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He made clear to the president we are waiting on you to tell us what you want. that has happened time and time again for the republican-led congress that has said to the president, who is the leader of the republican party, tell us what your priorities are, and he does it. he tries to pick a menu of options where he chooses three of them. i think that mcconnell is not going to take that chance again. >> and the result is chaos. one other thing that came up over the evening is a memo written by attorney general nominee barr that really does layout executive power, specifically as it relates to ...

Ago the attorney general, it is that this is somebody who both sides know can handle the large bureaucracy that can button up and close up a lot of cases, and people can trust without a doubt that democrats would be disingenuous if they do not admit this to over see a number of prosecutions and investigations including the special investigation of mueller, that is important, because this is somebody that goes beyond any question and is an outsider relative to trump, he was not on the campaign. so the credentials are impeccable. >> harris: this is somebody that the president said he had his eye...

Not participate in the election at all, hopefully draw a few turnover votes. there's a little bit of chatter on social media today about possibly writing in senator mcdaniels na's name, thinking t this election is for the unexpired term of ed ththaad co. so whoever runs will have to run again in two years. and the thinking is if it's espy, he would be easy to beat by say true conservative in two years than cindy hyde-smith, who is the establishment pick, and mississippi when we tend to vote senators elect them for a generation. i don't know that there's any sort of groundswell, but it's very d...

Comey firing, which we had a lot of discussion about who the replacement was going to be, whether or not it was going to be an establishment pick. here we are seeing essentially silence and frankly some increasingly bizarre trial balloons of who the president might put in that spot. he appears to be perfectly happy to sit back and let that 210 days expire and potentially reup it again. >> yeah. and a lot of republicans want to show deference to the president, and who he wants to have in his cabinet and so on, but it's sort of running up against all of these questions about the russia investiga...

Election here, it makes sense to see daniel o'connor attack more toward the center. the republicans in their primary were very worried about nominating somebody who would be too conservative for the district. and so they end up with troy balderson, who is more of an establishment pick. you know, they were relieved he made it out of that primary. what we're looking at in terms of turnout is going to be the actual columbus suburbs, and franklin county, and in delaware county north. these represent huge chunks of the district, and particularly in franklin county, where danny o'connor is an electe...