reihan salam, "the grand new party." we'll be rig (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! my guest tonight is a legendary singer/song writer who has composed over 3,000 songs. i'll ask her if one of them was "gangnam style." (laughter) please welcome dolly parton! (cheers and applause) what a pleasure, thank you so much for coming on. >> okay! >> stephen: what an honor to have you on. >> well, it's a pleasure to be with you. i watch you all the time. >> stephen: as a little boy growing up in south carolina i watched the water waggoner show. >> that's great! >> stephen: huge country music show saturday afternoons right after the cartoons were over and i always had to see whether dolly was going to be on the show. >> i started that show in 1967 so you was a tiny little thing. >> stephen: i had a little crush on you. i did. >> thank you now! >> stephen: and you know you've done it all, you're a country music and a crossover legend, queen of both country and pop, sold over 100 million records, "jolene" "co

co-author of "brand new party, how republicans can win the working class and save the american dream" reihan salam. reihan, thank you very much. (applause) the book is called "the brand new party." let's talk about this grand new party. i don't understand, is this the end of an era? why has the republican party lost their spine? >> the truth is republicans are facing an incredibly difficult political environment and a really challenging fiscal environment as well and that's put a ton of pressure on adhering to the pledge. >> stephen: isn't grover norquist going to bring down the hammer on these guys come midterms? >> it's very hard to say because in some places-- for example south carolina and georgia-- that's very possible. but you have to understand --. >> stephen: real america. >> exactly. but, you have to understand -- hey, i'm from brooklyn, my friend. that's real america, too. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: no, excuse me, calm down, that's "real" america. it's ironic patriotism. >> america has changed a n a lot of ways over 20 years. one of the big changes is that we have a lot more peopl

reihan salam writes "the agenda," that's a daily blog for the conservative national review online. he is a policy advisor at the think tank economics 21 and a columnist for reuters. he is also the co-author with ross douthat of the much talked-about book, "grand new party: how republicans can win the working class and save the american dream." welcome to both of you. >> great to see you, bill. >> bob, what will you remember about this election? >> well, the first thing i'll remember is the way people turned out to vote in this election in the face of tremendous voter suppression efforts. and i just think they've been really american heroes because they stood up and said, "you are not going to take the vote away from us." some people stood in line for six, seven and eight hours. some had been in areas that had been damaged by the storm. and i just think that they were there upholding democracy. so that's the first thing that i remember about it. >> they were also there making delicious pecan tarts. because when i voted, the kids in the school were selling baking goods, and they were