Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121018:19:42:00
The country that's changed. we like to look at as recent as the '80s. we had an ideological president in reagan and an ideological liberal speaker in the house, tip o'neal. they would disagree very strongly, but whether it came time to get things done, they did. >> i hate to interrupt you, but jonathan, you had conservative southern democrats. that was the reason tip o'neal to the extent he had to cooperate with reagan on anything is because a big chunk of his party in the house we would now call them republicans. they were mistakenly still democrats back then. >> john, let me piggyback on ste...