i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale.oined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i might be interested. i said well, maybe i could apply. he said okay. so he gave me the to jim johnson. jim johnson was the chief of staff to mondale. interviewed me and of course the first question is can you show me a writing sample? so i had to go through the same thing, sorry, i don't have any. have you ever written a speech no. i will tell you what, mondale is giving a speech next week. write me a speech. i looked up political speech and began reading them. so i get an idea of what political speeches look like. it struck me when i first came to washington is the fact that all the monuments here, unlike the monuments in europe, are monuments with words on them. i decided i would make that the theme. i wrote that they l

i said, i would tell you what, walter mondale is giving a speech next week.ked up political speeches and i began reading them. it struck me when i first came to washington was the fact that all the monuments are like the monuments in europe, our monuments have boards on them. so i decided i would make that the theme. it. wrote that, they liked it, they used it, they hired me. >>al he worked for walter monda, democratic candidate for vice president. but this was long before the tribal is asian of politics, the polarization, the two parties facing one another across the barricades of mutual and comprehension. it was a much more gentle kind ofof partisanship. >> charles: when we got totally crushed in the general election, i got a call from "the new republic" and they said, would you like to come work for us? that was a rope down the bottom of the well. i said, yes right away, started on the day reagan was sworn in, the first day i started at "the new republic." i wrote one editorial that caused the largest number of canceled subscriptions in the history of the

and want to -- walter mondale is fascinating. i interviewed every living vice president, all six of them including him, and he actually -- i learned he called the german ambassador at one point and apologized on behalf of the united states, when president trump did not shake chancellor merkel's hand. so this is somebody who is very much aware of what is going on, still very attuned to american politics, and watching, kind of surprised that the turn that the political landscape has taken. steve: and you you paint a picture of the relationship between john kennedy and lyndon johnson, and how that changed when kennedy became the nominee. and about joe biden, senior to barack obama, you write the following. obama clearly had the upper hand in their relationship. according to ron claim, his perspective was simple, if not condescending. this is my house, these are my things. i am interested in your views joe. ,i like your input. i want you to be happy, but you are a guest in my house. kate: i love that, you are a guest in my house. tha

visit directvnow.com >> people ask me how did you go to walter mondale to fox news?i was young once a long time ago. >> maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but for the rest of your life. [laughter] >> a great place. it is without a doubt the best hour of news on television any television. >> let's bring in our special expanded panel again. >> my mother would watch it even if i wasn't on it. that's high praise. the beautiful thing is because news is breaking all the time, we get to be up there early. and you want to be out there early to give an opinion because it can have an extra nudge if it's early. why, it's brit hume. as i live and breathe. >> i don't remember the exact details but he was coming on the arrow occasionally. and then we began to have him on occasionally on "special report." which i was then anchoring. and he was terrific. just nobody like him. >> those euphemisms are false this is a not a forest fire. this was a deliberate campaign. war in fact. >> charles became a regular. i so cher remember issued the time bring him in early because of the set we h

i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale.d him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he mentioned the third speech writer had quit. i thought well, i might be interested. i said well, maybe i could apply. he said okay. so he gave me the to jim johnson. jim johnson was the chief of staff to mondale. interviewed me and of course the first question is can you show me a writing sample? so i had to go through the same thing, sorry, i don't have any. have you ever written a speech no. i will tell you what, mondale is giving a speech next week. write me a speech. i looked up political speech and began reading them. so i get an idea of what political speeches look like. it struck me when i first came to washington is the fact that all the monuments here, unlike the monuments in europe, are monuments with words on them. i decided i would make that the theme. i wrote that they liked

i was speechwriter for walter mondale and people ask me as you can imagine how you go from walter mondaleto fox news. the answer is simple. i was young once. and then there is a psychiatry part, got to explain that. yes it is true that i once was a psychiatrist, technically i still am. in reality i am a psychiatrist in remission, doing very well, thank you. haven't had a relapse in 25 years. of course i compare what i do today as a political analyst in washington with what i used to do as a psychiatrist in boston and i tell people it isn't that different. in both lines of work ideal everyday with people who suffer paranoia and delusions of grandeur. the only difference is the paranoids in washington have access to nuclear weapons, present company excluded. which makes the work a little more interesting. i am honored and delighted to be here at the bush library, to have seen the bushes. i am happy to be among you. truth be told i'm happy to be anywhere where juan williams can't interrupt me. [applause] >> i will tell him how you feel. i want to begin by saying how much i appreciate, mr. pr

