they do not have a bob dole in various states of the country. they also do not have a dole institute. i thank the chances for making sure that stays as a vital institution. i will introduce the chancellor of the university of kansas. [applause] >> thank you secretary kathleen sebelius. it is a great honor for me to be one of the guess here, to be a guest not just from kansas -- guests, to be here not just as a guest from kansas, but to represent someone who is important to the nation and the world and to honor someone who is half of a true d.c. power couple. the diversity of kansas is proud to host the robert dole institute of politics, which honors and continues senator dold's service. senator dole makes i -- senator dole's service. he wanted to be an active place and k.u. has made sure it is that. it documents the political career of america's longest serving republican leader in the senate. the archive contains 34,000 separate files with nearly 7000 documents and has welcomed researchers from as far as britain and france. the dole institute ha

, look, look, there's bob dole. bob, you have a gift. you have touched so many lives and made them better and we thank you for that. god bless you, sir. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> i think i can make my remarks in a couple of minutes but i want to thank you for being here and thank tom donahue who i've known for a long time, chamber and my friend, dolph lumbered who works at the chamber in a very high position job and a lot of people in this audience used to work with me in the senate and the house and nobody here worked with me in the kansas house, that was 1951, but you know, i've had a great experience in politics and it was all by accident because we had a democratic library and named beth bowers who passed away about four years ago who was telling me the more young people to get involved in politics and she talked into running for the state legislature and i got elected, i didn't know much about politics. i think pact was right i didn't know what party to belong to until looked at the registration nu

and bob dole made a joke out of it.said welcome he's shorter than i am, or taller than i am, i don't remember, something like that. and he just completely dodged the question. of course, then he was caught, i mean, the republican supporters were all over him afterwards. in the next debate, jack kemp and al gore. so everybody assumed, and every pundit in the world wrote that oh, well, kemp will take it and take it on. so i immediately got tried to get kemp to say. kemp would not say. kemp emphatic said something to the effect we're not here to talk about people's character to we are here to talk about issues. that was the end of the character issue drama but then he said he misunderstood the question. >> guest: he took a lot of heat for that. but he also said, i think both of them said to me afterward, long afterward for anything for this book, or for this documentary we did, they had no regrets about that. they both were the kinds of politicians who are uncomfortable talking about this stuff. and also what i did not kno

they do not have a bob dole in various states of the country. te. i thank the chances for making sure that stays as a vital institution. i will introduce the chancellor of the university of kansas. [applause] >> thank you secretary kathleen sebelius. it is a great honor for me to be one of the guess here, to be a guest not just from kansas -- guests, to be here not just as a guest from kansas, but to represent someone who is important to the nation and the world and to honor someone who is half of a true d.c. power couple. the diversity of kansas is proud to host the robert dole institute of politics, which honors and continues senator dold's service. -- senatorle makes it-- dole's service. he wanted to be an active place and k.u. has made sure it is that. it documents the political career of america's longest serving republican leader in the senate. the archive contains 34,000 separate files with nearly 7000 documents and has welcomed researchers from as far as britain and france. tethe dole institute has featured 146 progress. there are forums,

bob dole never led in the poll. the closest he ever got was three points behind during the convention in san diego. that is why. they disqualified him before he was actually the candidates. the democrats will try to do that next year. today, you can already see it. i was on television yesterday with the governor of maryland. he was asked a question about chris christie. he had a litany of all the things wrong with chris christie. he came with his list of here is what i am supposed is a bad about chris christie. i guarantee you such a list exists for every other republican. the liberal media elite can beat implicit in this. not every day, but most days. the one thing obama is not doing that clinton did is he is not moving to the center. we do not hear him saying the era of big government is over. we do not see him triangulating. when clinton at as a republican congress, he passed welfare reform and we had the first balanced budget in a generation because he made the decision that the people of spoken and i'm going to

