[cheering] >> we want mitt! we want mitt! we want mitt! >> tonight on "q&a," "crashback," the conflict between the u.s. and china in the pacific. >> china has lost a lot of face and it is hard for westerners to get in idea of what that means to the ancient culture. especially for someone as big and proud as china. it has that never again mentality. with thistart mindset, we will build up our navy and old up our missile defense forces -- old up our missile defense forces so we never lose face again. >> tonight on c-span's "q&a." iraonight on "after words," schapiro with his book "broken: can the senate save itself and the country?" he is interviewed by former senate majority leader tom daschle. >> politics was about finding a way to overcome differences through principled -- extended discussion and a real legislative process, through principled compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on their own are very few -- maybe 1933 and 1944,

if you're mitt romney, do you remember how mitt romney and his industry got annihilated for carrying interest, and here we are -- >> still there. >> it's still in there. guys like steve chors man stands next to donald trump smiling for pictures. >> the president likes to be behind winners. going out and endorse k mitt romney earlier ks he's like oh look i got behind mitt romney right there. >> it was like in alabama. >> okay so he gets behind him because he likes to get behind winners. what happens when mitt romney is elected and he guess after the president then what does he do? >> probably like he's doing with everybody else. mitt romney is a good man, a seasoned individual, he's got experience in politics in business. a legitimate businessman, i think he'll bring the sane voice to the senate. >> he understands infrastructure, he understands the operation side of businesses, so -- >> even on the olympics. >> funny. >> he knows how to work with democrats, he was governor of massachusetts. utah is the most conservative state in the nation and she's leading and going to win by 30 plus

>> he knows mitt romney's going to win.ok, donald trump at one point was talking to mitt romney about being his secretary of state. and so i think it's a much more complex relationship then people might want to say on the surface between these two men. and they're going to -- mitt romney's going to wind up in the senate voting 99% of the time for the trump agenda. so it doesn't surprise me the president would want a good republican senator from utah. >> so rick, for his part, romney responded this. he said, thank you, mr. president, for the support. i hope that over the course of the campaign i also earn the support and endorsement of the people of utah." do you think we could see trump head to utah to campaign for romney? would that help romney? >> i'm not sure that would help mitt romney in utah. but i think the second half of that tweet is a little more important than the first half. because he is clearly going to focus on the state, he's clearly going to focus on doing this the right way as a candidate. i think there ha

and mitt romney got a chance to say thank you, mr. president and then immediately you'll notice in his tweet immediately turned the focus back to utah. he said i hope to earn the support of the people of utah. mitt romney in his initial stage of the campaign completely focused on now i'll be a senator and do big things. i'm going to go to washington and represent the people of utah. he went to school there, he has had longstanding ties there, family members are there. he has lived there the last several years. he was deeply involved in rescuing the winter olympics in utah in 2002 but he is very careful to make certain that people in utah recognize that he knows he got to earn their respect and support in shoe leather door-to-door, person to person, meeting to meeting and not be a big dog, the former governor of massachusetts and former presidential candidate. >> jon: mitt romney was calling donald trump a phony and fraud in 2016. in return president trump said romney had no guts and choked as a candidate. that's quite a turnaround fro

and mitt romney is running for senate. >> donald trump is a phony. a fraud. >> but guess whose endorsement he just accepted. >> you cannot let mitt romney in this race. he's a joker. >> when all in starts right now. >> choked like a dog. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. a special counsel russia investigation decried by the president as a hoax has now charged 19 people with federal crimes. as of tonight, four of those people have already pleaded guilty according to reporters, another may be on the verge of a guilty plea himself. that is robert mueller's record thus far. and yet again, mueller demonstrated the public only knows a fraction of what he and his team have discovered. yet again, he rolled out charges against an entirely new character in the russia saga whose name had never surfaced once in press reports. in this case, it's al dex van der zwaan a dutch lawyer who used to work for one of the most elite corporate law firms in the world known as scadden. he pleaded guilty to lying about investigators about his kaks with former tru

