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Of the united states. >> greg: so, harold, it is a threat to democracy, our constitutional order, by having another candidate run for president. people just hate third-party candidates because the one closest to their preferred candidate gets hurt. whether you are a democrat or republican, everybody feels the same way, so we see a left-winger, we go hahaha, he's going to hurt biden. but if you know trump does not get the nomination, even if the third-party candidate republicans are going to lose. >> harold: i think you said it well. i'm 53. in my lifetime, serious independent candidacy candida...

Adam schiff substantively on issues. dianne feinstein was elected in 2018 running against a candidate to her left but that candidate was less familiar to republicans than feinstein herself and he picked up a lot of republican votes from people trying to vote for not dianne feinstein. i think you could have a weird dynamic in an election in california where you could have a candidate run to schiff's left, pick up progressive votes and republican votes from people who don't know a lot about katie porter but know they hate adam schiff from all of this coverage. schiff wants to run against a repub...

There are legal barriers to moving money from a state race to a federal campaign. but super pacs have a lot less rules around them, they have created a lot more gray areas around them, and the regulatory environment around super pacs have created a bit of a permissive environment for these candidates to use super pacs more to their advantage in these federal races and in campaigns. and actually there was an example in florida, you had a state representative with a political committee, he left that committee, decided to run for congress, that political committee sent that money to a super pac t...

Democrats all the more worrisome, but you also seem to be pointing to something also known as a prerequisite. doctors have prerequisites. police and military have prerequisites. there is an idea that especially for a president, but even for higher office like the senate, there should be prerequisites. your point here is that the modern republican party doesn't, what, care enough about the difficulty of governing to apply prerequisites to candidates? >> that's exactly true. i mean, they don't want policy wonks. when is the last time ucould name a republican policy wonk? it's been quite a while ...

Out of order. >> the time, no you are out of order. >> the time belongs to the gentleman from with is which sc may proceed. >> i beg of you to allow the gentleman and the end of the long hearing to be able to explaining conflicts in representation that have been made by various persons on the panel. >> it seems to me on advice of counsel, a lot of the things that we are going to find out today we not going to find out. when i look at this area, around washington d.c., i look and we had a candidate run for president who ran on the promise to drain the swamp. when i look at the election results,...