romney and mr. kennedy will be answering questions posed by myself and a panel of students and journalist is. are panelists are a recent high school graduates, and newly eligible voters. a senior at utah university. recent honors graduate from b.y.u.'s political science roach, nd lisa reilly political reporter. the format includes one-minute answers from each candidate. they'll have the opportunity to offer a 30-second rebuttal. we may pose a follow-up question at our discretion. the candidates will have 30 seconds to answer those. prior to the debate, a coin toss determined that mr. kennedy will provide the initial response to the first question. we'll alternate who answers first on the remaining questions. let's gets right into the questions. representative kennedy, it's important for every voter to know something personal about a candidate. the utah debate commission crafted a question for each that allows this opportunity. there will not be a rebuttal on this first question. why are you seeking

facing romney will be wilson, and mitt romney is highly favored to win. host: here is a bit for mitt romney from yesterday. [video clip] make believe free people better choices than the so wement, said state -- can make better choices than the federal government. we believe that the government should live within its means, like we do in utah. [applause] we also welcome immigrants and refugees who come here legally. [applause] we are committed to caring with compassion and generosity for those who serve our country in wartime and peacetime as our veterans, and we will care for them. [applause] ande prize education rigorous debate, and we expect the people who are our leaders to carry out our orders with silty and dignity. and one more thing -- we are absolutely convinced that america is the greatest nation on earth. [applause] now, after the 2015 election was over, i had some time thinking about the word great. and i thought in order to be considered a great country, one would have to be a strong country. strong military and strong economy. but being stron

now president trump has insulted romney publicly, romney called him a phony and a fraud.hen of course he potentially wanted to be president trump's secretary of state. that didn't end up happening. and now romney has to walk this careful line between opposing policies he doesn't want to support but also being on board with president's agenda, he gets asked about it all the time on the campaign trail. he did say he supports some of the elements of the travel ban that the president has implem t implemented that the supreme court has upheld, but he decried the president's immigration policy calling it a black eye, take a look. are you surprised that the supreme court upheld the president's travel ban? >> i think the president does have responsibility for securing the country and if he legitimately feels that there's something that's threatening the country, i'm not surprised that the supreme court court would say okay, yeah, that makes sense. >> reporter: steve, sorry about that, i'm having a little bit of trouble hearing. i think the spot you saw was from a little bit earli

romney? do it. >> thank you, thank you. >> how can you believe in politics when you watch this crapola, dana, you're the best. you don't need to be a sar tirist to do this. up next, the roundtable tries to make sense of trump's obsession with helping moscow. right now in canada, he's moscows man up in quebec. what's he owe russia? that's an open question. plus the trump justice department cracks down on obamacare. could that be a gift to democrats. >> apparently democrats and voter who's want to vote this fall like obamacare. you're watching "hardball." (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a "cactus calamity". (man 1) i read that the saguaro can live to be two hundred years old. (woman) how old do you think that one is? (man 1) my guess would be, about... (man 2) i'd say about two hundred. (man 1) yeah... (burke) gives houseplant a whole new meaning. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing

endorse mitt romney. out and get 'em. you can do it. >> thank you. thank you. >> how can you believe in politics when you watch this crapola. dana, you're the best. you don't need to be a satirist to do this. >>> up next, the "hardball" roundtable tries to make sense of trump's obsession with helping moscow. today he's moscow's man in quebec. what does he owe russia? plus the trump justice department cracks down on obamacare, but could that be a gift to democrats. partly democrats and voters who want to vote this fall like obamacare. you're watching "hardball." ime o unplug and be together. with my bladder leakage, i'm not doing that anymore. when i went hiking with the other product, it just didn't fit right and i was always readjusting it. so, now our camping trips are their camping trips. but with the new sizes of depend fit-flex, it feels like it was made for me. i'm ready to get back our time together. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your b

