so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful. if you sit down and talk.

you know we look at the solutions we look take a deep dive into the issues they've been chatting about all year now today we're going to be talking with the twitter more also known as an l w the breakdown hot cast and following him on twitter for a long time listen to his clock ask the other great thing about this whole new universe of media stacy is that people who might not get on media get on and then they rise to the top and suddenly they're like wow these people are awesome and i would put anything else in the.

days of the republican national convention as donald trump improve his chances for reelection will get that perspective on this in politics. for the politic you know i'm larry king day for the republican national convention will come upon us and with it has donald trump improve his chances for reelection let's get perspective from a well known republican who as indorse the democratic candidate for president and spoken out against donald trump she is christine todd whitman she served in the cabinet of president george w. bush as administrator of the environmental protection agency before that she was governor of the state of new jersey and she joins us now from that state ok christine has president trump improved so far. i'm not sure how much larry

i mean he certainly has hard to space the 1st night was all about the pace that was really no outreach whatsoever the 2nd night it was one of those things where they trying to soften things but they don't weren't talking about the record of the person who was they were speaking about frankly i listened to people and i just didn't recognize and same thing's been going on they seem to be going back and forth between being hard and and promoting the kind of things that is baseless to here and then on trying to soften him on the other side and ignoring him skipping over a lot of the record or misrepresenting frankly a lot of the record which everybody doesn't a convention i get that to a degree but i'm not sure how much it's told in undecideds but it certainly could have because there have been some very emotional testimonies are you know on the republican more what are you a republican but i'm an eisenhower republican i'm not giving up on the party yet

although it seems does seem to be right now since there is no platform to this convention which as you know is highly unusual because it's a party of trump once we're through this part of it we'll see less we governor you spoke of the democratic convention as you say your image in the republican was that difficult to do. no it really wasn't because i just believe so strongly that trump is taking this country down a rabbit hole and that his disrespect for the rule of law is attitude toward the constitution is kind of an incomplete in it his overlooking his well his demonizing people his mocking people he's we talk all the time about the concern of bullying in our classrooms and what it does to children and even lisa suicide and we have the bully in chief in the white house i don't think he's made our country ever say any safer because he's walked away from our allies and cozied up to people who do not have our best interests at heart and i've just never seen him do anything that

leads me to believe he deserves to be president the event is violating the had checked that's a hard one to say i mean how jack certainly for anyone below the cabinet use you should do political events i think bump a 0 certainly is it's questionable whether that trip was really planned for any real diplomatic reason or whether it was just for this convention to be able to get his little talk from the hotel in jerusalem but trump is using your thing in a way i mean in a in a funny way when he when he swore in those 5 i guess it was newly minted american citizens representing countries that he called the countries why are we allowing the man it was so transparent as an effort to try to reach out and it almost didn't mean that ceremony i mean those people deserve to be just like the fellow that he

pardoned on the 2nd night i mean that gentleman i think deserved to be part and he certainly shown he's changed his life around and he's helping other people but to do it as part of a political convention. it demeaned and he is he's using the office but i think he's also demeaning the office. in a reason tweet you accuse the administration of trying to disenfranchise millions of american voters with chances with its changes for pows in the postal service how bad do you think that can get oh i think you can get very good at i have worry about that and then it does seem that congress has pulled up to choi that the postmaster general the postmaster general and has stopped what was going on but he's not going to replace those boxes in the sorting machines that he's already removed but it's more the thought of that and now the president talking about he may deploy troops to ensure that voting goes on as it should not smacks to me of

the south of the fifty's and early sixty's where intimidation was going on to keep people from the polls and that's just wrong in our democracy is just wrong and i worry should trump lose and should be it not be a by a wide margin i think he's going to turn this country upside down he is not going to go quietly he blamed mostly the governors for the rise of coronavirus are your form of government not government during this horrific state what do you make of that statement. well i mean yes it's again it's emblematic of the man 1st he says i'm in charge of the only one that can make decisions and he said not me i don't have anything to do with this the problem we have had from the beginning i believe in the coronavirus is that lack of leadership from the top what the governors wanted what the merits wanted what they needed was to have somebody at the top say look this is what we know this is what we don't know these are the