and last night bob dole proved that. >> i was a nervous wreck.not have enough experience of hosting on television so those tapes now are under hopefully an armed guard. >> they are in the lock box. >> hannity and colmes has on the air for the channel's first twelve years. the conservative and the liberal personified fair and balanced. >> i was expecting more from the report than monica lewinsky. >> did we read the same report some. >> i think we did. >> overwhelming evidence, abuse of power. >> whitewater? >> in spite of our political disagreements, we've had a wonderful twelve years ago. >> thank you. >> you are a personal friend. >> this is going to kill you with conservatism. >> i'm going to miss you. >> you have a great instinct, you know what the audience >> the kids are out of the house and i'm in the mood. >> all right, did anyone see my face? red. deep red. >> you said no cursing. i haven't said the f-word once. >> you have been good. i'm going to give you. >> the great american panel. how did that evolve? >> it's designed to be fun, a li

and last night bob dole proved that. >> i was a nervous wreck.not have enough experience of hosting on television so those tapes now are under hopefully an armed guard. >> they are in the lock box. >> hannity and colmes has on the air for the channel's first twelve years. the conservative and the liberal personified fair and balanced. >> i was expecting more from the report than monica lewinsky. >> did we read the same report some. >> i think we did. >> overwhelming evidence, abuse of power. >> whitewater? >> in spite of our political disagreements, we've had a wonderful twelve years ago. >> thank you. >> you are a personal friend. >> this is going to kill you with conservatism. >> i'm going to miss you. >> you have a great instinct, you know what the audience >> the kids are out of the house and i'm in the mood. >> all right, did anyone see my face? red. deep red. >> you said no cursing. i haven't said the f-word once. >> you have been good. i'm going to give you. >> the great american panel. how did that evolve? >> it's designed to be fun, a li

a lot of bob dole for president staff, if you must know. seriously old school.step two, rick perry got himself a new herman cainesque flat tax. step three, he got himself a donald trumpesque birther platform, playing to the tin foil hat fringe implying that the president is secretly foreign and therefore not really president. as of today some new steps. tanking rick perry also floating the idea that he will fix his being bad at debates problem by going on offense. not by going on offense during the debates but by going on offense against the whole idea of debating. >> actually, these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. it's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response. so you know, if there was a -- if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the -- ever doing one of the campaigns when all they're interested in is stirring it up between the candidates. >> tanking rick perry now saying debating itself, big mistake. that was what he said on tuesday night. but

and last night bob dole proved that. >> i was a nervous wreck.not have enough experience of hosting on television so those tapes now are under hopefully an armed guard. >> they are in the lock box. >> hannity and colmes has on the air for the channel's first twelve years. the conservative and the liberal personified fair and balanced. >> i was expecting more from the report than monica lewinsky. >> did we read the same report some. >> i think we did. >> overwhelming evidence, abuse of power. >> whitewater? >> in spite of our political disagreements, we've had a wonderful twelve years ago. >> thank you. >> you are a personal friend. >> this is going to kill you with conservatism. >> i'm going to miss you. >> you have a great instinct, you know what the audience >> the kids are out of the house and i'm in the mood. >> all right, did anyone see my face? red. deep red. >> you said no cursing. i haven't said the f-word once. >> you have been good. i'm going to give you. >> the great american panel. how did that evolve? >> it's designed to be fun, a li

and last night bob dole proved that. >> i was a nervous wreck.t have enough experience of hosting on television so those tapes now are under hopefully an armed guard. >> they are in the lock box. >> hannity and colmes has on the air for the channel's first twelve years. the conservative and the liberal personified fair and balanced. >> i was expecting more from the report than monica lewinsky. >> did we read the same report some. >> i think we did. >> overwhelming evidence, abuse of power. >> whitewater? >> in spite of our political disagreements, we've had a wonderful twelve years ago. >> thank you. >> you are a personal friend. >> this is going to kill you with conservatism. >> i'm going to miss you. >> you have a great instinct, you know what the audience >> the kids are out of the house and i'm in the mood. >> all right, did anyone see my face? red. deep red. >> you said no cursing. i haven't said the f-word once. >> you have been good. i'm going to give you. >> the great american panel. how did that evolve? >> it's designed to be fun, a litt