romney said trump will win a re-election.omney has been critical of trump's tone and separating families at the borders. advicing trump? no way. >> my job is to get things through the legislative branch that are right for the country. i won't try to manage the white house or how the president interacts with others. that's up to him and his team. >> romney will take on the democrat jenny wilson whom he will have a big advantage over in the polls. >> shannon: more on the big upset in new york. mark pen is live and an update on mobs going after their political opponents and. the transportation secretary confronted by activists against ice. our panel will weigh in. let your inner light loose with one a day women's. a complete multivitamin specially formulated with key nutrients plus vitamin d for bone health support. your one a day is showing. look for new one a day women's with nature's medley. the full value of your new car? you're better off throwing your money right into the harbor. i'm gonna regret that. with new car replace

primary, romney recently predicted trump would win reelection because 90% of republican support himnd the economy is good but romney has been critical of trump's tone with opponents and was against separating families at the border. >> separate branches. my job is to get through through the legislative branch that are right for the country. i won't try to manage the white house or the president interacts with others. >> romney takes on democrat jenny wilson, an advantage over the polls. >> more on the upset in new york, mark penn live, an update on mobs going after political opponents and e ln. shall confronted by student activists calling for the abolition of ice. reporter be rated at a rally for the president but what else happened after that? our panel here to weigh in. on te all day long, and sometimes i don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition i'm missing. boost high protein now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals. and it has a guaranteed great taste. man: boost gives me everything i need to be up for doing what i love. b

romney has been walking a f line when it comes to preside trump.he president's endorsement but says he will continue to criticize him when appropriate. cnn's dana bash looks at how that's all playing out on the campaign trail. >> reporter: watch what happens when a utah voter hands senate candidate mitt romney re-elect trump buttons. >> can i give you some of these. >> you can give them to me. i haven't decided who i will support yet. >> take the trump button, don't put it on. a simple moment summing up romney's complex approach to this campaign. embrace trump policies he agrees with, blast what he doesn't. these days that's on immigration. >> the policy that led to the separation of children at the -- from their families at the border was heartbreaking, heart wrenching, and simply wrong. >> reporter: in early 2016, romney was the never trump poster boy. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as the degree from trump university. >> reporter: eight months later a different tone as president-elect trump considered him for

dana bash spoke with romney and she joins us now live from utah. good to see you this morning. >> reporter: good to see you too. mitt romney, if he wins today's primary is almost surely going to be the next u.s. senator from utah, because this is such a republican state. the question, though, is whether or not he's prepared to get to washington in what he admits is donald trump's republican party. watch what happens when a utah voter hands senate candidate mitt romney re-elect trump buttons. >> can i give you some of these? >> you can give them to me but i don't know if i'll put it on because i haven't decided who i'll support yet. >> reporter: embrace trump policies he agrees with, blast what he doesn't. these days that's on immigration. >> the policy that led to the separation of children at the -- from their families at the border was -- was heartbreaking, heart-wrenching and simply wrong. >> reporter: in early 2016, romney was the never trump poster boy. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as the degree from trump

romney won by a little less than 50 points in2012. there's clearly an anti-trump mood in the republican party. and it will be interesting to see whether or not romney takes full advantage. >> come back in a half hour. zach, i want to ask about the harley-davidson stuff. this is really -- also really fascinating how that's going to work out for the president. come back in a few minutes. thanks. >>> overnight, a federal judge ordering the reunification of falies separated at the u.s.-mexico border. san diego federal judge dana sabra ordered federal officials to stop detaining parents apart from their children unless the parent is unfit. the judge required the government to reunify parents with children under 5 years old within two weeks and ordered parents reunified withldren 5 and old within 30 days. >> the judge's order says in part the unfortunate reality is that under the present system, migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property. certainly that cannot satisfy the requirements of due pro

when you go to the senate, which mitt romney is going to go? one that called donald trump a fake and a fenny or the one who talked to him about being secretary of state? >> i believe i've made it pretty clear that i'll stand with president trump if the policies he's proposing are good for the state of utah, for other states, for the nation. on the other hand, if you were to say something that was divisive and significant, something which were racist or anti-woman or anti-immigrant, then i feel a moral responsibility to speak out. so i'll speak my mind. >> reporter: speaking his mind is what a lot of republican primary voters said that they want him to do. that is why they want him to go to washington to be a counterweight for donald trump. but this is still a very red state. there are a significant number of trump supporters here who went out and voted in today's primary. and they have saying to mitt romney, i certainly heard it, you know what, please tow the line. this is president we all support. and that is why you definitely hear both sides

