the senate majority leader george mitchell presented george h. dole you wish with a petition by the leading members of commerce saying don't go to joe war because there could be tens of thousands of casualties. soon bill clinn takes office and to get what amounts to a second generation of technocrats on the clinton generation live called them the trout fisher's because after clinton left office, some of the officials began spending time with each other like they like to go trout fishing together. these are officials liked tom donilon, now the national security adviser, jim steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, kurt campbell who use the state department and hillary clinton's point man for asia and a whole wave of other officials. they had a different perspective. they came of age after the collapse of the soviet union. the united states was the unchanged power in the world particularly in the late clinton years increasingly prosperous and the main kind of problems they face with the internal disagreements were when the united states should int

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those two guys and the people in congress, i ran into george mitchell, senator george mitchell the otherhe was telling me he would have dinner with bob dole, his counterpart from across the aisles, every week. they would sit down, get together, talk about how to pass legislation, how to get things done, and that's the real problem i think is the inability of campaigns, of politicians on either side, to compromise. and i think, you know, president obama says well, the republicans are incapable of compromising, but really, that's what a president has to do. the president has to do. >> that's what bill clinton did. >> what would lbj have done. you don't talk about lbj and you talk about great presidents but there was a guy who could reach across the aisle. >> we talk about lbj, knowing how washington runs and that's absolutely critical. >> he could get things done. >> look at bill clinto he had republicans that just didn't like him, he figured out a way to make it work. look at ronald reagan, tip o'neill, tip o'neill to deal with. they got together and they had a rule at 6:00 politics ended

as you know, he had george mitchell working on it for a long while.ll. >> he did a great job in northern ireland. >> he has a terrific record in these areas. >> nancy pelosi gave an interview to political. she was asked about a bunch of democrats and said they don't want to show up at the democratic convention in charlotte in september. listen to this. >> we have an incumbent president of the united states. we are very proud of him. there certainly will be enough people there to express that pride. i'm not encouraging members to go to the convention, no matter what the situation was, because they can be home. it is campaign time. it is the first week in september. >> senator, nancy pelosi right there was trying to make the point, they need to campaign. isn't that a difficult show of flying in the face of party unity that she is saying, you don't need to show up to the convention? >> this is not the first convention in which party leaders will suggest to those out there in tight races, it would be a lot smarter to be home campaigning. >> did you ever s

congress, i saw speaker tip o'neill and congressman bob michael work with senators bob dole and george mitchell to address the important budget, social security, and foreign crisises together. too often today the nation's problems are held hostage to the unwillingness to find consensus and to find a compromise. in the face of that gridlock, artificial devices, like sequester, are resorted to in order to force action. in the absence of action, sequester could very well threaten the very programs critical to our national security. both defense and domestic. any new defense strategy is dependent on you and innovative deployments, on diplomacy, on assistance, and it must rest on a reliable political system prepared to make decisions on behalf of the national security. that is a critical ingredient. ot eh success -- to the success of the partition shoddy i just outlined. it is clear that even as we turn the page on a decade of war, the international security environment will remain complex and threatening. but as we look at each challenge we face, it is clear that we have many allies and partners wh

congress, i saw speaker tip o'neill and congressman bob michel work with senators bob dole and george mitchell to address budget, social security and foreign crises together. too often today, the nation's problems are held hostage to the unwillingness to find consensus and compromise. and in the face of that gridlock, artificial devices like sequest are resorted to in order to force action. but in the absence of action -- in the absence of action sequester could very well threaten the very programs critical to our national security -- both defense and domestic. any new defense strategy is dependent on new and innovative deployments, on diplomacy and on assistance, and it must rest on a reliable political system prepared to make decisions on behalf of our national security. that is a critical ingredient to the success of the partnership strategy i just outlined. it is clear that even as we turn the page on a decade of war, the international security environment will remain complex and threatening. but as we look at each challenge we face, it is clear that wehave many allies and partners who sha

folks like george mitchell exploit technology that federal government helped finance.at what america has in abundance, risk takers. i agree with a lot of other folks there's probably we've tilted too far in the form of regulation. but europe, the regulatory approach is more enlightened. >> there's some key differences. we're flood the stuff right now. nobody will commercialize to a large scale beyond commercial free-throw shooter, engines for nat gas. there are a lot of step that need to take place in order to realize the full potential of the savings of nat gas. >> absolutely. >> many years out too. many environmentalists need to be fought. >> that's true. let's look back to the internet boom of ten years ago. dew point to invest in companies that were laying the fiber optic cable? no. because they went bust because of price of the broadband width fell cable? no, because they went bust. you wanted to invest in amazons and the netflixs and those that will exploit the availability of cheap bandwidth. this will be bullish for petrochemicals and basic commodities. eventua

congress, i saw speaker tip o'neill and congressman bob michel work with senators bob dole and george mitchell to address budget, social security and foreign crises together. too often today, the nation's problems are held hostage to the unwillingness to find consensus and compromise. and in the face of that gridlock, artificial devices like sequester are resorted to in order to force action. but in the absence of action -- in the absence of action sequester could very well threaten the very programs critical to our national security -- both defense and domestic. any new defense strategy is dependent on new and innovative deployments, on diplomacy and on assistance, and it must rest on a reliable political system prepared to make decisions on behalf of our national security. that is a critical ingredient to the success of the partnership strategy i just outlined. it is clear that even as we turn the page on a decade of war, the international security environment will remain complex and threatening. but as we look at each challenge we face, it is clear that wehave many allies and partners who s

new jersey and david boren from oklahoma, and joe biden, now the vice president, obviously, and george mitchell the former majority leader and senator from maine, all of whom were dedicated to trying to take the big money out of politics and replace it with a public match for senate and for house races. fundamentally, the status quo won. the status quo stopped us, and the status quo is winning today. after the soft money scandals -- people have forgotten, we had our scandals in the 1990's, and so we finally passed the mccain-feingold bill in response to that. modest as it was because all it did was limit -- put a ban on soft money, the soft money, which is the big amounts of money that get poured into the political system. and that ban had the unintended consequence of pushing everybody to look for the biggest loophole that they could find and they found a loophole, and the 527 groups as we knew griew to know them and the debate was again taken away from the candidates and given to outside groups that had huge amounts of money. a lot of americans aren't aware of that. the candidate can be runni

george will calling him the pretzel candidate, which he did earlier, last year. this is one of the conservative intelligence magazines that they would pay attention to. >> let's talk vp a little bit. yesterday on andrea mitchell's show, tim pawlenty said this, when pressed if he had gotten a call from boston regarding the job. >> have you gotten the call? >> which call is that, andrea? >> well, the call from boston or new hampshire or from governor romney. >> well, i'm in contact with governor romney from time to time. this week i'm focused on some yard work and business things. but, look, the process will unfold in due course. >> and first read has the short list. pawlenty, rob portman bob jindal, paul ryan and john thune. >> it will probably be closer to the convention. who knows. of course, the romney people might make a decision earlier. in the daily news, new york daily news sources are telling him that they would rather do it after the trip because they don't want it to look like a knee-jerk reaction if they were to do it too soon. >> we were speaking earlier. you said that now that the president's campaign south carolina outspent two to one when you combine the super pacs and the romney campaign in the t