I know you mentioned that you think the people are gone now. I mean, humanity is really wanting precision and a congressman in that government. And so otherwise we do face a huge rebound in coming. Arguably we already are seeing it. Its an excellent question that is quite the paradox which is to be sent down into any group of voters and asked them what the number one problem in washington, they dont get anything done. Nothing gets done. Totally dysfunctional. They do not think logically. We rationalize about everything we do. Oh, i can have another cookie, i think i walked like 20,000 steps today. Whatever whatever you want to rationalize you can. Thats how i think we are becoming more frustrated with the process than ever and as molly pointed out, we are more polarized than ever at the same time. So that piece of it, and this desire to always be on the winning side, compromise is losing, i think it is seen not just in washington and the way the world works these days. I dont want this belief that this is the only way we break it , but we have had a real crisis moment in this country to bring us together. Like a great depression, like a world war, 9 11 was traumatic, the 2008 financial crisis was dramatic but it did not impact everybody equally. I was talking to a guy the other day who is africanamerican and he was noting about how much more racially charged his city was that when he grew up in galveston. I said why is that. He said if we had hurricanes all the time in galveston and you had to be friends with your neighbor. At some point youre going to need their generator or their power was on and yours wasnt and you needed something out of the refrigerator. We wouldnt have been friends otherwise, but now if you have enough money, you can isolate yourself. You dont need anybody. That kind of feels like a great way to think about where we are. 40 years ago people in this town were saying it was better in the old days and maybe they were, but when i think of the last ten, 25 years, the caliber of people whose representative tire met parties ive gone to was a lot higher than the swearings in. It was a big gap. A month or so ago i was on the hill and i had met with the republican congressman who had never met before and what the hell, it was a greg harper from just outside mississippi and i walked out of his office thinking wow, hes kind of like the members we use to see. He was really conservative but he was reasonable and the kind of guy that could be a really effective member, but it made me nostalgia nostalgic of this relatively Junior Member because he represented what used to be pretty common and its disillusioning. I think the incredibly negative and invasive nature of campaigns has something to do with it. I think fundraising has something to do with it, i think every snarky reporters who play gotcha all the time, all these things have combined and the loss of community has also contributed to the place, congress was never efficient, but it was productive. Lets go right there in the back, all the way. I used to cover politics in this town. Wow, i didnt recognize you adam. Witness protection. [laughter] two things that i think are related. Youve gotten from four or maybe five, up to possibly seven seats in the senate. Im curious what the last two were, and also, also, do you think the republicans will filibuster any Supreme Court nominee who isnt committed to the Second Amendment as seen by david king . Good question. I can see, if the senate goes democratic, and i think its a chance that it does, i think they are going to look at mayor garland as probably the best deal they can get. Question is, if they they lose the senate, i would be somewhat inclined to say, we dont want to confirm him but if you put him back up after we lose our majority, we will not beat him. They would not want their fingerprints on the trigger as having help them get confirmed but theyre not going to way across the Railroad Tracks either. Theyve climbed out on a limb that is hard for them to get back on, but i think they know he is a lot less worse than they expected, a lot lot less worse than it could be. He is somewhat older then, if a democratic president put a 55yearold on the court, so i think they may wait till after the first of the year and have clinton put him back up and from her standpoint, i would think, first of all, i think she would be perfectly fine with him, but the last thing she wants is a divisive Supreme Court pick. Thats what i think will happen. If republicans went from losing 4 7 or 4 6, indiana would probably be one of the last ones to go. In the end, maybe North Carolina, maybe nevada, those would be the last three as opposed to the first group. You think those are closer than missouri . Is missouri also in that group . I consider roy a friend. I think his chances of coming back are not real great. Thats with trump winning the state. I think a lot of the trump, anti washington, anti politicians out there, i think somebody wrote a piece the other day that was working against both roy and evan. I think evan started off in a little bit better position, but well see. On the Supreme Court, its interesting, the scenario that you laid out is one that i was also dealing with and i talked to a democrat the other day who i consider to be a very moderate , and said this exact same scenario. Why would we even do that . What you talking about . Shes the president and she gets to pick whatever she wants to pick. Why would she put garland up there . Absolutely not. Thats from a moderate. Then i think what is Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders going to commands. Republicans you said all along you dont want to do it during a lameduck president. Its fine. Heres the new president with her new choice. The pressure, i agree, it would be better to get it done and not have the fight. I think the pressure on the left is going to be severe and