this is some of the new territory to me, except long, long ago i worked in senator bob dole's office which is supposed dates me, and this is a newer building for my time. i know the hallowed halls, something about the work you do for taking -- so thank you for taking a break to be a today. you afraid to come and listen to me. in an earlier group i was an attorney which is a group not known for its brevity a speech and not for long, i've been an academic which is not known for its clarity of speech. as i said you're brave to come on a friday, to hear what i did say. i thought i would begin with the 2012 election. as i'm sure you're aware, after that election many people proclaimed the death of modern american absolutism the one commentator said the titanic is sinking referring to american conservatism. another one observed that the conservative argument in this election will be -- lots of people said that conservative needed to change both its message and its method this is going to win an election in. it's still being debated today. i noticed in this month "wall street journal" scott

i mentioned earlier i worked for senator bob dole and he was called senator graham lot. he didn't mind and when asked about it he said there are a lot of bad ideas in washington and somebody needs to stop them. that was his idea of conservatism. he had a good line, some college gave him an honorary doctorate did duhcry and he said well at least now they have to call me dr. gridlock now. when you hear a problem progressives are quick to design a government solution for the problem. we feel your pain and we are going to design something that will fix your pain whereas conservatives are any more defensive posture saying no we don't want to go to the federal government. the next part of the conservative message doesn't get heard. we believe in individual freedom we believe in churches and all of these associational approaches kind of the older president bush's 1000 points of light. we believe in building a safety net not a complete takeover of health care for example. we agreed that i think the conservative message is a harder one to get across. we think that it can be impro

. >> senator bob dole will give you back more of your money. >> just show up and last night bob dole nervous wreck. i didn't have enough experience hosting on television. those tapes are now hopefully under armed guard. >> they are in the lock box. >> hannity and combs was on the air for 12 years. the conservative and the liberal personify fair and balanced. >> i was expecting more from this report. >> are you kidding? >> than stuff about monica lewinsky. >> did we read the same report? >> i think we did. >> perjury, obstruction, tampering, abuse of power. >> whitewater. >> in spite of political disagreements we have had a of wonderful 12 years together. you are a personal friend. >> going to kill you with conservatives. >> hang on. i will miss you. >> you have a great instinct. you know what the audience wants. >> before you put people in harm's way you want to listen to a lot of voices. at least i wanted to. >> why are you crossing over? >> i don't have papers. >> you don't? do you want to work? why not go through the process legally? >> huh? >> why not go through and get the paper

. >> senator bob dole, all you have to do is show up and last night bob dole proved that. >> i was adid not have enough experience at hosting on television. so those tapes now are under hopefully armed guard. >> they're in the lockbox. >> hannity and combs was on the air for the channel's first 12 years. the conservative and the liberal personified fair and balanced. >> i was really expecting who are out of this report than stuff about monica lewinsky lying about -- >> did we read the same report? >> i think we did. >> overwhelming he said of perjury, obstruction, abuse of power. >> in spite of our political disagreements, we've had a wonderful 12 years together. are you a personal friend. >> this will kill you. >> hang on a second. i'm going to miss you. >> you know what the audience wants. >> 19 hijackers used airline tickets and box cutters last time. they had nuclear weapons and destroyed a city. >> before you put people in harm's way, you want to listen to it a lot of voices. at least i wanted to. >> why are you crossing over? you you don't have papers? you want to come and work

a mississippi native and former print journalist, speaks had also worked for bob dole and president jerry ford. larry speaks was 74 years old. >>> still ahead for us on this friday night, the outbreak taking hold right across the country right about now. the death toll from flu is rising. nine people at one hospital alone. >>> and later, an exclusive look at the future of space travel rapidly approaching, and seats going fast. >>> back here with health news, the flu has spread, sharply from a week ago. there is a shortage of the main drug to treat it. it is flu season. it is worth paying attention to this latest threat. we get the latest tonight from nbc's janet shamlian. >> reporter: sean mccoy was surprised when his daughter came down with the flu on new year's day. the 2-year-old had a shot last fall. so did the entire family. the doctor prescribed tamiflu for all five of them but it turned out to be hard to find. >> it took us a while to get it. we had to run around to different pharmacies. some pharmacies didn't have it. >> reporter: there is a nationwide shortage of the liquid tamif

