trent lott and tom daschle. thank you both for being a part of the bipartisan policy center, jackson foundation program today. with no further ado, senator jostldaschle? [applause] >> john, thank you for that generous introduction. more importantly, thank you and the foundation for being our partner in this project. i look forward to reading the book, but as a young staff person, i had the good fortune to see senator jackson in action and to see the degree to which he epitomized the qualities that we hope we can talk about today, his leadership, his extraordinary willingness to find comedy with his colleagues, his prioritization of bipartisanship is all historic and we are very, very grateful that he continues to inspire arrested them with his deeds and words. there are others that i want to call attention to for their presence today, and my gratitude to them for being here. dirk camp pharma, dan glickman, charlie stenholm. it's a real pleasure to have them with us, as well. from thes inspired lessons of leaders

let's may now proceed to introduce former senate majority leaders tom daschle and trent lott. better than i. know our biographies so i won't go into great detail on that. a couple very interesting points that i did not know was that senator lott is only one of the hand follows peep hole who has held a lack of leadership positions in both the house and the senate. and senator daschle we know one of the longest-serving majority leaders in the senate, but i thought it was remarkable that he is the only senate majority leader as i understand it who served out once but twice as majority leader and minority leader. so talk about two men who knew the need for bipartisanship trent lott and daschle. as a thank you for being part of the bipartisan policy center jackson foundation today. with no further ado i think senator daschle, are you going to lead off? great, thank you. [applause] >> john, thank you for that generous introduction and more importantly thank you and the foundation urbina's partner in our project. i look forward to reading the book, but as a young staff person had the

let's may now proceed to introduce former senate majority leaders tom daschle and trent lott. ost of you know them better than i., know our biographies so i won't go into great detail on that. a couple very interesting points that i did not know was that senator lott is only one of the hand follows peep hole who has held a lack of leadership positions in both the house and the senate. and senator daschle, we know, one of the longest-serving majority leaders in the senate, but i thought it was remarkable that he is the only senate majority leader as i understand it who served out once, but twice as majority leader and minority leader. so talk about two men who knew the need for bipartisanship, trent lott and daschle. as a thank you for being part of the bipartisan policy center jackson foundation today. with no further ado, i think senator daschle, are you going to lead off? great, thank you. [applause] >> john, thank you for that generous introduction and more importantly thank you and the foundation urbina's partner in our project. i look forward to reading the book, but as a

let's may now proceed to introduce former senate majority leaders tom daschle and trent lott. w them better than i., know our biographies so i won't go into great detail on that. a couple very interesting points that i did not know was that senator lott is only one of the hand follows peep hole who has held a lack of leadership positions in both the house and the senate. and senator daschle, we know, one of the longest-serving majority leaders in the senate, but i thought it was remarkable that he is the only senate majority leader as i understand it who served out once, but twice as majority leader and minority leader. so talk about two men who knew the need for bipartisanship, trent lott and daschle. as a thank you for being part of the bipartisan policy center jackson foundation today. with no further ado, i think senator daschle, are you going to lead off? great, thank you. [applause] >> john, thank you for that generous introduction and more importantly thank you and the foundation urbina's partner in our project. i look forward to reading the book, but as a young staff pe

trent lott succeeded dole as majority leader and was a republican senator from mississippi when gingrich was speaker. >> he knows how to touch the right hot buttons, and on the stump, he's good. you gotta give him credit for that. i just don't think that's what we need in a president. >> reporter: with such party establishment opposition, gingrich now sees little choice but to cast his lot with the tea party movement and style himself as an insurgent battling against the old order. >> make no bones about it-- this is a campaign for the very nature of the republican party, and the very opportunity for a citizen conservatism to defeat the power of money and prove that people matter more than wall street and that people matter more than all of the big companies that are pouring the cash in to run the ads that are false. >> reporter: and that's a point we are likely to hear tonight at the debate, scott, where we're told the audience will be encouraged to applaud if it wants to. >> pelley: five days to election day there, thanks very much, dean. in president obama wins reelection, he may very

trent lott, another senate majority leader came out and blasted gingrich. also, by the way, i've had conversations with those who are still holding their tongue who think gingrich would be a disaster not only as a president but also for other republicans running in the senate and the house. they haven't said anything because they assumed that gingrich would ruin himself. >> it's a shift of the party, the establishment, whatever we want to call it. he endorsed romney in mid december and put out on -- an open letter to voters all about romney. never mentioned anyone else. he said i have a number of friends in this race. since south carolina the panic attack has set in and i think that dole letter symbolizes that. >> how does that play for the republicans in florida? >> there's a tea party element in florida of some size and significance, which we saw play out in the gubernatorial race last year. and in backing marco rubio, which drove charlie crist, the former governor out of the republican party. there is an element there and gingrich has been able to consol

