dan quayle was a newspaper man for some years before he entered politics. he could write and he could write fast. when i worked for him and he had a newspaper column he could write a huge column in half an hour. >> this president is no to go off script. he is known to go without a telecom -- phillip roth -- teleprompter. he speaks off the cuff. there's a demand -- there's a desire for authenticity. you see it in senate campaigns. it seems like there's of the man in -- a demand. how do you convince the public through the words you are writing that there is authenticity and you're not just another politician. because of twitter, the demand to have quick, rapid responses that are not packaged up perhaps in the way you guys did, are you concerned about it? what would you say to individuals running to office, what is your recommendation? >> some of those times are not normal. if you go back to barack obama, the speeches made him. i still believe there is room for excellent speeches. what made him successful is there were beautiful speeches. they were authentic.

i will add one thing about vice president quayle. he is the only boss that i would work for that would write an entire speech and give it to me. he did this on a regular basis when he was vice president. this is back when you would share disks. the first time it happened, i was called in his office in the west wing. it was early in the morning and i didn't know why i was being called in. i walk in and he goes, "john, i wrote a speech this weekend." he hands it to me and there was a fully written speech. dan quayle was a newspaperman for some years before he entered politics. he could write, and he could write fast. when he had a newspaper column , he could write a 600-700 word column in an hour. vaughn: this president is known to go off script. [laughter] he is known to go without a teleprompter, he speaks in the white house when reporters are in there. there is also a desire for authenticity. you see it in senate campaigns. it seems there is a demand among the electorate that we saw in this election and the president a. continued it

i will add one thing about vice president quayle. he's the only boss i ever worked for that wrote an entire speech and gave it to me. he did this on a fairly regular basis when he was vice president of the united states. that was back when you shared disks. the first time it happened i was called into his office in the west wing, and it was early in the morning, and i didn't know why i was being called in. i walked in and he goes, john, i wrote a speech this weekend. and he holds up a blue disk. and he hands it to me and there was a fully written speech. dan quayle was a newspaperman for some years before he entered politics. so he could write and he could write fast. when i worked for him as a former vice president and he had a newspaper column, he could write a six, seven-hundred-word column in a half hour. >> this president is known to go off script. he is known to go without a teleprompter. he speaks in the white house when reporters are in there. he speaks off the cuff. there is also a demand -- there is a desire for what they s

you told me you just saw dan quayle last week. that's a relationship that's more than 30 years strong. how important is that when people are presenting themselves as individuals in a very competitive sphere? what are they looking for and how did that relationship last in the long run? by speaking and questioning, by accomplishing a friendship? what does that look like? >> i remember, i called one of my best friends. as soon as i got this job to go to work for the vice president. it hit me this is not a job you ease into. on day one you will be given an assignment to write a speech and it'll be due in 24 hours or 74 hours. there's this heaviness settled on me as soon as i started i really, i really better be at the top of my game. i remembered saying to one of my best friends from law school calling him to tell him what was about to happen. and he said, don't worry at all johnny just make yourself indispensable. i thought that's good advise. how exactly am i to do that. if you think about it nobody is indispensable. what he was say

when misspelling was a national disgrace when done by the vice president of the united states, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. here is the president -- and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news he's reading or being read to him in "the new york times." >> lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. >> you could, yes. >> by the way he seems to be responding to these things. >> i have to say i have been avoiding that word since it became a book title. >> yeah. >> but it's a hard word to avoid. >> the dancing around has been very difficult given the president's actual behavior, yes. and this is a reflection of multiple things. one, again, 20-something years ago the president spelling something wrong in public and correcting a child was a week long news story. now we have a new controversy. if a scandal is happening, it might be a day that ends in "y" with this administration. you have a president who is constant

i know strong outspoken conservatives quayle and turned white at the idea of being called racist. citizens united, he had to apologize because he was arguing with a black commentator and said you are out of your cotton picking mind. that is something he would they to me if we were arguing. he was treating the guy like and he will and the left was send you can't do that. gifted treat them like a fragile victim or you are not a true american. keep his joblogize at fox news. they will do anything to call you a racist. here is the thing you have to remember. ideas are not a race. if you believe all of wants you to kill the infidel you were nuts. ok. i don't care what color you are. onsomebody kills the infidel that fidel at -- philosophy and use of work him you are an accomplice. everyone who supports and is an accomplice and deserves to be attacked for their ideals. i should say this. i don't know if you listen to my men and women are made in the image of god. that is not something i believe read that is a fact. bernie sanders always says this. i happen to believe. everyone deserves

