and frist, bill frist, who succeeded trent lott is back on this wall. he was the one who put andrew jackson up outside. and that's leading to my story about clay and jackson. >> how do you use this room? >> well, we're having meetings in here all the time. the republican leadership meetings are in here. we have a particular issue we try and advance, i bring the leaders of both sides typically in to discuss ways to go forward. it is a beehive of activity. there are also constituent meetings in here, too. but mostly members. >> are you willing to share a story? doesn't have to be contemporary and give away anything, but a memory in this room? >> oh, my goodness. i'd have to think about that, there have been so many. well, one moment you'd be interested in. i think when president bush wanted to -- ordered the surge in iraq toward the end of his tenure, the democrats had just come to the majority and they believed that the unpopularity of the iraq war was the principal reason they can tomorrow to the majority. so there was a lot of resistance to providing t

but bill frist was a legendary transplant surgeon, what did he know?eone who's a doctor for celebrity rehab, who's essentially a nutritional doctor trying to diagnose a head trauma is like me trying to write about wall street. like, i kind of know a little bit about wall street, i read the news every day, but by no means am i an expert. and that's ludicrous you would ever have me on to talk about wall street. >> let's listen to donald trump in action, talking about this conspiracy, doing it with sean han the ty, sort of in way of full concern for her health. >> let me say, she's totally protected. i've never done that much about it. >> by the media? >> she doesn't do that much. she'll give a speech on teleprompter. then she'll disappear. she'll go home and goes to sleep. i think she sleeps. >> yeah, takes weekends off. >> i guess she takes a lot of time off. >> samantha, that's one of the areas where he or his folks are a bit more explicit, claiming there's something physically wrong with hillary clinton. in your reportage, is this doctor, this dr. jan

i was ten years older than bill frist. i had doubts during the period and i had just been bypassed by somebody that was ten years younger tha than i am and had a significant health problem. so i wonder if i would ever have an opportunity to have the job that i had been hoping to have for quite a while. so it was a challenging period but unlike the challenges i and others have come i don't want to make my story seemed all that unique. if you don't quit and you just keep plugging, the chances are you will get where you're head headed. we all have speed speedbump and setbacks. there was another disappointment. it wasn't the majority leader, it was the minority leader. >> host: you gave the blame for some of that to the republican and non- republican violence. we talk about that in the book about the politics of the gestures. what do you mean by that? >> guest: why don't we shut down the government to define the obamacare. obama is in the white house and it's obviously not going to sign such a bill. it's a way of describing. t

is a pollster and amy holmes, she was the senior speech writer to former senate majority leader bill frist. what is your sense of what trump is trying to accomplish here? and does he have what it takes to pull it off? >> i don't really take it seriously. if i want to enter connect with african-american voters, i'm not necessarily meeting with republicans. around 20% of hispanics are identified with republicans. i don't see this as an outreach the african-americans at all. what this is, you look at the polling numbers in these battle ground states. and we talk about he is losing ground with white college educated voters. he runs 15 or 16 off. a whole swath unsupportive of a racist. this is not about african-americans, forgetting aa whole year of racism. >> i think donald trump would love to get a larger percent of the african-american sxroet the hispanic vote. we know donald trump likes to aim big. i don't disagree that part of the outreach is to quell the discomfort among some of the more central rift voters that he needs if he wanted to be president of the united states. as reported in th