dan quayle was a newspaper man for some years before he entered politics. he could write and he could write fast. when i worked for him and he had a newspaper column he could write a huge column in half an hour. >> this president is no to go off script. he is known to go without a telecom -- phillip roth -- teleprompter. he speaks off the cuff. there's a demand -- there's a desire for authenticity. you see it in senate campaigns. it seems like there's of the man in -- a demand. how do you convince the public through the words you are writing that there is authenticity and you're not just another politician. because of twitter, the demand to have quick, rapid responses that are not packaged up perhaps in the way you guys did, are you concerned about it? what would you say to individuals running to office, what is your recommendation? >> some of those times are not normal. if you go back to barack obama, the speeches made him. i still believe there is room for excellent speeches. what made him successful is there were beautiful speeches. they were authentic.

dan quayle was a newspaperman for some years before he entered politics. so he could write and he could write fast. when i worked for him as a former vice president and he had a newspaper column, he could write a six, seven-hundred-word column in a half hour. >> this president is known to go off script. he is known to go without a teleprompter. he speaks in the white house when reporters are in there. he speaks off the cuff. there is also a demand -- there is a desire for what they say authenticity. you see it in senate campaigns. you see bader drop in the f-bomb here, drop in the f-bomb there. it seems there is a demand in the electorate of this administration and the president has continued it. where do you guys see the art of the word, the art of the speech, and how do you convince the public that through the words that you are writing that there is authenticity, that you're not just another politician because of twitter, the demand to have quick, rapid responses that are not packaged up perhaps in the way that you guys did? where do you see it going? a

you told me you just saw dan quayle last week. that's a relationship that's more than 30 years strong. how important is that when people are presenting themselves as individuals in a very competitive sphere? what are they looking for and how did that relationship last in the long run? by speaking and questioning, by accomplishing a friendship? what does that look like? >> i remember, i called one of my best friends. as soon as i got this job to go to work for the vice president. it hit me this is not a job you ease into. on day one you will be given an assignment to write a speech and it'll be due in 24 hours or 74 hours. there's this heaviness settled on me as soon as i started i really, i really better be at the top of my game. i remembered saying to one of my best friends from law school calling him to tell him what was about to happen. and he said, don't worry at all johnny just make yourself indispensable. i thought that's good advise. how exactly am i to do that. if you think about it nobody is indispensable. what he was say

bush, dick quayle,bob dole, dan very different in their styles. they all of course are comfortable speaking in public. if you are comfortable speaking in public, you can read a speech that is decently written, that follows the basic elements. one of the main ones is of the of which is the sentences need to be short. it is a little bit different, in some ways it's significantly different from other types of writing. you have to read it aloud if you have written it. you have to be careful that things don't rhyme, or if you have a liberation that is not that is notion intended or any structural infractions that would hit the ear differently from how you intended it. the main point of variation among the people that i have written speeches for is how they get into a speech. how they start it, what that first page is like. how they bond with the audience, and how they get comfortable. president bush like to do -- liked to do extensive acknowledgments. so extensive that we would not write these things down, they would be gathered and it would be the may

when misspelling was a national disgrace when done by the vice president of the united states, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. here is the president -- and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news he's reading or being read to him in "the new york times." >> lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. >> you could, yes. >> by the way he seems to be responding to these things. >> i have to say i have been avoiding that word since it became a book title. >> yeah. >> but it's a hard word to avoid. >> the dancing around has been very difficult given the president's actual behavior, yes. and this is a reflection of multiple things. one, again, 20-something years ago the president spelling something wrong in public and correcting a child was a week long news story. now we have a new controversy. if a scandal is happening, it might be a day that ends in "y" with this administration. you have a president who is constant

not only are we talking about former senators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, dan quayle and joe biden, we are also talking about a thousand people from the public. we had 15,000 people who came through last night and waited in line. it was 100 plus degrees and some waited for three or four hours in line so that they could pay their final respects to john mccain. it was impressive and inspiring and amazing to watch this. to see this repeated today, and as we watch this again, you look at john mccain's 15 car procession, what goes through your mind? >> you talk about high schools lining this route and what a history lesson it is, i got to learn about him and anywhere you go in the world, enlisted and officers, young troops that were men or women, they all delayed their promotion ceremony if they heard john mccain was coming to town sometime in the future because they wanted him to read them the oath, they wanted to be sworn in and promoted by john mccain, he was everyone's hero. >> you often mention kind of a similar political attitude, and when we talk, i was teasing earlier sayi

. >> reporter: the field of candidates included elizabeth dole, dan quayle, pat buchanan and texas governor. bush. >> our first poll in new hampshire showed me at 2% with a 5% margin of error. what that could mean is 3% actually were against me. >> reporter: the arizona senator often asked the crowd for sympathy. >> because we have so little water in arizona, the trees chase the dogs. >> reporter: you all sort of think of yourselves as david and goliath versus george w. bush? >> yes. george w. bush had everything going for him, so it was difficult to get anyone's attention. but what we did get was john mccain's time, which was the most meaningful. >> reporter: mccain was a different kind of politician. he may have kept tubs of hand sanitizer on the bus, but he shook every hand, took every question. >> questions. yes, ma'am. >> i like republicans, democrats, libertarians, vegetarians, legalitarians. there were people that would interrupt, and john would say, if you just stop yelling, i'll call on you next and we can have our debate. and he would take on these people, and after a couple minut

everyone from lindsey graham to kirsten gillibrand and former vice president dan quayle and thousandsrs and dignitaries. and if you look behind me you can see people starting to file in the church. 1,000 seats have been reserved for the public who so dearly loved john mccain. >> jon: it will be quite a processional. trace gallagher, thank you. >> these are the key people who ran these investigations. tell me any other time you've seen a federal agency where this has taken place with the key people at the top who ran the clinton investigation and started and ran the russia investigation. that's the biggest problem. >> sandra: that's jim jordan on the story last night reacting after house lawmakers grilled justice department official bruce ohr in a closed-door session on capitol hill. tom dupree joins me now. we'll get back to the fired-up jim jordan. what has changed since that closed-door meeting happened that went on for house. what came out of it? >> we're still getting bits and pieces of the report. i think what came out is in many respects it raises more questions than it answers,

former vice president dan quayle. fitzgerald janitor and the governor of arizona and his wife will be attending that ceremony in phoenix. body andsenator's family will make their way to washington, d.c. where he will lie in state in the u.s. capitol rotunda on friday. there will be a service there as well. -- senator the mccain requested george h -- george w. bush and former president barack obama all make eulogies at the memorial service at the national cathedral. all of our coverage on [applause] , and c-span, c-span.org the c-span radio app. a lengthy story about how mccain got the last word in choreographed with the help of his staff the funeral arrangements. they will continue for the next three days. george and morton, illinois. good morning to you. caller: thank you. good morning and thank you for c-span. i wanted to make a comment on the last speaker you had on. you was talking about bernie sanders. caterpillar, a union job. strongly union and has always been. even there you got a lot of democrats that voted f