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>> so p.k., i want to start with you. we were texting about this when it happened and you were also mind-blown, having covered that moment. what does this is a to you about the republican party right now? >> to put it in perspective, dick cheney in his eight years as vice president was sort of the most trusted ally of congressional republicans. he was often the guy that the bush team sent up to try and close deals. there was an epic night where they sent him up to convince house republicans to vote for the wall street bailout for t.a.r.p. it went terribly, but he was still believed the guy to ...

Cooperators, to deny them a pathway toward reducing their prison sentences. and you were joined by two conservatives well known to us, judge william pryor and now judge dabney frederic. and the three of you were outvoted by four commissioners, which included judge hinojosa, an individual nominated by president reagan and described as a hard-nosed, no-nonsense judicial conservative, who was on the other side of the argument from you. so you've got four commissioners including an outstanding conservative reagan nominee and they thought the law could be interpreted to give a break on sentencing. ...

Life? i hedge my bet on the following. if the democrats pick the right candidate next year, by that i mean whose conduct and power contrasts powerfully from what we've heard from trump, they'll take him down. we picked a nonpolitician generalizen hower to replace a product of the kansas city political machine, harry truman. we picked jack kennedy to replace the tired eisenhower. we picked nixon to make the cold calculation to free the u.s. from linden in vietnam and we picked the first george bush for a kindler gentler presidency over the conservative reagan. we picked the young and nimble bil...

Last thing before we go tonight is the death of a legislative giant of the last century. birch bayh was a liberal democrat from the conservative state of louisiana. he rose through a farming family. u.s. army and then eventually law school. years later after three terms in the u.s. senate, he was taken down by the conservative reagan wave of 1980. beaten by a young upstart named dan quayle. but while birch bayh was in the senate, starting with his arrival in 1963, he left a mark. he was the author of title ix, the land mark federal legislation that outlawed gender discrimination in schools rec...

Were looking at those polls. it was almost like they couldn't lose and, of course, they did. i think bush is a transitional president in a lot of ways between conservative reagan and clinton, world war ii war hero. but what strikes me about the no new taxes read my lips, he knew the democrats were going to try to trap him. he actually articulated that idea, and that's exactly what happened. and it strikes me that somebody who knew what was coming -- the democrats knew they could weaken bush if they could get him to agree to that. and they went forward with it. and he sort of fell into a trap t...