former senate majority leader tom daschle. a new book out actually all about the united states senate and how it works. it worked a lot better when he was there than it is today i think. senator daschle, good to talk to you. >> good morning. >> bill: so how do you -- with your perspective senator looking now and your book, fundamentals of american government, the united states senate, how do you think it's working or not working today? >> you know, it's working in some degree beyond what most people would fully appreciate. if you look at what happened in the 11th congress, bill, they accomplished a good deal. healthcare reform, dodd frank don't ask don't tell, treaties on trade. just an amazing array and yet the perception is nothing gets done. this last couple of years unfortunately have been a lot more contentious a lot more polarized, a lot more confrontational. just a tremendous number of cloture votes so there are times when you can look at what they've done and be somewhat pleased and satisfied and other times when you k

he was at that time working with tom daschle who is the senate majority leader and as you said he was one of the leaders in the effort to get democratic support for the iraq war effort and twenty nine democrats want to long with a resolution back in october of two thousand and two and i think many of them live to regret that decision and certainly it was a time when senator daschle and senator obama had different positions on the issue and so certainly mr mcdonough played an important role in getting that resolution passed and what you said is this was a means of kind of acting before he actually had a chance and those other twenty nine congress people had a chance to really think through what it could possibly cause i mean obviously no one was expecting a ten year war right i think for mr mcdonough he's he's been a loyal deputy at the time he was working for senator daschle and i think that he carried out his boss's intent just as he has with president obama and winding down the war in iraq ramping down the war in afghanistan and bringing it to a close which is often put him at odds

this is bad news. >> it's not surprise as tom daschle lost when he was a senate member. we're told the mcconnell team had more than 100 meetings with tea party members and met with the folks. he hired his dad's -- a paul family supporter aide as his campaign manager to try to buy insurance there. another surprising development was groups on the left including a moveon.org affiliate have said publicly, they're going to give money to support republicans who might run against him. >> the primary process is so out of control for the republican party mitch mcconnell could find himself with a primary challenger that could cost him a seat. >> he won't be caught napping. >> i don't think it will happen. >> go on the circle line tour. >> haters. thanks, guys, coming up next on sports. >> i'm not trying to take all the credit, but i think that it's clear that going up against me prepared them to take on kevin duran and russell westbrook. >> president obama welcoming lebron james an the miami heat to the white house. we'll show you more of that when we come back. she's still the on

he was senator tom daschle's chief foreign policy staffer when they were rounding up democrats to vote in favor of the iraq war. something all those guys regret. i think mcdonough spent a lot of his career making up for it. >> certainly the president has embraced him regardless of that. let's talk about that embrace because during that we both noted there is a certain levity and joy and feeling that the president is in the game and relishing it in a way that we did not see a lot m first term. >> he could take over the world with the liberal heart. >> he can be president. >> standing astride the kwvrn movement and crush it under his boot. that's how conservatives feel about it. that's part of the reason you are seeing despair and a little bit of desperation on the right. yeah, i think obviously the look -- he didn't used to like to do a lot of press avails. now all of a sudden the president can't talk enough. he can't go on enough about how excite he is about his staff. i do think he is feeling good. >> remember, george w. bush was the same way. he came up and had a little bit more swag

health care costs, donna shalala, former health and human services secretary, and former senator tom daschle. also tomorrow, a look at super bowl ads, ahead of the big game this weekend. ever wonder what goes into making the perfect super bowl ad? our partners at harvard business school. say when it comes to making an effective commercial, there's such thingbe airt"tte entertaining." to find out why, visit, nbr.com and look for the "nbr-u" tab. >> tom: the door business could be a window into the job market. as the economy has swung from recession to slow growth, specialty companies attached to the real estate market have seen business opportunities open again. dash door and closer service is one of those. the company has been around for 58 years working on automatic doors. it's clients are commercial builders and building managers. for instance, the company is fixing this pump that came from an automatic door at miami international airport. it is one of dozens dash door services at the airport, and business is picking up. >> the first few weeks of january 2013 have been explosive. there's n

force in iraq that's back when he was the top foreign policy aide to then senate majority leader tom daschle all the legislation mcdonough and others crafted essentially pave the way for war in iraq what's more mcdonough personally called white house staffers including jason view on the night of the september eleventh terror attacks in order to ask how the senate could help the white house deal with this tragedy and response a process that led to the authorization of the use of force against terrorists which essentially gave president bush the power to launch the afghanistan war now this is a stark contrast to the antiwar stance that president obama has taken on over the years so does this signal a shift in foreign policy by the white house well to discuss this and more i was joined earlier by a retired colonel morris davis he's currently a professor at the howard university school of law we first talked about the role that dennis mcdonough mcdonough played in the initiation of aggressions in iraq and afghanistan he was at the time working with shows the senate majority leader and as you sai

