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people often say to that well, look what they said about barack obama on his inauguration day with mitch mcconnellerm president. mitch mcconnell was saying we will make him a one-term president at the ballot box, not what the democrats are doing which is using every vehicle imaginable -- neil: you think the president ever feeds this? with his behavior? >> i mean, twitter, obviously, there's been some things he's done. i'm not saying he's the perfect guy. i'm not saying he's a guy without -- neil: he's been saying part of his new ad campaign is maybe not perfect but essentially better than all these others. >> i'm looking at accomplishments. if you can continue to show accomplishments and you can message that, you should be going into every community, black community, and messaging what he's done. we talked about this many times on your show. what have you done. let's stick with your accomplishments. we don't want to get into the twitter battles and all that other stuff because it's a distraction and leads to bad headlines. he has a lot he can show the american people. he has done and deserving of

mcconnell next year? does it mean democrats will pour more money, more effort into backing mcgrath? >> well, here's -- this is how i look at it. this reminds me in 2009, 2010 when barack obamathen president, came out for martha coakley in massachusetts over scott brown. did a big rally. jon corzine in new jersey did a big rally. arlen specter. and all of them lost. but then the president went back and won in 2012. so a lot of it, i think, sometimes has to do with the candidate in the state. and a lot of it has to do with policy. barack obama was really smart in like reading the tea leaves in what those elections told him. and those states went back and vote forward hed ford for him i. >> what obama did was he read those results and corrected course, right? >> that's what i was trying to say. >> does someone like president trump look at the results here or the results in the midterms or the results in the 2017 off-year elections and say, gosh, i ought to do something about those suburban voters. he's had a number of opportunities. gun legislation was one of them. vaping was another one. he doesn't seem inclined to do that. it was one of the things obama did that frustrated h

obama didn't allow that to happen who did? well, we did a dna test and found out it was 100% that mitch. [ laughter ] [ applause ] trump is able to fill so many vacancies because mitch mcconnell'senate included stonewalling president obama's nominees and now they're using that opportunity to not only fill the courts with audio logs but with unqualified audio logs take matthew peterson. a commissioner with the fec who had what only could be described as a disastrous conformation hearing back in 2017 and keep in mind this line of questioning came from trump supporting republican senator john kennedy >> do you ever try to take in a deposition by yourself >> i believe no. >> okay. have you ever argued a motion in state court? >> i have not. >> have you ever argued a motion in federal court >> no. >> well, as the trial judge, you're obviously going to have witnesses. >> yes >> can you tell me what the daubert standard is? >> senator kennedy, i don't have that readily at my disposal. >> do you know what a motion in limine is? >> yes, i haven't -- again, my background is not in litigation. >> how about the pulmonary abstention doctrine? >> i heard - >> you going to see -- you will see