lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, we thought we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you very much. [indistinct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org. [indistinct conversations] >> c-span's newest book, the president's, noted historians rank america's best and worst chief executives. providing insight into the lives of the 44 american presidents. two stories gathered by interviews with noted presidential historians. explore the life events that shaped our leaders. theyenged -- challenges faced, and the legacies they have left behind. order your copy today. c-span's "the presidents" is available as a hardcover or e-book at c-span.org thepresidents. group in rojas is senior -- reporter with limburg law. this bill would increase the flexibility on retirement savings plans. how would it do that? a long ti

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the leader in the senate, lyndon johnson, in the house sam rayburn, and our republican president eisenhower working together to pass that for the good of the country. and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it would unify america. it was a defense issue. what we're talking about now, infrastructure, the president said i word, i thought he was talking about infrastructure, roads, bridges, mass transit. i said some of these things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution to the safety, because it's a safety measure, it's about commerce, it's about safety, it's about mobility, product to market and the rest of that. clean air, clean water. it's about a better future for our country. much needed. trillions of dollars in deficit. in terms of low or no maintenance. it's never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now. i can only think that he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the costs of the important infrastructure legislation that we had talked about three weeks before. so the president a

a leader of the senate, lyndon johnson, sam rayburn and president of the united states, republican president eisenhower work together to pass that for the good of the country and its purpose, president eisenhower, it would unify america with the defense issue. what we are talking about, infrastructure, the president says i word, i thought he was talking infrastructure, roads, bridges and mass transit. i said some of these things, we would give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution because it is a safety measure. it is about commerce, safety, mobility, product, marketed, clean air, clean water, it is about a better future for our country, trillions of dollars in deficits in terms of low or no maintenance, it has never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now but i can only think he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the cost of infrastructure legislation that we had talked about. the president stormed out and pound the table, walk out the door. next time, have the tv cameras in there while i have my say. that didn't work for him

the leader in the senate, lyndon johnson, in the house sam rayburn, and our republican president eisenhower working together to pass that for the good of the country. and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it was union -- it would unify america. it was a defense issue. what we're talking about now, infrastructure, the president said iword, i thought he was talking about infrastructure, roads, bridges, mass transit. i said some of these things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution to the safety, because it's a safety measure, it's about commerce, it's about safety, it's about mobility, product to market and the rest of that. clean air, clean water. it's about a better future for our country. much needed. trillions of dollars in deficit. n terms of low or no maintenance. it's never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now. but i can only think that he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the costs of the important infrastructure legislation that we had talked about three weeks before.

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwight eisenhower. we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you very much. we have been listening to speaker pelosi and minority doder schumer, and improv news conference where they responded to the earlier comments from president trump in the rose garden. there was supposed to have been a meeting between those people today to go forward with an infrastructure plan. apparently president trump went into the room and said it would not happen because of the investigations being pressed. nancy pelosi called it a cover up. the president said he could not work both tracks, working with the democrats and congress, and also being investigated. we heard from the minority leader saying that essentially he lost his nerve, he lacked confidence, and he did not have a excuse to go forward. turn tore going to somebody who may have some insight into this. republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, member of the foreign relations committee. we want

for a speaker for a half dozen years and she's better at keeping the caucus together, better than sam rayburn and i have never seen a more effective leader of the house. than nancy pelosi. i've said it before. it's very hard to herd kittens or cats. it's very hard to herd them and they're all independently elected, they don't need you, yet she makes them do what she wants them to do without them hating her. that's machiavellian genius to be feared, but not hated. she can do it. the idea she is not competent is an absurdity. your thoughts about the world we live in, not the one trump's creating. >> you are right about speaker pelosi. this is a person to anyone in her position to herd cats, but particularly now with forces in the democratic party. some really want impeachment and others do not. she is to this point bent the caucus to her will. they're proceeding without impeachment now and going investigation by investigation and doing methodical and being strategic and want a couple legal battles and have a long way to go in this game. but so far looks like her approach is effective and as far

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn were the ones who got it through the congress of the united states. do you think taxes or federal feasible necessarily need to be increased to help pay for a broader package? speaker pelosi: that is what we said to the president. we said when we meet again we .ill hear how they want it we will wait to hear what he wants to do. robert: do you think democrats expect taxes to be raised? speaker pelosi: we will wait to see with the president is willing to support. the official said the president wants a border wall. speaker pelosi: i know, yeah. [laughter] robert: is there any weight is part of an infrastructure deal? speaker pelosi: no. theborder wall is part of immigration conversation. it might surprise you to know the president that i quoted the most in the campaign was ronald reagan. ronald reagan, bless his heart. is the last speech i will make as president of the united states. does that get your attention from ronald reagan? message to ae a country i love. he talks about the statue of liberty and the beacon of hope it was to the world. what it mea

