robert draper as their guest. >> guest: compliments to you and c-span on brian lamb. you guys do a wonderful job. mr. draper, good morning. i wonder if you have a candid opinion of representative in arizona. the district depending on her district, do you have new note david schweiker? >> guest: i don't know him well. he's now one of the guys have focused on, but schweiker was -- he was kind of a born and insight aside to republican leadership and in fact had been on the wiki man was kicked out because he voted one way, even as his majority with kevin mccarthy was asking him to whip and convince people to vote the other way. i also mentioned in the book -- wait for an gabby gets hers got along well and that in fact as one of her last acts as congresswomen, she happened to run into schweikert and gave him a two at the capital and then went home the next day and of course the terrible tragedy occurred. but beyond that, those are -- i think those are the only mentions that schweikert gets. >> host: isn't he in a primary right now at dan quayle? >> guest: i don't know when

robert draper is the author. chicago on online. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you guys doing. mr. draper, i want to comment on my assessment of the current house. are the republicans concerned that they have no idea of government? i think you did speak to senator reed's position on how to deal with the house, but i think that they confirmed his action by what they did -- [inaudible] with the debt ceiling crisis. in the end, they couldn't carry a vote to bring its resolution. the democrats had to vote on. [inaudible] they created. you have a house -- a republican house, they can get legislation passed. they have no accomplishments from the time that they have been in there. to me, this indication -- another you disagree, but you have to be able to get things accomplished, and they don't have a clue on how to do that. >> thank you, caller. in fact, let's talk about the debt ceiling situation. i think it illustrates the quandary that the republicans are in and the desire on the part of republican leadership to get things done. despite

let's turn to robert draper, contributing writer for "the new york times" magazine and author of, "do not ask what good we do: inside the u.s. house of representatives." robert, great to have you with us tonight. great book, appreciate you being here. just what happened and what was their motivation? take us back to that conversation among these gop leaders that night. >> sure, it was the evening of january the 20th, 2009, the evening of the inauguration, and 15 republicans gathered together. frank luntz had put the program together in the caucus room, which is a washington, d.c. steakhouse, and it was -- he sort of described it to the others as saying, look, we're ul irrelevant now, we don't control anything, so let's just be irrelevant together. but luntz, in fact, did have a scheme in mind. he wanted everyone to bear their souls and them come to a kind of solution and that's in fact what transpired. newt gingrich led off the talk and had gingrich, like several of the others, had been at obama's inauguration. it was a depressing spectacle for them to see 1.8 million people out there

author robert draper given unprecedented act set to infighting for his book, "do not ask what good weo." you were embedded, basically, inside the caucus. tell me about the tensions and whether the tea party freshmen really didn't care whether they were re-elected, so they couldn't be disciplined with the usual appreciate you could get from the leadership, i'll put you on this committee, that committee, you won't get money from the re-election campaign committee. >> one emblematic moment featured in my book, took place when the house republicans voted down one of their own continuing resolutions this past september to fund the government's activities and it riled up the senior members of the house propose iations committee who demanded a meeting with house leadership and speaker boehner. these appropriations cardinals, they're known as, senior appropriators yelled at boehner and said, this is ridiculous, you're allowing these freshmen and other conservative senior members to vote against our own legislation. you need to punish them, take them off committees, you need to take them off o

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. >> robert draper author of dead certain provides an inside account of the 100 told congress in his new book, do not ask what we do. he takes e-mails increase on the morning program, "washington journal." >> host: robert draper, who is jeff duncan? >> guest: jeff duncan is a tea party freshman from the party of south carolina. it's a good question that you're posing because i think a lot of

we know from robert draper's book on the tea party group that it was a group of leaders and senior members who gathered on inauguration eve for barack obama, at the capital grill, a few blocks away from here, a strategy to vote against everything he was for because he was for it, so it's more than that. turning to the democrats, they are no angels here. we're not suggesting you have a good party and a bad party. democrats have in the past done plenty of things that were optional like a parliamentary party or that were designed more to stomp on the neck of a republican president when he was down. but what we believe is the democrats have generally stayed somewhere within the boundaries of what's been our normal rambunctious politics. this is different. when george w. bush was president he came in under the worst circumstances imaginable for the president. a week after the most bitter, contentious election not decided for 36 days afterwards, democrats could have voted against everything he wanted and destroyed his presidency right from the beginning. liberal democrat, ted kennedy, george mil

