director at cmi this is the 30 fifth year cmi has existed. we started as a bipartisan training institute and we've been going strong ever since. our first speaker today is charlie cook. charlie is the editor and publisher of "the cook political report" which he founded 30 years ago. >> 30 years ago in april. >> oh. charlie is also political analyst for "national journal." a regular election night contributor to cnn, cbs and nbc. always very generous with his time for cmi. he will start off this morning talking about general political environment going into 2014. so, charlie cook. >> thank you. [applause] thank you, candy. first of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i don't run into somebody somewhere that didn't say, i met you, or i first heard you at the american university campaign management institute and i've been doing this for really long time. i remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late '80s or probably early '90s. a friend of

first of all i want to compliment all of you for your decision to participate in cmi because hardly a month goes by that i don't run into somebody somewhere that didn't say, i met you, or i first heard you at the american university campaign management institute and i've been doing this for really long time. i remember my favorite story about the cmi was back in the, either very late '80s or probably early '90s. a friend of mine. leland: bill sweeney was helping to run the program. and this was march, april, may, few months after the cmi and he was walking through the capitol building and he ran into the speaker of the house, tom foley, who he knew. and speaker foley put him aside and said, bill, a few months ago, back over the holidays, my father was very ill, so i was spending a lot of time with him. there was one night i couldn't sleep so i turned on television and started watching c-span and campaign management institute was on. then speaker of the house goes through to critique each of the speakers. just goes to show you never know who is going to be watching this kind of thing o

this was a few months after the cmi.was walking through the capitol building and he ran into the speaker of the house, tom foley. the speaker pulled him aside and said, a few months ago, over the holidays, my father was very ill and was spending a lot of time with him and one night i could not sleep and started watching television and the management institute was on. the speaker of the house goes on to critique each of the speakers. you never know who will be watching this kind of thing on c-span and also a terrific program that is put together. what i will do is talk about the lay of the land, the political environment. a million years ago back in the 1970s when i first got out of college and was working in politics, there was a terrific political news later that a guy named evan phillips did, a political -- political strategist for nick and. -- nixon. it was produced every other week. the first part of it was fake themes of american politics. the last couple of pages was the alabama to wyoming, what is going on in each

japan has covered his newborn calves with insulating material to ward off the freezing temperatures the cmi he she is a dairy farmer in the cold crunchy region in hokkaido. he has put cotton bed of blankets over his newborn canvas. mit she says he's careful about keeping the animals warm because they could easily get sick in the call. he has also instilled peters an enclosed there plastic to keep the wind from blowing in more will he do for now ill get even colder as days go by so i'm going to do everything i can to help the cavs stay healthy a job know she is due to be at us temperatures in the region dipped to as low as minus twenty three degrees celsius on friday. and temperatures are dropping throughout japan our meteorologist roberts pet is here with more on that property. for a generic are also most of the region here today. well we are seeing is just as the siberian i started moving from the west and ushering in all the strong north westerly we insisted that in all the cool they are out about russian northeastern china pushed across the cpp and what's happening though is that the doe

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first of all, i want to complement all of you for your decision to participatein cmi, because hardly a month goes by that i do not run into somebody somewhere that did not say i've met you or first heard you at the american university campaign management institute. i have been doing this for a really long time. i remember my favorite story was back in the late 1980s or low 1990s. was running the program. this was march, april, may him and he was walking through the capitol building. he ran into the speaker of the house who he knew. he pulled him aside and said a few months ago, over the holidays, my father was very ill and was spending a lot of time with him and one night i could not sleep and started watching the management institute was on. the speaker of the house goes on to critique each of the speakers. will ber know who watching this kind of thing on c-span and also a terrific program that is put together. what i will do is talk about the lay of the land, the political environment. a million years ago back in the 1970s when i first got out of college and was working in politics

. >> guest: cmi. we ran into the interview and stanley said to me, i'm going to take your picture with sinatra junior. i said i don't want my picture taken again. he says nobody is going to believe you have to think of you. i said of course they're going to believe me. i'll have my notes. i hope to recorder. in this interview was fascinating. for the first 45 minutes, it was a wonderful frank sinatra junior telling you what it's like to be the son of a famous singer and then he's starting to do imitations of the singer's friends and so forth. finally, he turned to me and he said he knows some name? i know a lot of people. he said you know what i mean? and i said organized crime? people. and he said i know i have been to jimmy hoffert. why start this instead. going to get the pulitzer prize. just for a minute, i kind of thought, what will i wear when i get the pulitzer prize? this is the biggest unsolved mystery of the 20th century and nobody's out. and just as i'm thinking about what i'm going to wear