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as he defended Vladimir Putin instead of the United States of America that was

collusion in action listen if the president attacks you personally your wife

your father how you respond is your business but when the president attacks

our institutions this country allows a foreign power to invade our democracy

that is our business we need a US senator who will stand up to this

president where we must work with him where we can but ensure that 242 years

into this audacious experiment that we are still a nation of laws and not one of

men I am told that he is a rising star or already has risen star of the

Democratic Party that's Beto O'Rourke who's surprisingly given a real

challenge to Ted Cruz in a pretty red state of Texas to be a US senator yeah

quite an important and interesting race and two discuss it we've invited Bob

Garrett the Austin bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News to join us Bob

welcome how are you I'm doing fine thanks for having me oh it's our pleasure and

thanks a million I'm not sure if you're aware of this Austin is actually the

capital of the state of Texas I heard that that's good so it's it's it's why

is that you're situated there so hey what is the status of the race why don't we

just get a quick snapshot of the polls and then we'll dive into some of the

particulars well the public polls you know the only in my mind credible ones

favor Cruz you know that is where you actually call someone up on a phone and

talk to them and they're not expecting the call O'Rourke is ahead or tied in

some but they tend to be more of these newfangled internet opt-in polls and

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