tv Washington Journal Tom Lo Bianco CSPAN March 25, 2023 5:54pm-6:53pm EDT
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comcast support c-span as a public service along with these public television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> we are currently waiting for republican presidential candidate donald trump to speak at his first official campaign event of the 2024 election season in waco, texas. live coverage on c-span will begin shortly. . we are joined by tom lobianco. he is a political reporter at? -- at yahoo! news and also an author. we will be discussing the emerging republican field for the presidential election. let's start with your latest piece for yahoo! news. you are talking about -- the headline says trump and desantis
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get ready for battle in the looming primary contest. how is that shaping up? especially since trump is a declared candidate and desantis is not, but they are considered the two front runners. how does that work with only one of them officially in the race? guest: one official third run for president and one book to her that looked an awful lot like a run for president in the case of ron desantis. the polling has been consistent through the beginning of this brace -- race. trump still has 35% to 45% of the primary electorate at this moment with him, but you still have a lot of people looking for someone else. whether that is a trump 2.0, a desantis type character, a more
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polished. as my source is like to say, he can complete a sentence. that is desantis. or is it a neo-establishment type like a sununu? not to get too far afield, i do not know is that favored son type thing really works anymore. and nikki haley and potentially tim scott of south carolina. at this moment, it has been pretty consistent that in this early stage of the 2024 race, it is prompt versus desantis. that is -- could clip on tuesday. but we might have to go through multiple arrests before anything changes. there is a lot of confusion in the field. host: as we are talking about this republican 2024
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presidential race, we want to hear from you whether you have a question or just want to make a comment about prompt or -- trump or desantis or nikki haley. guest: there is a guy with really bad hair from iowa who jumped in. host: while you are thinking, i want to give you the numbers to call. democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. start calling in with your questions or comments. while we are waiting for phone calls, we are talking about desantis and trump being considered front runners.
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what are the differences? is it just a style? if so, is that enough to swing a primary? guest: think about have everyone used to make fun of, all those folks on the right used to make fun of obama is leading from behind. that became a tagline. you have trump and desantis today weird weight flipping roles on issues as they weigh in. last week, we saw desantis get nailed by a lot of other republicans for following trump against ukraine. you have seen trump follow desantis more on issues like "woke" -- this catchall term used on the republican side for cultural wars and racial justice items.
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you have also seen some flipping , generally flipping between the two. today seem to be attacking each other in terms of, if this was a bush running, do it all be able to check on every issue and know that they checked the boxes. trump's speeches will be dry, -- these stump speeches would be dry and boring and we would not have to follow every one of them, but, two, there would be more continuity. to get back to the question, it is style. you heard in the 2022 midterms from a letter voters in the primaries, certainly the ohio senate primary, i remember right
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yourspeech, talking about almost exactly the same things as trump and -- january 6 and criminal justice items. classified the republican electors seem to be looking for the next thing. the question i have an a lot of folks i talk with have, whether or not this whole -- whether trump can hold the morality. going into the one year from now. the first votes start to being cast.
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that's a huge question right now. >> let's take some -- you talk about governor desantis and iraq, i want to read what he said. i want to read what he said on ukraine as far as u.s. involvement in ukrai. he says, while the u.s. has many vital national interests becoming further eangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not one of them. as we have mentioned, that created a lot of blowback from the republican establishment. it is widely considered his first major blunder. have you seen, do you think that will matter to the rank and file republicans that he is making this midstep, or will did not have as much impact. ? >> two or three weeks ago, when
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jeb bush sort of endorsed him and walked back, there was a whole, trumps people want to push this, he is an establishment character. that closes that bridge to the establishment. potentially. i don't know, at this stage there are so many machinations going on with the donors, with behind the scenes still happening. i don't know that this closes any doors for him. it does speak squarely to the nationalist, populist hard right base. i don't know that that is necessarily conservative in the sense that we know that term, whatever the conservatism of the last 60 years or so is.
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he is speaking to the republican base, he has made a decision that this is his crew, his nationalist omma populist wing of the party. that's a big number. you could get pretty big slice of the pipe chowing down on that in this field. >> him and trump are fighting over the same pie right? michael is calling from maryland on the independent line. >> make you be blessed for what you do. the thing i wanted to tell you real quick is i am born in 1955, this is when elvis came on the scene. because of that and the radical way that we all have in us, things started to go south right there. it is john f. kennedy who put troops on the ground in vietnam.
