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If you look carefully what is hanging on the walls of his office, its no surprise to see two very famous photographs of lbj doing just what. this is known as the johnson treatment. bending legislators literally to his will and turning them to his side. wow, those are great pictures. george thames took those pictures. how democrats hope to turn a little loser into a winner. youre watching "hardball," the place for politics. she makes the whole team better. hes the kind of player that puts the p...

word he uses, frustrated. tells you to call the mayor of ft. lee. tells you thats where the problem is coming from. get it? not the bridge authorities, not the guy who appointed the people who were doing this thing. no. if you want to know who to blame, blame the mayor of ft. lee, the guy the christie people are out to punish, punish good. so now we come to who did this. who recruited this team, who gave them their marching orders. who let it all happen once he saw the ft. lee mayor wa...

are out to punish, punish good. so now we come to who did this. who recruited this team, who gave them their marching orders. who let it all happen once he saw the ft. lee mayor was getting his punishment. governor christies defense is that he didnt get out there on the bridge himself. lets listen. >> i worked the cones, actually, matt. unbeknownst to everybody, i was actually the guy out there. i was in overalls and a hat. but i actually was the guy working the cones out there. you re...

>> the late senator robert byrd was the longest-serving member of congress and the history of the united states. he was first elected to the senate in 1958 and held that office until he died on june 28, 2010. up next an encore booknotes program with senator byrd where he sat down with brian lamb to talk about the senate -- "the senate: 1789-1989". the compilation of weekly speeches senator byrd gave from the senate floor in the history of the institution. this is about an hour. [no aud...

there was no constitutional requirement or even permission to censure a president, but they did it anyway. and then in 1837, in january of 1837, when the democrats got a slight majority, tom has hart benton of missouri made it his lifes work to get that censure, the word, you know -- its not a word we use very often, expunged. they literally had the secretary of the senate come in and draw a nice straight black box over the original resolution as it appeared in the senate journal. and ...

richard baker. and then we will take your comments on "washington journal." . there has never been a senate historian emeritus what about parking and what about an i.d. card. it was a great honor. i will cherish it to my dying day. they also agreed to open the senate chamber calories during the time that the senate is not in session. that had always been the case for 142 years until 9/11. it is one of the unfortunate consequences of 9/11. the galleries were closed when the senate was n...