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>> right. the big other question of this is sarah palin. i asked senator mccain multiple times over the years about the palin pick. he always paused to think. he was reflective. he never criticized it. >> he would never say it. >> he never criticized her, never disowned her. what he always told me was she did what was asked of her, which was to fire up the base. >> to be clear, it might sound like a distinction without a difference, but it is. even in the book he said he regretted not picking lieberman. he never said he regretted picking sarah palin. >> he didn't blame her. >> and it's such an...

Critical moment in the summer of 2008, elevating someone who did give him a boost in the polls initially. we'll argue forever about whether the palin pick, mainstream, some of the tea party opposition -- we weren't calling it that then, but to president obama. but one of the things that i so admire about senator mccain and bob dole and george h.w. bush, this last group of truly great people whose heroics were mostly in the 20th century, at least as young men, is that they called them as they saw them. if they screwed up, they said, hey, i screwed up. judge me on the totality of my life. you kn...

That quickly failed as palin stumbled on television and on the campaign trail. i think he regrets it. i think that was why he did it. it opened the door to elements of the republican party that mccain is now dealing with. some of the world of donald trump comes together in the palin pick. and with palin joining the ticket. i think that's also part of its regret. >> yeah. i expect we'll learn more about that decision and the regrets since in his upcoming memoir. >> julian zelizer, we appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. okay, so many people are trying to figure out president tr...

Being a pro-life candidate. we need to remember, though, that it's not the vice president that would legislate abortion and that would be congress's role. and we'll keep that in mind. >> nia-malika, this would be interpreted as throwing the long ball, don't you think? this would be like a palin pick in the 2012 cycle. if anything, i've been anticipating that mitt romney will do something very conservative, not politically conservative, but very conservative in terms of the selection. >> that's right. a safe choice. nothing certainly to ostracize the evangelical base, which is so important in t...

Being a pro-life candidate. we need to remember, though, that it's not the vice president that would legislate abortion and that would be congress's role. and we'll keep that in mind. >> nia-malika, this would be interpreted as throwing the long ball, don't you think? this would be like a palin pick in the 2012 cycle. if anything, i've been anticipating that mitt romney will do something very conservative, not politically conservative, but very conservative in terms of the selection. >> that's right. a safe choice. nothing certainly to ostracize the evangelical base, which is so important in t...