when romney ran for president he won utah.voters gave him a 48-point victory here. >> bret: dan springer in provo. thanks. in the south carolina primary on the other side of the country, with the republican governor is trying to hold off a hard-charging businessman who was a complete unknown in the state six months ago and he's getting some help. correspondent jonathan serrie looks at that place tonight from columbia. >> south carolina governor henry mcmaster cast his ballot this morning in columbia. challenger john warren voted in greenville. both candidates in south carolina's g.o.p. runoff for governor call themselves trump conservatives but it was mcmaster the president came to stump for. >> right from day one when i came down here, henry mcmaster mcmaster, he said why are you with me? like what you're saying. >> returning the favor to one of his early supporters mr. trump rallied a packed room at the mcmaster event. many in the crowd were there to see the president more than a candidate and more in hopes many of them will

ann romney right there. i want to thank the 62,000 people who signed the petition to get my name on the ballot. i want to thank the 5700 who volunteered to campaign with me. i appreciate their help. i want to thank matt. he is the best manager annual can have, is a terrific guy. i want to express a profound appreciation to senator orrin hatch. he has fought conservative battles time and time again. i would do my best to keep those battles andgoing forward. i would vote to the next date of this campaign. we will be debating from time to time on the airwaves and in person with jenny wilson. we expect the republicans will go to washington from utah to represent our great state. get my kids up here, there standing back there. would you want to my son josh and some of his children and my son ben and his wife andy. tickets are non-sleeping. get behind me. them, those grandkids of mine and also my own kids and daughters-in-law. they really compel me to be part of this political process and to try to make our countr

romney: thank you. thanks, guys. thank you it looks like our team won the primary. ad we understand there are record number of people who voted and if you watched tv the couple of weeks you know who is responsible for that turnout, ann romney, right there. [applause] romney: i want to thank the 62,000 people who signed the petition to get my name on the ballot. i want to thank the 5700 who volunteered to campaign with me and i appreciate their help. i want to thank the best campaign manager anyone could possibly have, a terrific guy. i to express the profound appreciation to senator orrin hatch for his years of service my he years of service has fought conservative battles time and time again. i will do my best to keep those battles and those fights going forward. forward -- and i look forward to the stage of the campaign. we will be debating from time to time on the airwaves and we expect republicans will go to washington to represent our great state. get my kids appear,,." would you welcome my son josh and his children and his wife and some the children. get behin

mitt romney officially winning that primary tonight easily. this is utah. this is romney. this is a state he won by 50 in 2012. this is tantamount to winning election to the senate practically for mitt romney the way utah goes. it sets up that dynamic of mitt romney. you remember all the things he said about trump. trump, you remember all the things he said about romney. the dynamic of romney being in the senate, trump being in the white house. that takes a very big step towards reality with this result. one note for trivia buffs out there. with this win tonight, mitt romney defeating mike kennedy, it raises mitt romney's lifetime record against opponents named kennedy to 1-1. ted kennedy in '94 beat him. tonight he beats mike kennedy. he's batting .500 against the kennedys. >> that was a deep grab. thank you for that. steve, before we leave this new york story, which just continues to amaze, let's talk about joe crowley. coming up on 20 years in congress. he's number four in the democratic leadership in the house under pelosi. like to be speaker someday. one of his jobs i

i see a romney sign behind you. tell us what's happening in utah right now. >> meanwhile, in the republican this picture else k scenery behind me. the republican nominee in 2012, mitt romney, who is now considered as a guest, he is hoping he's going to be able to claim victory in his primary here tonight, don. this is something that he didn't expect -- nobody in his family or anywhere else expect it, but the long-time serving senator from utah announced he was going to retire, he asked romney to consider running for his seat, and he is. this is something that is incredibly significant. when we're talking about the splits within each party, this is probably as kind of iconic as it gets. you, of course remember mitt romney went after donald trump in the heat and heart of the republican primary season, calling him a phony and a fraud, since certainly when the president was elected, he was considered for secretary of state. he's gone back and forth. the main reason mitt romney wants to go back to washingtona needs to be