other than that, perry picked himself up old bob dole staffers from when bob dole, remember him, from when he ran 15 years ago. so tanking rick perry has got himself some old school republican staff help this week. also there's that herman cain who seems to be doing well with his 9-9-9 version of a flat tax. tanking rick perry has come up with his own version of a flat tax that accomplishes the same goal of huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else. so tanking rick perry has all of a sudden this week got himself some old school establishment republican staff like mitt romney has and got himself a flat tax sort of like herman cain has. but when time is short and you are really tanking and really desperate, a kitchen sink strategy really does mean trying everything all at once. and so from the flash in the pan candidacy of donald trump, the reality tv person, tanking rick perry is also now going with questioning the president's birth certificate. seriously. raising the birth certificate issue in "parade" magazine this weekend and then doubling down on the birth c

. >> bob dole with good too with old king coal and escarole. >> jon: romney's tough. >> romney's very jon: i think you were right to go with genitalia. (laughter) >> actually, obama... i hate to complain about the president but i used up all the rhymes with osama bin laden. (laughter) yokohama, slap yo mama. come onna. >> jon: come on along. >> oh, yes, okay. you must be a champion scrabble player to come up with that one. >> jon: i just hit best word and try and leave the word. thank you so much for coming by. >> thank you. >> jon: always so entertaining. "quite enough of calvin trillin." let's be honest, it's not enough. it's on the bookshelves now. >> jon: that is our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. the reverend al sharpton will be joining us in the studio. here it is, your moment of zen. >> so we had a bunch of stuff in my office, any home sent to the lab, what did we find? >> interesting for example on the phone they found fecal strep again. >> there's fecal strep on my captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

. >> bob dole with good too with old king coal and escarole. >> jon: romney's tough. >> romney's very jon: i think you were right to go with genitalia. (laughter) >> actually, obama... i hate to complain about the president but i used up all the rhymes with osama bin laden. (laughter) yokohama, slap yo mama. come onna. >> jon: come on along. >> oh, yes, okay. you must be a champion scrabble player to come up with that one. >> jon: i just hit best word and try and leave the word. thank you so much for coming by. >> thank you. >> jon: always so entertaining. "quite enough of calvin trillin." let's be honest, it's not enough. it's on the bookshelves now. ♪ music from mobile [ can opening ] baby: pshhhht! [ imitating can open]ng [ soda pouri]g baby: wooosh! [ imitating soda pour ] baby:rapping/beatbox ] [ can opening ] teen: pshhhht! [ imitating can opening ] teen:rapping/beatbox ] friends: wow! [ can opening ] cee lo: pshhhht! [ imitating can opening ] ♪ be free and express yourself. ♪ ♪ do what comes naturally. cee lo: be yourself. be refreshing. be 7up. ♪ swing music plays ♪ ♪ swing mu

compard this to 1980, when howard baker bob dole ronald reagan, and george h.w.unnining, you go where are the strong republicans that shld be taking the field? >> is this the best they can do? >> these debates are content- free. so was the presidential debate in 2008, the last one, because no politician wilill get into difficult south you have to do to fix this. it is merely excess of personalities -- not insigficant, i might add, but it has nothing to do with content. >> of the question you raised this is so important, what has happened to home priceand value. yes, charl is right, it is on paper, but the reali is we have not pat raises inin the median incomeme in the country so the substite is credit, especially easy creditettingng second mortgages. people are spending their equity and their homomes to compensate for the fact that they were not rising economically. that is gone and that sense of security is gone. you have the voters who are worried about their children's future, their own future, and the countriefuture. >> which is what olympia snowe wawas talki

