and you go, well that is bob dole. do you remember bob dole? they shrug. i don't remember bob dole. so this wall is sort of a mix -- a mish-mash of different cartoonist work. this is richard thompson. that is me. another richard thompson. that is me. thuz are a column of color valtmans in comparison to the pure cross hatch around the fireplace. these are water color images. these were done in the 1970s. richard thompson's style is just -- i mean, as a cartoonist, i look at this and it's such a beautiful combination of loose lines. he was influenced a lot by some of the great english cartoonists, and then he took it to his own sort of place. a spire to this kind of aloofness but i'm still at age 60 something and working on it. this is one i did for politico. this is a caricature of bernie sanders. i do a cross hatch and then add water color. and richard's approach was a classic sort of dip pen. he works in a style that would have fit in perfectly in the 19th century in some ways but very modern. this is another richard thompson. you can see the difference. i rely on a lot of black an

bob dole wasn't on board with -- >> happy birthday, bob dole. >> happy birthday, bob dole.with newt gingrich's revolution, not all of it. bob dole is much more of an eisenhower republican. as the generations move on, you have a chance to redefine what the party stands for. i think it is natural. >> look, i don't think leader pelosi should be saying anyone is inconsequential. it is not the right message from a leader of the house democrats, particularly one who has had challenges against her leadership. i just think that was completely off message and borderline insulting to some of her members. >> history. we could learn from it. there was a recent election, and democrats did lose. time to get it together and power through to the next one. thank you, both, so much. you know how i always end this show. with good news. there's always good news somewhere, and we believe good news ruhles. an assistant volunteer fire chief in lancaster county, south carolina, arrived as a surprise birthday celebration this weekend at the firehouse. the biggest and best surprise came out of the f

. >>> those who serve, world war ii veteran and presidential candidate, bob dole, on a whole new mission. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. welcome to our viewers in the west. first, euphoria over their discovery alive inside a flooded cave in thailand. now comes new anguish and worry for the dozen children and an adult who remain trapped in that cave with few options to surface. not since the world held its breath in 2010 over the fates of 33 trapped miners in chile has a rescue drama so captivated the world. in this case, surrounded by water, the 13 kcave survivors, weakened by days without food, could have to make a marrowing underwater swim through narrow passages to reach freedom. nbc is there and has the latest. >> reporter: tonight, 24 hours after that miraculous discovery -- >> how many of you are here? 13. brilliant. >> reporter: thai officials say the 12 boys, ages 11-16 and their coach are all in stable condition. a huge challenge getting them out. one option starting the rescue now. oxygen tanks have now been placed along the exit route. but non

again, what an amazing honor to be a keynote speaker and a keynote speaker for bob dole. i loved working with senator dole on so many issues. and there's a guy -- i got to know him because we worked closely on several pieces of legislation. me as a freshman legislator -- he does not see age, he does not see gender, he sees american. he's a super-terrific guy. to have gotten to know him so well on legislation and to have gotten that shot of confidence from him was really pretty neat. >> his running mate, too, jack kemp -- >> afterwards. exactly. it was a great, exciting time. >> were you surprised that you were asking to give the address? >> totally. before the days of, i guess, cell phones, we were at -- on a slash baptizing the baby -- children, both girls, were born in staten island and baptized in -- sometimes we couldn't collaborate. we loved the district so much that we wanted that piece of history to be with them. i think we were baptizing susan -- and bill was on his announcement tour, right. finally, the old guy's traveling with the wife and the kid. we'd go to his

bob dole at the world war ii memorial. >>> plus the skies over philly already lig up ahead of tonight's fireworks. "early today" on this 4th of july starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm millisa rehberger in for phillip. >> great being with us. hope you're having a great start to your 4th of july. frances rivera. as amethcans prepare their of july celebrations the heat is not letting up. excessive heat warnings and heat advisories remain in effect in parts of the northeast and midwest. the nation's heat wave is being linked to at least three deaths. in new jersey congressman bill pascrell had to be helped from a press conference suffering from heat exhaustion. whileern philadelphia a w main break left 2,000 people without water. that means no water, no ac, and the temperature there felt like 107. >> wow. but the oppressive heat doesn't seem to be changing many travel plans. aaa predicts a record 47 million people will travel 50 miles or more for the holiday. gas prices now slowly creeping up as well to an average of $2.86 a gallon. that is up two cents from this time last week. >>> an

