but krauthammer tells me he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> but i hadrsonal matter, there's a kind of a matter of honor. i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote -- reagan or mondale. >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank? >> but if i had been, you know, the swing vote, i would have obviously have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> and just a few months after the election, i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column, and it was provocative. for awhile krauthammer had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized that what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what, at the time, was called the brezhnev doctrine, and that was "whenever we take over a country, it becomes a communist, it's ours

ronald reagan meets walter mondale.y is calling it a major opportunity for mondale. >> he doesn't need just to win by a nose. he needs to win to stay with it by four or five lengths. he needs to do well because he starts from so far back. >> the question of ronald reagan's age had always been in the back of minds of a lot of people. he was by this time the oldest american president, and he was well into his 70s. >> i -- as i say, i feel that we have a problem here to resolve. >> reagan in the first debate against walter mondale looks confused. speaks too long. gets lost. it's not just that walter mondale won that debate. it's that people fear, is ronald reagan lost? and for the first time they start talking about the age issue. >> it showed without cue cards and teleprompters the great communicator doesn't always communicate all that well. >> we had six dress rehearsals last time. plus loading him with computer statistics. the man was absolutely smothered by extraneous material. and this time we're going to let ronald r

walter mondale, i haven't seen anybody campaign so hard for tax increases since walter mondale lost 49 50 states. >> dana: we all know how that turned out. >> that's right. >> dana: let me ask you one thing that's important to colorado. i guess it will be important in january. how do you see the president and the congress coming to some sort of agreement, what would it look like for these dreamers and the daca bill? >> i think it's very important that we have a bipartisan solution. i don't just mean ten republicans and 50 democrats. i'm talking about a significant number of people on both sides of the aisle who recognize that we're going to find a solution for children through no fault of their own were brought into this country. we don't charge a 3-year-old for walking across the neighbor's lawn with felony trespass. that's just not what we do. so we're going to find a solution. there's so many kids that go to school with my daughter. this is the only country that they have ever own, or on remembered because they came here at such a young age. i think working with the white house, rep

the senate seat has a strong abiding legacy of service and social justice that runs back to walter mondale and hubert hum frills. as i take this position in this extraordinary time we're in, i'll due my best to use in legacy and move it forward for a more justice future for all of us. thank you very much and the governor and i will be happy to take a few questions. >> governor, you said this decision was -- did you get a lot of pressure from national dwrots on who you should choose? >> the only person in washington i spoke with outside of our minnesotans in our congressional delegation was senate democratic leader chuck schumer. he did not express a view about who the selection should be. he does believe that the person should run for the office next year. he has a strong and legitimate stake in this decision as the democratic leader and he obviously wants to hold the seat next year but i didn't get pressure and the decision is mine and tina's decision to run for the seat next year is her decision. >> any concerns you might be perceived as being kind of the king maker here? >> well, queen

walter mondale a former vice president ran for the seat and lost to a republican. that is when senator al franken in2002 stepped in and as he there was a difference of 300 votes. norm called the loss by 312 votes and al franken then took the seat. he then ran again in 2008 and people were very proud of the work that he was doing within the senate. the people here in minnesota specifically. so this is a very disappointing day for people here. i can tell you that moving forward, the governor of minnesota has the opportunity to appoint someone. it sounds like from a number of circles i talked to many people in politics here in minnesota, who say that person will be the lieutenant governor. her name is tina smith. she is somebody who is widely known within both the republican and democratic party here in minnesota. she has worked with the governor for several years is a very well liked in both the democrat and and republican party here in minnesota. she did tremendous work after the i-35 w bridge collapse and she did that work with governor polenti who was a republican

walter mondale, a former vice president, ran to for that seat and lost to a republican. that's when senator al franken in 2002 stepped in and lost by only 300 -- or there was a difference of 300 votes. norm lost by 312 seat. he ran again in 2008 and people were proud of the work he was doing in the senate, people here in minnesota specifically. so this is a disappointing day for people here. i can tell you that, moving forward, the governor of minnesota has the opportunity to appoint someone. it sounds like, from a number of circles, i've talked to many people in politics here in minnesota who said that person will be the lieutenant governor. her name is tina smith, widely known in both the republican and democratic party here in minnesota. she has worked with the governor in several years and well liked in the democratic and republican party here in minnesota. she did tremendous work after the i-35w bridge collapse with the governor then who was a republican. so people see her as a good replacement for now but someone who may not run for the seat later on because she's

