tim russert worked on a garbage truck to pay for his education. in times square. tim's father always had a steady job driving a newspaper delivery truck for the buffalo evening news. pat moynihan's father abandoned the family when pat was 10 years old. pat's mother was a bar tender in hell's kitchen. moynihan appreciated and respected education and expertise, but he also valued political instinct and street smarts, the stuff that can't be taught. the stuff you learn shining shoes and tending bar and earning your own way through life. senator moynihan didn't say any of that to tim. he just put his arm around tim and he said let me tell you something. what they know you can learn. but what you know, they will never learn. so that's what i think about during blizzards. i was not expecting to get a ford. we went around the country talking to people who made the switch to ford. it felt nicer than my bmw. good gas mileage... ecoboost makes a four cylinder engine feel like a six cylinder. my dad went and turned in his lexus and got the exact same car as

tim russert worked on a garbage truck to pay for his education. ed shoes in times square. tim's father always had a steady job drivering a newspaper delivery truck. pat moynihan's father abandoned the family when pat was 10 years old. pat's mother was a bar tender in hell's kitchen. moynihan valued political instinct and street smarts the stuff that can't be taught. the stuff you learn shining shoes and earning you own way through life. senator moynihan didn't say any of that to tim. he said let me tell you something, what they know you can learn. but what you know, they will never learn. so that's what i think about during blizzards. (son) oh no... can you fix it, dad? yeah, i can fix that. (dad) i wanted a car that could handle anything. i fixed it! (dad) that's why i got a subaru legacy. (vo) symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 36 mpg. i gotta break more toys. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru legacy. it's not just a sedan. it's a subaru. major: ok fitness class! here's our new trainer ensure active heart health. crowd: yayyyy! heart: i'm going t

i remember watching tim russert who was off to the side mouthing every sentence as the governor went987 when he asked me to come to new york. to talk to him about running for president in 1988. we went over a variety of questions and then he said to me how many days to i have to spend in iowa? i said most guys have to spend 100 or 80 days. you get away with 60 or 40. a few days later, he a uns noed he was not running and he call and said sorry, i hope you don't mind. i'm blaming you as one of the people who persuaded me not to run. i would have to spend too much time in new york. he loved that back and forth and he loved to debate small points. he used to say to me for example, you and i have a difference on this because you were trained by the jesuits and i'm an august steinian. he was one-of-a-kind. >> so many great points that bob brought up. your reaction when you heard the news and what was your reaction when you first heard that speech that he gave to the dnc? did you know at the time it was going to be so pivotal and monumental? >> you did when you heard it. i was a delegate t

i was maybe 40 feet from tim russert.e then and i looked over at tim while mario was speaking and, you know that big irish mug was just suffused watching this and knowing how it was going over and he was, he was actually mouthing the words with cuomo as he spoke like somebody at a rolling stones concert. >> that was, i mean that was russert worked with cuomo and had that vision and taking it nationally. i'm sure in that moment thought, here it is. we talked about in the show yesterday, the great mystery for the ages. why didn't he get on the plane? i guess we'll never know. some great what ifs there. >> you need to be shakespeare to answer that question. >> thank you for joining us. >>> another full hour of news and politics still ahead. stay with us. volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature you could drive home for the holidays in a german engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the 2015 motor trend car of the year all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen th

tim russert said, what make you hate america so much you became a nazi?ional committee chair slammed congressman scalise today. quote, as the new congress begins, nothing discredits republican claims of outreach and bringing people together more than their decision to keep steve scalise at the top tier of the elected leadership of their caucus. anyone living in this century should have known better than to attend and speak at a white supremacist event. by 2002 when scalise spoke to that group, david duke was a known entity in this country. not just in louisiana. i covered that race when he ran for governor. but nationwide. the hateful views he has espoused were widely covered in print and political ads. this stuff was out there. just take a look. >> there's plenty of other places in this country that i could live maybe with some negros that are integrationists. but what are we talking about. >> i don't want to live with negroes. >> the jewish people have been a blight. i mean as a whole, not every jew, and they probably deserve to go to the ash bin of his

. >> tim russert questioning david duke in 1999, two years, three years before this happened. he was running for congress. he was in a runoff a decade earlier for governor. >> before i move on, you matt you wrote this, five ways you know you you are speaking to white supremacist. it was founded by david duke. banners that say white group. the name of the group. the hotel hosting the event is ashamed. and no one there cares about his tax stand, which is what scalise claimed. you don't buy the story? >> i don't. i was having fun with it. why this story resonates is because the leadership of the to be responsible, a party that can show america they are serious about governing. there's a feeling they are indull gent off the radar screen of some of the darker impulses in their party and the darker impulses in america. that's why a story from 2002 resonates the way it does. i don't think it's credible just because david duke's right hand man said maybe he didn't speak. i think he was there and everybody knew what was going on. >> let's move to what we saw there senators individually