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i failed to first grade because i was very afraid of the world. the thing is, i graduated with honors and things from high school in baltimore county. i didn't register for the draft. i was going to get drafted, i probably would have wound up in vietnam. the man told me to take a deep breath because -- nixon signed to the one h, you won't have to get drafted beard i lost friends in vietnam, that was a politician's war. things that were done in this country then and the way it abided, it has got to divide if something is wrong. >> i appreciate your comments. you are talk about war. we were talking about the 2020 for presidential election. is there any chance you might support a republican in 2024? >> what happened is, i'm a
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registered republican in maryland. i was an evangelist in baltimore city for 30 years. i tried to bridge the gap between people because we are all one. unless this country wants to do that, when the iraqi, we is droid -- destroyed the iraqi nation in a big way. i would support the one that wants to give it to the values of -- trump talks a victim. i have a spirit, i will bounce in on people, i have been in front of donald trump. they blow you off eventually, i try to look in their eyes and see what they are really about. the fascism has risen.
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i was washing the old movie nicholas and alexandra, i dig -- i did a paper on it. had schooling at that time. . >> we appreciate your thoughts this morning. let's go to steve in florida on the democratic line. >> i'm concerned about the rise of our governor ron desantis. he claims he runs a free state, i find his political actions a very -- he mandates that college perspectives declare their political views. implication that they are funding depends on that.
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he pulls books from shelves that he claims are woke and cancel culture. i believe that this whole anti-woke movement is an attempt to put a negative face on any active -- active social justice or justice for minorities. it scares me. that's my comment. >> desantis, not just the war on education, it's the don't say gay legislation. what are your thoughts about how that plays in a primary, but also should he becp,e the party
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nominee, do you think that helps or hurts him in trying to defeat joe biden? >> anybody who comes out of the republican primary is going to have trouble pivoting to the middle. general elective politics are still that you have to win the center. this is the whole discussion around whether trump will take a woman as a running mate this time. the latest iteration of the culture war, it is still the same dividing lines. he doesn't play at large with the country. let me go back to the first caller. i want to say, as a native of baltimore county myself, good to hear from another person from
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baltimore. there is a theme that michael brought up which i see across the right, which is mind-boggling to see that republicans are antiwar 20 years after the iraq war, where it was sacrilege to come out against it. i used -- it used to be the democrats stumbling over it. what steve said regarding the totalitarian tactics is pulling books from the shelves, there is a political price to entry for the nomination, which is what we see desantis doing right now. trying to -- one of the key differences between them is the action versus the words. trump will truth whatever on his thing, it will be a monster protest, desantis signs an
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executive order that says, you can talk about these in books and schools. there is a slice of the electorate that likes this showboating, the performance art and politics. there is always a measure of performance art. there is also another slice of the electorate that is like, that's fun and exciting, we love seeing it, but we also want results. that is where you get into the ron desantis dealing with the book brands -- book bands down there. the question is, when you emerge out of that primary electorate, how do you tell people in suburban philadelphia not -- all the books in florida don't have the skin color for rosa parks. she is just a woman who happened
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to be on a bus. how do you talk about that? i don't know that you do. you might not be able to get past it if you are ron desantis or any other candidate. >> let's take another call. kent in here he, illinois on the republican line. >> the republican field is going to boil down to desantis and trump. your last caller was talking about the woke culture and how he thought that was nonsense. i have grandchildren in school now, when a kid goes to school, i feel kind of like a girl. without even calling his parents, they what to set it up to where he can go in and to be mutilated and become a girl. that's not nonsense. that's crazy. desantis has put his finger on
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it, as a trump has done in the past. i don't think it will be much of a contest a year from now. if things are going the way it is, people are going to want trump back real bad. he was the one president that kept russia and china from moving on anybody in four years. that hadn't happened before. people will look at trump again with more pragmatism than they did in the past and say, this guy is arrogant, he's conceited, he is all of these terrible things, but he is the most effective president the country has ever have. i think people will get back and look at that, in this ridiculous, they are going to arrest him for being with a prostitute while the bidens are stashing money away from the chinese. we look at that with a jaundiced
