. >> or bob dole. >> or bob dole. and by the end he was a nominee. ron, for your father's reincarnation. >> we don't see it there, do we? >> we all see he was a great president but he's bigger than life today, and that's a shadow that very few people can stand in. >> ron reagan jr., three republican candidates in a row, george herbert walker bush, bob dole, and mccain, not one of them they liked. why won't they just do it again? the fourth guy in a row they don't like. >> well, they will. romney is going to be the nominee. but this is incredible. you know, ed is right. the republican voters are saying, look, he's the guy that can run against obama and maybe win, so we should try and get this guy in. but what's the big, you know, bete noir for republicans now? it's obamacare, obamas health care plan, creeping communism. but romney's plan is the same. so what are they voting for? >> ron, we've got witness ppz and we had one tonight. thank you, ed rollins as always. thank you, ron reagan. when we return, let me finish with the exasperation in this count

bob dole referring to himself as bob dole.l came rushing back during cain's press conference yesterday. >> a businessman by the name of herman cain stepped forward, here i am, some people don't want to see herman cain get the republican nomination. some people don't want herman cain to become president. i can't tell you what that motivation is. other than, it's to stop herman cain. you see, that's one thing about herman cain, that's the person herman cain is. >> you know who used to do that? julius caesar. anyway, there you have it. that gives us a grand total of how many from yesterday's press conference? six. half dozen. might not seem like a lot. but it was all in just 30 seconds. imagine a state of the union address from this fella, we could hear a lot more third-person references from herman cain, six of them last night, and that's tonight's half dozen big number. >>> up next, more women up for reelection in the senate this year and the number of women running for the senate is among the highest ever. is 2012 shaping up a

and bob dole, not so good at television. >> guest: a lot of people have said that.eagan was great at television. he was an actor or whatever. like it or not, and the president of the united states has to be able to communicate on television. that is like being at least 35 years old. it is a qualification. you can of the greatest ideas in the world and if you want to get the american people to rise up and go toward or not go to war were right up and raise the debt ceiling or whatever it is, you have to be able to make the case on television. be able to look at television camera and people have to start nodding yes, you're right mr. president. it is a qualification for office but are anyone likes it or not. >> host: that makes me think about the 2008 today not so long ago because there seemed to be such a difference between john mccain who has been in public life for quite a long time. in his coat in front of the camera versus barack obama. do you take that into consideration somehow when you think of your questions? >> guest: no, no, no, no. in that case, mccain obam

he was boring old bob dole and moderate and everything. there was really no alternative. what happened was it took pat buchanan winning the new hampshire primary in 1996 to scare the bejesuss out of the republican party and say, pat buchanan is never going to win anything again in the party so it's time to get onboard with bob dole. i think that's what we might be moving toward. there's a scenario where romney could win iowa. if it's gingrich, cain, perry, if somebody can beat romney, we get the reaction and the republicans get their act together and that's when it ends. >> i agree with you, except my only tweak on that would be once that happens then mitt romney announces that bestwlees is going to be his -- >>> we scanned the globe for 11/11/11 weirdness. in the process, the weirdest thing we could find about the world's treatment of 11/11/11 was in detroit. that's next. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 there are atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 account service fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and the most dreaded fees of all, hidden fees. tdd# 1-800

. >> or bob dole. >> or bob dole. by the end he was the nominee.ur father's reincarnation and, you know, we all know -- >> we don't see it there do we? >> well, we all see how he was a great president but he's bigger than life today and that's a shoutout that very few people can stand in. >> ron reagan jr., three republican candidates in a row. george herbert walker bush, bob dole, and cain. not one of them they liked. why don't they just do it again, a fourth guy in a row they don't like? >> well, they will. i mean, romney is going to be the nominee. this is incredible. you know, ed is right. the republican voters are saying, look. he's the guy that can run against obama and maybe win. so we should try and get this guy in. but what's the big -- you know, for the republicans now it's obama care, obama's health care plan, creeping communism. but romney's plan is the same. >> i got you. we got witnesses tonight. thank you. we had one witness tonight. thank you, ed rollins. when we return let me finish with the exasperation in this country with the tw

bob dole shops here, too. [laughter] this is a true story. a year later you may remember bob dole did the infamous commercial and i ran into gephardt and he said to me you know in 1996 we didn't know what bob dole was fighting in the drugstore but we sure know now. [laughter] that is a new hampshire moment. if you would direct your attention to the monitors around the room we get a special deal for the folks for review to see at the new hampshire primary. after he was elected i'm sorry, let me start that again. if you never had the chance to meet david broder, those who have will tell you is your loss. >> it just wasn't him. >> i've been covering politics for a very long time and as a journalist, not as a partisan i have a stake wanting to see this political system of hours worked deeded was without a question eight heightened political reporting much short of an introduction he would never realized they were standing next to a pulitzer prize winner. >> he wasn't the world's best dresser like a flannel shirt with a tiny camera cross in a very