we were watching tim russert interview cuomo. tim russert had a way for moments with people.racters in the world of television news. >> tim worked for him because he thought he would run for president. as a journalist, as a political journalist, there was no one more engaging to cover than mario cuomo. he had a sense of humor. governor of new york. big player after san francisco. i think to his dying day he remained the hamlet of the hudson. we could never figure out why he didn't run. if you were to examine it coldly, you would say, look he spoke for the people who were not represented by the city on the hill as he described it that ronald reagan liked to call it. there are other cities in this country. so he got the under class in this country jacked up that they had someone who could speak for them and articulate what their needs were and then he walked away. i could never quite understand why he did it. one said he didn't like to leave home at night. he liked his own pillow. didn't want to go through the ordeal of that. that may be true. if you're a champion of social inj

my old boss tim russert would say if he were still here. that is more difficult. >> i wanted to know, you guys had unprecedented access to so many presidents and such a wide range of presidents. if there was any one moment that was memorable whether it was something they said or did that showed their character and that you will remember for a long time if you can share it with us. # >> another was announcing betty ford's breast cancer. >> is there a moment that i think what he is asking, is there a moment that perhaps we did not see? we think we see so much and actually we see very little. that's a fair statement, isn't it? >> you told the story on 41 on 41. do you want to tell that story about when you saw the house at kennebunkport? i don't know how you feel about that? >> that's two quick stories. one was president bush called me to the oval office and said i hear the press asking you questions about when with gorbichev. this was early in the d main station. they were getting their normal selves and saying things like you are supposed to

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we all died because tim russert just walked into the room. remember in 1986 when i was elected to the state assembly, how support i mario cuomo was to me as a young man recommending me to travel around the world with acypl, to come here to washington to get my feet wet as well, to get that washington sense. i remember being on the second floor in 1988 in the blue room, it's known as the blue room where the governor would give his budgets, anticipating his delving into, diving into the 1988 presidential elections, only to have my heart broken when mario cuomo said he would not run in that election. mario cuomo was tough, yet had one of the biggest hearts i have ever come to know. he had also gone to law school, my uncle walter, and there was an intimacy between the crowleys and the cuomo family in queens family politics one that exists to this day with his son andrew as governor and my family as well. mario cuomo always did the right thing. always did the right thing. and mario cuomo had an incredible magnetism about him. i have never seen out

my mother, i mentioned her already, i was sitting with tim russert and i was governor at the time and tim was working and we were watching the candidates, only my mother was in the room with us and tim asked her what she thought of reagan and she said how old is he and i said, well he's 70 75. she said his hair and i said yes and she said, is it dark? i said well they say that that's his natural hair he didn't change the color. >> and she said if italian god must love him. a guy like that is going to be persuasive when a woman like my mother can look at him and feel that way about him. he was wonderful. in speeches he was wonderful. we make a little bit of fun of him in the book in the piece harold and i got together on in the beginning of this book in which he cited some things as lincoln epithets that weren't really but that wasn't his fault. he was a great great communicator. no question about it. he transmitted sincerity, which is the big key for a politician. bill clinton, bill clinton is a great talker. bill clinton is very fluid, he's very fluent, sometimes too much so and that

and the swipe is coming from tim russert's son luke. after their online attacks against american sniper the movie. >> for all american veterans who fought for your freedom, you're welcome. >> they're retreating. we've got their comments. you can respond. let me bring this up, mornings are better with friends. ♪ ♪ >> alice cooper. >> motley crue here. alice cooper is here. >> they have a big announcement. you don't want to miss that. a motley crue indeed there. and here on the couch. >> it's going to be great. those rock icons are going to be out with us. we should wear something leather. >> i was just down the hall. i started to walk in and then i thought -- >> you're not worthy. >> we don't have leather. but we have heather. >> and you and alice cooper both have eye liner. >> that is true. first, a fox news alert. >> good morning. serious news to bring you. this morning isis threatening to beheed these two men if the government of japan doesn't hand over $2 million. the masked man says it's because of japan's support for the u.s.-led c

i was sitting with tim russert and we were watching the candidate -- i was governor at the time.were watching the candidates, the mother -- my mother in the room with us. she saw megan and she asked me, how old is he? i said, 70, 75. she said, did he darken his hair? they say it is his natural color. she said, god must love him. when a mother -- my mother can look at him and feel that way about him, he was wonderful. in his speeches he was wonderful. we make a little bit of fun of him in the book, harold and i. we got together at the beginning and he cited some things, lincoln epigrams, but that was not really his fault. he was a great reader, communicator. no question about it. he transmitted in severity which is the big thing for a call -- politician. bill clinton is a great talker, very fluid very fluid sometimes too much so. that is what happened in 1988. but he is so knowledgeable and intelligent, and has the obvious charm, which makes him a good communicator. i thought nixon, who i got to know a little bit, in the book of monica crowley wrote the only person that ever descr