things we know will work and everyone should do where a mass social distancing in for a period of time whatever they decided was the appropriate listening to the experts they should stay inside and i believe that had we done not right in the beginning ok maybe give hama a week or 2 where nobody was an 100 percent sure of how far this was going to go but we knew pretty well quick way too early on that this was something serious if we'd done that our economic recovery would be would be way ahead of where we are today but now we have the starter start because there's been no overarching policy that told people what were the basic things that needed to get done and that's what the federal government should do is your state new jersey reopening a school campuses this month or next for in class learning. yes they are they're leaving it up to the school districts they will be the ability in most of them to go distance learning if they have to but the private schools and the public schools all seem to be opening to one degree or another and no one set of grandchildren are

going to just go in the mornings to their school of the 3rd and 4th grades another set will be their full day but they'll have to or they all have to wear a mask one group has to wear masks and face shields all the teachers are going to be annoyed everybody in the school is going to be just that way so they're going to take a lot of precautions. do you assess the job new jersey is. i think the governor has done a pretty good job i mean there are a lot of people that are mad at amoco he hasn't opened up in door guy inning and things and it's hard again what makes it so difficult is there's it seems as if it's arbitrary because each governor or mayor is having to do this on their own and it's not arbitrary it's about saving people's lives and the one thing if we're learning anything about this fire is you know want to get even a light case because we're starting to see that people don't recover as quickly as they were but he thought they did their lingering after effects some of them can be deadly with blood clots to the brain to strokes and things otherwise healthy people

so it's not something you want to fool around with we should be concerned that over 175000 people have died in this country from relatively short period of time for this kind of thing and coming in now to the flu season it's even more worrisome if you slow a dove a mo when you mandate masks yes i want without question. how do you make of the dealing with when the whim of the president of a say well it's your freedom to not wear it and i know it well that's what i mean when i say that he says one thing in any undermines that i mean will say yes everybody should wear a mask it's a nice idea but only if you want to that's not right there are only a few things that we can say with pretty much certainty about the corona virus and not is no way to help stop the spread is by wearing

a mask social distancing and if you don't have to go out don't but certainly stay away from large crowds and they've been able to trace back every single well almost every single he time to do that as an exaggeration but these outbreaks to gatherings where there was a wedding a motorcycle rally and who knows what's going to happen after the 1st lady spoke in the rose garden to a crowd of people who are not sitting 6 feet apart and nobody wearing a mask again because the president want to remind people about the mask and the new advisory from. the c.d.c. about well if you've been exposed to corona virus you don't really need to get tested i mean doctors are shaking their heads saying wait a minute what's going on and that's the worst you can do in a crisis like this you need a steady leadership your reaction to the horrific killings and commotion was garson you know it's what's happening is awful. you know you never know in

a nanosecond when police are out there they don't know exactly what they're facing . they're talk to take the body shut but you know what we should be doing i believe larry is not talking about defund the police it's refund the police it's figuring out we're asking them to be social workers in psychiatry and they don't know how to do that they're not trained they don't have access when they're going to a situation where somebody if they get a call and say someone is acting strangely they want to have the ability to have a psychiatrist or psychologist go with them if they're talking being brought into a domestic violence situation and some of these have come from that they want to be able of a social worker somebody who is better equipped to talk people down than to find out what's going on but when you see someone who is walking away not running walking away from them not responding so they don't know. and then you should try the legs i know you go for the body shot i know but that's the biggest target when you're in a in a critical situation you don't mess around if you're

a police officer but when someone is not running but walking you should have a designated shooter as it were so not everybody is unloading their guns because very easy to get off a lot of rounds with those weapons that they carry and they want to not aim for the torso just for a change. to new york city cop told me was that there is no excuse to ever run from behind there's not one instance of running away from a robbery is still don't shoot anyone from behind. well i would that i would agree with that i mean i would like that i'm trying to cut a break for some people particularly now because the police are feeling particularly vulnerable but you know there shouldn't be if someone's going away from you when you've seen us now what we've had 3 recent of these shootings were going to the victim has been going away from the police and that's got to stop we've got to do a better job at recruiting at weeding out those who join the force because they have some kind of a grudge or they they feel the power of it i think we ought to stop giving selling

