and bob dole, finally, about bob hope, finally had enough. we we looked at donahue. he said, you know, the faces that i saw in danang and saigon were the same that i saw quadrupling saipan and okinawa. young americans called upon to do things that the rest of their fellows citizens could never imagine and things that they did without complete. and i remember my mother yelling the kitchen, god bless bob. hope. in in those times as america forgot that her freedom was not guaranteed. pundits, professors and protesters, but by the souls and efforts of those 41 million americans who carried liberty on their shoulders. not only for this, but for the rest of the world. nixon never forgot. he never forgot those americans who sacrificed all who gave all in south vietnam, cambodia, laos. he signed legislation honoring veterans than any president in our history. he openly you the american warrior for what you did there honorably undertaken and honorably and and when he signed the largest numbers veterans the largest number of veterans bills one day any american. he said by you

the president was reelected over bob dole. republicans maintain theirth majorities in both chambers. >> must talk to our collars now. james iss first in westerville, ohio independent, hi james. i think it is ridiculous our government fully expects to get a pat on the back for doing anything these past months. they created the whole catastrophe at all the american people nervous and worried they create you have to do a better job picking our leaders of the leaders we currently have are greedy and they are lazy. you got to better job the amount of work they're not referencing the constituents in representing the party that the only thing they're interested in. thank you. sue the color has a point special of d the debt limit thas been pointed out several times were one of the few countries we continue to approach this catastrophic default that everett seemed to be an issue and there's not divided government? actually it was not even much of an issue and democrats control the house under donald trump. this tilt raised it without t

he visited bob dole at his apartment before he died. he has done a number of things that i think have been disappointing and has decided to go it alone in an early way. i think that is -- his rhetoric has been really destructive. he compared people who disagree with him to jefferson davis. he gave that talk where he basically completed what he sees as the awful -- also moderate republicans. every day republicans may not have that market as a nation. i think it is contrary to his long-standing representation. i think he just managed a strategic mistake reason i am not going to negotiate. that is ridiculous. you claimed your whole career to be a negotiator. second of all, why are you going to negotiate? that is the biggest issue out there. we need to get this resolved and you're just claiming you're not going to negotiate. i think the democrats actually eventually realized that as they were even walking back and they said we are not actually saying we are not going to negotiate. that is not what the american people want. they know republi

bob dole was a serious person. he was a republican leader of the united states senate for 9. 5 years, serving as the minority leader and majority. he never allowed any gamesmanship over the debt ceiling, never. he cooperated with democratic presidents and republican presidents, democratic majority leaders in the senate, to make sure that they could get debt ceiling increases without even requiring a 60 vote threshold in the senate. that is unthinkable today, because the republicans in congress mostly behave like logan roy's spoiled children. >> you are not serious people. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> joe biden would love to have had that logan roy moment with republicans, democrats would love to have that moment. but joe biden can't do that. he can't walk out of the room like that. because republicans control the house of representatives. so, joe biden had to negotiate the debt ceiling agreement with the republican speaker of the house. >> going to support the legislation that is on the floor today. and i support it without hesitation

not going to -- advantage of not going to exploit and political experience and won it handlely and bob dolen the campaign trail in his 73 when facing off against a younger bill clinton. he had a small fall on the stage. it didn't bode well and people will ask those age questions when something like that occurs. >> and they should because the american public, democrat, republican, and independent are asking the same question. coming up, tim scott making surprise appearance on the view this morning. we're going to show you the moment that's get ago lot of attention. don't miss this, next. ♪ veteran homeowners. need to cut your monthly expenses and get cash? call newday and ask for the newday 100 cash out loan. our veterans are getting an average of $70,000. they're paying off their first high rate credit card, their second high rate credit card, their third, fourth and even fifth high rate credit card and saving hundreds every month. they're paying off their car loans, too, and putting extra cash in the bank for the security every veteran deserves. ♪ hit it ♪ ♪ it takes two to make a thing go

i was thinking you're saying bob dole, stop lying about my record is what he said to george h.w.re were actually politicians apologizing about what they had said. we learned a lot and we covered big stories. we covered everything from 9/11, which, of course, you know, consumed what we were doing at this network for months. >> yeah. >> the gingrich revolution, remember that, in 1994. >> we thought that was as crazy as it was going to get. i want to ask you, you're working on a project at pbs where you're going out and talking to voters trying to find out if america can get across that divide. >> and i'm finding that it's a work in progress. you're right, i'm spending these next two years with the "news hour of pbs" traveling around the country and interviewing voters where that did that come from. oklahoma where 100 years ago they had a terrible race massacre, they're still having debates over how to teach the history of race in the schools. it's great education and it's a work in progress. i'm always optimistic, dana. >> i know you have. >> but -- and at this point i have confide

