they ran the body well and howard baker had saying. helped to be an eloquent listener and said you have to remember that sometime this other fella might be right. i like to say to my dim create friends, in this case the other fella myth be named trump. they not like that. they may not like it. but i think we should give the president credit for recommend doing seeing an urgent immediate, recommending aing extra and doing his best to per sway half the americans he's right. we need some members of the other side to do what eight republicans did this day, which is move the other direction. recognize the other fella might be right. come to a conclusion. do our job. i think we made a start this week. but we're not there yet and i look forward to the opportunity to finish the job and remembering that howard baker's advice, the other fella might he be right, might be a good way to start. mr. president, i yelled the floor to the senator from delware. >> mr. president. >> the senator from delware. >> i am grateful to the colleague from tennesse

howard baker, the new minority leader said, why now? why me? and yet, the staff said to him senator, if you do this, you will never be president. and baker says, i am the senate leader. i have to figure out what is right for the country and what is right for the senate. and he did that. and that is why it passed. and he never was president but we remember him as a great senator and a great leader. and a great public servant. so if it was done, you talk as well about the transformational evolution of the senate and you cite certain moments when that evolution was accelerated. he talked about the elections of 78 and 80. in a confirmation battle around some and 87 and others a little bit later. what was it about those moments and that experience that caused the acceleration of this? >> well, 78, 80 marked the beginning of a more partisan climate. we'll think about citizens united case. the paquin buckley versus valeo was cited, it freed up all kinds of special interest packed. it flowed into the system and things got more partisan and money became

it would not have happened with howard baker there and wouldn't have happened with rob dolbear. it wouldn't have happened. >> host: that leads me to ask a question. you explore in your book and i think it's so important, an important observation. you talk about the commitment to make the senate work in that period of time and you just alluded to it. for now it's the difference between a collective agenda and a visual agenda. talk about that distinction and why that distinction is so important. >> guest: mansfield who relocked and we became senate majority leader at john kennedy's request had a few of how you should do business and reaction to lyndon johnson who didn't believe in bullying people and you and trent lott said never twisted an arm in his life. he believed that all the senators had to contribute, not just the leaders and he believed in treating everyone well. he lived by the golden rule and edward derksen when he first heard what's mansfield was trying to do these that it couldn't possibly work in the senate. and yet it did work but it worked when the senate responded

none of them were perfect but howard baker up in mice this, as they say in the book, i don't want to do a new panama canal treaty, howard baker said why now, why me and yet his staff said to him, senator, if you do this you'll never be president. he said i'm the senate leader and i have to figure out what's right for the senate. he did that. we remember him as a great senator and a great public servant. the talk as well about the transformational evolution of the senate and you cite certain moments when that was accelerated. you talk about the election of 78 and 80 and the confirmation battle, clearance, so little bit later, what was it about those moments and that experience that caused the acceleration? >> 78, 80 marked the beginning of a more partisan climate. we all think about citizens united case but back when buckley was decided, it freed up all kinds of special interest packs that flowed into the system and things got more partisan and things became more of an issue. but even as we went into the 80s, even though the senate changed dramatically because of ronald reagan's victo

howard baker had a saying. he said, it helped to be an eloquent listener and he said, you know, you have to remember that sometimes the other fella might be right. i'd like to say to my democratic friends and in this case, the other fella might be named trump, they might not like that. they may not like it but i think we should give the president credit for recommending -- seeing an urgent need, recommending a strategy, and doing his best to persuade half the americans that he's right about that. i think we need some members of the other side to do what eight of us on the republican side did this day which is move the other direction, recognize the other fellow might be right, come to a conclusion, do our job. i think we made a start this week but we're not there yet. i look forward to the opportunity to finish the job and remembering that howard baker's advice, the other fellow might be right might be a good way to start with that. mr. president, i yield the floor to my distinguished colleague, the senator fro

