in nine 69, bob dole -- in 1969 bob dole was elected into the u.s. senate and served until 1996. now over the course of this period, he served as chairman of the republican national committee, chairman of the finance committee, senate minority leader, and then senate majority leader. and during his time in washington, senator dole was known for his ability to work across the aisle and embrace practical bipartisanship on the issues such as tax reform, social security and many other pressing issues. i have called this the kansas approach, the kansas approach to legislating. he has been a lifelong advocate for the disabled and was a key figure in the passing of the americans with disability act back in 1990. after his appointment as majority leader, bob dole set the record as the nation's longest-serving republican leader in the senate of the united states. several presidents of the united states have especially honored bob for his hard work and public leadership in the public sector. president reagan awarded him a medal in 1989 and president reagan stated whether on the battlefield

bob dole said here's the exit, i don't want anything to do with you.this unprompted after an event like this when the nation turns to a president and seeks guidance particularly on this moral plane. as f.d.r. said, it's primarily a job of moral leadership. >> stephen: that's the job of the statesman president. that is the dignity that makes receiving a medal from this man or the honor of being with him is captured with that behavior, he has to manifest that. >> right, you have to know that this is part of your job and often what it requires is -- i mean, he clearly wanted to make an argument about his point of view. all the time as president, you have to subly mate yourself. >> stephen: that is not his strength. ( laughter ) >> l.b.j. said being president is like being a jackass in a hail storm, you have to sometimes just stand there and take it. it's like a marriage, if you want to argue this till the last point, you may continue the argument and win, but there's a cost. sometimes you have to say i have this point of view and want to get it across but

before, it was under the covers. 2017.s not 1860, this is i would like to add that 1996, when bob dole accepted the presidential nomination from the republicans, he said it is a party for all, whites, blacks, any bigots, leave. trump refuses time after time to call out the bigots, the anti-semites, the white supremacists. there was a statement made yesterday that his people helped donald trump get elected president and trump refuses to condemn the white nationalists and the big its by doing so, he continues to make hatred mainstream. comment davidthe was referring to. [video clip] determined to take our country back. we will fulfill the promises of donald trump. that is what we believed in. that is why we voted for donald trump because he said we would take a country back. host: back to your calls, west virginia, independent line. good morning to austin. caller: the civil war was fought over slavery. if you read articles of secession, it becomes clear. generally and the like are built -- general lee and the like rebelled against the u.s. initiative have been hung. we should have a park

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i want to share what bob dole said back in 1996.ear. >> if there is anyone who has mistakenly attached himself to our party and the belief that we're not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you, tonight this hall belongs to the party of lincoln and the exits which are clearly marked are for you to walk out of as i stand this ground without compromise. >> that's bob dole. we heard george bush in the past call david duke an insincere and after the protests on saturday, it was he and his follows who got president trump elected and trump remains quiet. >> well, you look at -- we don't have to go back very far. senator dole was running in the 1990s. 1995 president clinton went to oklahoma city after the bombing of the federal building that killed so many people, including the children in that day care center. in that same season, george h.w. bush, resigned from the national rifle association because the nra put out a fund-raising letter referring to federal agents as jackbooted thugs. in the wake of 9/11, geor

i remember when bob dole told hate groups i don't want your support.he exit sign is there for you at the convention center. this president would not denounce david duke for days asking he didn't hear the questions or ducking that. he is never taking that on. it took 48 hours after a young lady was killed for him to denounce these people that engage in terrorism by name. 48 hours and a young american woman is dead by a self-described white supremacist and many have said the hate hasn't gone anywhere it's moved to the margins. it's now been emboldened. >> charlie: do you think we'll look back on it as a moment of change? do you think all that's what happened in terms of the reaction and some saying it will be an inflection point. >> i think it's part of a tragic pattern. i think it begins in our native region and the aftermath of mathematics. have you the founding of the klan on christmas eve, 1865. have you the beginning of white resistanc resistance. the fires of hate are burned brightest when there's times of economic and social stress. reconstruction

the one thing trump didn't say, which bob dole said in '96 and george h.w. bush said years before, we have a few supporters. we don't want your support if your support is based on bigotry or racism or prejudice. >> and kelly o'donnell, you covered bob dole, as did i. that is the kind of statement that we have not -- that we have not heard from this president and are not likely to hear from this president. >> and i was also struck, andrea, by the fact that president did say racism is evil. and he did tie those specific named groups to when they commit violence, they are criminals and thugs. but i did not hear him specifically identify these groups and say that their mere presence, their ideology, their values are evil. he seemed to link it to criminal activity, like we saw over the weekend. and i'm not sure that that is enough to make that kind of declaration. yes, he said the words. yes, he was more kind of full-bodied in his condemnation today. but i think there is still an absence of saying the mere existence of these groups is not in line with american va

