democrat harley rouda defeated 15-term republican incumbent dana rohrabacher. mr. rouda, a business man, lives in orange county, california. what motivated you to run? democrat harley rouda defeated 15-term republican incumbent dana rohrabacher. mr. rouda, a business man, lives in orange county, california. what motivated you to run? rep. rouda: the 2016 election. it was not just donald trump. it was the sense that we are putting party first and country second on both parties, this unwillingness to reach across the aisle and serve your country for how you were elected. it seemed like that election came down to a vote on 2 personalities for most voters, instead of discussion hed event, and i decided to run. >> why did you think you could defeat dana rohrabacher? rep. rouda: i come from a business background and a legal background. this was probably the biggest decision i have made with the least due diligence. i looked at it that with my business background, and my law background that yes, i can do a better job than this guy has for the last 30 years, not fully unde

host: why did you think you could defeat dana rohrabacher? rep. rouda: i come from a business background and a legal background. this was probably the biggest decision i have made with the least due diligence. i looked at it that with my business and law background that i can do a better job than this to has for the last 30 years monopoly fully understanding the process it takes to get here. fortunately we had a great team and great volunteer support that allowed us to win. what you were doing before you ran for office? >> i built one of the largest real estate firms in the country with franchises across the u.s.. then i was doing a lot of board work before jumping in and running for office. doing?hat were you >> my wife and i in the 20's, she read about the plight of homeless families and how often you can lose your job and lose your house than you live in a hotel than a car then you make a difficult decision to go to a shelter. at that time and it is still true in many places. the father and the older boys go to the men's shelter and the mother

democrat harley rouda defeated 15-term republican incumbent dana rohrabacher. mr. rouda, a business man, lives in orange county, california. what motivated you to run? rep. rouda: the 2016 election. it was not just donald trump. it was the sense that we are putting party first an it seemed like it came down to a vote on personalities, rather than the issues. for me it was a big event and i decided to run. defeat dana rohrabacher? rep. rouda: i come from a business background and a legal background. this was probably the biggest decision i have made with the least due diligence. i looked at it that with my business background, and my law background that yes, i can do a better job than this guy has for the last 30 years, not fully understanding the process it takes to get here. fortunately, we had a great team and great volunteer support that allowed us to win. >> explain what you were doing before you decided to run for office? rep. rouda: in business, i built one of the largest real estate firms in the country with franchises across the united states. then i was do

democrat harley rouda defeated 15-term republican incumbent dana rohrabacher. mr. rouda, a business man, lives in orange county, california. what motivated you to run?

the >> why did you think you could defeat dana rohrabacher? >> this was probably the biggest decision that i had made with e diligence and i looked at it with my business background and law background i could do a better job than he has for the last 30 years without understanding the process but it takes to get here and we had a great team and volunteers that allowed us to win. >> host: explain what you were doing before you decided to run for office. >> guest: in business i built one of the largest real estate firms in the country we franchised into the night was doing a lot of work from early stage before jumping in and running for office. it's an important issue that you care a lot about? >> my wife and i in our 20s, she gets full credit that she wrote about the plaintiff homeless families and how often you lose your job and lose your house and live in a hotel then listen your car and it can be a difficult decision to go to a shelter and at that time it's still true in many places we would send the father and older post of the man'voice to

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they remembered, dana rohrabacher was trying to warn us about this. and all of this is happening without -- out of the public view, the public never saw any of this. but i was able to talk to various people in our government, various high level position, and outline for them how we should proceed. our own military, our defense department, wanted to send 100,000 american troops or more into a frontal attack, an attack from pakistan in the northwest provinces into afghanistan. i was horrified when i heard this. i knew that territory. it's the most anti-american territory on the planet. and our military would have been slaughtered. or at least holed up in fortress cities like the russians had been. it was a horrible thing. and i -- i thank god that i had this opportunity. because i went to the powers that be and i told them you can't do this. this is wrong. i'll tell you how -- what do we do? i managed to get hold of general dolston and other war lords in afghanistan to enlist them. the president of the united states, when given the alternative of using

the democrats put out that miss veselnitskaya was going all over the world and bumping into dana rohrabacher which is a sign of a spy, someone who tries to create, you know, a coincidence encounter and now we know that she was working at the behest of the russian government. the president's son, nicolle, met with a russian spy, but also at that meeting was paul manafort. so paul manafort knows he's in a meeting where he knows the premise is dirt is being offered on the campaign's opponent and he has this side relationship with a former gru officer, a russian military officer, and now we know is sharing internal campaign polling data. so you see from all individuals here, from the president's son, to his son-in-law, to his campaign chairman, an eagerness and willingness to work with the russians. what that materialized to i think at this point only special counsel knows but thankfully democrats on the intelligence committee in very short order are going to be in a better position to understand as well. >> let me turn you to the other development today, the revelation in badly redacted court f