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eye, that's no problem here to a good democrat. just let them go. with trump, they have been after him for six years. that will be in his favor at the election time. as for pompeo, nikki haley, they are good people. but there is none of them can handle foreign policy the way trump did. that's what we need. >> we are going to appreciate her call, let's let tom respond. foreign policy, is that an edge for trump? >> it could be. when pompeo has been toying with this, there was talk a few months ago that you would have a foreign policy crowded by monk
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-- mike pompeo and nikki haley. i don't know if pompeo is jumping in. he would be an interesting reception at cpac. more so than other candidates. you see desantis starting to toy with this. i saw a piece recently where they were talking about his gitmo, why is biting in the white house? in part because he was the vp to obama, he was elected because of obama, didn't have foreign policy experience. or that was the thing of the time. trump was elected, mike pence did have foreign-policy experience. that's not why they selected him. they selected him to bring back the old conservatives, the people who had been with ted
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cruz who were like, screw this. we don't have to vote for a philanderer. that worked. i don't know. i think what you see is, pentz has always been good at this, you see a lot of the candidates doing this, you check the boxes. you go out there, if you are skittish on one issue, you have seen trump going after desantis on social security and medicare. things that used to be traditionally conservative, talking about trying to overhaul reform, cut. those things, abortion two. those are all things where you used to have to check the box. i don't know that you have to do anymore. conversely, pence can lean into that issue and he is. >> not enough that he is
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running. >> not yet. yes. >> let's take another call. carolyn in massachusetts on the independent line. >> i'm a woman, but i will vote trump. we have learned our lesson. should have investigated him more of last election, but they let it slide and avett to mr. biden who will get us into world war iii. mike pence doesn't have a chance because he is pablum. he is a nice guy but they vanish last. -- finish last. i am going to vote donald trump, he has shown that we should have had him here in the first place,
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have listened to the deep state to long. they are still in power. that's all i have to say. >> i don't know. our colors are a slice of america, we are not hearing a lot of pro dissenters on our phone lines this morning. >> i saw something on twitter a couple weeks ago, security guards came out and stopped pro-trump protesters from showing up to a desantis signing. i was laughing because, you have done trump rallies, they put us in pens. he goes up on stage, it's a routine. he said, these people in the media don't want to talk to you. i'm like, all right, --
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it was real anger at us. it was shocking. i don't know. in terms of where people are right now, the wine track versus the beer track in the populace. that seems to be the case. it looks like the crowd that showed up to the first campaign style event that desantis was doing. trump still has the super fans, like an old mis college football tailgating party.
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that has died two down to beard i was surprised by that. i was wondering yesterday, if trump did get arrested, what happens if he can't pack a rally? he didn't pack cpac. i was surprised by that. >> he has his first big rally in texas next week. let's talk about this news that president trump posted yesterday that he says he expects to be arrested on tuesday. related to the payments made to stormy daniels, the former poor and actress. we have that from drum. here is what pence said. this is a rolling stone article that talks about fences --pen e e's comments. like many americans, i'm taken
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aback. you have a major crime wave in new york, especially in new york city. you have it literally a democratic party that is dismantled the criminal justice system in that city. undercut the nypd, and this is what to the man had said is their top priority. referring to alvin bragg. we just saw snippets of pence this morning, trump called for protests. you are seeing having to decide how they respond to calls for protests, especially the elephant in the room being january 6. talk about this whole reaction to trump possibly being arrested. do you think it's going to have
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a factor at all on the campaign? >> i have been struggling with this question for at least a year. multiple impeachments, investigations, i don't know. the way it feels right now, i don't have a firm answer for you. it seems to be that at this point, there is a hardened plurality of maga voters who are trump loyalists. what that does is cements them for trump. the question is, how big is that crowd. i talked about this last week, there was a great piece to the washington post on why this matters. the trump campaign operation is going around to the states trying to set new levels of for