i could have said mitt, drop to your knees. he was begging. he was begging me. >> i forgotten how nasty he was. >> now the president is endorsing mitt romney. mitt romney hopes he gets the endorsement of the people of utah. >> this is fascinating. what a time to be alive. this relationship is so -- something that we didn't get to is their relationship spans and trump alluded to it. he endorsed romney in 2012 when romney ran for president. they have a complicated history. it is interesting because romney doesn't need trump's endorsement. he is in a pretty supportive state. running in his essentially his hometown. when i saw that endorsement after i spit water all over myself was why is trump doing this? is he trying to avoid having another enemy in congress should romney get elected? should romney get elected, president trump will say my endorsement got you here. now work together. you should support my legislation. what is behind this? trump has nothing to lose. it is not a competitive state. endorsing the republican candidate in utah? i canno

mitt romney wins. >> i think the white house is really concerned about what mitt romney is going to be in the senate and you know, another voice potentially a strong voice at times against president trump and at crucial times and i think that's -- so let's see what happens, but i'm kind of looking forward to it. >> and heidi also, a smart move for a white house that's not always smart. they didn't like drooiive the pe into the ground this time. okay, we don't want him there. we can't get hatch to stay. he's not going to do it. let's make peace. that's actually what you do. >> they made peace in this 24 hour time span and if you want take the argument out of it, remove the man, mitt romney -- >> why would you do that? >> and reduce this to politics, look at the state he'll be representing. look at state that during the primaries where you saw some of the most anti trump ads that redounded to the benefit of the candidates out there. utah is a state that remains deeply skeptical of this president. so i think we haven't seen the end of mitt romney busting out and taking positions that diff

it is abundantly obvious to mitt romney is going to win.ly obvious that if he did win, and the president was silent or opposed him, the press would have described the win as a repudiation of donald trump. now, trump can say, if he wins, it's because of my endorsement, you know. i take the credit. >> what about all those people -- some people are thinking mitt romney is going to get back in politics and stand up to trump in the senate. what about the people who think this is the comeback of mitt romney and it is the comeback of rational conservatism in this country, someone who regular conservatives who are disgusted by donald trump can back? >> i think it is premature because of one tweet where he accepts the president's endorsement. within the space of one sentence, he pivots to saying he wants utah to endorse him. i think it is premature to say this is a guy who is going to be a lap dog and not stand up to the president. i think it is possible we see another jeff flake type of oppositional figure in the senate. i do expect that mitt romne

mitt won't take [ bleep ]. vote mitt roam knmney for senat. paid for by me against me.ight, that makes sense. i don't know itch that makes sense. have you been watching the olympic games? [ cheers and applause ] you are not going to believe this there is a new doping scandal developing right now involves the russians. i know always the last ones, you expect. but, russian curler guy named alexander crushanitski, a real person under investigation for alleged use of a banned substance while curling. of all of the sports to cheat in. the one where you sweep. i mean who juices to the get bet art that. if my housekeeper started doing steroids. i wouldn't ban her, i would give her a raise. [ applause ] but this guy -- and his wife, his partner, won a bronze medal in mixed doubles competition might have to give it back. curling should be the one sport where it is okay to take drugs. doesn't really. to commit years of your life to playing shuffleboard on ice you have to be high in the first place, right. unfortunate leap i cannot bring you footage of the curling event in questio

interesting note, i don't think mitt romney asked, i don't think mitt romney asked for the president'sorsement. i really do believe having talk today people in romney campaign this this just came out of the blue and so mr. romney was very -- the governor was very magnanomous about it. we don't know if it'll last long. ashley: orrin was quite a supporter, he called him heck of a leader. what can we expect from mitt romney, maybe not such a glowing endorsement? >> well, look, i don't think mitt romney would even run except for a lot of this was orrin hatch's idea. romney has grandkids and doing his thing and really it was orrin hatch said that he passed the baton or try to pass the baton as much in politics so surprises me that mitt romney is running but he's running hard here in utah, around the rural parts of utah making his case to utah voters, but, look, where he disagrees with donald trump, he will let the world know, he's not going to be bashful in doing that. it'll be very interesting to see how this plays out. ashley: also, jason, seems romney, by the way was right about russia.

