Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190527:12:21:00
Bipartisanship was different there. three out of four congressmen and senators who were veterans of world war ii and the korean war. they knew what it was like to have a common purpose that went across party lines. they weren't racing home to raise money. partisan lines weren't drawn quite the same way. they cared about their institutions of the congress and senate. he could play on that and get civil rights, voting rights, medicare, medicaid. extraordinary until the war cut into it. >> so important about the common purpose they had on this memorial day. how much of a peculiar situation we're ...