he campaigns hard on the support of the death penalty, trying to tout michael dukakis as easy on crime. dukakis is not going to be strong on issues, like of discipline, people who don't work hard. all these issues are starting to get wrapped together. the most important campaign of period is an ad about willie horton. bush has this advisor, lee atwater. he is a south carolina political operative who, interestingly enough -- he is a bulldog. and he comes up with this ad that talks about dukakis's policy that criminals could leave prison for the weekend to visit their families. one of them, willie horton, an african-american man, would leave prison one weekend and murder and rape somebody. what atwater says is, if we can make willie horton a household name, we will win the election. what it is also trying to do is tied dukakis to issues of race, to make him be seen as somebody that will cause african-americans to have too much power. the fear of the black man, right? this is played off for a long time. watch the ad for a second. >> despite a life sentence. horton fled, kidnapping a young

but i did talk to lloyd benson, al gore, michael dukakis. in fact, i talked to gary hart. he and i served together. we were recently close but not , very close. and he called me back and my secretary said, gary hart is on the line. i was running out to give a speech, so it went back into get on the phone and said hi, gary. , and he started laughing. the laughter just sort of rolled and rolled. not a word had been spoken between us. almost like there is a new brotherhood now. [laughter] that you have been invited to. after this rather raucous laughter that had no basis to it, i said, why are we laughing? he said, it is life. so it is a unique experience. and this is my turn. >> what do you think you will be facing the next few months? mr. tsongas: for me this is really a campaign of a message. so i am a candidate and the usual kind of thing, but that message has to get out there. there is so much emphasis on getting opinion leaders in the united states whether they are , academic, political activists, those people to read the ideas and have a sense of that, a sense of direc

but i did talk to m lloyd benson and al gore and michael dukakis and, in fact, i talked to gary hartnd he and i served together. and we were recently close but not, you know, very close. he called me back, and my secretary said, gary hart is on the line. i was rupping o inrunning out t speech. i went back to the phone, i said, hi, gary, we both started laughing. the laughter rolled and rolled. not a word having been spoken between us. almost like a new brotherhood now that you've been invited to. and after this rather ruckus laughter that had no basis to it, i said to him, why are we laughing? he said, it's life. so it's -- it's a unique yfqjt&% experience that others have been through and this is my turn. >> what do you think you'll be facing the next few months? >> for me it's really a campaign of a message. so i have to -- i mean, i'm a candidate in the usual kind of the message has to get out there. so much emphasis on getting opinion leaders in the united states, whether they're academics, political activists, opinion, those people who read the ideas, to have a sense of that, th

they talk about the massachusetts miracle which was michael dukakis. all the m.i.t. graduates. a lot of them went to next to where rich lives now. >> sabrina, what do you think? >> this is a similar argument. that we are all a nation of takers. it is a bad math equation, a bad trajectory. it can be overly pessimistic. we lunch together people getting transfer payments through pension plans which they paid into even if they are unsus tapeable with welfare hand outs not tied to work. public opinion is on the side of reigning in spending and government. we need good political leadership. >> let's hope that's the side the public is in, reigning in government. we have mitt romney in the last aleks trying to make the point of the makers and takers point. he got hammers in the election. i wonder if maybe the nation is full of more takers than makers. >> no. thankfully most americans want to work. most americans want to get ahead. we have a lousy economic environment that makes it more difficu difficult. you remove the obstacles and you will see the economy come back. states that are l

michael dukakis used to say, there are two things you have to be to be a great president, one is president the person that can win and fight. john, thank you both. we will be right back with our colleagues right after this. ♪ john: we are joined by 3 members of our bloomberg politics team. welcome to iowa. i wanted to go around this group. what is the most important story to you? guest: all you care about is the force race? there is more in stake in the iowa caucuses since 1998. it counts more this time on both sides. guest: the real strength of trump and sanders'grounded game, and whether there is a mismatch between them and polli ng come monday. guest: i think the clinton and confident about their numbers. nobody knows the denominator in this election. center -- sanders' motivation effort and whatever trump has to bring new caucus-goers. mark: does it matter who is third in the caucus? guest: it matters if there is a strong third. if marco rubio finishes a strong third, inconceivably gives him up momentum. mark: what is a strong third? guest: he's in it the mid- teens, not too far behind

that is a same county fair that michael dukakis addressed, and jimmy carter addressed. that ronalds idea reagan once refused to join a country called in los angeles when he found out i had a policy that did not allow jews. he refused to join them. probably one of the most nonjudgmental men we have ever elected president of united states. heh regard to south africa, opposed apartheid. he was also fighting communists. tohad to figure out how address this issue were he institutes a policy to desegregate south africa while still keeping south africa in the anti-communist fold. it was strategically important. it was important in terms of the coalition. so he engages. he puts a place a policy of construction engagement. now, apartheid had been in existence in south africa since the time of maybe george washington. it had been a long time. fdr never did anything about it. harry truman never did anything. jimmy carter never do anything. reagan was the first president to actually instituted a policy to bring about desegregation. so, it was a tricky maneuver. it actually worked.