on a mitt romney candidacy. >> so conventional wisdom in this town mitt romney gets in.s he going to win? >> i don't know if he is going to win. i mean, i find this all rather pathetic. he ran for president. he got trounced. a lot of people thought he was going to win. he had a good first debate. but, i think it's time for governor romney from massachusetts, maybe future senator from utah to just kind of find something else. maybe get a hobby. play golf. learn how to knit. go travel. >> already being hit with the carpet bagger thing. >> i worked on the campaign against mitt romney in 2012. i think is he a dedicated public servant. good person. i suspect he will win. what will be interesting is what kind of candidate he is and what kind of senator he is. especially in his relationship with president trump. they have had this sort of on again, off again. he criticized him during the campaign in 2016. then he was up for secretary of state. and they got closer. that will be interesting to watch what role he plays if indeed he wins. byron? >> i don't think there is any questi

mitt romney reached out to him mitt romney is committed to utah and make a hyper local campaign.as you were pointing out this is all about, as you saw in the ad, that he is a person who is rooted in utah. donald trump the other side. he talks about respective intlactions with people. donald trump maybe unlike orrin hatch and jason chaffetz. donald trump will say i don't want this guy. danel deign i remember ronan back in the 2012 campaign. i can't remember his name. >> rimy. he has been around the block. he nos attacks are going to come from the right and the left. >> kimberly: i think he will do quite well, to be quite honest. is he very statesmanlike and measured. reasonable man standard. you feel self-soothed when you listen to him speak. he is very patriotic american. he has served this country well and admirablably. he was unfairly chastised and criticized when he brought up the emphasis of russia and impact they have had in terms of elections. roundly criticized for it and turned out he was right. i think he is well positioned at this time to take the mantel there. he is ve

[cheering] >> we want mitt! we want mitt! mr. romney: these are my children. [laughter] >> governor romney,

look, mitt is a failed candidate.>> harris: hard to forget the war of words between then candidate donald trump and former presidential nominee mitt romney. now president trump is throwing his support behind romney's run for the u.s. senate. tweeting this he will make a great senator and successor to orrin happen and he has my full support and endorsement. bring in the power panel back from outnumbered jess da tarlov and kevin mcclaw, my long time friend, i haven't seen you a in a long time. kevin, just to let the people know, you and i kind of brought on board the whole strategy room. digital side on foxnews.com many years ago auto and we did hours of digital tv. >> lots of fun. >> harris: great to see you. hope the family is well. the war of words going back and forth. and you say not a surprise that the president would endorse mitt romney. >> at the end of the day, harris, it's politics. and he needs the seat and he has got to keep the seat. he has an agenda to get through. romney will be a safe senator, he will vo

i never met mitt romney until tonight, formally. i met him a year and a half ago on july 4 at liberty days in liberty, utah. it is the garden of eden of utah. a beautiful valley. my daughter lives there. we gathered for the weekend for the holidays and i found myself at a rodeo with a bunch of little kids, mutton busting. i enjoyed watching that. we were sitting on the bleachers and something came over the microphone that said where the privilege of having former governor mitt romney was us today but he is here as a grandpa and as dad and we would like to have you respect that and but can enjoy that. so i never said a word to him. i sat about seven feet from him for two hours. i was kind of curious. i love to watch people. i do watch people and i learned a lot. the thing that was interesting to me, as we watched the kids out there chasing chickens and pigs, and the mutton busting. they were running after a pig and there were 50 kids running after this little pig. over the shoulder i keep hearing this voice saying run, pig, run. so l

