from los angeles, i am tavis with julianation fellowes and elizabeth mcgovern. before we get to that conversation, would continue to introduce you to some of the folks who make this program possible every night. is my man mark engle. he is the reason i am not standing here in the dark. welcome to our show tonight. >> thank you. i have been with the show now for 10 years. work is informative and entertaining. you always attract an interesting array of guest. i am sure today is no exception. >> tell me who we have coming up tonight. >> a conversation with julian fellowes and elizabeth mcgovern is coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> the

mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first, men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister. no longer a caper, but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. the charges center around aman whose name means secrets. >> donald segretti. white house aides recruited him for secret intelligence fork and dirty tricks against the democrats. he went to college with several men now in the white house. he was particularly close to dwight chaipen. a grand jury is investigating. >> the only obvious problem is going to be the whole watergate deal. >> how are you going to handle that? >> well, i'm of mixed minds, but i thought one approach would be to attack "the post" for picking on a fine, clean, upstanding patriotic young man. >> hearsay. >> and done his part. >> why don't you use the word mccarthyism. >> i had that in mind. >>

chemical weapons attacks ever launched here to talk about this bombshell revelation is that ray mcgovern he's a former cia analyst raised thank you so much for coming in and put this into some historical context for us what does this sort of revelation mean. welly the old saw about giving hypocrisy a bad name it has been overused for a very good reason recently but what we have here is a situation where the united states government. enabled. almost to conquer you run them by providing iraq with satellite photography and turning a. blind eye to its use of chemical weapons including sarin gas what happened here is that. you were i was about to win the war and the satellite photography showed that there was a hole in the iraqi lines and so we were we told the rockies where the hole was what the rings were preparing. do. enter sarin gas and tens of thousands of iranian troops were killed now in the broader context if i were in iranian and i just heard that the the duly elected government of fifty three had been deposed by the cia in fifty three and then i saw in eighty seven that we we're ra

mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first, apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister. no longer a caper, but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. the charges center around a man whose very name in italian is secrets. >> donald segretti. reports in major newspapers say white house aides recruited him for secret intelligence work and dirty tricks against the democrats. he went to college with several men now in the white house. he was particularly close to dwight chapin. and several press reports document recent links between chapin and segretti. a grand jury is investigating. >> the only obvious problem is going to be the whole watergate grand deal, chapin, that whole -- >> how are you going to handle that? >> well, i'm of mixed minds, but i thought one approach would be to attack "the post" for picking on a fi

mcgovern 28,400,000.toral votes. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister no longer a caper but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high-level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. >> the charges center about a man whose very name in italian is secrets. joel blocker reports. >> reporter: donald segretti. reports say white house aides recruited segretti for secret intelligence work and dirty tricks against the democrats. segretti went to college with several men now in the white house. he was particularly close to dwight chapin and several press reports document recent links between chapin and segretti. a grand jury is investigating. and deal chapin. >> yeah. the story on that. how you going to handle that? >> well i've of mixed minds. but i thought one approach would be to attack

. >> and george mcgovern didn't like it. he said it hadn't changed anything. >> that's great.doesn't make any difference. as i say, tomorrow, we'll just live through the day and we've heard from only the cabinet officers, which i expected. >> we had more than that. >> no, that's all. rogers, mitchell, hodgson. >> have you heard from conley, though? that's curious. >> not to my knowledge, no. >> call him and ask him what he thought of it? >> sure. >> want me to call you back then? >> if you would. yes. >> all right. >> how are you? ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ ♪ america is the greatest land in all the world ♪ ♪ we are americans, what can we do ♪ ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ we hope that you are too yeah! [ applause ] ♪ >>> it was irish night at the white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait for the truly big event of the evening. the president and mrs. nixon ended the suspension with a light hearted move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcem

mcgovern wasn't the only one.here was a woman from sweden, i think at the time was the head of their foreign relations committee. she nominated us. i heard later that others had as well. when we were in norway negotiating the treaty which was in september of '97 was the last phase of the negotiation. journalists started coming up to us and saying how do you feel about being a frontrunner. our response is we're not here to discuss the peace prize. >> host: here is a picture there. where is that picture? >> guest: my house in vermont. we received the call. my now husband and i were in bed. we had just celebrated the night before my 47th birthday with my family. and all of a sudden the phone rings and this guy says, you know, in a liting nor nor wee again accent. he wanted to know where i would be in forty minutes. i wanted to swear at him, actually. what the hell? and i said, well, i'm in bed. i'll be here. he called back then he said, i've been authorized to tell you that jody williams and the international campaig

