still with us, bob dole and michael -- get me your take on what we have seen in terms of the different sectors. energy stocks were good, oil prices at a bear market and today they went off on a tear. how do you position for oil companies? these are trading stocks and the price of oil gets waxed for whatever reason the stocks are down, you buy some and the other way around. absent a strong, global economy, it is hard for me to marry the energy stocks so i'm using this trading vehicle in a world where cyclical stocks including -- not doing so well. check want to go back to in the way those stocks got slammed. it hasn't had spillover. people sort of realized for as much as we talked about the importance of these companies, maybe they are not big but they don't mean much for the other companies. somethingade with investors hadn't really thought about in years, so his trust busting by the government. there was the knee-jerk negative reaction but people are coming to the reaction that this could drag on for years and the u.s. doesn't tend to be like europe and give these massive fines. they

bradley,bob dole, bill a bunch of democrats and republicans working together to rewrite the tax code and rewrote a permanent law. that was a change. subsequent tax bills, i was involved in a later tax bills, a lot were 10 year periods, because that is the budget windows. we did a permanent law change in 1981. i wasn't on the committee, but the chairman was the senator from kansas, senator bob dole, he became chairman in 81. russell long was chairman. he was elected to the senate when he was 30 years old. he had been chairman of the finance committee for a long time. bob said he was excited to be chairman of the finance committee, but who will tell russell he is not the chairman? [laughter] >> the fact is, they worked well together. you think of those big bills, that is phenomenal. i was a freshman senator. i was 32 at the time when we did the 81 tax bill. i asked bob dole, something i feel very strong about was i wanted to permanently in the many -- eliminate the tax for spouses. he got that in the bill in 1981. i was 32 years old. that was one of the things i really wanted to get do

nixon's funeral along with president bill clinton, secretary of state henry kissinger, and senator bob dolehe was a baby and and a graduate of the university of california-berkeley college of law. he became acquainted with nixon during the berkeley campaign. he inspired young wilson to public service. before serving as governor he was an assemblyman and mayor of san diego. he transformed the city, in part, by working with president nixon to bring millions of tax dollars back to local government, bringing decision-making power back to the people. it is truly a testament to democracy in america. governor wilson will be in conversation with dr. frank gannon. in 1974, dr. gannon left -- in 1971, he served as a white house fellow to the nixon administration and went on to serve in the white house press office. in 1974, dr. gannon left washington for california aboard air force one, following president nixon's resignation. he was the chief editorial assistant on nixon's best-selling presidential memoirs. he has the rare distinction of having interviewed president nixon for over 30 hours. some of

in 1996, one of my democrat consultants on the other side said we can say what we want about bob dolecord and that is the problem joe biden has. pretty much when you want to attack him it is out there and hurting. jillian: we will keep a close eye on the polls and he will keep us updated, good to see you. rob: 38 minutes after the hour. isis terrorized the globe and grew by leaps and bounds, president obama and joe biden called them the jv team. now biden wants america to trust his foreign-policy ideas. rebecca heinrich breaks down how joe biden's record stacks up against our current president. ♪ ♪ nothing to do >> eliminate the act that allows us to go into war, go after terrorists but never do it alone. we have to repair our alliances. that is what i would do, that is what i have done and i know how to do it. jillian: joe biden taking a tough stands in the global fight against terror. remember when former president barack obama called basis the jv team? rob: rebecca heinrich, joe biden on foreign-policy. >> reporter: if you could take all the bad ideas of the last at least decade or

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. >> governor pete wilson served as one of the formula just along with senate republican leader bob dole, president bill clinton and secretary of state henry kissinger at president nixon's funeral. wilson is a u.s. marine and a graduate of the berklee college of law. he became acquainted with richard nixon while working on the 19th of the two gubernatorial campaign as an advance man. young nixon who urged the person to public service. he was mayor of san diego for 12 years. city in partd the by working with president nixon to bring million tax dollars to state and local government, bringing position power and public policy closer to the people. governor wilson will be in conversation with frankie gannon. dr. gam went on to serve as the domestic counsel in the white house press office. dr. gannon left washington to california aboard air force one and was a chief editorial assistant on nixon's best-selling memoir. he had the distinction of interviewing president nixon for 38 hours in digital format at the nixon presidential library. some of these clips you will see in this interview today.