not only are we talking about former senators, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, dan quayle and joe biden, we are also talking about a thousand people from the public. we had 15,000 people who came through last night and waited in line. it was 100 plus degrees and some waited for three or four hours in line so that they could pay their final respects to john mccain. it was impressive and inspiring and amazing to watch this. to see this repeated today, and as we watch this again, you look at john mccain's 15 car procession, what goes through your mind? >> you talk about high schools lining this route and what a history lesson it is, i got to learn about him and anywhere you go in the world, enlisted and officers, young troops that were men or women, they all delayed their promotion ceremony if they heard john mccain was coming to town sometime in the future because they wanted him to read them the oath, they wanted to be sworn in and promoted by john mccain, he was everyone's hero. >> you often mention kind of a similar political attitude, and when we talk, i was teasing earlier sayi

81 on the way from maryland very used to go right over where i used to take my dogs and hunt for quayle. they share this experience and what these places to become more attractive for the bikers and hikers not only for the endangered species. what do you elaborate on how it can bolster economies in virginia and so on? >> there are industries and economies we have seen pop up around the recovery of threatened and endangered species. for a long time he would never see a humpback whale off the coast and now we have troops people pay money to go off to see how. they were on a trip to the nation's conservancy and local partners working to the fish and wildlife service and others to recover a number of threatened and endangered species on the river and it's a really fascinating effort because when they recover, they filter 10 gallons of water a day when you have thousands of them in the river your water quality would be much better and that is improving water quality that supports some of the bass fisheries and people are coming from far and wide to participate in water sports and things like

. >> reporter: the field of candidates included elizabeth dole, dan quayle, pat buchanan and texas governor. bush. >> our first poll in new hampshire showed me at 2% with a 5% margin of error. what that could mean is 3% actually were against me. >> reporter: the arizona senator often asked the crowd for sympathy. >> because we have so little water in arizona, the trees chase the dogs. >> reporter: you all sort of think of yourselves as david and goliath versus george w. bush? >> yes. george w. bush had everything going for him, so it was difficult to get anyone's attention. but what we did get was john mccain's time, which was the most meaningful. >> reporter: mccain was a different kind of politician. he may have kept tubs of hand sanitizer on the bus, but he shook every hand, took every question. >> questions. yes, ma'am. >> i like republicans, democrats, libertarians, vegetarians, legalitarians. there were people that would interrupt, and john would say, if you just stop yelling, i'll call on you next and we can have our debate. and he would take on these people, and after a couple minut

everyone from lindsey graham to kirsten gillibrand and former vice president dan quayle and thousandsrs and dignitaries. and if you look behind me you can see people starting to file in the church. 1,000 seats have been reserved for the public who so dearly loved john mccain. >> jon: it will be quite a processional. trace gallagher, thank you. >> these are the key people who ran these investigations. tell me any other time you've seen a federal agency where this has taken place with the key people at the top who ran the clinton investigation and started and ran the russia investigation. that's the biggest problem. >> sandra: that's jim jordan on the story last night reacting after house lawmakers grilled justice department official bruce ohr in a closed-door session on capitol hill. tom dupree joins me now. we'll get back to the fired-up jim jordan. what has changed since that closed-door meeting happened that went on for house. what came out of it? >> we're still getting bits and pieces of the report. i think what came out is in many respects it raises more questions than it answers,

former vice president dan quayle. fitzgerald janitor and the governor of arizona and his wife will be attending that ceremony in phoenix. body andsenator's family will make their way to washington, d.c. where he will lie in state in the u.s. capitol rotunda on friday. there will be a service there as well. -- senator the mccain requested george h -- george w. bush and former president barack obama all make eulogies at the memorial service at the national cathedral. all of our coverage on [applause] , and c-span, c-span.org the c-span radio app. a lengthy story about how mccain got the last word in choreographed with the help of his staff the funeral arrangements. they will continue for the next three days. george and morton, illinois. good morning to you. caller: thank you. good morning and thank you for c-span. i wanted to make a comment on the last speaker you had on. you was talking about bernie sanders. caterpillar, a union job. strongly union and has always been. even there you got a lot of democrats that voted f