-- harold and walter mondale were campaigning on the northwest side at this catholic church, st. pascal's. and the crowd was so ugly, it was the ugliest racial confrontation since dr. king came to chicago. i mean, it was -- no bricks were thrown, but it was really -- somebody had spray painted on the church, "die, nigger." it was just ugly. and both time and "newsweek" magazine did cover stories on the mayor's race, and they talked about how ugly it was. and the lakefront liberals, i think, became very embarrassed about the situation because they had friends elsewhere say what in the devil is going on in chicago. [laughter] >> well, and then -- ugly, let's turn to the general. i mean, that was pretty -- you want to, roger, you want to talk about that? he won the primary but -- >> right. >> -- the general was rough. >> yeah, right. >> well, democrats, of course, had won the mayoralty every year since the 1930s, and the republican party didn't amount to a whole lot. so when harold washington won the democratic primary, the assumption was that he would win the general election very

. >> host: did walter mondale change the presidency? >> guest: absolutely. here's the first vice president to have a weekly lunch the president and had the west wing office ande. he and jimmy carter outlined anment agreehat has lasted to this day with obama and biden reinforced that agreement where every piece of paper that came across president carter's desk walter mondale had axis ii and he wanted to come and go into meetings as he pleased and have no definitive line between his access to the president. everything about the vice presidency depends on the power that the president is willing to give vice president. >> host: you write not only in the book that his tenure as vice president but his agreement to become jimmy carter's running mate quote, the deal between mondale and carter included three major requirements: automated access to the present, the same access to cluster material as the president, and unimpeded institutionalist possibility. he also wanted a west wing office and you got and wanted a weekly lunch the president which he also got. >> gues

with heart and passion to his work and it's been true for a long line from hubert humphrey and walter mondale to paul wellstone. the other thing you learn when you spend a lot of time listening to minnesota is how far they are willing to work to create opportunity for their families. they deserve a senator burr will work just as hardn their behalf, and i'm not just ready to do that, i am excited to do that. now i know there will be some rough days in the senate, but too this workside all ofe chance you. it was my mother and my grandmother beside me i am so thrilled to be here and i am full of hope about the progress that we can all make together. thank you. i yield the floor. >> massachusetts senator elizabeth warren hosted by the coalition for sensible safeguards talking about deregulation and the trump administration. the effort to roll back federal regulations removes important legal protections for american. this is a half-hour. [applause] thank you. it's good to be with everybody this morning. thank you. thank you to public citizens and the coalition for sensible safeguards for organizin

. >> the way he ended up getting the lakefront liberal votes was harold and walter mondale were campaigning on the northwest side at the catholic church, and the crowd was the ugliest raciall confrontation since doctor king came to chicago. somebody had spray-painted on the church and it was just ugly. both time and newsweek magazine did a a cover story. they talked about how ugly it was. the lakefront liberals between the appearance because they had plans elsewhere. >> and then ugly turns to the general. he won the primary, but the general was rough. >> democrats had one every year since the 1930s, and the republican party didn't amount to a whole lot when harold washington won the primary, the assumption was he would win the general election easily. he and his people started making plans, not publicly of course, but they began to talk about appointments and policies and so on and so forth. the assumption was that the general election wasn't going to be much of anything. that didn't turn out to be the case. the republicans ran a fellow who had been harold washington's. in the illinois hous