i was part of preparing bill clinton for his first debate against bob dole and until the very last minute was terrible because they just assumed, they knew more than the people they were going to be on the stage with and they forget about the stage craft part of it. my guess is, it was rustiness. joe biden has a very predominant stubborn gene and he's got to work on both of those things. >> you said clinton at the last moment, he was bad up until the last moment. what changed? what made the difference? >> well, i'll tell you the story, paul came over to me and said, let's write a fake "new york times" story about clinton losing the debate to bob dole and we showed it to him, and he got mad and he went out and performed. that wasn't only it, but i think people with more experience think that all they have to do is show up, biden found out he has to do more than just show up. >> do you think this was a wakeup call for biden? it's very easy for people -- pundits to -- everybody runs and say joe biden imploded. this is very early on. >> i think it was a wakeup call. it should have been a wake

woman had been a close aide to jobs the young the successor to bob dole as a young was also a reform and want to dialogue with the students but the conservative prime minister favored a hardline approach. were. bombed sources and i was not interested in my father's work and i didn't care what he was doing in the government. what the son did not know was another man was in control. china's senior leader had retired from most duties. cantering knew the students knew who had been ousted by done shopping 2 years before that. over the next few weeks the students became more and more radical they demanded negotiations with the parties some went on a hunger strike they wanted a lot of sympathy and on the way. back everybody had a feeling that we would certainly win because everybody supported us that's what i saw in the square. when i came home there was a deeply pessimistic atmosphere of freedom being one of the. you know what you're. on may 18th being instructed the government to declare martial law the reformers in the party had lost the young disappeared from public view he spent the re

republican, when the question came up about trading votes for a bill of a house and a bill in the senate, bob dolesaid i want it in writing from the house leadership. if jack brooks should write. brooks's word is good. that's a great lesson for today. a tipping point for congressman brooks that said we will go down the path of articles impeachment? i don't know if there was one tipping point. as i mentioned, it became very gradual. by point, month after month, the questions about nixon, about the improvements he made at government expense at his property and key biscayne and san clemente. drip of questions about presidential behavior forget led -- don't republican supporters of nexen stayed with him all the way up until the end. ofs was a tsunami information that was damning. it wasn't just one thing. host: i want you to listen to what howard baker said at the university of tennessee in 2005. he has since passed away. he was the ranking republican on the committee looking into watergate in the senate. he asked what the president knew and when he knew it. he is reflecting on his meeting with richar

of the ballot here a lot of rules go out you know you know in another age joe biden would be the bob dole of 1906 you know he might win the nomination and and get beat in the general election were going against donald trump some people think the fate of the country is now at stake and so some of the that's why i think you're seeing this really strong question who can beat trump you know can bernie sanders really be trump one on one as a quote unquote socialist even though he changes his terms on that yes david yes he can. say. i wish you know any of us knew that for certain and that's what the voters are asking i think and that's really a lot i mean that's taking biden a little further along here because people are willing you know once people get in it's so hard to actually get stuff done you know they're saying look let's let's let's win this election right now there's a question about who can win. diane what do you think you're on your last comments about about policy you jumped into economics but we've got economics we've got wall street deregulation we've got tax policy we've got for

. >> governor pete wilson served as one of the formula just along with senate republican leader bob dole, president bill clinton and secretary of state henry kissinger at president nixon's funeral. wilson is a u.s. marine and a graduate of the berklee college of law. he became acquainted with richard nixon while working on the 19th of the two

bob dole reading bill clinton and republican candidate beating barack obama, none of which came to passnior editor at the federalist. you know, a lot of people say why do you make so much at the polls, why do you focus on it, you are so far away. the president is talking about it and people are obviously focusing on asking him about it. >> i think polls are worthwhile snapshots and they are only snapshots, good campaigns can, it's losing in certain states. when people in the trump world and, i have heard this repeatedly, they said the polls were wrong last year but they weren't wrong. the final polls were a real clear politics average showed hillary would win by 3.2 points. she won the popular vote by 2.1. they were off by 1.1 percentage points. now 2012 and president obama's race, they were up by 3.2. so they were even more accurate in 16 then they were in 12. so the polls are a worrisome sign for the president. there is no point in denying it, but no one reasonable thinks that bernie sanders is defeating donald trump by nine points in an historic landslide. that is significant, and i