. >> bob dole. all condemned and redukbuked, t kkk, white supremacists and white nationalists. >> it's not in his dna. >> the answer goes to what you just said. i think he's channelling his base. he is articulating -- i can tell you that a significant number of folks watching that presser went, that's what i'm talking about! pushing back. getting in the face of the media. >> who? >> a lot of people who support what the president is doing and what he's saying. republicans, independents, it doesn't matter. those who find that this president is the best form of channelling their anxieties, frustrations and more importantly their anger, this works for them. going back to what you were saying before about the president and how he is appealing or not appealing. he doesn't care about appealing to anyone at this table or anyone outside -- >> why does he watch so much? his tweet this morning had a picture of a body with a cnn being hit by a train. i think he's obsessed about how he's thought of in mainstream

they are looking at people like scott read who is a former rnc executive director and he managed bob dole'spresidential campaign. they even floated steven miller's name who actually did quite a formidable job of going back and forth with jim acosta of cnn on immigration. >> that's sort of the thing that the president responds well, to the president and steve bannon like to see that adversarial relationship which worked well in miller's favo and, you know, obviously steven miller who has been his go-to guru on immigration, it would be interesting to see him in the communications director role. he was actually in that role under then senator jeff sessions before he got promoted to attorney general. >> yeah. >> what do you think is the holdup here? is it just that the folks -- no one is saying, hey, i want this position. >> well, they're not finding the right talent and the ones that they are finding the talent for are all saying no because if you haven't noticed over the last few months. >> a lot of drama. >> anyone working under trump seems to get thrown under the bus at some point in time p

bob dole was already campaigning for 1996 and wanted what he perceived as a losing issue tickets to the floor. it wasn't a bad move so there is a little story i tell. david was an activist very close to clinton and did push this forward in constant communication and they would end the policy but at the same time they have to deal with the generals that were in a weak position to ask these people to go into battle. they made the analogy to the segregation of the armed services and the truman administration and he hoped that colin powell would get this and they never did. this was a tough defeat. >> i love the way that you've told thyou toldthe story of poly on these issues through the le lens. you made reference to his memoir talking about others who were not out over the years. the [inaudible] they were typically in washington and he would use the first names of people. you could tell he didn't know what it was going to do. i think that's part of the story was harder to tell. there's nothing about how we sealed the deal in the committ committee. it's mostly about how hard it was to grow

republican party has nominated straightlaced descent guys going back to bob dole and continuing withjohn mccain, mitt romney. these are decent guys and yet they converted into lucifer by the left. rodney was treated as if he was a criminal. the republican said if we nominate a squeaky clean guy how we fight your taxes? it's not by -- that's how we got trump. it's a breakdown of civility. i don't think truman or jfk would've done the tactics obama did on leasing the fbi. the instruments of government, that was a new low. that's atmosphere that created trump. >> i want to ask you about some commentary that was in "u.s. news" and "world report". one of the things has touched on his ideology and she focuses on this book and you is your treatment of democrats in their treatment of american indians and that's an inspiration for what happened on the road. she writes, she writes mournfully of the gems of american indians because in an earlier book in which he denounced the shame narrative they said there was no genocide, this is just another big lie by the left to make americans ashamed but

but the question i asked is the republican party has dominated poolsides going back to bob dole these are decent guys but yet romney was treated as a financial criminal but if we nominate somebody who was squeaky clean than his tactics somebody who knows to throw out to throw up -- throw a punch at all know if jfkctic would have done obama as tactics that was a new low in america. >> host: the caller asked about the hypocrisyabout with te contributing editor one of the thingstouc she said the issue focuses on the book and you that democrats in their treatment of american indians for what eventually happened down the road with the genocide of american indians in the early 19th century because said in t earlier bookie denounces den that history to say there was no genocideve of the american indian it is another lie of the left. now only littered withd unspeakable times. i want to give you a chance to respond.atal >> yes there is some new ones because accusing american of certain crimes genocide is one.geno so fake genocide is blamed on columbus so when the white man first came it isinen