he also was a foreign policy adviser, ashleigh, to the former senate majority leader tom daschle. when it comes to foreign policy, but also he'll obviously be dealing as well with domestic policy issues as chief of staff. >> so, brianna, i keep getting all these papers hitting my desk, one after another of announcements. ite like a flurry of announcements. who else is coming in and going out? >> reporter: a lot of folks are being promoted from within. some of them may not sound familiar, some of them will, but some are definitely going to be become more familiar to you. dan fifer, currently the communications director at the white house will be promoted as assistant to the president and senior adviser. this is a role that was recently vacated by david plouffe. and rob nabors will be deputy chief of staff. jennifer palmieri goes up to communications director and tony will now serve in the deputy role to the president. >> all right. brianna keilar, thank you for that. >>> a quick addendum to brianna's reporting. the president is expected to make his announcement in a couple of minut

the piping for health care, tom daschle had a tax problem. he was suddenly no longer part of the administration team and a lot of people said it's february of your first year. let's put this off. some people never put it off than it ever passes. imagine if they put it off to the point where bill clinton put health care on the congressional hopper. i would be the first month of the second year, january 2010. scott brown wins the special election. health care would never pass. lesson number one, move fast. one of our favorites is large of these. often you lose the case, but what do you do with your loss? example, harry truman was his health care. he fights a nod, it gets nowhere. he was terrible at working with congress. he had no idea how to do it, but he kept fighting. so he kept saying the republicans, do-nothing republicans have done a terrible thing for the american people. he wrote letters to the next president so much so that lyndon lyndon johnson passes medicare, a shortened version of the health insurance at truman wanted for people ov

the work was done between howard baker and robert bird, and bob dole, and george mitchell, and tom daschle, and now apparently poor mitch is caught in a situation where he has to go to the vice president, who is a good egg. i've known joe for 40 years. think of that. you can't do the work of the senate because the leaders won't work together. they don't like each other. that's the saddest thing of all. forget who said what. >> so what breaks this impasse? you're looking at the next two years. the president is talking about immigration and gun control and energy and all the rest, but he's locked in trench warfare with republicans over the budget. >> look, that's going to happen. it is happening. but if the american people can't understand -- i love that they say, well, the polls showed you should tax the rich. well, great, i'm ready for that. but they also said that 75% of them said cut spending. if anybody can't get that, and if you can't cut, forget the word "cut." you stabilize, do something with health care. stabilize social security. for god's sake, there are 16 people paying into that

and tom daschle, no one i respected more in all of the years that i worked in the u.s.our courage, god love you, as my mother would say. you have got such incredible courage and character. [applause] and commerce stephanie, thanks for helping hunter debt three georgetown -- and, stephanie. [laughter] you really screwed him up. yale. it really bothered me a lot, and it is good to see you, buddy. thanks for the help. 1980 was a tough year, a really tough year. in 1980, we lost gaylord nelson. we lost frank church. we lost to george mcgovern. we lost the heart, soul, and spine of the united states and the speech you heard george giving, i remember like you do, but maybe from a different perspective. i was a 29-year-old kid. i was the senate nominee from the state of delaware. my first convention. i am sitting there, mesmerized, mesmerized by the man he was speaking. as i remembered it much too late in the night, but speaking. i ran with your father in 1972. when i got elected, i was not old enough to serve. i literally got elected when i was 29 and had to wait to be consti

. >> jennifer: tom daschle coming in with his wife. tom daschle is a behind the scenes very close ally of pete rouse who is in the white house making selections right now about cabinet members. tom is an official outside adviser. got a lot of influence inside the white house. >> john: still much beloved by the democratic party. >> jennifer: you're a historian as well. what piece of inaugural trivia catches your interest? >> john: my dad was a history teacher. when i was good, he would bring me to d.c. for weekends. there's so many. the one that stands out the most is william henry harrison in 1840. our oldest president up until the time of president reagan's election, he spoke for two hours. without wearing his overcoat in a snowstorm, caught pneumonia and famously died 30 days later. our first president to die in office. but really, one of the most unique presidents is calvin coolidge. both of his made it into the history books. first as vice president, he became president when president harding died in office and coolidge was sleepin

as a veteran of capitol hill, where he was mentored by the likes of tom daschle, he understands the importance of reaching across the aisle to deliver results for the american people, whether it is on jobs, the economy, healthcare, reducing the deficit, or addressing climate change. he is respected by leaders of the government, and if you add it all up, i think he is spent most of the last four years leading interagency meetings, hearing people out, listening to them, forging consensus, and making sure policies are implemented and everybody is held accountable. he always holds himself accountable first and foremost. it is no easy task, but through it all denis mcdonough does it with class, integrity and thoughtfulness for other people's point of views. he is the consummate public servant, he plays it straight and that is the kind of teamwork that i want in the white house. time and again i have relied on dennis to help in the outreach to our immigrant and faith communities. he understands that in the end our policies and programs are measured in the concrete differences that they make in the l

