Al, I don't even need to ask you what you think of the ad itself, because I know, but what do you think of the implications for the race?

Kevin asked the right question.

This is a Hail Mary and it's probably going to backfire.

You know, normally ads don't make that much difference, in my opinion, particularly this late in the game when so much money has been spent.

But this is going to affect people, I believe.

And the fact that the earned media around this ad is going to go now for days and people are going to hear this story about how their candidate for governor, this woman, was abused by her stepfather.

And her mom stood idly by or some other version of it along those lines.

top four here um the only ones in double digits uh booty judge uh double double the um the number two uh al i've been saying for a while this is the most undervalued stock he's going to be a finalist in this thing he'll raise sufficient money he's not going to be knocked out he's the only one who's won a primary caucus um make the case either supporting me or or uh or um against my argument how strong is people to judge here in this thing

Al, you first.

Bravo, first of all.

Saw your tweet, loved it.

He's evil.

I don't like to say that often.

He's dangerous.

I don't like to say that often about elected leaders.

Which number? Go ahead.

Thank you for being here.

Yeah, great to be with you and good to see you again, Kevin.

Love going on with you.

I grew up in Rockville, Maryland.

My dad was a Senate staffer for Ted Kennedy, the giant of the Senate, a lion of the Senate.

And actually, I interned for him when I was younger and just loved politics my whole life.

I view it as the greatest competitive sport America has to offer.

If that template can work for a guy like that in that district, Al, which is it? Feast or famine for your party? Tidal wave or James Blair miracle?

Thoughts on if Joe is helping the Democratic Party or hurting the Democratic Party with his principled position?

Well, absolutely helping.

I mean, the left has a problem with whitewashing and facilitating hate because the people who spit out that hate excite and invigorate a certain demographic in our base, and they don't want to lose those voters.

And so the truth needs to be told.

And if Nick Fuentes is bad to be with Donald Trump, Hasan Piker is bad to be with Al Saeed.

And this reminds me of almost 20 years ago when then Senator Clinton was running against a young Senator Barack Obama, and he had a problem with a guy named Reverend Wright.

And Barack Obama, after a while, took him time, decided I'm going to disown this guy.

yeah

Did you know Senator Graham at all?

I did.

You know, I used to work for Senator Hollings, who when Graham came to the Senate, the reviewer, Senator Hollings, was a Democratic senator from South Carolina.

And when Lindsey Graham won his Senate seat, said to me, Hollings said that he will never leave.

He is the smartest political animal in South Carolina.

And this is coming from a guy who won the state seven times statewide.

And so I did get a chance to deal with Senator Graham on a number of occasions, acutely memorial services for my old boss.

Al, how worried are you about your your national chair and about your socialists?

He is.

He was the, uh, US attorney in New York.

He is-- He was the chair of the SEC.

He's no dummy.

Um, yes, he's refusing to answer the question because he has an audience of one, and the, the, uh, exchange between Clayton and Senator Mark Kelly was even more interesting to me because Senator Kelly of, uh, Arizona asked the same question, and then he pointed out that the nominee, if confirmed, would be in the White House Oval Office discussing sensitive issues.

The president would have an opinion, and at some point in time, the nominee would presumably have a different opinion.

And he said, "How can we expect you to exercise your opinion in the interest of America if you have a different opinion from the president on an important matter of national security, if you can't even disagree with him when he's not in the room?" And I thought that was pretty effective-

Al?