i thought about this, when howard baker was ronald reagan's majority leader, when bob dole ran goncz george w. bush he did everything he could to get bush's agenda through. mitch mcconnell has a wife in this administration, secretary of transportation, you would think every day he would push this president's agenda and not his. lou: you mean, elane chow, transportation secretary in charge of infrastructure, a trillion dollar program, i am sure she is in washington right now working on that program. don't you figure? >> yeah, look, i was struck by first thing that exchange that mitch mcconnell said, which is, that president is new to this line of work. and -- lou: what an ar gant thing to say. >> that was the point of donald trump's election. he was not from washington. he was from an outside. >> we want more people like mitch mcconnell complaining about high expectations on part of american people. >> right. lou: poor morning who want something done by people. >> and he -- >> and in washington. >> saying, don't send us any more rookies, they don't understand. that is the problem, tha

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bob dole for instance, showing the racists the door, 2005 ken melman who was the rnc chief at that timeome of the racial politics they played to gain an advantage in the ballot box and then you have colin powell saying you have a dark vein of intolerance. >> we'll see if this accelerates and brings it to a critical mass at least. changes on the trump team, one of those changes confirmed, the other one, we'll see as the boss puts it. step two: choose la quinta. the only hotel where you can redeem loyalty points for a free night-instantly and win at business. won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. no splashing! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept

this bill, white house officials are still confident when the choice coming down to bill clinton or bob doleon'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 ame

we saw bob dole do that at one point in his political career. the words today were correct. he spoke of a vehicle attack, justice, the victim by name, it is fair to wonder if he had to be convinced to believe his own words. had this been saturday, it would have been more effective. the irony of the nation after having two years to get to the president, when she scripted he is the least believable and authentic. we see the soul of him when he is flying off of the handle and tweeting. that is the donald trump that we know and doubt. >> he railed against the use of teleprompters on the use of the campaign trail. how can you trust anyone that reads from a teleprompter. he had to read it very carefully and it was not something he could speak from the heart about. >> they say hopefully the president will feel it in their heart. one will question this president. we will argue about whether or not it was too late, and i think there is a credible argument that it is too late, but i'm glad she on record. >>> there is another group applies for permits there, they want to protect the mo

bob dole type conservatism, ran for president long time house republican -- senate republican leadereficit, believed if bouncing the budget, even if it took raising taxes. you have the much more newer, younger movement conservatives which a lot of the house freedom caucus reflects this who believe supply economics, immediately when you cut tacks you will get some deficit, some impact on the deficit going up but long term the reagan tax cuts essentially paid for themselves. lauren: as we are talking about this we have the dow down 190 points. charlie: there you go. this is one of the reasons the dow is down along with north korea. lauren: stocks still under pressure even more so in the last couple of minutes. up next we have a market guru who hasn't been playing it safe at all. would the threat of war and stalling promise tax cuts change his strategy? ubs investment officer mike ryan standing by. in t countdown. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't hav

i remember when bob dole told hate groups, "i don't want your support." the exit sign is for you.s president, during the campaign, would not announce david duke for days, acting like he didn't hear the question. them on.ver taken it took 48 hours after a young lady was killed for him to denounce these people that engaged in terrorism by name. merckounced the ceo of for leaving the economic council in less than an hour. hours, and a young american woman is dead by a self-described white supremacist -- it is frightening to many americans, and an awakening call to others. many of us have been saying all along the hate hasn't gone anywhere, it just moved to the margins. it has now been involved in. -- emboldened. charlie: america has changed in many ways. where hasn't in changed -- it changed? rev. sharpton: america has made many strides. you look at the social fabric. in one generation, my mother, she lived to see her son being able to run for president. she lived to see an african-american president. we should never underestimate that. and the price paid. we see ceos of major corpor

bob dole told hate groups i don't want your support. the exit sign is this for you at the convention center. this president during the campaign would not denounce david duke for days acting like he didn't hear the question or was ducking that. he is never taking them on. it took 48 hours after a young lady was killed for him to denounce these people that engage in terrorism by name. he denounced the ceo of merck for leaving his economic council in less than an hour. 48 hours and a young american woman is dead by a self-described white supremist group. >> charlie: america has changed in many ways. how has it not changed? >> we made strides in many areas just the social fabric in one generation. my mother was from alabama and she couldn't vote in her hometown until she was 39 and looked to her son to run for president and lived to see an african american president. we should never underestimate that and the price paid for that we see ceos of major corporation and things that are astonishing that my mother and grandparents would never have

