PLUS: Kasich on Arpaio pardon: “Absolutely should be out of bounds”
EXCLUSIVE: Ohio Gov. Brown says he’s talking with USTR Lighthizer about NAFTA renegotiation
FEMA Administrator: “It’s going to be years” of recovery effort from Hurricane Harvey
AUGUST 27, 2017 — Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) exclusively ruled out a 2020 run with Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) this morning on “Meet the Press,” telling moderator Chuck Todd: “The answer is no.”
“First of all, you couldn’t pronounce it. And secondly, you couldn’t fit it on a bumper sticker,” said Kasich. “Because Hickenlooper and I work together, cynics out there say, “Well, they want something.” Because we want to stabilize health care and make sure that poor people have something, people assume there’s a motive.”
He also addressed President Trump’s pardon of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio earlier this week: “It absolutely should be out of bounds for somebody to use that as some sort of a political wedge.” Watch the full interview.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) also exclusively joined this morning’s program, sharing with Todd that he speaks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer “at least every two weeks” and that they’re “talking about NAFTA renegotiation, how we do it.” Watch Brown’s full interview, including the difference between his support for southern border fence versus the president’s call for a wall.
The network broadcast also addressed Hurricane Harvey with FEMA Administrator Brock Long live from FEMA headquarters and “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt live from the ground in Corpus Christi, who shared he’s “seen very little in terms of recovery.” Long told Todd that “it’s going to be years” of recovery effort and that FEMA has the “reserves and the funding to be able to support the policies in regard to the National Flood Insurance Program, with which “Congress has a lot of work to fix.”
The broadcast’s roundtable, which discussed the president’s pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio this week, was comprised of The New York Times’ Yamiche Alcindor, The Washington Post’s Michael Gerson, AEI’s Danielle Pletka and NBC News’ Katy Tur.
Read the full transcript of this morning’s “Meet the Press” on MeetThePress.com.
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