reagan, i could be reagan. >> but too much of that, i mean, that is why i think you didn't go with bob dole '88 or '96. >> oh, right, yeah. again, we went with buchanan in '96 and buchanan actually beat dole which was a message i think new hampshire conservative voter was sending to the nation and they didn't pay attention to it, perhaps they will this time. >> you mentioned in there that gingrich is not the perfect candidate. was there a perfect candidate that didn't run or somebody closer, somebody else you would have liked to have seen jump in the race? this is who you have to choose from. but were you pining for somebody else? >> no, there wasn't anybody in particular we would have liked to see more of them jump into the race, but once they're in, then they've got to perform. the talk currently has been of chris christie of new jersey and we met him a couple weeks ago when he was up here stumping for romney and we like that guy very much on first impression, but you know how it is. once they get in, then the shots are taken and they've got to withstand the fire. i think a lot of these c

they became the bob doles, the daniel inouyes, the jack kennedys that brought the nation forward anddle class. we have that opportunity again with this newest generation. they're going to lead this country back into strength and they're going to be the future of our nation. we just have to give them a shot at it. >> thank you, tammy duckworth. good luck in your race. patrick, ten seconds. >> i would agree. it's not just going to happen because it should happen. it's going to happen because we pass bills like happened yesterday in the senate, the veterans jobs bill. they broke it down finally into smaller pieces, it passed 95-0, and it gives basically tax credits to businesses to hire these leaders, these military leaders back into the ranks of the employment. and there's almost 1 million veterans from iraq and afghanistan that are unemployed. we need to get it done, we need congress to act, and have a great veterans day, chris, and everyone. >> happy veterans day to everyone out there, to those who have served our country, thank you for your service if you're watching right now, and

bob dole had been around a lot in republican politics. i would not be surprised if bob dole had angered him somewhere along the way. i do not know the back story behind it. i would love to know. >> he also endorsed a woman named karen english for a congressional seat in arizona who was a democrat. she won and served one term. >> along those lines, when asked about his consistency, one of my favorite stories is about that. he endorsed someone who was a fiscal conservative but was a democrat over a republican who he thought was a big spender. the republican party chairman in arizona called him up and said, you are speaking out too much. you need to get in line. if you don't stop endorsing this democrat, we are or to take your name off of the republican party headquarters. barry goldwater said to him, if the republicans don't remember the principles that we stand for, i will make you take my name off of that. >> over the years, especially since he was in retirement, a number of public figures both republicans and democrats would come out her

bob dole shops here, too. [laughter] this is a true story. a year later you may remember bob dole did the infamous commercial and i ran into gephardt and he said to me you know in 1996 we didn't know what bob dole was fighting in the drugstore but we sure know now. [laughter] that is a new hampshire moment. if you would direct your attention to the monitors around the room we get a special deal for the folks for review to see at the new hampshire primary. after he was elected i'm sorry, let me start that again. if you never had the chance to meet david broder, those who have will tell you is your loss. >> it just wasn't him. >> i've been covering politics for a very long time and as a journalist, not as a partisan i have a stake wanting to see this political system of hours worked deeded was without a question eight heightened political reporting much short of an introduction he would never realized they were standing next to a pulitzer prize winner. >> he wasn't the world's best dresser like a flannel shirt with a tiny camera cross in a very

bob dole shops here, too. [laughter] this is a true story. a year later you may remember bob dole did the infamous commercial and i rn into gephardt and he said to me you know in 1996 we didn't know what bob dole was fighting in the drugstore but we sure know now. [laughter] that is a new hampshire moment. if you would direct your attention to the monitors around the room we get a special deal for the folks for revieto see at the new hampshire primary. after he was elected i'm sorry, let me start hat again. if you never had the chance to meet david broder, those who have will tell you is your loss. >> it just wasn't him. >> i've been covering politics for a very long time and as a journalist, not as a partisan i have a stake wanting to see this political system of hours worked deeded was without a question eight heightened political reporting much short of an introducti he would never realized they were standing next to a pulitzer prize winner. >> he wasn't the world's best dresser like a flannel shirt with a tiny camera cross in a very easy

