Theres no one victory and thank you very much im done. No. It is a constant commitment, year after year after year. So what im going to continue doing is to stay in that fight and i think the members of emilys list will. Weve learned that sometimes we win and sometimes we lose but we never stop and we keep packing that sailboat to get to where were going. Thank you for reminding all of us that even though you make progress that you should always be aware that going backwards is something that could happen. It does. If we are reminded of that and we keep that on our radar, we wont get so focused on the progress in saying that we have done this. Will always be prepared to fight that fight. There are those forces that would take this back. Thats a good, good lesson to share. Its a critical lesson. Otherwise we will win and it will all be gone before we know it. Do you have any final words you would like to give to the women, the thousands of women who are listening and watching you today . I think politics, even though we see it as something thats awful and makes us angry a lot, when women win there are a lot of good stories about how there are so many good things that happen in politics. Women can participate at all levels, whether youre a voter, contributor or you run for office yourself, but the country needs the involvement of women. It makes our country better. Thank you so very much. I have a copy of your book here and you have not signed it for me. Im going to do that. This would be a very special addition to my library so im going to give you my book and somebody will hand you a pen and in just a few minutes, you signed my book. I will do that. I can say that i was here today and i had a wonderful opportunity to interview you and reminisce a little bit and talk about the future and just enjoy your company. Thank you. Youre so welcome. This weekend, the city tour hosted by our Cable Partners and it explores the history of las vegas nevada. On book tv we will visit the riders block, an independent bookstore and sanctuary in downtown las vegas. They talk about the las vegas literary scene and why he chose to open the only independent bookstore in the city. In terms of having a good independent bookstore, theres a lot of great readers here and a population of excellent riders in the city has a little more literal vibrancy then i think people are aware of. Then Oscar Goodman recounts his life of his book in being oscar. A couple weeks later, a phone call cam in at the hacienda. Its from a refuted mobster per his brother had been arrested and he wanted to know who was the best criminal lawyer in las vegas. Nothing changes over all the years. He lifted up the phone and cupped it and said whos the best criminal lawyer in las vegas. The guy said call oscar. On American History tv, we visit the center for Gaming Research at the university of nevada archives to see items in their collection related to the history of gambling in las vegas. You will learn about how the industry evolved. Gambling in las vegas goes back to the beginning of las vegas so las vegas was established by what is now the Union Pacific railroad and then it was the salt Lake Los AngelesSan Pedro Railroad and they bought a ranch from a woman and decided they were going to lay a town out here. Then will visit the Testing Museum to learn about the nevada test site. A u. S. Department of energy reservation located west of las vegas. It was established in 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices. From the 50s to the early 90s mushroom clouds from the atmosphere test could be seen for 100 miles. They actually to advertise in advance so that local people and terrorists planning the itinerary can come to witness and observe that in nuclear blast. Watch the cities to her saturday on book tv. The cspan cities to her, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Citizens have got to feel that their vote matters, that there Voice Matters and their concerns and struggles will be listened to. Sunday night on q a, they talk about their career and public service. They help shepherd the change whereby senators were not appointed by the legislature, but demanded elections. I guess, i dont know if it was the first, but the idea that it wasnt going to be the party bosses who made the decision of who the nominees were in smokefilled back rooms, but rather the people who were going to get a chance to vote in free and fair elections. And then set out to become the majority leader of the United States senate and did the niche i have a confession to make to do this here is what i thought he how could anyone get Mitch Mcconnell to talk for one hour . Because in your own book you point out you only speak to the press when it is your vantage and he talked when bill gates cave in to see you you would just sit there and you would recount some bs told president george to be bush that you were excited over a certain vote and he said really . How can you tell so why so few words . Cry of not afraid of talking but i learn more by listening so frequently and start off listening and think about what i want to say before i do it. So it is fair to say in the era of trump probably very different is my approach to comment on Public Affairs to make you are not the first one the late bob novak said the hardest interview with meet the press was senator mansfield that you ask a question is a yep and notes and he ran out of questions the easiest with Hubert Humphrey one question if he talked for 30 minutes. You dont get in trouble for you dont say and there is nothing wrong with being cautious about your comments i dont mind talking but usually like to know what i am talking about before i ventured down that path. You are not so conscious in your book we will talk about polio your vote for Lyndon Johnson over civilrights and when it gets to professor obama and senator harry reid dash your democratic counterpart then most people would be surprised to learn you are an allamerican