i'm disappointed in mitt romney. lauren: 2020, don't discount mitt romney. gentlemen, thank you very much. david: politics always has been such, always will be such. meantime the mueller team issuing a new charge with a man with ties to a former trump campaign advisor. this is something that happened long before the election, back in 2012. this is happening that we're learning michael flynn may be ready to withdraw his guilty plea. the latest shocking details to come. lauren: more than 100 survivors of a florida high school shooting that left 17 dead. urging lawmakers to do something about gun violence. karl rove, whether there will be any changes ahead. david: u.n. ambassador talking tough to palestinian leader mahmoud abbas after his rare speech before the security council. more on that as well. >> i will decline the advice i was recently given by your top negotiator. i will not shut up. rather i will respectfully speak some hard truths. touch is how we communicate with those we love, but when your psoriasis is bad, does it ever get in the way? embrace the

but let's face it, by the way, mitt romney was right. forget, president obama was going after romney saying you can take your 1980 foreign policy act. right? he understood that russia indeed was a threat. how do you think romney is going to do and do you anticipate the president being fully supportive and behind him even though there's this whole russia thing that could perhaps at times be in the way. >> let's talk about it in a big picture and then we'll go to mitt romney if that's okay. my belief is that this president understands that his agenda and the success of his agenda, the things that are making america great again, you know, are on deck when it comes to the november election. and what i mean by that is, we have to win additional seats in the senate and we have to keep the house of representatives. if we do not, the first thing speaker pelosi is going to do is try to impeach this president, try to end this agenda. and so when it goes to supporting candidates like mitt romney, he's doing that across the country in state after st

[chanting -- we want mitt!] "afterwards,"t on former yugoslavia negotiator and senior senate staffer ira shapiro" with his brokebroken -- with his book "broken." >> politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome differences through extended to the screen -- discussions and a real legislative process, through principal compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on your own are fdr few, maybe 1933-34, dealing with the depression, lbj reached outven lbj to republicans. >> watch afterwards, sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> joining us now -- degood

mitt romney is back on the campaign trail.ekend, bringing charts, and perhaps a little bit of a rusty remote control. >> and the answer -- woops, the answer can be learned a bit by looking at how we spend federal dollars. >> press the button. please change. change slide. there we go. long pause. there we go. now, this is so small you probably can't read it from where you are. isn't it great? i press the button nothing happens, i don't press the button and something does happen. let me turn to the next -- you can turnoff the slides now. >> i really miss covering mitt romney i have to tell you. i promise later tonight we'll go deeper into the actual policy that he discussed and why he didn't contrast with the president as much as you might expect. but for all of you, rick, tyler, i should go to you on this one. it seems as though romney is, in seriousness, represents a return, in part, of a wing of the republican party that's been pretty much silenced. >> yeah, i think that's true. look, i mean, romney is solidly in the establis

it's not the republican party that mitt romney led in 2012.see whether or not -- utah is a very interesting space. it's the site of a kind of republic of resistance ground zero, a kind of republican resistance to trumpism. if he is elected he has to go into the senate. we do know that mitch mcconnell and republican senators are in lockstep with trump's agenda. so it -- we have to wait and see, how will mitt romney establish his voice? what kind of voice will he have? will he follow the party line? that is not the party of the republican party. that is trump's party. will he follow trump's line? >> wendy, very quickly, sticking with immigration, we were promised a great debate this week four versions of the immigration bill were debated. what's your takeaway as we head to march 5th? >> both sides right now are losing, to be quite honest with you. i find it very disgusting that we have a president who came in and said we don't want you to vote for a certain bill that was actually popular amongst the senate, and saying it was catastrophic, but th