distinguished company, but you were very distinguished company among the other eulogists -- henry kissinger, bob dole, and the incumbent president at the time, bill clinton. how do you decide what you want to say and how to say it? the first thing obviously is you contemplate the record. ,ou contemplate what this man who was serious about the job years het in the served. -- think, i thing was privileged not just to know him, but on a couple of occasions to see him in a different light and have personal feelings. and that came early in our friendship. out,, as has been pointed advance man. who was a friend, said, i have seen you talk a good game, but we need some help. why don't you find time to be on the county committee? haldeman. said, where don you want to practice? and i said, i'm not sure. but i'm leaning heavily toward san diego, i think. and bob said, good. we will keep you out of there. and i said, what? he said, you are going to have to make some tough calls with some people who take themselves very seriously, and you are going to have to say, i'm sorry, this is the way it has to be. it you

. >> your party has been kinder and they bring back bob dole and jack kemp. give him one more try.r wounded. >> i don't know if that's the case under this party with president trump. trump is just happy to shoot at anybody and won't let anybody stand up. the other side of that is i know we all are hesitant about looking and saying donald trump and how difficult it will be because of the outcome of 2016. you look at the poll numbers state by state. the polls were not wrong on the national election. hillary clinton got more votes. you look state to state and the poll numbers are not there. thea math is not on trump's side right now. >> i think if warren runs the race she is running and sticks to the populist issues and looks solid on them, she can beat trump. >> anywhere donald trump is at 48%, he can win that state. >> he will duke it out. pennsylvania he's at 48. it's great being with the pros. up next in his one and only appearance before the american public, robert mueller warned the americans of the ongoing threat of foreign interference in our elections. officials in north caro

the response of bill clinton to bob dole in 1996. it's i could respond in kind that wouldn't solve a precip. wouldn't comfort an elderly person, expand health care. elizabeth warren is a little bit different. they need to say you have a record too and i could attack it but i'd rather attack problems. the biggest problem is donald trump and i can beat him. that's what they want to hear. >> what is the goal for the candidates. >>? when you are look for the breakout moment and people don't know who you are -- people need to be introduce today elizabeth warren but i'm not referring to her when i say that. some of the others on the stage do they say who they are? or is the best way to get attention to aim at her. >> congressman ryan was on the air and did he a get anyof describing it. he said it's like speed dating with the american public. >> to them running. >> that's a great description. sometimes when you attack, attack, attack you end up being the one looking bad. so it's a problem, particularly if senator warren has the answer that

there is a risk that joe biden becomes the bob dole of this period.bridgesto the past. that's that argument. but here you go. donald trump is president of the erited states. >> which has nev happened in y. histor >> so all of these facts that would ordinarily guide this conversation have been blown away. >> and that's been my con senten contention. >> right.th and k that pete buttigieg is doing something that is very trumpianwhich is he's really making use of the media. i mean, he's out there. he's out front. that's something that beto o'rourke is just srting to do. >> that's an interesting point. the question is can he get back and get close to pete buttigieg in that generational change. thank you,. guys what a great set of conversations we had. that's all we have for today. thank you for watching. it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >>u yohave laws on the boo that make murder illegal and yet, people still do it. laws are not going to fix ev ything >> the gun control dgeate taking center sn capitol hill today, as the virginia beach community comes to

the golden gate bridge picking up traffic a little busy into and out of san francisco but not bad bob dole, significant slowing 24 minutes, you're southbound drive, nevada to the toll plaza. we're also checking the bay bridge traffic which looks a little bit better right for the fast trackers here moving a little bit faster right down the middle and the carpool lanes are looking good too so not that 14 minutes, it's a great trip for this time of mourning san francisco. i have spotted a motorcycle accident in berkeley that you need to look out for 80 west at gilman the writer down an injured one lane blocked the back of growing through albany. el serino and rich when you see that long stretch to traffic there. 28 minutes and g the maze. have one wrapping up in oakland on 5.80 as you head toward downtown oakland. sto oa because of that from 2.38 into the oakland maze started. thanks a lot of 16 right now and and airline food workers at sfo plan to strike this week and these are the workers who prepare the meals that are served on 3 airlines. >>that fly out of sfo. these workers a lot of them

