i think i might sit down in the walter mondale don't stand up for america zone.e'll be right back after this ronald reagan commercial break. >> welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight was an award-winning author who has been described as a potic realist. i don't know if he was a realist he would have gone to law school. please welcome colum mccann. (cheers and applause) good to see you. thanks for coming on. nice to meet you, you're the author of six novels. >> that's right. >> stephen: your last one, let's see, was called let the great world spin and it nonthe national book award. why not stop there? you won literature. you won the book award. why keep writing? >> you know, i was completely terrified after wing the national book award because i thought what am i going to do next. and where am i going to go. but you know, if you win something like that you just want to go on and tell more stories. >> stephen: you almost sound like scarlet o'hara just now. >> yeah. >> stephen: where will i go, what will i do with. >> what will i do. >> stephen: well this is what

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i think i might sit down in the walter mondale, don't stand up for america's zone. >> next, new yorkl candidate anthony weiner isn't winning any friends in the foreign press. the candidate showed off his surgically side last night as he surly side last night knocked on doors in harlem. he was making fun of germany with an awkward exchange from a reporter from "der spiegel". >> this? >> no, no. >> no doors, right? >> no. >> just gates. just thatch and huts, right? you have like plumbing and stuff like that? like indoor plumbing? >> no, no. >> flush toilets? >> no. that's why i'm here. >> i know. this must be a great assignment for you. >> in fairness, he tried to clarify to that reporter that he was only kidding. i guess it was hard to tell at the time, but then several minutes later he gave this snarky interview to a british reporter from itv who asked him about his motive for running. >> is it ambition? is it a hunger for the big job the power? >> hard to take you seriously. no, it has to do with wanting to be mayor of the city of new york and wanting to help the middle class and th

entered the democratic primary, they came up with the movie "the right stuff," and they montel a walter mondale operative said it is all over for us. what happened to john glenn? nothing. >> he went up in space again. >> yeah, but he could not get to the primaries. that will not change the political landscape. >> i do not think the thing will get made. the documentary will, because they are made on candidates all of the time. so what? i think there is a lot of pressure from the news side, and my guess is they pull the plug on the miniseries. >> having been trapped in the hillary vortex for three years, to my family's great detriment, i can say this is part where they are building her up, then they are tearing her down. >> they'll be coming up. you get the last word, glenn. thank you. see you next week.♪ vo:geico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night.

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. >> at the time, reagan was enjoying a double-digit lead over walter mondale. 1980, reagan game voice that government was the problem, not the solution. in doing so, he forever changed the debate about how americans would see the relationship between themselves and their leaders. >> we should also answer the central question of public service. why are we here? what do we believe in? we're here to see that government continues to serve the people and not the other way around. >> the democrats were the ones in disarray. while speaker after speaker hammered the party, reagan took a different approach. insisting that the party had left him, not the other way around. he reached out to his opponents. giving rise to a new breed of political animal, the reagan democrat. >> as democratic leaders have taken their party further and further away from their principle, it's no surprise so many responsible democrats feel our plat for is closer to their views and we welcome them to our side. >> there's no one better to talk about this than my next guest. he's the author of "reagan revolution." and of

saltsman who managed mike h huckabee's run for the white house and joe trippi who worked on walter mondale's campaign. and chip, should they go ahead and act on the threat from chairman priebus if abc -- rather, nbc and cnn don't back down? we should point out there's talk that fox television may also become involved in this project in some way. but should they act on this? >> for the member of the committee, they're excited that the chairman is doing this. they say it's the right thing to do this is one of those things where the chairman has kind of laid down the gauntlet. do you think nbc is all of a sudden going to pull their hillary clinton miniseries? no. i think it's good funding on both sides too. >> joe, does the republican party look strong or silly making this threat? would a diane lane miniseries because she's signed up for the nbc miniseries to play hillary clinton, would that bolster the clinton campaign in 2016? >> i agree with chip, it's great fund raising strategy from the rnc, but no, i don't think -- the reason that the networks are doing this is because of how formidable a

walter mondale, the vice president saw the article that morning, took it to jimmy carter, the presidentrking for as a speechwriter and said, let's do. i think we have to be careful about these things. your thoughts. you're an athlete. your life, your career, your greatness comes from being able to compete. should we stop our young people from being able to compete because we don't like an ordinance in the russian government we don't like? >> right. >> your thoughts. >> i did compete in the 1976 olympic games in montreal and had that opportunity, silver medalist there. 1980, i was one of the team captains of the 1980 olympic team for our dive team. what we wanted to do is go over there, send one person into the opening ceremonies then all the rest of the athletes stay at home in protest of the soviet union's invasion of afghanistan but still have a presence there. and we had a really strong team. and, you know what, an athlete, an elite athlete has a shelf life. you know, i was fortunate. i was able to continue competing through '84, through '88. and i was on both sides of two boycotts.