by 1986 the economy was roaring and he beat bob dole. now joe biden took over the american economy as president. one of the weirdest most intense crises we overhead scene. it's something the world hadn't seen in 100 years. but he has turned it around. today he was in chicago to take credit for what he called bidenomics. >> folks, let me say this clearly as i can. the trickle down approach failed the middle class. a failed america. [applause] guess what? bidenomics is working. the economy was really during the pandemic, and today the u. s. has the highest economic growth rate, leading the world economies since the pandemic. the highest in the world. [applause] >> biden might say, that's true folks, literally, no joke. by all accounts the biden ministration to the american economy, he was two months into office democrats pass the 1. 9 trillion trillion dollar rescue plan, then they pass the infrastructure bill, that was bipartisan, and then democrats were some republicans passed the 52 dual billion dollar chips act, and then they went on w

no matter where you are in politics that was an update battle for bob dole to face. here's open to debate. the jobs are strong but the inflation is worrisome. you mix that with people that are not returning to work, a lot of them are reluctant to do so for a variety of reasons. it's not a slam dunk. i'm wondering for the candidates now that worry about a delayed impact of this type of news, that do they say, all right, joe biden has got another 18 months or so to see this stick and gain ground and gain traction. he's got time, not something that george h.w. bush had going for him in 1992. >> two things. there's a primary here. a republican primary voters have no patience or sympathy for the biden administration. so the republicans like desantis and trump and the other six or seven candidates will campaign stridently and strongly against the biden administration through the nominating process. certainly through iowa and new hampshire, south carolina and nevada. but you make a good point, neil. if things start to change and if biden does one of the other things bill cl

it was an issue for bob dole, it was an issue for john mccain, and it was rightly an issue for both oftly an issue now too. >> what do they do about it? >> well, they should do about it? >> what do democrats do about it? >> they do what the president has been signaling his response is going to be, which is, watch me do my job. if you watch me do my job, you'll see i have what it takes. this is not a referendum on his age. there will be no line on the ballot that says, do you believe joe biden is too old to be president. no. what's going to be on the ballot is joe biden and another name. he's got to show that he is better at the job than that other name. right now, the most likely person to be that other name is donald trump. you want to know, is joe biden fit to be president? look at what he just did on the debt ceiling to prevent the united states and the global economy from going over a cliff with minimal damage to his set of priorities. he got almost everything he wanted in that. the other guys, the top two guys on the other side, both say, we would rather have had a default. you te

announces his candidacy for the presidency and would come in second place in the iowa caucus behind bob dolef kansas but ahead of george h to the bush, who eventually won the nomination and the presidency. mr. robertson was also the founder and chancellor of the christian broadcasting network university renamed as regent university 1990. >> ladies and gentlemen, pat robinson and didi robinson. ♪ >> thank you. thank you very much. [chanting] [laughter] thank you. [laughter] [chanting] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, i am standing here in front of a house i lived in with my wife 28 years ago. -- i believe firmly that every person in the united states of america has a right to an education, dignity, freedom, and has the right to a job, and i particular belief that every person in america has a right to be heard. [chanting] and i have come to this neighborhood to express my commitment to the fundamental values i have lived for for the last third of a century. we came here with three children because we care about people, and i have come back

. >> it reminds me of a very different dynamic when bob dole, who was the presidential candidate for republicans in 1996, fell off a stage and the media made a big deal out of that. obviously very different age contrast with incumbent president bill clinton. thanks to all of you. appreciate it. this sunday i will be in iowa hosting a cnn republican presidential town hall with former south carolina governor and u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern. then on wednesday it is the cnn republican presidential town hall with former vice president mike pence. that's june 7th at 9:00 eastern only here on cnn. that one will be with dana bash. coming up, unexpected side effects. some of the welcomed outcomes from patients who took medications such as ozempic trying to lose weight. that's ahead. plus a new sexual assault lawsuit filed against bill cosby by a former playboy model who says she was motivated by e. jean carroll's case against donald trump. this is iowa. we just haven't been properly i introduced. say hello to the plalace where rolling hills m

talk to, they constantly go back and refer to actually the 1996 campaign, which you may remember bob doleoing to lose anyway. you have a lot of democratic leaders who have that event seared into their memory. and i think the one thing they constantly talk about is we anor trip. that includes people inside the administration, too, that just sort of cringe every time he is sort of shuffling along there. that being said, they think he has a strong record to run on. they also think that with the republicans running further and further to the right on issues like abortion, you have desantis hitting trump with a six-week abortion ban. there is a reason joe biden is going to be talking about gun rights. not gun rights but gun control, gun safety. this is not a campaign event, but it technically is. harris talking on the anniversary of the repeal of roe v. wade, it is technically a campaign event that's not a campaign event. >> you're right about the fears of another fall. one aide said, imagine if he broke something and spent weeks in a cast or worst. you're right, they also look across the aisl

we remember bob dole and john mccain running against decades younger candidates, trying to go on "snlows to diffuse this. so the president is doing this as well, and it is really something that they have found as you heard in those clips, voters respond to in the room. >> yeah. jonathan allen, you mentioned you're in new hampshire. that is where the former president and desantis were yesterday. i know you got some new reporting on the former president as well as we talk about the run-up to 2024 and how he is looking towards some counterprogramming for the first gop debate. what can you tell us? >> yeah, trump has not committed to that first debate. he's not committed to support the republican nominee if it is not him. people close to him say he's leaning heavily against participating in that first debate and starting to think about options for how he might counterprogram during it. what i mean by that is some sort of event he would hold, whether in person or, you know, televised that would try to compete with the attention on the first debate. but like most front-runners and he's got,