but three months later, president clinton and bob dole were sitting in the oval office at trying to balance out -- hammer out a balanced budget agreement. i still believe things can turn. i am still hopeful. every day, i talked to -- not every day, but often enough i talk with rising republicans in positions of responsibility who want to be part of a solution. i think they have to be willing to overcome the opposition and their party in the same way that president obama was willing to help move his party to move toward a grand compromise. >> does the president support you in supporting operation twist? >> on the -- on that, the clinton economic team, the obama economic team, we respect them both, so we do not comment on whether we supported or not. and we think that is a hallmark of our system. we, as an economic team, often talk to the federal reserve and to the chairman about policy issues. i meet with him once a month. tim geithner meet with him more often than that. he does come in and we have small meetings with him on the president. i think what we try to do is make sure we are using

in fact, not since bob dole in 1996 has a candidate been such a clear front-runner right before the primaries and caucuses begin." well, two new polls out today show there is still a strong desire on the part of many republican conservatives to find someone else besides romney to be their nominee. the cbs poll shows romney -- look at this number here. romney tied for second with newt. herman cain continues to lead, but both he and romney, god, are down dramatically from last month. so romney's had as bad a time as cain, with cain losing a lot of ground with women. obviously. romney drops seven points. the mcclatchy/maris poll shows romney in the lead, followed closely by newt gingrich and herman cain. is there a viable alternative to romney among the conseconservatives? tony perkins is president of the family research council. david corn is an msnbc political analyst and bureau chief for mother jones. tony, i've been thinking about you a lot. i do trust your conscience, you're more conservative than me on cultural and moral issues, maybe, although i'm not sure. when it comes to actual moralit

the deal alone until politics took bob dole away from doing that.timately, it created the environment where we started the year with a clear mission. we knew, as you know, we had one call -- to get a bipartisan agreement. it can take a while. maybe it can take a year, but that is the mission. i think what happened between 95 and 97 with president clinton will be a model for what will happen in this time as well. >> nothing in the world positive happens without leadership. public service is a great honor. president clinton, we thank you for giving us the chance to serve. [applause] >> coming up in a few moments, the gop candidate herman cain speaks at the press club. president obama sons and executive order dealing with the shortage of prescription drugs. white house adviser gene sperling. and house speaker john boehner on jobs and the economy. a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow. the subcommittee holds a hearing on international organized crime at 10:00 a.m. eastern, here on c-span. reports out of the department of justice and the tre

organization by the end of this year finally after years and years of feeding with more than promising at bob dole russia is likely to continue lobbying for the reforms. yeah my o.b.'s was formed in nine hundred forty five and cut currently i'm of commitments amount to more three hundred billion dollars of funds and the the major war was at this point are greece portugal and ireland. well for more analysis we can all talk to our business editor and make a pool so dick what's your take on this what's legard looking for here in russia clearly she's looking for money the purpose policy states of europe means that they need more for their bailout funds and they need to come to where the money is and to a certain extent that's russia yeah so do you think she's actually going to get that money that she wants from russia will there will be conditions attached and the principle of precondition will be the europe needs to sort of ourselves needs to improve implement the structural reforms necessary so the money spent on the bailout is not just wasted money yeah you know what's interesting is russia did go

they did not have as serious an injury as bob dole had. he would go round to do the chores for help people -- change the bedpans. you had in the senate people who had been in the hospital together and had served this country injured, and were caring for one another. the respect that engenders. i hope that i will be able to build in my relationships in washington the kind of personal respect across the aisle that will draw good democrats and good republicans to recognize that it is the country we are dealing with. this is not a question of which party gets its way, it is can we fix america before we get into severe distress? can we make sure that our kids and have confidence that the future is brighter than the past? are we going to pass on trillions of dollars of our debt to our kids? this is what is at stake. there are good democrats and good republicans who, if they are led by someone who will tell them the truth and work with respect and draw on the american people and their patriotism, that we can finally deal with this thing. i did no

that's how we got bob dole and john mccain.trary to conventional wisdom, it turns out to be a bad strategy to win the presidency. newt gingrich, you could hardly argue he is not part of the establishment, but the problem for tea partiers is -- our freshmen that were elected in 2010, a lot of tea party rock stars, but they are too young to run for president. they have the humility, unlike president obama, to know that they are not ready to be president. guest: everybody talks about mark rubio. i think there is too much evidence -- and this is on the v.p. bob dole chose jack kemp. that did not work out for him. john mccain chose sarah palin. host: cape cod, massachusetts. caller: good morning. i am a strong supporter of freedomworks. i would like to hear mr. kibbe's response. let someone on who was an advocate for social security. i see $2.6 trillioni in debt. one in 19 americans -- received law firms who make a living getting people on to these programs. i do not believe the system is softened. -- is solvent. guest: you are righ