joining me, hover fellow and former policy director for mitt romney lonnie chen.air he added the odds of a bad outcome have gone up. so explain this confusing split in the economy right now. even lloyd blankfine is say ig was a clinton supporter but trump has done better on the economy but i'm worried. >> the tax cut bill is the great undercovered story. people haven't talked about the impacts of the bill. what it's done is economic growth and economic positivity. he's done better than hillary clinton, a cheerleader for the economy. so much of the person for mans is whether people feel good about it. i think the reason people are concerned is what happens when the impact. tax bill starts to wear off, what happens when inflation starts to creep up, i think those are the worries. >> too good, interest rates go up. >> exactly. that puts pressure on the stock market and puts pressure on some of the economic measures. >> let's get to some of the other hot issues we talked about, mitt romney, you used to work for him, anoujsed today, made it official, he's getting into

mitt romney saw that one coming way back when. >> you bet. trish: thanks so much. colonel peters. >> go romney. trish: down 165. you can see we're off lows of the session, nonetheless pretty much in negative territory here on this shortened week for the markets. we got poor earnings news out of walmart. so that is affecting things a bit. tell you, tech is doing great, intel, microsoft, apple all higher right now. nasdaq composite index is trading higher by 33 points. we'll continue to watching these as we wait, everyone on the white house briefing, the first one since those russians were indicted. we'll have more. stay with me. don't go anywhere. trish: amazon offering prime members with a visa reward card, 5% cash back when they shop at whole foods, non-prime members will get 3% back when using their reward card. the e-commerce giant acquired whole foods back if june. retail is suffering but amazon like other tech companies trading higher. >> supermarket giant albertsons is planning to acquire the remainder of rite aid not being sold to walgreens. it will cost $20

mitt romney was critical of the president during the 2016 election calling him a sony and a fraud.ew concerns that north korea could be planning to blackmail the us out of billions of dollars, national security officers worried once the rogue nation becomes capable of striking they could try to extort washington. >> a range of possible things from enormous financial payoffs, north korea feels they are entitled to reparations for everything from losses suffered during the korean war to sanctions that have been imposed since 1953. donald trump has insisted he would not let that happen. to sports, and olympic gold medal, they've been to the quarterfinals against the czech republic. and get this. the north korean team desperately trying to win a medal in anything, they have yet to place in a single event at the winter games which could land them in the rogue nation's gulags. kim jung un's family sentenced losers of the 1966 world cup to concentration camps for their loss. today donald trump will honor 12 of america's finest with the public safety medal of valor. among recipients, first

he said mitt romney has announced he is running for the senate for the wonderful state of utah.e will be a worthy successor to orrin hatch. he has my full support and endorsement. they had a few issues not long ago. is the white house concerned about the midterm elections? >> they are paying a lot more attention the last few weeks were the polling has been pretty terrible up until recently for republicans. there's been a bit concerned that they could lose the house and maybe the senate as well, even though the map looks good for them. whether it be mitt romney in utah or getting bob corker to , theyain in tennessee clearly are paying more attention to it. mitt romney and president trump, all you have to do is look at their twitter feeds from six months ago, they didn't have a lot of kind things to say about each other. the president has previously endorsed people who didn't like him and vice versa. reminder ofrt of when mitt romney was being interviewed for secretary of state and he had that hostage video look. this was like a hostage tweet. we will see how that goes. vonnie: th

i think it also proves that mitt romney was right. remember in the campaign when he said to president obama that the russians were geopolitical enemy and obama dismissed it turns out that in 2014, this is when all of this started. we do know that everybody has been saying that the russians try to do this all the time. >> kimberly: sure. >> dana: it's possible that maybe the obama administration was monitoring it in 2014 and didn't think it was that big of deal. it certainly ramps up. as juan has said before, there is frustration on behalf of the democrats that the president seemed to not have done more at the time. i think it's a solid indictment. i also think that it proves that russian meddling was not a hoax. and so because the global threat hearing that happened this week -- there was a focus on this about what is happening in 2018, hopefully now and the president says in his statement today or the press secretary's statement that this is a time for everybody to work together to figure out a way to push back against the russians.

