funny how that didn't make it into the pro bush campaign ads against dukakis. >> bush and dukakis on crime. bush supports the death penalty for first degree murders. dukakis not only opposes the death penalty but allowed first degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison. one was willy horton who murdered a boy in a robbery stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence horton received ten weekend passes from prison. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. weekend prison passes. dukakis on crime. >> that was one of the first independent pac ads run and paid for by an outside group. if you think atwater didn't know about it ahead of time, wink, wink, nod, nod, keep in mind that at the time he also said this. by the time we are finished they're going to wonder whether willie horton is dukakis's running mate. bush sr. came from behind in the polls and won the white house with an electoral college vote of 426 to 111. it was a blowout. lee atwater had no misgivings about the dirty tricks he used to secure that victory. >> the ar

take a look. >> bush and dukakis on crime. bush supports the death penalty for first degree murders. dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison. one was willy horton who murdered a boy in a robbery stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sentence horton received ten weekend passes from prison. horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his girlfriend. weekend prison passes. dukakis on crime. >> that was one of the first independent pac ads. but if you think atwater didn't know it about it, wink, wink, he also said this. bush sr. won the white house with an actual vote with 426 to 111. it was a blowout. and lee atwater had no misgivings about the dirty tricks he used to secure that victory. >> the architect of the evil campaign. you're as brought of the achievement. are you as proud of the tactics? >> i think we ran a very good campaign. i'll tell you something. if the american people truly thought he was running a negative ca

was fascinatingw much you found out you go back for example i remember watching a speech michael dukakis made when they were running for the public nomination and this is some of the great lines george hw bush says he isn't much of a leader. at this time i agree with both and neither of them as much of a leader, that is just kind of a great lion and you can only find that through c-span so i thought it was obviously kind of appropriate to dedicate it to c-span. >> something i've never said out loud as a part of watching c-span is during a senate to vote with all the interactions on the senate floor. i spend hours watching them. you have a whole section on political insult. why did you include that? >> i find them fascinating. they are good in terms of being able to somehow be creative in terms of the way they insult people. i remember for example watching the house one time and marion barry the congressman from arkansas with a southern accent a congressman from florida basically said he had mischaracterized his view on the budget he went after him and then i go back to someone that was o

was a new favorite reporter at usa today in 1988 in the elections and barbara bush and and katie dukakis agreed to write a weekly column for usa today. it was called their campaign diary i think, it ran every monday morning and i was there editor . i was given the assignment but i was grumpy about it, i didn't want to the editor but instead i got to know both of those amazing women really well. and after that the election i was very surprised when mismatches chief of staff offered me a job at the first lady's press office. i took a couple weeks to think about it, i love being a reporter and it was my dad, a farmer in missouri who said what is wrong with you mark you've been offered a job by the incoming first lady of the united states and you're still thinking about. but he was right and i said yes and the rest ishistory . then i quickly warned tom in houston when he lost the election and mrs. bush was her memoir. i was a researcher and her editor. she wrote the book yourself. she would want me to say that. and then the book was done and some bush said to me will you stay a couple more m

quentin dukakis included withjust a week ago he definitely wasn't. now they have momentum.ey have momentum. rabada speed, hendrixjust about held on here, bangladesh couldn't. 24—3 became 34-5. bangladesh couldn't. 24—3 became 311—5. they are superman is injured and no one was able to put on his cloak. nokia finish the job, bangladesh 84 all out. they knew it wasn't enough. that didn't stop south africa momentarily losing their grip. mark rooms a runaway bat might�*ve dismissed him it the next ball it was nick, wicked, south africa three down. time for some leadership. didn't release the pressure reaching the semifinals it might depend on net run rate. that means winning quickly. south there with six overs to spare. for bangladesh this tournament has all been a blur. ford namibia it might feel like a hazy dream, few expected them to be involved alongside the best teams in the world. like pakistan who after a slow start took things up several notches. thanks largely to rizwan, he smashed 79, 24 of them from the last over alone. that meant namibia needed a mountain is 190 to w

not two weeks later, after withering attacks from the press, democrat dukakis brandished his defenseietly without fanfare, the house and senate hastefully passed the revised 89 defense bill without the offending language. six months later george h. w. bush was elected president of the united states. on november 9, 1989, the berlin wall came down and with it the soviet union. senator pete wilson had indeed served this nation with distinction and can take a seat of honor among those who won the cold war. his washington time was coming to an end because california needed him back to restore its golden luster. thank you. [applause] >> hi. i was governor wilson's legal affairs secretary and counsel during his second term. winston churchill once observed that courage is the essential quality of human nature because without that quality, none of the other qualities of human nature can be guaranteed. pete wilson and his tenure as governor exuded courage and decisiveness of [inaudible] nature. let me give four very brief examples of this. number one, april 29, 1992, riots erupted in los angel

it's like michael dukakis in '88. people are smarter than that. no, they weren't. when are democrats going to learn to fight hard on culture issues? >> if they don't learn it soon, they'll lose a lot of races. you know, i think there's a -- we see democrats say this all the time. people like jim clyburn and other people banging the drum all day long about how democrats, even when they agree on the principles, that many people who espouse woke views, what they want to accomplish in terms of equity, diversity, other things, the way they talk about it sounds like they're talking from a liberal elite faculty lounge. for ordinary voters, it is off-putting. we know from the beginning of the trump phenomenon, people hate political correctness. they hate being told what to think. they hate being scolded for thinking the wrong thing. >> remember david -- sorry. he says that even white woke people are more progressive on, quote, racial justice than people of color. >> well, yes. that's one of those things. a lot of statistics. you had a lot of african-americans who thought t

i was a newspaper reporter at "usa today" for the 1988 election and barbara bush and kitty dukakis bothgreed to write a weekly column for "usa today" called campaign diary. man every monday morning and i was there editor. and i was given the assignment i was grumpy about it but it ended up to be a lot of fun. i got to know both amazing women really well. after the election i was very surprised when mrs. push chief of staff offered me a job in the first lady press office. it took a couple of weeks to think about it i love to be a reporter and then my dad said what is wrong with you? even offered by the incoming first lady of the united states and you are still thinking about it? he was right and i said yes and the rest is history then i followed them to houston when they lost the election in 92 to help mrs. bush with her memoirs i was her researcher and editor she did write about herself. should want me to say that. the book was done in president bush said to me. will you stay a couple more months. i need to hire a chief of staff. is retired. he said just stay until labor day that was ma