maybe not just the far left but maybe even the middle left for her getting who she wants rather than just making it a republican approved candidate. We will see how tough she is. I think shes a pretty tough cookie, and i dont see that in a majority of way at all, but we will see. You do have a lot of democrats already sang, if she wins by a landslide or a bigger margin than barack obama one in 2008, why is the first thing she has to do to start making concessions. Why is it that republicans are going to say you get even less to work with them we gave obama. How is that fair . Lets go i know its in Economic Affairs determine election, but i keep thinking for years after the lbj landside, they began a landslide in the white house. That was after the vietnam war. You think of all the banana peels out there and the relative power in the world that is at a relatively low point compared to 25 years ago, what kind of, how much concentration, assuming clinton gets elected, is she is she going to have to focus on International Events . I know its a bit of a crystal ball in here but how will this affect the political situation. In these conversations to little less of an electoral factor even if its not the policymaking process and theyre not as reliant on congress to get done. They have much more free reign there. If donald trump had never happened and this was a campaign , i think we would have much more litigation, not just of the Obama AdministrationForeign Policy record but also the division between the Hillary Clinton style and the barack obama style which she has, at some point been openly critical of. How do you see her making those decisions and how much of a shadow is that going to cast for her potential presidency. I guess my reaction, and i say this hesitantly because theres a pretty big percentage of this room here that would be Better Qualified to answer than i am, but would be over or under 50 of her time . The only reason why Foreign Affairs might be under 50 is that the domestic side is more timeconsuming because as molly said, you do have to work with congress and you do have to stroke people in all of that with Foreign Policy. Maybe you can be a little bit more efficient with your time and a little more decisive, but i think it would be fairly close to 5050. Yes, the world is a much more disorderly place than he used to be and i dont know, ill call it a day there. Basically, nobody knows pretty thick we have time for one or two more questions. Lets go to this man in the red bracelet. Do you have any observations about the x the call and moral dilemma Godfearing Christians of faith that they are having faced with the choice of the two Major Party Candidates who are both coming from the protestant tradition. Amy to want to take that one. Mean are you specifically talking about evangelical voters for everybody . For voter who has as their core value system. We have so many voters right now saying they are voting for the least worst choice. There isnt a perfect candidate right now. I think what we are seeing in some places, where it showing up in a place like utah where you have a significant mormon population is a support for a third candidate which is Evan Mcmullen who is a utah native and former security official who is getting anywhere from second and first place. Thats where you put your trust if youre sending a statement that i want a republican but i dont want a trump kind of republican. They simply say they are holding and using other factors to determine their choice in votes but i think it goes beyond people of religious faith. I think there are a lot of very disillusioned and disappointed voters out there and this is the reality of the campaign that we are in. There are very few choices im trying to decide how much do i want to force the people of my office who will be answering the phones for the next two days and looking at our generic inbox, you know, i tried to stay in the middle and try hard, sometimes its easier, sometimes its harder, but when i think, and i came from a southern protestant background, when i think of religious conservatives, when i think of evangelical christians, when i think of sort of the value structure that they have historically represented, and then i see a fair number of them supporting someone that is so far astray from judeochristian values in so many ways, were talking about donald trump, i think, you know what, i dont really need to give a lecture on values from evangelical christians from those folks anymore. I wont set for it because to me , they are just so blinded by hatred of Hillary Clinton, someone who do have a church type background, i find it, when people are driven by hate as opposed to trying to feel like who actually reflects my values and they kind of cut a deal that they would want our leaders to be, i guess im gonna save a lot of time by not having to listen to certain people anymore because as far as i am concerned, they are hypocrites. Wow. Lets take one more question. From you in the back, sir. Then well get out of here and take a shower. [laughter] good afternoon, its a pleasure to speak with you. I have the great experience and opportunity to visit the trump hotel, socalled grand opening today. I was fortunate to be part of the press so i got a chance to go inside and see what is being said and hundreds of people were there. On the way out i met it interesting woman who is a very passionate trump supporter who i had an opportunity to interview and she was amazing. I have to say, she was amazing and not only her passion but she did not come across as a stereo typical trump supporter. She was actually very interesting and friendly and educated. Do you have a questions or. My question is, is it possible, in the future, we can try harder to understand each others point of view because sometimes there is a middle ground and we all are human and we believe in what we have to offer. Can