. >>> those who serve, world war ii veteran and presidential candidate, bob dole, a whole new mission. this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. thank you for ining us. first, euphoria over their discovery alive inside a flooded cave in thailand. tonight, comes new r anguish and worry the dozen children and an adult who remain ca trapped in tha with few options to safely reach the surface. not since the world r eld its breath in 2010 oe fates of 33 trapped miners in chile has a rescue drama so captivated the world. th 13 cave survivors weakened by days without food could have to make a harrowing underwater swim through narrowing passages to reach freedom. nbc is there and has the latest. >> reporter: tonht, 24 hours after that miraculous discovery -- >> how many of you are here? 13. brilliant. >> reporter: thai officials say the 12 e oys, 12-16 and their coach stable condition. a hugehallenge getting them out. one option starting the rescue now. oxygen tanks has been placed along the exit route. nout none of the boys how to swim so they're scrambling to teach them

and i st didn't think bob dole was a prohibitive favorite.uld get on one-on-one with bob dole in debates that i would be the colyervative candidate clear. i would be the outsider. i had the communication skills. - in '96, they--they recognized that we-- we had every right to be a candidate now. we were in there against the-- senator grm, senator dole and again the party expected e,e of them to be the nomi and they wanted nothing to do with us bee now pat had more than ten weeks. - but let me take up an issue mentioned by senator dole again. ha senator dole said if w't bailed out mexico with $50 billion, why, all these immigrants would comeming across our border. - it's gonna be repaid too, pat. you know. - we're not going to lose one cent; we took care of that. - bob, you're not going to get a dime of that money back. - you wait and see. - we had a strategy. i had to beat gramm to eliminate him to get into the finals with dole. we found out there were caucuses being held in alaska. so i took two trips up to alaska. and i won the alaska caucus

he and i got to know each other in 1996 on bob dole's campaign. he is a close friend of bob dole. i thought after the dole campaign and that it will be inspiring to have a woman to run for office, so i was talking to elizabeth dole to manage her campaign. her father called me up and said i want to talk to you about running my campaign. i said i am artie talking to your friend elizabeth dole, i'm not sure i should be talking to you. he said oh no, we are going to have a blast. long story short, i decided to join the mccain campaign, and we literally had more fun than you are supposed to be allowed to in a presidential campaign. >> going to come back to the 2000 campaign and talk about 2008 as well. megan, your dad is an icon in american hero as you said. what do we not know about him? >> he is really fun. i think that is missed a lot sometimes. he really likes to have a good time. he taught me at a young age how to pay -- play blackjack and poker, and he likes to drink vodka. he really loves life, and he loves to be surrounded by friends. he does not like to be alone. he really like

if you wrote bob dole a quality joke, he would tell them for five or 10 minutes. you won't be surprised to learn, he liked people. he had been in politics just a few years after he got out of the army in world war ii. he had a very good sense of humor. he made up a lot of jokes on his own. he likes to do that kind of thing. he was good at it. really, the main point of variation is if it is decently written and it is written for the spoken word, and doesn't have any type of quirks that would be unique to one person or another. the important thing is, how will he get into this speech and what is going to be comfortable? june: i worked for people, bill and hillary clinton are both excellent speakers. they don't really need speech writers, your value added is a finding that nugget or finding the story that can help them get into the speech. finding the historical anecdote that will frame whatever policy you are proposing. or if you are visiting a country with the history of u.s. relations here. finding the historical nugget or the real person connection, or the biogra

but it was, again, what an amazing honor to be a keynote speaker and to be a keynote speaker for bob dole was just -- i loved working with senator dole on so many issues. and there's a guy, i got to know him because we worked closely together on several pieces of legislation. me as a freshman legislator. like, he does not see age, he does not see gender. he sees america. he's just a really super terrific guy. and i had gotten to know him so well on legislation and to have gotten that shot of confidence from him was really, really pretty neat. >> and his running mate as well, jack kemp, afterwards. >> yeah, it was a great, exciting time. >> were you surprised that you were asked to give the address? >> totally. so before the days of, i guess, cell phones, we were at -- we were on a slash baptizing of the baby. so the children, both girls were born in staten island and baptized in -- so sometimes we just couldn't collaborate. and we love our district so -- and larry king was on. and i can't remember my press secretary, somehow, i guess we had peepers back in the day. people watching are lik

