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it's pretty stunning. president trump says still he had a huge impact on the election. what do you think? >> i do think it's hard for donald trump not to have an impact on any election right now. he's such the dominant force in american politics. the white house, his campaign team is pointing out the other five statewide republicans on the ballot in kentucky yesterday all won. he mentioned their names too and came in to rally for them. the big race was matt bevin's race. >> did he help him? >> matt bevin was behind in this race, he had high unfavorables, he wasn't a popular governor at all. what's also true is that donald trump was not able to go and overwhelm turnout to the degree he needed to overcome turnout on
bit of a laboratory going into 2020. one of the things they're looking at is suburban voters. what was the role? >> it's a little dangerous to learn too much from a gubernatorial race in kentucky. the first thing we look for is, are we in a new political environment or did voters who went to the polls yesterday tell us we're in the same political environment that we were in this 2018, the midterms. it hasn't shifted that much. we still see in the suburbs real erosion for republicans in the trump era. this has been the story of american politics in the year of donald trump. what used to be a republican stronghold, part of republican coalition of victory was the suburbs. that is now a democratic advantage. they've made real in-roads there. it is what delivered the mouhou majority to democrats in 2018 and it is what helped andy beshear to be poised to be the next governor of kentucky. >> look at the numbers.
he's -- >> yeah. yeah. >> well, he's never actually been a popular president. he wasn't a popular candidate. he was running against hilary clinton. not going to have that chance again. >> right. >> and we, i think people in the press, including me sometimes, are enamored with idiots and he's not well-liked and if you look at the polling, there's an obvious sour taste over his presidency in the mouths of many voters, including many who voted for him and gave him a chance and didn't like her. that's going to be different this time. >> all right. we are going to sneak in our last break. we'll be right back. o sneak in r last break we'll be right back. ♪ born to be wild...
time, rand paul is enjoying it all because getting nothing done proves nothing can get done and doing nothing is what his philosophy is. he wins twice. >> well, you know, chris, i've done a lot of writing and using vital statistics on congress, great resource on productivity and sort of how you measure it. this congress, this house has passed 22 bills in its first eight months roughly that have gone to the president for signing the previous low ever before was 28 bills. you've seen 81 bills, 17 bills passed in past congresses. the argument -- and i want to get it out there because lots of republicans, and you heard john boehner talk about it -- lots of republicans say you're missing the point. the point here is that democrats control the white house. democrats control the senate. the only thing we can do here is we disagree philosophically and fundamentally with the ideas that they are pushing. the only thing we can do is to say we're not doing these things and thereby we are preserving
>> the democrats gave george w. a free ride. they said it happened, nobody knew it was going to happen. we're not going to butcher you politically over this. it was the first time it was ever done. as the secretary of state said, no one imagined them using planes, although they did. if that had happened under obama's watch, i tell you, it would have been impeachment time. >> by the way, obama plans to attack within the united states. >> i remember the way the secretary of state had to read it with no affect that time at the hearing they said it doesn't have any punch. >> i know. it was standout moment. osama bin laden determined to attack the united states. my eyes popped out of my head when that happened. >> i know, i know. >> remember, this is the president who escalated the war in afghanistan. and we are now drawing down. but it just doesn't make any sense to say that he has totally recoiled, that he is afraid of conflict. he has blown these guys up with drones. he doubled down in afghanistan. if anything i think the critique you make is from the left. >> talk to some of the guys close in.
post." the president gave himself up for the time being to entering his fiancee. needless to say it was a source of amusement in washington. next up, this one definitely belongs in the sideshow. things got ugly when anthony weiner encountered a heckler on the stump yesterday in new york. take a look at how it unfolded. >> you're very passionate. >> i'm more passionate than you on twitter. i'm a social medial expert. get someone to handle your [ bleep ]. you are disgusting. >> okay. >> disgusting. >> you've had your say. >> whoa! >> you've got little kids. >> little kids here. >> little kids? you have no right to talk about anything. you have no right to talk about little kids. >> okay. >> talking about little kids? social media? you want to see some twitter action. >> take it easy. lighten up. you put your show on and you beat it. beat it. >> beat it. that's the way to get a vote.
production company doing the hillary story doesn't do the way they do tv. they've got some sex in it, some excitement in it, some tabloid type stuff. they go through the whole relationship of hillary and bill and his philandering. they do the whole thing with monica, the whole thing with gennifer flowers, nothing new, just public record stuff. then they do the whole stuff about how she was angry about his unfaithfulness. all that. and then she was on the wrong side of the iraq war in the 2008 election, how she lost an upset victory to an african-american guy that nobody thought had a prayer. how does all that necessarily help her be elected to president? i'm just saying. >> from a certain standpoint, it doesn't. that's the problem with coming out before the video, the documentary, the film is even produced. or the script written. we don't know. >> by the way, joanie, after hearing that whole story i just told, i didn't mean to sell it that bad, but that whole clinton story, who wants the sequel? >> it would work that way. it could work that way.
including us on the "washington post" editorial page, but i think it befits a president who sees what's happening in the world, doesn't exactly know because we've never been down this road before. the freedom and people rising up in these countries that you're showing on the map here. this is what you want from a president. someone who sees things happening, that takes very considered steps, and the other thing we have to keep in mind, it might not look like the united states is doing a whole lot overtly in this region, in this region of the world. but you got to know that the united states is doing a whole lot of things covertly behind the scenes, out of the public view to gain intelligence, but to also help friends and destabilize enemies. >> i agree. by the way, gentlemen, can you imagine what the right wring challenge would be the attack on the president had 9/11 occurred on president obama's watch? >> president obama's watch? yeah. >> of course --
republicans are claiming that president obama is just a continuation of president george w. bush in the foreign policy realm where the president, this president is just continuing the hawkish policies of the bush administration. and then the next minute, they're claiming that the president is weak in foreign policy showing weakness to our enemies and yet, completely forgetting about all the drone strikes that the president is doing, and the other thing about what jim demint is doing which i find rather callous is would he rather the president of the united states not close the embassies and make our -- and make american personnel targets for a terrorist attack? i wonder what they would be saying if the president followed through on the advice that they're giving him. >> you mean another benghazi. >> yeah, exactly. >> benghazi, benghazi. right on cue, rick santorum not a foreign policy expert accused the president of being timid. i love the personifications, timid. muscular foreign policy. they turn on to some school yard kind of event.
revenue models, building new ones. experimenting digitally. you know, does he have an agenda? i think it's no accident that he's buying "the washington post" at a time when amazon increasingly has regulatory and legislative issues. but i don't see him wielding that influence in an overt way. >> what about his libertarianism? is he possibly in the mood to have "the washington post" endorse rand paul for president? is that within the realm of possibility for a libertarian, his first shot with the newspaper to endorse a libertarian candidate? >> i'm going to go out on a limb and say he won't be meddling with the decisions of the "washington post" editorial board. >> he won't? who will be? who will the post speak for, if not him? >> well, you know, he said he wants to keep the current management in place. >> does management decide who to endorse for president? i thought the owners do. >> you know, we'll have to see. >> it's a tough one, isn't it?