. >> bob dole in '97, that was the problem. 1997 bob dole. >> it also shows how difficult politics onhe family in particular on the family. i have a thick skin. i've been called everything in the book. it's my mother that you know, calls up and says, why did you not show up? i'm like, mom, i have a 97% voting record. what are you talking about? so it really is the family that suffers. it's a tough thing to go through a campaign. >> i was lucky enough as a cub reporter 1994 to cover the mitt romney/ted kennedy race and you got inside that family in a very different way and you sort of saw that droll kind of self-mocking sense of humor and that sense of perspective that's very unusual. that's the first time in that documentary where i've seen it again. >> when i spent time with romney on the campaign trail, what came through to me is how tough this was for ann romney. she had been through it before but she really felt stung by this. you can't overstate how tough it is for the people who love these men and women who are running. >> anybody thinking about running for president, you should

then next half hour the controversy surrounding irish welcome to the accounts committee bob dole was the base of beatiful private member's motion opening off i was fortunate to freedom of information act makes it a nice words if you're supporting these ants are hands. standing by for saturday because he thought this couldn't get any worse for the irish war to the idea these bonus payments and makes it onto the agenda something which a piece of gum down like an advert in all rounds. yes indeed it is somewhat surprising that will raise but the opposition leader's questions perhaps we hear more about this issue that the private members' debate or indeed the committee which starts in just one day off and are a goldman spokesman said this lunchtime in laws and policy to pay bonuses in sin you see organizations. though the mess that bonuses are paid in the nt and amd's performance rate of pay in samoa state institutions as well. defectors to the tomato pulp ministers may say that these are indeed in the middle seats into agreements to pay a modest amount for which the irish will for worker

bob dole ran against him. romney, an independent of the time. we now have the generation that was brought up seeing ronald reagan. they believe the party of reagan will have people running in 2016 who had their formative years all competing to give the american people the inspirational message that conservatism has been can show andlimited government how civil society can make life better for everybody. >> how is heritage action feeling about mitch mcconnell these days? >> you can go to our scorecard. heritageaction.com. what we do is be very transparently for every member of congress list all the votes we thought were important and why we thought they were important and how they voted. it is the job of the constituents, not me, to look at the scorecard and the overall score and say is this person doing a good job? >> the scorecards, this is not a static process. in terms of trying to marshal resources in that race. what are you going to do? >> we are not involved in electoral accountability. we are asking tough questions, informing voters of to

kaiser report imax guys are time now to turn to james turk he's the author of a new book the money bob dole what to do before it pops james welcome back to the kaiser report thanks max it's always to be a pleasure to be with you all right let's talk about the money bubble talk a little bit about what it's about you know in two thousand and four john rubino and i wrote the coming collapse of the dollar and we had two basic themes in the book one was that housing was in a bubble and it was going to collapse and secondly he wanted to buy gold because it was undervalued going to go much higher. what happened in two thousand and eight we thought was going to bring the ultimate collapse of the dollar but it didn't it's been postponed by this unprecedented amount of money printing by central banks around the world so earlier this year is gold started to slide you know john and i started thinking well maybe we should write a follow up explain why gold is still good value why it's going to go much higher and the bigger issue that what's created as a result of the two thousand and eight collapse and

i worked in senator bob dole's office, which i suppose dates me. this is a newer building for my time, but the hollowed halls, something about the work you do. thank you for taking a break to be here today. you are brave to come listen to me. in an earlier career as an attorney, group not always known for its brevity of speech and now for a long time i've been an academic, which is a group not known for their clarity of speech. as i said, you're free to combine friday to hear what i have to say. i thought i would begin with the 2012 election. as i'm sure you are aware, after that election, many people proclaimed the death of modern american conservatism. one commentator said the titanic is sinking, referring to american conservatism. another one observed the conservative arguments we heard in this election are going to be relics in a museum very shortly. lots of people said that conservatism really needed to change but this message if there was ever going to win an election again. it is still being debated today. in "the wall street journal," gover

we saw that with bob dole, with mitt romney, and certainly with john mccain, is that they're all cutloth. big government moderate. they're not interested in cutting spending, not interested in recuduceing the size of the government. he also believed in global warming. those are things that are not tea party fiscally responsible issues, so we have a problem with that, and quite bluntly, a lot of us are enjoying watching him squirm with the mainstream media who has him, now his friends are pulling out the long knives. >> what do you make of the fact it's rallying some people. it's not all, and certainly far in the majority, but a lot of conservatives who don't like the media, you know, bumping up and busing him up. >> well, it's interesting. usually, the left leaning media waits until their republican candidate for president of choice has won the nomination before they try to destroy him. so it's kind of interesting seeing him, the target of such vit rheeal right now, but i believe it's really they're desperate because president obama is in huge trouble with the disaster zone that is o

