sununu: yeah. look, governors have to sign budgets with things in them all the time they don't want. in ever but he knows i did not put that in there. dr. sherman: but you bragged about it. gov. sununu: everybody knows i did not want that put in there. in the middle of the pandemic come over member this is 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, we are not going to risk the government. we are going to find and create flexibility for that, we got rid of it. i think it's and have the flexibility to provide exceptions for rape and incest. i agree with tom sherman that we should not be criminalizing doctors over this kind of stuff could we should make provisions for the health of the mother. we agree on is vastly more than we disagree. look at massachusetts. they have a 24-week ban. dr. sherman: they don't have criminal penalties. chris: dr. sherman, 30 seconds. dr. sherman: i never would have signed it. i would not have put the people of new hampshire at risk. gov. sununu: and i would not have shut down

sununu: gov. sununu: -- to be fair i completely agree.hich is why we signed it. >> moving on to energy. you have argued the state would have lowered energy costs if it embraced new energy markets. but many granite stators are watching their energy costs going up this year and they want relief now. what would you do to provide immediate relief this winter if you took office. and you believe fossil fuels plays a role in that? sen. sherman: for three questions. first of all. i do believe we would be in much better shape like maine, vermont, rhode island just did procurement which was vetoed by the governor in the past. their offshore procurement is coming in at 7.9 cents per kilowatt hour that is the third of what we are paying right now. it is clear that renewables over -- lower cost. second, what would i do right now? we came together and we passed a relief act. it is not an investment it is a one time relief act for people this winter to keep them warm. it does not cover everyone it does not cover the woman in berlin who is facing the $11

from politico's reporting, new hampshire governor chris sununu is strongly favored to win reelection,iving republicans longshot hopes of lifting their nominee against senator maggie hassan of new hampshire. republicans largely pulled out of the race, however, raising the possibility that both sununu and hassan are reelected and maintain new hampshire's split ticket reputation. in minnesota, independent voter, thank you for joining us. what is the top issue? caller: i'm calling in the sense of i wanted to say that governor tim walz did a fantastic job with the pandemic. he's a man of science. he is very articulate. he was very proactive in many ways and his opponent, dr. scott jensen, a medical doctor, was the one in the country that first started this conspiracy theory stuff about how the government gets more money if they put down that you died of covid on your death certificate and someone. it just started all these rumors to make medical facilities out as if they were just choosing to put covid on the death certificate and so on, so anyone who promotes any of this conspiracy stuff

your dad is john sununu who, at one point, was the chief of staff to then-president george h.w.mised with democrats on a tax bill to try to help the economy. the u.s. still entered a recession in the 1990s. did you get any insight on any of this politically from your father, what it was like watching the economic head winds come. that recession is why he wasn't re-elected. >> yeah, look, i would say my political insight comes from my experience as governor. i'm a three-term hopefully going on a four-term governor. you've got to know you've got to give a little to get a lot. you've got to bring the other side of the aisle into your office. i had a discussion with a bunch of senators when they were trying to get me to run for senate a while ago. they said balancing the budget is hard because you need 60 votes and that's not going to happen. i said, then build the 60-vote plan. that means you have to get democrats. go build the plan that brings democrats on board. find out what they want. give a little to get a lot. at the end of the day, you'll be rewarded for doing right by the a

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your dad is john sununu, at one point the chief of staff to then president george h. w. time, the first year of his presidency. he compromise with democrats on the tax bill to try to help the economy. you are still under the recession and on t-90. it hurt bush in the midterms. he ultimately didn't get reelected. did you get any insight on any of this politically from your father? what it was like watching the economic problems come. that recession is where he wasn't reelected. >> i would say my political inside comes from my experience as governor. i'm a three term hopefully fourth term governor. you've got to know, you have to give a little to get a lot. so you've got to know where to push and pull. trying to bring the other side of the island here office. i had a discussion with a bunch of senators when they were trying to get me to run for senate a while ago. they said balancing the budget is higher because you need 60 void votes and that's not gonna happen. i said if you're sure you need 60 votes than you build a 60 vote plan. that means we're going to have to get so

the new hampshire vittorio debate, governor chris sununu. here at c-span.org and the free c-span now video app. now, open forum. what do you want to talk about? louis from north carolina, your up first. caller: top of the morning to you c-span and america. it seems like every primary, every election year, you hear the republicans talk about crime. they talk about inflation, talk about gas and canned goods. every election. but after the election, they do not want to pass any kind of gun laws. we have so much crime right now, dealing with trump and all the enablers he had but they did not talk about that crime. they want to talk about the inner-city crime. you know what crime going around in north carolina, maybe someone can help me with this, but a lot of people, and majority of people on the news talk about somebody broke in my car and still there gun, it is a white person. but every time a gun is stolen out of their car, the car is not broken into. no damage to the windows or doors. somebody needs to be held accountable outside once they fo