was working for carter administration, doing research on psychology, then a speech writer for walter mondalef a democrat for a long time, inside political game. right from the start you notice his brilliance, this was a finely honed mind, a great chess player, he loved to come up for grand championships of chess, like we went to a world series, what strikes me, i was fortunate to know him and love him, because i got to argue with him, i am playing debate with charles kraughthammer of night for more than 10 years on special report. there is no more daunting a task. charles become back, i could come back, and charles, you know, i think, i'll say, i would lose most of the time, he was brilliant. but a different level of discourse, that takes you to point it makes you think rather than react. you are doing sincere consideration of issues. he was that honest that sharp, other thing i say, to commemorate his passing in his book, things that matter, we wrote about his brother marcel who died at a very young age. marcel is chronicled in his book, things that matter, charles said at one point, foreve

. >> he began as a walter mondale speech writer before his views evolved.krauthammer who coined bush syndrome. he defined president regan's foreign policy. >> it codified what a lot of ceilings that people on the right had. >> krauthammer took plenty of flack for the iraq war. he was comfortable taking swipes at hillary clinton. >> she needs lying lessons from her husband, to do it with a smile and charm. presidents don't talk like this, they never have. this is what it sound like when you are living in a banana republic. >> but he occasionally praised president trump. his conservativism was never about getting republicans elected. he loved baseball and "in defense of the f-word." he was unable to type, but rarely spoke of his disability. >> you are betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think. >> he was never nasty, a contrast to the name calling today. as a trained medical doctor, he used a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. in that sense he lifted everyone's game. >> shannon: in all the years i knew charles, i never saw him in a bad mood or ever h

and what bill buckley meant for conservative thought, bill sapphire -- >> reporter: began as a walter mondaler in the republic writer. it was a wordsmith, bush arrangement syndrome for his fiercest critics and defined president reagan's foreign-policy. >> it codified a lot of amorphous feelings people on the right hand. >> reporter: he took flak for his support for the iraq war and was tough on pres. obama but equally comfortable taking swipes at hillary clinton. >> she needs glasses from her husband, one of the great liars of all time, could do it with a smile and china. >> reporter: donald trump. >> presidents don't talk like this, they never had. this is what it sounds like when you are living in a banana republic. >> reporter: he praised donald trump as well, the game was philosophical, not partisan, conservatism was never about getting republicans elected. he ranged widely as a writer of beloved baseball to a defense of the f word. he dictated his column because he was unable to type but rarely spoke of his disability. >> you are betraying your life if you don't say what you think and do

>> donna: as somebody who grew up admiring walter mondale and hubert humphrey and many other leaders, it is strange. [laughter] we have a lot of people who can foot put out the fire. he's going to go up against tina smith appointed by the governor. she has done a phenomenal job since coming on board these last couple months. it's going to be a tough race. overall, 139 days until the midterm and i have to tell you, it's going to be a hard race. this time the democrats are not facing what i call a headwind. there is a little bit of what i call a cool breeze backing these new democratic candidates into what i call the victory zone. >> dana: the weird thing, we don't know what the issues are going to be. even the week before the election. you think about it, a week ago today, we did a segment about the north korean summit. it feels like a lifetime ago. we don't know what's going to happen. when do you think things will start to firm up for either party? >> kimberly: in this political day and age, no. you can't predict it. every day there is something that's explosive story, something goi

i would rather look at walter mondale and why he lost 49-want to. >> kimberly: we know why. >> juan:a, do you have anything on this? >> dana: the report will be out when it's out. >> juan: the other thing i wanted to ask you about his paul manafort and the personnel being put on him. apparently mueller's going to a judge saying that manafort was tampering with witnesses and asking the judge to put manafort in jail. >> dane napito on "the daily briefing" today trying to explain it and apparently the government is saying that they are going to tell the judge -- manor was us encpted technology to out osie witnesses to get them all on the same page with his version of the facts. and that's an inappropriate thing to do. quite brazen. maybe also just crazy. i don't know. that h nt fri interestingly enough, next friday, june 15, is also the day cen has a hearing. it's going to be a big judicial blockbuster day. >> juan: wow. >> brian: i can't get over the fact that greg looks forward someday to being under house arrest. >> greg: that is my dream. to have someone tell you can't leave your ho

