Friendly. Backslapper. That is not his style. He is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. It is very important, he is a very precise man. This was a precision race that he ran. You guys wrote an article back in november. One of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as 50 million . He was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. There was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against Alison Grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. What that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the Positive Side of Mitch Mcconnell. This is a guy who had a lousy Approval Rating back home, low 40s to high 30s for much of the campaign, and you realize you need
No justice, no peace. No justice no peace. [indiscernible] no justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. No justice. No peace. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. I cant breathe. [marvin gaye whats going on playing] [marvin gaye whats going on playing] [marvin gaye whats going on] if we could all do this together. Let me introduce myself. Im not really important. Joe madison. I will be running this program. If we could all do this together. Let me Say Something before we get started. There are a lot of people in the media that want to try to suggest there is a division among us. That this is young versus old. White versus black. When my son walks out of the house, i pray every day he will come home. I dont care what color he is. All human life is sacred. And so, let us gather here for a purpose. Let me tell the people in the media something right now. Theres a lot of pain on the streets. But where there is pain there is a purpose. And we are here for purpose. And we are going to be here toge
Former congressman bob ney. In a chapter headlined pretty alice, you called pretty alice the most covert, manipulative, cunning, stealth vicious coldhearted instrument of evil that karl rove and the Bush Administration had. What is pretty alice . Alice fisher is a very interesting person that received attention from senator levin in particular and that basically went away as i explain in the book. But alice fisher had never particularly tried cases and was criticized for that. She was in the Criminal Division 2001 to 2003. Went over to work for chertoff. An extreme political optrative and in the bushcheney campaign i dont want to call her a political hack but ill say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzales was attorney general for the United States. Ran afoul of senator levin and the reason it did is because he said a, she was close to tom delays defense team. She had dealings with his defense team. B, she didnt have a lot of experience trying cases, was g
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
It is time to go in a new direction. [applause] it is time to turn this country around. [cheering applause] manu raju, when you interviewed Mitch Mcconnell, what was he like . It was the most complex race of a 30 year career. He was attacked right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. He had democrats that made him the top target. He knew that going in. Mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. That started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy in that primary. At that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. He started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. He said to me, this is the most complex challenge ive ever had to deal with. And he won big