they can point to the bush poll, they can point to bob dole at this point. but each of those candidates had economic headwinds. he has an economic tailwind. >> and he's still sit wting whe he's sitting. >> it's a problem. >> we'll pause it here. thank you very much, it's good to have you being the decipherer somehow, to try to understand trump world. up ahead, the 2020 $20 million man or men? watch this one. we're taking a look at the fund-raising front-runners. does raking in the cash come with consequences anymore? rakie with consequences anymore? my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. indeed. are you in good hands? doctor bob, what should i take for back pain? before you take anything, i recommend applying topical relievers first. salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutr

a legitimate claim and sign a piece of legislation with a republican co-sponsor and i work with bob dole on the americans with disabilities act or the voting rights act. but just vaguely citing segregationists is weird. >> and from something you said, also if you think about who it is democrats are up against and what the last two and a half years have been like. we've seen an increase in anti-semitism and an increase in acts of violence by right-wing crazies, we have seen -- we had charlottesville and we've seen a rise in hate and a rise in that sort of divisiveness so to try to use the example of a segregationist as civility, it also just -- it is shocking. but it also belies the moment that we're in and the person that we are trying to say we are differentiating ourself from. >> stick around. president trump probably hoping that one of his closest confidants stayed loyal to him behind closed doors. and captain sully sullenberger is giving chilling testimony about the grounding boeing 737 max. stay with us. ly and beautifully. air wick essential mist is an expression of nature. transfo

there is a risk that joe biden becomes the bob dole of this period.uild bridges to the past. that's that argument. but here you go. donald trump is president of the united states. >> which has never happened in history. >> right. >> so all of these facts that would ordinarily guide this conversation have been blown away. >> and that's been my contention. >> right. >> is that the question, this is the only chance that biden has right now. >> right. and i think that pete buttigieg is doing something that is very trumpian, which is he's really making use of the media. i mean, he's out there. he's out front. that's something that beto o'rourke is just starting to do. and i think that's why he struggled initially. >> that's an interesting point. the question is can he get back and get close to pete buttigieg in that generational change. thank you, guys. what a great set of conversations we had. that's all we have for today. thank you for watching. really appreciate it. remember, if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." this is a commercial about insurance an

. >> kennedy: president mondale, bill was [laughter] >> melissa: president bush -- bob dole 48% to clinton 44%, that was in 1995. and in 2011, 44% to barack obama, 39%. this isn't an exhaustive list, it's just some that we pulled. what do you think? >> charlie: it's fun to pick through, but at the end of the day polls are meaningless this early out. i think the big question a lot of people have or had was that donald trump won as this outsider, marauding the gates of washington and going in to sort of turned the place upside down. now that he's president, he's not on the outside anymore. he is running less of a marauder's campaign. would he still be able to tap into that level of enthusiasm? you look at these images, i don't see how you can say anything other than he still has that kind of enthusiasm. >> kennedy: i think any democrat in the field would love to have the visual of that many people waiting eight hours until the rally begins, all congregating by the thousands outside of the venue. >> julie: it reminds me of lollapalooza when i was in florida. less mudslinging, but nonetheless.

bob dole over clinton. in the republican over president obama. back to the panel.orlando, people are already lining up outside. it's going to be a big event. but they have to look at these numbers and see some early weakness despite the historical reference. >> sure. historically a poll in june before the election is not predictive in any way and it certainly wasn't in all these other cases. on the other hand, all of these president far less had at some point in over 50% and they got back up to 50 or close to it. trump is the only president who has never been at 50 or over. but sure there's weakness. but the way the campaign pushed back against these polls to say that other polls that show the president against a defined democrat show him winning. in the key is that they believe they can define, demonize, whatever you want to call it, any democrat to the point where he will win against them. >> bret: here is the dnc communications director and the trump campaign. >> people were so enthusiastic about donald trump and i were so happy with the economy right now i'm in