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sununu signaled to voters that he thought he was too far right.hat's a powerful signal affecting the senate race. host: alex in california, independent. caller: i have a quick comment and quick question. for the american rescue plan active 2021, raphael warnock successfully sponsored an amendment to payoff the loans provided by the u.s. department of agriculture. a farmer could receive this financial aid only if you can prove he is non-european ancestry. here's my question. why is this discriminatory amendment not more of an issue or even an issue in the senatorial battle between herschel walker and raphael warnock? guest: you are right. it has not come up in my knowledge. what has driven the georgia race is the candidates' position on the issues. that is taken away some of the heat from walker as far as his allegations in his personal life, such as domestic violence allegations, holding a gun up to an ex-wife or paying for next girlfriend's abortion. the debate focused on a candidate's answers on policy. raphael warnock was evasive on changing --

the same test if you go up to new hampshire where you have a republican incumbent governor chris sununurman and maggie hassan and don bolduc. you think at the top of the ticket you vote one way and say i'm a republican or democrat and go straight up the ballot or back and forth. >> the thing that both chris sununu and governor kemp have in common is that they bucked donald trump. specifically bucked donald trump on the election lies. it was much more vivid and much more urgent and impactful in georgia because governor kemp by saying no, i'm not going to just find 11,000 plus votes out of thin air, kept georgia in the democratic column for joe biden and maybe ultimately in the senate. so that is -- if you're a republican party, honestly looking at what it takes to win in purple-ish states, you take the donald trump fealty question and that factor out of it, republicans have a better shot with democratic voters, not just independents. >> yeah. the one thing i will say is georgia has had a lot of elections over the last two years, a lot of closely determined elections. >> those runoffs. >>

governor chris sununu, who is a republican in new hampshire, talk as little bit yesterday on nbc meetss how democrats are living in another world about what people really want to vote for. watch this. >> why are you supporting an election denialist and do you think the inflation issue is enough to sort of rationalize support for somebody who thinks school buses of voters are going to show up in new hampshire? >> yeah. realmlet me tell you. you are in a trouble you think anybody is talking about what happened in 2020 or mar-a-lago or all that. i know the press throfs talk about it. people are talking about what is happening in their pocketbooks every single day. >> brian: they tried to explain that to him. you keep asking about don bolduc, they, he was not my pick to take on the next senator to be imagi maggie hasan. better off with a democratic candidate. all he says is election denier. he says he had question about the election it's not a major issue. every single show is pounding out january 6th. if you are an election denier and trying to blame donald trump for what happened to the

she is struggling every month to try to figure out how she will pay for energy cost -- under chris sununu. but the other one what we try to do on veto day is embracing, i am sorry, there is asian and efficiency for our low income full. -- there is an efficiency for our low income people. -- looking at long-term energy transition. how would you make the transition without harming those who are struggling with energy costs? >> nobody is talking about taking away natural gas or full so fuels, because every state right now depends on that to some extent. massachusetts right now is 20% renewable. new hampshire is around 1% or less. that is because every attempt to expand our energy options has been locked by the governor. we know if we did that from studies out of massachusetts, and one that was commissioned by the pec -- and that from the experience of our surrounding states. the benefit goes to the ratepayer. >> high energy prices have been a problem here for years not just this year. how should the state address that in the next year? >> the bill that comes and says we will increase the ren

this is new hampshire governor, republican chris sununu talking to chuck todd about issues his support why are you supporting collection denialist and do you think the inflation issue is enough. >> you are in a bubble if you think anybody is talking about what happened in 2020 or talking about mar-a-lago and all that. that kind of has baffled me through this whole campaign season the fact that democrats keep pushing this stuff and talking about things that aren't really what voters want to hear about. >> bret: what do you make of that, bret? >> brit: that's a pretty sharp response and basically correct. morning -- 2020, even donald trump himself. those issues have receded in voters' memory. democrats were trying hard earlier in this campaign season to make donald trump the issue. he hasn't been that visible and he hasn't been that active. i guess he has been distributing some of the money he has raised now not as big of player as people would like him to be. the issues aren't heater. chris sununu is right the issues people are concerned about are not the ones that chuck todd was mentio