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as a veteran of capitol hill where he was mentored by the likes of lee hamilton and tom daschle, dennisds the importance of reaching across the aisle to deliver results for the american people whether it's on jobs and the economy, health care or education, reducing the deficit or addressing climate change. dennis is respected by leaders across our government. add it all up, and i think he's spent most of the past four years leading interagency meetings, hearing people out, listening to them, forging consensus. and then making sure that our policies are implemented and that everybody's held accountable. and he always holds himself accountable nurse and foremost. -- first and foremost. and it's no easy task. but through it all dennis does it with class and integrity and thoughtfulness for other people's point of views. he's the consummate public servant, he plays it straight, and that's the kind of teamwork that i want in the white house. now, time and again i've relied on dennis to help many our outreach to the american people as well including immigrant and minority communities and fait

as a veteran of capitol hill where he was mentor by lee hamilton and tom daschle, denis understands themportance of reaching across the aisle to deliver results to the american people whether on jobs, the economy, health care or education, reducing the deficit or addressing climate change. denis is represented by leaders across our government. add it all up and i think he spent most of the past four years leading interagency meetings hearing people out and listening to them and forging consensus and he holds himself accountable first and foremost. it's no easy task. through it all denis does it with class and integrity and thoughtfulness for other people's points of view. he's a public servant. he plays it straight. that's the team work i want in the white house. time and again i relied on him in the outreach to the communities. denis is a man of deep faith and our policies and programs are measured in the concrete differences that they make in the lives of our fellow human beings. and in the values that we advance as americans. denis insists on knowing for himself the real world impact

in addition, in october of last year, former democratic senate majority leader tom daschle publicly expressed support for per-capita caps on medicaid spending as a way of -- quote - "guaranteeing the benefits of the medicaid program." unquote. so there you have it, mr. president. a concrete bipartisan approach to reforming our health care entitlement programs and restoring fiscal sanity here in washington. i know that it is popular to talk in abstractions around here when it comes to reforming our entitlement system, but these are specific ideas that have enjoyed the support of both republicans and democrats over the years. this is precisely what has been missing from the current debate over deficit reduction. mr. president, entitlement reform is not a matter of choice. it is a necessity. that being the case, it is not a republican or democratic issue. it's a challenge facing our entire country. my proposals which have all enjoyed bipartisan support will help ensure that future generations have a viable and sustainable safety net in place. far from being offered out of any sense of -- quote -

51 votes, which you could have easily gotten out of the democrats for a good strong measure, as tom daschlen our showed yesterday, former senate majority leader democrat, to at least make people come down and filibuster but if you do it with democratic votes, it's called the nuclear action. no. it's not. if you have 100 votes, you need 51 people. not a nuclear outption. >> harry reid made a deal with the g.o.p. devil. harry reid gums the works for passage. is he a democrat or is this all about the money? cyber society says preach brother bill. and karen says harry reid can go filibuster himself. @bpshow. >> echoes of dick cheney. pawtucket pawtucket, rhode island. >> how are you guys? i have heard for the last two years from harry reid, at least two years is how he's going to change the filibuster now all sides of, he gets in bed with mcconnell again. if we happen to hold the senate in 2014, i think we need somebody that stands for the people and put in bernie sanders as majority leader, somebody that will fight for people. >> bill: i have to tell you i would love to see bernie sanders as m

mcdunna has worked on capitol hill as a foreign policy advisor to tom daschle and he served as a senioricy advisor on the 2008 campaign. he may be qualified for the spot, but he is another white male, which isn't going to go bar in quieting complaints that he is not bringing in enough adversity. ken salazar is also leaving, and that leaveings no latinos left. the president says we need to wait until all of his appointmentings are in place before passing judgment. an islamist group stormed a gas pumping station taking more than 44 workers hostage including three americans. now algearian forces have unleashed air strike on the station. they are unable to verify the report, the fighters reportedly storming the plant in retaliation. we're back after the break. ♪ hand of government" ... i want to have that conversation. let's talk about it. really? you're going to lay people off because now the government is going to help you fund your healthcare. really? i want to have those conversations, not to be confrontational, but to understand what the other side is saying, and i'd like to arm our vi