bob dole had tears coming down his eye and bob dole while nixon was president and all the trouble asked would you like him to make an appearance in kansas and he said a flyover would do. >> [laughter] elizabeth: my nixon would have seen straight through these guys. badnew kissinger was mouthing him with his friends in cambridge and georgetown. he understood everything that was going on. he was onto to them, but he would have been pleased with his funeral. and i have to say that i kind of miss him but he was so interesting. now, why did i write this journal in the first place? when we had this idea for keeping this journal at the time, as i said, we didn't know where it was going and i came back to washington and this was also why we are here again. my mentor at the time also happened to have been david john gardner, said to me, elizabeth, write it so that 40 years from now, people will know what it was like then. it cannot be recaptured. now i don't know that i wrote it any differently with that in mind. i did not know where or whether i would be in 40 years. it just happens that it's 4

molinari: again, what an amazing on a to be a keynote speaker for bob dole. loved working with senator dole. i got to know him because we worked closely together on several pieces of legislation. gender --t see age, he does not see age or gender, -- he doesrica could not see age or gender, he sees america hurray he -- he sees america. it was an exciting time. surprised that you were asked to give the address? rep. molinari: totally. -- the children, both girls were born in staten island . collaborateu cannot and we loved our district so much that we wanted a piece of history to be with them. now the old guy is traveling with the wife and the kid. his district was so huge that he had five or six announcements. when we were in a bar having dinner with friends, larry king secretaryd my press --how old is this woman? announce --ll will senator dole will announce that you will be the keynote speaker. do you know who was going to nominate you? we do not have cell phones. and they said, can we get susan molinari to call? there is a cell phone outside of the kitchen

at the end of our broadcast tomorrow, we've got a remarkable story about bob dole, world war ii veteran, former senate leader, and presidential candidate, now in his 90s taking on a new mission in our "those . spent a good part of the day with him today. we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for watching and good night. now: thanks for joining us. i )m marcus washington, in for >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm marcus washington in for raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. a warning from a local school leader directly to president trumenp.a letter to the white house today telling the president that his actions are leading to serious mental trauma for immigrant a in thisy those children now too scared to go to school. damian trujillo got a copy of that letter. he joins us with a story you'll see only on nbc bay area. and she goes so far as to state the children may be suffering from ptsd. >> reporter: that's right. the county superintendent

at the end of our broadcast tomorrow, we've got a remarkabley stout bob dole, world war ii veteran, formerpresidential nd ate, now in his 90s taking on a new mission in our "those or who serve" r spent a good part of the day with him today. we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for thisonday night. i'm lester holt. , or all of us at nbc newsanks for watching and good night. >>> i'm not as nice as roseanne conor. >> roseanne canceled after h racist twitter outburst. access takes on 2018da scan. >> it's only july 2nd, and

rick: it was a bit of a rocky we got to know each other in 1996 on bob dole's campaign.traveled around with him on that campaign. i thought after the dole campaign that it would be inspiring to have a woman to run for office. i was talking to elizabeth dole. to manage her campaign. her father called me up and said i want to talk to you about running my campaign. he said, you don't understand, we will have a blast. long story short, i decided to join the mccain campaign and we had more fun than you are supposed to be allowed to our a presidential campaign. mark: i will come back to the 2000 campaign. and talk about 2008 as well. your dad is an icon and the american hero. what do we not know about him? is really fun. i think that is missed a lot sometime. he likes to have a good time. he taught me at a young age how to play blackjack and poker and he likes to drink vodka. he just really loves life and he really loves, almost to his detriment, he loves to he surrounded by friends. he does not like to be alone. he likes being surrounded by a community of people. he enjoys ev

vice also worked for president dan quayle, bob dole, and paul ryan. june shih began her career as a reporter for a florida newspaper. but left to assist then first lady hillary rodham clinton with her syndicated newspaper column in speeches. in 1997 june became a special assistant to the president and presidential speechwriter writing speeches for president bill clinton on a range of issues from civil rights and race relations to education and healthcare policy. june then went on serving as the speechwriter for first senate campaign in 2000. june will be joining the n.y.u. family this fall as communications director. tonight's event will be moderated by vonn hillard an award winning journalist and political reporter for nbc news notably covering the special election senate race in alabama between roy moore and doug jones and the entirety of the 2016 presidential campaign as an embedded reporter from the ottawa coffee shop stops to election night at trump headquarters in new york. he first started at nbc news in july of 2013 as a tim russert fellow. th