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new hampshire governor chris sununu will be debating tom sherman, his democratic challenger in the state's 2022 gubernatorial race. >> we will go middle. silence phones, everybody. good evening and welcome to the

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i think governor sununu is common sense saying people are concerned about policy so, democrats are not voting any policy forward that the american people can relate to. the policy has create add vortex where they'll lose up and down the ballot. >> it's the results of their policy. this is the thing, it's like i was talking about at the beginning of the show, they keep trying to come up with messages but it's not about messages when your actual life is so much worse on every front. >> yeah, they complain a lot about knock seizure disorders and all the sud -- democracy and if the supreme court makes a decision or congress won't vote in the green new agenda, they decide to do it another way, subverting democracy and that's the problem with the democrats facing time and time again. >> they say you wait for democracy and we hate angry political rhetoric and look at biden. that's all he ever does. >> yeah, look 500 plus riots we were having and kamala harris bailing people out as fast as she could and that's the problem here. you can redress your government but not violently and democrats ha

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they need some help so the american disability act, read john sununu's book about being chief of staff for what happened on the domestic side. this book is focused on what happened on the international side and efforts under usaid. very dramatic in spreading the compassion of america around the world. that comes out in these chapters. how did he staff his government and bring people in? what is he looking for? he was not looking for people who would just echo his views, he wanted to challenge his views constructively and make a difference. i have to tell you. we all know he was president and was vice president before that. a lot of people didn't know about his track record in service or his son who was president which was pretty darn unique but i would deck out the first time i was campaigning with him, i was volunteer chairman of the campaign in 1978-79 and the 1980 process. there was an event, he was speaking at an event in springfield, connecticut, hartfield, connecticut and i got a call from james beckett iii who was part of the campaign and said ambassador bush is speaking at an e

you have a very popular republican governor in governor sununu. here with the latest on his surging campaign, republican candidate don bolduc is with us. you are within three points in the race. i don't think a lot of people know about your background. i think it's important they know that you had two purple hearts, five bronze stars, two awards for valor over 30 years of military service. thank you, number one. that is pretty impressive, sir. >> well, thank you very much, sean, i appreciate it. i started serving at 19 years old as a private sergeant lieutenant and worked my way up to general officer. i am honored to have had that opportunity to serve my country. now i am looking to serve my country in a much different way. but nonetheless public service. something that senator hassan is not doing. she cannot defend her record. she has killed the economy and hurt granite stators. she's a big spender. she is an out-of-control spender. in august she voted to hurt the economy and hurt energy and hurt crime, to hurt doing anything about the opioid cri

into the governor's race, obviously in new hampshire one to watch as well as republican sununu goes againstan in that state, that's one to watch. finishing off with a couple of the house, two house races in new hampshire, we had caroline levitt on the program, 25 years old, former trump staffer, trying her best as victory in this state. she would be one of the youngest members in congress. she has been able to close the gap as far as polling is concerned against chris popas. and i will finish off by shoepg you new hampshire's second district which is also a close race we are watching, and that is currently a lean d between custer and burns. so those two districts, close watch. the governor's race there obviously and the senatorial race, much of the debate happening now, about kids in the classroom, parental control, abortion, top of the list is the economy. and with the home heating prices surging in the northeast, this is becoming the number one conversation in a lot of the debates for the candidates. john. >> john: all right. we know that president biden is in upstate new york in syracuse

maggie hassan, republicans didn't get chris sununu, the governor of the state. bennett, a swing state-ish, colorado, he's up 6. being up 6 is better than being up none. this is the one i'm most stunned by. if you told me at the start of the election we'd be talking about chuck grassley, who's been in the senate longer than i've been alive. if you told me he's only up three points on a guy named mike franken, the democratic nominee, i'd be surprised. we talk about florida, the swing state, a state that has seen massive amounts of spending. this is one that democrats hoped would come online. val demings, congresswoman with a police background, raised a ton of money. doesn't look like it's happening. down 11. i want to show you two more, i'll do it fast. you probably heard about this race, kari lake, running for governor. this is a tie, but it's moving in the right direction for kari lake. you could have a very prominent election denier as the governor of arizona. this one surprising, new york is not a swing state. a democrat you usually feel good running for offic