unprecedented, but i think there's a harder edge to it and i think the election of the tea party freshmen, robert draper, a new book out in the last week called "do not ask what good we do" about the house republicans over the last year since elected in 2010. and it just talks about the kind of conviction that is now there within the republican base and within the tea party side of it, and so i think it is a much harder thing as we've seen speaker boehner try to work through that, not terribly successfully. so i think that there is right now in the republican party a harder edge about it. we don't know if, you know, if you had a republican president and the equivalent in the democratic party of a democratic majority on one side whether we would see that same kind of thing, but i think at this point it's more heavily on the republican side. >> anybody else want to weigh in on that question jivlgts find myself nodding in agreement with what steve was saying and i don't want this to happen. so i'm going to -- say something a little more provocative here. you know, it's often forgotten that the inspiration

. >> this summer i want to read the book by robert draper. it's sort of an inside look house speaker's and that he'd heard a freshman in the conference there's great lines that i've read that show just how crazy it can get in there with a lot of these freshmen better put in the tea party who are jubilee or controlling the way that the house is running even though their freshman in charge in the meeting told me get your in line, and i think congress has been so polarizing and an effective a book like this is great for summer reading to kick back and figure out some of what is going on behind the scenes as we watched nothing haen

robert draper author of "do not ask: what good we do." that's viewpoint for tonight. stay right here to enter the war room.with jennifer granholm. thanks for watching. have a great evening. >>> i'm jennifer grandholm tonight in "the war room." bad credit mitt romney takes that which doesn't belong to him, namely good ideas. >> the only economic success that president obama has had is because the followed mitt romney's advise. >> romney preposterously takes a bow for the auto bailout. the one thing he won't take credit for the thing he should. healthcare reform. some pressed evidence that national healthcare is exactly what myth thought it would be a pretty good idea. it's all about giving credit where credit is due, tonight in "the war room." ♪ welcome to "the war room," i'm jennifer grandholm. when you have been on the wrong side of an issue, you can admit you were wrong or claim you were on the other side the whole time. and if you are a politician you are just doing what comes naturally, and we look at mitt romney the mother -- well the father of all flip floppers.

. >> you know, in robert draper's boo book, melissa, it's all part of the plan to him a one-term presidentama relentlessly in 2011, win the white house and the senate in 2012. that was the four steps, and they seem to be staying on that strategy. >> i want to be really clear. this whole goal of winning, because if you're in a democracy, sure you have a goal of winning, you set out a strategy for winning, part of that is beating the opposition. we should be really clear they apparently want to win just to win. and i think this goes back to katherine's point if you look at how this president has governed that's been very moderate, particularly given how bad our circumstances are, he has been extremely moderate, willing to compromise, and this desire to win is not rooted in like some sort of great desire to do better by the country because the country is doing better than it was. this is just about winning for winnings sake, and i think that's the thing that ought to make us the most nervous. >> not to pitch the book, but it says in there i'dology is the science of idiots. we have a party pre

the author himself, robert draper it is a pleasure to meet you. >> thanks nice to meet you allison. >ook, it is a power house of knowledge and information, but just talks about basically what goes on behind closed doors on the hill can you summarize what readers are going the find out. >> sure i decided to do this back allison when the mid-term elections occurred and it became clear republicans won majority due to 87 freshmen who had been elected on a tea party wave many of whom had never had any kind of political experience so, they came to shake things up and what i was interested in seeing was, the degree to which they would change the institution and the degree to which the institution would change them it was a little bit of both. >> the title just to back up it is a real quote. >> it is from a congressman, one of our first fisher aims who after serving four terms decided not to run for a fifth term in 1796 he wrote a friend saying do not ask what food we do, that is -- good we do, that is not a question in these days of faction. >>> you have been in washington a long time, long

robert draper is the author. free press is the publisher. thank you for been on the program. >> guest: my pleasure. .. >> so we're going to get started. >> ok. >> thanks all for coming out. my name is neal thompson. i'm the author of "the life of times of alan shepherd" which is the first biography of the first american in space. i wanted to say thanks to the u.s. naval academy for having me here, particularly the folks in the bookstore and the visitor center. danielle vaughn and donna player and thanks to the public affairs office here at the naval academy. diane and pat burrows, debbie good and commander gibbons. the naval academy here is where alan shepherd got his start. he was a little boy of the lindbergh generation who grew up who wanted nothing more than to fly airplanes. that was his life's mission. he came from a family of army officers in southern new hampshire is where he was born. and decided at an early age that he didn't want to join the army. he wanted to become a navy officer and learn to fly navy airplanes, which is why he