he worked with michael dukakis, and he is widely credited with helping both al gore and john kerry'sampaigns. here is what happened when i ran into him. >> mightily, why are you here? >> volunteer. >> that's a long way from home. flyer you hear? -- why are you here? this resident, michael who leave here. liewhy is he here? >> he is a man of uncommon gift. >> what does that mean for hillary? >> [indiscernible] his associates say he is here to travel with president clinton to keep them up to speed on what's happening in iowa. other clinton people coming -- one is going door-to-door, but the fact that michael whouley, is that a good sign or bad sign? john: good and bad. he's -- this is a very inside baseball topic. a for numerous said he was the kaiser something of american politics. then the wolf from pulp fiction, the guy who comes with there's a mess to clean up. that is what he has done consistently for every democrat -- many candidates, including hillary clinton. it's good news in the sense that he is good at what he does, but it is bad news in the sense that you don't call him unt

certainly damaged michael dukakis. >> there we go. >> thanks very much. >> many of the people at the town hall said they were indecided. this was a chance for them to size up the candidates. ron edwards is an attorney and undecided voter and took part in the town hall. he is joining us now from des moines. ron, you asked bernie sanders a question about gridlock here in washington. let me play that exchange. >> as president what specifically would you do to overcome the resistance, cure the gridlock, and garner the necessary support to implement your initiatives and actually get something done in washington? >> good question. sfroo let me answer it if i might in two ways. i am probably the most progressive member in the u.s. senate, but i have over the years not only in the senate but in the house worked with republicans when there was common ground. in the house. i have more amendments passed on the house working with republicans than anyone else. >> i wasn't really satisfied with the answer. the reason is i think it was more of a leadership question. the american public is really si

i believe he was the panelist who asked michael dukakis what he would do if his wife were raped and murdered. so he had a tremendous influence on the 1988 political presidential election but i didn't notice any of this at the time. i was in the process of speaking to someone and suddenly he gets on the phone and -- gerald boyle, what do you want? telling him i was a medical student and then it turned out that he was from st. louis. and the same street on kings highway. at the end of the conversation, next time you were in new york give me a call. i did what any aspiring writer would do, call american airlines and book the price of new york. i called his assistant, coming to new york and mr. boyd wents to meet with me. who are you? they showed me into his office and i am looking around and there are pictures of him with borgia bush and the premier of china and at that point i was thinking all right, maybe you don't know what you are doing. his tone had totally changed from the conversation. he said i have two minutes, what do you want? i started telling him i was in medical school but want to

he argues that the 1988 presidential election and the resounding defeat of democratic nominee michael dukakis framed the way clinton ran for office, by positioning himself as a moderate rather than a liberal. this class is an hour and 10 minutes. prof. simon: all right, as you are walking in today, a couple of things we will come back to as we perceive in the lecture, we listened to nwa's "straight outta compton," "the chronic," and sister souljah. sister souljah was involved in a key moment of the 19

. >> michael dukakis in a tank. >> if you want to reduce violence -- and the president knows this --ou target criminals. you do not otherwise law abiding citizens. and you don't make them have to go jump through hoops in a higher threshold to exercise their second amendment right. if he goes after the real perpetrators of violence, he would have to target the underclass black male who disproportionately is involved in all this violence and he doesn't want to do that. >> let me freed the ap, katie pavlich. they said what the president announced would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first graders at sandy hook elementary or 14 county workers at a holiday party in san bernardino, and it would have had no impact in keeping weapons from the hand of suspects in several of the deadliest recent mass shootings that have occurred that have resulted and spurred these calls for more gun control. so they're really feel-good legislation. it's not going to do anything. >> it's not going to do anything. and it's really disappointing, because the president has an opportunity to work with orga

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political historian, you know what happened to candidates who promise tax hikes, whether you mention michael dukakis, i could go back to walter mondale. it is a tough sell unless you can fashion it in a way as i think bernie sanders tried, you're going to get a lot more back than what you pay in. what do you think this go aro d around? it will be interesting to see. it is a referendum on obama care and health care in general and how popular people are going to get behind having nationalized health service. don't see that happening. it sounds good in theory, i don't see people on a nationwide level being, oh, yes, let's do that. however, they want to get some value for their dollar. people pay taxes. so, you know, instead of big promises like, oh, yes -- >> it is good. we'll see you, ladies. thank you for your time. >>> isis now making passports. made a simple tripvere chto the grocery storeis anything but simple. so finally, i had an important conversation with my dermatologist about humira. he explained that humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that