ronald reagan or his democratic opponent, walter mondale. reagan, the man replied. monday dale is a communist. it was explained this wasn't actually true. the man replied, well, maybe. i'll still vote for reagan. one thing i know, nobody has ever thought he was a communist. donald trump might have lost this round, but no one will ever think he is soft on illegal immigration. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. >>> the policy of separating children from their parents at the border didn't, of course, just arouse passions in the united states. the pope spoke about it, backing u.s. catholic leaders who called it immoral. macron, trudeau, even the supreme leader of iran criticized the policy. and my guest, the u.n. human rights chief, said it was unconscionable and called on the practice to be halted. he joins me now from geneva. you quoted the american association of paediatrics and said this is essentially government-practiced child abuse. government-sanctioned child abuse. the administration's response,

kadsic also had worked for governor dukakis, vice president walter mondale and was involved in the marc rich pardon. he asked the clinton campaign for a job for his 24-year-old son. while that job was request was pending, he sent mr. podesta a heads-up e-mail about the release of mrs. clinton's e-mails. is that -- is my understanding right? >> it is. >> did you look at mr. kadsic's telecommunication devices to see if he had other communications with mr. podesta? >> as i sit here, i don't recall. let me get become to you on that? >> would you do that? >> yes. >> did you look at mr. podesta's telecommunication devices to see if he got other communications from mr. kadsic? >> i don't believe we went to mr. podesta's communications devices as a third part. >> would you do that? >> let me talk to the team. i'll get back to you. >> my point, he already was giving inside information to the chairman of the hillary clinton campaign. he did it once. while his son's job request was pending. it would seem to be a reasonable possibility that he did it other teams as well. i'm not alleging it. i just

. >> he began as a walter mondale speech writer and new republic writer.t was krauthammer the word smith who coined the bush derangement sin dronel. and krauthammer who defined reagan foreign policy. >> he invented the reagan doctrine not reagan. it codified when a lot of sort of feelings that people on the right had. >> krauthammer took plenty of flack for his steadfast support for the iraq war. and was very tough on president obama. yet, he was equally comfortable taking swipes at hillary clinton. >> what she needs are lying lessons from her husband who is one of the great liars of all time. to do it with a smile and charm. >> and at donald trump. >> presidents don't talk like this. they never have. this is what it sounds like when you are living in a banana republic. >> he praised president trump as well. the game for him was philosophical not partisan. his conservatism was never about getting republicans elected. he ranged widely as a writer from his beloved baseball to a cheeky column called in defense of the f worked. he dictated his columns because

he initially worked for walter mondale. he worked for jimmy carter. he became a conservative. he was a conservative. and wrote amazing pieces like explaining the bush doctrine to us in the white house even better than we could express it ourselves. and we can go on and on and certainly we will all be having wonderful thoughts and prayers for charles and his family as they go through. this chris stirewalt, thank you for your words. >> you bet. >> dana: and we'll be right back. flat tire in the middle of the night. hold on dad... liberty did what? yeah, liberty mutual 24-hour roadside assistance helped him to fix his flat so he could get home safely. my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. don't worry - i know what a lug wrench is, dad. is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. come hok., babe. nasty nighttime heartburn? try new alka-seltzer pm gummies. the only fast, powerful heartburn relief plus melatonin so you can fall asleep quickly. ♪ oh, what a relief it is! and the nx h