the top stories, each of center mcgovern as given -- each of its interim government has given a disperseders to supporters of ousted president mohammed morsi. there have been long lines at polling stations in zimbabwe. the u.s. government has released documents giving more details about its buying programs. the release comes a senior intelligence officials were questioned by legislators about surveillance methods. more on our top story, after the death last friday of several pro-morsi supporters at a rally, the muslim brotherhood was -- theng more public reaction has been muted. we look at why there has been so little concern despite the number of fatalities. >> funerals have been held across egypt. for the of mohammed morsi supporters, there is little sympathy to be found for the majority of the dead. all families wept for the eight people allegedly killed by security forces, most tv channels here covered the funeral of a policeman they say died in the clashes. in the mainstream media now, the muslim brotherhood is often equated with terrorism and violence. the leader said the military and

every day is a struggle just to eat. >> sadly, representative mcgovern is one of few leaders and voices in congress pushing to do the right thing here, which is to protect and improve food stamps and other government programs. he's an incredible leader, but he is even having trouble getting his -- you know, members of his own party to support his efforts to protect these programs. and that's really troubling and upsetting. >> the road to reform always leads to washington. and there almost every reform, whether it's the environment or whether it's agriculture or food, hits up against the power of big money to write the laws it wants and influence the politicians it needs. you found that to be the case, didn't you? >> yes. i think that -- you know, i mean, i believe -- and i don't think naively -- that we, americans, should be able to influence how our politicians vote on these issues. that's not happening right now. and the problem with this issue is that you don't always -- it's not so obvious necessarily how a politician is voting when it comes to programs that address food insecurity.

47% was never mentioned forty years ago in 1972 richard nixon didn't add which he said that george mcgovern would make 47 percent of americans eligible for welfare and the announcer said that's right 47%. when i saw that i kind of realized that these events take place on a historical continuum. we vice president had -- haven't had many class-based arguments in our politics in the recent elections. nixon thought of as the politic of resentment and mobilizeing middle class and he had a hard hat. middle class resentment again the boor. -- poor. and rich versus poor or middle class, it began, i would argue in the election of 1896 which was mckinley again william jennings-bryan. his campaign manager was mark hannah which was karl rove's role model. it's not a joke. he's a huge admirer are to hannah who wept around -- went around to the biggest corporation and got huge donations and crushed him with money. he was famous for saying there are two things that are important in politics. money and -- i can't remember what the second one is. [laughter] so, you know, this election, you know, 116-years l

using chemical weapons to kill files of iranians including civilians a fiber former cia officer ray mcgovern believes exemplifies the two faces all the united states foreign policy. but what we have here is a situation where the united states government. enabled. you rock. almost to conquer iran by providing iraq with satellite photography and turning a blind eye to its use of chemical weapons including sarin gas we had famous picture of donald rumsfeld shaking hands with saddam hussein that happened the day after the first public announcement that the iraqis had used mustard gas against the iranians ok so blind eye well you know in spades the problem really is that. we knew what was going on and going to geneva convention against the use of chemical warfare or top leaders knew it you question is you know had no conscience and then no shame germans are living in the countryside to speak out against the whole king noisy neighbors coming up scandal john the wind turbines the springing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night that's often the break. technology innovation all the dev

>> reporter: brandon mcgovern is jonathan's trainer.'s constantly amazed at jonathan's drive. >> he strives to be as good as he can be. heavy lifting was done earlier >> reporter: of course, the real heavy lifting was done earlier by his parents liz and hank stoklosa. they never coddled john. they raised them same as their other boys. great things were simply expected. although they have to admit they do pinch themselves now at how well it all worked out. your son is admired by people! that had to be something you could never have fathomed. >> no. >> that was not even ever, ever thought of when you hold a little baby and they tell you he has down syndrome. john changed our life. >> reporter: they're especially proud that he tries just as hard on his job as he does on his lifting. his boss here says you couldn't ask for a better employee. yes, he's strong enough to bend a cart, but he's never so much as bruised a banana. you never crush some eggs? >> oh, please! >> reporter: a superhero with a soft touch who actually takes your groceries