tailgater at the university of louisville so we will start with polio 1944 and living with your mom in alabama and the doctor says he has polio it is hard to imagine today how terrifying those words must have been. I have subsequently learned it was a serious epidemic epidemic all over the country and the disease is very unpredictable if you had the flu that is what you would think and a couple of weeks later some people would be completely normal or some would be dead. In my case it affected my left quadricep between my knee and my five and one of the great good fortunes of herbalife this riddle crossroads not even a stoplight where my mother was living with her sister what my dad was overseas fighting the germans was 60 miles from palm springs sandras about having gone there himself in the 20s. Because he had polio at age 39 completely paralyzed below the waist. Your mother had no way to know if you would be completely paralyzed. But the worse Case Scenario would have been a brace on my leg i have as severe a case as president roosevelt but a i am two years old you know, what kids are like they taught her physical therapy regimen to be administered four times a day and to keep me off my feet so she literally watch me like the talk for two years every waking moment and tried to conveyed to me dated one to think that i couldnt walk but i shouldnt. That is what tyrol do she watched me every minute and prevented me from prematurely walking. Obviously she told me that years later my first memory was were they told my mother i would be okay and i can walk without a limp and we stopped at the shoe store to give parallel top shoes a was a symbol of a have a normal childhood. How amazing you have a chapter in your part book called resilience so it must come from that to some extent . And if you stick to something you keep working on it and the chances are you may actually overcome. Any impediment today . Yes the quadricep is more prominent going downstairs bay and up but i have had the perfectly normal life but i could play baseball. Lets move on to dicky even grew in your father encouraged him . I had no choice it was the situation now was about seven and i had a friend across the street and he was also a bully and was pushing me around my dad was working in the yard one day and called me over and said much of the way he is pushing you around when you beat him up and said he is older and bigger so given his choice side chose dickey and i went across the street and started swinging and beat him up and bid his class as it was an incredible lesson and i thought about that program life at critical moments when people try a to push around. Jumping ahead to do the university of lenovo as people might wonder what to those senators talk about . Arms are you were taught about the diversity of local sports but before i get to that your honors thesis was senator henry clay and that inspired you to become a United States senator. Iran for president of the student body and highschool a very contentious race so i began to follow politics are remembered age 14 when the coverage was really dont. There was a big zenith radio. Said that may be watching. In to try to practice this to see if i could get good at iran for president of Student Council and clay was the most famous politician. What about him inspired you most . Guest that netted had to become a major statesman live in in kentucky people focused in their wanted to learn more about him. He wanted to know about crafting compromises. Did is absolutely essential and we do it every single day to make the senate function. So i did write pieces of a compromise of 1850 and continue to follow him as aspiring politicians do. The athletic programs describe your tailgating schedule football is an important part of life. And one goes back to college in regard every home game and the occasional a game and we make a day of it to go well earlier friend has harvey in the parking lot and talk about what will happen in rigo to the game then we talked but what did happen one of the great joys of life. Host jumping ahead their early sixties we both drove to washington and reach realized then day dream mustang. [laughter] i worked for senator howard baker and i can remember 1969 to meet that smart young legislative eight Mitch Mcconnell you lead a march on the space civilrights and were in washington as i was there for the i have a dream speech and goldwater, speaking sure president the College Republicans but vintage rev voted for clinton johnson. He was the defining issue of our generation and those fortunate enough and accepted the invitation to then that 63 year the summer of 63 we got to see that i have a dream speech than the 64 was an intern in senator coopers office. We broke the filibuster and renominated barry goldwater. I was mad as hell. And i was so irritated about goldwater voting against the civilrights bill with the Republican Party in a way that i thought would be unfortunate that in retrospect was a huge mistake but it was a protest vote. That carried over when president reagan vetoed the sanctions on south africa for apartheid you voted to override the veto which most did not do. I just felt like reagan and was simply wrong whether or not the sanctions could work will people think that they never work they worked in burma and number of years later and i thought reagan was wrong. You mentioned burma that was a pretty extraordinary thing lasting over 20 years i remember you standing up watching speeches on the senate floor wondering what you were doing. Started to follow her after the Nobel Peace Prize in those listeners who are not familiar, possibly the founder he did a live very long but was assassinated. And then going back to burma in 1988 with the movement started and then they decided to have a free and fair election. And then was put under house arrest in her own house where she you the major most of the time for the 21 years. Into author along those burma sanctions. Amazingly enough with 2011 so we could talk on the phone and got to see her in person and so they did in the september 2012 and now the day facto leadership even the constitution prohibits anyone who was married to a foreigner to be president to keep her from being president she is a president who is a close ally. It is a Scholarship Program for the best and the brightest you have to be from kentucky and is designed to try to compete with the Ivy League Schools and those kids to stay in kentucky for their education. 