if you want to ask questions of david wasserman of cook political report. from ohio, this is william, democrats line. hi. caller: hi, good morning, pedro, mr. wasserman. i am 88 years old. i don't know how to turn a computer on. i know a little bit about money, which is going to be eliminated with the bitcoin, but it is the shame that our government is not a government, everything is a givernment, who's got the most money? and the republicans blame the democrats, the democrats blame the republicans, but they both have their back pockets aligned with money. and the poor, dumb people like me don't stand a chance. host: that is william from ohio. you brought this up earlier, but this is mlb saying, i guess seeing jon tester or sherrod brown losing their senate seat. mr. wasserman, go ahead. guest: yeah. the polls in both contests show the democratic combines with very strong approval ratings. keep in mind that donald trump won montana by healthy double-digit margins by both times, he won ohio by eight points each times. yet sherrod brown, jon tester, their appr

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host: david wasserman is the guest. if you want to ask him about the races, you can call (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8002 for independents. you can text us at (202) 748-8003. these are the seats to watch, the center tour out of montana, nevada, ohio and arina has an open seat. work through those as far as what to watch for. guest: democrats have no edge but one seat is already gone which is west virginia where jim justice is a strong front runner to replace joe manchin. if republicans win the white house, then they will also win the senate because a 50-50 senate and the tie is broken by the vice president. democrats not only have to hold the white house but run the table on their own seats and there are a lot of vulnerable democratic seats varied at the top is ohio and montana. sherrod brown and the montana i the only one who can hold the seat. they will run populist mpaigns against wealthy republican businesspeople in ohio. these are going to be very personal negative at race

all proposed stipulations be placed on the regular calendar, this matter involves respondent david wasserman, who is a member of the rent board who failed to report the names of certain sources of income, $10,000 or more, that were derived from his business entity. after comprehensive review of mr. wasserman's form 700 filings over the past four years, investigators identified 28 violations which have been subsumed into one count, as noted in the stipulation, mr. wasserman acknowledged his mistake and took full responsibility for the violations and also amended his form. seven hundreds, to come in compliance with the law. the facts of this case are similar to prior matters that have been presented before this commission , and the penalty amount recommended per violation is the same as has been considered before and ratified by this commission. i'll be glad to answer any questions that you may have at this time. thank you. i think this is a great enforcement action. so i want to thank you and the staff for their work. i do have one quick question, but i first want to see if any of my colleagu

also with me is the cook political report senior editor, david wasserman. vaughn, this is such a thorny issue because the biden administration when they're talking about immigration, will say listen, we came to a compromise in the senate. a conservative leaning compromise on the issue of immigration and it wasn't democrats who were shooting it down. it was republicans who shot it down. republicans in the senate. republicans in the house. at the request of donald trump. so how is donald trump then trying to take that issue, which he torpedoed and try to run on it? try to campaign on it? >> reporter: well, i think that's what we're about to watch, katy. you're the one that just said it. he urged his republican colleagues in the united states congress to kill the bill and they effectively did. and now for the next seven month, he, as we are witnessing at this very moment, i was just listening to him give these remarks in grand rapids, michigan, and using anecdotally the lives of undocumented immigrants, as emotional motivation to have the american electorate r