tom daschle served as the senate leader from 1995 to 2005. senate majority leader from 1996 to 2001. this event is courtesy of south dakota public broadcasting. >> it is great to be here tonight, back on a campus that seems both familiar and a little bit different from when i was here 30-some years ago.

tom daschle served as the senate leader from 1995 to 2005. trent lott was senate majority leader from 1996 to 2001. this event is courtesy of south dakota public broadcasting. >> it is great to be here tonight, back on a campus that seems both familiar and a little bit different from when i was here 30-some years ago. i think they built to buildings around -- two buildings around the old student union and i believe the new football practice is silly, you could have fit the student body, when senator daschle was here, in that facility. i am going to get to the point. dr. lee, make sure i did not bury the lead in dr. miller. and dr. hogan, who set lot of the ground rules here early. this is a dialogue. it is not a debate. but there will be differences. we hope to get into those tonight as we go forward. a year ago tonight, the government shutdown. it seems appropriate that we gather here, in this environment , and talk about partisanship and whether or not there is such a thing. the senate recently has been described as equipment of mass dysfun

. >> next, trent lott and tom daschle.orum examines social media's impact on the careers of politicians and journalists. after that, a political roundtable on the women's photo on the upcoming elections. recently, former senate leaders tookaschle and trent lott part in a discussion on bipartisanship in congress. they discuss working together during the president clinton proceedings and after the terrorist attacks. they also discussed the upcoming elections. tom daschle served as the democratic party leader from a 2002 2005, and trent lott served as the party leader for the republicans. [applause] >> it is great to be here tonight, back in a campus that seems both familiar and a little bit different from when i was here 30 something years ago. built two buildings around the old student union, and i believe the new football facility here, the football practice sicily, i believe you could fit the student body when senator daschle was here into that football facility. i want to make sure that i don't bury the lead, and we have

but you managed to get tom daschle who had been a democratic leader, bob livingston, trent lott.y frank. you wanted leadership people. people who had run committees, because that's the way the work is really done there, and we sat down and actually at your suggestion ended up figuring out a few ways to try to change this that could help. and we're going to talk about that on the later shows, but what's really stunning to me is the desire that it's very clear in this, in your piece, of interviewing these guys and women, that there's a tremendous desire to try to fix this place, and have it work better, but none of them are individually empowered to make any kind of move to do that. >> that's right. there's a common complaint was the evolution of power away from the members to leadership, leadership bills, foregone conclusions, preventing them from working together and disincentivizing them to work together. they were more self-critical, as if they are aware that they have more to answer for, for this current break down. >> you were in the room when you saw barney frank agree with

former majority lead trent lott and bob livington and former congressman barney frank and tom daschlehow this morning. i want to get into these recommendations. but first, this is a really interesting group that came together. tell us a little bit about what this session was like. where were you guys and what was the conversation like? were they saying things that as politicians they couldn't say in public? >> yeah, they were, but they were in effect saying them in public because "esquire" had a couple of reporters there writing down everything. a bunch of things ended up being off the record, especially things that involved personal recommend nis sense of particular complaints against particular members of the house or senate -- >> the fun stuff, in other words. >> exactly. it was pretty great. but it was in a conference room in washington. and it was exactly like my experience years ago working in conference rooms in the capitol. they send to be secret rooms where senators and congressman used to meet outside of the glare of reporters, even knowing they are meeting. and having these

tom daschle, former aide of tom daschle. if democrats hadn't spent a lot of money, then we got word they're popping a million into that race. a million dollars when you talk about campaign money seems like a small blip. but south dakota is cheap advertising state, a million dollars can go a long way to saturate the air waves. >> i want to bring up one of the surveys, pew finds they're not following closely. we might see more interest than we have in the past. >> tamron, the interest is such a fascinating subject. turnout matters so much. that ends up determining winners and losers. pew isn't the latest that found americans are tuning out of the elections. on the other hand, you see democrats and republicans spend millions and millions of dollars trying to get people to turn out to the elections, particularly those that don't vote in mid term elections. it will be interesting to see which force is greater, apathy out there or amount of money that the organizations are going to be able to spend. that's one of the reasons the p

tom daschle and rick and all they do is put negative ads on.st know if you put negative on, say, mr. rounds, that will drive up my negatives. it says bought and paid for by the democratic national committee. i think they were disingenuous. i understand that pressler and senator reid are friends. i know larry has been talking about it on the campaign trail, so i don't know what's all tess bottom of this. all i know is they need to get out of south dakota if they're not going to run a positive race. i need help, we need our people to the polls. there's enough to be said about protectings and expanding social security and medicare. they should be helping me with that message. that message wins in south dakota. >> you think there's a win between former senator pressler and harry reid, who spend on spent many years in the senate, you're an odd man out, whether you're a "d" or not? >> you'll have to ask senator reid. all i know is larry pressler has been talking about having contributed to senator reid. the fact that i juan reid's choice, he told me