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the long term effects may not just be absence of benefit but actually that they may be causing long term. pull back with christie todd whitman the former governor of new jersey and former administrator of the environmental protection agency you think joe biden should be speak tough for about the rioters. i don't know what he said most recently about the royal or isn't there certainly a difference between demonstrators and rioters and i don't believe he holds any truck with rioters he certainly supports the right of the demonstrators to be out there peacefully demonstrate but not the rioters themselves but what he should be doing is trying to scare people that this is what one part the way the republicans are doing now this is what the democrats are going to unleash on you because they want to because they like this idea because they're going to force integration in their communities and they keep talking about the suburbs where

a lot of people of color who live in the suburbs they're not all you know rioters and he's trying to create this racial divide that is so dangerous our country is great because we're immigrants for the majority if you're not a native american indian you're an immigrant your family has immigrant roots that's what gave us our strengths and to create this divide is very dangerous. concerning your party if if if the president loses as mike pence the titular head i not so sure about that i think there's going to be a big fight over who the titular head is and again it up depends on how big the loss is if trump loses that's going to be the deciding factor i think at the end of the day he certainly is going to try but you've got nikki haley you've got people who are speaking at the convention all of whom have the are their eyes on 2024 can see you see is so returning to the party. not if it's going to be that this party

not it's going to be defined by by truck now after they can this election i'm going to have to decide and there are a group who of us who are looking at how do we rebuild the party is there a way to rebuild it or does it have to be a 3rd party i mean the republican party started as a 3rd party i say i'm an eisenhower republican and i go back to the convention you remember and i remember 1964 when i somehow or spoke there and he outlined what the republican party stood for and if you read that isn't the journal fun trump does not reflect any of that. so what was a go for me of this not pence is a party whose party is going out i think they'll be a fight over i think you'll see the nikki haley's and the others who have been appearing at the convention who are all try to take it over but i don't believe donald trump's going to go quietly although i don't think he likes to work terribly hard so if he thinks this will be hard to keep the party he won't do it but he

likes the platform he likes to be able to stir things up and he's going to try to write this for as long as he can even if he is not an office of human to us was former president bush. no i have not i see a maybe want to hear a lot of snow rumors that he might come up in them because biden's going back to the way his brother was treated you don't think so no i don't think so he has too much respect for the office itself irrespective of the person and whether you do agrees or disagrees i'd be very surprised if he did that and quite frankly there are younger bushes who may be interested in running for political office and i don't think he wants to cut all the bridges with with republicans he's already indicated he is not going to vote former new thing mitt romney might indorsed by. no i mean i wouldn't be at all surprised if romney didn't deliver yes it's always

great seeing you thank you so much thanks so much for your time it's good to see where we welcome to politicking richard painter a professor of law at the university of minnesota former chief white house ethics lawyer during the george w. bush administration and he has tweeted that secretary of state mike pump ale has violated the had checked what is the act and how has he why about it acha act specifically prohibits united states government employees from using their patient position or dorce or oppose a political candidate it also prohibits the use of united states government funds to support a political party or political candidate secretary pump aoa taxpayer expense flew out of the full amount of mission over to the middle east including the city of jerusalem he had a speech written that it was going to give at the republican national convention

any tape that speech in jerusalem with the old city of jerusalem and the western wall as a backdrop or a political speech while he was on a diplomatic mission paid for by the taxpayers that's a clear violation of the hatch act no other secretary of state has ever in ball him sell or her sell in electoral politics and bars and politics in any capacity. and yet he does that what is there what is the penalty for violating it at present the only purpose by late in the hatch act is bank part and you don't it states government they investigate is it carried out by the office of special counsel and then a recommendation is made to the superior of the person is by late the hatch act unfortunately there's a barrier here is don't trump who doesn't care he has brains been told president truck the people working for him by late had jack including kellyanne conway who

was investigated for by late in the hatch act by attacking joe biden on the white house lawn of the special counsel so did president trump that killing conway should be fired and nothing happened so that's the that's the problem here and forcing nach act when the secretary says he appeared is a personal capacity that doesn't that doesn't fly with you at doesn't fly at all he was on a diplomatic mission outside the united states paid for by the taxpayer he is appearing in that video with the western wall in the background the old city of jerusalem he mentions being in the old city of jerusalem he mentions that don't trump transfer the united states embassy from tel beat to jerusalem it mentions the recent deal with the united arab emirates he took so bad the very same type of diplomatic mission that he is on at taxpayer expense when he's doing that video there's no way that's a personal capacity. what do you expect will happen. well