we come together at some point later on. Ive been building middleground all my life. I think thats a good question after this election. Given how so many divides have come to the foreground in the electorate, not so much in the political process as in the actual social fabric of america, do people have any desire to get along and be in community with each other or would they rather pull away and scapegoat and character. Is it unique to this campaign , i would argue no. This is the challenge at large for our society which is the way we treat each other on twitter or social media is not new. That did not come about simply because of this campaign. That has been there for a while. The Community Building that we care about has been isolating ourselves in little bubbles of comfort and it has been for a long time too. Ive been arguing for some time that the surprising thing about this election isnt that its happening, its that it took this long to happen. Weve been quite happy staying in our little bubbles and i think thats where we will stay. A campaign brings a lot to the floor but i think we will retreat back to the safe places weve always been. I think there are some things that have been set loose, we lifted up a rock and a whole bunch of stuff started crawling out from under it. You cant put that rock down. Yet we do. Are we better off knowing what was under the rock or were we better off not knowing. I think we are better off with the rock still there. I feel like we do this with so many things and clearly, what we are seeing now, especially in the black lives Matter Movement, is a reality that has been there since the founding of this country. We have had a deep wound that we have never healed and we just put a bandaid on it and wait loses out and we put a bandaid on it and it loses out and weve never fixed it, weve never gone to the underlying cause of that wound. I dont think this campaign is going to do anything with those other wounds. I will say, the one positive side, its such a downer, but the nostalgia for the past is that the reality now is we are at diversifying country and in that youre getting a lot more Diverse Voices in the mix which is the good part. Somebody like me wasnt allowed to do things that i can do now 50 years ago. That is fantastic. Voices that weve never heard before are now part of the dialogue. The breakup of traditional media and Traditional Television networks is great. Theres no match, one show that everybody in america watches but there is lots of shows that were never part of the process before. Thats what happens when you get it an increasingly Diverse Society with open borders, this is what you get. Some of it is really bad and ugly, but at its core, its making sure that we dont just have one definitive voice trying to make the case how everybody should think and look and act. Thats the positive piece of what has come, not just of this campaign but of this changing society. On that refound note, thank, thank you everyone for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] if you missed any of this discussion, it will be available later on in our video library. Just go to cspan. Org. We are back on the road to the white house later today with democrat Hillary Clinton. She is is celebrating her 69th birthday today. She is continuing her efforts in the battleground state of florida. Watch her rally live at 245 eastern. Eastern. Thats on our companion network cspan. We will also hear from her rival ticket with remarks from republican Vice President ial nominee mike pence. Indiana governor in another battleground state, utah, watch that live at 530 eastern back here on cspan2. We recently spoke with the Trump Pence Campaign manager about the state of the race. Joining us on the phone from new york is kelly and conway, the Campaign Manager for the trump pence ticket. Thanks for being with us. Its my pleasure. On sunday you told chuck todd we are behind with two weeks to go before the election. How do you get ahead . We are behind slightly, we are up and others, particularly states where barack obama carried the state twice. We feel really good about that. These are states that mccain and romney did not carry. The way we get ahead is for mr. Trump to keep doing what hes done all along which is to do these rallies, these roundtables, take his message directly to the people, he cant really wait to get fair coverage from the mainstream media. We do have advertising, nothing on the scale that Hillary Clinton has had. Shes running a much more conventional campaign and she is a more conventional candidate. I think a candidate like donald trump demands an unconventional approach. I will tell you lots of folks think the crowds at these rallies dont matter. I will tell you, the enthusiasm and momentum never abates no matter what the media stories are, no matter how many victory laps Hillary Clinton and her friends are taking, folks folks are showing up ten, 15000 strong for each trump event and that has to mean something because youre waiting in line for hours and hours just to say you were there when he was there in your part of the Trump Movement which is more of a movement than a campaign. Then of course youre going to come out and vote. Of course we like the returns in the early voting that we see, particularly in places like North Carolina, iowa, ohio, somewhat in florida. We are focusing we are focusing on the fact that the rnc has helped us tremendously to have this in place. We are starting to see the fruits of that when the early returns are coming in. As you know, the new politics average in states like florida, New Hampshire give the edge to Hillary Clinton. In ohio he is only up one percentage point within the margin of air. Sure, thats what campaigns are for. We see mrs. Clinton below 50 everywhere. The National Polls dont matter quite as much but even in the more credible one, its a tighter race. Nati