two of our members of our commission were senate majority leaders, senator lott and senator daschle. they made a point of the need for many more bipartisan meetings or caucuses. a simple point is that the parties, of course, the members of the parties, the caucus, they meet together. and sometimes too much of that meeting really stirs up partisan tension. so if to wrote senator lott when the members or senators come in on tuesday and one of the first things they do is get together as republicans and then democrats, they often come out of the meetings ready to go and sort of partisan way. senators daschle and lott found in the early 2000s leaders, that it was useful to have a cooling down period after those caucuses. why not have a caucus of both parties? why not have the president come to address the caucus and both sides there house and senate or in the senate republicans and democrats and also do it in the house with republicans and the democrats to hear from the whole body sometimes rather than just one party. >> let's get to the viewers' ideas on this as well. tim in virginia, de

in the summer of 1928 erotically a few months before the daschle election that's women could vote and they would join to vote out of office the first female president of united states. and the only female president. she was not really president but she was defacto and most did not even know about it. most americans do not know about it today but the political committee in washington knew about the woman in the white house senator fall from new mexico was enraged we have petticoat government. >> said diplomatic community the french ambassador that he was dealing with mademoiselle. >> the greatest offenders -- misunderstanding the most carefree and wealthy decade we have never had. but americans still lived under the shadow of the great war which is one of world war i was called. if we could not fear to break out again and is in the case of the exploding course demonstrated it could break out on our own soil. as it demonstrated maybe it already had. . . >> greater in 1920 and it yesterday might branch through the film in new york plaza hotel drunk soaking wet and laughing hysterically b

after other the civil war but we don't want women to have too much fun it is just for procreation and daschle a matter singer went to jail many times because she continued to distribute contraception. and and they cannot go the bell this traditionally they cannot ask for government funding and they cannot even do clinical trials how do they test it? what company will make it? they fly by the seat of their pants. >> host: you have your scientists have birth control crusader and then number four? >> somebody direction knows how women's bodies were. pinkus is just a scientist you need a gynecologist who could run the clinical trials sumacs a technical you to get a catholic gynecologist? [laughter] he happened to be the most respected fertility specialist. >> key was my aunt's doctor she told mrs. the other day she is very excited. [laughter] so he says i think that progesterone could work as the birth control pill because he explains it in simple terms the woman already has contraception which she is pregnant she cannot get pregnant again so free give it to her electric the body to thinking she

we have the majority leader from the senate, senators lott and daschle. we have also looked at congressional leadership and foreign policy. we have a panel of people who are extremely knowledgeable who have served with and encountered multiple presidents we can talk about today. let me say a few things quickly and then introduce our panel. we put together a book about the second term of the bush administration. it was called "second term blues." that is not to pick on george bush so much as to say second term presidents have difficulties. the first term has more promise. there are many opportunities in the second term, but there are often similarities. one is, most every second term president going back 50 or six years, has lost control of congress. there is often a turn in foreign policy. there are questions in staffing continuity and change. there are also big changes to shake up the administration and we will hear about all of that today. let me put a few things on the table and then we will turn to our panelists. we have with us canada who has -- kenn

daschle welcome back. we spoke barely 10 days ago and did not go your way.he greeks seem to have laid the road work and so did angela merkel. pleased or displeased? mr. hans-werner: it is a deal and has some advantages. more control of the greek budget . on the other hand another 86 billion euros out of gdp which will be flowing to greece without a helping the country sufficiently. that money will not be enough to please the people and more than the taxpayers of the other european countries are willing to give area the true problem is the country is not competitive and can not to be may competitive through money. manus: one of the strongest elements of this is the greek parliament having to enact reform do you doubt the reforms, structural reforms will be effective or implemented? what is the biggest risk here? hans-werner sinn: that they will not be implemented and there will be some legislation will increase of the taxes for example. people will not pay the taxes. the fundamental problem in greece. a two-step procedure, the parliament have to implement and

canada is not a small country they have the daschle health care system for many decades which works pretty well. but to answer your question with sweden or denmark to talk about the vision if we have the political will we could have family and medical leave and we can also have a much fairer tax system with a lot less in income inequality than we have right now. >>. >> any questions? >> with putting people back to work does that come at the expense of the new plan that you laid out? >> i believe if to be extraordinarily bold and aggressive. that it is not a contradiction if you have a strong will. to create a much more efficient energy transportation. to make massive cuts of carbon mission. while at the same time that we are effectively combating that. >> i will quote you that to strengthen our borders to not allow people that is long overdue and absolutely right. why did you say that back now ben now you don't? >> with the recent bill does is the concern of what we discussed a few moments ago with two much emphasis to bring workers into this country. but what is better about the recent bi

michael mayo is someone's daschle.has been harshly critical of bank of america's governance policies. mike mayo will join us to discuss a modest changing of the guard at moynihan's bank of america. stay with us worldwide coast-to-coast, this is "bloomberg surveillance." good morning. ♪ tom: it is deceptive. it is all quiet on the market data front for greece. i guess it is all quiet business as usual in front of her limit in athens. brendan greeley tells me flat out it is not all why it in greece. there's a lot going on with mr. tsipras this morning, and we still hear about grexit. brendan: everybody knows a haircut is going to happen so will that happen in the eurozone or club? -- or in the paris club? tom: i thought wolfgang schaeuble said no haircut. brendan: let's take a look at our morning must-read. my comes from tony barber writing in the "financial times" -- brendan: first of all, i will say i will start using the word "kolotoumba" once a morning with tom. donald straszheim you are a china guy, but china has in

senators daschle and lott found in the early 2000s leaders, that it was useful to have a cooling down period after those caucuses. why not have a caucus of both parties? why not have the president come to address the caucus and both sides there house and senate or in the senate republicans and democrats and also do it in the house with republicans and the democrats to hear from the whole body sometimes rather than just one party. >> let's get to the viewers' ideas on this as well. tim in virginia, democrat, how would you improve congress? >> caller: yes. i think a good thing would be if we want to keep using our military do go into the other countries, take a bill with us figure out what it's going to cost and tell them that you pay half when we get there and half when the job's done. we can't keep affording to go and police the world and some of the social programs like social security so easy to fix. when the kid comes out of the social security on year one, start taking taxes out. don't wait 18 or 20 years. take a little bit out of earned income credit and not miss it. it would fix