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Lot of intersection with you and with senator dole since he was a member of the finance committee as well as the republican leader in the senate. and in all legislating, had to include bob dole and sheila burke at some point in the discussion. i felt very lucky about that. i also had to say that i felt way in over my head every time i was talking to you about anything. you are very gracious about not letting anyone know just how many more cards you had in the deck that i didn't. but sheila, when you look at the way senator dole operated, and you look at the way you grew up in the senate as a s...

We love about it is we're all allowed to televise it. we are not allowed to televise real governing. this is what we get to show. there are things you will derive from it. you'll absolutely get in many cases a much better understanding of a candidate's position. that's very, very helpful and predictive as to how they will make those decisions when they're making governing decisions. rachel, i was just talk to one of the members of the debate commission about the rules and the reasons why they change the rules into this free-form discussion. many of the members of the debate commission have wat...

Section. the idea, tonight, is in this 90-minute debate, there will be nine topics, ten minutes each for the nine topics. but each candidate will begin each topic with a two-minute statement. so let's assume for a moment that each one of them will go over a little bit. the first five minutes of each topic is just each candidate's opening statement. then they're supposed to engage in a discussion. that will leave probably only about five minutes or less for that, so some of these are going to feel like some of the quicker segments we end up doing on our shows on msnbc. martha raddatz is going t...

With microphones, with television cameras aimed at the people doing the governing. governing is done in closed rooms, in the cabinet room, in other rooms where no reward is made for the whitiest person or the person with the zinger or the clever line and the reward of good governing goes to the person in that room who is most thoughtful and most careful and most deliberative in including everything necessary to make a governing decision, including the advice of others in the room. none of that, none of the real skills and the real test of governing will be on display here. what will be on disp...