now some of them were segregationists, some of them were bob dole it all blurs together in his mind.i can work with mitch and no one wanted to hear that. >> we're going to leave it there. thanks to our low country culinary correspondent, garrett haik. can you watch the the entire south carolina democratic convention. including the candidates' speeches, we'll be playing close attention to the stage behind garrett there, we'll bring you the speeches, when they begin. is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. all with guaranteed great taste. and now try new boost® peaches and creme natural flavor. with 27 vitamins and minerals and 10 grams of protein. boost®. be up for life™. what's going on? it's the 3pm slump. should have had a p3. oh yeah. should have had a p3. need energy? get p3. with a mix of meat, cheese and nuts. (boy) got it. nooooooo... (dad) nooooooo... (vo) quick, the quicker picker upper! bounty pi

i'm now the longest serving republican senate leader in history. [ applause ] i broke bob dole's record about a year ago. i called him up. he took it well. as you know, he has a wicked sense of humor. so i've seen quite a lot. what i have not seen before is a real debate about something as fundamental to our country as whether we should have the free enterprise system or not. i mean, they want to turn us into something we've never been. what i want you to fully understand is that a lot of socialist countries have voted it in. it didn't take a coup, like in venezuela or cuba, they voted it in. they couldn't resist the temptation of what margaret thatcher once said about socialism. she said the problem with socialism, pretty soon you run out of other people's money! this is a threat to america as it has always been. at its core, a free enterprise economy, not without compassion. we have plenty of compassionate programs. medicare, social security, programs for disadvantaged people of one kind or another. we're not a capitalist country without compassion. but we are at our core an opportuni

advantage to make reference to obama -- neil: there are others who are going to run, ronald reagan, bob doleing to make this process controversial. i'm just wondering for joe biden. if you are joe biden, you are looking at this, i mentioned system flip-flops on federal funding for abortions, he was for it at the time, against it now. he was saying that china wasn't a competitor to us just a couple of weeks ago and now it is. is that a concern, do you think? >> i think there's an overwhelming pressure on joe biden right now to go farther left than i think he wanted to go on a lot of issues because of the fact that we're seeing this far left faction of the democratic party gaining so much attention in this primary for 2020. i think it is going to put him in a difficult position if he ultimately were to gain the win in the primary going into the general election because i think a lot of democrats want to see him as more center moderate candidate that they don't see the others reflecting. neil: we can make a lot of the polls. the one who is surging right now is elizabeth warren. >> absolutely, w

i sound like bob dole. ted cruz knows it, the president knows it. the bigger problem here is, imagine the situation we're in where the republican conference is now saying, we really want to stop the president from doing the thing he ran on, right. in theory this is what he promised his voters he would do and when he was running for president and said i'm going to start trade wars. >> two things. one is the real issue here is not the tariffs, right. it's the immigration flowing to the country and what the president actually promised was that he would build a wall and mexico would pay for it and that would solve everything. >> solve all our problems. >> the other thing that doesn't get mentioned in any of these conversations is that punitive tariffs like this on mexico will make the immigration problem much worse. we will be causing economic devastation in mexico and people will flee to america. what he's trying to do is solve a problem and going to make it worse doesn't seem to make much sense. >> he has a personalized view of politics. if i can make

republican, when the question came up about trading votes for a bill of a house and a bill in the senate, bob dolen writing from the house leadership. if jack brooks should write. brooks's word is good. that's a great lesson for today. a tipping point for congressman brooks that said we will go down the path of articles impeachment? i don't know if there was one tipping point. as i mentioned, it became very gradual. by point, month after month, the questions about nixon, about the improvements he made at government expense at his property and key biscayne and san clemente. drip of questions about presidential behavior forget led -- don't republican supporters of nexen stayed with him all the way up until the end. ofs was a tsunami information that was damning. it wasn't just one thing. host: i want you to listen to what howard baker said at the university of tennessee in 2005. he has since passed away. he was the ranking republican on the committee looking into watergate in the senate. he asked what the president knew and when he knew it. he is reflecting on his meeting with richard nixon early in