. >> and then here's what former republican leader trent lott had to say. >> i think maybe his assessments of his role is a little bit grandiose when you actually remember what was going on when you were there and a part of it. >> does it trouble you to hear these verywell-respected leaders saying things like this about newt gingrich? >> well, nancy, we are used to them saying good things about the speaker as well. the thing is when we passed a contract with america back in 1995, senator dole and senator lott both were in the senate. well, the senate didn't have that agenda. and so we passed it. i suspect they probably would have wanted to do other things. but the fact is we got results for the american people. and while, you know, newt surely has made a lot of democrats mad, he's made some republicans mad as well. but at the end of the day, nancy, we got a balanced budget. we got tax relief. we had entitlement reform. and, you know, we paid down our public debt. so i suspect that the american people, they like the speaker's agenda in spite of the fact that some washington folks might not.

but me and jack kemp and trent lott and others were among 10 or 12 most important players and most loyalnald reagan. mitt romney was an independent and wasn't on the political scene at all. it's stupid argument. they ought to be talk about this future, not the past. >> ed, when you look at the republican candidates right now, they're trying to bask in the reagan glow. do you think any of them are succeeding? >> absolutely not. i think at the end of the day, racingan was reagan with a very unique fogs and he conquered a lot of good things and brought the party together. but we have had the outsider versus the insider, establishment versus conservative and that's what we have again. we have newt as the conservative adzer, whether he was an insider or not doesn't matter and romney is the more moderate establishment. >> kimberly, when you watch the republican candidates scramble to try to grab hold of the reagan mantle, when you watch this, do you think any of them are succeeding in "i'm the real conservative in this race" position? or do you think the comparison of ronald reagan is working

he and jack kemp and trent lott and others were among the ten or 12 most important players and the most loyal to ronald reagan. >> rick: then there is this statement from former senator bob dole put out by the romney campaign saying, quote, if gingrich is the nominee, it will have an adverse impact on republican candidates running for county, state and federal offices. hardly anyone who served with newt in congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. he goes on to say, in my run for the presidency in 1996, the democrats greet growthed me with a number of negative tv ads and in every one of them, newt was in the ad. susan gingrich is --estrich is a professor of law at usc. not related at all to the former speaker of the house. sorry for that. i had gingrich on the brain, susan, who is also a fox news channel contributor. i know you and i know you must be getting a kick out of this, aren't you? >> well, i have to tell you, the most disappointing thing this morning was when i looked at the polls and they showed newt falling behind because every democrat i know is rooting for

that went away in inthe 1990s wn trent lott agreed on welfare reform. what gingrich is talking about food stamps raising that for welfare department in a way that has never been used before. same core argument. the core republican argument of our government it is taking money from hard-working people and giving it to those who don't deserve it. >> are y'all done? >> yes. >> i hope we are. the segment is over. >> let me help you with something. when newt gingrich says, i'm going to go to the naacp and i'm going to say, stop demanding checks and demand paychecks. he didn't say the national organization of women, he didn't say i'm going to a tea party rally. he specifically said the naacp. what does that mean? i'm talking to black people. >> when he talks about poor children and work as janitors, kids who are -- >> then he comes back to clean it up and the problem is, look, you knew exactly what you were saying the first time and so then when you say, what i really mean and then you see commentators say, here's what i think he meant. we heard what he said,

. >> it's hard to argue what trent lott said, paraphrased essentially he's poisoned the well for theget anybody nominated and passed through the normal process, republicans are going to take it personally. >> the president is a hero in the base today. what does history say about what this does to the constitutional process in this country? that's a greater issue. >> by the tone of your voice, i can tell the segment is over. >> i'm serious. good to see you. >> we'll see where this goes. meanwhile, on a different note, much different, are you a believer in bigfoot? >> yes. >> don't answer me, peter. you might be after you see what our next guests have found out. but first, this day in history, 1933, construction of the golden gate bridge begins in san francisco. it took me forever! in 1972, president nixon orders the creation of the space shuttle program, president obama would later end it and in 1980, k.c. and the sunshine band had the number one song "please don't go." [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half t