it heard them and they ultimately defeated bob dole and i would say to do a shutdown a month before an election when you have the economy to run on would be a big mistake for the republicans and would also bring up the issue of separation of families which have not been unified. i'm not suggesting trump will lose on immigration but when you have an issue like 4.1% growth and economic activity, why distract from that issue on immigration? >> the president did promise he was going to build that wall. here is what the majority leader said about the possibility of shutdown. >> you are not worried about a government shutdown? >> final response from you. >> it doesn't need to happen. of republicans get on the ball and support this president's policy i'm in touch with the base. i'm a hard-core conservative and tired of establishment republicans 70 we are going to kick the can again and again & this bill at the last minute because we are afraid of a shutdown. let's rumble. >> be my guest. a month before the election. >> doug and kurt, thank you very much, we will see if we have it, 99 days to

he worked for robert reagan, john mccain, bob dole. he worked for me for 49 days.lr short period of time. >> let's be clear, paul manafort was a train chairman. he played a role in the campaign here. this new information we have, prosecutors say the unnamed banker may have helped him get $16 million in loans while trying to seek a role in the campaign. annie, the optics here not so great either. >> i would want to say two things. the first is trump always tries to distance himself from manafort. remember, in those 49 days that he was a chairman, that's a period of time where manafort was instrumental in having mike pence be picked and put on the ticket. he had a sig 234i6 can't historical role. that being said, yeah, i think this is a bit of a game-changer. this new development shows that manafort was doing the same kind of sleazy deals he had a long reputation of doing when he was in washington. he was continuing that behavior when he was in a position of power. trump always says he can get the best people and he's been saying that happened so long ago and his bad

this bill, white house officials are still confident when the choice coming down to bill clinton or bob dole don't have anywhere else to go. >> what clinton did to steal away issues from republicans actually worked. >> president clinton has won a second term as president of the united states. >> can you imagine what this must feel like? particularly when you think how far down mr. clinton seemed to be just two years ago for him to ascend to this pinnacle again is the act of truly a master politician. >> bill clinton is christened the comeback kid because he was resilient. no matter what doubts you had about him, no matter what charges you laid against him, every day he walks into the white house and with a laser focus says let's focus on getting the job done. >> it is time to put politics aside, join together and get the job done for america's future. [ applause ] >> this has been election '96. bill clinton has been re-elected and the country goes on. >> you have a bipartisan group here to come together and hail this agreement. >> 1997 was a happy time for bill clinton and a happy time for a

tom daschle, bob dole, mitchell and baker and we've come to agreement, forge compromises in the difficult work of making policy. to that end we cover a whole lot of issues, including immigration and border security that we're going to talk a little about today. a little bit of format. we will be talking for 45, 50 minutes or so, we will have opportunity for questions. those here in the room, you have cards we'd like you to please write your questions out anytime during this. hold them up or pass them to the end. we will have people collecting them and we'll go through them with the commissioner later. if you're online and watching us and you'd like to submit a question, send that via twitter with #bpclive. thank you very much. let me introduce commissioner mcaleenan. he had been the acting commissioner since january of 2017 in the administration. prior to that, he was deputy commissioner of border protection under the prior administration. he also served in operational capacities throughout the agency and he's been the head of the office of anti-terrorism. he was support director and fiel

want to close by wuishing a happy birthday to an american hero, eight presidential campaigns ago, bob dolekable achievement especially for a son of kansas wounded and left for dead on an italian hillside in 1945. if you don't know his story, i suggest you study it. we can all learn a humbling lesson from 70 plus years of living in constant pain but always putting country and service first. it's a story that yes, includes asking the media where is the outrage about bill clinton but not once calling the media the enemy of the state. a story that includes many sharp partisan battles but not one breath spent attacking institutions that make america great. our president i'm told plans a happy birthday dweet to senator dole today. it would be a much better gift if he would take time to study how this great american went about his business. >> thanks for sharing your sunday morning. state of the union up next. jake sits down with carter page and with republican senator mark row cube toshi marco rubio. have a great sunday. let's begin. yes or no? do you want the same tools and seamless experience