reporter: mitt romney -- president trump: fire who? reporter: [inaudible] president trump: we'll see what happens. well see what happens. reporter: what about mitt romney saying it's easy to win again. president trump: mitt romney said what? reporter: said it's easy to win again. president trump: well, we're doing well. mitt is a straight shooter. whether people love him or don't love him. reporter: you called him a con man last time. president trump: mitt romney is a straight shooters. yeah. hes had very nice things to say. i appreciate that. that's good. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i love canada but they treat us very unfairly on trade. very, very unfairly. you have seen the numbers. almost 300% on dairy. so they treat us very unfairly. are you guys all going? you better get going, peter. we'll leave without you. reporter: [inaudible] president trump: i would only do a deal if i get it through congress. i wouldn't do like obama did and fortunately he wasn't able to get it through. you know, he tried to get it through, the

it was eight months later, mitt romney was saying nice things considered for setting of state.e illustration of how complicated it is. fast forward to where we are now, the republican nominee from 2012, the presidential nominee wants to be in the u.s. senate. it's a different place, a different party. i asked him about that. do you think the republican >> well i think the president has overwhelmingly shown he has great support with the rank and file members of the republican party. i think that's a great tribute. pull it together to get their support. that's something which i think you have to acknowledge. at the same time, if he says something, i'm going to be all for it. if he says something i don't feel is right, i'm going to speak my mind. >> and speak his mind is what a lot of very concerned republicans who we've talked to here who have voted in this primary want him to go to washington to do. particularly since there is a void, or will be a void starting next year of people who do that regularly who are retiring. people like bob corker and jeff flake in the senate, john m

and romney has been lamenting his bombastic style. >>> and fighting to save zte. this reverses the deal with china. zte will pay a $1 billion fine. it will change its entire corporate leadership in 30 days. it will imbed a u.s. chosen compliance team within the company. i have never seen something like that. the commerce secretary sauce th -- secretary says this is the first time it has american oversight. zte violated u.s. sanctions and selling to iran and north korea. it lied about punishing the violat violators. the company has been linked to trade talks with china. this could mean it will buy more u.s. goods. lawmakers are concerned the white house exchanged a trade win for national security. senator marco rubio says this will do nothing to keep us safe from corporate and national skuecurity es pee espionage. >> a nation am security threat. we need to remind you. >>> for the first time in 44 years, the washington capitals are stanley cup champions. caps with the game winner with 7:30 left in the third. they win ending a remarkable run by the golden knights in

help romney, romney will never do anything to help him. >> it is a little late. >> he should not be raising money for him. lou: this president is the nicest fella, he is. >> short memory. lou: a terrific memory. >> he picks these insults and he forgives more than most politicians. lou: others he does not, i don't always quite understand his i would assume he flick romney off the table. he is just an objectable human. >> he said he will be a different republican, he has been, he has never won but for that race in massachusetts. lou: funny thing, romney running at utah republican. his only credit is he won a massachusetts race as a republican. >> also voted democratic primary, and was an independent at one point in time. he reminds me of former mayor bloomberg put himself in democratic column, with 80 million given to kennedy. >> what are we going to see? against a validation of president's choices in these primaries, is this are we going to see a strengthening of his view or weakening? >> i think approval number for president among republicans is sky-high, 90% according to a poll. wh

ann romney, right there. the 62,000hank people who signed the petition to get my name on the ballot 5700 who thank the volunteered to campaign with me. i want to thank matt waldrop. a terrific guy. express a profound appreciation to senator orrin hatch for his years of service to our country and state. he has fought conservative battles time and time again. i will do my best to keep those fights going forward. i look forward to the next stage of this campaign. we will be debating from time to time on the airways and in person. we expect the republicans will go to washington again to represent our great state. get my kids up there. would you please welcome my son josh and his children? randy,ben and his wife come on here on the stage and get behind me. it's them. those grandkids of mine. and my own kids and daughters in law. part ompel me to b this political process. we began the campaign talking about bringing utah values to washington. i get asked now and again, what you mean by utah values? they are the ver

