we were so proud of walter mondale, he was from minnesota.o the inaugural ball and danced and then afterwards we saw the carter presidency and we were so extremely disappointed, my husband and i became ronald reagan republicans and never looked back. >> before you became a ronald reagan republican was there another republican you supported? >> no, no. >> it went from jimmy carter to ronald reagan? >> that's right. 180 degrees difference overnights. >> you were born in iowa? >> yes. >> i lived here until 12 years of age. my dad was in manufacturing and he got a job with honeywell in the twin cities and we moved up there probably in about 1968. >> in about 2000 your family was going to a wedding and you decided to go to -- >> oh, dear. >> oh, dear. first of all, where were you going? where did you end up going? you didn't go to the wedding, right? >> mow in, my husband went up to brainerd and took three of our girls up to brainerd with some friends of ours. that morning was the republican convention and i decided out of a sense of duty should g

the camera was on walter mondale. he laughed, not at ronald reagan, clearly, with ronald reagan. a mistake, walter. and then with the camera on ronald reagan, he took up a glass of water and took a sip and put it down with a sense of satisfaction on his face. at that moment, it was game 7, match. it was over. we saw this so many times where ronald reagan would win the day. this is the last thing i would say. but neither of us has gone longer than bill clinton when he said, "one more thing in conclusion." [laughter] he would ignore as when we would ask him questions. sometimes it did not work, but usually it would. he asked the president in the fall of 1982 when ronald reagan's gallup approval rating was 37% -- barack obama is 44% today and we wonder if he is going to be reelected. at that point, white house correspondents are really tough. when they are down, you kick them. he called on me and i said, mr. president, tonight you have blamed the continuing recession on congress and the mistakes of the past. doesn't any of the blame belongs to you? yes, he said, for many years i was

as walter mondale asks, where is the beef? gary nurenberg with our meat and potatoes on this one. >> reporter: derek, three women now have in one form or another accused herman cain of sexually harassing them when they all worked at the national restaurant association. two took money to be quiet about it. cain has denied the allegations because none of the women have come forward to say this is me, this is what specifically herman cain did to me. is the press being fair to report the unproven generality? you've seen him being chased by reporters after he changed his original version of his denial. >> i think so far it's been fair but probably over the top. >> reporter: the story didn't change much thursday. the lawyer for one of the women who took money from the national restaurant association after accusing cain of harassment says she'll ask for permission to break her confidentiality agreement to refute his denial. >> it will not identify her and she will not be going public in anyway, shape or form. >> reporter: political r

walter mondale was the senior senator and he was treated like somebody who was just starting. he was given no respect. he found his own way and with a short time he was working on bills again and he passed a couple of different bills during that time. he got back into it. >> us take a call from michigan. hello, amy. >> my question is sent senator humphrey served during the mccarthy of -- era, what was his relationship with jobs and courtney? >> that is a with a complicated question. he tried to pass something called the communist control act were to try to make it illegal to be communist. that was done in some part because he was trying to make joe mccarthy -- to bring the truth out and force his hand so he would have to prove somebody was a communist and would be illegal. he could not be quite so passe about it or blase about how he attacked people. he would have to incriminate them. that was a bad plan. it did not work. he did not like joe mccarthy or any of his tactics. he did not like anything about what he did. >> we just have two minutes left. he was very ill toward the

campaign strategy goodell employed with underdog gary heart who ran against former vice president walter mondale1984. >> it was simple. i wrote the strategy. can you second it in iowa? beat him in new hampshire. ride momentum for two weeks in the national campaign? gary heart came within a hair of doing that. >> the strong challenge vindicated goodell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blind sided in iowa. but a new force in g.o.p. politics. >> i look to see one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians hadn't got in to politics. i realize precincts are organized and candidates can win. i set out to organize people. >> i hosted iowa caucus. people i had not seen in the caucus before, good solid evangelical people, my friends sitting there with a slip of paper in their hands. i'm a establishment republican and i'm recentful, they elected the delegate to the county convention and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought johnny come lately, the new people

. >> cadell employ withed gary hart who ran against walter mondale in 1984. >> it was very simple. wrote the strategy. second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire where he was weak and ride the moem member in tun for tw-- momentum for two weeks. he came within a hair of doing that. his unexpectedly strong challenge vindicated cadell's strategy which others would try again and again. in 1988 vice president george h. w. bush was the next frontrunner to get blind sided by a new force in iowa. >> one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up until that time the evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. if they are earring niezed candidates can win. i set to organize people. >> the people i had not seen in if the caucus before good e gel cal people were sitting with a slip of parp in their hand i am standing there i am a little resentful. they elected their delegates to the county convention and i became an alternate not a delegate. these johnny come lately came in here and organized and taken over our process. >> those johnny come lightlies propelled pat rober

now, walter mondale was a weak opponent, so reagan's gaffes didn't matter as much.ernor perry has to hope now for a similardynamic. we know it's true that a decent slice of the republican electorate wants mitt romney. that was perry's place with he entered the race and shot up to near 30% in the national polls. herman cain and newt gingrich are now in his way as perry tries to climb back up. it's a steep hill, and a good conservative is supposed to be able to name three agencies to cut in his or her sleep, let alone in a debate after hours and hours of practice time. but is it a fatal gaffe? truth is, the voters decide that, not the punpundits.