. >> bob dole with good too with old king coal and escarole. >> jon: romney's tough. >> romney's very jon: i think you were right to go with genitalia. (laughter) >> actually, obama... i hate to complain about the president but i used up all the rhymes with osama bin laden. (laughter) yokohama, slap yo mama. come onna. >> jon: come on along. >> oh, yes, okay. you must be a champion scrabble player to come up with that one. >> jon: i just hit best word and try and leave the word. thank you so much for coming by. >> thank you. >> jon: always so entertaining. "quite enough of calvin trillin." let's be honest, it's not enough. it's on the bookshelves no [ male announcer ] a batman: arkham city bundle, some slim jim monster sticks, and...a steel cable. [ cellphone rings ] hello? did you get batman: arkham city yet? yeah, i'm so more batman than you. not true. you won't believe where i'm about to zip-line into. no, i won't believe it. ahhhhh... [ thud ] did you try to zip-line into my apartment? [ crickets chirping ] why? [ male announcer ] rated t for teen. get batman: arkham city with a b

you look at this field, and you compare it to 1980, when howard baker, bob dole, ronald reagan, and george h.w. bush were running. you go, where are the strong republicans who should be taking the field? >> is this the best they can do? >> these debates are content- free, but so was the presidential debate in 2008, because no politician is going to get into the difficult stuff you have to do to fix the problem. devoid of content. it is merely a test of personalities. not insignificant, but it has nothing to do with content. >> on the question you raised, this is so important, what has happened to home prices. yes, charles is right, it is on paper, but we have not had raises in the median income in the country. the substitute for that had become credit. especially easy credit, getting second mortgages. people spending their equity and their homes to compensate for the fact that they were not rising economically. that is gone, and that sense of security is gone. now you have to voters who are worried simply about their children's future, their own future, and their countries future going int

republicans accept bob dole, george bush the first. but this time, watching the feverish pursuit of chris christie by sensible republicans in practical shoes they were like teeboppers, like justin bieber fans. >> that is why they are not happy with the field. romney is acceptable but he does nonot turn them on. rick perry, on the other hand, does have an exciting days.s. -- base. will romney go well in the next six or seven weeks, or t or three months. that is a big question. can he sustain thi >> hee has been amazingly discipline, mitt rney has, and he has run a good campaign. error-free balls. but i stilthink that pererry is a ptean force. he is likable two and awful lot of people. and in this time in which we are living where passions are running and the fear is great, a demagogue has a chance. >> let me buy into your hypothetical that democrats have to get glandular and republicans never did before. i think it is partly true but i am not sure even when clinton and obama were going at eachh other, exceptor the 3:00 in the morning an

bob dole and bill clinton. and i agreed to do it. and then they apparently went on talking and they couldn't agree who was going to do the other two debates so finally these guys started yelling at each other and they said look, we can agree on -- this is ha i was told later. we can agree on larry. let's see if he can do all three so we can get this thing over with and go to bed at night. that was it. >> belva: your book is called "tension city". that men there was three times that you could go through this. there is a favorite story that you tell in the book about the first president bush and his advice or his comment about what's involved in doing this. >> well, it kind of comes from that. i asked him what were they like, mr. preponderasident. >> he said, oh it was tension city. the editor finally called me. the book was ready to go and the editor called me and said we're not sure moderator is right. i was very defensive about it and i said well that is the title. he said let me ask you a question, jim. would you buy a book with th

is what bill clinton did to bob dole. remember 1995 and six, about $100, about a hundred and $15 million really of dnc and labor union money attacking bob dole and the republican congress. bob dole never led in full during the 1996 election. the closest he ever got was three points behind during the convention in san diego in august of 1996. and that's why. because they disqualified him before he was actually the general election candidate. the democrats will try to do that today. i mean, next year. and today you can already see. it happened, i was on tv yesterday. he got asked a question about chris christie. he had a litany of all the things wrong with chris christie. i mean, he came with his list of here's what i'm supposed to say that about chris christie. and i guarantee you such a list exists for every other republican. you know, the liberal media can be complicit in this. not everyday. [laughter] not everyday but most days. the one thing obama is not doing that clinton did, he is not moving to the center. we don't

