giving us the opportunity for what i think was a good conversation. folks i hope you will join me in thanking our panel. [applause] earlier today today we talk to missouri reported to get an update on yesterday's resignation announcement by governor eric greitens. >> host: joining us on the phone to talk about missouri's governor announcing his yesterday brian lowrie at the "kansas city star" their political reporter. mr. lowrie good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. just to show our viewers the headline of your paper this morning and how reads missouri government eric greitens resigns for those who have not been following the story closely set this up for us and what led to the decision? >> so this is the culmination of lots of controversy in missouri

and to give your viewers an idea this is a guy who registered eric greitens for president years before he ever ran for governor h so he is always had higher ambitions. what happened a few months ago is a came out of these allegations that he had photographs of a woman while she was bound and blindfolded in an effort to keep her from speaking about an extramarital affair. that prompted a criminal of the staycation. he was indicted by a grand jury in february. that indictment led to a house investigation and at the same time you had an attorney general's investigation into allegations of a charity donor lists. so we have had multiple scandals, multiple investigations and what happened

yesterday was a court in central missouri had ordered the governor to turn over some documents were ordered his nonprofit to turn over some documents related to donors and political non-profits and shortly after that the governor announced his resignation. you have to understand the governor was facing not just one scandal but multiple scandals and multiple investigations by government entities and months of scrutiny andmb pressure from members of their own party to step aside teary when he stepped aside he didn't apologize and pointed the fingerr let's see ws the victim of a political conspiracy. >> host: mr. lowry stand the line because we are going to show our viewers a response from the governor. >> in the last few months have been incredibly difficult for me , for my family, for my team,

for my friends and for many, many people that i love. this ordeal has been designed to cause an incredible amount of strain on my family. millions of dollars of mounting legal bills, endless personal attacks designed to cause maximum damage to family and friends. legal harassment from colleagues, friends, campaign workers and it's clear that for the forces that oppose us there is no end in sight. i cannot allow those forces to continue to cause pain and difficulty to the people that i love. i know and people of good faith no that i'm not perfect but i

have not broken any laws or committed any offense worthy of this treatment. sin talk about the governor's response to particularly he didn't admit to anything but what did he say going forward about theof rest of the dash. >> guest: he emphasized friday to be clear he has denied all wrongdoing in all criminal wrongdoing. what he said yesterday was this ordeal has been designed to cause maximum pain to him and his family, that he and his friends have been the victims of harassment for the past few months and that there was no end in sight and millions of dollars mounting legal bills.

he talked about how he is done nothing worthy of this and he will let history judge this process. to be very clear it was not a resignation speech. it was a litigation speech where he continued to assert as he had all along that he is not a criminal and he is a fake them of political machinations. >> host: goingan forth, what happens after friday? is going to take after andd wht happens to the government in place? >> guest: might person will officially be sworn in as the governor of 5 missouri. missouri it's a state where the governor and lieutenant governor run separately but they are both republicans. there are a lot of similar

policies to greitens. there are few significant ones. he's aer former member of the state senate and a former county sheriff's and he is known as somewhat of a consensus builder alleging that the legislature is corrupt and constantly had combative relationship. person is a dealmaker. lawmakers from both parties suspect they are going to have a much better working relationship with person than they did with greitens. in fact the house leader from kansas city said he expects -- . >> host: mr. lowry what is the future of eric greitens look like? what kinds of things could he pursue? is a life in politics or is it a life and business? what is the potential there? >> guest: that's a big question mark there.

we have had them on our staff and i don't know that any of us have a clear answer to that but he is at least going to leave the political stage iv a little while but i would not a surprised if he would come back in the public eye in some fashion. the fact that he at no point in his rig -- resignation speech has admitted fault leaves open the door that he could make a run for something that he may continue to be active in politics. this is a guy that made his esteemed recognition by running a charity that was meant to help veterans get back into the community. that was some of the controversy

that led to his resignation. we have to see whether he goes back to charitable work or whether he stays in politics in some form. if he had his druthers eric greitens would still be governor. >> host: airports for the "kansas city star" of political reporter joining us to talk about thehe resignation of eric greitens as governor of missouri. mr. lowry thank you for your time. >> guest: thank you pedro, appreciate it.

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