leaders like george mcgovern and from the right, like bob dole, came together to make a difference. senator dole called the egregious cut to food stamps, quote, an about-face in our progress fighting hunger. this is because food stamps is our country's most important effort to deal with hunger here at home and ensure that america cap families can put food on their family. they help 47 million americans and nearly half of them children and make a tremendous difference for the health and well-being. food stamps have been proven to improve low-income children's health and development and have a continuing positive influence into adulthood. children's health watch, their research found that after collecting 14 years' worth of data that when families experience a loss or reduction in food stamp benefits, they are more likely to be food insecure, be in poor health and their children experience developmental delays relative to their peers. food stamps somewhere one of the lowest error rates of any government program. around 3.8%, that includes overpayments and underpayments. and i defile t

historically the mainstream media has told us most electedable, george bush sr., bob dole, john mccaine been figure fat losers. the ones they say we hope they run that ronald reagan. so electables, that doesn't mean there's no such thing as electable. it kind of drives me crazy. i've been making this argument for years. i think some conservatives have picked up that to make the argument that anyone, even if i say someone is more electable, that must mean he's unelectable. look who's talk. if the "new york times" tells you a candidate is electable, don't take advice from your enemies. that doesn't mean there's not a quality called electable but i don't think christie was electsable other than the fact that he probably would have been the most liberal candidate running in a primary. when i close my eyes and think of everyone who might for republican as republican maybe that's how he would have gotten through. >> but is that part of the problem is the system mean that is when a gop nominee runs, in those early primaries they face they've got almost no chance of winning if they are even re

bob dole defended the food stamp program in the early 1980s. george w.ush recently was a strong supporter of the food stamp program. so we had a different politics than we do right at the moment, anyway. president obama has done a lot about poverty and i think we should be very clear about that. the medicaid expansion in the affordable care act is a historic dimension. what was in the recovery act was terrific for low-income people in our country. so we have leadership. and then johnson, those words do ring strong for us. >> wednesday, marco rubio of florida outlined sweeping changes to the federal government's anti-poverty programs. what's the current president and his liberal allies with a proposed to address, the proposal is to spend more on his fellow programs and increase the minimum wage to $10.10. really? this is their solution? to what the president has called a defining issue of our time? maying the minimum wage poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the american dream. and our current government programs at best offer only a p

bob dole was a very pragmatic, very effective senate leader. host: baton rouge, louisiana, robert. caller: i had a question for mr. smith. how will government policy be changed with big money from both parties? will it take more supreme court appointments to overturn citizens united and the money to speech decisions? another quick comment, that's scary statistic that the top 400 people in the world have more than the bottom billion people, the american dream is linked to the rest of the world in terms of developing markets and pressures. please comment, thank you? guest: the walmart founding family has more wealth in america than 120 million americans. we do not need to go overseas to see that. the political questions that you act were very -- asked were very important. it is hard to see how we will fix the economic problems in this country without political reform. political reform will almost certainly have to be the big money in politics. there is no question that there has been an explosion of financial expenditures. the cost of running for house seat has gone up 20 or 30 times

george bush senior, bob dole, john mccain, have been big, fat losers.nd the ones they tell us they hope they run like ronald reagan, they're the winners. so electable, it drives me crazy. i've been making this argument for years. some conservatives have picked that up, to make the argument that anyone, even if i say someone is more electable, that must mean he's unelectable. if "the new york times" tells you a candidate sun elect aboabi don't think kr christie was tha electable, other than the fact he would have been the most liberal candidate running in a primary. when i close my eyes and think of everyone who might run as president, maybe that's how he would have gotten through. >> is part of the problem is the system means that when a gop nominee runs in those early primaries they face, they've got almost no chance of winning, if they are remotely moderate. >> are we talking about electable or moderate? because i don't think moderate is our most electable. what we want is principles, conservative, with such a high iq that when the main stream media i

bob dole came out actually for kansas city at the reception last night.is handing out broncos gear and las vegas is paying for the wi-fi. >> we've all -- we're in kansas city have the 1976 convention, that would be a second time around for kansas city. denver, of course was the site of the democratic convention. chris, what are you hearing in terms of where they might choose to put the convention and primary calendar? >> first of all on the convention, i think it's early. i think casey is exactly right about cities angling for it. that usually comes a little bit later and tends to be, although i'm not sure there's much evidence of this, tends to be a state where the party wants to make a mark and show their commitment to say president obama had the convention in 2012 in charlotte, obviously he lost north carolina, narrowly. i am fascinated of a prospect of a convention in las vegas, nevada. but on the primary dates, what you're seeing here. if the measure before the rules committee passes and what happens and we expect to happen happens, you'll have iowa,