jobs and mobility it was a national security initiative and it was bipartisan lyndon johnson and sam rayburn. and president of the united states to light eyes and how we had hoped that we could do something a comparable. unfortunately the president is it ready for that thank you off all right so that nancy pelosi and the rest of the democrats reacting to the president trump's aside a news conference or as she says planned a news conference reacting to. >>her a statement earlier this joining us from our analysis on this we want to go to our national correspondent alexandra moen in dc so i like you watched as we did. >>the back and forth continues, and looks like the infrastructure, the grand infrastructure plan that they've agreed to in principle weeks ago is no more. >>great and it's been interesting to watch this all play out because he could all see it come after speaker pelosi made those comments that the president was engaged in a cover up. asked do you think you can still just head to the white. hold this meeting with the president on infrastructure if not they have and then she walked

bowling, the third candidate is a prodigy of legendary speaker, sam rayburn. smart, a reformist, he also could be arrogant. a lot of democrats get turned off by his manner. he runs explicitly to defeat burton. he is less interested in being majority leader than making sure that burton is not majority leader. late,nal candidate enters jim wright from texas. . he was seen by many as two conservative to have a chance, he was from texas, he was a southerner, he had a mixed voting record on things like civil rights, and he entered late, which man to that possibly a lot of democrats had already committed to the other candidates. but behind the scenes, there was evidence that tip o'neill wasn't happy with those first three choices and had been part of a group of a group of members encouraging wright and recording -- recruiting right to run for this position. another example of how recruitment can be important. and number of issues pop up. ideology -- you have wright on the right, and burton on the left. the democratic caucus is moving to the left gradually. the south

leader in the senate was lindened johnson, in the house sam rayburn and the president of the united states, a republican president, eisenhower, working together to make, pass that for the good of the country and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it would unify america. it was a defense issue. what we're telling you about now, infrastructure, president said the i word, thought he was talking about infrastructure, roads, bridges, mass transit. said some of those things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution to the safety, because it's a safety measure. it's the best commerce, best safety, best mobility product to market and in addition clean air, clean water. a better future for our country, much needed, billions, trillions of dollars in deficit in terms of well or no maintenance. it's never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now, but i can only think he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices how to cover the cost of what the important infrastructure legislation, that we had talked about three weeks

in the house, sam rayburn, and the president of the united states, a republican president, eisenhower working together to pass that for the good of the country and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it would unify america with a defense issue. so what we're talking about now, infrastructure, the president says the i word, i thought he was talking about infrastructure. roads, bridges, mass transit. i said some of these things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution to the safety, because it's the safety measure. it's about commerce, about safety, about mobility. product to market and the rest. it's about clean air, clean water, it's about a better future for our country, much needed trillions of dollars in deficit in terms of low or no maintenance. it's never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now, but i can only think that he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the cost of the important infrastructure legislation that we had talked about three weeks before. but the president,

linton johnson and sam rayburn with the ones who got it through the congress of the united states, so it was very bipartisan. >> do you think taxes or federal fees are necessarily going to need to be increased to help pay for a broader package? >> that so we said to the president. not that we said to the president, when we meet again we will hear how you want to pay for this. so we will wait to hear what he wants to do. >> but you think democrats are going to expect taxes to be raised. >> was we're going to wait to see what the president is going to support. >> the president, his official site really wants a border wall as you know there is anyway about -- >> i know that, yeah. >> is it anyway a border war is part of an infrastructure to? >> no. infrastructure, no, no, no. no. boardwalk as part of an immigration conversation. and it might surprise you to know that the present i pointed the most in the campaign was ronald reagan. ronald reagan. bless his heart. this is the last speech i will make as president of the united states. does that get your attention? from ronald reagan. commu

rayburn, then, sam house and senate, the president, dwight eisenhower, we had hoped we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president is not ready for that. thank you very much. nct conversations] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org. [indistinct conversations] wed at an event hosted by the center for american progress. >> house speaker nancy pelosi made more comments later in the day at the center for american progress. absolute privilege to welcome our very special guest, speaker of the house nancy pelosi. let's just do one more round. [cheers and applause] speaker pelosi is the highest-ranking woman to ever hold elected office in american history. [cheers and applause] and she

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states dwight eisenhower. we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. >>> welcome back to the program. you're watching the leaders of the senate and house. if democrats continue their investigations, the president said, there will be no conversations about infrastructure or the big issues. speaker pelosi returning fire moments after a remarkable rose garden event from the president of the united states in which he said i don't do cover-ups. speaker pelosi, among other things, saying i pray for our president and i pray for the united states of america. with me here in studio, nia-malika henderson, evan perez and margaret tolov. kaitlan, i want to go to you first. whether it's infrastructure, the president's trade deal, big spending deal they have to get done before the end of the year, all of that off the rails after this confrontation in the oval office, democrats essentially saying they were set up, that the president never i

alice, franklin roosevelt, sam rayburn. is there one you might point to that you thought was most pivotal. >> it was the most pivotal or important of all his mentors. >> those three that you mentioned. i called them the 3rs. they were all equally, russell and rayburn shared two characteristics. they were incredibly lonely men. johnson made himself a people called a professional son to them. he's inviting them to his house for sunday brunch.for dinner. lady bird would make them feel at home. he spent as much time with them as he possibly could and they were instrumental in raising him to power. roosevelt was different. roosevelt never made protcgcs of young congressmen. he just had a role. he didn't help. i started to realize there was one exception to this. it was lyndon johnson. johnson would have breakfast with him. i said to a man named james rowe who was a friend of johnson. i said what made this different for franklin roosevelt he said, roosevelt was a political genius. almost no one understood what he was talking abou