continue fighting these kinds of disrespecting the culture war they might go the same way as walter mondale or other democratic candidate. >> is donald trump his own press secretary gore communications director? >> key is. sarah huckabee sanders has done a phenomenal job and the way she's done that is not fight making news herself. it's a hard job to be a press secretary for any administration and especially hard for president donald trump's administration because he has his own press secretary and makes his own calls. he doesn't because he is the best at it. when we were watching sean spicer on the news he would get a rage and kind of play the game and make news every day. when donald trump came out he would usually defeat them and there were some great television stories. he's the best at it and you should not delegate a task that you are best at. whewhen you're president you dot have time to be your own account director. he makes the time, he watches it and that's why i don't impede the people you have to do the job because it is tough to do a job where your boss knows that he can do bet

sense that san francisco mayors going back to joseph aliota in the '60s, diane almost named walter mondale's a force unto himself. most politicians in washington would be hard pressed to tell you he was the mayor of san francisco and in some ways why he was such a lightning rod in san francisco. and to add to the history of this, 39 years ago last week that george moscone with us you killed in office by the last san francisco mayor harvey milk in office then dianne feinstein from the president of the board of supervisors to mayor to the california's longest serving senator, the beginning of a new era. >> it certainly is, mark. he may not have had the national ties, but he certainly had a tie to the community here in san francisco. mark, thank you. >>> we are following the goning news this morning. if you are just -- following the developing news this morning. if you are joining us just now this morning, mayor ed lee died. more on that coming up next. ♪ whoa! the mercedes-benz winter event is back and you won't want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho! lease the cla250 for $329 a month at

back in the 1980s, walter mondale campaigned on raising taxes, he lost to tax-cutting reagan in epic catastrophic landslide. 49 states he lost. here is white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders on democrats now claiming president trump did not play ball and reach out to them on the tax bill. roll tape. >> they should have been begging and banging down the door of the building behind me to be part of this process, and to be part of helping more americans be more successful. this is a president who is leading on that. if they wanted to be part of that evident, we certainly would have welcomed them to be in the process. liz: bring in tennessee representative, marcia blackburn. good to see you, congressman. >> you too, liz. liz: these red states democrats against tax cuts, so different from the 33 senate democrats who voted for reagan's tax cuts in '86. you talked about this, joe biden, john kerry, al gore, bill bradley, ted kennedy voted for the reagan tax cuts. who you do you think these guys do in 2018, these democrats? >> they will run into a wall of resistance from the cons

that people would say as you would expect for john kerry, as you would expect for al gore and walter mondale don't want you to run again. there's nothing exciting or new about that. i think just the fact that the word "knitting" was in there sent them all -- trish: somehow that was sexist. you saw patricia arquette's complaint. she said somehow this is a swipe at women. i mean, i certainly didn't read that into it. really i just thought it was kind of funny and you think of everything snl does going after the president. i mean some of that stuff is funny and some of it not but some of it is pretty funny too and it seems like people should just lighten up and by the way they hope she doesn't run again for goodness sakes. [laughter] >> yeah, i mean this is basically they think vanity fair is our territory, this is a glossy liberal rag and this isn't a magazine that regularly trashed trump. they had an article a little while back where they basically cartooned trump as a rat basically wishing he would leave right now and when we get rid of him we need, america needs a program like germany after

he says the future belongs to those who are passionate and works hard, notwithstanding walter mondale, perhaps the most famous democrat from that state. >> lisa: i think there is another side of this conversation that often doesn't get discussed. there is clearly photographic evidence with al franken here. but there is a concern that in this 24-hour news cycle and with social media, we're so swift, like this mob mentality to get justice that i worry that there are going to be innocent people caught up in this. and there has been instances of false allegations in the past. >> harris: that's why have you an ethics investigation. we are averdicting that process. >> lisa: exactly. not allowing that to play out. >> katie: anyone who is honest on capitol hill knows that the ethics committee is a black hole for anything which is exactly why people who do do things wrong want the ethics committee to investigate them. they never actually come up with any consequences for what they have done. >> harris: one of the first women to step up of his alleged victims said it's where allegations of inve

. >> bernie sanders is no different than walter mondale than his politics.nt about that in details, but it is clear that schumer and pelosi have put themselves in a better position with this meeting. >> let me just sort of -- let me just make a somewhat broader point, which is the democratic party runs the risk of making itself insane on account of everything that trump does, says and tweets. the strength of the democratic party in 2018 and then in 2020 is to be the party of sobriety. that is what americans want. move towards the center. >> yes. but, if you start to accept insane behavior that the president exhibits on a daily basis, you are normalizing it. we'll be right back. you're watching msnbc. >>> what's the secret to turning a no into a yes? do you know how to network like a champ? and when is a good time to have some fun in the office? i'm jj ramberg. i've got some great answers to all of these questions which might help you run a better business. check out the your business page on msnbc.com for an exclusive online video series to help you work sma