bob dole was here for the kansas city bid, las vegas is here. the denver bid committee is here, giving out colorado rockies hats. columbus, ohio and phoenix are also two of the cities in the running, wolf. >> what about las vegas? i thought they were anxious to get that republican convention, as well. >> reporter: yeah, las vegas is here. they have set up a lounge right down the hall for me for members to hang out with free wi-fi. giving free wi-fi to reporters here. and among all the committees, they seem to have the most robust staff. a really big team of republican operatives really working behind the scenes to whip up votes for las vegas 2016, wolf. maybe i'll see you there. >> maybe we'll all go to vaegs. who knows. thanks very much peter hamby. let's talk more about the strategy of moving up the republican convention and what it would mean for the gop in 2016. our chief political analyst, gloria borger, is here. >> still trying to think of a convention in vegas, wolf, and what that would be like. >> a lot of conventions in vegas. they did

after his 1996 presidential election loss, bob dole poked fun at himself in this ad for visa which re-created kansas homecoming. five years later, dole played pitchman again in this ad for pepsi. ♪ [ barks ] >> easy, boy. >> it's almost painful 1994 lay's play potato chip ad who had trouble with the word potato. did dan quayle know he was the punch line? note a young elijah wood. >> excuse me. hello, mr. quayle. care to make a bet? >> sure, son. what's the bet? >> it's rare these days there's actually a national television event. politicians have used the super bowl to broadcast their messages to a guaranteed audience of millions. in 2012, longtime allies on gun control. mayor bloomberg and tom menino teamed up for this spot. >> giants. >> patriots. >> eli. >> brady. >> we don't agree on much. >> yankees. >> red sox. >> beans. >> bagels. >> but we both support the second amendment. >> and american needs to do what it can to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. >> mayors against illegal guns hired another ad. infamous speech to an empty chair in 2012, there was this chrysler ad, which laun

a great political soapbox to stand on i mean republicans blame republicans for this so it was a bob dole we should on the right thing if they thought it was the right thing to do put made an error of these not employed people they shouldn't have voted for until it uncritically extension but i think that if they they cut it out so they could make this political issue they're the ones playing political games with the one of only a few thinks they have mcgrath's who are the ones at fault here why didn't work our sixty votes to just pass a normal procedural measure when this passed easily during bush's time in office why then if it's only democrats that are called here it's clear that republicans won't want anything of this that's what you ever did more democrats than republicans vote for yes they're idiots which did not extend benefits but did did all that obama sign it did republicans have extensions of unemployment benefits during the bush administration absolutely not whining and without asking for how do you know how and i'm not. going to. do you want us to know how it sounds al back ju

i remember bob dole running. he was running in the year that i was trying in '95 and '96 and was successful. i remember very well, howard baker ran earlier than that because i was his campaign manager. but both of these individuals were leaders of the party to minority leaders in most cases as opposed to the majority leader's. in the bill very conscientious about doing there duties in the senate. i felt the same way about making all of the roll call votes and feeling that indiana had only to members of the senate. if one was gone 50 percent of whatever we had was absent. but it is a different style. if you decide to go for the presidency, the senate is there is a former, you can speak, have books of your own, take time to write those, as john kennedy said -- certainly did, and likewise to have an instructional process in terms of foreign relations. i was delighted to learn from jon's book, for example, that president kennedy was very eager to get on the foreign relations committee. and it took him awhile for his

charlie, one was a young congressman from illinois named donald rumsfeld and another from kansas named bob dolewhat that election really significance any fide was the republican party was moving -- the center of gravity was moving away from the eastern establishment. at that point it was in the midwest but there are beginning to be a significant number of republicans in the south in both houses of congress, a trend that would accelerate. and 40 years later you could argue that the midwestern party has become allied with the southern and western party. >> on twitter this question aside from her predisposition did her being alone to raise the kids contribute to her drinking? i'm going to let her own words answer that. she wrote two memoirs and here is some of what she writes. i hated feeling crippled so i took more pills. now i know some of the pain i was trying to wipe out was emotional. jerry became minority leader of the house but i was feeling sorry for myself. she goes on to write in 1965 about a year after i began mixing pain medication with alcohol i snapped. i packed my bag one afternoon

