Reporter the club for growth spent about 10 million this cycle trying to defeat donald trump in the gop primary. I wonder if you can play monday morning quarterback for us a little bit and are there things you would have done differently knowing what you know today . Would you have spent all of that money on house and senate races in stat or was there a different strategy you would have employed in terms of trying to stop donald trump . David knowing what we know today confirms, i think, the problems we saw early on with the trump nomination for us. At this point, we are not engaged in the president ial race, we are not part of the never trump group, in fact, im hoping he does well because our down ballot races are affected by how well he does in the president ial race. My friend mike pence is a great pick for Vice President. That being said, i think there were other candidates in that primary who would be leading in the race right now if they had won the primary and been chosen. We en
Reporter the club for growth spent about 10 million this cycle trying to defeat donald trump in the gop primary. I wonder if you can play monday morning quarterback for us a little bit and are there things you would have done differently knowing what you know today . Would you have spent all of that money on house and senate races in stat or was there a different strategy you would have employed in terms of trying to stop donald trump . David knowing what we know today confirms, i think, the problems we saw early on with the trump nomination for us. At this point, we are not engaged in the president ial race, we are not part of the never trump group, in fact, im hoping he does well because our down ballot races are affected by how well he does in the president ial race. My friend mike pence is a great pick for Vice President. That being said, i think there were other candidates in that primary who would be leading in the race right now if they had won the primary and been chosen. We en
Reporter the club for growth spent about 10 million this cycle trying to defeat donald trump in the gop primary. I wonder if you can play monday morning quarterback for us a little bit and are there things you would have done differently knowing what you know today . Would you have spent all of that money on house and senate races in stat or was there a different strategy you would have employed in terms of trying to stop donald trump . David knowing what we know today confirms, i think, the problems we saw early on with the trump nomination for us. At this point, we are not engaged in the president ial race, we are not part of the never trump group, in fact, im hoping he does well because our down ballot races are affected by how well he does in the president ial race. My friend mike pence is a great pick for Vice President. That being said, i think there were other candidates in that primary who would be leading in the race right now if they had won the primary and been chosen. We en
Building with a handgun, according to fox news he cally. Knowing that there are over 4,000 staffers and interns at risk here on thec house side o the capital and are and recalling the horrible Gabby Giffords strategy and the loss of zimmerman, i would ask that members refrain from making statements that could even possible approximately be misconstrued by the public as an invitation to do anything like that. Its obvious that representative lomas meant no such thing and i think it behooves all of us to be careful about the way we phrase things because there are people out there ready and able to misconstrue things. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Gentleman yields back and the chair recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins. Thank you, mr. Chair, appreciate it. Here we go again. I told the story last time. I wish i could sit here and say what was not plausible then has gotten a little more plausible . It seems not to have gotten any more plausible. We still continue and
In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questions not with him, but with president bush and they would have president bush saying general. Now, that was a little piece of tape that they got from an interview that george w. Bush had done earlier with a smart aleck guy up in massachusetts, who had asked him, do you know the name of the president of pakistan, general musharraf. And poor bush said, general, and he couldnt think of his name. So, t