be elected three days from now. he has energized the far right. this turned off women and swing voters in the process, for the first time in 40 years, virginians are poised to elect a government as the president they can sweep all three offices on tuesday. lt. gov. and attorney general to add to the two u.s. senate seats they alread...

Hes the consummate washington insider, a millionaire bungler crushed in the primary. former congressman tom davis, a republican expressed his exaspiration with his party. he said this should have been a slam dunk, virginia almost always votes against the presidents party. all we needed was a mammal up there. fortunately, we happen to have former congress tom davis and mammal at the table today. congressman, can you tell us, what has happened to your party and how is your party in virginia interp...

Process of having your name thrown out there. from the joe biden standpoint, what is going on in the administration where this news breaking what he might be saying? >> thats a problem. you always got to be skeptical of gossip. you know how reporters do it. you talk to one person, you get a little green. you go to another and say ive heard, you try to get something that substantiates and build it that way. i would imagine the vice president is feeling a little nervous. a little unhappy. this can...