. >> a campaign strategy pat caddell employed with gary hart who, ran against walter mondale in 1984. >> my theory was very simple. finish second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire and ride the momentum in the national campaign. and gary hart came within a hair of doing that. >> hart's unexpectedly strong challenge, vindicated pat caddell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice-president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blindicided in iowa by a new force. >> i love to see you as one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. i realized, if the precincts are organized and candidates can win, so i set out to organize people. >> i was hosting an iowa caucus and the people i had not seen in the caucus before, good, solid, evangelical people, my neighbors and friend his a slip of paper. i am siting there as an establishment republican and i'm resentful because they elected their delegates and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought the johnny-come-lateli

. >> a campaign strategy pat caddell employed with gary hart who, ran against walter mondale in 1984. >> my theory was very simple. finish second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire and ride the momentum in the national campaign. and gary hart came within a hair of doing that. >> hart's unexpectedly strong challenge, vindicated pat caddell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice-president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blindicided in iowa by a new force. >> i love to see you as one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. i realized, if the precincts are organized and candidates can win, so i set out to organize people. >> i was hosting an iowa caucus and the people i had not seen in the caucus before, good, solid, evangelical people, my neighbors and friend his a slip of paper. i am siting there as an establishment republican and i'm resentful because they elected their delegates and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought the johnny-come-lateli

. >> a campaign strategy pat caddell employed with gary hart who, ran against walter mondale in 1984.ry simple. finish second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire and ride the momentum in the national campaign. and gary hart came within a hair of doing that. >> hart's unexpectedly strong challenge, vindicated pat caddell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice-president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blindicided in iowa by a new force. >> i love to see you as one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. i realized, if the precincts are organized and candidates can win, so i set out to organize people. >> i was hosting an iowa caucus and the people i had not seen in the caucus before, good, solid, evangelical people, my neighbors and friend his a slip of paper. i am siting there as an establishment republican and i'm resentful because they elected their delegates and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought the johnny-come-latelies have come in and

. >> a campaign strategy pat caddell employed with gary hart who, ran against walter mondale in 1984.> my theory was very simple. finish second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire and ride the momentum in the national campaign. and gary hart came within a hair of doing that. >> hart's unexpectedly strong challenge, vindicated pat caddell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice-president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blindicided in iowa by a new force. >> i love to see you as one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. i realized, if the precincts are organized and candidates can win, so i set out to organize people. >> i was hosting an iowa caucus and the people i had not seen in the caucus before, good, solid, evangelical people, my neighbors and friend his a slip of paper. i am siting there as an establishment republican and i'm resentful because they elected their delegates and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought the johnny-come-latelies

. >> a campaign strategy pat caddell employed with gary hart who, ran against walter mondale in 1984.ple. finish second to mondale in iowa, beat him in new hampshire and ride the momentum in the national campaign. and gary hart came within a hair of doing that. >> hart's unexpectedly strong challenge, vindicated pat caddell's strategy, which others would try again and again. in 1988, vice-president george h.w. bush became the next front runner to get blindicided in iowa by a new force. >> i love to see you as one nation under god. >> the religious right. >> up to that time, evangelical christians had not gotten into politics. i realized, if the precincts are organized and candidates can win, so i set out to organize people. >> i was hosting an iowa caucus and the people i had not seen in the caucus before, good, solid, evangelical people, my neighbors and friend his a slip of paper. i am siting there as an establishment republican and i'm resentful because they elected their delegates and i became an alternate, not a delegate. i thought the johnny-come-latelies have come in and organi

in 1984, ronald reagan won re-election in a landslide. 525 electoral votes to walter mondale's 13.nemployment was falling at the time of rreagana re-election. >>> bill clinton said he should be able to run for a third time as long as they take also time off of his second term. he says he's not interested. but what about his wife. >> do you ever think the country would be better off if she'd have won the presidency? >> i don't think about it. >> you tonight? >> no. >> why? >> because i deal with the world as it is. i think he's done a better job than he's getting credit for. >> on the campaign trail tomorrow, new jersey governor chris christie. he'll watch the gop debate at romney's campaign headquarter. by the way, mitt romney made just his fourth trip to iowa yesterday touring a manufacturing plant in dubuque and touting his plan to turn the economy away. >> i will slay the beast. it's keeping our kids from having the prospects they deserve. >> and jon huntsman may be pulling single ditch knits the polls but he is not discouraged. >> failure is not an option as they say. if i didn