>> depends which romney shows up, whether it's the romney of that blistering speech of which you justr the romney being toyed with by the president when he thought he was considered for secretary of state. >> took him out for frog legs and made a fool of him and bowed down to get the frog legs to be secretary of state and trump on purpose humiliated him. >> mitt romney is a gentleman, exquisitely good manners and that will avail you nothing in a knife fight. he says whenever mr. trump says something divisive, racist or offensive, he's going to be speaking out a lot. i wouldn't count on that. >> i think we've got to be careful with him. thank you, george f. will. trump's white house is lecturing america on the perils of incivility. but the president went after a laundry list of critics last night in the trump way. you're watching "hardball." the line between work and life hasn't just blurred. it's gone. that's why you need someone behind you. not just a card. an entire support system. whether visiting the airport lounge to catch up on what's really important. or even using those hard-e

you will remember mitt romney. speaking out against him ferociously during the campaign. steve: a fraud and a phony. >> is he running for senate. the primary is tomorrow. he has got a op-ed in the salt lake tribune about the president. listen to what mitt romney wrote coming out now. he said i have and will continue to speak out when the president says or done something which is decisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant. dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions. i do not make this a daily commentary. i express contrary views only when i believe it is a matter of substantial significance. so, it seems the resistance will include romney as well. steve: but, you know, he was honest. he felt that donald trump's first year exceeded his expectations. love the fact that he was cut regulations and drop the tax cut bill as well. however, mr. romney does say he will oppose the president when it comes to tariffs. pete: he hasn't learned. okay. he says, as you pointed out, anti-immigrants. the policies the president

romney is gutless.know, what he should be doing is trying to rebuild the republican party independent of donald trump. these are character tests. it's really unfortunate to see mitt romney flunk it in this fashion. instead of saying well, donald trump is a shoe-in for re-election. which would be really disastrous for the whole world. as experts have been saying this week, basically end the western alliance. if were you to get re-elected of the. instead of resisting it, he's rationalizing it, excusing it. he needs to build a new republican anti-trump party. and he's not doing it. >> well that's where i disagree. i have to say you know, look, he saw that the window was there. to maybe try for that. and it wasn't going to happen. and so i think governor romney, exactly. i agree with that on a personal level. but governor romney is not gutless in this regard. i think he's stating some degree of fact here. he, historically is very difficult to unseat an incumbent president. and with trump's approval ratings

i agree with mitt romney on this point. it is okay to support the president.hen you disagree, you do it respectfully. when he goes off the rails as he does sometimes, you have to call him off on the travel ban, charlottesville, or this recent separation of children from their parents. he has to be called out. that is really the issue. and i would say that to democrats too. they should take the same approach with the president. look, people don't want the congress to be taken over by the hard left democratic party either. they don't want to see this kind of nativity way of running the republican party. we have to get the better balance. support candidates who have a capacity for governance. that's what we should be doing. i think mitt romney can stand up and get above it all and bring better balance to the discussion. >> also this weekend, jeff flake suggesting that perhaps maybe the way to go is judges when we talk about different issues before them. is that the right road to take? >> they have to take some sort of move. if not, they are allowing donald trump

keep in mind, utah is a state that mitt romney won by 50% points in 2012. donald trump only won it by about 20 points in 2016. if there's one state in the nation where you can be an anti-trump republican or at least give him a kick in the butt sometimes, it's definitely utah. >> a very gracious tweet, though, from president trump about mitt romney and his family. so clearly they are aligned for the moment. it was a good night for president trump overall, wasn't it? >> it was. south carolina runoff, mcmaster, the current governor, trump endorsed him. he won. look at new york's 11th district. gop primary, dan donovan, trump endorsed, he won. and mitt romney, trump did endorse him -- although i don't think that put him over the -- >> the third version of trump's travel ban upheld by the supreme court. a good day for the president overall. if he want his instincts to be vindicated, they were yesterday. >> it was a good day for donald trump. let's put it that way. >> all right. nice to see you. come back. >> thank you. >>> breaking overnight, a federal judge ord

