gary hart beat walter mondale.ondale had been a vice president and everybody thought he was going to be the nominee of the party, which he ultimately was, but not after a very tough fight. we won in new hampshire. he came in and did what we have been talking about. he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country. he persuaded people that that was the vision that they should support. >> senator, we planned to bring the interview. and talk about your best recipe for lebanese pumpkins, but we are out of time so we will thank you. thanks very much. we will be right back with the republican strategist and democratic strategist because >> we are back at the newseum. two of our favorite political strategists both part of the purple strategies team. we like them a lot and they will give us real talk and help us with the poll we did in new hampshire. you are familiar because you conducted it. jeb bush at the top. we will run through some of these candidates and ask you what are they doing right right now to help the

. >> you worked for gary hart in new hampshire. what is your fondest memory? >> winning, of course.e beat walter mondale. he had been a vice president and everybody thought he was going to be the nominee of the party which he alternately was, but not after a very tough fight. we won in new hampshire. because he came in and did what we have been talking about. he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country. >> we planned to bring the interview for her goal and run for your best recipe for lebanese duncans but we are out of time so we will thank you. thanks very much. we will be right back with the republican strategist and democratic strategist because it's never been done before on -- on television. right after the break. ♪ >> we are back at the newseum. two of our favorite political strategist as part of the purple strategies team. we like them a lot and they will give us real talk and help us with the poll we did in new hampshire. you are familiar because you conducted it. jeb bush at the talk -- top. we will ask you, what are they doing right right now to help your chanc

it was the time of gary hart running for president and getting in also its of terrible -- in all sorts of terrible trouble because of personal activities of his, and we were chatting about it and he said to me, we do not understand in france why you're making such a big deal about who gary hart has sex with. our prime minister has a very complicated personal life, he said. compared to american first amendment law, france has a more complicated law with respect to this area as the last presentation makes clear. france is a country that believes and in and treasures free speech and has more limitations on certain speech than we do and sometimes, those limitations make for very difficult decision-making. after world war ii, france passed legislation basically abolishing all the vichy legislation and restoring that 1939 law which prohibited racist and anti-semitic speech. they did that for obvious reasons. france is one of many european countries that makes it illegal to engage in the denial of the holocaust. french law basically distinguishes and i am reading here because it is so difficu

it was the time of gary hart republicaning for running for president and getting in all kinds of trouble because of personal activities of his and we were chatting about it and he said to me, you know we don't understand in france why you're making such a big deal about who gary hart had sex with. our prime minister has a very complicated personal life he said. well, france has a more complicated law with respect to this area. as the last presentation makes clear, france is a country that believes and treasures the freedom of speech. at the same time it has far more limitations on freedom of speech than we do. and sometimes those limitations make for very difficult decision making. after world war ii france passed legislation basically abolishing legislation and reinstating in 1939 a law which prohibited racist and anti-semitic speech. it did that for obvious reasons. france is one of many european countries that makes it illegal to engage in the denial of the holocaust. french law basically distinguishes -- i'm reading here because it is so difficult and complicated to draw lines in thi

with the president's consent i appointed former senator gary hart to be engaged in those talks. he's been very active. there's $7.5 million commitment in the existing peace impact program plan. and the funding is there for 2011, and we have no reason not to be releasing it and engaging in it. we will continue to be deeply involved in that. with respect to congressman zeldon on the allowance of offensive operations the limit of authority, i thought we were talking about so this is a good opportunity for clarification. i was talking about in the context of any potential of american ground forces and the limits of the enduring language. but obviously we are engaged in offensive operations. the air power could not be more so, and we are engaged directly needless to say. and arming you know, assisting, training and assisting. now we have the overt title 10 training and assisting program. so those are offensive operations that the united states is going to be supporting one way or the other. but we're not talking about american ground troops. and there is no authorization in here putt

gary hart, the former senator, once told me that washington is always the last to get the news.. >> one of the criticisms is that guys like you, the political team had too much influence and a lot of the policy people complained about it all of the time. >> well, you know charlie, actually what i remember is telling him that health care was going to be a politically perilous thing to do telling him that rescuing the auto industry was unpopular. i didn't tell him -- recommend he didn't do those things but i had to give him that. and i always joked i like him so much because he listened to me so little. >> david, how would you describe the relationship between hillary clinton and barack obama in the past? how do you think it's evolved. and if and when she gets involved in this race when do you think she needs to declare? >> well, it's had some peaks and valleys, jeff. obviously, they were friends before they ran against each other. we had probably the most vigorous contest in the history of presidential nominations. went through the entire calendar. and there were some rough feeli

in 1988 at this point, the top democrat gary hart. running double digits above george w. bush.e. two, george h.w. bush recovered well. he won by eight points. that was not a durable advantage for the democrats there. at this point in 1999 george w. bush was double digits ahead of al gore. george w. bush ended up winning, but that was a close election. gore came back to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college. in 200082008, you had mccain and giuliani against president obama. it does show you there is still plenty of room for movement here despite the clear early advantage for hillary clinton. >>> still ahead in the show what does al franken think of comedian john oliver? we'll go over that. >>> and has chris christie's week gone from bad to worse? s happens to your father. you're clean. you got that right! bam! just gotta check your bag. huh, charmin ultra strong. you're cleaner than i thought. charmin ultra strong cleans so much better it meets even his highest standards of clean. with a soft duraclean texture, charmin ultra strong is 4 times stronger. and you can

of all of the problems people have talked about this since the gary hart campaign, our media is focusedand specktacle when it comes to looking at candidates. you have michele bachmann who is really crazy. the issue of that kind of logic when you focus on scandal and speck spectacle, someone that's conservative, because he's not sort of -- we don't look at his actual policies. the debate is centered around he seems like a rationale moderate. he becomes a moderate because he's not performing this kind of spectacle and horribly corrupt as far as we know so we're not talking about content of policies. it's important to do that. >> i like language like spectacle better than crazy. maybe bachmann is crazy like a fox in that sense. spectacle and scandal versus substance so let's listen to rick perry. that campaign died on hpv vaccine. here he is making a different kind of claim. let's listen to perry this year. >> we look at 2016 we got to remember we're not electing a critic in chief. we are electing a commander in chief. >> so here he is trying to distinguish himself. i don't know if he coul

northern ireland, we are deeply engaged still with the president's consent i appointed former senator gary hart to be engaged in those talks. he's been very active. there is a $7.5 million commitment in the existing peace impact program. we have no reason not to be releasing it and engaged in it. so we will continue to be deeply involved in that. with respect to congressman zell on the allowance of offensive operations, the limit of authority, i thought we were talking about -- so this is a good opportunity for clarification. i was talking about in the context of any potential of american ground forces, and the limits of thece enduring language. but obviously we are engaged in offensive operations. the air power could not be more so, and we are engaged directly needless to say in arming, you know and assisting training and assisting and now the overt title ten and training and assist program. those are offensive operations that the united states is going to be supporting one way or the other. but we're not talking about american ground troops and there is no authorization in here putting americ