. this week on press pass, how the 1988 presidential election rewrote the ground rules of modern politics revealing the stories behind the strategic missteps in do youukakis campaign. it s in above the fray. robbie joins me now. welcome to press pass. thank you for having me. i ve known you for a long time. you ve been obsessed with this moment that there are different moments that sort of change the trajectory of how we fight political campaigns. the moment you were trying to capture here is what? i think the idea is that in 1988 george bush and michael dukakis, neither of them were especially compelling as a candidate. early on the bush team decided rather than raise their positive, their approval they had to attack dukakis to raise his negatives, make him just disqualify him as a candidate. what happened was you saw this election where you had one side using negative attacks and trying to undercut the opponent and the other guy trying to run what he call
ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. in the fall of 1986, the white house is mired in scandal. ronald reagan s administration is accused of secretly selling weapons to america s most dangerous enemy, iran. i have a few words here before i take your questions. with the profits diverted illegally to fund a right-wing guerilla group in nicaragua, the contras your credibility has been severely damaged. can you repair it? what does it mean for the rest of your presidency? well, i imagine i m the only one around who wants to repair it and i didn t have anything to do with damaging it. bad news for reagan, but worse for his loyal deputy george bush. iran-contra could kill his own presidential plans. news of the widening investigation comes as vice president george bush is trying to put some distance between himself and the arms deal. i remember him kind of coming back into his office in the west wing of the white house as though the wind had be
the ends ever justify the means? ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. in the fall of 1986, the white house is mired in scandal. ronald reagan s administration is accused of secretly selling weapons to america s most dangerous enemy, iran. i have a few words here before i take your questions. with the profits diverted illegally to fund a right-wing guerilla group in nicaragua, the contras your credibility has been severely damaged. can you repair it? what does it mean for the rest of your presidency? well, i imagine i m the only one around who wants to repair it, and i didn t have anything to do with damaging it. bad news for reagan, but worse for his loyal deputy george bush. iran-contra could kill his own presidential plans. news of the widening investigation comes as vice president george bush is trying to put some distance between himself and the arms deal. i remember him kind of coming back into his office in the west wing of t
ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. in the fall of 1986, the white house is mired in scandal. ronald reagan s administration is accused of secretly selling weapons to america s most dangerous enemy, iran. i have a few words here before i take your questions. with the profits diverted illegally to fund a right-wing guerilla group in nicaragua, the contras your credibility has been severely damaged. can you repair it? what does it mean for the rest of your presidency? well, i imagine i m the only one around who wants to repair it, and i didn t have anything to do with damaging it. bad news for reagan, but worse for his loyal deputy george bush. iran-contra could kill his own presidential plans. news of the widening investigation comes as vice president george bush is trying to put some distance between himself and the arms deal. i remember him kind of coming back into his office in the west wing of the white house as though the wind
complicated than any of us realized. the details of that in a discussion is ahead. and last week, we inducted lloyd benson into the debate hall of fame. this week, on another big anniversary, another presidential debate question i want to bring before the hall of fame committee, maybe the hall of shame committee for this one. either way, a moment that had a ripple effect we re still feeling and we ll talk about it. first, once again, it is a sunday morning in october. it is a holiday weekend in fact. happy early columbus day to all of you. also an nfl sunday. still eight hours before the marquis game of the day, the saints and the patriots before that kicks off. so we will pass some of the hours between now and then with politics. and some pastries too on the table over there. also not too early to talk about playbooks and you don t have to follow the nfl to get the concept of a playbook. it is the notebook, where a team keeps all the diagrams of its plays, how it hopes to fa
limit. and who is behind the massive cyber attack that hit u.s. computers over the summer. north korea, the homeland security adviser giving an update to let us know how bad it was. u.s. retaliating. let s start with the big news over the next 24 to 48 hours, that is this tax plan. garrett haake knows the ins and outs. garrett, i want to know more about the time line. when the house will vote, what will we know when the senate will vote? and why a dozen of house republicans have now come out against this thing? hey, hallie, the house will go first. we expect them to vote around 1:30, 2:00 this afternoon. that starts the clock for the senate. it could take as much as ten hours. they know speed kills. they have the votes in place. they want to see it pass. they want to see if they can turn this into law. as for the republican defections in the house, this comes down to the state and local tax issues. in the house, you ve got a lot of lawmakers from high-tax states like cali
kinds of the incivil moments and constituency, and frankly the la look to the founders and the tee the know and hispanic vot values and not in really horrible, horrible way of a b? voters? it means that after the lame duck session and once the 116th the republican leaders sprit congress begins, we have to work harder than ever to build a with controversial steve king compromise. we led a discharge process the over his support for white house the force the immigration supremists, including his or issue, and lot of progress was made. we got a majority of the are thele c including saying that republicanss on the record to support border security and a his for the ctoor the historo path to citizenship for 2 million young immigrants brought to country as children. some progress was made, but we need to produce some results republican party would be nazis. and also, this he here. you can board a flight this is clearly the issue that most divides the country, and the onl
ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. in the fall of 1986 the white house is myered the scandal. ronald reagan s administration is accused of secretly selling weapons to america s most dangerous enemy, iran. with the profits to find the right wing gorilla group. your credibility, what does it mean? i imagine i didn t have anything to do with damaging it. iran could kill his own presidential plans. news of the widening investigation comes as vice president george bush is trying to put distance between himself and the arms deal. i remember him coming back into his office in the west wing of the white house as though the wind had been knocked out of him. he knew this would be a large and evolving story that he would have a hard tile acceme separat himself from president region and was not something of his making. in february 1987, investigators relieved the secret arms trade was being run from inside the white house. a fuse months ago i told the
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