i am going to later on today file a complaint with the office of special counsel against trick pump a 0 or what professor klare frankenstein at the university pennsylvania she's going to john mann that's one point we plan to file that when there are a few hours there are other complaints but as well the democrats in the house oversight committee believe that the house of representatives or the conduct an investigation themselves. this is a very very serious situation we have never had a sector slate get involved in partisan politics in any capacity much less while on a diplomatic mission overseas also the form of florida. attorney general pam bondi recently and then an advisor to president trump pool and also contribute his campaign and she spoke at the republican convention and accused joe biden and his family of corruption your organization citizens for

responsibility and ethics in washington filed complaints against her for what well i recall that she was at one point when she was the attorney general out there florida was involved in. a number of matters affecting donald trump and not investigating certain alleged illegal conduct and making campaign contributions and some back and forth there i'd have to go back over those blanks a number of may have been filed before i came on the board of directors of a crew but there were some serious concerns about what she had done in her fishel capacity and whether she was using her position in order to help donald trump and that is not something that should be done by federal or state attorneys general. the trouble his asian faces series new charges. regarding the new york attorney general and the charges against eric trump the present the president's son

investigation as to whether the trump organization misled banks in order to secure loans by inflating assets it's a civil investigation could it become criminal yes it could there is currently a criminal investigation against. it involving the trump organization in the southern district of new york in the federal system but also the state there is a state grand jury proceeding cyrus vance the prosecutor manhattan went all the way to the supreme court and won his case seeking from organization financial records it does cyrus vance is investigating financial crimes by the trump organization that are alleged to have occurred just last week donald trump last again in the federal district court is attempt to block those subpoenas that's going to the sockets our court of appeals but the u.s. supreme court already waiting their. case i put it a make this brief and on last march trump versus last in the supreme court made it

very clear those documents are going to be turned over to the grand jury in new york so yes there is an ongoing criminal investigation at the state level and there may be another one of the federal level in the southern district of new york at least $21.00 states are suing the u.s. postal service and the postman as a general who is the joy accusing them of intentionally effort to thwart motors from mailing their ballots this fall these lawsuits carry any weight. yes it is so we've got a very difficult situation right now if we are going to rely on both but male many americans do not want to vote in person without with 19 they want to vote by mass and that's our right and many states have put in place an effect the vote by mail system although the trump operatives have been suing to try to block vote by mail and the number of states the problem is both my mail doesn't work at the postal

system doesn't deliver we just happen to have a u.s. postal service there that is run by a truck campaign director well that's suspicious that of itself and now we start to see a lot of this function of post office questions about whether they can deliver the mail when even removing mailboxes mn number of sites this is a very very difficult situation and there needs to be a very close eye kept at the post office is critically important part of moxie that we have by mail in the bamber i don't understand the president has an as a what is the argument against mail in voting. the argument against mail in voting is that donald trump might lose that's what a ball down to he's a great he's going to what is the base of them he says it's going to be a massive amount of woodleigh he said they're big broad and people will mail in 2 ballots or 3 ballots and every state that has both by mail has or cautions against fraud or there's one ballot per vote and you lose your ballot they back away

canceling that one out so you could vote twice if you get a not one every state has adequate or cautions there is not that they brought with obama they are the bottom line is donald trump doesn't want it but a vote your people about the better his chances are. that's a shame do you expect this to go anywhere legally. well we're going to see what happens with the postal service but i have believe they're going to be legal actions brought against the postal service if they are not effective in delivering the mail keep the post offices open keep in the mailboxes where they are picking up a mailbox but the back of a truck and haul them away before election day everybody ought to be our ally on that mailbox they don't want such a street corner been there. and the mail meant the letter and so they got to stop horsing around and their job was is the deliver the mail so those mail in ballots

richard as always thank you for your time today well thank you very much larry thank you for having me rigid painted thank you audience for joining us on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking. if you go to the symphony and the oldest just warming up and each musician is is tuning his or her instrument so you hear this year all these sounds or noise get it but it's it's a constant it's just organized and then the band the orchestra plays and you get music so what the brain does what the microtubules do is organize all orchestrate

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