In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questions not with him, but with president bush and they would have president bush saying general. Now, that was a little piece of tape that they got from an interview that george w. Bush had done earlier with a smart aleck guy up in massachusetts, who had asked him, do you know the name of the president of pakistan, general musharraf. And poor bush said, general, and he couldnt think of his name. So, t
Friendly. Backslapper. That is not his style. He is direct and he will tell you what he feels and what he thinks but he is going to do it on his terms about what he wants to say and how he wants to say it. It is very important, he is a very precise man. This was a precision race that he ran. You guys wrote an article back in november. One of the things you have any is that he could have spent as much as 50 million . He was preparing for that and by the end of it, with the outside groups, and probably exceeded that on the republican side. There was a republican outside group, kentuckians for strong leadership, which ended up pummeling the airwaves with attack ads against Alison Grimes, the democrat, and matt bevin, the republican. What that allowed mcconnell to do was run a very a series of very focused ads that highlighted the Positive Side of Mitch Mcconnell. This is a guy who had a lousy Approval Rating back home, low 40s to high 30s for much of the campaign, and you realize you need
Congress. We will go tumor real to mur iel. Caller happy new year to you both. I just want to say this. I think the president , president obama, i will use his title president , he will be in command in spite of the majorities of the republicans, ok . Because i think the republicans are on the same train to nowhere. If they bring up the repeal of the Health Care Law and also if they dont deal with immigration. When we talk about immigration we should think about people because it involves millions of latinos, asians, from everywhere in the world. It is as though the republicans are saying we dont have to deal with that at the moment in the same manner that they are saying, we are going to repeal the health care act. If you have ever been sick, if you have ever had a chronic illness, cancer diabetes something that the doctors cannot and do not know about you need health care. I think this country needs to look to people like Angela Merkel in germany, who provides a decent minimum wage f
It is time to go in a new direction. [applause] it is time to turn this country around. [cheering applause] manu raju, when you interviewed Mitch Mcconnell, what was he like . It was the most complex race of a 30 year career. He was attacked right off the bat, he had his first primary challenge. He had democrats that made him the top target. He knew that going in. Mcconnell is a guy who looks around corners, and he had planned for four years this campaign. That started in 2010, right after he saw what happened at the republican primary at rand paul. Rand paul beat mcconnells handpicked guy in that primary. At that point, mcconnell realized, i have to recalibrate everything i know about republican primary politics in my home state. He started to make changes and hired key staff and started to build a very sophisticated infrastructure, knowing this would be the most difficult race in his campaign. He said to me, this is the most complex challenge ive ever had to deal with. And he won big
Clinicians but raise standards at our hospital . I am very happy to join my honorable friend in doing that. Making sure that we educate the next generation of doctors nurses and clinicians is vital. Under this government, we have 9,000 more doctors and 3,300 more nurses. We are treating 1. 3 million more people in a and e, and there are 6 million more outpatient appointments. That is what is happening in our nhs, and all credit to the hardworking staff who are carrying out that vital work. Welfare benefit recipients are often demonized as a burden on our taxpayers, but does the Prime Minister agree that the real burden on taxpayers are those employers who can afford to pay well above the minimum wage, thereby lifting hardworking families out of state dependency and food banks . I am in favor of the living wage. Those organizations that can pay the living wage should pay the living wage. It is something that should happen. But in addition to that, what we can help with i hear the leader