senator nickles. [applause] don nickles: thank you very much. i was just thinking if i stayed in the senate -- i would be in the senate -- chuck grassley and i came together in 1980, 38 years ago. maybe in another 10 years, i can become chairman of the finance committee. [laughter] don nickles: my wife would really get a kick out of that. hey babe you stay another 30 , years, you can be chairman of the committee. grassley and hatch just won't go. because he had seniority. he served in the congress. he was ranked higher than -- i was the same age as most of the staffers on the committee at the time. i loved the finance committee. i served on a lot of committees. at that time, everyone said you want to be on finance or on appropriations. ropes --up appropriations because i cannot get on finance. chuck grassley got on in year one. blanche lincoln got on in year one. pat took a few years. bill cassidy got in in his first term. it is not fair. it took me my third term to get on the finance committee. but i will tell you, i look back at the other comm

senator nickles? [applause] nickles: jane, thank you very much. i was just thinking, if i had , chuckin the senate grassley and i came together in 1980 we were elected. that was 38 years ago. maybe in another 10 years, i could become chairman of the finance committee. my wife would really get a kick out of that. stay another 30 years, you could be chairman of the committee. grassley and hatch just won't go. because he had seniority, he served in the congress. and so, he was ranked higher. i was 31 years old. ofas the same age as most the staffers on the committee at the time, but i loved the finance committee. i served on a lot of the committees. back then, everybody said you want to either be on finance or probes. i got on probes because i could not get on finance. it took me at least 12 years to get on the committee. ron senator king nine. chuck grassley got on in year one. really irritates me. blanche lincoln. on in your one blanche lincoln got on in year one. i look back at the other committees. i was on budget for 24 years. that is work, all

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. >> attorney bob nickles represents the lion's club which erected the cross back in the '70s when this was private land. it was later sold to the city. the cross is lit up during religious holidays like christmas and easter but in 2016, the city had the power temporarily cut off. they say for safety, the lion's club said it was for spite. nickles says the city had ample time to address this in the '70s. >> the city thought they were cheated, thought they had a problem. they had five years to address it and did nothing. >> after the power was shut off, the lion's club sued the city in federal court where a judge ruled the cross was unconstitutional and the city should take it down or sell the land. city attorneys call the ruling ambiguous and appealed to a three-judge panel after the of the ninth circuit. at today's hearing they brought a pastor who agreed with them. >> to have a shining cross shining down makes an assumption everyone beneath that cross believes in the same thing. >> so how much would it cost to actually move the cross there? well, the lion's club attorney estimates abo

. >> in the '50s and early '60s, elaine may and mike nickles were a big comedy team. >> mike nicklesof directors changing her work so she decided she should direct her own film. >> she's perfect. >> a new leaf made you feel like you could tell a great funny story and it didn't feel like oh, this is just girl's stuff. ♪ >> with the heart break kid, elaine may ushered in what i like to call uncomfortable comedy which is now the norm. >> you going to see us in 50 years? >> the premise is charles grodin, jewish guy mayors jeannie berlin who happens to be elaine's daughter. >> that's my stool. >> and then he meets kelly who is cybil shepherd and wants to have an affair with her during his honeymoon. >> i've been waiting for a girl like you all my life. >> charles grodin just breaks your heart because you just want to punch him and you just want to shake him and make him wake up. >> if i may, sir, in other words, what you're saying is that if i want kelly, i'm going to have to put up a hell of a fight that is. is that -- >> he's a nut. >> my father used with to be yelling at me like you ca

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