carter said i want to do a new panda wok and no treaty and something they looked at inn the past, howard baker the new minority leader said why now. baker says i am the senate leader. we remember him as a great senator and leader and public servant. so it was the ethos. >> host: you talk about the transformation of the senate and certain moments when that devolution what is accelerated. you talk about 78 and 80 and the confirmation battles in 1987. what was it about those moments in the acceleration of the devolution? >> 78, 80 marked the beginning of a more partisan climate. the whole think about citizens united but when it was decided, it freed up all kinds of special interest pacs. things got more partisan and became more of an issue. but even as we ran into the 80s when the senate changed dramatically when the republicans took over, president ronald reagan's victory there were enough strong senators dared that the senate still functioned basically the way that it would function and howard baker being the leader for four years and you were on the house side at that time but he did a superb

senator byrd when he was the democratic leader and they have great differences of sopinion and howard baker had a saying he said you know you have to rememberth that sometimes the other fellow might be right. i would say to my democratic friends the other night he trump, they might not like that but i think we should give credit for recommending a strategy and did his best to persuade the americans. we need members on the other side to do what we did on this day and move the other direction, recognize the other fellow might be right and come to a conclusion. i think we made a start this week tha but we are not there ai look forward to the opportunity to finish the job and t remembering that the advice of the other fellow might be right is a good way to start. i yield before to my distinguished colleague from delaware. delaware. >> i'm grateful to the colleague from tennessee for yielding. one of those folks that this may be the senior men were of the staff was senator alexander and i'm proud of the senator he's become and someone who speaks often than not when he opens up his greatve wisdom

robert byrd and howard baker played similar positive roles in watergate, but mansfield, bird, baker, these people were great senators during watergate because they were great senators all the time. they didn't change from year to year. it didn't matter who the president was on whether they were in the majority or the minority .. it started somewhere late '80s or early '90s. you can see it and there is a long decline. then all of a sudden there's a second stage of decline and this decline goes like this and goes like that and then that coincides with the arrivals of harry reid and the democratic side and mitch mcconnell on the republican side. they inherited a senate that was in gradual but unmistakable decline and they had the experience and the application and they had the opportunity to address that decline and rebuild the senate. instead, they became in the words of journalist steven collins, the terrible trends of dysfunction. they both used arcing procedures to slow and throttle the promise of others rule. their supporters would argue about which one was worse, never which was b

is being assaulted we have an obligation to at the republican house member on the committee and howard baker i could go down the list. one of the most lonely moments in my entire career was when nixon in order to obviate the need to turn over the tapes to a special prosecutor's that i will a conservative member of the democratic party from alabama or from mississippi, listen to the tapes. whatever he says i will do. we were scared to death because he agreed with nixon on almost every issue. i will never forget the democratic caucus one of the most moving moments of my career he said what will he do after four days of contemplating? he stood up and said you are all wondering what my decision is. i am a senate man i am not the presidents man. i believe the constitution separates the power and i will not listen to the tapes. ladies and gentlemen that went to a significant part of playing a bowl in history. people stood up to protect these institutions. where are they? no better. this is not who we are. the american people are much better than this. not a country that gives safe harbor to neo-na

last night, bill cohen, republican house member on the committee howard baker, i go down the list. i remember one of the most moving movements in my entire career was when richard nixon in order to try to obviate the need to turn over the tapes to a special prosecutor said i'll let john stenis, a conservative member of the democratic party from alabama, from mississippi listen to the tapes and whatever he says, i'll do. a lot of us were scared to death because he agreed with nixon on almost every substantive issue. i'll never forget the democratic caucus, one of the most moving movements of my career. he walked in and said we wonder what is he going to do after four days of contemplating what was he going to do. he talked like this and stootd up and said, y'all wondering what my decision is. i'm a senate man. i'm not the president's man. i believe the constitution separates power. i am a senate man. i will not listen to the tapes. ladies and gentlemen, that went to a significant role in playing the part in history. people stood up to protect these institutions. where are they? they