county fair in mississippi and the campaign or in 1980, but it was the same county fair that michael dukakis addressed and jimmy carter addressed and so this idea that, you know, reagan once refused to join a country club in los angeles when he found out they had a policy that did not allow jews. he refused to join, so this was probably them-- one of the most nonjudgmental men have ever elected president of the united states. regard to south africa, i mean obviously he a poured apartheid, but he was also fighting the communists, so he had to figure how to thread this meal where he institutes a policy to desegregate south africa while still keeping south africa in the anti-communist hole because it was strategically important. it was important terms of the soviets, so he engages and announces and then puts into place a policy of construction of engagement. now, apartheid had been in existence in south africa since the time of maybe george washington. yet, fdr never did anything about it, john kennedy never do anything about it, harry truman never did anything about it and jimmy carter never d

but i did talk to m lloyd benson and al gore and michael dukakis and, in fact, i talked to gary harthe and i served together. and we were recently close but not, you know, very close. he called me back, and my secretary said, gary hart is on the line. i was rupping o inrunning out t speech. i went back to the phone, i said, hi, gary, we both started laughing. the laughter rolled and rolled. not a word having been spoken between us. almost like a new brotherhood now that you've been invited to. and after this rather ruckus laughter that had no basis to it, i said to him, why are we laughing? he said, it's life. so it's -- it's a unique yfqjt&% experience that others have been through and this is my turn. >> what do you think you'll be facing the next few months? >> for me it's really a campaign of a message. so i have to -- i mean, i'm a candidate in the usual kind of the message has to get out there. so much emphasis on getting opinion leaders in the united states, whether they're academics, political activists, opinion, those people who read the ideas, to have a sense of that, the s

talented and influential people, came here to help john kerry win caucuses in 2004, worked with michael dukakising with bill clinton today. i talked to president clinton about that and he was happy to have michael by his side. michael suggesting that he's here to travel with bill clinton. but it does show all hands on deck thing going on here. a lot of clinton people including michael huly in eiowa and throughout the weekend to fight gent bernie sanders. >> michael, suffice to say, many consider him the kaiser of american politics. that's saying it all. >> we were showing bill clinton earlier, he was wearing an american flag, mark, on a sweater. was he wearing that when you saw him? >> he is wearing a sweater. when he walked in the room, waver is a couple of hours from here. excited to see a former president a lot were super excited to see a former president wearing that sweater. >> we'll have to get a shot where you can see the front. >> dressing casual. >> he has been dressing casual. >> it's quite something. >> i've been asking everybody today, if you could ask a question of the republicans

i worked for walter mondale and michael dukakis. i saw what happened when they won new hampshire. a path to the nomination for us. if bernie sanders can prove that he's the strongest candidate in the democratic party, that he can coalesce a group like president obama did in 2008, bring in young people, bring over independents, new people in the process, i think the elected officials will step back and say we need bernie to be the nominee because we need a democratic electora electorate. >> joy, let me bring you back in. let me ask you, in your view what would it take for bernie sanders -- take a look for instance at south carolina where he is down in the poll about 37 points the other day. what would it take to make bernie sanders competitive in south carolina? >> well, i mean, that is the big challenge and it goes back to what we were talking about a little bit earlier, steve. african-american voters give the president the highest approval ratings of any other demographic. they are mostly very loyal to the president, and i think the core message of needing to have a political rev

michael did you cactus. >diddukakis.>> he didn't want ta helmet. he understood that that was wasn't going to be a distinguish television shot. >> consultant steve murphy worked with dukakis>> the answer came back, we've arranged for you to ride in a tank, they won't let you ride in a tank without a helmet because it's unsafe. he relented. he should have stuck with his instincts. >> that moment turned into this commercial. >> now he wants to be our commander in chief. america can't afford that risk. >> do ads like that really work? the consultants think they do. >> three, four, five -- >> they still rave about this ad. it ran only once, but was talked about so much on tv, they say it changed all campaigns. it was the first negative ad to use fear and raw emotion. >> 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [explosion] >> these are the stakes. we must either love each other or we must die. >> vote or die. pretty relevant. >> but pretty unfair, a smear on goldwater. >> oh, jeez. >> medicare mckinnon worked on the bush campaign which ran this ad showing the candidates consoling 9/11 victims. >> our president took ashley in his arms and just embraced her, and it was at that moment that

michael did you cactus. >diddukakis.>> he didn't want ta helmet. he understood that that was wasn't going to be a distinguish television shot. >> consultant steve murphy worked with dukakishe answer came back, we've arranged for you to ride in a tank, they won't let you ride in a tank without a helmet because it's unsafe. he relented. he should have stuck with his instincts. >> that moment turned into this commercial. >> now he wants to be our commander in chief. america can't afford that risk. >> do ads like that really work? the consultants think they do. >> three, four, five -- >> they still rave about this ad. it ran only once, but was talked about so much on tv, they say it changed all campaigns. it was the first negative ad to use fear and raw emotion. >> 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [explosion] >> these are the stakes. we must either love each other or we must die. >> vote or die. pretty relevant. >> but pretty unfair, a smear on goldwater. >> oh, jeez. >> medicare mckinnon worked on the bush campaign which ran this ad showing the candidates consoling 9/11 victims. >> our president took ashley in his arms and just embraced her, and it was at that moment that we