and tom daschle believes that such grass roots solutions will be the answer, because federal officials just don't want to deal with the crisis in long-term care. >> right now the political polarized environment we face precludes any serious attempt to address it. >> meanwhile for caregivers like kathy warren, there is no relief in sight. >> what would happen to him if you weren't around to care for him? >> there's no plan,. >> look at the little girl over here. >> and i shudder t think what would happen to him hopefully i will never find that out. >> next, the man who helped put the move in movies. >> and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. october 19th 1862, 152 years ago today. the debut of a future film making pioneer. for that was the day auguste lumiere was born in a small town in france. together with his younger brother louis, auguste lumiere improved on thomas edison's early projector making it possible for more than one person at a time to watch a movie. their first exhibition in late december 1895 featured ten short films, beginning with a shot of workers leaving the

and former senate leader trent lott and tom daschle discussed bipartisanship in congress. this. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we talked with social -- several legislators about pending legislation in some of the issues the fcc is working on. joining us first is the chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee representative joe barton a republican of texas. congressman barton a lot of proposals are coming out now not from the fcc yet but for members of congress in different groups about how to treat net neutrality. your colleague henry waxman recently wrote to the fcc asking it to be reclassified as title ii. what is your reaction to back? >> guest: i respect henry a lot obviously but he is wrong. you are trying to use an old law passed back in the 1930s for an industry in the 21st century. it's been proven over and over again that the best solution to allocation issues and usage issues is an open transparent market with appropriate oversight by the federal and in some cases state and local government. we have a booming internet. we have a booming tel

after that, a discussion on washington politics and bipartisanship with trent lott and tom daschle. and another chance to see "q anda" with robert timberg. matt kitty will talk about the influence of the tea party in the 2014 midterm elections. our guest from the american civil liberties union will court rulings on voting laws that may affect many races. health care reporter looks at the administration's handling of ebola in the u.s. we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> monday night on "the communicators," three members of congress talk about their technology legislation. passed a law that makes it possible for the major broadcasters to give back some of their spectrum that they have had. it gives the fcc the authority to repackage spectrum and reallocated. under current law, the low-power television industry, they are granted licenses, but those are subject to availability of spectrum in the particular marketplace. iswhat i am concerned about

recently, former senate leaders tom daschle of south dakota and tom daschle -- trent locke talk about working together during impeachment proceedings and after the september 11 attacks. he also talked about the upcoming midterm election. this event is courtesy of south dakota public broadcasting. i think they built to buildings .around -- two buildings around the old student union and i believe the new football practice is silly, you could have fit the student body, when senator daschle was here, in that facility. i am going to get to the point. dr. lee, make sure i did not bury the lead in dr. miller. and dr. hogan, who set lot of the ground rules here early. this is a dialogue. it is not a debate. but there will be differences. we hope to get into those tonight as we go forward. a year ago tonight, the government shutdown. it seems appropriate that we gather here, in this environment, and talk about partisanship and whether or not there is such a thing. the senate recently has been described as equipment of mass dysfunction. i think that is probably a pretty good description. the ra

their candidate is interesting because he is the kick of tom daschle who once had been the senate majority he was not harry reid's pick. they are fighting. then you have the former senator who was a republican, but now said he would be a friend to obama. what a race. it could tip the balance. these what these races mean. >> it's a great sound byte. i will get reaction on the other side. >> i think the president needs friends in the senate and i would be a friend of his in the senate. barack obama has struggled with it. he has done some very good things and he has done a lot of things i don't agree with in the area of the deficit. >> susie, pressler said he will be a friend to the president, but will not say who he will caucus with. how much momentum does he have? >> she definitely trying to get voters from both sides. more moderate republicans who don't like the direction the gop has been heading and democrats who might be wary of someone who is outspoken like rick who is basically positioning himself as an elizabeth warren-style democrat. he is being coy about which party he caucuses, but

, harry reid's predecessors, and tom daschle is from south dakota and the tension is over this race. chle and daschle has been supporting him aggressively, but reid wanted a different democrat former congresswoman stephanie sandlan, he wanted her to run instead of weiland. with weiland running now, reid publicly said this quote, we are going to lose in south dakota, more than likely. and daschle has been pressing reid to reconsider that and to help direct real national money into this race but so far weiland is pretty much on his own out in south dakota. so here we are, the election is a month away. democrats are in serious danger of losing the senate. if they could ever find a way to win in south dakota it would probably change everything. this is a race that republicans have been pencilled in to win all year. so will democrats make a late play in south dakota? will harry reid reconsider and make this race one of his priorities? and if he doesn't, does that leave democrats with any chance at a race that could have been a chance for them? we were hoping to talk we were planning to tal

. >> i was working for senator tom daschle when anthrax was in our office in 2001 following 9/11. , know they're spending $5 billion a year. they have problems working together. why has it taken so long? is it because there is no commercial application other than the government? people are wondering what is going on, what is the deal with the timing? >> there are multiple infections in the world. it is hard to predict when one infection will really take off and cause a serious outbreak as we are seeing with ebola. dod has been working on this vaccine candidate since 2003. now that we see that ebola is prevalent, we are accelerating the process. part of the challenge is particularly around what disease is going to take effect. and making sure we had a process in place so that when we see these types of epidemics, there guidance from a nasty a perspective. there is support from a manufacturing perspective. there is a lot of policy opportunities as a result of the situation. >> chilton donna altenpohl -- , vice president of u.s. public policy at glaxosmithkline joining us from philadelphia.

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and former senate leader trent lott and tom daschle discussed bipartisanship in congress. >> host: this week on "the communicators" we talked with social -- several legislators about pending legislation in some of the issues the fcc is working on. joining us first is the chairman er