Bullock was on This Week this morning

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STEPHANOPOULOS: That's the pitch of Montana’s Governor Steve Bullock. Late entry into the presidential race, didn't make the first Democratic debate but will be on stage later this month. And he joins us this morning from Helena, Montana. Governor Bullock, thank you for joining us this morning. I want to get to that debate, the Democratic debate going on right now, but I wanted to begin by getting your response. We just heard Mercedes Schlapp from the Trump campaign say that this squad is now defining -- this squad of congresswomen -- now defining the Democratic party. Un-American, even communist.

BULLOCK: George, first, thanks for having me on. Look, I don't agree with everything that these members say, but any parent, any preacher knows that telling four duly elected congresswomen to go back home -- it’s -- it’s racist. And those 13 seconds where Trump just basically soaked in those sounds of those chants, that's going be a stain on this presidency. So it's definitely wrong. And it -- but I also fear that at some point we're falling into the same traps of 2016, that we should also be talking about the fact that this last week and half he tried to rip health care away from 13 million people as he's trying to undo the Affordable Care Act or that DeVos is literally trying to funnel money this past week to private schools, or that he’s not really doing a damn thing or darn thing for farmers or factory workers and most Americans, and this is all that we end up focusing on.

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STEPHANOPOULOS: Your -- your fellow Democratic governors had a gathering this week that lead to this -- this headline in The New York Times. “Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Field not to Veer Too Far to the Left”. Is that what’s been happening?

BULLOCK: Well I think what happens often, Washington, D.C. is a place where talking is a substitute for doing or a plan is about a press release. As a governor -- like, when we talk about healthcare, I hear about healthcare directly from constituents when I take my son to the Target. We're a lot closer to the ground. And I do think that a lot of the discussion that is happening and happened like on last debate stage is a bit disconnected from people's everyday lives and we’ve got to make sure that we’re focusing on the fact that we need to make sure everybody has a fair shot in this economy, that this political system can work and they can have belief that government can actually work for them.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Would you have raised your hand in that debate when they said that undocumented immigrants should get healthcare?

BULLOCK: I would not have.

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about when decriminalizing crossing the border?

BULLOCK: Well and that’s -- look, even Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary said that that -- you know, you got 100,000 people coming to the border now, you’d have multiples of that if that was the case. You know, I certainly believe in border security, I don’t believe we have to build the wall, and I don’t believe in open borders.

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[elleng]

1. D.C. is a place where talking is a substitute for doing.

[MontanaFarmer]

2. Our governor

is not without talent. Will he be the nominee? No. But can he jump to the front of the VP line for Harris or Warren? Perhaps.

[Grasswire2]

3. Steve is high school friend of a family member of mine. He is a good guy. nt