and if you go back to ronald reagan or bob dole, leaders explicitly condemned the kkk, not the affiliatedps, bigoted groups, so they tried to align themselves with the republican party for this president has not. if it comes up three days later calling it domestic terrorism it will not have the same impact although i think it would be helpful for him to do. but i do not want to get anyplace in the country we are equating violence on any side basically saying it is the same as bigoted and racist speech. because what i want to see happen, even if there was no violence yesterday, the president and his team should caught bigotry, hatred, these nazis. but by name. call out the kkk affiliated groups and not to this also morally equivalent which even some extreme and ambulance have on the left. there is no semblance and is to be made clear. >> tom, is this politics? clearly these hate groups are very small part of the millions of people who supported donald trump but they are a part of it. is the president unwilling to take them on? >> i think to a degree that is true and i think there is the el

we've all heard what bob dole said when he accepted the nomination. we heard george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, every leader of the republican party when the kkk and white nationalist tried to make common cause during elections have said we don't want any part of this. until donald trump. i was heartened by the senators who came out over the weekend, ted cruz, chuck grassley, orrin hatch. the leader of the party and the leader of our country isn't doing the same thing. that's a problem. >> eboni: i had, a serious potential blow to the conclusion in the allegations of the russia probe. stay with us. before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell you

this bill, white house officials are still confident when the choice coming down to bill clinton or bob dole'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 ameri

bob dole is someone who i believe it was during his convention speech when he was a republican nominee said the republican party is a big ten party but we have no space for people who advocate bigotry and hatred and if you are one of those people, let me show you where the exits are. this shows just how far the republican party has fallen. >> ronald reagan has done this, both bushes has done this. this president who has no allegiance to any party other than donald trump is incapable of doing it because he feels like these are his people. >> the breitbart.com world is very much inside of the white house. that's where steve bannon obviously came from, sebastian gore ka came from. if you go on breitbart, it's posted, milo yiannopoulos co-wrote the bible of what the alt-right is. one of the things they say is that traditional republicans are failing because they kwif kate and allow the charge of racism to be labeled over the simple identity of white people and that white tribalism is natural, according to them, that it's something that is gravitated to by white voters and should be and tha

bob dole and his famous eulogy said ours is the age of nixon and considered only two men in americantory have been on five national tickets. richard nixon and fdr. richard nixon set the all-time record of being on the cover of the magazine 55 times from the alger hiss case in the senate races, vice presidency to his own presidency and beyond. what did he achieve comey promised to bring the troops home, and he did. he negotiated the greatest strategic arms limitations agreement sends the washington naval agreement. he opened up communist china which had been sealed for 25 years from the horrors of the korean war and then he saved israel, golda meier herself. richard nixon is the best friend we ever had. egypt even at the end of his presidency he brought egypt back around into the western camp. the domestic policy he ended the draft and enacted the 18-year-old vote. he created epa and i wasn't involved in that but i remember birthday and all these issues and i remember we were sitting in a meeting, howard baker was there and 1966 we helped elect him. senator baker was there and they we

ronald reagan made that comment clearly and unambiguously, bob dole told those groups that might be watching the convention that year, we don't want your kind in the republican party, in the conservative movement. it's time, i would say overdue time for that kind of unambiguous condemnation from our leaders. >> jon: as you pointed out in your piece, this is a president who makes a very plain if he doesn't like you or your ideas. >> he's been very clear about that, he called "the new york times" evil in february, he's gone after peopl people, making very clear that he is not happy with us and he doesn't like with us and disagrees with us. and he didn't do that in this case and i think that's one of the reasons it's caught so many people unawares and disappointed people because the president who makes very clear as he did with ken fraser who had quit his manufacturing advisory council, condemned him within 54 minutes of him quitting but took two days to condemn the white supremacist groups. >> jon: stephen hayes, a fox news contributor and also with the weekly standard. thank you. >> heather:

he did not say, as we have seen in the past republican presidential candidates, like bob dole, say, "i do not want these groups' support. i will not in any way appreciate the fact that some of them had trump caps on their head at these rallies. make america great. don't wear my paraphernalia. i'm not with this." it was clearly a statement based on the pressure that he had been given over the weekend. and if it takes a weekend to get the president of the united states to denounce naziism and racism and white supremacy, i don't think that's very encouraging to the american public. >> well, we should say, americans died fighting against the nazis. >> that's exactly right. >> fighting against racism. this battle for many people has already been fought. does what you've seen over the last 48 hours say to you that the battle goes on, even more than maybe even you knew? >> i think the battle goes on. i don't think more than many of us knew, because we have been continuing to fight that battle. and many people were telling us, as a post racial era. and we kept saying it is not that. and i thi

if you or bob dole, leaders of the party who explicitly condemned the kkk, affiliated groups, baggage groups and they try to align themselves with the republican party. this president has it and i think he missed an opportunity to show leadership. if he comes out three days later and because of domestic terrorism that will not have the same impact, although i will think it would be helpful for him to do. i don't want to get in a place where we are equating violence on any side and basically saying it's the same as bigoted and racist speech because what i want to see happen, even if there was no violence yesterday, the president and his team should call out bigotry, should call out hatred, trick qualitie qualities. by name to call out these kkk-affiliated groups and not do the moral equivalent, some equivalent on the left, there is no equivalent and that needs to be made clear. >> chris: groups, these hate groups are a very, very small part of the millions of people who supported donald trump but they are a part of it, the old right has been supportive. is this president unwilling to t

. >> april, even bob dole said at a questioning when he was running for president of the united states, i don't want you there's the exit doors. selena i'll ask you the same question, is this president racist? >> well, i mean i can't speak to his heart, right you know, but today's press conference was awful. you know, and here's the problem with someone who covers the people who voted for him, he is making his grudge with the press more imimportant than the appeals that he promised he was going to do. and the people don't benefit from his grudge, only he does. and he's -- he will eventually let that down if this continues. you know, i mean this is all about -- no, it's not all about, but a lot of this is about sticking it in the eye of the press because he's, you know, he is pissed. he's felt that we have wronged them. while his voters don't particularly care for our profession they're not all in. they don't win from a grudge, they win from policy. this was supposed to be an infrastructure -- >> this is not about the press. >> -- event right and you know what look it turned into it it

go back to that convention speech by bob dole in which he pointed out the exit for those who want to bring that kind of filth into the republican party. that's the republican party i think needs to step up right now. this isn't about just supporting the president. this isn't about just supporting the party. this is how we as a political party want to govern at a very critical time and show the kind of leadership that the american people have come to expect from us. we have a history of standing in that crucible on civil rights, for example. why do we relegate that to the ash bin of history just to get a vote from a neo-nazi? are you kidding me? this makes no sense. >> and jennifer rubin, we've had in durham, protesters have brought down a statue, a confederate-era statue. it is quite ironic, isn't it, that when those statues went up it was democrats that were the southern conservative party and republicans were hated by southern democrats. and now you have a party that isn't really willing to denounce these confederate statues and in fact defending them. >> exactly. i began with nixo

the republican party of john mccain and bob dole, the wonderful people who have done things for our countryd not have allowed this. and indeed, the alt right said as part of their movement, they had two goals, one, white nationalism and disrupt the obstacles put in their way. they appear to have been runned down, if you will. and don't mean to use that in a -- >> in light of today's tragedy. >> in light of today's tragedy. but we've seen these mechanisms which prevented these hardened bigots from entering mainstream politics have come down and we've even seen people like gorka and miller and bannon enter the white house. this is abhorrent to the conservative ideology to folks like john mccain who spoke so eloquently in his concession speech and we need leadership, and the bully pulpit matters and to have the sustained stereotypes that enter the policy debate when we talk about immigration and criminal justice embolden -- >> brian, i want to say real fast, as you dedicate yourself to the study of hate and extremism and while we need strong leadership, i mean, bottom line, as americans, the r

bob dole memorably, republicans and democrats, speaking out against these kinds of nazi and white supremacistughts. so how do we get back to any kind of norm when we don't see the leadership from the oval office and there is a real risk that he will empower and incite more people to feel empowered and to be segregationist and violent? >> well, i think tom is exactly right. what wear goiwe're going throug going through a constitutional stress test in the age of trump. what we're now going through is a moral citizenship test. a republic is only as good as the sum of its parts. that's the nature of a republic. and i'm going to throw some saint agustin at you, which i know you want at midday, saint agustin once defind a nation as a multitude of united by the common objects of their love. united by the common objects of their love. that's when a nation is. we have to decide what we love in common and act accordingly. and we're not going to get it from what franklin roosevelt called the presidency being a preeminently a place of moral leadership. we have to do it. and hope that culturally it define