. >> and george mcgovern didn't like it. he said it won't change anything. >> that's great. hell? it doesn't make any difference. as i say, tomorrow, we'll just live through the day and we're heard from only the cabinet officers, which i expected. >> we had more than that. >> no, that's all. rogers, mitchell, hodgson. >> call him and ask him what he thought of it? >> sure. >> want me to call you back then? >> if you would. >> all right. ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ our soles are here for you ♪ ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ >>> it was irish night at the white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait, the president and mrs. nixon ended it in a suspensionable move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time i'm supposed to make a surprise announce the, i find someway it's leaked before i get to make it. even though the information may have leaked out, until i say it, it's not official. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> and so tonight, mrs

mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first,en apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters in washington. but the episode grew steadily more sinister. no longer a caper, but the watergate affair escalating finally into charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage, apparently unparalleled in american history. the charges center around a man whose very name in italian is secrets. >> donald segretti. reports in major newspapers say white house aides recruited him for secret intelligence work and dirty tricks against the democrats. he went to college with several men now in the white house. he was particularly close to dwight chapin. and several press reports document recent links between chapin and segretti. a grand jury is investigating. >> the only obvious problem is going to be the whole watergate grand deal, chapin, that whole -- >> how are you going to handle that? >> well, i'm of mixed minds, but i thought one approach would be to attack "the post" for picking on a

join me next time for a conversation with elizabethbey's mcgovern and series creator julian fellowes. next time. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do thei just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. yourd by contributions to pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. >> welcome to "film school shorts," a showcase of the most exciting new talent from across the country. experience the future of film next on "film school shorts." "film school shorts" is made possible by a grant from maurice kanbar celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image, and by the members of kqed. >> man: so, i'm walking home by

. >> and george mcgovern didn't like it. he said it hadn't changed anything. >> that's great. the hell? it doesn't make any difference. as i say, tomorrow, we'll just live through the day and we've heard from only the cabinet officers, which i expected. >> we had more than that. >> no, that's all. rogers, mitchell, hodgson. >> have you heard from conley, though? that's curious. >> not to my knowledge, no. >> call him and ask him what he thought of it? >> sure. >> want me to call you back then? >> if you would. yes. >> all right. >> how are you? ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ ♪ america is the greatest land in all the world ♪ ♪ we are americans, what can we do ♪ ♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ we hope that you are too yeah! [ applause ] ♪ >>> it was irish night at white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait for the truly big event of the evening. the president and mrs. nixon ended the suspension with a light hearted move. >> i understand i'm supposed to make a surprise

chemical weapons to kill thousands of iranians including civilians of either former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that exemplifies the two faces of the united states foreign policy. but what we have here is a situation where the united states government. enabled. you rock. almost to conquer iran by providing iraq with satellite photography and turning a blind eye to its use of chemical weapons including sarin gas we had famous picture of donald rumsfeld shaking hands with saddam hussein that happened the day after the first public announcement that iraq should use mustard gas trickles uranium ok so blind i know you're in spades the rush the problem really is that. we knew it was going on and we're going to leave the convention against the use of chemical warfare or top leaders and would you question is you know have no conscience i don't know shame. i germans living in the countryside speak out against their house the noisy neighbors a coming up the gulf to replace nuclear. power with renewable leads to giant wind turbines springing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night. s

richard nixon bombed hanoi right before the russian summit in 1972 that i was involved in the mcgovern campaign and everybody thought that will be the end of that. there are bigger stakes. the problem for the president is, this is a little bit like a child who is throwing a tantrum because they can't get their way, because no one takes this president serious. you draw the line in syria, and you say, well, if you use chemical weapons we're going to do something. they use chemical weapons on their people. nothing happens. we say we're going to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons. for five years this administration has done nothing but kowtow to the administration there, and what is happening? they're closer than ever to nuclear weapons. nothing stopped it. and in egypt, you have the wonderful example of the muslim brotherhood, which we supported, which is a disastrous al qaeda affiliate and ham mass -- hamas affiliate. no one takes the president serious. everyone understands you have his number and he is not going to blow up the summit unless they're now petulant. >> neil: he can blow

. >> this is the antiwar democrats of the 1960s that nominated george mcgovern and destroyed their partyost 20 years. >> it didn't look like a truce will come anytime soon. >> senator paul wanted to make it about senator paul. >> that was jim acosta reporting from washington, so are we seeing the onset of a gop civil war heading into the next presidential race? ron brownstein, good to see you. and david, also joining me from washington today. >> hi. >> okay, so, david, you first. is this the beginning of a long primary season already? >> certainly the beginning of a long primary season. you were talking about civil war. party primaries and certainly, presidential primaries ought to be about ideas and i don't think that makes it civil war. i think the republicans are going to have a debate here about the role of government, both at home and abroad. the nsa spying, the surveillance, has that dpoen too far and are we getting involved in too many wars. >> before you get to that, you're seeing this what appeared to be just a personality conflict here and name calling. you heard chris christie