. >> and her deputy said flatly he would raise taxes and reminded me of walter mondale in 1984 sayingmise you i will raise your taxes. maria: that's not a very good selling line right before the mid-terms. >> and i think for everybody in america who thinks that the cost of living is too low the democrats are a great party for them, because they will raise taxes as they have in california with this huge gas tax increase. i actually believe we are closer to a red wave than a blue wave. now if you went back to december , frankly i was concerned. the huge generic gap we had not yet passed the tax cuts. things didn't feel right. people were upset that they had a year and things hadn't been accompli but starting with passing the tax cuts, with what president trump has done consistently on conservative judges, on deregulation, on trade negotiations, what he's done with north korea, i think people now have a sense that we're moving in the right direction and as a result for example, in the senate i think i can't imagine i don't know of anybody whose a serious student who believes the democrat

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walter mondale -- went afl-cio endorsed him it at 13.7 million members. when it endorsed hillary clinton at 12.5 million members. i wasn't a loss of million members. because 92 million americans would go to participate in this election 1,036,000,000 americans. the electorate has gotten 50% bigger ethic afl-cio is a small piece of it in raw numbers. there's a reason democrats have felt comfortable marching towards cosmopolitanism and not worrying about the blue-collar worker because it just makes it a much smaller piece of the pie. >> you elaborate on this in the book where you show the difference over the past 30 years now between the top fortune 500 companies in 92, and what they are today. >> i want to do this from memory but i think there were seven companies that from 1972-1982 when bill clinton got elected in the top ten fortune companies in america, and/or six from 1960 to which they to 62, there are no input in america voted before that right now. there are five people some are casting their ballots from the nursing home somewhere that voted in eff

walter mondale, part of later-- labor's biggest coup, nomination 1984. in the endorsed him at 13.7 million members. when it endorsed hillary clinton, 12.5 million members. that was not just a loss of a million members, in this election 136 million americans, so the electorate got 56% bigger. there is a reason that democrats have felt comfortable marching towards cosmopolitanism if you will and not worrying about blue-collar worker because it makes it a much smaller piece of the pie. >> you elaborate on this in the book where you show the difference over the past 30 years now between the top fortune 500 companies that there were in 92 and what they are today and you may have gone back even further. >> i want to do this from memory, but i think there were seven companies from 1972 to 1992 when bill clinton was elected in the top 10 fortune companies in america and six from 1962 which it 1962 like there is no one voting in america that voted before that now, i mean, there are five people somewhere from a nursing home that voted in elections before that, but

through a series of accidents i ended up being asked to be a speechwriter for the vice president, walter mondaleand i did it. and then when they -- we lost the election in 1980 and i was unemployed, the new republic, for which i had written a few pieces on the outside, invited to come to be a full-time editor. and that was the beginning of my journalistic career. brian: is there a label that you could have put on yourself in 1980? charles: oh yes, at that point i was what you might have called a henry jackson democrat. i was a cold war liberal. i was a believer in the great society, but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union, which means i had pretty much of a home in the democratic party at the time. you had pat moynihan. you had henry jackson, the great senator from washington state. and later on that element of the democratic party shrunk to nothingness. and as it did, i was without a home. i remain generally without a political home. but you could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative now. brian: now, because we talk a lot about the conservative/neoconservative, w

he was a speech writer for walter mondale. he worked for the carter administration.s how he came to d.c. he had worked for the left leaning new republic magazine before writing for the "the washington post." this incredible group of people attracted to charles as a fine intellect but also as robin's husband. daniel's dad, someone who loved movies and loved the nationals, the baseball team in d.c. most of all someone who loved america. you might think oh, gosh, juan, had you to go through. this no, it was absolute joy. hey, this is amazing. here we are, like the founding fathers and mothers in this case because everybody was reading reciting the declaration of independence to each other. it was so glorious, john. what a wonderful man he was. >> all right. juan williams for us in new york. juan, thanks for being with us. right now let's talk with the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who is on the phone with us. senator such a sad occasion to have you with us tonight but your memories of charles krauthammer. >> like everybody said he was in a class of himself. my

host: did walter mondale change the vice presidency? guest: absolutely. he was the first vice president to have a weekly lunch with the vice president. he had the west wing office. he and jimmy carter outlined an agreement that lasted to this day. obama and biden reinforced that agreement. every piece of paper that came across the desk, walter mondale had access to. he wanted to have no definitive the between his access to president. everything about the vice presidency depends on the power the president is willing to give the vice president. write, his agreement to become jimmy carter's running mate, that the deal included three major requirements. unimpeded access to the president, the same access to classified material as the president, unimpeded responsibilities. you indicated he wanted a west wing office, which he got, and a weekly lunch with the president, which he also got. i interviewed -- i learned he called the german ambassador at one point and apologized on behalf of the united states, when president trump did not shake chancellor merkel's han

