paul kirk and i went in and use the facilities. there we had to rebuild the floor. these are just little touches. one last one that hurts me. the first town hall meeting was in richmond. at that town on meeting i was seated in the chair of something like this. paul kirk was in the middle. there is a women by the name of pamela who is on our commission. she had a delightful voice. we had in front of us a screen that showed what every television station was showing. president bush looked at his watch every single screen showed it. pamela leaned over to me and said it is over. it turned out she was right. >> is a longtime campaign operatives i always would watch the debates in the holding room with other campaigns that we could keep score. one of the consequences of being an elder statesman as i have to sit with this guy now in the audience. in the first debate we just had in denver, frank and i go out at the beginning to tell people to turn off their cell phones. and always thank them. c-span airs that portion of it. it is fun to do. i am standing up there and looking

paul kirk and i went in and use the facilities. there we had to rebuild the floor. these are just little touches. one last one that hurts me. the first town hall meeting was in richmond. that town on meeting i was seated in the chair of something like this. paul kirk was in the middle. there is a women by the name of pamela who is on our commission. she had a delightful voice. we had in front of us a screen that showed what every television station was showing. president bush looked at his watch every single screen showed it. pamela leaned over to me and said it is over. it turned out she was right. is a longtime campaign operatives i always would watch the debates in the holding room with other campaigns that we could keep score. one of the consequences of being an elder statesman as i have to sit with this guy now in the audience. in the first debate we just had ut denver, frank and i go ou at the beginning to tell people to turn off their cell phones. and always thank them. c-span airs that portion of it. it is fun to do. i am standing up there and looking down a

there were two national party chairs, paul kirk who is my former employer, and my predecessor is the co-chair of the commissioner. and frankenstorm who basically said it is the interest of the american people to set aside our partisan differences as democratic chair and republican chair in order to establish an independent commission that will guarantee the american people will get a look at the major candidates as president whoever they may be and not to favor one party or the other party but to make sure we have what we now have become accustomed to having which is face to face encounters between our candidates for president. that act was probably a bipartisan act but in fact kind of a non partisan act is something that is so rare in the culture of our politics now. i mean, i can't imagine the republican national chairman and the democratic national chairman getting together on anything these days. but savoring that moment of history in which people did something right for the interest of the whole country is something that we celebrate. the result of that these debates have become

paul kirk and i went in and use the facilities. there we had to rebuild the floor.these are just little touches. one last one that hurts me. the first town hall meeting was in richmond. at that town hall meeting, i was seated in the chair of something like this. paul kirk was in the middle. there is a woman by the name of pamela who is on our commission. she had a delightful voice. we had in front of us a screen that showed what every television station was showing. president bush looked at his watch, every single screen showed it. pamela leaned over to me and said it is over. it turned out she was right. >> as a longtime campaign operatives, i always would watch the debates in the holding room with other campaigns that we could keep score. one of the consequences of being an elder statesman as i have to sit with this guy now in the audience. in the first debate we just had in denver, frank and i go out at the beginning to tell people to turn off their cell phones. and always thank them. c-span airs that portion of it. it is fun to do. i am standing up there and loo

paul gosar, a republican from the fourth district of arizona. welcome to "washington journal." >> good morning. >> thank you so much, good morning. >> there's a headline we saw that said ann kirk patic and paul gosar are the arizona odd cup. you're working together on issues to benefit arizona and other issues. how did this partnership come about? >> you know, between the two of us we represent most of rural arizona and we come from large families that are bipartisan, paul and i talked about it, we have democrats and republicans in our families. my mother was republican growing up and i always said it made for very interesting rsati. >> i've always told the story i'm the first of 10 kids, there's five democrats, four republicans, one independent. first time my wife met my family she called her mom and said, oh, my god, these people hate each other. we can argue but the aspect is, once you're elected you represent everybody across the board. and good legislation is good legislation. when you're working on behalf of getting people back to work and something that's crucial and critical to arizona like copper, copper is one of our five seeds we were founded upon. citrus, climate,