not that this is totally unreasonable but i think the election of the tea party freshman robert draper has a new book called do not ask what good we can do- is about the republicans since 2010. and it just talks about the kind of conviction that is now there within the republican base and the tea party side of it and i think it is a much harder thing, as we've seen speaker baner try to work through that not terribly successfully. i think there is right now in the republican party a harder edge about it. we don't know if you had a republican president in the equivalent in the democratic party of a democratic majority on one side if we could see that same thing. but i think at this point it's more heavily on republican side. >> anyone else want to address that? >> i feel myself nodding with steve and i don't want this to happen. it's often forgot ten inspiration for today's conservative movement the communist party. the fact is that the principal strategist of the conservative movement did take a lot of his tactical inspiration from battling communists with the american vet rans committe

. >> up next robert draper looks behind the scenes of the 100th of congress and the 2010 midterm elections. from washington journal, this is an hour. >>> who is jeff duncan? >> jeff is a conservative freshmen, tea party freshman from the third congressional district of south carolina, and it's a great question that you are opposing because i think a lot of people even in the house republican leadership don't know who jeff duncan is. he is the protagonist of my book and a lot of ways, and on a couple of levels of the keys with considering first because as one of the more conservative t parties he is the straw that stirs the drink in the 112, chris but also he has experiences of a guy that is trying to learn to make himself known in the institution a body of 45 and he's trying to clamor about to be more than just one of the four injured 35 and so i think that tension between being the very powerful as part of a group and exert himself as an individual was present in the book to read estimate how did you hook up? >> bye chance. right after the midterm elections i decided that i wanted to do t

though it's unprecedented, but there is a harder edge in the election of a tea party freshman, robert draper in the last week called do not ask what good we do, which is about the house republicans over the last year since a guy like in 2010. and it talks about the conviction that is now they are within the republican base and within the tea party side of it. and i think it's a much harder thing as we've seen speaker boehner try to work through that, not terribly successfully. so there is right now in the republican party, a harder edge about it. we do not know if you had a republican president in the equivalent of the democratic party of the democratic majority on one side whether we would see the same kind of thing, but at this point it's more heavily on the republican side. >> anyone else want to weigh in on that question quick >> i find myself nodding in agreement and i don't want this to happen. it's often forgotten that the inspiration for today's conservative movement is the communist party. it's not often remembered because there's a bit of exaggeration. the principal strategists at

small fringe group, sort of the right wing caucus, now about 80% of the members and we know from robert draper's book on the tea party group that it was a group of leaders and senior members who gathered on inauguration for barack obama have the capitol relief few blocks away to come up with a strategy of voting against everything he was for because he was for it would ever was a net so it's more than that. turning to the democrats they are no angels here. we are not suggesting you have a good party and a bad party. democrats have in the past done plenty of things that were oppositional like the parliamentary party were that were designed more to stomp on the neck of a republican president when he was down. but what we believe is the democrats have generally stayed somewhere within the boundaries of what's been our normal rambunctious politics. this is different. when george w. bush was president and he came in under the worst circumstances imaginable for a president. a week after the most bitter and contentious election not decided for 46 days afterwards democrats could have voted against every

and robert, i always say for a retro look, what would don draper wear to the pool? love the panama hat. >> i like the hat on you, robert. i think you look great. >> then we did a boat shoe which is really classic but a great shoe to wear to the pool. >> thank you both. you did a great job modeling today. now our next trend is neon color. it's pretty much everywhere. >> it's everywhere. we have our two models coming up in neon. neon can be really hard to wear. >> i know. is there an age group? is there a limit? >> there's not an age limit. it's about mixing it with softer tones and doing it in very small doses. >> our models are snabila and nate. >> touches of neon on her bikini and sack raccessories. on nate, most men wouldn't want to wear a hot pink trunk. >> i think that's an understatement. >> will you turn around? you can see there's touches of neon. these are from singer 22. >> that's fantastic. he is wearing the flip-flop, and they're nice. thank you so much. great job. and our last trend for the day is the printed pattern. >> yes. >> now, how much will we see