few days ago former majority leader tom daschle was our guest.ant thing they could do is if people want to filibuster, damn it, make them filibuster. >> make them talk. >> bill: we didn't do that. >> we sure didn't. heart of the talking filibuster which says if 41 or more senators say they want more debate, they have to debate. it is really -- it's really a form of unanimous consent. that is you have a situation where somebody will say -- consent to go to a final vote and all 100 senators have to agree. in this case, to get to a final vote, all 100 senators have to say i have nothing left to say and i'm willing to be quiet and at that point, you go to a final vote. but that compels people to spend time and energy which right now they can throw clog up the works, if you will, without spending any time and energy and without being visible without making their case before their colleagues and the america people. all the american people see is the quorum call. >> bill: there was also the alternative path which would have been a not -- inviting republ

some talked about tom daschle.ohn, thank you for that. good piece of news there. john harward in washington. for some reaction on that, let's go to sheila bair who joins us this morning from washington. good to see you back. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> people had illusions that lew was a front-runner. i can't imagine you're surprised. >> no. >> it's said he's highly partisan, tip o'neil's office, and exposure to banks with his experience at citi. can he get approved? >> well, i don't know. it's difficult to get nominees approved in the senate these days. i think that's problematic. you want good people to serve in office. we need to have a better functioning process in the senate for confirmation. that said, i congratulate him. i wish him good luck. he's going to need it, if he is confirmed, obviously. the fiscal problems we have are going to need to be front and center. financial reform is not going as well as it should, as the chairman of the oversight council, as secretary of the treasury, he'll need to

republicans are to blame -- by the way, has the president ever taken blame for anything except for naming tom daschles secretary and then not realizing he took limos when he shouldn't have. >>steve: i don't think blaming house republicans. >>brian: it is unbelievable. they cut a deal to stop release three months the debt ceiling being the problem. right now you have the fed printing money at a dizzying rate. here's what you should keep in mind. the stock market is out of its mind, going through the roof. and the president of the united states's approval rating is through the roof. it's at 60%. >>gretchen: so how do you put this all together? i think a lot of people still scratching their heads over the election when you look at these economic numbers. so how do you -- how do you piece it together in your mind that the economy can be doing so poorly and yet the president is more popular than ever. fun know the answer, e-mail us or tweet us. >>steve: there's so many low-information viewers and votes out there. >>brian: that's their choice. >>steve: absolutely. when the payroll tax hit at the first of t

as a veteran of capitol hill, where he was mentored by the likes of tom daschle, he understands the importance of reaching across the aisle to deliver results for the american people, whether it is on jobs, the economy, healthcare, reducing the deficit, or addressing climate change. he is respected by leaders of the government, and if you add it all up, i think he is spent most of the last four years leading interagency meetings, hearing people out, listening to them, forging consensus, and making sure policies are implemented and everybody is held accountable. he always holds himself accountable first and foremost. it is no easy task, but through it all denis mcdonough does it with class, integrity and thoughtfulness for other people's point of views. he is the consummate public servant, he plays it straight and that is the kind of teamwork that i want in the white house. time and again i have relied on dennis to help in the outreach to our immigrant and faith communities. he understands that in the end our policies and programs are measured in the concrete differences that they make in the l

. >> former senator tom daschle and linda who playing a huge role in bringing barack obama to the national stage via the kerry campaign. daschle tells a fabulous story about meeting barack obama. he was a democratic leader -- there's the president. >> there's the president with chuck schumer, the chair of the inaugural committee. also no overcoat. >> i have to tell you, chuck schumer, if he's not the next senate leader, i don't know who is. his power in relation to the haguele nomination was awesome. he was the green light for that nomination. >> a big endorsement on "meet the press" after a 90-minute interview with chuck hagel. and chuck schumer has a very special manner of knowing how to cut to the chase and asked the direct question, and it's like, you and i were talking earlier about middle of the road. you get somebody who is close friends with both and you make them decide, where are you? he's kind of that way. >> chuck schumer as the chair of the inaugural committee has a high-profile role in all of today's ceremonies. the same way dianne feinstein did in 2009. but chuck schumer, yo

tom daschle. linda daschle there on stage. >> they say washington, d.c. is the oscars.was like the oscars. >> bill: the entertainment was great. i'm a huge james taylor fan. just standing there with that acoustic guitar, right and singing "america the beautiful," it was so moving. ♪ america ♪ ♪ america ♪ ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ >> i can't imagine how hard it was to play guitar with your bare hands when it was that cold outside. >> bill: he must have had the gloves on right up until. because the marine band and there were big moments of big music. play a little beyonce later. it was that simple -- acoustic guitar. it was great. we got lots to talk about. leo gerard, president of the steelworkers is in town. he will be here a little bit later in studio. we'll talk to reporters from "huffington post" and politico and of course think progress, igor volsky here as he is every tuesday. but first -- >> this is the "full court press." >> check of other headlines making news on this tuesday. >> bill: headlines? >> i can skip this if you want. >> give him the option. >> th