republican party. i expect some of the reporting from the last couple of days from reporters covering democratic candidates in various town halls and q&a sessions. the questions from democratic primary voters were not about the mueller report and not about russia collusion. it was taken for granted you probably don t think donald trump has done a good job as president. and they were about health care and a million different issues which suggests if you re trying to distinguish yourself within the democratic field, you want to find an issue or two that you re going to address better than your rivals. you are the trump supporter at this table and i see you nodding and smiling. i m not going to take a victory lap because to take a victory lap in the fog is a good way to crash your car. i ll wait to do that this afternoon when we find things out. two things strike me about all of this. unequivocally, the fact there are no more indictments coming is a good thing. so it s absolutely ap
add a citizenship question to the u.s. census to scare immigrants out of answering the census. that will consequently cause your community to have less congressional representation. wilbur ross is trying to rush this process through. as a result, it looks like they re breaking a lot of laws. and then the congresswoman does something that you really can t do during those brief five-minute q&a sessions during the hearing itself. she tells people, her viewers or constituents what they can do to take action. do not get scared out of answering the census. we need to get we need to make sure that every single person in this country, your aunts, your bodega guy, everybody needs to fill out the census, because if not, your community is not going get school funding and a large other amount of resources that it
doorstep. joining us now, cnn national correspondent athena jones. athena, gillibrand is now one of six women who ve jumped into this 2020 race in the democratic field. how is she trying to distinguish herself when it comes to gender issues? she s running unabashedly on gender issue, only one of the women who s highlighted the issues so much. she s put it front and center. she made her announcement talking about herself as a young mom willing to fight for other people s kids as hard as she ll fight for her own. so she s continuing in that theme focusing on issues like equal pay, paid family leave. this is something you hear her stress at all of her appearances, all of her q&a sessions when she s been meeting with voters in the last couple months during this exploratory phase. i will say, she had a pretty bad headline last week when it comes to this reputation she established for herself as the me too senator. she s been a champion of protect bing women from sexual harassment, sexual
investigation. it would be very surprising if this were a two-day prep. you know, as i said, as a lay person seemed shocking. interesting you both as lawyers, anne, you also agree with that. you really need to figure out how is he answering questions and then work through the right way to answer a question. so the first question is, how is he answering them? they would want to know that if they re considering whether or not he walks into that interview. i find it hard to believe that they haven t actually started prepping, even if it s informal q&a sessions when they re sitting in a room with him. they certainly don t expect to do this any time soon. i know you both think that. seems like they re trying to drag this out. he s got to deal with north korea, a lot going on. all of a sudden it s july 4th. this goes on and on and on. pence is saying, you know what, it s time to wrap this whole thing up. we re all done. here he is. our administration has provided over 1 million docum
contradicting one another, which leads to deeper questions as to why. on that note, i have heard that some of the people who have gone into these q&a sessions have been floored by how much robert mueller and his people knew. things that people, the witnesses who were coming in completely forgot about and in fact, the mueller team had detailed stories about what exactly happened at x, y and z event or conversation. if you re about to be interviewed, let me ask jeffrey first. if you re about to be interviewed fwhi team that has this enormous amount of information, that s a pretty scary thought. it is and there s sort of a mythology about criminal investigations. that what really matters is how tough you are and how well you ask questions. what matters most of all is preparation. is assembling documents, e-mails, tape recordings, that