they turned to mcgovern in '72 after kennedy, johnson and humphrey and after mccain and romney the inevitablepaul. >> my question is i just think rand paul fundamentally is to the right of the base. i think that his views are too extreme for the base. the base of the republican party is older people who are worried about their health care and worried about their social security and aren't really going to like some of the stuff he talks about. >> assuming that stuff actually makes its way into the actual debate, mitt romney had positions, paul ryan had positions that never got aired on the national stage. >> that's true. paul ryan changed his position. >> as mitt romney did as well. josh, one last bit. rand paul versus ron paul. relationship between father and son. do you have insight? >> rand paul doesn't like to talk about it. one of the questions i had in the interview was for people who only know of you as ron paul's son, how would you describe the differences? he bristled a bit. i have my own record in judgment. that's how we got into the government he would like to dice and slice. there

that you're george mcgovern was running and figured, i know ed muskie seems to be the forgone conclusionm running anyway. so nothing to lose for those who go ahead and want to run if to nor other reason -- if for no other reason than to get some experience running. that's what many used as the argument for bill clinton running, and he ultimately took it all. i guess what i'm saying is, why is this forgone conclusion, written in stone, it's hillary's to lose. when we're so often -- you remind that early bets are wrong. >> and with presidential history, back in 2008, a lot of democrats said, if you got into the race you'd be offending the clintons, and so then president obama, barack obama at that time said, i'm not going to run, and then he changed his mind and people said, run for the experience. >> neil: he proves that she is not -- you can climb and win and that she might look good from afar but far from good. aim not attacking her personally but this notion she is wonder woman might be a bit premature. >> there will be other candidates inch 2008 there were a -- >> is joe biden among t

then went wild in '72 and ran george mcgovern. that's the year the democrats got killed.pendulum goes. the party base gets pushed aside and then build up like steam and come roaring to the surface. obama won in 2008 over hillary clinton because the opponents of the iraq war had had it with the party leaders who played it safe and backed the war. i believe the republican base will do the same in 2016. they put up with george bush the first. and now are going to come loaded for bear with the rate for 2016. so i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand paul. you watch. this is what i do for a living. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for

friends, my whole entire world--you know, i was--the story that george will tells that when--when mcgovern lost in--in--to--nixon and--and the--the liberal comment was, 'i don't know anybody who even knows nixon or--or voted for nixon.' i was one of those people. i didn't know anybody who--who was conservative. i--i--i had a kind of mythology built up around--around them as just sort of insensitive, cold-hearted and often bigoted people. c-span: what do you say to the people--let's say a black person listening who's a liberal says, 'shelby steele has been bought by the white conservatives. this is all a money thing'? >> guest: well, i'd s--i'd say that--that that's--that they're really doing themselves a--intellectually and otherwise, a disservice to--to--to feel that way f--if i'm--because i always say if i've been bought, then where's the money? i'm--i'm still waiting. but it's a way of dis--dismissing an argument that you are unable to counter otherwise. it's an ad hominem. let's say, for example, that i was bought and paid for by conservatives or whatever. there's still the argument le

when does it stop hurting when you lose a presidential race and mcgovern said "i'll let you know." >ain is still revisiting or suffering personally somehow from '08? >> we talked to him about that explicitly. curiously enough, the subject of anger is one of the things that actually makes the guy pretty angry. we asked him point blank if he has an anger problem and he ripped us. he was pretty explicit about this. he said the '08 election hurt incredibly badly. and that it took him a while to go over it. he joked about how he still -- he would be happy if he was president. but there were a couple things that were curious to me in this interview. we talked to him at great length about foreign policy yet he didn't mention the subject of benghazi once which seems to mesh with the broader sense that the white house not only made a detent with the guy but they found him a useful ally. the white house always had this theory there would be a chunk of republicans they could break away, they just didn't know who the leader of that faction would be. by all reports, the chief of staff talks to mc

mcgovern: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, what is particularly frustrating about what we are doing here today is that this is a colossal waste of time. we are taking up five bills going nowhere in the senate. the president has already issued veto threats on all of them. these are just press releases that the republican national committee has decided would be good things for republican members to release in their district. none of this stuff is meaningful. it's going nowhere. we are also repealing the affordable care act for the 40th time. what the gentleman says is the affordable care act is not popular, i would remind him we had a preffren dumb on the affordable care act, it was called the presidential election. last i checked mitt romney is not in the white house. that election was all about the affordable care act. we are doing this meaningless stuff and we have nine legislative days left before the end of the fiscal year. before we approach a government shut down. we have people on the other side of the aisle, pe