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the floor of what it takes to get delegates in these primary contests. 20% is the floor and a lot of these cases. if you can hold onto that plurality, flood the field with a number of people who are very reasonable candidates who can hold 7% of pop. none of those people are able to make the 20% floor, and then he wins these things out right and cruises to the nomination. that's the thinking behind this. but again, so much confusion on this. we have never had a president arrested before. i had people hit me up, it's a misdemeanor. we've never had a president arrested for a misdemeanor. ok, we've never had a former
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president arrested for a low-level felony. counterpoint to that, january 6 is historic. it doesn't make it into every story. it boggles my mind. it's two years after september 11, never saying the words of bin laden or twin towers. i don't know, i don't have a good sense yet. >> that means we will have to keep having you come back, we are a long way from the election quite frankly. let's take another caller from port huron, michigan. jermaine on the democratic line. what are your thoughts? >> judging from the last two callers, the republican party
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obviously occupied by a bunch of criminal minded, racist, fascist farm animals. my message is to president biden. if you knew that al qaeda and isis were in the united states, on platforms on websites like reddit and for cham4 --- 4chan, talking about political violence in the country, you would marshall all the forces of our government to stop them. you would mobilize the fbi, the cia, everybody that had to do with protection. that is your major constitutional duty, to protect the citizens. we know that the republican party is full of insurrectionists, the house
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republicans, the senate republicans, this party is a dangerous party, they are insurrectionists, they are terrorist, they need to be handled like such. we are in real trouble with ron desantis and the texas governor, all of these people who are fascists, faces -- racist, good no good criminal minded people who are trained to project all of their peccadilloes onto the biden family. talking about hunter biden, he is a private citizen. jared kushner was a white house advisor. he is now in cahoots with the saudi's for $2 billion. when are we going to see justice? i hope they arrest trump on tuesday. i hope that the racist, fascist, confederate wild dogs come out
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into the public square so we can see them for what they are. they are racists, fascist paired terrorists. >> your thoughts. >> what he says, if it were al qaeda on reddit, organizing and insurrection, good point. generally six versus september 11, it was on domestic threat. this was not your neighbor that was throwing fire extinguishers through the building after the capital and smashing cops into the ground until blood goes over the place. that's a good point.
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rkansas, also considering a run for president. he was a prosecutor. we talked about this. he prosecuted weights and promised militia groups in the early 1980's in arkansas. i was reading through some of the coverage from back then. but it was -- i am screwing up the name but it was a white militia group. it was fascinating the corollaries with the oath keepers and pathways. the language of the tactic -- and the proud boys. the language in the tactics. he made a good point. we were prosecuting them. these guys had to be in person to do this. it required a type of colt
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militia leader, somebody who was charismatic in person was easier to take down. now, you go online and you've got "q." will sommer writes about the qanon movement for daily beast. there is another "q," "r," who is like jfk junior. different letters of the alphabet. it is harder to pin down. it spreads easier. it is, again, it is still happening. the neo-nazi groups tried to take out a powerplant. this is still happening. host: write what to mention that with -- i want to mention that with trump calling for his supporters to protest and hearing what mike pence told abc news, it says pence did not
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disavow trump's call for protests, citing that the american people have a constitutional right to peacefully assemble. he said any demonstration should occur peacefully and in a lawful manner. i should note that you wrote a book about mike pence. the name is mike pence and the taking of the white house. we have seen mike pence become very critical but also bounce back and forth. we saw that after january 6 and we are seeing that a bit now, what he said at the gridiron dinner last week versus this weekend. what do you make of mike pence? guest: [laughter] host: do you think he has a chance in 2024? guest: i have been covering him
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for 12 years. that is the question. what do you make of this guy? it is interesting about the gridiron remarks. we have all been waiting, january 6 was not a peaceful protest. they said they wanted to kill you and got within 04 -- 40 feet of almost telling you. his counsel testified he was pulling out bibles and reading about daniel in the lion's den. i get chills thinking about that. working the video is hard, but he says 90 scenes, closed-door, no video, white type -- tie, he said that the gridiron, behind the scenes, trump was wrong. yesterday responsibility.