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of the things that -- i was actually up in new hampshire last week and i was talking to governor sununuthe republican governor there. he's on the ballot. he's fine. he was talking about something that didn't even occur to me, particularly in a place like new hampshire which always breaks late, the fact that the election is on november 8th, it gives republicans a little bit more time than they would normally would because it's usually earlier in the month. i know it seems -- >> it's the first tuesday after the first monday. this is one of those cases where you need to get that monday in there. the 8th is the latest day it can be. >> it's the latest day it can be which people may be listening to me saying, so what, it's like 24, 48 hours later. you've both seen this being on the ground as political reporters. it can make a difference. the momentum right now is with republicans because of what we've talked about every single day for many, many weeks now, because of inflation. >> i asked this to michael smerconish earlier. if democrats are able to hang on to the senate, what is it that they

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her numbers were soft and they thought they would get chris sununu as the candidate. he decided not to run. they wound out getting done bolduck. that race is now -- i don't want to say out of happnd, because y see plus eight, but it is not where it should be and the mitch mcconnell superpac pulled $5.6 million out of the race and put it in a place that we're going to talk about in a minute. pennsylvania. the other one there is colorado. it is a bluish state but not a blue state. bennett is up 6 points over the moderate. so those are two races that i think republicans might come online that are struggling. but things change. on the democratic side, races that democrats thought they might have a better chance in. let's start in florida. donald trump is doing an event down there for marco rubio. val demings is a former police chief but it looks like rubio will by fine. and i certainly didn't think we would talk about at all even as a sleeper race is iowa. chuck grassley has been in the senate for 40 odd years. he's always won with 60 plus% of the vote but there is pollin

. >> reporter: that was about sununu who had no kinder words for bolduc. >> a conspiracy theorist candidatece and nod from the governor. >> amazing skrid with this war hero background that wants to stand up and serve. >> reporter: and now needs to reach out beyond his conservative base. >> new hampshire is an ornery state, there are more independence than there are members of either party in new hampshire, as the independence go so does new hampshire. >> reporter: and so a bolduc switch on the legitimacy of the 2020 election, from -- >> i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that trump won the election and dammit i stand by my -- >> reporter: to this. so you believe the election was not stolen? >> not stolen, but irregularities and fraud. >> reporter: the state republican party chairman says it's all for the greater good. >> if we are going to change the direction of this country you have to support our entire republican ticket because if you don't, the democrats win and the direction of the country doesn't change. >> reporter: unity at all costs, not only in new hamp

ideally, they would have liked governor chris sununu to run for the senate. he declined in part because of what he sees as, you know, the extremism that the republican party has fallen prey to and the dominance of trump in the party. so, this is all sort of downstream, i think, you know, from the trump effect on the republicans and the extremism, and certainly that is how voters seem to be seeing done bolduc, who has tried to move to the midal little bit. he has gone back on claiming that the election was stolen, for example, but it doesn't seem like he's making a lot of headway against the senator, so republicans are deciding that money is better spent elsewhere. we'll see both parties making a lot of those sort of tough triage decisions in these final week. >> just a couple weeks to go. david, let's talk about georgia. wow, a lot at stake there, and already we're seeing a record, you know, number of voters who are going to the polls, two very high-profile races, governor and u.s. senate. and then arizona and pennsylvania, also we know that democrats are far

you had sununu from new hampshire on cable news this morning, going on and on about the importance ofng on message, the american people don't care about this, yes, it's terrible but they gloss over this. this is very serious. we could've had a political assassination on our hands, that what it was, an attempt to take out nancy pelosi. it's not the first time we, saw happen on january six. we've seen that she's been a target for so long. and yet republicans can't muster up one ounce of decency to condemn it, unequivocally, without getting into the whataboutism. it's extremely infuriating, and dangerous for our political body politic. >> so that's, the republican party, julián, we played the clip -- election denialism and the road to violence. should democrats be doing more of that, isn't that what republicans will be doing if the situation were reversed. why not have joe biden, kamala harris, chunk schumer, do a joint press conference tomorrow morning calling out republicans. demand the gop clean house? >> i think they should call it out and i was glad that president biden did call it

same in new hampshire where governor sununu had run.se are two seats republicans aren't going to pick up. again here in georgia where i think governor kemp and brad raffensperger are probably going to sail to re-election fairly ea easily, you have herschel walker certainly going to go to a runoff i would expect, but candidate quality is a big problem there, and i certainly don't think he is qualified, and i think he has been a big problem, and he's a problem that donald trump, you know, gave the party, again, as he has with any number of candidates throughout. now, i certainly think because of the bad economy and the problems on -- the democrats have had this year, you're certainly going to see republicans gain the house majority and very maight well gain the senate but not in the numbers that we would have, but for donald trump saddling these poor quality candidates that he has, and i am very concerned about these election deniers, people like kari lake running for governor, who has said, as donald trump said, you know, whenever he tal

