In 90 Seconds, Kasich’s Train of Thought Goes from Kavanaugh to His Barber Shop, to Border Separation, to a Nun, to Hurricane Florence

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KASICH: "So when the public itself says, 'I win, you lose,' I’ve got friends that were in a barber shop last week, if you would have heard the things they were saying about Dr. Ford, whether you believe her or not, the things they were saying, according to my friend. It was horrible, okay? Where does this come from? When we say blame the politicians, we have to look at ourselves, too, and say we can be better, we can give space to somebody. So, you know, I made a new year’s resolution, which I have failed ,I gave it to my wife. That was, in this year of 2018, I wasn’t going to win every argument. I could lose a couple, okay? And you know what? My life is better when I can let somebody else have a little bit of a way.“
RUHLE: “And you got a good haircut at the barber shop.“
KASICH: “One last thing I want to say to you. These children being transported in the dead of night to these detention centers, could you imagine when you were a little girl or I was a little boy that they said 'We’re going to rip you away from your mother and father and we’re going to send you on a bus?' You talk about the long-term implications of the little brains of these young little kids, sleeping on the floors and not going to school and frankly, Stephanie, nobody loving them. What we got to — this has got to stop.”
RUHLE: “Governor, it breaks my heart to even think about it. But when you think about voters, voters in your state, do they think about things like what we’re doing to these immigrant children? Or do they just vote and say, 'I’ve got a job and money in the pocket?'”
KASICH: “You know, I think we can dig down with them because the people are good, Stephanie. People do want to love our children. They want to be connected to one another. We just sometimes live way out here. But, you know, this morning, this nun, who was on 'Morning Joe' —“
RUHLE: “Sister Norma, one of the most extraordinary people.”
KASICH: “And I've got a nun in — there’s a lot of nuns doing a lot of great things. We have to do what we can do. We have to stop waiting on what the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to do or the President. Why don’t we do some things? How about that uplifting story about that little girl named Flo? Have you heard about her? She heard about Hurricane Florence is going to do all this damage and she said to her mother, 'Mom, we’ve got to do something.' She’s 5 years old. 'We have to do something to help these people.' Her father took a picture, a picture of Flo and put it where the storm was moving on a little map and they attached it to a wagon. Her little brother pulled Flo in the wagon and they went door to door in the neighborhood. They have raised so many supplies for people in North Carolina. They have a garage full. And I called this mom and this little girl the other day. We need more Flos. So when I talked to her, I said, 'Flo, can you believe what you did?' You know what she said? 'I got a lot of attention.' She's 5 years old.”