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-- he has to take responsibility. but you put him on camera he says, i trust these guys to do a peaceful protest when the president says it is time for retribution. it is jarring. what is he going for here? not everybody runs for president to win. i do not know that he can win. a decade ago, the romney cycle, was probably his window. when he was bridging the divide before -- between tea party evangelicals and the establishment, that probably was his window. but a lot of people run for a number of reasons. you do not always have to expect to win to run. for a lot of these folks, nikki
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haley, mike pence, mike pompeo, all people who were in the trump administration, it becomes harder for them to talk about their story four years later in 2028. this part of the reason why you see tim scott floating seriously run. he is still young has not gotten engulfed. he could make a run in 2028. host: evan in georgia, republican line. caller: i have a lot of thoughts. one is that i do not understand why we are always pushing on these betterments about donald trump. one, it looks like they should call it the trump tv news, because that is how they have been talking about it from the
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morning to the afternoon, about trump, about january 6, about what he did. this guy has been attacked since day 1 since he got in power as president. nobody is talking about the riots when he was elected. the sum recommend the 30 days that people got killed, the city got burned. they try to attack the white house. today are not talking about that. it looks like january 6, january 6, january 6, it is all in their mind. now they are saying, that is rhetoric. they are worried about protection. everybody can protest. we saw that democratic protesters were violent and
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nobody said anything. and desantis "dont say gay." i do not want my granddaughter to learn about gays. chicken and that which he draws up. -- she cannot learn that when she grows up. i never saw that growing up. i am not against it. i have friends who are gay and lesbian, but we have to protect our kids. they are losing everything is closed and the only thing they want to teach them is drag queens, gays, lesbians. they are six years old. come on. we need somebody to get a grip on that and stop this madness. host: any closing thoughts? guest: this candidate cycle, i
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will be reading children's books. [laughter] that is where we are. partisan politics, rhetoric has already been like this but i have never seen it this enraged. but the antidote to that is what are we actually talking about? is it actual pornography? i do not know. but i am about to find out. i am going to spend $200 on amazon buying children's books. host: thank you. this is tom lobianco, yahoo! news political reporter. >> we are waiting for republican presidential candidate donald trump to speak at his first mpaign event at the 2020 for election season at waco, texas live coverage it on c-span will
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begin shortly. >> baseball returns to washington and across the nation. it is coming weeks. we are looking at the relationship between american presidents and baseball over the years. joining us for this discussion, sports attorney and former announcer for the washington centers senators and to the baltimore orioles. red foamer who is ace words and politics historian. good morning. >> i am so excited about our discussion today. let's get right into it. phil, you have been following the game of baseball in this town for many years. what is the start of new season. what does it mean to you, and what does it mean for the people of washington? >> we hope that the nationals
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will have a decent season. not necessarily a good season, but they are in the midst of rebuilding. we are delighted in the world series victory of 2019. i myself have followed washington baseball since 1949. i remember the washington senators of 49. they won nine games in a row. in the early part of the season, they came back to washington to a parade. from union station to griffith stadium, they finished last that year. a terrible season. but we've grown used to those years. >> then, fred, baseball is a game of moments. we will show one of them on the screen, which is a picture of president franklin roosevelt tossing out the first test --
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pitch to the 19 34 season. the senators were playing the boston red sox. what is a photo like that during the great depression. what kind of meaning can it have for the country? >> it's about unification. they've done nothing to do more than that. as part of the presidential opener, both parties would be there. the local parties took a little break, and there were others from both sides who were facing very excited about the nationals. >> the difference is that it used to be the opening game in
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washington. it is in the american league, and in cincinnati for the national league. the entire focus of the baseball world was on these two games. ever since washington lost its franchise in 1971, we have had over mean games in baltimore and we have had opening games with specialness of the presidential appearance at the very first game. >> will be talking all hour about the president and baseball. we want to get out the phone line so the viewers can call in with their memories or their questions or their comments. if you are in the eastern or central time zone, the numbers
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are on your screen. you can also send us a text message. include your name and where you live. we will get here calls in just a moment. fred, we've been talking about president roosevelt. the story of presidents in baseball, and you can jump in, it goes much further back than that it can you get us started, and we will let phil bring us in on the long history of u.s. history. >> we have a town ball in illinois. by the time of the election, baseball is such an important subject that it was the subject
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of political cartoons. all four candidates in the cartoon have a baseball bat, and it shows the pitical affiliation, and link when - link it is very quickly disappointed. -- lincoln is vanquishing his opponent. >> isn't there a precursor to a small that even george washington played? >> they talk about throwing the coin across the potomac. he never really did that. i have not heard of any presidential involvement in -- before the election of lincoln that you showed on screen. >> he brought a book that is called baseball -- the president's. you say to the author's apron to viewers. >> paul nixon.
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>> it is by paul nixon. it is about the presidents game. it actually says here, george washington of washington, on chapter one, page seven of washington, an american soldier says he throws or catches the ball for hours with his aid and probably working with rounders. the bridge game with eight precursor. >> there are a lot of books or stories about baseball is involved, and it evolved in part out of the british rounders. there have even been stories about how baseball goes back many centuries or something
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similar to baseball goes back many centuries, but i don't ink we have any indication that there is not any real involvement of that in the lincoln cartoons. >> fred, over the years, why have there been such a close relationship between presidents and the sport? >> a lot of things state back to the first pitch position, and a started in 1910. but it is really two years later when a new manager came in name clark griffith. he was an owner of a team, and he saw a lucky opportunity. he said let's make this an annual tradition. that's what went baseballs and presidents. he became the owner of the team and became friends with every president through his lifetime. with chief justices, members of congress.