. >>> mitt romney thanked president trump for his support in the utah race.e's running to replace retiring senator orrin hatch. romney and mr. trump have not always seen eye to eye. in 2016, the president said romney choked like a dog when he ran against president obama. romney called president trump a phony who was unfit for office. in his tweeted endorsement, the president said "romney will make a great senator and worthy successor to orrin hatch, and has my full support and endorsement." >>> we are learning more about russian interference in the u.s. election. according to an indictment released friday, the effort has been traced back to a so-called troll factory in st. petersburg. elizabeth palmer spoke with a former insider. >> reporter: today on this street, there was a "for rent" sign in the window. the building says the u.s. indictment was a busy troll factory set up to influence u.s. voters. the russian foreign minister denied the kremlin was involved. "where is the evidence," he asked. but russian internet activist lud mila savchuk saw it with her o

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i could have said mitt, drop to your knees. >> reporter: he is heavily favored to win. but he has detractors who accuse the former massachusetts governor of being a car pet bagger. >>> bay area weather is changing. and today and tomorrow are the days to be out and about. >> you said it, gasia. we have pretty weather. and warmer for tomorrow. and then a dramatic change by sunday. and it's going to last a few days. let's take a look at what's going on at your lunch hour on this beautiful friday. temperatures ranging from the upper 50s to mid-60s. 60 in san francisco. and up heres in oakland, livermore and -- checking in at 63. and san francisco in the distance. we will continue to see temperatures climb a few more degrees by the afternoon or second half of the afternoon. here's a view from up above where we have a lot of sunshine in place and blue skies. tomorrow will be a near repeat. and high pressure remains over the pacific. that storm track remains to the north. but it is going to retro grade just a little bit as we get into sunday. it allows cold canadian air to dro

let me ask you, you uncle mitt romney is running to take orrin hatch's seat. has the president said he will support him? >> the president doesn't get involved in primaries, neither does the republican party. we want the voters to make that decision. i know they've had conversations recently. the president considers mitt to be secretary of state and the president wants to make sure that we keep that republican seat in utah. he needs a strong majority going into 2020. >> neil: so he wouldn't back a conservative challenger to mitt romney if one should appear? >> i don't think the president will get -- >> neil: he has gotten involved in primaries in the past. >> he has not indicated any intention to get involved in that primary. we'll see what happens. we want to make sure that we keep the majority. that's the president's number 1 majority. look how good or country is doing with more republican leadership. we need more in the senate and the house. >> neil: thanks for your time. more after this. we had long deployments in iraq. i'm really grateful that usaa was abl

the democrats are going to have 20 or 24 legitimate candy mitts 2020.he enormous newness of -- the immensity of the democratic field. we are going to have to get our minds around it. when the republicans did the same thing in 2016, there were two stages, the preparty and the after party, all of this stuff. the democrats are going to have a similar situation because there are so many people. so you can look at it as bad in the sense of they don't have an anointed heir apparent. you can also say they had an anointed heir apparent last time and she stunk on ice. >> katie: joe biden, clearly a big problem with democrats missing working-class voters. we should have solved that back in the democratic primary when hillary clinton lost michigan to bernie sanders. that being said, do you think looking at someone like joe biden, they recognize they have that flaw heading into 2020? >> kennedy: perhaps they should recognize that he's the guy they should've put up instead of hillary clinton all along because he would have given donald trump a run for his money. he

that was a larger margin than barack obama defeated mitt romney. looks like the obama coalition turned out in the pop vote. in the pick elector to votes, where she was ahead on the morning of of the 28th, she was running ahead of the obama vote on october 28th or 11 days in 2012 against mitt romney. and finally, there is a myth that african-american turnout was much lower because hillary clinton didn't connect with african-americans as well as barack obama. i that wouldn't surprise me. barack obama is one of the most inspirational candidates in my lifetime. certainly in inspired me as the first african-american president. but i will tell you the actual data is about 2% lower turnout among african-americans, 2% to 3%, very small differs between herself and barack obama. that's another myth that she lost the election because of a lower african-american turnout. >> host: from clarksville, tennessee, george, republican line. hi. >> caller: yes, hello. the lines of comey and the server, -- [inaudible] -- >> host: caller york coming across very -- could