mitt romney laid it out in uncertain terms. of the country probably never thought that there would be a president trump at that moment. >> i don't know. at the time he was talking about there was a danger from president trump and what the consequences of demagoguery and all of that could be. politics is how we do this. you lay it on the line. you put everything out on the field. you do everything you can to put your point of view across. and you hopefully do it in an honest way and respectful way. but you put it out there. when you lose, you know what you got to do? come back to the table and work with the same person you tried to stop. that is life. that is politics. that is grown-up. >> it is. watch this one as well. this is from the "today show." romney is such an interesting political person. he obviously, he wants to get back to washington now as the senator. i thought he was careful to not negate what he said before but make a new fresh statement that is true. is that accurate? >> there is nothing incongruous about what h

ed: i hope mitt romney remembers that.his president has proven he's one of the great -- i got to travel with reagan and ran his operation for a number of years. this president has proven his endorsement matters. republicans who run against him pay a heavy price. his endorsement made a big difference with mcmaster, and i would think everyone would -- every republican would want his endorsement. the speaker took us twice over the cliff on the immigration issue. it's time for him to say thank you very much. if this was parliamentary system he would be voted out. he would be gone. we desperately need a new leader to lead them into the fall elections besides the president. lou: you have worked with three presidential administrations. what would motivate paul ryan to further humiliate himself? is he beyond a sense of shame, embarrassment? and has no regard at all for the interest of his conference. ed: there is a self-righteous quality to him. to be the vice presidential candidate on the mitt romney nick tet. we have a great lea

what is going on with mitt romney, jennifer rubin? during the campaign, and that quickly passed, and he is now back to the finger in the wind routine. this is, of course, what many of us who were formerly in the republican party predicted. that donald trump has had an utterly corrosive, corrupting influence on just about everyone in the republican party, whether it's paul ryan, whether it's mitt romney. apparently. the only republicans who see fit to challenge him in any fashion are those who not only want to retire, but they want to run for president 2020, or if you're a governor of ohio. other than that, the republicans are essentially rolling over and playing dead time and time again. and it's pathetic. it really is. >> the profiles in courage are also the profiles in retreat. neera, what do you make of this, though? if you look at what voters want, would you vote for a candidate who promises to be a check on trump? 48% say they are more likely to do that. 23% say they are less likely. these are just registered voters in general. i

remember met romney? by the way, he will probably get the nomination in utahight.e's touting his strong record of hiring women. he had a binder that highlighted resumes of women applicants that he wanted to hire. remember this. >> we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. i went to a number of women's groups and said, can you help us find folks? and i brought binders full of women. i was proud of the fact after i stuffed my cabinet and my senior staff that the university of new york in albany did a survey of all 50 states and concluded that might have more women in senior leadership leadership positions. >> sean: following that, many insinuated that mitt romney was actually sexist because of those remarks. in other words, that he had resumes of women that he wanted to hire because he wanted to advance their life, their career, their opportunities, and be fair. watch this. >> mitt romney in a point-blank question last night in the debate refused to answer whether he believes in e

i remember during the last presidential campaign there is a great commotion made about mitt romney pain 14% tax rate on his income from his venture capital fund. we see that repeated time and again in this high initial on the businesses which are basically part of the income of the country and not necessarily the productive economy of the country. my college classmate and friend

mitt romney. there he is. extraordinary.he trump agenda will affect november races. john cox, the new republican candidate for governor in california, that's right. a republican candidate for governor in socialist california. much more straight ahead. stay with us. lou: mitt romney making headlines, paying president trump a compliment this week instead of insulting him or trying to obstruct him. while talking to a group of republican donors, romney saying the man he doesn't consider a role model will easily win the republican nomination and will solidly win reelection in 2020. he also says democrat wills nominate someone who is far too out of touch with mainstream america. my next guest, a truck-backed republican who finished second in the california gubernatorial primary on tuesday, facing off against democratic lieutenant governor gavin newsom this november. joining us tonight, the winner of the republican nomination, the republican candidate for governor of california, john cox. it is a delight to have you with us. and yo

