senate minority leader tom daschle democrat of south dakota, former senator, precisely the sort of wealth quaffed non-entity who passes for a wise man in washington d.c.. non-entity? >> guest: yeah. i would say so. let me put it this way. a couple of years ago i wrote a piece called the leak league of and distinguished gentleman and or ordinary gentlemen about the senate and tom daschle had a long record of service. does any rate red really miss him? does he like many senators, in the anti-was just a time passer and he wasn't even a big enough presence for the obama administration to fight for him to be their secretary of health and human services posed -- services. i certainly don't mean it as an insult to him or to the senate but let's face it most of our elected officials in the greatest deliberate if chamber are interchangeable. c-span: you wrote this common world where choices are limited to john boehner and nancy pelosi the survivors envy the dead. >> guest: i think that's true. what the declaration of -- "the declaration of independents"'s about throughout virtually every aspect of

. >> john: tom daschle says i can't professionalize if you don't do it.d to take over airport security screening. >> is it now professional? >> john: these people don't think so. flyers complain. >> subjected to disgusting abusive power. >> they ordered the elderly woman to remove her diaper because it was preventing a pat down. >> this woman felt molested. >> didn't the tsa keep us safe? there haven't been any attacks since september 11th so it shows its working. >> it shows that tsa missed thing but what saved us is passengers and crew. >> congressman helped create the tsa. now, he chairs the transportation community. >> if you look at the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the time. times square bomber he called on his cellphone and ordered on his ticket and went through tsa and got on the plane. >> john: on top of that tsa is such a lousy place to work, more than 50% of the work force has quit. >> agency keeps losing employees and hiring new ones. >> they are advertising on top of a pizza boxes. >> a career where extra vision and

will be the first in the series and if i'm not giving away too much former senate leader tom daschle will be working with some wonderful researcher and writer to put together a similar book on how the senate works, and david o.d. who recently stepped down from the house is being contracted to write about how the house works, so we hope to fill what the schools no longer do. for me this was doing the research and working on the manuscript it is a refreshing course for political junkies because nobody selects a president like we do in this country and the republican primary see is that the date certainly a case in point. also in egypt they actually staged a presidential debate and showed cliffs to sort of an educated populace which i shudder to think we are exporting some of this. but again it's got its drawbacks and it's better than anything else that has been tried. the stage early this year on the republican side i think has to plausible prospects and that was mitt romney who is now the obvious nominee and briefly jon huntsman. i think everybody else was in it for various reasons an

not to mention, let's not forget tom daschle who was supposed to handle the entire affordable care at but had to about in shame because of his problems with taxes. to me, this is just the height of hypocrisy for the democrats to bring it up. thank you so much. host: we hear from judy on the republican line. louisiana. caller: thank you so much for c- span. i tell you what, i couldn't agree more with the first caller and the caller before may. and i really hope that mitt romney uses this same strategy on obama to produce his college records. thank you so much. host: lots of twitter feedback on all of this this morning. eugene robinson writes about what he calls the war over tax returns. he asks -- who is this allegis source harry reid has. -- who is this a legitimate alleged source? we have new jersey. maggie, a democrat. caller: i remember my father telling me that people will have nothing to hide, i nothing. it is very simple. if this presidential candidate once to prove that reid is an admirer, turn over your tax records. he did it when he was running for -- he handed over to senato

this independent payment advisory board, the brain child of tom daschle. wanted to set up the federal reserve for health care. does that sound like a good idea right now? not really. the biggest change, now you'll have this board to tell people when to get their car and how much care they can have and when they've had enough -- >> then that board as you know, right, will discuss those issues then goes to the president and through congress. this is not a 15-person board that makes up their own decisions, as you know. >> except the deck is stacked and when this board makes their decisions, if the congress corrects the decisions then great, if the congress cannot agree and when has that ever happened before? then the recommendations of the board go straight to the secretary department of health and human services for implementation. it is different from anything we've ever seen before as far as trying to put budgetary controls on spending. >> it sounds like you're saying there will be no conversations about medicare that are not sort of partisan based because

i would be surprised if chris dodd and tom daschle are making anything less than seven figures. >> youoyce. what do you say? >> two quick things. when you say about mitt romney about this lie he got out about the president with this welfare he signed on to it as well as about the military. so this is nothing new for mitt romney. he lies about everything. the first ad he took out about the president saying if we talk about the economy, we will fail john mccain said that. it's a natural known thing mitt romney is a lying cheat in waiting. as far as the congress goes i keep hearing you say this is a do-nothing congress. they have done quite a bit. they have done quite a bit for not to do for this country, kept the country from going forward. they have kept people from going back to work. they have kept transportation bills in hold. so they have done a lot to not to help this country. so say it like that. >> okay. thank you, joyce. i don't know how we say it like that. >> joyce makes -- >> a do-wrong-thing congress. >> there is a compelling argument. yes get into it in this story but peopl