that is a larger margin of them barack obama defeated mitt romney. look at what happened in turn two. october 28, she is ahead by that margin. the three critical states would have allowed her to win the presidency had she carried. pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. she is ahead by five-seven points. purple states have republican governors, republican legislators, that are going either way. stockat happens like a market crashing within days of the october 28 comey letter. nothing intervened. no great trump surge, no change in news, just headlines saturating the american people, hillary clinton under new criminal investigation because jim comey decided to violate the rules and send a letter to congress with no fax, all speculation -- facts, all speculation. host: if you go back to that same poll that shows that dramatic job, you will see -- drop, you will see three states. that shee admitted should have spent more time in. don't you think that was a contributing factor to the loss, not only jim comey's contribution? short let me give you a answer,

in a carefully crafted video launching is bid for a senate seat from utah mitt romney contrast to what he called the state's values of service and civility with the partisan gridlock and scandal gripping the nation's capital because i believe i can help bring utah as values and utah as the lessons to washington romney who lost to president barack obama in two thousand and twelve became one of the sharpest republican critics of then candidate donald trump during the twenty sixteen election campaign blasting the reality show star is fit to be president here's what i know. donald trump is a phony a fraud his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university but after trump's unexpected victory romney showed interest in becoming his secretary of state there meetings at trump tower now seem like a way for trump to get even with romney in public humiliate him if romney goes to washington analysts say he could be a floridian trump side there was an opening for a conservative critic of trump i don't think at this point mitt romney intends to fill that opening but i think the role cou

president trump and fellow republican mitt romney keeping things cordial.tweeting his support saying romney would make a good successor to orrin hatch. now, governor romney wants to be senator romney. i'm told by people close to him he has no interest in daily fights with the president, but they are a and z. how long can that last? >> it's in both their interest to have this detante now. the last thing the president wants to worry about fighting about is a seat in utah. i wouldn't put it past him and maybe i shouldn't suggest that. and mitt romney doesn't want to be fighting with the president in a red state. six years ago this month, reality tv star donald trump endorsed romney for president. now president trump endorsed mitt romney. >> that was in a vegas spectacle, as we all remember. >> and romney said after that, if trump had said four years ago things he says today about the kkk, muslims, the disabled, i would not have accepted his endorsement. now he says, thanks, i need to win the support of the people of utah. the president wants to get it out of t

. >> and mitt romney, despite their relationship in the past. is endorsed by trump for senate.ood morning, everyone. it's tuesday, with february 20th. we begin with students rising up to renew the push for gun restrictions in the wake of wednesday's school massacre. the white house says it is open to shoring up the background check system. it does not expand the background check system, but instead strength s existing law to prevent criminals and domestic abusers from obtaining firearms. a senior administration official tells nbc news that the language may need to be tweaked and discussions are.ongoing. >> however, can congress on recess for the week, students are seizing control of the gun debate staging this lie-in yesterday. it's one of the many demonstrations we're seeing across the country from the newly minted movement made up of fed up young people demanding action. >> why do you think this time will be different? >> this time will be different because the people who were deeply affected by the shooting, the people who saw it are the people speaking out. >> we've grown u