so there was walter mondale with where's the beef or poppy bush not knowing what a bar code scanner was at a grocery store. cultural references can work in a good way to humanize a candidate, or they can make them seem elitist and weird. sometimes, though, a cultural reference moment does not necessarily help or hurt the candidate. it just sticks with you anyway because it seems telling in some way about the candidate as a person. in that category consider newt gingrich's cell phone ring tone. >> how are you? good to see you. >> can you hear what he's playing there? i love that we had the subtitle showing music. it's "dancing queen." newt gingrich having as his cell phone ring tone abba's "dancing queen" has been reported in the past. but this is actually the first audio confirmation we have had of "dancing queen" going off in his pocket and him having to take his phone out and turn it off. newt gingrich's cell phone ring tone is "dancing queen" by abba. jon huntsman, however, should be thought of less as swedish disco and more as pacific northwest genius grunge. >> to hear these two go

the camera was on walter mondale. he laughed, not at ronald reagan, clearly, with ronald reagan. a mistake, walter. and then with the camera on ronald reagan, he took up a glass of water and took a sip and put it down with a sense of satisfaction on his face. at that moment, it was game 7, match. it was over. we saw this so many times where ronald reagan would win the day. this is the last thing i would say. but neither of us has gone longer than bill clinton when he said, "one more thing in conclusion." [laughter] he would ignore as when we would ask him questions. sometimes it did not work, but usually it would. he asked the president in the fall of 1982 when ronald reagan's gallup approval rating was 37% -- barack obama is 44% today and we wonder if he is going to be reelected. at that point, white house correspondents are really tough. when they are down, you kick them. he called on me and i said, mr. president, tonight you have blamed the continuing recession on congress and the mistakes of the past. doesn't any of the blame belongs to you? yes, he said, for many years i was

walter mondale was the senior senator and he was treated like somebody who was just starting.s given no respect. he found his own way and with a short time he was working on bills again and he passed a couple of different bills during that time. he got back into it. >> let's take a call from michigan. hello, amy. what is your question? >> my question is since senator humphrey served during the mccarthy era, what was his relationship with joe mccarthy? did mccarthy go after him because he was a liberal? >> that is a complicated question. he tried to pass something called the communist control act where he tried to make it illegal to be communist. that was done in some part because he was trying to make joe mccarthy -- to bring the truth out and force his hand so he would have to prove somebody was a communist and would be illegal. he could not be quite so passe about it or blase about how he attacked people. he would have to incriminate them. that was a bad plan. it did not work. he did not like joe mccarthy or any of his tactics. even though it was anti- communists. he did not

joined by bob beckel, the former campaign manager for walter mondale and andrea tanteros, both co-hostsf the wonderful "the five" on fox news channel. good morning. >> good morning. martha: bob, reaction to what the governor of new jersey had to say. >> the president never said it was deem and refused to get involved so he should get his facts straight. if he is such a tough and smart guy why didn't he have guts to run for president himself. martha: that is question people may be asking. >> he keeps shooting his mouth off. if you have the understanding of the problems in america, bring it forward like he done for new jersey which is kept afloat by stimulus funds. >> come on, bob. chris christie is allowed to have an opinion. >> sure. >> supporting mitt romney and his opinion is dead on. i mean the president has failed to lead on the deficit. i believe balanced budgets were a campaign promise of the president in 2008. and look the president has done nothing on the big budget buster of entitlements. i know what you're going to say. i know you well enough to say he tried. he tried to do a

. >> we interviewed walter mondale and he said if mccarthy would have come out on the stage at the conventionaid humphrey is not our best candidate and we are against the war. if we need to vote for him instead of richard nixon, they would have won the election. they had a couple weeks before the convention where is that he would come out for him by mid september. he never did. they were talking constantlyall throughout the campaign trying to get mccarthy to come on board with humphrey. he would not do it. he left the country for a while. nobody knows why. >> if you have joined us along the way, mick caouette has done a documentary. we will show you the cover along the way. many clips we are showing are from his research. this is from 1960 talking about his relationship with hubert humphrey and his influence on his presidential campaign. >> this week i had the opportunity to debate with mr. richard nixon. i feel i should reveal that i have a great advantage in that debate. i am not referring to anyone's makeup man. [applause] the advantage i had was mr. nixon had adjusted debated with krusche