. >> in fact, we've seen some very strong vice presidents and relationships joe biden, walter mo mondale the end of the campaign he dumped all over clinton. it's a good economic record to run on. i don't know why he did it backwards. >> we look at the democrats potentially retaking the house and it's really early to be talking about this. if they do, how do they resoevr their own internal dispute over whether it's time for a new generation of leader? >> there's a hot washington issue. nancy pelosi has earned her way to the leadership. she's been leader forever. the story is the personal rivalry is real. she'll take it. she's not going to walk away from it. she'll be the most important democrat in the country. she's earned it. should hold it. stay with me as we watch thewel. >> the willingness to get things done. this isn't a question of preparation. it's a question of whether or not people want it to happen and we'll know that very quickly. >> what will you tell the critics? >> it will be much more than a photo op. i think it's not a one meeting deal. they have been doing this for a long

he wound up being a speech writer for democrat vice president walter mondale and eventually became onest prominent voices in conservative radio and television and writing. becaus>> because he had a heart. what was it that winston churchill said if you are not liberal when you are young, you have no heart. if you are not conservative when you get older, have you no brain. well, that was charles krauthammer. he had a giant heart. he was so generous. he was such a gentleman. undeniable intellect and the thing that i love the most about him. you know, with his book. the title was things that matter. and if you could say anything about him his greatest wisdom is in politics or in life. charles krauthammer understood the things that matter. and that was what made it so powerful. and obviously, you know, we are all sad and we are all -- we will all miss him. but i think the greatest thing that you could do to celebrate charles' life today would be to get his book and read it there are amazing columns in there but then go to a baseball game. steve: indeed. ainsley: you have a wonderful name ch

when ronald reagan had that first debate with walter mondale and he lost badly and the "wall street journalhis guy mayosing it, howard baker said this is the guy we meet in the office, there's something wrong here. lee atwater, the dark prince of this thing said if we lose one more debate this president could be finished so if he loses the second debate we'll create the fog machine. we'll get all the facts off the table, it's going to be what side on are you on, boys and girls, what side are you on? so they want to change the question from the evidence of these cases, whether it's manafort or any of these guys and change the questions to do you like trump or do you like these democrats a tend media? that is what they're doing because they can't win on the facts. >> what's interesting, at least to me, the legal aspects of this are beyond my pay grade but the human nature aspecut thpresident's behavior with thet tweet about jeff sessions, it has the ring of the guy who s theops are knocking at the door. >> i feel like if you look back over the course of maybe the last six weeks there's been a

he described himself and worked in the carter white house and was a speech writer for walter monday daily. -- mondale. to go in streamline' the lion'sn stewart. one time i said keith hernandez is coming into town, into d.c., i'm going to have dinner, you juan to meet him. you know the greatest story, everyone says he was on seinfeld. he said one time he got into a fight and darryl strawberry punched keith hernandez. he said it was the only time darryl strawberry ever hit the cut-off man in his entire career. he was kind of a lazy outfielder. people kept saying he spoke in paragraphs which is true. he could go on that panel on any program and in 600 words bursts could be brilliant and he could also take a sentence about hillary clinton or barack obama or donald trump and in nine words eviscerate someone and with a smile. i heard some of the previous segments, the nastiness out there right now, this man took people on, challenged the powerful, did it with a smile. >> liz: and connecting via logic. >> he wasn't mean, he wasn't nasty. >> maria: a good man, a compassionate man. good to see you, ed. thank