he visited bob dole at his apartment before he died. he has done a number of things that i think have been disappointing and has decided to go it alone in an early way. i think that is -- his rhetoric has been really destructive. he compared people who disagree with him to jefferson davis. he gave that talk where he basically completed what he sees as the awful -- also moderate republicans. every day republicans may not have that market as a nation. i think it is contrary to his long-standing representation. i think he just managed a strategic mistake reason i am not going to negotiate. that is ridiculous. you claimed your whole career to be a negotiator. second of all, why are you going to negotiate? that is the biggest issue out there. we need to get this resolved and you're just claiming you're not going to negotiate. i think the democrats actually eventually realized that as they were even walking back and they said we are not actually saying we are not going to negotiate. that is not what the american people want. they know republi

he was friends with the late bob dole. he has this great reputation, but i do not think it is borne out as president. he has done a number of things i think has been disappointed. he decided to go it alone on some of those early stimulus bills. i also think his rhetoric has been really destructive. i did not like the speech where he compared people who disagreed with him with full connor. --bull connor. he conflated what he sees as the moderate republicans and the ultra moderate republicans. the way he described it was everyday republicans who may not have that maga designation. biden has been in a problematic position, and i think it is contrary to his long-standing tayshaun. when he gets to the specifics of this negotiation, i think he made a strategic mistake. where he said, i'm not going to negotiate. first of all, you claimed your whole career to be a negotiator. this is the biggest issue out there. we need to get this debt ceiling issue resolved and you were just claiming you are not going to negotiate? it was not a

and bill clinton, who famously did not go to vietnam, not running against bob dole in 1995, signed the normalization, an agreement, and before that, in 1975. the two heroes for me are gerry ford and ted kennedy. those two guys made it possible for a million and a half or so vietnamese to come to the united states of america. that didn't happen by accident. we may have been just as anti-immigrant in 1975 as we are today. it was a wonderful thing that they did and they get way too little appreciation for it. so i think the summary for me is the question for us needs to be how do we sustain peace? peace in some ways is a hell of a lot harder than war because you have to constantly work at it. you have to constantly work through the disagreements, you have to constantly work through. people say, oh, you're making peace with the communist. so it's to my mind, my work right now is much more about making fulbright university successful because i think it's a way for us to do something positive and give us one sentence on fulbright university, because it's very likely that not everybody knows

how ike and beating him beating him with the help of donald rumsfeld congressman from illinois and bob dole. congressman from kansas. dole delivered the four votes that provided the margin of victory and. as i say, 11 years later, ford repaid the debt with compound interest when he put forward on the ticket in 1976. and ford really came to national prominence then with and jerry showed what was his relationship with everett dirksen? yeah, everett dirksen was a showman and as a young boy, he'd met william jennings bryan and they never got over it. i mean, he was william jennings bryan reincarnated, you know, he'd get up and give these great full throated speeches extolling the virtues of the barrick gold, you know, as the national flower. and bob but bob or carnival, who was a friend of ford's and excellent congressman from upstate new, said in an interview, i found that, you know, that dirksen would have walked over his grandmother for two federal judges and and lbj took his measure, seduced him, you know, long before ford appeared on the scene. the dirksen ford was not warm. part of it was

bob dole one on one in his office, wow, get him in front of a tv camera, he's bad. >> i will say thisible leader, incredible negotiator, incredible strategist. and he's strong, brilliant, understands nuance in those conversations, some of whom -- i was with him and, you know, the legislative leaders and saw it firsthand. in a high stakes circumstance. but also, if you think about perhaps president biden's biggest moment in front of the american people this year, which was his state of the union address, he delivered, he delivered in a big way. and it wasn't just the script. he had to face a hostile crowd of people on the other side of the aisle and faced them down, came off the script, did it spontaneously and got them to publicly commit to take social security and medicare off the table. joe biden and his finest, in a public way, and in a very high stakes environment. >> thank you so much for being here. >> great to have you. >> we greatly appreciate it. we know you got to go, do some work. unfortunately, we still don't have to work. we'll let you sneak out. i'm going to keep talking

this is why, for example i think back to a minute of bipartisanship, when bob dole suspended his politicalent to say, "i support bill clinton on policy in the former yugoslavia." some say, you know, that guy should beat him for president but i'm with him on this thing. the base has become so insanely oppositional that elected republicans, who as you and joe both noted know better, they have dealt with classified information, they know the law, they know what trump, if these allegations are true, they know what trump has done, but they can't be seen to waver even for a moment, even for a micro second in front of the republican base because then they will be called quizzlings and traitors. they can say, look, this isn't a partisan issue. this is what the national security of the united states and the rule of law and defense of the constitution, and on that there is no red, there is no blue, there is no party. we have simply all taken an oath and we all swore to defend it, and they can't bring themselves to do that because they fear their own voters and have a certain amount of contempt for t