cokie, how did he do trying to inaugurate that? >> i give him another a, but i think that he reached out to republicans, there were a couple of places where he made democrats happy, as well. saying we're not going to refight the health care debate, and we, he gave them, again, the 2% highest income people shouldn't have their tax cuts, all of that. but the civility really turned out to be something of a problem, and for me to say this is shocking because i'm definitely pro-civility. but the fact that the democrats and republicans were all sitting together stymied them. and they didn't know when to cheer and when to clap. they didn't know how to behave under these circumstances. and i think it made it hard to get any kind of electricity. >> people standing up and sitting down. what did you give him on ti civili civility? >> i give him an a on it. i think cokie is totally right. i think the combination of the audience and his speech. i think there was 45 bipartisan applauses in that, which set a record for a speech. every time, if yo

i think cokie's totally right. think every time he ventured into a little bit of partisanship, he immediately followed up with a republican initiative. so, he would say, don't ask, don't tell. and then, say we should recruit on college campuses. he would say something on health care. don't repeal the whole thing. but there's changes that can be made. >> and malpractice. >> and malpractice reform. every time he would reach across, he would propose a bipartisan solution. i think in civility, and a follow-up from the tucson speech, this was an "a," for him. >> agreement on the abc analysts. >>> we'll have more reaction on "gma," plus, a live interview from senator john mccain. >>> the president talked about investing in education, hours, though, after releases that test results show american kids don't know much about science. only about one-third of fourth and eighth graders performed at the proficient level and above. >>> a basketball team in utah is under fire for trouncing the competition by more than 100 points.

cokie, such a pleasure to have you on on a saturday morning. thanks for coming in. we appreciate it. >> happy to be with you. >> cokie roberts. >> i was going to say, it's funny. she talked about gene the machine, as he's also known. the energizer bunny. a very strong work ethic. >> it doesn't rhyme. >>> but sometimes, we call ron the machine, as well. >> and the man. >> ron claiborne, everybody, with the news. >> good morning to you, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. the u.s. is doubling down on aid to pakistan to bolster its fight against terrorists, based along that country's border with afghanistan. "the washington post" reports that pakistan will get more money and increased military and intelligence support, despite the u.s. frustrations that the pakistani government is not doing enough to combat the terrorist groups. vice president biden will travel to pakistan next week to deliver the message to pakistani leaders themselves. >>> and defense secretary robert gates leaves for china today, looking to improve relations with its military leaders. he will me

cokie?ainly agree with that, being the father of girls and deeming with a 9-year-old child who was killed is very difficult and he did it very well. and he evoked her as our standard bearer, really that we can't let

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broadcast the show, abc -- they represented all of the talent that was on the show; george will, brinkley, cokie roberts, sam donaldson. most of the time they would also represent the talent that was on the show, james carville and mary madeleine, for example. and then to sort of cap it all off, they were at the attorneys for arkansas cher daniels midland for many be years. finish for many years. and part of which is retold in the movie, "the informant," with matt damon, aubrey daniels' role. anyway, as i looked at brendan sullivan's career over the entirety of his 35 years, i used to always say in my articles about him and when i was talking to people, i would say brendan sullivan has gone 35 years and has never had one client serve any time in jail which was pretty remarkable because by the time people got to him, they were usually pretty far up the creek. it wasn't like he was defending, you know, too many roman catholic nuns or that sort of thing. and after a while i began to wonder if it was really true. was i just saying this? had i just repeated this story so many times that i believe t i

as i pointed out, i even turned on abc this week with sam donaldson and cokie roberts, and they were grilling the guest about this blue dress stain and questioning, are you sure it wasn't a guacamole stain? as i pointed out, it would have been difficult to even have a child watching television on sunday morning and listening to this sort of thing and to explain that there were other uses for cigars suddenly. so it's a very embarrassing situation, i think, for everybody, including parents. i've got some firsthand accounts there of what came out of the mouths of innocent babes that their parents would write in and tell me about, just to give a flavor of what the country was going through at that time. >> you have a list here, you said all told by one republican count that the clinton white house and two terms attracted 61 indictments or misdemeanor charges, 33 convictions, 14 imprisonments, seven independent counsel investigations, 72 congressional witnesses pleading the fifth amendment. i don't need to go on. but when i read that, i thought, you could do the same thing with the next a