host: was tom daschle and the leadership at that time? >> yes. he was majority leader. to go to anhad undisclosed location? >> i assume so. i was not with them so i can only attest to that. i am from self the code is all know each other in south dakota it is a small place. so i had some personal connection. we had 30 senate pages and 30% of us were from south dakota said that is senator daschle's example of bringing his constituents. you -- >> we were asked if we remembered to turn the lights off when we came over or if we rode over innate everett wagon. when you get together as a smalltime kid in the dormitory with kids from all over the country, you get the regional dialects. now i live in the deep south in the mississippi so you grow up fast because you learn about the country through your politics and your fellow packages. you learn quickly. host: have you also been one of those kids who wanted to go to colleges? >> ces. i had two dreams as a kid. i wanted to go to notre dame, football was not in the question, i was realistic. but i also, on a family became into was

you were with tom daschle. and of course, one of tom's great interests was health care. you have now got into health care as the director of cancer services. know a lotlet us all about pack of mill mississippi over the years. you were here during the september 11 attacks. joe: yes. i had a week under my belt before we had to face our challenges. during the day, it was just a normal day. we went to set up for the senate chamber like any other day. we saw cnn was covering some breaking news of some things in new york city. eventually, that got too close to home and a capitol police evacuated us from the building when the pentagon was hit. so leaving the capital building, you can turn to the south and see the smoke rising from the pentagon. it gets real pretty fast. and was tom and the leadership at that point? joe: he was majority leader. cokie: so he had to go into a close location. attest to that. i am originally from south dakota to so i had -- we all know each other in south dakota. it is a small place in we had 30 senate pages and 10% of us, three of us were from sout

after the switch, the chair would address senator daschle as the leader. host this was an enormous : change in his ability to get his agenda through? >> yes. very significant change. host our time is going to : evaporate quickly. i'm going to move on to another procedural one. in the age of harry reid, we kept hearing the threat to invoke the so-called "nuclear option." when they refer to that, what do they mean? >> it is a matter of forcing a ruling the senators would vote on that would in a sense establish a precedent that would overturn a rule or contradict a rule. they use the word nuclear because it is so controversial, they compare it to a nuclear explosion. the one thing people worry about is after a nuclear explosion what will be left standing? will the institution be left -- be able to function? both parties have been on both sides of this issue. in 2005, senator bill frist was the majority leader -- this is on nominations we are talking about here, nominations getting bottled up. the senator frisk first proposed it. it did not happen. a gang of 1

senator daschle: finally, there was another person who deserves special recognition. that is senator jeffers. last week, i was deeply touched by his courageous decision. his eloquent words. the senator has always commended -- commanded bipartisan respect because of the work he does. regardless of where he sits in the chamber, that is work that will continue. america will be better for it. this indeed is a humbling moment for me. i am honored to serve as majority leader. but i also recognize the majority is slim. this is still one of the most s in alldivided senate' of history. we have just witnessed something that has never before happened in all of senate history. a change of power during a session of congress. >> there is the new majority leader talking about the nature of it. what i would like to have you talk about, i think we keep reminding you of these very challenging moments, what it had been like operating with a 50-50 senate and then what happened when they gained a one seat majority. >> it was fascinating operating with a 50-50 senate. the president, the id

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senator daschle: this indeed is a humbling moment for me. i am honored to serve as majority leader, but i also recognize the majority is slim. this is still one of the most in all divided senates of history and we of witnessed something that has never before happened in all of senate history -- a change of power during a session of congress. a look at 30 years of gavel to gavel senate floor coverage, tomorrow night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> book tv has 48 hour's of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are programs to watch for. saturday night at 10:00 eastern rds," mitch mcconnell discusses his life and politics : a memoir." game senator mcconnell: all majorities are fleeting. depending on what the american people decide this november, i could be they minority leader next year. represents an opportunity, even in a body like the senate, which is difficult to make function. there are advantages to setting the agenda and what we call the right of first recognition to move the country in the direction it would like to go. with

. >> tom daschle had your job prior who said something that stuck in my mind to say he wishes he realized the power he had when he had it otherwise is to say take a vintage of this incredible accidental power that you have do you think about that? >> cry do all maturities are fleeting and depending upon what the american people decide in november i could be the party leader next year and a real opportunity even in the senate which is very difficult there are advantages to setting the agenda with the rights of first recognition to move the country in the direction or like to go you just don't know how long that would last you don't want to miss any opportunities to make a better militia, was not president but he is. >> want to give you a chance to answer a question from the speech about kennedy about encouraging the teaching of american history in school so children could grow up learning what it means to be an american in when senator can do that they try to find webster's and invariably one last question that i want to ask you to say senator what message would you like for us to take bac