i can't believe that orrin hatch believes mitch mcconnell is better than bob dole, but he's saying itorrin hatch is the chair of the senate finance committee where your tax cut bill has to go. orrin hatch and mitch mcconnell are the two people you need to get your tax bill through the united states senate. >> and mitch mcconnell is the king maker in every other committee in the senate that is also senate intelligence, that could play a very key role in unaerngting trump's relationship with the russians. trump has no leverage over mitch mcconnell. mitch mcconnell is a wiley senate parliamentarian, and i don't know where trump thinks he'll ultimately cause change in mcconnell's life if he doesn't repeal obamacare for him. this is vintage trump. in the late 80s, he got into this very famous brawl with ed koch because ed koch wouldn't zone a huge piece of property for him. so trump went after him in the press, and they had this incredibly great new york battle. but the cost to trump was that he never got the property zoned, and he went into battle at the expense of his business interests.

. >> even bob dole said at a convention, i don't want you. there's the exit doors get out of here. salena, is this president racist. >> well, i mean, i can't speak to his heart, right? but you know, today's press conference was awful. you know? and here's the problem as someone who covers, you know, the people who voted for him. he is making his grudge with the press more important than the policies that he promised that he was going to do. and the people don't benefit from his grudge. only he does. and he will eventually let that down this continues. you know, i mean, this is all about -- it's not all about but a lot of this is about sticking it in the eye of the press because he's, you know, he is pissed, and felt that we have wronged them and while his voters don't particularly care for our profession, they're not all in. i mean, they don't win from a grudge. they win from policy. this was supposed to be an infrastructure. >> this is not about the press. >> event, right? and you know, and look what it turned into. it was a mess. >> this is not about the press. this is about race

bob dole in 1996 at the convention, pat pew boou kanaan won that year, he was about to launch his primaryn against bush and his political advisers said you don't have to get into this, it's not necessary, everyone knows you're a decent man, and president bush said i'm the president of the united states, i'm the leader of the republican party, i can't just be silent about this. dole in '96 in his speech said the bigots, here are the exits. we don't want you in the republican party. >> that's real leadership and leadership on the question of white supremacy but also leadership on the question about terrorism. the oldest terrorist organization in the united states is not isis. it's the ku klux klan. you have a terrorist organization who is publicly marching in our streets. i cannot manage imagine -- imagine fort hood where a muslim terrorist shot down a bunch of americans and the president comes out and says there's violence on many sides. there would have been pandemonium and justifiably. when you have terrorism, white supremacist terrorism or any other kind, that is the time for clarity. m

and jessie was -- friend of mine to this day bob dole and one of my mentors, teddy kennedy, for the precursoredeeming value. i didn't understand how he could do what he was doing. he looked at me and said, joe what would you tell me if i told you that dot and jessie helps three years ago were really the observer in their hometown of north carolina. what would you say if i went and adopted that child? he said, i learned a long time ago, everyone has been sent here has been sent because their state found something good about them. it's your job to look for that. it's always appropriate to question the man and woman's judgment, but never their motive because you don't know it. well, ladies and gentlemen all we do today is seem question motive. there's nothing beyond our capability, beyond our capacity, nothing. focus on that was referenced by a previous speaker. >> it's so different. it's so different. it's so similar in our aspirations. we have the christening, the constitution was to make those aspirations sing. history as demonstrated when we act as one america, we always do well, no matter w

bob dole, pat buchanan was about ready to launch his primary campaign against bush in '91 and some ofdvisors said everyone knows are you a decent man. president bush said i am the president of the united states, leader of the republican party. i can't just be silent about this. dole in '96 in his convention speech said bigots who might have, accidentally, as he put it, come to support him, we don't want you in the republican party. >> that's real leadership and it is real leadership on the question of white supremacist but also leadership on the question of terrorism. the oldest terrorism organization in the united states is not isis. it's the ku klux klan. i enmoo ymean you have a terror organization that's publicly marching in our streets. imagine ft. hood where a muslim terrorist shot down a bunch of americans and the president comes out and said, well, there's violence on many sides. there would have been pandemonium and justifiably so. when you have white supremacist terrorism or any other kind, that is the time for clarity. my problem with this president is, he is very, very goo