and the first usage i found for it was in "time" magazine, and it was popularized by walter mondale when he accused president reagan of turning the midwest into a rust bowl, and then it was alter inside the way of journalism to match the sunbelt and whatever other belts we have. the term -- >> the bible belt, yeah. >> the term before the rust belt was the frost belt. anyway, on the east side of chicago, life did not run according to the laws that nature imposed on the rest of the world. when night fell on other neighborhoods, those neighborhoods stayed dark until the next morning. on the east side, the night sky burned red when u.s. steel, republic steel or wisconsin steel dumped the waste product of steel making. the steel mills created their own suns, skies and weather. in other neighborhoods, housewives hung their washing in the basement when it rained. on the east side, wives hung it inside when the wind blew in from the mills. the air on the sidewalks glittered with a metallic mist so thick you could take a spoon and get ahold of it. visitors remarked on a musty odor, but the sense

i think i might sit down in the walter mondale, don't stand up for america's zone. >> next, new yorkoral account anthony weiner isn't winning anything in the foreign press. he knocked on doors of harlem. he was making fun of germany with an awkward exchange. >> this? >> no, no. >> no doors, right? >> just gates. >> just huts, right? you have like plumbing and stuff like that? like indoor plumbing? flush toilets? >> no. that's why i'm here. >> i know. this must be a great assignment for you. >> in fairness, he tried to clarify to that reporter that he was only kidding. i guess it was hard to tell at the time, but then several minutes later he gave this snarky interview to a british report eer who asked him about s motive for running. >> is it ambition? is it a hunger for the big job for power? >> hard to take you seriously. no, it has to do with wanting to be mayor of the city of new york and wanting to help the middle class and those struggling to make it. >> what is it you want to do for this city? >> the hunger for the big job. >> would anything stop you? >> i just have a feeling i

we are the state thanks to the great hubert humphrey and walter mondale that supply the country with vice presidents. in fact, it is a long timed tradition in minnesota that new moms gushing with pride bounce their babies on their knee and say, one day you can be growing up to be vice president. now finally, bruce made note of this, one thing for sure is a very, very focussed citizenry that cares about elections and really has a fierce sense of independence. if you don't believe me about the independent part of minnesota, i have three boards for you. governor jesse ventura. now, you are truly blessed with the senate candidate in bruce that represents the best of grassroots politics. in this state and in this country. when i think of bruce, i always think of when i came to help him campaign and he was always had those work boots, those work boots that reminded him of how he literally pulled himself up from where he was to get to where he is today. i think of him as a champion for the middle class, a champion for veterans. the guy who knows the value of education, not because he read i

remember working in the reagan white house way back when in '83, we were down 18 points against walter mondaleter we won by 18 points. fun to watch the horse race and don't take it seriously who is ahead right now because we're only around the first corner. jon: alan, is the media at fault for jumping in this thing too early because -- >> not necessarily. i want to congratulate jim declaring the hillary the winner in 2017. that is good news. jon: wasn't hillary going to be the winner last time? >> that is the whole point. so much can happen in three years. you're right, it starts the wednesday after the first tuesday of november when elections take place. it is all about raising money because at love candidates who may not be as well-known need to get their name out there. anybody, jon, if you went to iowa you could be considered presidential prospect. anyone going to iowa or new hampshire. it is too soon. most people don't focus on the presidential race unless you're a wonk like we are literally until after the labor day of the year of the election. jon: i drove through iowa in the spring. do

we are the state thanks to the great hubert humphrey and walter mondale that supply the country with vice presidents. in fact, it is a long timed tradition in minnesota that new moms gushing with pride bounce their babies on their knee and say, one day you can be growing up to be vice president. now finally, bruce made note of this, one thing for sure is a very, very focussed citizenry that cares about elections and really has a fierce sense of independence. if you don't believe me about the independent part of minnesota, i have three boards for you. governor jesse ventura. now, you are truly blessed with the senate candidate in bruce that represents the best of grassroots politics. in this state and in this country. when i think of bruce, i always think of when i came to help him campaign and he was always had those work boots, those work boots that reminded him of how he literally pulled himself up from where he was to get to where he is today. i think of him as a champion for the middle class, a champion for veterans. the guy who knows the value of education, not because he read i