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Clintons historic presidential campaign, the first woman ever nominated by a major party, correspondents who covered it for us at cnn share their stories in an "ac 360" special. were calling it "unprecedented -- inside the clinton campaign." donald trump expected to leave trump tower any moment. we have cameras position, live look inside his residence on fifth avenue ahead of his meeting with governor romney. we will talk to house majority leader tom delay, a.k.a. the hammer, to weigh in on thes...

Majority leader tom delay. congressman, nice to see you, welcome back. >> thank you, brooke, great to be back. >> lets begin with the ark of this election and how you had felt about mr. trump, you were quoted in march as saying "trump will tear the republican party apart. if you listen to what hes saying, he wants to be king, he doesnt want to be president." ultimately you voted for him. what made you come around? >> well, a couple things. my -- i have a book thats just out called "revival revol...

Osage, i wrote a book about tip and reagan, and when it comes to an urgent issue, they can work together. and ive supported the president, but he doesnt seem to like the company of fellow politicians. he doesnt want to hang out with them and play cards, maybe me did it in springfield, for some reason -- you seem to like the company of people like lindsey graham and john mccain and you can find a way to get along with them. and it seems to me that is an important part of life. you have to find, y...

Ask you about working together. you gave a nice speech here in osage, i wrote a book about tip and reagan, and when oit comes o an urgent issue, they can work together. and ive supported the president, but he doesnt seem to like the company of fellow politicians. he doesnt want to hang out with them and play cards, maybe me did it in springfield, for some reason -- you seem to like the company of people like lindsey graham and john mccain and you can find a way to get along with them. and it see...

Health care between medicare and the passage of the affordable care act under president obama. and then she did another thing, even better than getting china and russia to sign off on the iran sanctions. she got the republican house leader, tom delay, who was the most -- he was the ted cruz of the pre-tea party era. and he disliked me i think more than anybody else in congress. so she comes in to see me one day. she says i found it, i found it. i said what? she said, i found the human streak in ...

Republicans are much more critical. but even when i was first lady, we didnt get health care passed but i worked to reform our adoption with the lead republican on the other side tom delay. i worked as a senator and got good results and as secretary of state i helped to persuade republicans to vote for the nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the democrats to pass it with two- thirds vote in the senate. there is an archive of quotees and what they think of the job i have done. and in a politi...

The now former university president. those incidents include -- >> let me interrupt you. hillary clinton is taking questions about the situation in new hampshire. take a listen. >> -- to pass the childrens health insurance program. i worked to reform our adoption and foster care system with the lead republican on the other side, tom delay. i worked many times across the aisle and got results. as secretary of state i was one of the people who helped persuade republicans to vote for the nuclear no...

Lynn, you were there when hastert stepped down and gingrich began lobbying for the job of speaker. does this remind you of that time? >> not at all, except it was as historic now as it is then. there was a gasp when livingston wrapped up a long speech, which people thought was a prelude to him saying, "now im happy to be your next speaker," and then he said, im not going to be your candidate. thats when the house came in on a saturday with their main job supposedly to impeach then president bill...

Leadership back then and wanted to be speaker but there there was a recognition especially in the wake of the bad mid-terms they had and the fact gingrich was forced out as leader. tom delay was too radioactive to be speaker himself. but he had formidable strength within the republican caucus so he championed hastert on his way out the door. gingrich told republicans theres one guy that can unite us. they called him the coach. hed been a wrestling coach, we now know more about that. but the coac...

Who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not a loud guy. he was not known outside of d.c. but thats why they turned to him in that moment. and he was sort of an accidental speaker. >> its a really important precedent at this point because we look back at the gingrich era. the whole reason bob livingston was going to be speaker-elect is that gingrich had sort of resigned in disgrace after those mid-terms. so gingrich is out, theres this huge controve...