Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Face the nations John Dickerson is next on booktvs after words program. His book, whistle stop, discusses memorable moments of past president ial campaigns. Host john, thanks so much for being with us today. Ive been looking forward to us. Youve written a great book or more political junkies, and im one of them. Guest thanks, brian. Im looking forward to it myself. Host right at the beginning you helped to set a theme when you said while were watching one race, theres usually an an echo from the past that gives you a guide to what might happen. Im wondering, as you look back over past races like those youve written about, what do you think is most relevant or compares most closely to whats going on these days . Guest well, you know, thats where it started which is that every one of the races ive covered youre just trying to to figure out whats coming next an
Meaghan well talk with former speaker of the house and Trump Transition Team member Newt Gingrich, and after a thorough defeat, democrats look to rebuild. Well sit down with former president ial hopeful senator Bernie Sanders and talk about that and his new book. Well also hear from our Politics Panel and sit down with cbs news journalists you dont normally see on camera, our 2016 embedded Campaign Reporters. What did they learn from voters along the way . Its all ahead on face the nation. Good morning and welcome to face the nation. Im john dickerson. President elect donald trump sat down with 60 minutes lesley stahl on friday. She asked mr. Trump which Campaign Promises he expects to keep. Lets go through very quickly some of the promises you made and tell us if youre going to do what you said or if youre going to change it in any way. Are you really going to build a wall . Yes. Reporter theyre talking about a fence in the republican congress. Would you accept a fence . For certain a
Meaghan well talk with former speaker of the house and Trump Transition Team member Newt Gingrich, and after a thorough defeat, democrats look to rebuild. Well sit down with former president ial hopeful senator Bernie Sanders and talk about that and his new book. Well also hear from our Politics Panel and sit down with cbs news journalists you dont normally see on camera, our 2016 embedded Campaign Reporters. What did they learn from voters along the way . Its all ahead on face the good morning and welcome to face the nation. Im john dickerson. President elect donald trump sat down with 60 minutes lesley stahl on friday. She asked mr. Trump which Campaign Promises he expects to keep. Lets go through very quickly some of the promises you made and tell us if youre going to do what you said or if youre going to change it in any way. Are you really going to build a wall . Yes. Reporter theyre talking about a fence in the republican congress. For certain areas i would, but certain areas a w
Like they can do this and are seen inherently moderate, or is it going to be a little more unusual than that . One of the things i think that well see over the next six months is that its a mistake to discount the amount of pentup energy there is in capitol hill on the republican side. Theyve got a house. Theyve got a senate. They havent been able to do very much the past eight years. They havent been able too many balls forward. I think there will be a lot of reason for a lot of people on the hill to want to work happily and closely with donald trump. And do big things such as Newt Gingrich was talking about, infrastructure, as everybody is. Well, heck, do a big pow on that. Take a serious look at taxes. Do Something Big. Dickerson michael, is doing Something Big going to solve aftermath of this . You not only have democrats who number of republicans against donald trump who are nower in vs. And unsure. There is a split here. Some of the Trump Coalition hates the republican establishm
Cool, be humble, be calm. I think a lot of people willing looking at the Staff Members and appointees he makes over the next few weeks and trying to discern whether we see accomplished people who look like they can do this and are seen inherently moderate, or is it going to be a little more unusual than that . One of the things i think that well see over the next six months is that its a mistake to discount the Amount Energy there is in capitol hill on the republican side. Theyve got a house. Theyve got a senate. They havent been able to do very much the past eight years. They havent been able to move too many balls forward. I think there will be a lot of reason for a lot of people on the hill to want to work happily and closely with donald trump. And do big things such as Newt Gingrich was talking about, infrastructure, as everybody is. Take a serious look at taxes. Do Something Big. Dickerson michael, is doing Something Big going to solve aftermath of this . You not only have democra