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mansfield's senate was extended by robert byrd and howard baker for another eight years. the air is filled with talk about watergate. understandably. if you look back, the great senators, they were there for watergate. mansfield launched the watergate committee with the unanimous vote of the senate two months after richard nixon got 49 states. robert byrd and howard baker played similar positive roles in watergate, but mansfield urged these people were great senators during watergate because they were great senators all the time. they didn't change from year to year. it didn't matter who the president was, whether they were in the majority or minority. so let's look at the senate's decline for one minute. and my framework is this -- it was a long decline of the senate that started probably 25 years ago, somewhere late '80s, early '90s you can see it. and there's a long decline. then all of a sudden there's a second stage of decline. and the decline goes like this and then like that. and the "that the" coincidesed with arrivals of harry reid on the democratic side and mitc

>> sean: that was senator howard baker during the watergate investigation asking very important questions of president barack obama and others now need answers to, they got to answer to everybody. what did -- we reached out and we do not get a comment. by the way, shocking, also, there's a new o batch of text messages that was just released from the trump-hating fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page. it highlights their investigative bias and of course, their continued hatred of donald trump. on august 9th, 2016, lisa page writes, he's not ever going to becomet, president, right? right? their hatred for troublemakers from there. on november 3rd, 2016, only days before the election, page wrote, "the new york times" probability numbers are dropping every single day. i'm scared for our organization. the senate report notes this is likely a reference to "the new york times" election forecast, which showed trump gaining ground at that point in the election. then on election day, november 8th, 2016, strzok then says, oh, my god, this is blinking terrifying andzo the nt day, he follows up with "

i mean, we're really right at the edge of senator howard baker saying, you know, the question is what the president know and when did he learn it? >> sean: it really has taken a turn in that direction. >> down to loretta lynch. the president to loretta lynch who is meeting with bill clinton the week that his wife was going to be interviewed, interview being sort of a phony term by comey who has already been writing her exoneration for two months before the interview. i mean, you couldn't make this up as a serious novel because there are so many pieces here that are illegal that you couldn't magazinier people doing. this. >> sean: every night on this program i'm adding new information and still, because the story is -- it's getting so big, impacting so many people, you kind of have to build the bridge every night so everybody understands what the new information is. but i want to stay focused on this fisa for a second. it was unverified by fusion gps. unverified by the fbi. they knew hillary bought and paid for it, and they didn't tell the fisa judge. and it wasn't done just once. they

that was senator howard baker during the watergate investigation asking very important questions of presidentack obama and others now need answers to. they got to answer to everybody. what did reach out -- we did reach out to obama's spokesperson. we didn't get comment to all of them. by the way shocking. also tonight there is a new batch of text messages just released from trump-hating fbi lovers peter strzok and lisa page. it highlights their investigative bias and, of course, their continued hatred of donald trump. on august 9th, 2016 lisa peanel writes well he is not ever going to become president, right, flight their hatred from trump only grows from there november 3rd, 2016, only days before the election, page wrote well the "new york times" probability numbers are dropping every single day. i'm scared for our organization. now, the senate report notes this is likely a reference to the "new york times" election forecast which showed trump gaining ground at that point in the election. then, on election day, november 8th, 2016, strzok then says oh my god, this is blanking terrifying. and

i mean we're at the edge of senator howard baker saying the question is what did the president know and when did he learn it? >> hannity: it really has taken a turn in that direction. >> then you bring the president down to loretta lynch who is meeting with bill clinton the week that his wife is going to be interviewed. interviewed being a phone phoney term by comey who is writing her exxonration for two months before the interview. i mean, you couldn't make this up as a serious novel because there are so many pieces here that are illegal that you couldn't imagine senior people doing this >> hannity: every night on this program i'm adding new information and still, because the story is getting so big and impacting so many people, you kind of have to build the bridge every night so everybody understands what the new information is. but i want to stay focused on the fides ah for a second. it was unverified by gps. unverified by the f.b.i. they knew hillary bought and paid for it, and they didn't tell the fisa judge. it wasn't done just once. they attempted it in july. they didn't get it.