. >> he is running against its experienced guy in bob dole, might be the republican equivalent of joerward. there is still time to do this. the election is 500 days away. for purposes of this, talks about more tax reforms, talks about supreme court nominees, government reform, another bipartisan page on more criminal justice. >> if they can do tax reform for individuals, the big mistake was eliminating the deduction in blue states, and not cutting personal rates more. if they can come out with a platform to do that and have the democrats who want to increase taxes, republicans cut individual income taxes, that is a winning issue. >> amen. >> i am not for trump that's really. >> you are right about that deduction because that has hurt them because so many americans filed a tax return this year i got a big shock in it and a lot of those, undecided voters for the republicans. >> an interesting moment for the front runner for democrats, joe biden and whether or not his strategy to bring up ray so early on in his campaign is backfiring. "wall street journal" basically says the race card ed

number two joe biden the democratic bob dole as in terms of what you say you call it rethread i won'tment figure at a time you when the left might want someone who is more about resist. >> if you look at the polls right now i still find it staggering that joe biden who has been utter yo out utter mediocrity at this. i have a hard time believing he will be the. replay of '96 president they loathed put up a mediocre candidate and wins popular vote as well. i don't think democrats can help themselves on this impeachment front, ed. the base wants it. they are deranged with this trump derangement syndrome. i think they are going to do it to make their base happy. light their hair on fire and jump off the political cliff. it means republicans are probably going to take the house back in 2020. trump will be reelected and the g.o.p. keeping the senate. ed: i have 30 seconds. the political reality all along has been it's highly unlikely senate republicans would turn on the president and he would be removed by office. yet by our latest count there are 55 house democrats and counting saying they

gm bob myers us as key dole players in the. >>we value those guys at the highest level, i mean i don't i d would be a very good wherever i am gmt didn't understand how valuable they are our own you know what sometimes gets lost, but we're queen kevin plays nba finals with 9 one. so. also and claims that they're both fantastic. so those are guys that you we do everything you to keep within your organization. >>now the warriors can offer kevin durant a max contract of million over 5 years. thompson is eligible for a deal worth 190 million through 5 years even if they agree to come back. it will be a long time before we see both of them on the court again coming up in sports head coach steve kerr also weighed in on how the season ended and how the team moves forward so ken pam, a lot for the warriors to decide going forward. >>all right. thank you mark see later. coming up a teen mother brutally murdered when her baby is cuts from her now weeks later we have an update on the child tensions in the middle east running high after att

4th trade wars are still pushing pacers dole's after a 13 point lead meanwhile to rent leaves the arena on crutches and a walking is the gin and warriors gm bobils the 3 pointer the. then i was at the put back just incredible effort from him next possession, the letter. are the 3 ball. the crowd goes crazy. they're starting to feel ronald take the lead in next possession, the letter absolutely taking over hits the pole off rafters up 6 you're just seen a sensational individual performance in the 4th quarter, but here comes curry the warriors not done yet. it's the 3 pointer to tie it. oh 3 and that klay thompson says the clean look mail's got a lot 3 pointer warriors lead by 3 came down to this last possession warriors up one time lowry on the kick out warner 3 to win the title. it's off. final score one oh 6, 1, oh 5 golden state wraps are still lead the series 3 to 2 game 6 thursday's in tow clinic that means train the final game ever wrote cole's coming up on kron 4 news at night a live reaction from toronto is game 5 is in the books. >>the warriors are still alive. i love. >>what is now the right there one more night at yes, my heart can

bob dole, johny carson, william rehnquist, clint eastwood were ben fesharies of the g.i. bill. for every dollar the government spent on the g.i. bill our economy saw nearly $7 in return of additional economic output and tax revenues from income growth. despite its stellar performance, the relative strength of the g.i. bill deteriorated in the 20th century. by 2008, tuition and stipends did not keep pace. i heard from returning iraq and afghan vets who were forced to choose between dropping out of school or shouldering the burden of daunting student loans. to fix this decline, we passed post-9/11 g.i. bill, which was signed into law by george w. bush on june 30, 2008. the updated law boosted tuition to match the coast of a four-year public university in service member's home states and increased the living stipend to keep faith with the original law. it also allowed g.i. benefits to be transferred to a spouse or dependent child, a groundbreaking change which transformed the value of military service for families. after the bill signing, i flew to iraq in late 2008 for a committe