dukakis -- >> let's go to the add.ally for people who are young enough to not be familiar with it, the willie horton condy african-american convict who committed rape and assault after being released from prison under we can furlough program in massachusetts. his menacing mug shot was featured prominently on the screen in what was widely seen as an attempt to appeal racially charged fears of white voters. it wasn't directly sponsored by the bush campaign, but many credited the brainchild of campaign manager lee atwater. >> bush and dukakis on crime. bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers. two caulk is not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murder staff weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy and a robbery stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence, porton received 10 weekend passes from prison. he fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. we can prison passes, dukakis on crime. >> that and changed hist

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. >> reporter: you joked michael dukakis can't even get a job mowing lawns. how is your lawn mowing business? >> i'm not very good at mowing lawns, i got to be honest with you. i'm allergic to it so i stay away from it. >> a very rare look at romney, conveying his warm side, i can tell you is better. ultimately what they failed to accomplish, talking about seeing another side of romney. tonight, he sits down, or in this case, stands up with jimmy fallon, where he will slow jam the news. brian, this is not quite the governor romney that we saw during the course of the campaign. >> i'll say. something to look forward to tonight. peter alexander, thanks for revisiting the candidate and the topic for us. >>> and as for the rest of the party, the rnc is meeting this in d.c. this week. and in addition to calling for a more condensed and less grueling primary season in 2016, they're take bids for host cities including las vegas, kansas city, ohio, and phoenix. the mayor of columbus went out on a limb and said if his city gets the nod and hosts the convention, he wil

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. >> as mike dukakis says the fish rise to the left. >> he made his repudiation by being down at the coast during the storms, knowing the details telling people to get out. that was chris christie, good on the details. now as you say he's saying i have no idea. >> we'll come back in a minute and talk. this is big time. what will the republican party run now? ted cruz. they have a weak bench to start with and crazier. just for the record here, here's what christie said tonight. listen to this. this statement came out as a written statement. he had it slipped under the door tonight after an all day examination of what happened by him apparently. what i've seen today for the first time is unacceptable. i am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was i misled by a member of my staff but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge. one thing is clear, this type of behavior is unacceptable and i will not tolerate it because the people of new jersey deserve better. this behavior is not representative of me or my administration in any way

. >> i remember a long time ago when i worked for michael dukakis in 1988, the very first day when i let him, he fired me and brought me into his office because he was a micromanager. for everybody he hired, he brought me to the office and said never write anything down on paper that you don't want to see in "the boston globe." that's politics 101. the people writing this down is really arrogant and petty and i don't understand why they would even bother to put this in an e-mail. >> because clearly if you're that naive or that arrogant to put that in writing and to ask for something like that, there's a culture there. you don't just do that. >> jeff connor, part of the story of the one-hour meeting that christie had a month ago with the senior staff where he asked them all if they knew anything about this and they all said no, but part of that story that i think i learned today -- i wasn't sure i learned it yesterday -- he walked out of the meeting but his general counsel interviewed individuals in the meeting. now, joe, here's the question. why didn't the general counsel operating o

that's something dukakis said. the only thing memorable he said when he ran for president. you take your lead from the boss. people end up talking like the boss, dressing like the boss. all the people working for kennedy, thin ties, the whole routine, short hair. christie might be able to weather the political storm, but he can't escape evidence. if you want proof, take a look at president nixon's approval ratings during watergate. this is fascinating. in june of '72, the watergate break-in took place. it was five months before nixon's 49-state reelection. for five months the guy was floating high after the watergate break-in. in january of '73, the following year, two of nixon's aides were convicted of conspiracy, which started the real political downfall of nixon. nixon's approval ratings tanked, going from 67% in the beginning of '73 down to 24% when he had to resign in '74. so nixon was able to bluff it. he had the pows coming home. everything was great. christie can do all the campaigning and showboating he wants, he will argue, be you might as well, because he is goin

now, he didn't say kinder and gentler than his democratic opponent, michael dukakis. he couldn't do that. but he was clearly different than reagan. won't hillary have to do that, regardless of the economy, unless it's zooming and then she'll just hang on to the guy. >> you're not going to see much of that happening certainly during the primary window. you will see some of that i expect during the general election. it remains to be seen. we'll have to see what his numbers are, we'll have to see what the any economist. few people are predicting the economy is going to take off dramatically. it's probably going to creep along or uptick a bit the way it has been for a while. now there is not going to be some rocket fuel injected into it most likely. so she is going to have to be very tethered to him. the piece is exactly right. the problem for her is the following year from now until the end of 2014, and that is why some people are not convinced she is running, if this is a very rough year for democrats, if the unexpected happens in addition to that, if obamacare takes an

he talked about how he wanted to apologize to michael dukakis. and he said that sometimes when his little daughters wanted to get his attention, they'd pretend to be interviewing him for television. i think that same week that i saw that, time magazine had an interview with mcnamara who expressed profound regret about the course of the vietnam war and also said -- when he was asked, "who really knew him?" that he couldn't really answer that question and that he couldn't say that his children did and that that was a hard thing to have to admit. it was a combination of the deep regrets about personal decisions that had irrevocably shaped public policy in this country, and the sense on the part of both of those men that they had somehow missed out with their own children; that seemed to me to be so compelling and to say something about how macho can leave you cold and lonely after your days of power and influence are done. c-span: when you look ahead, what do you see in this country? >> guest: oh, gosh, that's a tough question. i'm always amazed at

dukakis came right after the founding. there have been three in a row.y came onto the scene in a big way with clinton. they had to congressional aides running them. they joined with a group of bother it's from the hill to form the dlc and its psychic organization. they have their own committed billionaires. they picked a big fight inside their party. one of the first things the dlc did was issue a paper called [indiscernible] on why democrats kept losing over and over in races for the white house. he was very tough on the corner of the democratic party. thee jackson dubbed dlc democratic leisure class and basically called him racist. racist.d them they hit the long ball with bill clinton who was their chairman when he was running for president in 19 91. he kicked off his campaign i am sorry to say with a georgetown with a series of speeches called "the new covenant" where he laid out his vision for governing. it was really the dlc's vision for governing. governingd a blueprint called "the mandate for change" which clinton really did govern by. one of the

carter, mondale and dukakis not getting in and the horrible losses, they may have been more about thehan the message itself. with the clintons, one thing i noticed watching bill clinton in the '90s and embracing nafta, which i get it, helped him get elected, we don't have president dole as well, but in the repeal of glass stegele, the more he moved to the right, the more the right hated him, the more the left loved him. his popularity increased as going to away from liberalism which was a way of saying, it is not about ideology, it is about who has the job. >> that's fascinating too. i think we have the stat here somewhere. they look at bill clinton's approval rating among democrats now, like 94 to 4. wouldn't expect him to be unpopular, but, again, given where the democratic party seems to be, where the energy in the democratic party seems to be coming on economic issues and given the complicated legacy -- >> you can argue -- >> ten seconds. >> nafta and a number of the trade agreements and budget policy and investment policy, public investment policy were all about growing the econo