but we should become at this point, looking at the howard bakers -- of the watergate era, where republicanscrats were working just to get the truth. we should be at that point. so if he is innocent, that comes out and we move on. >> the republicans made a big deal about this. from the sidelines, it almost looked like the democrats were rising -- rather than saying, you have to cherry picked -- it is a press release. release it and we will put our side of the story out. instead, it was bringing more attention to this then it would have gotten. >> i think there are two parts to the equation. the one part is the aspect of this that they made the three stooges look like six and how they went about it with republicans. the other side is a process of the undermining of these institutions. that is a serious part. the other part is that i don't think the republicans succeeded at anything. >> where do we go from here? >> we have to go and fund the government before the end of the week. so there is the function of paying the bills. >> and then with the daca -- what do you think happens with that? >>

there was howard baker at the end of watergate who finally stood up and said we have to put country over party. but right now, you see the republican leadership in lockstep with this president. this is exceedingly dangerous. and that is why people should be concerned, because our democracy is at risk here. >> let me ask you about democrats. critics have said when you look at this fire, how it erupted and what it resulted in. democrats played some role here in adding to it. democrats made too much of this memo in light of what we saw yesterday, in terms of what details are in there or what isn't. are democrats kupable for fueling that conversation? >> it's not simply democrats who have expressed concerns. it's the intelligence community who has expressed concerns, justice department, fbi has expressed concerns. i find it remarkable, david, as someone who worked at the justice department for, again, over a dozen years, apparently the argument right now is that the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, the agency that brought us the comey memo in 2016, the agency of j. edgar hoover has

howard baker and the rest of them were trying to figure out what did the president know and when. they're involved in getting the taping system out as anyone else. they were trying to find the truth. they weren't taking orders from the white house. it seems to me that the division of powers in our country and the checks and balances are not being honored here. why is the chairman of an intelligence committee which is supposed to be bipartisan by its nature working for the white house? >> it's unclear what his motivation is and yes decided to get on the trump train. it's very clear they are putting their partisanship over the national security interests. in fact, every single republican on the party according to the transcript released today voted against hearing from the fbi about their national security concerns on this memo. and it's cherry picked information before they released. let's remember 15 years ago, we went to war in iraq because a white house cherry picked intelligence. it highlighted the things they thought it would make its case and buried the things that were doubt

delaney and i have a bipartisan proposal that goes back and mirrors what ronald reagan, tip o'neill, howard baker did in 1983 and the idea is a commission and people argue they never work but that one did. it was a greenspan commission. it -- social security was much closer to going bankrupt then than it is today. as a matter of fact, the reason we have it today because of the work that commission did and the surplus that was piled up in intervening years until finally the baby boomer generation began to retire and they are now drawing it down pretty rapidly. i think an opportunity exists to do that again. if we could reform something like that and, again, mr. delaney and i presented this for three consecutive congresses, i think this president could actually be the person who saves social security, who put it on firm footing and it would be done in a very bipartisan way. will be the first to tell my friends on the other side of the aisle if this deserves slashing, look at what ronald reagan did with tip o'neill. ronald reagan won re-election with 49 states and tip o'neill remained speaker of the

and i went back and i got howard baker's quote from 1973, what did the president know and when did knowpieces. stuart: it is watergate style, isn't it? i hate to make a comparison is it bigger than watergate? >> it is different than watergate. look, watergate was a handful of people who did some really dumb things centered around president nixon and, in the end they all left office. a number of them went to jail. this starts with senior people in the fbi, senior people in the justice department. apparently some people in the state department based on what story yesterday. i mean, this is the deep state. this is not a handful of people in politics in the white house. this is the deep state but what we're now beginning to be told is that maybe president obama knew about it, supported it, sent signals it was okay, maybe it puts back into a new question what attorney general lynch was saying on the airplane to former president bill clinton when they met the week that his wife was going to be interviewed which now looks more and more phony. since apparently comey began writing the explanatio