the clinton campaign ran a huge number of ads by the standards of that time against bob dole.nning him with newt gingrich saying these are the ones ruin ing once they got the nomination, they got there early? no core, no convictions. it's going to be parody. the president is going to raise a lot more money than whoever the republican nominee is. the republican nominee is going make up for that with outside spending and it will be a blood bath. >> what does that do to our national discourse? >> the national discourse is like really not in a great place now. >> yes. >> think about the things we have been talking about. wealth disparity only now. two and a half to three years after the wall street melt down. the only reason that has gotten it is because of okay ewe by wall street. the national discourse has been absent for many, many years. >> i feel like we have talken about those things but we have not gotten the media coverage. going back to what is relevant here and now. going back to what you said, it scares me that you have got -- both parties are on policy different enough

bob dole conveyed a message from her.his comes 10 months from what would have been the president's 100th birthday. >> the $5 monthly fee that bank of america plant and charging debit card users will not happen. the debit card fee would have gone into effect in january. customers may not be out of the woods. some experts fear lenders may raise other charges. bank of america is trying to stem the tide of foreclosures in the sunshine state by paying owners to get out. to qualify, homeowners must secure a buyer before november 30. the amount awarded to the buyer depends on the value of the home and the wave of delinquency. the fed is kicking off its homeowner review process. an ipad 2 blinged out with diamonds and dinosaur bones. >> nearly 4.5 million consumers have a chance to get their foreclosure cases reviewed. the first batch of letters already in the mail. banking regulators found flaws in the foreclosure process. regulators say not all home owners can be remedied. would it numbers from challenger gray and adp. a deep s

elizabeth and bob dole are among those at the airport. >>> and then the apple engineers are reachingners to try and identify the problem. the owners are coming up with their own way to work out the problem, and they include wiping the phone and cleaning it out and reinstalling user data, and turning off i-cloud updates. >>> featured gowns exhibits open the 19th. >>> and we will check in with the day's business headlines. >> worries right now that a planned weak referendum is rattling the markets. the concern is greece is putting the cost-cutting plan to a popular vote and a vote against the plan could lead the company to default on its debt. the major index is right now trading lower. we have the dow down by 270 points. in other news, auto makers reporting october sales today. sales are expected to hit an eight-month high, partly due to demand. the average age of a vehicle on u.s. roads nearly 11 years old. >>> jc penney is betting on the finer things this season, and the chain is getting more expensive items. and they will sell fancier watches made with rose gold. and solyndra will

i do not -- with the exception of bob dole, i do not see any politician today, either party, who hasse of humor. >> do you think it worked against stevenson? he always had these wonderful quips. >> abraham lincoln went around telling stories all the time. i do not think it hurt him. i think people like to have someone who has a sense of humor. >> next call, poughkeepsie, new york. >> hi. i would like to know when stevenson was a child, was there an incident where he accidentally shot his friends? how did that influence his presidential campaign? >> did he ever talk about that? >> there was a tragic accident in childhood when there was a loose gone in the family -- gun in the family and adlai stevenson accidentally shot and killed another child. i never heard him say anything about it. who knows? >> he was 12 years old at the time. one did get the sense that the family moved on. it was not something that they dwelled on. years later, i he expressed astonishment that his wife knew about the incident. it would suggest that he really kept it very close to his vest. >> who was his wife? >

john, what have you learned. >> herman cain is turning into bob dole.heard clinton wanted a third time. >> he did not say that. >> i say that with hope and optimism. if we can change the system and make that possible, wouldn't be bad. >> if bill clinton ran this year -- >> that's what i learned. he is against term limits for presidents going forward, not retroactive. >> going forward. mika, i learned he's got a great book. >> uh-huh. >> and there is so much in there that he talks about what we talk about everyday. not slashing on investment. having to take care of the long-term debt issue, regrowing the economy and middle class. what have you learned? >> the republican party might actually want

including those of ronald reagan and bob dole and nixon and george bush. >>guest: and others.osers. the great mike huckabee. who would have been a real contender. >>shepard: is it going to be romney? >>guest: there will be a challenger. newt is a smart guy and we are to a point where people have to make decisions and my sense is he knows the spots if libya and what have you. it is helpful. he will not stumble because of intellectual mistakes a question of whether he can put an organization together and can he win. my sense is, we will see. my sense is he will be a contender. he is one of the two or three that will stay in the race. >>shepard: he gets the right vote and romney gets the rest. romney today is 25 percent or 30 percent but better in new hampshire and he has to bring the other 65 percent who watched him for four or five years and he has not made the sale. >>shepard: and these polls from november 10 and 11, romney 50 percent and obama 40 percent in the state of new hampshire. the polls are interesting to track. but not to predict outcome. >>guest: it is the movement