he ran the campaign of gerald ford, ronald reagan, bob dole and was one of the first people to monetizeervice with his old partner roger stone. that is getting us where we are today. he went to work and prosecutors allege he was paid some $60 million for this service over many years of public relations and lobbying. and for reasons that maybe only manafort can explain prosecutors say he tried to avoid paying u.s. taxes on these millions and structured the payments in the form of loans and funded a lavish lifestyle that included a $20,000 watch and multiple multimillion dollar properties. and then when this man fled to ukraine the spigot of cash dried up and then prosecutors say manafort started to commit other fraud by trying to get loans from the real estate that he owns and doing things like distorting profit and loss statements and overvaluing properties. this is going to be a document heavy case. i fear that it may be boring in some parts. to lead the jury through it the prosecutors have a star witness who is rick gates who is paul manafort's right-hand man who has pleaded guilty. w

he worked for ronald reagan and bob dole and john mccain or his firm did.orked for me, what, for 49 days or something. very short period of time. >> a number of incorrect things the president saying there, specifically about the role paul manafort played in his campaign. he was obviously -- played a much bigger role than that. but if robert mueller can tie manafort's current trial to the trump campaign, is this a problem for the president? >> well, it should be. as we have heard, the president keeps claiming that whatever manafort may have done in the past has nothing to do with the president. of course, i happen to agree, actually, with president trump that it would have been great if these alleged crimes had been caught 12 years ago but to the extent that some of those crimes are more current, more recent, it looks very bad for the trump campaign and this white house, given that trump has claimed that it has nothing whatsoever to do with him. and more broadly, it suggests that again if these allegations are true, this is just more evidence that this is a

. >> where -- as bob dole once said, where is the outrage? >> first of all, there isn't any outrage. if there's such a thing as a narcissistic official white house statement, this is it. this is about donald trump saying, see, we didn't do anything wrong, i didn't do anything wrong. where in the statement was a congratulations to the justice department for all of its hard work and its forensic work, which is quite stunning if you read the indictment, in bringing forth this indictment. >> that's right, it's not as though they can walk in on russian military intelligence officers and interrogate them. >> they're quoting from the e-mails they clearly got or the text messages. where, where is the president of the united states saying, you know, we have to find a way to make sure that this does not occur again? this is cyber war. and we have to defend ourselves. instead, we got this self-serving statement from the president of the united states. and you point out that particularly in section 44 of this indictment, it's not just american citizens h

. >> bob dole, george mitchell had i think a very successful relationship.n a different page policy wise and so forth, in using a process to come to a conclusion. and i think that we've lost that now, apparently from a procedural standpoint, apparently because there's so much animosity between the two groups. things have been accomplished but i think it could be a much better atmosphere if we could get some kind of commonty in terms of how we work with each other. dan coats gets tonight's "last word." andrea mitchell conducted that interview with dan coats today. she will join brian williams "the 11th hour" which starts now. >>> tonight after days of bad headlines after their summit together donald trump invites vladimir putin to washington this fall. it was news to our director of national intelligence who learned about the putin invitation while being interviewed by andrea mitchell. and he like the rest of us says he has no idea what the two men may have agreed to in private in helsinki. >>> and behind the scenes the

he ran the campaign of gerald ford, ronald reagan, bob dole, and he also was one of the first people to monetize his service as a political strategist with his old partner, roger stone, and that's really sort of getting us where we are today, because he went to work for this russian-backed ukrainian oligarch and as you said, prosecutors allege he was paid some $60 million for this service over many years of public relations and lobbying for this rather unsavory character, and for reasons that maybe only manafort can explain, prosecutors say he tried to avoid paying u.s. taxes on these millions, and he structured the payments in the forms of loans and they funded a lavish lifestyle that included $10,000 suits and a $21,000 watch and multiple, multimillion dollar properties, and then when this man, victor, fled to ukraine, the spigot of cash dried up and then prosecutors say manafort started to commit other fraud by essentially trying to get loans from the real estate that he owns and doing things like disporting profit and loss statements, overvaluing properties, so as you can imagine