. >> tom daschle had your job reminded us to say that he often thinks he had prised even more heated the power he had when he had it to say a take advantage of this incredible accidental power that you have. do you think about that? >> i do and all maturities are fleeting depending upon what the american people decide in november i could be the minority leader next year and it does present a real opportunity even in the body like the senate that is difficult to function there are advantages to set the agenda and the right of first recognition to move the country in the direction so you just not know how long that will last you don't want to miss any opportunity to make the country better and which obama was not president but he is. >> we have four minutes left that speech i made that senator kennedy of the 20 co-sponsors was about encouraging the teaching of american history in school so children can grow up what it means to be an american and i think those teachers on the senate floor ago to the desk and try to define websters desks and they will ask me the question that i want to a

senators have a weekly prayer breakfast on wednesday, and we don't talk about that much, but tom daschlewho had your job before, the former majority leader, said something that stuck in my mind. he reminded us, he said he often thinks that he wishes he had prized even more than he did the power he had when he had it. in other words, he was saying take advantage of this incredible accidental power that you have. do you ever think about that? >> guest: yeah, i do. and, you know, all majorities are fleeting. depending upon what the american people decide this november, i could be the minority leader next year. and the majority leader position does present a real opportunity even in a body like the senate which is very difficult to make function. there are advantages to setting the agenda and what we call the right of first recognition to move the country in the direction you'd like to go. so you just don't know how long that's going to last, and you don't want to miss any opportunity to try to make the country better. and you have to deal with the government that you have. i wish obama was

daschle noted the change of leadership midsession. daschle: this indeed is a humbling moment for me. i am honored to serve as majority leader. but i also recognize the majority is slim. this is still one of the most closely divided senates in all of history. and we have just witnessed something that has never before happened in all of senate history. the change of power during a session of congress. >> part of our look back at 30 years of tv coverage of the u.s. senate on c-span2. see video from the first televised session as well as insider analysis from the senate historian. you can watch the entire program tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. our live coverage of the presidential race continues tuesday night with primaries in six states. montana, new jersey, new mexico, and north and south dakota. hillary clinton: a different vision for our country than the one between our side of democrats for progress, prosperity, fairness, and opportunity than the presumptive nominee on the republican side. donald trump: we are going t

i thought it was interesting, there is a new book out senator ent lott and tom daschle wrote, crisis point. why we must and how we can overcome our broken politics. and i think what they sort of point to is there has been this loss of what you mentioned, a loss of sense of order quorium, civility in this dispute. so in many ways we have lost those boundaries. i don't know if you might touch on what should those boundaries be? it's not that we can't differ in opinion. that's the wonderful thing. that's the cornerstone of democracy. but what would healthy boundaries look like? >> thank you also for having me. thank you for having me. glad to be here. i want to pick up a little bit on what the rest of the panel has said. namely, pete's mentioning the famous quote that hypocracy is the tribute that vice takes virtue. we've certainly in our history had our share of hip crassy. we have had people who have come before us as politicians and have said we just need a country -- we just need a president who is as virtuous as the people. that was jimmy carter's big pledge in 1976. a lot of us th

it gets harder, i thought it was interesting, there is a new book out senator trent lott and tom daschle wrote called crisis point, why we must and how we can overcome broken politics in washington and across america and what they point to is the loss of a sense of order, to gorham and civility in our disputes. we lost those boundaries. you might touch on what those boundaries are, it is not that we can't differ in opinion, the cornerstone of democracy, but what would the boundaries look like? >> thank you for having me, glad to be here. i want to pick up on what the rest of the panel has said. mentioning the famous quote that hypocrisy of virtue. we certainly in our history have our share of hypocrisy. we have had people who have come before us, politicians, have said we just need a president as virtuous as the people, that was jimmy carter's pledge in 1976 and some of us thought that was a little synthetic but it was at least an acknowledgment that virtue was a thing we ought to be striving for. we do cross the boundary it seems to me when we move from paying tribute to the idea of vir

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we also talked to a number of senators that were there, including tom daschle. this, indeed, is a humbling moment for me. i am honored to serve as majority leader, but i also recognize that the majority is slim. this is still one of the most closely divided senate in all of history, and we have just witnessed something that has never before happened in all of senate history, the change of power during a session of congress. back at 30our look years of tv coverage of the u.s. senate on c-span2. video from the first televised session as well as insider analysis from donald richie. watch the entire program tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern. book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some program to watch for. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell discusses book,fe, politics, in his "the long game." >> all majorities are fleeting. depending upon what the american people decide this november, i could be the minority leader next year. does represent a real opportunity, even in a body like the senate, which is very difficult to make func

senator trenlt lot and tom daschle wrote and the book is called crisis points, why we must and how weour broken politics. i think what they took point to is there is this lost -- what you mentioned, a loss of sense of order, decorum and civility. so we lost the boundaries. moan yashgs i don't know if you might get a touch on what shut boundaries be? i mean it's not that we can't differ in opinion. that is a wonderful thing. that is the corner stone of democracy. but what would healthy boundaries look like? >> yeah, thank you all for having me. thank you. thank you for having me. glad to be here. i want to pick up a little bit on what the rest of the panel has said. and namely, pete is mentioning the famous quote that hypocrisy is the tribute that advise pays to virtue. now we certainly in our history had our share of hypocrisy. we've had people would have come before us as politicians and have said we just need a country that -- we just need a president who is as virtuous as the people. that is jimmy carter's pledge in 1976. and some of us thought that was synthetic. but it was at lea