Labour government racking up debt for our children and our grandchildren to pay. [applause] david cameron. You can copy our ideas, but you will never imitate our values. Ae british people dont want conservative government running their country which only looks after its own kind. [applause] is left then to our party, to us, to work our hearts out each and every day, to give the a fairer britain society. We will do everything we can to ensure you and your family will have the opportunity to get on. That is britain we can defeat the policies of fear. And we have seven short months to tell people to show people that it has been a party that speaks to the decent British Values that they hold. Let our opponents say what they will. Go to the country with our heads held high. Say what they will. We will go to the country with a plan with a goal of everything that we want to achieve. Nowwhat they will, we are the only party holding firm to decent, liberal values, while they will blame us. Are the only party refusing to trade in fear because we believe the british people want hope. We are the only party who are economically incompetent while we are socially fair. Therty of the head and heart of compassion and resolve. The only party who says that no matter who you are, no matter where you are from, we will do everything in our power to help new shine. Thank you. [applause] the british house of live on cspan two. You can see it next sunday night on 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and you can also watch past prime ministers questions or other british programming on our www. Cspan. Org. Monday night on the communicators. Back in 2012, we passed a law that was making a possible for people to give back and give the flex builder. Under current law, the lower industryelevision grants licenses, but those licenses are subject to availability within the spectrum and the particular marketplace. I am concerned about is a particular call for a kill switch on somebodys phone. If some entity or an individual decides that they want to cut your phone off, and it is your phone, i think that you ought to have some protection, so what this bill says is that you certainly can ask your carrier to cut your phone off, if you are the primary person who uses the phone, even if you are not the contract owner, you can ask that the phone because i. Or if you are a Government Entity or a Law Enforcement agency, you have to get a court order to do so. Haters is very bad he where someone who is fraudulent has try to trick the public and try to get information from the public, for example, a Social Security number, or tax information, and this is a growing problem in america. The particularly among senior citizens. Texas, morganfrom griffith from virginia, and Leonard Lance from new jersey. On the communicators, on cspan2. Next, trent lott and tom daschle. Forum examines social medias impact on the careers of politicians and journalists. After that, a political roundtable on the womens photo on the upcoming elections. Recently, former Senate Leaders tookaschle and trent lott part in a discussion on bipartisanship in congress. They discuss working together during the president clinton proceedings and after the terrorist attacks. They also discussed the upcoming elections. Tom daschle served as the Democratic Party leader from a 2002 2005, and trent lott served as the party leader for the republicans. [applause] it is great to be here tonight, back in a campus that seems both familiar and a little bit different from when i was here 30 something years ago. Built two buildings around the old student union, and i believe the new football facility here, the football practice sicily, i believe you could fit the student body when senator daschle was here into that football facility. I want to make sure that i dont bury the lead, and we have a history tonight, and dr. Hogan, let us set the ground rules here. This is a dialogue, it is not a debate. That there will be differences, and we hope to get into those tonight and to discuss those as we go forward. A year ago tonight, the government shutdown. It seems appropriate that we gather here in this environment and talk about partisanship and whether or not there is too much partisanship or whether that is a thing. The senate recently has been described as a weapon of mass dysfunction, and i think it is probably a pretty good description. The job Approval Ratings as you know in the congress are so low that senator john mccain says it is basically down to members themselves and to their Staff Members. That is about deal to people who are saying that they are approving of congress. But not too long ago, these two leading in a time when we got some things done in this country. Where,came at a time above everything else, they put partisanship aside. We are going to discuss that in just a little bit. ,ets take a look at one day above all others, when they were leaders and that sort of defined the recent history in our country. [applause] at a time like this, no words that we should utter today or the heartsg can help and souls and feelings of the victims and the families that were a part of this great tragedy that happened in this country today. Andprayers and thoughts out tof consolation goes all of those who have suffered. But one thing that happens here in this place, is that when american suffers, and when people perpetrate acts against this country, we as a congress and as a government stand united. We stand together. [applause] senators and house members, democrats and republicans, will stand shouldertwo shoulder shouldertwoshoulder, we will stand together to ensure that those who have brought forth this evil deed will pay the price. We are not sure who this is yet. [applause] we have our suspicions, and when that is justified and when those suspicions are justified, we will act. We will stand with the president , we will stand with us government, and we will stand as americans together through this time. Thank you. [applause] todays despicable acts were an assault on our people and on our freedom. As a representative of the declarewe are here to