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he saw something tightknit between politics and baseball, especially the washington senators, and a lot ofs clerked for his handbills, clely with him. >> prior to 19 37, when the washington redskins moved here from boston, baseball was the only successful sport. >> and even after that, baseball was the only major team sport that mattered until the mid-50's and early 60's. there were three dominant sports in the 20th century, and they didn't have much competition. that was through the first half. >> we mentioned abraham lincoln. there is a myth that exists, and i give credit to this myth or bill stern, a former sports
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broadcaster. he created a lot of myths, but one of them was abraham lincoln, on his deathbed called abner doubleday, and one of the last words that lincoln said was, make sure baseball survives. it's not true. but it's a great story. >> we talked about fdr, but the first pitch -- when and how did that pitch begin with the u.s. president. >> it began in 1890 seven. william mckinley was president. he was invited to the opening day and had about a hundred members of congress. william mckinley miss the opportunity to throw out the first pitch of the season.
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they went from mckinley to teddy roosevelt. he was never a baseball fan. from therewe went to william howard taft. he s a senator manager who was lost history. he suggested tt taft do this, but there was no senn th there would be a situation. it was a one-off. it wasn't until years later that they made an annual tradition. had a fitting start to the morning. >> syrup been a number of myths mentioned about bill stern and abraham lincoln. william howard taft is the subject of another myth he invented the seventh-inning stretch. there is no truth to that. >> i was going to ask you that we at >> taft got up at the
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seventh inning, but there were instances, prior to that, in college baseball and even in some professional baseball. harry wright of cincinnati led this in 1869. he wrote a letter, and i think that was held in the dixson book, and wrote a letter talking about the seventh-inning stretch. 1869. that was 41 years before william howard taft. >> let's get to some calls. i have some calls coming into remind you it if you're on the eastern or central time zone, the numbers on your screen.
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as we enter the week of opening day, our first caller is rick it he's in manchester missouri. what is your question or comment? >> there are two points, and sorry if i got a little feedback there. x is coming from our studio. don't worry about that. >> first off, i was born and raised in new york, and i grew up in a boston spot. >> it references one famous thing. that is abner doubleday. >> i have family in cooperstown in the baseball hall of fame from the 1970's. just a glorious place. maybe one of your commentators
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could talk about any connection between any resident and the hall of fame, which is a place every hall of fame fan needs to visit at some point next i don't know. i've never heard of the president visiting cooperstown. >> i haven't either. >> i haven't heard of that. >> i'm sure there is a section of verse down which is in fact devoted to the president and baseball. but, i have no recollection of any president having visited there. >> let's take another call. derek is calling from lakeland minnesota. >> good morning. good morning america. maybe you can talk about this. the player for the minnesota twins, he had a great story talking about how the senators
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from minnesota had the mets stadium, and when it was going to be ripped down and go to the metrodome, he called me and told me that it was going to be charging money to store all of these documents, everything they got from the original purchase. a lot of those were presidential letters, and memorabilia from years ago read they're just going to throw everything away. the guy who was the curator, all the time in the world to take all of the memorabilia, and it was 15,000 different items. i just want to get your comment on that. >> i've never heard that story. i do know that in washington, when they tore down the stadium, it was the home of the senators
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for 60 some years. they could buy seeds for $10 a seat. along the rate course, there were three seats because in my memories, i haven't heard any stories of the memorabilia being thrown away. i'm sure if they still have it, there's a helluva market or. x were getting some interesting calls. patrick from new york. you are a former senator. a former member of the team? >> hello? hello? >> we can hear you. ok. i'm not a former senator. i don't understand it >> i think i misread something. go ahead.
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>> my comment is on tv, can you hear me? >> they can. go ahead. >> when i was a kid, we went on vacation to washington dc. pretty soon, it was 1965. it might've been 66. i was young. there were two home runs in one inning. >> ok. you are at the game. a senators game. >> i was at adc stadium with the washington senators in the minnesota twins. in the first inning, two home runs were thrown in the inning >> we appr >> we take you live to waco texas, where former president and curr
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