70 of the graduates have chosen. And then to go off to the east but i bring in speakers in then they get to meet privately but then they address a larger public audience. Switching to politics you are undefeated u. S. Of six races in kentucky and 12 counting primaries. All of us are a political accident even though we want to admit it. 30 points behind. In july of the election year. It was a desperate situation. Roger ailes was pretty well known. In those days he was doing political consulting. Willing to take on somebody 30 points by nine to . And i appreciated the fact to take leon but this is a tough competitor and to end down 34 points i said is this race over . He said i have never known anybody to come from behind this late to win but i dont think it is over. Very competitive. And and what have a of bader vulnerability is with the needle in the haystack and then to be making speeches for money so he turned that and then out looking and the campaign got people interested to talk about it. And then that the guy who looks like the actor that was chased by dogs in the debt than a tree in the line was weve got you now. Not exactly a landslide. The we lost the seats in the senate with the democratic incumbent senator. I think your democratic opponents say your method of campaigning and probably your toughest was your last one because the Senate Conservatives coming and you of the right and then the left in to start off with the republican opponent. You and i witnessed the results of 2010 and 2012. I am glad all of the attention is on you. They basically costas five races in 2010. But quit nominating those who cannot win so in 2014 and said we will not allow that to happen in. So we got the most electable people nominated. And then to make a point that if they want to win the election is to beat them has you indicated was the pretty credible guy he carried to arad of 120 counties senate this is the only thing i will read out of your book but it says the conservative fund is wandering around the country destroying the difference is that they stroll into Mitch Mcconnell. And then as a result but in several others we took the senate back. The most electable candidate on the November Ballot everywhere. Host cross filed with the Senate Democratic leader harry reid. And able spoke and said tuesday that wed all like each other but were good friends in the city were friends with harry reid but then you say he has said jekyll and hyde personality and you think women are dogs and p. I. G. S. [laughter] he said he may be the worst geordie leader so the lesson is a place of relationships and about this relationship between the democratic and republican leader . Are you friends . I have been very public about a couple of things id like the way he shut the senate down and prevented people from voting and i think the rhetoric is very inappropriate. Like what . Just a few weeks before we tape this he took all of Donald Trumps most averages cummins prison the equivalents were not hitting all the time we have to talk and a daily basis but my goal with the current majority is to be is different in every way from the way he ran the previous majority i do object to the way he ran the senate and the rhetoric like Alan Greenspan he may be many things but a political hack he isnt. With in the middle of a military exercise. So i fail to express my objection to that type of rhetoric that is frequently flat out wrong. One other person the you have a chapter entitled professor obama. How did you choose . I think he would do of better job to deal with others if he would spend less time to appoint whoever he is talking to police to draw a contrast he doesnt spend time to convince me of things that i dont believe a letter to try to convince them of things that he doesnt believe we dont waste any time on that. We know how far each other can go. And to be successful and his political career but i dont think the is incessant lectures are hopeful in the outcome with some type of negotiation. If you do talk about that a lot and then you could accomplish more together because divided government is when you spread the responsibility around. And to make a speech early on in you never heard back . So whose fault is it we havent taken advantage i do a fireball board were to was the only major reporter. That in the meantime we have worked to do that was snipped off by almost everyone but i think divided government is the only time you can do big transformative things with the breakin and tipper neil raise the age of Social Security or tax reform and then to balance the budget three years in a row but to give you an example of a unified government could not produce the big outcome george bush was just reelected and asked us to tackle Social Security and to spend one year to get any democrat even lieberman to join with us your the white house and the house and if you want to do something on Social Security . So my big disappointment is what has to be done for the path that were headed the entitlement eligibility you have to change the eligibility for medicare and Social Security to fit the demographics of tomorrow the president knows that and is a very smart guy is 30 years sanders need to do it again. And then any other way but these two big transformative issues will into a forest because the nations ceo does not want to do it. The best was civil rights in the 60s and we both saw that i know when i first came up here to walk it one dash to work with senator baker and fo