>> joe jonze fhns for us in charleston, thank you very much. kevin, i want to start with you, the president's argument on blankenship is he can't win a general election. jeff flake, arizona senator has a different argument here. this is what he says, i think we have it, we'll put it up on the screen, the problem isn't that don blankenship can't win a general election in west virginia, it is that he shouldn't win a general election in west virginia virginia, #countryoverparty. why doesn't senate leadership make that case in. >> i think the problem for jeff flake here is that not many of the voters are -- care about electoral politics in the sense that they're not putting the premium on electability. >> right. >> this is an electorate in west virginia that has come together around two big issues, coal and cultural conservatism. and for don blankenship, who represents, i think, you know, i think he's speaking to the voters on those particular issues and animating them in a