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, the president of the united states, dwight eisenhower, we had hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately, the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. >> well, joining me now, peter alexander, nbc's kelly o'donnell on capitol hill, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and an msnbc contributor, matt miller, former chief spokesperson to attorney general eric holder and an nbc justice and security analyst, "usa today" washington bureau chief, susan page, and "washington post" political reporter, eugene scott. peter alexander, first to you. it does appear that this was pre-planned, they had the posters all planned. he has been tweeting all night and all morning about the democratic investigations. he said that he came into the rose garden because nancy pelosi koo accused him of a cover-up. >> reporter: yeah, there may have been some degree of planning, obviously, andrea, because we were handed these as we exited the rose garden. this was basically one of the signs that was on the podium. the key sound bite from p

the leader in the senate was lyndon johnson, in the house, sam rayburn, and the president of the united that. and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it would unify america, it was a defense issue. what we are talking about now, infrastructure, the president says "i" word, i thought he was talking about infrastructure, roads, bridges, mass transit. i said some of these things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make an historic contribution to the safety, because it's a safety measure, it's about commerce, about safety, about mobility, product to market and the rest, it's about clean air, clean water. it's about a better future for our country, much needed, trillions of dollars in deficit in terms of low or no maintenance. it's never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now. but i can only think that he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the cost of the important infrastructure legislation that we had talked about three weeks before. so -- but the president again stormed out. i think first pound the table

lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the night, dwight eisenhower, we hoped that we could do something comparable. unfortunately the president isn't ready for that. thank you all very much. [reporters shouting questions] neil: there you have it. the two branches of government, the executive, legislative, are essentially not talking to each other. they're not going to deal with each other. they're not going to so much propose a single piece of legislation with each other. democrats say they came to the white house in good faith to follow up on a plan the president hatch ad little more than a few weeks ago, to at least pursue something which they both agreed, spending on infrastructure, help build up, repair our roads and bridges, our utilities you name it, given all this impeachment talk and that the president is covering things up, atmosphere was not set to do that. the president also pointed out apparently left this meeting earlier that in such an environment it is hard to get almost anything done and nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, as you indicated here,

and nancy pelosi, is probably the sharpest, most effect of speaker probably since sam rayburn. history will surely mark it down that way. i don't know if he's projecting, confessing or whenever he's doing but it looks especially bad on donald trump. >> what a sad state of affairs when you have two of the arguably most powerful people in the country just trading insults of who is crazier. nancy pelosi responded saying when the extremely stable genius starts acting more presidential, i'll be happy to work with him on infrastructure and trade and other issues. so you've watched the theatrical entrance and exit from that meeting going out to the rose garden with the prepared signs and literature to hand out. you have nancy pelosi and the president arguing over who ises will well mentally. what do you think about the state of where we are right now. >> just jumping become for trump's mental health, i was looking at an hour interview i did in 2007 with trump and there is even in 2007 a difference in the cadence. you could see it, you could see it in his eyes. joe, to your point, not

the leader in the senate was lyndon johnson and the house sam rayburn and republican president eisenhowerass that for the good of the country and its purpose under president eisenhower was that it would unify america with a defense issue. so what we're talking about now infrastructure, the president said the i word. i thought he was talking about infrastructure, roads, bridges, mass transit. i said some of these things already. i thought we could give him the opportunity to make a historic contribution to the safety, because it's a safety measure. it's a about commerce, it's about safety and mobility. product to market and clean air, clean water, it's about a better future for our country, much needed, trillions of dollars in deficit in terms of low or know maintenance. it has never been partisan. we don't want it to be partisan now. but i can only think that he wasn't up to the task of figuring out the difficult choices of how to cover the cost of the important infrastructure legislation that we had talked about three weeks before. so -- but the president again stormed out. i think what,

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lyndon johnson and sam rayburn in the house and senate, president of the united states, dwilet eisenhower, we thought we could do something comparable. unform, the president isn't ready for that. thank you very much. indiscernible chatter] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its captn content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org correspondent said this bill would inclues the recollection flilt on retirement savings plans. how would it do that? >> it has been a long time coming and congress hasn't delved into pension law and when chairman kneel took the gavel, he made it clear that retirement savings is going to be a priority. in the last congress, he and then chairman brady passed something out that had some of these components in it, but that bill was tied to some of the permanence of president trump's tax cuts and another bill, so it didn't have legs in the senate. so it died last session. this year, chairman neal brought this up and this bill basically doesn't have components like refund