. >> reporter: that was about chris sununu seeking his fourth term who had no kinder words for boldicual with this background, war hero background, that just wants to stand up and serve. >> reporter: and now needs to reach out beyond his conservative base. >> new hampshire is an ornery state, more independents than members of either party in new hampshire, as the independents go so goes new hampshire. >> reporter: a bolduc switch on the legitimacy of the 2020 election from this -- >> so i signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying trump won the election and i stand by it. >> to this. >> you believe the election was not stolen. >> not stolen but irregularities and fraud. >> reporter: the state republican party chairman says it's all for the greater good. >> if we are going to change the direction of this country, you have to support our entire republican ticket because if you don't, the democrats win and the direction of the country doesn't change. >> reporter: unity at all costs, not only in new hampshire, consider virginia governor glenn youngkin's support for electi

. >> bolduc may also see a boost on election day thanks to republican governor chris sununu.h term in the governor's mansion. polls also show him dominating in his race. bret? >> bret: mark, thank you. the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments monday in two cases that could result in a major change to affirmative action policy. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the court. >> the nine justices will hear two separate cases that may overturn decades of precedent. schools began implementing affirmative action in the admissions process in the 1960s. to promote campus diversity. now, a coalition of asian-american students is suing both harvard university and the university of north carolina arguing the admissions criteria unfairly singles them out compared to black and hispanic students. >> i think the fact that i'm asian-american play as pretty big factor into why i was rejected. >> the high court has traditionally upheld racial preferences but known a narrowly tailored way that does not involve quotas. this issue could set up a clash between newest justice keta

she was relieved when governor sununu wasn't running. now she's in a close race. arizona, mark kelly, the former astronaut and husband of gaby gifford. >> it's a reminder that environment matters so much. the overall political -- at the end of the day, these are contests, senate, gubernatorial that are fought state by state or congressional district by district. candidate quality ends up mat mattering. mark kelly, who has been out raising and don't nature on the airwaves, would be in trouble as well. we saw this in 2010. sam was mentioning this on back the harry reid machine in 2010. despite a really tough overall environment, you saw democratic candidates like harry reid survive, like patty murray, barbara boxer. in delaware, democrats were able to win, in colorado they were able to win. you have that overarching type of national environment. but then when you have the battles versus battles, all of a sudden sometimes a good candidate can beat a bat candidate. >> "the new york times" poll, listen to this. does that capture it? >> it captures what our national nbc

governor sununu and i stay in touch they are a great governor.henever you talk about the five or six people might be running for president i am included in that discussion, out of all the others it is pretty good. obviously is a long shot. it is not what everyone is focused on. the election is two years from now. a lot of things can change. we will take a look at this november, see what things look like next year. i think all look a lot different than it does now. we do not know. i think the party has to get back to being a bigger tent, a message that appeals to a wider audience, we keep losing. the worst four years for the republican party since the 1930's. we lost a white house, senate, house, governors, leslie the body i want to get back to winning again -- lost the governing -- >> last week down in annapolis you met with some of your top advisors and donors. was the sense of that meeting, was there a thumbs up to go ahead with a potential national run? >> i was updating some of my strongest supporters on where we are. i said i will finish up

. >> doctor greer, on meet the press this morning, new hampshire governor chris sununu said this aboutthis started back in the summer of 2020. you saw cities burning, not a whole lot of accountability there. the line for folks that were disagreeing with might have happened, not happy what's happening in their communities. the line moved very little accountability and that set a new standard in a very dangerous way. >> i want to give you a chance to respond in what he's doing there. trying to equate black lives matter protests with what we saw on this attack against paul pelosi. >> a man, and we've seen this for the past few years. this republican talking. playing anytime to come -- they fall into, black lives matter killed 25 matter -- they repeated it for two years. but several validity and some journalist don't push back and say it's absolutely ridiculous. they're just collectively coming up with a narrative. and not addressing the problem. the real problem is someone spoken to -- and attacked or has it with a hammer. the real issue is, black lives matter protesting in the summer of