that our resolve has not been weakened. By these horrific and cowardly acts. Congress will convene tomorrow. [applause] we will speak with one voice to condemn these attacks, to comfort the victims, and their families, to commit our full support to the effort, to bring those responsible to justice. Democrats,cans and house and senate, stand strongly president andthe will Work Together to ensure that the full resources of the government are brought to bear in these efforts. Thoughts and our fervent prayers are with the injured and the families of those who have been lost. [applause] that ourw as a nation thoughts and our prayers are with those who are injured, and those who are the casualties in todays attacks. We know the thousands of rescue workers, we asked now that we all drop our heads in silence and remembrance. Thank you. Stand beside her and guide her senator lott, what does this bring you back to . It was a startling day to say the least. I started off in my office looking at that view behind tom there, and i saw the first plane go into the tower, and then we started getting reports, and then of course, a staff member came running in and said that they have hit the pentagon after the second strike. I walked to the window and i could see the smoke billowing up. Go to my desk, and i picked up my red phone, and i said, tom, i think we need to get out of here. He had to give the order. At point, my security detail came in. We went to Andrews Air Force to somed then we went remote area, and i still dont know exactly where we were, and then we came back that night after we learned a few things about what had happened. That singing their the end, that was totally spontaneous. We did not know that was going to happen, like, i felt that was one of the great moments of history, actually, when members of congress came back at the end of the day, stood on the steps of the capital, and said that we were going to be in the session the next day, and told them that they were not going to be intimidated by this horrific act. So i could write a dissertation on all of the emotions that happened the day. But the most important part about that day was what happened after that. How we came together, how we Work Together to get what was done and what was necessary to get done for new york, for our military, and for the pursuit of the people that cause that event. And we did it working together to read tom and i with robot of legislation that fall. And im very proud to talk about the fact that the Approval Rating of the senate by the end , andat year had reached 82 it has not been that high before or since. You know why it was that way . Because they saw us working together. Above politics and above partisanship. [applause] senator daschle, you are with john glenn that morning, and he said no pilot would do that. He knew right away. Do you recall that . That is right, john had come in, and both of our offices were in the center of the capital at the senate complex, so people would just drop by. And john was having an interview in a little while with cnn, and came by for just a couple coffee. And we were talking in front of my television. And i said, look at that, that playing a pilot just flew into that building. And he looked at that and said that is not a pilot, there is something more serious than that. And then i began a Leadership Meeting shortly after that, and we were sitting around the table, and i remember patty murray, the senator from washington, and he looked out the window and he said my goodness, look at all that smoke, and we ran to the window and there was smoke looming out of the pentagon. It was at that point that trick called and said that we had to get out of here. We rush to the doors, and poor senator byrd was carrying huge was soi dont know what important, but he was carrying all of these Important Documents and books with both arms and he was running, and i was concerned for his safety, and of course that is where the all started. In retrospect, do you think that was a high or a low point in your leadership that day, with the leadership that you displayed in with a leadership that was shown that it was a so do you look back with sort of hope or with sort of regret . What do you think about that . As trent saidck, so eloquently just now, people going to the floor saying that i am no longer a republican or a democrat, i am an american. And there was this sense of patriotism and the sense of commitment to the country and a sense of resolve that really was inspiring and moving and energizing, and from that incredibly, it was a moment of great pride as we look back, i think. I think what i regret is that it takes a crisis of that kind to create that kind of unity and that kind of environment and that kind of political determination. Yeah. [applause] less than six weeks later, there was the anthrax scare. Did you think at that moment, and did you think that was another terrorist attack from the same group or did you think what were your emotions going through that day . I think you are up on a hill that day too. What did you think . You scared for the country at that moment . I was, it was just another step in a series of attacks probably. Our staff were horrified. Usually the youngest Staff Members that you had were the ones that opened the letters in the mail rooms, and they were the ones that could have had anthrax in the. We were immediately concerned about tom and all of the senators and his staff, and what we were going to do about that. Of they, the postmaster senate was a classmate of mine from high school, and he had to deal with all we had to do with checking the mayor mail going forward. , like itors and others was in the russell building and you were in the park building, senators from both buildings started giving senators their extra office space. There is nobody telling them to do that, they distorted doing then itent tom went tom talked about this incident, we all went to the cafeteria, all of the senators, republicans and democrats. We were talking about what it and what we were going to do about it. And the atmosphere there, while it was one of