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Three years. so let's be clear about what republicans are thinking. we'll always have a republican governor who will always pick a republican replacement who could then serve out the term. no special election to mess things up. but at one point there will be a democratic governor making the choice and then what? i take you back to 2004. massachusetts democrats were panicked that if john kerry won the presidency, mitt romney would be there to pick a successor in the senate. so what happened? democrats said let's change the rules. so they changed the law to allow for a special election. kerry lo...

The last time he ran for office. that he's lost touch with the electorate of the 21st century so we decided to look at recent presidential nominees to see how long they waited between runs for office. look at this list of folks. michael dukakis, bill clinton, george w. bush and john kerry, all presidential nominees. they all ran for president just two years after winning reelection for either governor or senator. of course, bush and clinton went on to win the presidency, dukakis and kerry lost. now let's look at a group of nominees who waited four years between runs for office. it's a large gr...

Decision not to run for reelection or by the time that happened do you think he already knew he wasn't going to try to get reelected? >> i don't think it had anything to do with that. even early on, although it's very popular now, it was 40-40 in favor and against, the rest undecided, i think there were other factors. i don't think he ever intended to run for reelection, he wanted to get on the national stage, run in '08, a lot depended what happened with john kerry in '04, once kerry lost, he was off and running. his unfavorability was in the high 50s, he could have come back. i think he coul...

The book is the first several years i worked for him, the first two years was immediately after their son wade had passed. john edwards was a good man. i want to tell youç, i truly loved him and his family. we got to be close. we vacationed together. we went to final four together. you name it. we were close. somewhere along the lines of when -- after kerry lost, you know, he was no longer serving in the senate. for two or three years he traveled the world, visiting with billionaires in russia, going to anyone with tony blair. everybody treated him like he was the future president waiting. o...

Beginning and the end. john edwards at the beginning was the person i believed him. it's right after his first son had died. he was a good man. >> when he ran for president the first time. >> when he was first elected to the senate up until when he ran the first time. he was a great guy to be around. we'd go to basketball games. our kids played together. we vacationed today. i truly -- our families were very tight. and then as the years kept on going on, being -- there's a fine line and it's hard to tell between somebody who is an arrogant ass and somebody who is an ambitious, driven person. a...