wow what a tough sentence for paul manafort, who has represented ronald reagan, bob dole and many otherop political people and campaigns. didn't know manafort was the head of the mob. what about comey and crooked hillary and all of the others? didn't we just have the supreme court litigate a case in which they said nothing donald trump tweets matters? >> you know, they said it. legally, i think what really comes into play here is manafort's motion is very cavalier in terms of its willingness to believe that juries can follow the instructions that they're given by judges and set aside their personal beliefs. and i'm going to tell you, after 25 years of trying cases in federal court, jurors do that remarkably well. in fact, in the eastern district of virginia, the judge was able to try one of the 9/11 cases without needing to move that. very heavily publicized case. to another district. manafort makes this very superficial argument with very little law and no real reason to believe that a jury in alexandria can't do what they're told by the judge and make a decision based on the facts and

worked for ronald reagan, bob dole, he worked for me for what, 49 days or something. a very short period of time. >> was a pretty big job and it was longer than that. in any case, things change. sara murray has the breaking news for us. mueller team says manafort bank fraud trial does have a campaign connection. what can you tell us about that. >> put out a new court filing where we're getting the new details. didn't expect manafort's role in the trump campaign was going to be featured in the trial he was face ugh. has to do with financial crime, has to do with foreign lobby and allegations he's facing, basically said look we intend to present evidence a banker helped secure more than $6 million in loans while seeking a position in the trump campaign and went on to become an adviser to the trump campaign and get a role in the administration although they were not capable of doing it. here's how that fits in. prosecutors alleged paul manafort used false information to get morgues and introduced thad mortgage money as free income then they're saying we need to explain h

he worked for bob dole, john mccain or his firm did, ronald reagan.ed for me for 49 days, a very short period of time. >> he was the chairman of the trump campaign. i also didn't know there was a 12-year statute of limitations on crimes like this. so, what do you think -- when you look at what's happening with paul manafort what do you see? >> what i see is the intersection between a counterintelligence investigation and a criminal investigation. when you're looking at it from a counterintelligence perspective, collusion is was this person working with the knowledge of foreign intelligence? were they helping them in any way? and we know that there were ties that he was a part of the campaign. there were ties back to russian intelligence for his work in ukraine. he then worked on the campaign for free. there were all kinds of different potentially financial leverages over him. now, not all of those things are a crime. what has crossed over into the violations of criminal law are the things that he's charged with, among others is acting as a foreign, un

he worked for bob dole, john mccain, his firm did. he worked for me, what, 49 days or something. very short period of time. >> but it was more than 49 days. but a significant period of tile. from march to august, 2016, during this time line, if those people who are looking at the russia investigation, this is when george papadopoulous ran his mouth for an australian diplomat, manafort attended the trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer, jared kushner and donald trump jr. in july president trump asked russia to find hillary clinton's missing e-mails. it is not like nothing russia related was going on during that period. >> that was a crucial period for the campaign. and of course he is not just a delegate counter. he wasn't just the campaign chairm chairman. we hear it was jared kushner running the campaign. then why was he included in that meeting in trump tower? we've seen the president try down play his relationships with people before when it was no longer convenient for him to be close to them. we saw it with michael cohen who he said only did a small amount of business

but bob dole was going around saying where is the outrage in america? where's the outrage? you have this robust -- a robust economy and americans feeling pretty good. >> and this was a president bil facing some serious morality charges. >> all kinds of financial issues. >> not quite the same as what we're saying today, we should point out. >> no, that's a whole different sport, you might say. but it was felt that way at the time. so i think democrats may be -- donald trump may be doing what -- doing his greatest disservice, which is he may be making democrats lose their marbles. if democrats are going to win, they need message focus, they need an optimistic strategy for the american people, and they need to show that they're not just interested in humiliating trump, they're interested in making things better for america. >> why would a democrat listen to bret stephens, conservative columnist? >> i know how conservatives think and i've seen many of these elections before. one of the reasons i'm at "the new york times," i'm a never trumper. >> you came from "the wall street j

bob dole, george mitchell had, i think, a very successful relationship. even though we were on a different page policy wise and so forth, in using a process to come to a conclusion. everybody had a chance to offer their amendments. i can't remember how many times george mitchell would say, i know y'all want to go home, but nobody is going home till we finish this bill. now, i know there's 113 amendments still out there. if you want to tell your colleagues you need to stay here saturday and sunday, that's fine. as soon as you guys want to say let's vote, then we'll adjourn. and i think we've lost that now, partly from a procedural standpoint, partly because there is so much animosity between the two groups. things have been accomplished, but i think it could be a much better atmosphere if we could get some kind of comity in terms of how we work with each other. >> you talked about sticking it out and you don't talk about threatening to resign. i respect that. you have fears that if you were not there, someone would replace you who does not stand up for an