bob dole and john mccain and mitt romney. that's the way it goes. george w. bush was in the middle. it goes in republican politics. never before have you seen the democrats, so much of their infrastructure, the money, the top strategist galvanizing so early around one person. that is a huge advantage in the sense it leaves her when they she finally makes a decision if it is to run with an infrastructure in place. the organization is being built while she is saying, i'm not so sure. some people worry, it is too big to succeed, if you will. it gets so top heavy, so many egos that you end up having 2008 reducts in the infighting. a lot of people looking at it from the democratic perspective. all of them waiting inle they get the final work from secretary clinton. >> john king, thanks so much for your insight this morning. still to come, republican, mike huckabee says, democrats are insulting women. his comments on uncle sugar about an uncontrollable libido has some people scratching their heads. i procrastinated... >>> good morning. there is focus in washington on the 2016 race as they

at that time senator bob dole was the majority leader in the united states senate, and it was a very different place. the boss i worked for, i worked on some issues for him, and he had his opportunities, as did other senators at that time, to come down here in the senate, offer amendments to be able to speak out on behalf of his constituents on issues that were important to them, important to him. and that's something that has become a bygone era. i also had the opportunity prior to being elected to the senate to serve in the other body, the house of representatives, where things are very structured. all of rules committee that basically regulates what legislation comes to the floor, what amendments will be made in order, how much time is allowed for debate on each amendment. that is the way that institution is structured. the senate is, as senator mcconnell, the republican leader, pointed out earlier is a very different institution by design. our founders want it to be be different. senator alexander in his remarks talked about an author who described it as a touch of authentic geni

. >>> threat george mitchell, bob dole and howard baker -- >> now former south dakota senator tom daschle will be talking about challenges with bipartisanship in congress. the former senate democratic leader expected to touch on immigration, energy policy and federal budget. he is co-founder of the bipartisan policy center. he's speaking this morning at the washington center for internship and academic seminars in thank you for that kind introduction and reception. i have been looking forward to the opportunity to be with you this morning and would love to get into a dialogue in a few minutes, but let me share some thoughts with you. in politics you get introduced in a lot of interesting ways. i think my fond introduction came a few years ago when i was introduced as a politician and model leader american. my wife linda f. lee iran showed me that night model of the find in the dictionary and a set a small replica of the real thing. [laughter] so that is a book that i appreciate very much, but i think that you have had a model week and i'm thrilled that the bipartisan policy center at the

. >> bob dole did a viagra commercial and schwarzenegger wears a bag wig. >> did a little background. >> need to get back into acting. >>> also coming up double murder mystery at a california mall. now a third body found days later. will the discovery crack the puzzling case? >>> beyonce posting pictures from the white house and michelle obama's big birthday party. cannot wait to share those details coming up. that looks like her posing with buddy -- >> bo. >> bo. sorry. >> i thought buddy was bush's dog. >> really? you would know better than me. i defer to you on these matters. >> i hope i'm right about that. >>> i'll switch gears and get to that new development in the in is tearous case of a christmas eve double murder in san diego. police found another body. all in their early 20s and linsey davis with the details. >> reporter: it began with a double shooting christmas eve morning but now a third body has been found in another location in another car. a car belonging to the older brother of the deceased male who also happens to be the fiance of the decea

invariably, nominate bob dole, george w. bush, romney, mccain.s to christie taken off the board and look at the republican party shift to libertarianism, is it rand paul to pick up the pieces? >> the poll numbers you showed, interesting, despite christie losing ground versus hillary clinton, he still performs better than other potential 2016 candidates. against hillary clinton. he performed better than rand paul. so the question is, can he survive a primary to get to a general? and there is a concern among moderates that with this whole scandal that we will end up with a rand paul as the republican candidate. he won't be able to beat hillary clinton. >> can't win the general election. that's the question. besides chris christie, who else is out there who can play that sort of moderate role? who could be the electable george w. bush in 2000? >> jeb bush. his brother. >> marco rubio. his problem, he clearly gets skittish, right? on immigration, came out hard. instead of continuing to force the issue backed away. they pounced on him, conservatives.

bob dole was funny when he stopped the campaign. al gore was funny once he stopped the campaign.pressure. there's a lot of money on the line. in some ways they want it too much. they're also surrounded by people telling them what to do and say and think and it's hard to be yourself. >> one comment can undo a campaign. it can be a late night on an airplane on a press corps. >> we're going to take the white house! >> the 47% comment is a perfect example. so he makes the mistake of being candid at this fund-raiser in be boca raton. >> jimmy fallon has a reputation for getting people loose and out of their comfort zone. take a welcome to where was this mitt romney on the on the campaign trail? a campaign, i guess, to get across what's going on in your every day life. you have 30-second ads. if you ran an ad telling jokes, it wouldn't do well. and then the debates you're wearing suits and going back and forth with the other guys. you're going back and forth with the president. so it's fot an opportunity to have people get to know you as you are. >> interesting. interesting. well, jay