Mark interviews political consultant Ed Rollins.
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Rollins, the nobody has run more campaigns, bigger, better, more successful campaigns. |
| 0:04.9 | Ed Rollins, how you doing? |
| 0:07.5 | Doing pretty well. |
| 0:08.4 | This is a terrible week, obviously, with the tragic assassination of a young conservative |
| 0:13.7 | leader, and it's, you know, I've spent 50 years of my life in and around politics, and I've |
| 0:19.6 | never been threatened. |
| 0:21.1 | People need not like me or do like me, whatever the case may be, but my right to speech |
| 0:25.6 | has always been protected. |
| 0:27.2 | The idea that a young man who's done so much for a conservative cause could be shot |
| 0:32.5 | on a college campus to me has just been very, very disturbing. |
| 0:37.1 | And hopefully it's the movement will move on. |
| 0:41.6 | I mean, he organized on 850 campuses across his country. |
| 0:45.6 | I didn't know him personally. |
| 0:47.3 | I knew what he had accomplished and hired what he accomplished. |
| 0:51.0 | He went out and he registered voters. |
| 0:52.9 | He gave people a form which they could get up and discuss ideas. |
| 0:56.4 | And that was very important for the country. And hopefully the movement will continue. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah. Democratic leaders have not handled this very well. They're trying to play a little catch-up now. Obama finally speaking out. |
| 1:06.6 | But they've misplayed this, and I think turned off some people. Wouldn't you agree? |
| 1:12.4 | Absolutely. |
| 1:13.3 | You know, the reality is, you know, you have to take the tragedy of the life. |
| 1:18.0 | Here's a young man, 31 years old, doing what he believed in. |
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