. >>> coming up, mitt romney announces he is running for senate.xt, why his plan could set fireworks off on capitol hill. >>> black panther hits theaters today. the viral challenge that is allowing hundreds of kids to see the screening for free. >> well, this morning mitt romney made it official, he is returning to politics. he is running for a u.s. senate seat in utah. it could be an interesting race since romney has been an outspoken critic of donald trump. >> i have decided to run for u.s. senate because i believe i can help bring utah's values and utah's lessons to washington. >> reporter: with this video, mitt romney has formally jumped into politics. he is running for the u.s. senate in utah. >> given what america faces, we feel this is the right time for me to serve our state and our country. i asked for your support and your vote. >> reporter: romney is hoping to fill the seat which will be left vacant by the retiring hatch. hatch a strong supporter of president trump. >> we hope you will continue to serve your state and your country in the

the march 2016 mitt romney, who was ultra critical of then candidate donald trump or the mitt romneyho flirted with becoming president trump's secretary of state? it's impossible to say now. but romney did seem to go out of his way to distance himself from the white house on immigration in his announcement video. >> utah welcomes legal immigrants from around the world. washington sends immigrants a message of exclusion. and on utah's capitol hill, people treat one another with respect. >> meanwhile, in north dakota, congressman kevin cramer agreed to take on heidi heitkamp, and is expected to officially announce his bid tonight, leaving republicans without a great candidate and a state that president trump won by 36 points. but it appears they got cramer to change his mind after getting, shall we say, plenty of phone calls from both mitch mcconnell and a lot of folks inside north dakota. we'll see what kind of difference he makes there. we'll be right back with more "mtp daily" in 60 seconds. ♪ when you have something you love, you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of att

student hopeful mitt romney getting a huge endorsement.mp tweeting his support saying, quote: he will make a great senator and worthy successor to orrin hatch and has my full support and endorsement. romney tweeted back i hope over the course of the campaign i earn the support and endorsement of the people of utah. look at your headlines. big development there. brian: how long can they keep this truce going? it's been a day. let's see if it stays that way. steve: thank you, jillian. they did patch things up. they had that supper that we saw televised on television where they were apparently considering mitt romney to be secretary of state for a while. look at that. brian: what did he have frog legs? ainsley: i like suspect ir. it reminds me of home. my mom said supper instead of dinner. steve: you do where i come from. ainsley: i like it. steve: coming up on this tuesday. brian: speech at cpac. governors gain ground midterm poll. how do they keep that going. matt schlapp knows what history is. brian: that's a very close head shot. ainsley:

this was a very low-key and informal mitt romney. he didn't even give a speech.e took questions from the audience. one of those was about donald trump. >> i'm with the president's domestic policy agenda of low taxes and low regulation and smaller government, pushing back against the bureaucrats. by and large, by the way, his policies are very similar to those i campaigned for. >> reporter: romney announced his candidacy earlier on friday, posting a video that surprised many people because of the moderate tone on immigration. that's a reflection of the compassi compassion many utah people have for immigrants. friday night, he dove into the issues he wants to tackle in washington, like the national debt and entitlement reform. at the end of the night, he took questions from press and then drove off, alone, in his pick-up truck. cnn, provo, utah. >>> the new yorker magazine is out with a report that says president trump had an affair with a playboy model more than ten years ago, while married to melania trump. the white house firmly denies the allegation. it is base

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( laughter ) ( applause ) but taking his place, most likely is going to be mitt romney.t, he's definitely going to win, right? the dude has resting senator face, look at him, his portrait comes with the senate office before you hang up your own, that's how it works. for romney, running a state that's 80% white is smart. last time he tried to appeal to black people, it got a lilt wack, owe! >> who's got the camera, though? who let the dogs out, who, who? who? >> trevor: who? who? you know, romney might not have been good at campaign bug he would have been a five star uber driver. oh, hello, black person, i know what kind of music you like! yeah! do you guys like bernie sanders? ( cheers and applause ) well you will love what came out of his balls. >> bernie sanders' son is entering the family bid. levy sanders announced he's running for congress in new hampshire to replace retiring democrat congress woman carol shea porter. >> increasingly people understand that we need to have a living wage, that we need to have medicare for all, that we need to have tunisia-free college