THE COMMUNICATIONS SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF SESSION SO FAR.

WE HAVE BLOIS OLSON OF FLUENCE MEDIA.

YOU CAN ALSO HEAR HIM ON THE MORNING TAKE ON WCCO RADIO.

YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ETHICS HEARING LAST NIGHT AND YOU HAD SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT IT.

>> LOOK, I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE MORE OF A PLAN AND IT WAS CLEAR THERE WASN'T A PLAN FROM DEMOCRATS BUT EVERYBODY THINKS THERE WAS.

AND SO EVEN THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CHAIRMAN CRITICIZING THE MEDIA AND ASKING -- >> Mary: YEAH, DEMOCRATS WERE CRITICIZING THE MEDIA.

LET'S SAY THAT OUT LOUD.

>> AND QUESTIONING THE SENATORS WHO WERE JUST BRINGING THE FILE FORWARD.

AND THEN I THINK NICOLE MITCHELL'S ATTORNEY IS GREAT IN COURT BUT THIS IS NOT A COURT OF LAW.

THIS IS FORM OF PUBLIC OPINION AND SO I DON'T THINK IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS.

I COMPARED IT TO THE WELLSTONE MEMORIAL AND THEN I FOUND OUT THAT THE YOUNGER FOLKS DON'T REMEMBER THAT ND THAT WAS A BAD MEDIA MOMENT FOR DEMOCRATS.

THE REAL QUESTION IS, S MINNESOTA TUNED IN TO THIS ISSUE?

WILL IT MATTER IN NOVEMBER?

IT CERTAINLY IS I WOULD SAY MORE THAN ONE POTHOLE FOR THE REST OF THE SESSION.

>> Mary: I DO KEEP WONDERING IN SHE IS ONLY LISTENING TO HER LAWYER WHO SAYS DON'T SAY ANYTHING AND P.R.

PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING TO HER BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MEDIA, YOU KNOW THIS, WE WILL PLACATE AND MOUSE AND CHASE UNTIL YOU SPEAK.

SHOULD SHE SPEAK AND STOP THIS CHASE THAT'S HAPPENING CONSTANTLY WITH THE ENTIRE PRESENTS CORPS HERE?

>> YES, SHE SHOULD HAVE SPOKEN RIGHT AWAY.

>> Mary: WHAT SHOULD HE HAVE SAID?

>> SHE SHOULD HAVE SAID I CAN'T SAY MUCH, WE'RE IN A TOUGH FAMILY SITUATION.

I'M GOING TO LET THE COURT PROCESS PLAY OUT AND I'M GOING TO GO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF WOODBURY IN THE SENATE.

SHE HASN'T SAID ANYTHING -- >> Mary: AND THEN YOU GO AWAY.

>> OR YOU CREATE A BUFFER BUT THAT'S THERE.

LOOK, MY SOURCES INSIDE DFL POLITICS SAY THERE IS NOT A P.R.

PLAN, THERE IS NOT COORDINATION AND, IN FACT, THAT SHE MAY NOT HAVE LISTENED TO ONE WHEN ONE WAS OFFERED.

>> Mary: THE PARTY CHAIR WANTS HER TO RESIGN, HAS BEEN VERY SPECIFIC, KEN MARTIN GAVE HER A DATE, HE WANTS TO HAVE TWO SPECIAL ELECTIONS IN THE SENATE, DO WE SEE THAT HAPPENING?

>> ABSOLUTELY.

THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO SPECIAL ELECTIONS, I WROTE THIS MORNING.

THEY BOTH HAVE TO LET THE GOVERNOR KNOW BY JUNE 5TH, THEY'LL APPEAR ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT, KELLY MORRISON IS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS.

THAT'S TWO SUBURBAN SEATS THAT IF SOMEHOW SUBURBS SHIFT MORE, REPUBLICANS COULD HAVE A CHANCE OF INNING.

>> Mary: MORRISON'S SEAT IS MORE COMPETITIVE THAN WOODBURY HAS BEEN.

>> IT IS, BUT THESE DISTRICTS ARE FROM THE TRUMP EAR ROW AND SO DEMOCRATS WHO COUNT DFL VOTES IN SUBURBS ONLY IN THE TRUMP ERA DON'T REMEMBER THE TIMES BEFORE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE ECONOMY IS THE TOP ISSUE.