great concern, it was one of camaraderie and an expression of concern for each other, it was one of those Magic Moments that we experience several times when we were the leaders, where we finally get down on her knees and get together in the Old Senate Chamber or the old Senate Dining room, and is one group make decision as one group make decisions that were right for the moment and for the country. Anymore. Dont do that that is one of the things that tom and i have a urged is to have a more regular lies opportunity to get a more regularized opportunity to get together. Tell us about the legislation that was passed after the months after 9 11 . There were so many pieces. I think probably one of the most controversial but the patriot act. , for one, back, i would like to have revised many of the things that we wrote at the time. Trent says something, he said that we did the best that we intelligence that we were given, but looking back, the whole issue of National Security changed. When we experience the 11, the realization that it would never 9 11, set experienced the realization that it would never be the same came through. Brought the agencies together, and that, too, was controversial. Political at times, but we actually pulled together, and i think at the end of the day we did a reasonably good job for creating the framework for security and a different context. We always thought of the threat being international and more in a military context, and it was now much more local, much more personal, far more pervasive than it had ever been before. So that was another piece of legislation that we had to address. We also passed legislation to help new york city, of course. We also passed legislation to deal with the problems that we were having with the aviation industry, the airlines really got hammered that day, too. They had real losses. So it was a whole myriad of legislation. Tom and i would up to new york city, i guess it was about two weeks, or maybe less than that. I remember saying when we were when they hit new york city, they hit america. We are all in this together, and we are to do this together. And we did that. We kept our word. Both of you have said since you have left the senate that there was another. Of crisis in the country where you felt there was conductive worked on. That was after the impeachment of president clinton. That was pretty tenuous that day when you went up that day and held hands. Can you tell what led up to that moment . It was my birthday come on december 9, and trent had called me to say that the house had just acted to impeach nowpresident , and he said it is in our lap, now it is up to us. To one thing we have got understand is that we have got to rise to the occasion, we have to do everything we can to make this a depoliticized experience and to find ways to get through this godawful mess we are facing. Impeachment had not occurred to the president for over 100 years, so we first had to learn what had happened, how do we do this . How does this happen . Who knows these things . Ofbegan a great deal research with the staff to create a mechanism for putting pieces in place to conduct the impeachment trial. And then the question is, so when do we do this . However it turns out, so we decided it was going to be the first order of business will be came back in january. Stepbystep, and it came together and we got through it in reasonably good shape. I two parts of that that remember is that we agreed to get a couple of our more thoughtful senators to take a and what wehistory needed to do and come up with some recommendations. He selected Joe Lieberman from connecticut, and the senators created a design plan to deal with this issue. In a sharp, they came back with a recommendation, and they described as it an abbreviated proceeding. So when i presented that to the republican congress, they did everything but stoned me at romeo industry. Some of my best friends is said no, we are not going to do it that way. They were not happy with it. I had some legitimate arguments, so i had to call tom is a, tom, this is not going to work. So that we had to figure how to proceed and how to get this whole thing done. Someone came up with the idea and we met in the Old Senate Chamber, which is a power place. I give a lot of thought to it, and i was the majority leader, a democrat from hawaii to open the session with a prayer, the kazaa i was in a little Bible Study Group with because i was in a little Bible Study Group with him. He gave us a really good outline and we started the discussion. I did not know how it was going to turn out and i dont think tom knew, either. Finally, kennedy got up ted kennedy and made some suggestions on how we could proceed, and then phil gramm , a republican from texas, got up, and i realize they were saying the same thing. Mack, wet from connie came up with the same thing. So we decided on a gram mkennedy plan, said it was ted a liberal from massachusetts, and phil gramm, a conservative from texas, who came to an agreement. And when i was walking away with tom, i said, to you know what we agreed to . [laughter] then we had to sit down and render it to writing. I still dont remember what the agreement was. [laughter] but it broke the dam and we went forward. And a got done in a dignified way and we filled our constitutional responsibility. Some people said you could have removed him if you really wanted to, no, most of my life in politics i was a whip, i counted the votes are it the votes were never there. So how can we do this in the proper way and get to an end where we can carry on with our country . We finish this proceeding on a friday night, and the following thursday, l clinton called me bill clinton called me, he did and talked anything about what kind of legislation was moving for. And it worked. We Work Together. And our colleagues realized it was a historical moment. We could have embarrassed ourselves. But we realized we could work on both sides of the aisle. Wanted Monica Lewinsky to be a witness, and i said never. We did not want to demean the senate and treat it like it was a regular court proceeding, we