i said, this is the bill from tom daschle, really important to tom.you can't do that to the democratic leader. he said, okay. we got it done. tom was my friend from then on. [laughter] >> that is where it all started. >> we have a question right here. the microphone. if you could identify yourself. >> el colton with the hill this paper. i just want to get your thoughts on president obama's region to appointments of richard scored ray in the apartment to the nlrb during a 2-day break in between pro-forma sessions. demonstrations argues that they are a sham sessions. was that -- were those justified under the constitution? >> you may find a difference here. >> i think the president is entirely justified. for two reasons. one, because, as was said earlier, we're making it harder and harder and harder for nominees to go through this incredibly laborious and painful and time-consuming process, and there is no end. it gets worse by the year. and so that alone seems to me to be a factor in where do you draw the line. the second part of it is that constitutio

i said, this is the bill from tom daschle really important to tom. the democratic leader. he said, okay. we got it done. tom was my friend from then on. [laughter] >> that is where it all started. >> we have a question right here. the microphone. if you could identify yourself. >> el colton with the hill this paper. i just want to get your thoughts on president obama's region to appointments of richard scored ray in the apartment to the nlrb during a 2-day break in between pro-forma sessions. demonstrations argues that they are a sham sessions. was that -- were those justified under the constitution? >> you may find a difference here. >> i think the president is entirely justified. for two reasons. one, because as was said earlier, we're making it harder and harder and harder for nominees to go through this incredibly laborious and painful and time-consuming process and there is no end. it gets worse by the year. and so that alone seems to me to be a factor in where do you draw the line. the second part of it is that constitutionally as i understand

trent lott and tom daschle. thank you both for being a part of the bipartisan policy center, jackson foundation program today. with no further ado, senator jostldaschle? [applause] >> john, thank you for that generous introduction. more importantly, thank you and the foundation for being our partner in this project. i look forward to reading the book, but as a young staff person, i had the good fortune to see senator jackson in action and to see the degree to which he epitomized the qualities that we hope we can talk about today, his leadership, his extraordinary willingness to find comedy with his colleagues, his prioritization of bipartisanship is all historic and we are very, very grateful that he continues to inspire arrested them with his deeds and words. there are others that i want to call attention to for their presence today, and my gratitude to them for being here. dirk camp pharma, dan glickman, charlie stenholm. it's a real pleasure to have them with us, as well. from thes inspired lessons of leaders

i said, this is the bill from tom daschle, really important to tom.hat to the democratic leader. he said, okay. we got it done. tom was my friend from then on. [laughter] >> that is where it all started. >> we have a question right here. the microphone. if you could identify yourself. >> el colton with the hill this paper. i just want to get your thoughts on president obama's region to appointments of richard scored ray in the apartment to the nlrb during a 2-day break in between pro-forma sessions. demonstrations argues that they are a sham sessions. was that -- were those justified under the constitution? >> you may find a difference here. >> i think the president is entirely justified. for two reasons. one, because, as was said earlier, we're making it harder and harder and harder for nominees to go through this incredibly laborious and painful and time-consuming process, and there is no end. it gets worse by the year. and so that alone seems to me to be a factor in where do you draw the line. the second part of it is that constitutionally as i und

joining me is the founder and ceo nathan daschle, son of tom daschle. good to see you.politics as a democrat, but we're seeing so many examiples out there of republicans and democrats being so partisan, they can't get anything done. do you think there is something out there to tap into that people are looking for? >> absolutely, chris. there is a dramatic inefficiency now with how our political system operates. we live in the era of itunes, netflix, amazon, where consumers have unprecedented power. but they expect options. and quite frankly those options aren't available with partisan politics. we ask individuals before they engage in politics to choose one of two institutions. so we put party labels aside and organize around the issues that are most important to you with people and groups who are politically like minded. >> explain how it happens. we checked out the website. you go on and choose issues like jobs, environment, taxes. and then what happens next? >> that's exactly right. you get one and you let us know what are the issues most important to you. then you g