howard baker at chief of staff. >> and they have to get on the phone and everybody has to be peers son say "i know you don't want to do this, i need your help." >> and the same thing after 9/11. >> can you imagine this guy calling lloyd blankfein and lloyd going "okay, wait a second. this is the guy that went to davos and talked down the dollar and he's going to tell me how i should respond in a crisis? >> and let me just say, there were republicans and democrats in the past. after 9/11 my husband was on an airplane over the atlantic and completely out of reach and roger ferguson, the vice chair of the fed, ran the world economy during that period. an amazingly smart man. >> there are lots and lots of capable people out there who can do these jobs. none of them are in this administration. >> correct. that's the problem. >> with the possible exception of gary cohn. >>> other news, the house intelligence committee voted unanimously to release the democrats' classified memo. it responds to the one republicans released last week accusing the justice department and fbi of misconduct and th

i think it was howard baker of tennessee who said that what did the president know and when he knew itthe point being here is if you weaponize various government agencies for political reasons against your political opponents that's not only a constitutional violation that we are entitled to some privacy, but it's also very, very dangerous politically because the parties that's in ower, if the agassis are willing to go -- agencies are willing to go along with whoever the president is and launch a political campaign where they're spying on the opponents and then using that information against them, that's very, very scary. one of the things that's going on in washington, d.c. is only 4% of the people from washington, d.c. voted for donald trump. so they're all of a political mind to be anti-trump or anti-republican. it's too easy for them to launch an unconstitutional and illegal effort to spy on the fellow americans. i don't care if it's the fox news reporter james rosen who has declared an enemy of the united states in a fisa court. i don't care if it's the i.r.s. which is found guilt

to julianthank you howard and stephanie baker.re watching developments from the white house and concerns from the trump administration, including the tough time for john kelly. this is what the markets are looking at. i think a lot of the stories today will be on the market. this is the picture for europe. we did see a correction, especially starting in asia. china was down some 5%. a lot of people in the market say the pattern of trading this week suggests it's too soon to make a call whether the market is stabilizing. there was always a move towards calmer markets in european hours, but the selloff began again two days ago. up next, peer pressure. how local lawmakers turned one of theresa may's easiest exit battles sour. then, we speak with ian duncan smith. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: welcome to our weekly brexit show. let's get straight to the bloomberg brexit flash. here's nejra cehic. nejra: david davis says the u.k. government is very clear on what it wants out of talks with the european union. that came as he met michel

doctor and others -- a doctor sent others from howard university down. it was ella bakerho brought bob moses. that is what kathleen is talking about. i think america tells itself a story about these movements that undercuts the kind of work those women leaders were doing. that is all behind the scenes and as far as we understand, these were overnight success stories. this was america's next great civil lights -- civil rights leaders contest and whoever gets on stage wins. this was something that was built over decades of work. there are a couple great books out there. a book about ella baker and rosa parks about whom the mythology has reached incredible proportion. the degree to which we cut off rosa parks from who she was as an organizer is astounding and does a disservice to all those who are laboring in top conditions, trying to keep at it , seeing no fruit of their labor for years and years and feeling like nothing is going to give. to celebrate her comp and when she moves into the limelight, but to forget the decades that preceded it, also does a disservice to those

a doctor who others from howard university down to snake to sncc. it was ella bakerrought bob moses. that is what kathleen is talking about. brian jones: i think america also tells itself to is about these movements that undercuts the kind of work that people were doing. that is all behind the scenes and as far as we understand, these were overnight success stories. this was america's next great civil rights leaders contest and whoever gets on stage wins. [laughter] not that this was something that was built over decades of work. i would like to mention a few books that are out there. rancey's book about ella baker is amazing. and also the book about rosa parks. the mythology has reached an incredible proportion. the degree to which we cut off rosa parks from who she was as an organizer is astounding and does a disservice to all those who are laboring in top conditions, trying to keep at it, seeing no fruit of their labor for years and years and years, and feeling like nothing was going to give. so, to celebrate her accomplishment, when she moves into the time might