>> Mary: SO TRUMP'S BACK ON THE BALLOT, COMPETING IN MINNESOTA AND COMING TO MINNESOTA, AND AS THE INTERNET VERY QUICKLY POINTED OUT, IT WAS THE DAY HE GOT OFF FOR HIS SON'S GRADUATION AND, OH, THEN, HE'S GOING TO POP TO MINNESOTA AND DO A SPEAKING EVENT AND TRY TO COMPETE HERE AGAIN.

WHAT DO WE THINK OF THAT?

>> IT WILL RING ENERGY TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, THEY NEEDS IN IT THIS STATE, THIEF NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL STATEWIDE AND THEY ARE ALL FOCUSED ON THE MINNESOTA HOUSE AND TRYING TO WIN BACK THE MINNESOTA HOUSE.

THEY ALSO NEED THE MONEY AND HE'S GOING TO HELP THEM RAISE SOME MONEY.

>> Mary: BIG TICKET.

IF YOU'VE SEEN THE INVITATION, THERE'S $100,000 SEATS FOR THAT.

THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT HE CAN RAISE REALLY FAST FOR A PARTY THAT'S BEEN STRUGGLING AND LOSING THE MONEY GAME HERE.

>> CORRECT.

ABILITY I'M GUESSING THIS IS PART OF THE DEAL WHEN HE AND TOM EMMER WORKED OUT AN AGREEMENT POST THE SPEAKER SLIGHT.

>> YOU THINK IT GOES THAT FAR BACK.

>> I DO.

THERE HAD TO BE SOME SORT OF LAYOFF, YOU COME TO MINNESOTA, RAISE SOME MONEY FOR THE PARTY, YOU KNOW, AND I'LL ENDORSE YOU FOR PRESIDENT.

>> BECAUSE THEY TOOK EMMER OUT, HE WAS GOING TO BE THE NEXT SPEAKER.

>> YEAH.

>> Mary: SPEAKING OF THE STATE HOUSE, THAT'S WHERE THE BATTLE IS BUT POINT ON HE THE INTERESTING PART OF POTENTIALLY TWO SUBURBAN SENATE SEATS.

THE HOUSE AND ENATE AND THE WHOLE DFL TRIFECTA COULD BE ON THE BALLOT THIS FALL.

>> IT COULD BE ONLY BALLOT, IT'S CERTAINLY GOING TO BE FOLK CONSISTENTED ON THE HOUSE BUT MINNESOTANS DO BELIEVE THAT THAT BIG SURPLUS AND REVENUE, YOU CAN SEE IN THE POLL NUMBERS THAT THEY'RE NOT SURE ABOUT THE STATE BUDGET RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY IN THIS ECONOMY WITH IN PLAYING WHAT IT IS AND THAT BECOMES ONE OF THOSE ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE BIDEN AND TRUMP AND MAYBE WE'LL SPLIT OUR TICKETS.

>> Mary: BUT REPUBLICANS THOUGHT VOTERS IN THE TATE WOULD VOTE POCKETBOOK AND THEY DID NOT LAST TIME.

THEY VOTED ABORTION AND THAT ISSUE IS STILL IN PLAY, I THINK.

>> IT'S NOT AS IN PLAY, I DON'T ELIEVE, BUT I THINK SPOKEBOOK IS MORE IN PLAY.

I ALSO THINK THE IDEA THAT BLIND POWER OR POLITICS IN POWER OVER PRINCIPLE THAT WE'VE SEEN MAY START TO FADE.

YOU ALSO HAVE UNENERGIZED YOUNG VOTERS WHICH DEMOCRATS ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT.

BECAUSE OF TWO OLD CANDIDATES.

>> AND A WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

>> Mary: BUT THE U OF M SEEMED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY OUT OF THAT.

>> YOU HAVE A COLLEGE-AGE KID, I HAVE ONE, THERE ARE COLLEGE PARENTS WHO ARE, LIKE, WHERE SHOULD MY KID GO BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE I WANT THEM TO GO TO A SCHOOL THAT DIDN'T HANDLE