daschle well come back to the kaiser report time now to go to dublin speak with economist professor constantine good yeah constantine is from moscow and now teaches at trinity college dublin welcome back to kaiser report constantine thank you most all right if it were to happen what impact would a euro zone breakup have russia there i read it two ways in which the euro can break and we can call it disorderly in the other we can easily default breakup of the you are what will happen is that the monetary must all that money then circulation currency and euros will be gradually over a number of years displaced out of the existence. in one country such as greece or in a number of countries such as all the peripheral countries there are different permutations and the case in this case the disruption will be the most minor and the impact on russian trade and the russian program will savings and investments will be very minor the worst case scenario calms when there's disorderly default disorderly structure and of the currency markets and there's a lot of that what happens as overnight you will see th

why did you think that there were weapons of mass destruction and you question the motives of tom daschle and others who didn't think there were weapons. and you find themselves in camp with them later. >> it was not my idea that there were weapons of mass destruction. every country in the world was looking at this, i think that there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq. you had satellite images of all kinds of trucks, and technicians in and out of the country, and one of the great under-covered stories of the last decade. this is the successful docking of a massive shipment of yellowcake, during the american occupation of iraq. they got out of the country safely. and you ask, when did this happen and what is this about. you have all kinds of elements of weapons of mass destruction that seem to pop up here and there. i do think that there was plenty of reason to believe that they were there, and that they were either not far along in certain cases, or that they were destroyed or removed. i think that they were there and the decision of the bush of ministration, not to talk about any

we have democrats like the former senate leader tom daschle who is not registered and yet has advised health care companies in similar ways. former senate leader trent lot, republican of mississippi. >> woodruff: to you both. are there calls today for more information from these two, more tax returns from mitt romney? >> so far there haven't been a ton of calls. i would expect there would be. and certainly if not in the republican primary, then once he faces off against barack obama if he is indeed mitt romney becomes the nominee they're going to ask for more tax returns. >> this with the speaker is not over yet. he worked for them for five years. he released a one-year contract. there's a lot of material we don't know. we talked to his people today. they say they're looking for additional records, but there are many... many questions are left unanswered. >> woodruff: thank you both very much. >> ifill: to preview the big speech we >> ifill: for more on the tax issue and to preview the big speech, we turn to "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist ruth

how can my company takedown daschle i would let you see spam go away as a distribution mechanism. but from a perspective, there's a certain perspective that shows that that might be the case. that there might not be any change. we are still in infancy so we don't know. >> so, this book is a who done it. except i still feel that we don't know who done it. and i just want to check in with you guys to see where we are. your book ended at a certain point of the have been a couple things that happen so take me to with a law enforcement aspect, the word is, and she's feel you have conclusive sense of who the authors were or are. >> my suspicion is, and i can't say with any certainty, that the authorities do know he was behind it. and i suspect that the difficulty in apprehending them has more to do with diplomacy, deal with a foreign government, dealing with foreign laws and police abcs than it does with actually find them. but what we do know about the authors of the worm without having caught them yet is that they are tremendously sophisticated programmers, and the reason i use the wo

it's not about whether daschle 50,117 or 49,800. it's about honey, it's going to be okay. and i'm absolutely convinced it's going to be okay. the reason i am is because i think the american people are tired of being tired. i know that is a biden -ism, but i believe. i don't any better way to express it. i think they are tired of being tired. i think i like my dad would say, just get up, just get up. all they need, and we've given it to them, and will give a much more come is a glimmer of a possibility, get up. summit is not going to hold them up, but somebody is not going to push them back down. [applause] look, we know what they're going to say, the opposition. they are going to say, i found it stands i don't nobody seems like seems like a reasonable guy. mitch daniels talked about trickle-down government. i started thinking about that. iser think about how they keep talking to us about how we are big government, trickle-down government, and they are free enterprise. i started thinking, remember, nancy, when i don't know whether it was you or us or who came up with the id

they have a module that is called daschle to on orbit right now that i think they intend to use as a human, the first part of the human tended space station. they have a capsule used to carry crews to orbit. hopefully everyone in here knows that they've had three successful human missions. they've actually done a space walk. they have walked through essentially the gemini program but if you look at america's space program, merger, gemini, apollo, they've made it through the gemini program now and they have rendezvoused and talked -- docked. they will fly an unmanned demonstration and then i think by the end of the year or early next year they will fly human missions that will dock and go inside and utilize its. i don't look at them as a competitor as much as i do a potential partner for further development of space for humankind. we right now can't work with them by letter because are prohibited by law, but all of my international partners do. so as i said, i'm the eternal optimist but i'm also a realist. and right now we're the only ones that are not working with the chinese in term