behind bob dole. ahead of the stunned vice president.h won the nomination tend two tous --nomination. >> bret: they started to build the bonds for the constitutional conservatism. social and fiscal issues tied together. >> bret: former vermont governor howard dean with the strong opposition to iraq war and pyre nearing use of the internet looked like he might run away with the democratic nomination. >> dean worked the state and worked it hard. >> bret: joe tripoli wa trippe e campaign manager. >> we had been hemorrhaging support for a while. >> bret: john kerry foundering campaign bet everything on iowa. he won. john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered the disastrous "i had a scream" speech. >> going to south dakota, and oregon and washington and michigan. and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house. yeah! >> iowa is just completely full of stories like that. every cycle i have ever been in, something unexpected happens. >> kerry cruised to the nomination. picked edwards as the ru

. >> those johnny come lightlies propelled pat robertson into second place behind bob dole but aheadf the stunned vice president. bush did end up winning the nomination and the white house, but the party was changed for good. >> not only did they lay down the parameters especially of social conservatism in that year but they started to build the bonds for constitutional conservatism social and fiscal issues tied together. >> in 2004 iowa showed it could not only turn an unknown into a contender it could destroy a frontrunner. former vermont governor howard dean with his strong opposition to the iraq war and pioneering use of the internet looked like he might run away with the democratic nomination. >> he worked the state. he worked it hard. a lot of people got to know him. the more they got to know him the less confidence they had in him. >> joe tripy was howard dean's campaign manager. >> we knew days in advance we were going to lose iowa. we had been losing, hemorrhaging support for a while. >> john kerr reese floundering campaign had bet everything on iowa. he won. john edward cam

. >> the johnny come latelies propelled pat robertson into second place, behind bob dole and ahead of the stunned vice-president. bush did end up win winning the nomination and the white house. but the party was changed for good. >> not only did they lay down the parameters, especially of social conservativism, but they built the bonds for constitutional conservativism and the social and fiscal issues tied together. in 2004, iowa showed it could not only turn an unknown into a contender tcould destroy a frontrunner. howard dean, with his strong opposition to the iraq war and pioneering use of the internet, looked like he might run away with the nomination. >> howard dean worked the state and worked it hard. a lot of people got to know him and the morthey got to know him, the less confidence they had in him. >> joe trip pywas howard dean's campaign manager. >> we knew days in advance, we were going to lose iowa. we were hemorrhaging support. >> john kerry's foundering campaign had bet everything on iowa. and he won. john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he deliver

. >> the johnny come latelies propelled pat robertson into second place, behind bob dole and ahead of the stunned vice-president. bush did end up win winning the nomination and the white house. but the party was changed for good. >> not only did they lay down the parameters, especially of social conservativism, but they built the bonds for constitutional conservativism and the social and fiscal issues tied together. in 2004, iowa showed it could not only turn an unknown into a contender tcould destroy a frontrunner. howard dean, with his strong opposition to the iraq war and pioneering use of the internet, looked like he might run away with the nomination. >> howard dean worked the state and worked it hard. a lot of people got to know him and the morthey got to know him, the less confidence they had in him. >> joe trip pywas howard dean's campaign manager. >> we knew days in advance, we were going to lose iowa. we were hemorrhaging support. >> john kerry's foundering campaign had bet everything on iowa. and he won. john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he deliver

. >> the johnny come latelies propelled pat robertson into second place, behind bob dole and ahead ofesident. bush did end up win winning the nomination and the white house. but the party was changed for good. >> not only did they lay down the parameters, especially of social conservativism, but they built the bonds for constitutional conservativism and the social and fiscal issues tied together. in 2004, iowa showed it could not only turn an unknown into a contender tcould destroy a frontrunner. howard dean, with his strong opposition to the iraq war and pioneering use of the internet, looked like he might run away with the nomination. >> howard dean worked the state and worked it hard. a lot of people got to know him and the morthey got to know him, the less confidence they had in him. >> joe trip pywas howard dean's campaign manager. >> we knew days in advance, we were going to lose iowa. we were hemorrhaging support. >> john kerry's foundering campaign had bet everything on iowa. and he won. john edwards came in second and dean slipped to third. then he delivered his disastrous "i