with mitt romney the problem they used to say about bob dole it was like kissing your sister.n't very excited in the republican field. mitt romney is like kissing a mannequin of your sister for some republicans and perry is connected at the gut level. people say he's speaking truth. he's one like me. that connection can get over a lot of individual problems they may have have with specific things. >> schieffer: what about romney? >> i think romney had a very good week this week. he's collected some of the major republican donors that were interested in chris christie. he had a presidential-looking launch. he benefits from the fragmentation in the field. the fact that these two men who are here today are rising is actually good... for mitt romney. they divide the anti-romney vote. the good news for romney, well, the bad news is that the... a lot of people in party want somebody else. the good news is they haven't really found him yet. >> and i think that he's learned a lot from the last four years in that the best defense is a good offense. so if someone attacks his faith, he s

only about a quarter can even name -- >> voters weren't excited about bob dole in '96.e lost they weren't excited about john mccain -- >> at least they could name a front runner. >> i don't think the real issue is the extremism of the tea party. let me suggest the real issue is whether the mitt romneys and others ultimately adopted an agenda which says we can't have any new taxes. the real debate in the republican party is not between 90% of the party and the tea party. i actually think the real debate is between what you might call establishment republicanism, republicanism in many ways of reagan and bush the father and now the new republicanism which you're seeing on the hill. the real question is what will the republican nominee stand for particularly in domestic policy? he going to toe the line and say no new taxes of any sort no matter what? smaller government no matter what? is that going to become the new republicanism or is it going to be something more traditional and centrist? i actually think that is a bigger question than whether the tea party dominates. it

did have those views as a sustainable program with the minority vero the commission that included bob dole that the time was not the majority view in if they were some of those were rectified which puts a security and a much broader fiscal. >> the influence of the supreme court the administration of fdr today has been the supreme court decision for those to do away with the reform of the constitution. you have done a fairly dramatic effect i think can you expand on your thoughts? >> talking about the citizens united those that overturned restrictions and occur if mr. a-share probably is getting heartburn as a looks almost a certainty but to focus a little bit more on the supreme court in new deal through 1935 embarked on a campaign to overturn the new deal initiative with the agricultural adjustment the day overturn to the nra and they even overturned minimum-wage laws and the corollary is controlled by a group of four conservatives who managed to get up and some of those rulings of the supreme court because justices like louis brandeis were very suspicious but also of big government so th

i personally am holding for bob dole. i'm a big bob dole, or maybe john mccain will run again.e mccrain/mccrain. >> let's talk about what we do now right now. herman cain tied with mitt romney with gop presidential candidates. is it time for the party as a whole to commit to a contend center maria? >> no, it's not time. that's the reason why primary processes were put into place. so none of us, were not, it's the republican voters that will choose the nominee, look four years ago, this exact same time, giuliani and thomas were at top of the pack. so, there's still a lot of time left. it's not up to us, it's up to republican voters. we might not see the numbers that we're seeing today. >> dana, is that really true? because money talks. >> there are times when something happens in the universe, i agree with answer that maria gets. also, it's very important to look at fund-raising. we got the thuird-quarter reports. there's a lot of speculation as to whether or not herman cain has the momentum to go out in a battle with mitt romney. so i think it's too early to discount. >> okay,

they were literally cutting the deal alone until politics to bob dole away from doing that.ear with a clear mission we knew, erskine, get a bipartisan agreement. so it can take a while co. v. happy year or year, what happened between 95 and 97 under president clinton leadership i hope will be the model for what will happen in this period of time as well. >> nothing in the world positive happens without leadership. public service is a great honor and president clinton on behalf of all 12 of us had a chance to come up here today. we thank you for giving us a chance to serve. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next month, the joint deficit reduction committee called the super committee will issue recommendations for cutting at least $1.5 trillion for the deficit over 20 years. his discussion of the urban institute focused on how those cuts that affect children. pbs senior correspondent judy woodruff posted this 90 minute event. [inaudible conversations] >> to wanting to go ahead and start? it's working. hello, everyone. i'm judy rose of the "pbs newshour." i'm s