of course he was the democrat who lost to george mcgovern in the primary.30 twist and turns to come. the jon, the fact you're praising iowa's farmland tells me that, gleam in your eye. >> muskie had not shed a tear he might have been president if he hadn't cried in new hampshire. many people may think hillary is foregone conclusion which may not be true but others in the field could be easily running for vice president. as you pointed out, joe biden started really early, he became the choice of barack obama to be vp. so that could be what some people are jockeying for. jon: i was only off by about six years. joe biden declared in june of '87. he was out by sent of '87. does it hurt the process, alan, to be talking about it this early? >> i think a lot of it is filling up news void. not a lot is goings-on in august, news organizations particularly political shows looking for good copy and that is what goes on. people are not really interested are not paying attention. it might help educate us about the process of the permutations that go on some years ahead

. >> again, democrats went through this in the 1980s, 1972 george mcgovern lost 49 states. this is not new in our national politics. when you're out of power, you have this debate. bill clinton won the white house for the democrats, restored them to power. you have republican governors say listen to us. sure chris christie would concede what he would do is different from what rick scott might have to do in florida. they see gridlock in washington and they think that hurts the party. however, chris christie also said no navel gazing. some of those issue positions have hurt the party. >> but in the end the person who will ultimately decide what the party stands for is whoever their standard bearer is. and i think the truth of what chris christie just said is it really is about winning. look back at mitt romney. he was not the popular guy for the conservatives. why did they end up behind him? because they thought he could win. so never downplay the strength of electability. and to me this was chris christie saying i'm going to do whatever i can do to win, flash, flash, flash.

residents proudly pointed out that they had been alone the only state to vote for george mcgovern insteadknow that louisiana's colorful 85-year-old former governor edwin edwards and his 34-year-old wife had a baby boy on thursday. edwards recently finished servinging ayears in federal prison for racketeering and extortion. allegations of corruption marked his four terms as governor. he once famously said that the only way he'd only be taken down was if he was caught in bed, quote, either a dead girl or a live boy. and now at 85, he is a new father. i want to find out what my guests know now that they didn't know when the week began. speaking of new parents, krystal? >> well, i haven't seen any, don't blame me, i voted for romney stickers yet, but i'm waiting on that. one thing we know that changes made in 2010 to racist crack sentencing has already had a huge impact, saving 16,000 prison years and $500 million. think progress had that this week. >> rick? >> one thing we know is that the cbo is goosing the numbers with a lookback on changing the employment numbers for the last three or fou

you had mcgovern. you had reagan that worked out well and obama that at least got elected.lly are do work politically. i have a sense of the republican party this time that just had it with these people like bob dole and john mccain and mitt romney and even w turned out to be a spender. this time we're going to go with the real part of the party. that's why i think rand paul has the hot hand right now and to some extend ted cruz. >> on the democrat said, hillary clinton obviously sucking the oxygen out of the political room for democrats. that not much of a problem right now because it's so far away for the other democrats. the bigger problem, though, is at some point, and you see this, chris, time and time again, at some point the presumptive nominee takes oxygen away from the sitting president and becomes the presumptive party leader. we're not there yet with hillary. i'm still having a hard time figuring barack obama out. >> here is the problem. i think, joe, you're right on it. i may be ahead of you in the sense i think you know in washington, which is a strange town, e

mcgovern: i rise to congratulate taft early learning school in massachusetts for being named a bronze award winner in the healthier school challenge. they've created healthier school environments through promotion of healthy nutrition and physical activity, a program part of michelle obama's let's get fit program. they had a salad bar grant which offers fresh fruits and vegetables as part of lunch. they incorporated more whole grains and beans. they hired an experience cook to make this happen and offer physical activity every day which required the crea ate tift. i want to -- creativity. i want to thank the principal, the teachers, administrative staff, students, parents in improving the health environment at taft early learning school. this is a good accomplishment. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. johnson: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from te

mcgovern: mr. speaker, reportedly the republican leadership has draft add bill that doubles the level of -- drafted a bill that doubles the level of food stamps over what was included in the farm bill that passed the house in june. that's right, doubles the cuts. more than 50 million people are hungry in america. 17 million are kids, and the republicans think cutting $40 billion from the most important program that prevents mass hunger in america is somehow a good thing? give me a break. they have already tried to cut $20 billion from food stamps, they failed. any rational person would say, they went too far. we need to compromise. instead the republican leadership decided to double down on the crazy. if house republicans insist on moving forward with this awful proposal, i will fight it with every ounce of energy i can muster. we should not, we must not, we cannot allow this mean-spirited cold-hearted proposal to pass. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yie