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tom foley is speaker and dick gephardt is the senate leader. george mitchell created a calm demeanor in terms of dealing with you was a cagey character in terms of dealing with some of the political issues and the combination of him and dick gephardt made it difficult for us. fortunately bob dole was around which was an anchor for us at that period of time. this was going on. this distraction was going on with the nomination of john tower as secretary of defense. the bottom issue was a question that sam and others reached the conclusion that we will answer this question for you, mr. president. who will control national security and national defense? we will. we will not confirm john tower who was involved in the armed services committee for a number of years. that leadership disarray. then we created leadership disarray in the house of representatives because when senator tower's nomination was defeated by the senate, the president chose dick cheney. he became secretary of defense. then newt gingrich beat a guy named ed madigan from illinois. t

tom foley is speaker and dick gephardt is majority leader. that is what we were looking at in the house democrats. there was somewhat of a bit of leadership stability in the senate but george mitchell, though he created a calm demeanor in terms of dealing with you was a cagey character in terms of dealing with some of the political issues and the combination of him and dick gephardt made it difficult for us. fortunately bob dole was around which was an anchor for us at that period of time. now this was going on, this distraction was going on with the nomination of john tower who was my political mentor, as secretary of defense. the bottom issue was a question that sam nunn and other democrats in the house -- in the senate of the united states reached the conclusion that we're going to answer this question for you, mr. president. who is going to control national security and national defense? we are, so therefore we're not going to confirm john tower, who had been involved in the armed services committee for a number of years. that leadership

the major players involved in leadership at that time were tom delay, dick army, and bill paxon.y were all gingrich's lieutenant. they were leading the charge of the leadership level. they did not put together a very effective plan. another reason why we looked at it was to take a look at the role of john boehner. john boehner was the number four republican at the time. we found out that -- going back to 1997 -- sandy hume broke the initial story. john boehner was aware of what was going on. he was not leading the charge. that's something that a lot of sources told us. host: you report that of the 81 republican lawmakers who served with gingrich and are still in congress, only two have endorsed him as president. host: has bigger boehner stayed relatively removed from the debate and the campaign at large? guest: it is an awkward position for speaker boehner. potentially, gingrich could be the nominee and he would be the top republican in the house. that would be a bit awkward. he is trying to distance himself from that event, saying it was a rumor and just speculation that he was

well thought out plan and the major players that were involved in leadership at that time were tom delay, dick army and bill paxson all were gingrich's lubtes. they were leading the charge at the leadership level. but they didn't put together a very effective plan and the other interesting thing -- another reason why we looked at it was really to take a look at the role of john boehner. john boehner was in leadership at the time. he was the number four republican. and what we found out was that -- and going back to 1997, sandy human was the one who broke the initial story and his reporting really stands up after 15 years. very consistent with what we found. but john boehner was aware of what was going on but he was not leading the charge. and that is something that a lot of sources told us. host: you report that of the 81 republican lawmakers who served with gingrich and are still in congress, only two have endorsed him for president. 22 are backing romney and the now speaker mr. boehner, who's remained neutral, last month denied he was part of a group of the rising republican stars who tried

one potentially the chairman of citi, dick parsons, may be preparing to step aside. the other is tom at bank of america is reorganizing his investment banking leadership group. what should we make of those two stori stories? >> i don't think parsons' news is a surprise. i think some people thought this would happen. the question is who takes his place. and does citi have an independent chairman along with ceo. as far as monotag, i thought all three of those men are staying at the firm. one just got a promotion. >> david, let me turn to you. a note your highest among the banks you follow goldman sachs rather morgan stanley. let me get your reaction to how helpful it is that morgan stanley seems to be in the poll position in getting the lead of this ipo involving facebook. >> well, i think in terms of tangible financial note no deal makes that big of a difference. but potentially morgan stanley has been over the course of the last couple years it's had some issues with the market looking at their eu position. looking at the mortgage mess a couple years ago. and of course their bad resu

you frank and tom leading up to the iowa caucuses there was a common name being thrown around at the republican candidates. notice how santorum is a former senator you know what it's like dick durbin is that you know it's like serving the congress why wouldn't he be a good republican nominee as a very liberal to take on radical judges and for your skin's to bush don't let the liberal republican establishment pick over cuba to get rich are you surprised ron paul's is polling so well i think it's horrible i think that he is absolutely the most liberal radical left wing person to run for president of the united states in the west fifty years knows how the republicans love throwing the word a liberal around as an insult but they're very careful about using the word progressive why would that be well if you look at the several pew research poll for example the word progressive most positively viewed is the most positively viewed political label in the united states through a pretty amazing you think about it fifty five percent of republicans like the word progressive it's more favorably viewed than the words conservative or the word capitalism seventy eight percent of americans

dick gephardt over eventual nominee michael dukakis. four years later bill clinton was humbled with less than 3% of the caucus vote. native son senator tomarkin won that year. democratic nominee john kerry won the caucuses in 2004. >> thank you, iowa, for making me the comeback kerry. >> reporter: and more recently, senator barack obama staged a caucus upset that catapulted him to the front of the pack. recall that senator hillary clinton was considered all but a shoo-in until then. >> hi. this is michele bachmann calling. >> reporter: what the iowa caucuses are good at is widowing down the field. >> who comes in second, who comes in third as well as who comes in first. if somebody else tuz surprisingly well, it could well launch their campaign. it's happened before. >> reporter: political upstarts have a chance here, because caucusgoers really do, as they say, kick the tires. >> what i want to know is if you get a republican house and a republican senate, in two years will you fulfill all those promises? >> the answer -- the answer is yes. >> reporter: and iowans take this work seriously. which is why the media and the country follows w

iowa democrats chose dick gephardt over eventual nominee michael dukakis and four years later bill clinton was humbled with less than 3% of the caucus vote. native son senator tomaucuses in 2004. >> thank you, iowa, for making me the comeback kerry. >> reporter: and, more recently, senator barack obama staged a caucus upset that catapulted him to the front of the pack. recall that senator hillary clinton was considered all but a shoo-in until then. >> hi, this is michele bachmann calling. >> reporter: what the iowa caucuses are good at are winnowing down the field. the saying is, there's only three tickets out of iowa. >> who comes in second and third as well as first. if somebody else does surprisingly well, it could well launch their campaign. it's happened before. >> reporter: political upstarts have a chance here because caucusgoers really do, as they say, kick the tires. >> what i want to know is, if you get a republican house and a republican senate in two years, will you fulfill all those promises? >> the answer is yes. >> reporter: and iowans take this work seriously, which is why the media and the country follows what happens here so closely. >>> it is

dick gephardt over eventual nominee michael dukakis. four years later bill clinton was humbled with less than 3% of the caucus vote. native son senator tomc nominee john kerry won the caucuses in 2004. >> thank you, iowa, for making me the comeback kerry. >> reporter: and more recently, senator barack obama staged a caucus upset that catapulted him to the front of the pack. recall that senator hillary clinton was considered all but a shoo-in until then. >> hi. this is michele bachmann calling. >> reporter: what the iowa caucuses are good at is widowing down the field. >> who comes in second, who comes in third as well as who comes in first. if somebody else tuz surprisingly well, it could well launch their campaign. it's happened before. >> reporter: political upstarts have a chance here, because caucusgoers really do, as they say, kick the tires. >> what i want to know is if you get a republican house and a republican senate, in two years will you fulfill all those promises? >> the answer -- the answer is yes. >> reporter: and iowans take this work seriously. which is why the media and the country follows what happens here so closely. >