mitt romney or jeb bush. none of these idiots for three decades could do anything near what he accomplished. even if those talks fall apart. it's extraordinary to me people aren't look to all he accomplished. lou: they should be on their hands and knees begging him to stay in office. >> i live in wisconsin and people appreciate promised made and promises kept. lou: how about a smart government? mark: how about a real negotiator? mitt romney would take the iran agreement over to kim jong-un and say sign this. >> i'm not disagreeing with you, lou. i am saying jeb has a point. lou: why do they feel like that. >> you are always so defensive with me. lou: i'm a sensitive guy. >> i must bring that out in you. lou: my wife gives me instructions at home or anywhere else we happen to be together. mark: i think it was the part about how great mitt romney was and paul ryan. lou: do you agree we have to get rid of paul ryan snow's an albatross. he's a big blackbird hanging around the republican party's necks. i have got

very pleased when romney picked him. we were not sure it would help romney in the general election but we thought it was an appropriate generational transfer. ryan is a man of ideas. he courageously took on the title of spending. which you really need to do. he seemed to neutralize. just a general forward-looking, articulate, moderate on some issues like immigration, which i thought was a good thing. we were very pleased when romney took ryan, i thought he was an a leader of the party. if you had told me the summer of 2012, paul ryan 2018 would be retiring from the house with the difficult last year as speaker, on the one hand and donald trump in the summer of 2012 had come off a six-month campaign to find barack obama's birth certificate which is astonishing. he wasn't a fringe player in that. as onef the key people pushing a nutty and somewhat distasteful conspiracy very about the president of the united states. he was controversial and 2012 -- in 2012 but then romney accepted his endorsement for 10 minutes, people lik

mitt romney will win in utah.hat relationship like between senator romney and president trump, brad? >> i think it will be one where romney said it himself. when i'm with the president i'm with him. when i'm not i will be honest and speak up. the fact that we'll w have a reliable republican senate seat saved is all that matters. >> they were good to each other. the president tweeted about it congratulating him. it els like they're trying to at least show people that maybe it's under the bridge at this point. you make a good point. mitt romney was a never trum per and not sigh about saying it. >> bill: he could be an effective senator. >> he could. >> sandra: conclusive win by mitt romney. i look forward to working together. a great and loving family will be coming to d.c. >> the president needs mitt romney to be with him on a lot of issues and romney will be one of the voices that says wait a minute, mr. president, you can't do this and my vote won't be one of those votes that allows you to do it. >> the good news

romney was going to get back involved in politics.e won by a massive landslide last night and willie, he won saying, i'm going to washington, but i'm not going to be like mitch mcconnell or paul ryan, i'm not going to be trump's puppet. if he does something i disagree, i'm going to speak out. >> imagine that. somebody who's consistent that way. >> loves the country. >> when he is appalled by something the president does, will say so. and it was actually just a couple of day before utah republicans chose mitt romney as their senate nominee last night, he published an op-ed, this is two days before the election, declaring his independence from president trump. he wrote this. i have and will continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or destructive to democratic institutions. i do not make this a daily commentary. i express contrary views only when i believe it is a matter of substantial significance. he goes on, people ask me why i feel compelled to expres

mitt romney, the 2012 republican nominee for president making his political comeback.s won the nomination for the u.s. senate in utah defeating mike kennedy. this makes romney immediately the prohibitive favorite to win this seat, utah state that he won by 50 points, setting up the scenario next january of a senator romney and a president trump and that dynamic. so this result now official. if this one wasn't unexpected, there was another shocker we'll tell you about in a little bit here in other party as well. a very busy night all of the sudden, lawrence. >> steve, quickly, before we take a break here, mitt romney has been on a tightrope in this campaign. he has a history of saying very harsh things, accurate things about donald trump, yet he is running in a party that supports donald trump. during the primary, he has had to be kind of careful. does this win tonight liberate mitt romney to say what he really thinks about donald trump? >> it's interesting. potentially. and the other element with utah, don't forget we say republican state. as red states go, this one di

ted kennedy beat romney in a senate race in ma mass.ow romney is in friendlier territory expected to get that nod. and and his dynamic with president trump will be an interesting dynamic. tomorrow we will be here tracking the primaries all day. we will be back who is trying he says to find a congressional fix for the family separation issue. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to shave my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® works like my body's insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? hectic. my weekends? my time. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of day. so if i sleep in, and delay my dose, i take it as soon as i can, as long as there's at least eight hours between doses. (renee) once in use, it lasts eight weeks with or without refrigeration, twice as long as the lantus® pen. (announcer) tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during e