this time bob dole was the heavy favorite. but in iowa, buchanan nearly knocked him off.ht days later in new hampshire, the unthinkable. pitchfork pat finished first. >> the establishment is coming together. you can hear them right now. the fax machines and phones are buzzing in washington, d.c. you got to get together. somebody's got to get out and take on this guy. we have to have one guy take him on. they'll come after this campaign with everything they got. do not wait for orders from headquarters. mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns. >> and in that moment it seemed like pat buchanan might run away with the republican nomination. democrats were almost giddy. he was so extreme, they figured, he'd be easy to beat if he got that nomination. republicans were terrified. they were stunned to learn that so many of their own voters didn't mind pitchfork pat's rhetoric. were they losing control of their own party? it turned out they weren't, at least not yet. in '96 the establishment had enough juice to stop buchanan. dole went on to win the nomination, did

pat moynihan and bob dole. i think bipartisanship does get rewarded. takes work, leadership. one out of four americans fall in that category can read they do not have political action committees. we have worked together on autism. given the difficulty on the spectrum, it can be overwhelming. it was good to be invited. moments in history that provide you an opportunity to do something meaningful. we are at that moment. extending that idea, unpaid leave. rick and i will disagree. i believe medical leave should be a part of that. it would be hard to understand why we would exclude that. i had colleagues who did wonderful things. friend, to [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] gave a kidneyend to a daughter of his. act.geous he was paid. no one thought he was being negligent. behavior where parents can take time with their children. hopefully, again, we will be able to come to some sort of conclusion. i am very optimistic about going beyond parental care. that is the reason i wanted to be here. >> it has been a pleasure, it was a pleasure. i'm going to take a

i started the children's caucus in the senate with pat moynihan and bob dole. she's not here, with all due respect i'm glad ivanka trump cares about this subject matter but i think bipartisanship does get rewarded in washington. i disagree with the point. i didn't introduce any legislation any value whatsoever without the republican parker in 30 years in the city. it takes more work, takes leadership to share these issues we felt and poorly about this issue but also all children's issues in terms of focusing other needs. one out of four americans fall in that category they don't vote, fatal to political action committees but the sense they need to be represented at the table. that has a lot to do with the genesis of the family medical leave act. rick and i worked together. on autism, lines disease for a couple of matters. we wrote legislation unsuccessfully. in fact, autism providing care for caregivers, given the difficulty where you are on the spectrum with autism can be overwhelming for parents and realize the importance of that and provide support for peopl

when bob dole, the former leader of the senate, sat in his wheelchair on the floor of the united statesrough, who could be against a disabilities treaty? it didn't happen. so, treaties are difficult. and the other thing about these very complicated reciprocal agreements, the iran deal was 110 pages. >> right. >> is a treaty doesn't make it easy to look at reciprocal steps and pull back if necessary. it's a different kind of an instrument. so the congress did get to decide on the iran deal. it was an interesting process. and so i'm all for them having to take this as a treaty to the senate, but they'll fail if they do so. >> joe, jump in. >> well, richard haase, treaties are, in fact, very difficult to pass through the united states senate, but if a president wants something to survive his own presidency, isn't that exactly what's going to be required moving forward because if donald trump makes a decision on his own with north korea, the next president is a democrat. there are, of course, chances that that could be overturned. again, it's -- yes, it's difficult. it's supposed to be diff

tony cuello, representative steve bartlett and jim sensenbrenner, senators tom harkin, ted kennedy, bob dole and so many others, a list of which i will include in my remarks. we worked hard to shepherd that legislation to passage with strong bipartisan support. the a.d.a. has reshaped the landscape of our country for millions of people living with disabilities. and indeed for many, many millions throughout the world. it has done more than build ramps or widen doorways. it has changed perceptions and brought greater understanding not only to the abilities of those who were previously excluded, but also the challenges of living with a disability. i'm glad we have been able to come together to strengthen the a.d.a. over the years in the same spirit of bipartisanship we have since its inception. as we celebrate, mr. speaker, this anniversary each year we rededicate ourselves to the project of protecting the civil rights of americans with disabilities and expanding opportunity, equality, and access for all our people. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's t