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he with wanted paxton to replace newt and everything blew up. and there was the coup. but denny was going to be the sane rational common sense guy that was going to take control. it's mind boggling. >> a guy that you hadn't heard from in a long time. he'd sord of gone under the radar a bit in washington and the national stage since he left congress. and now the story has opened up this pandora's box and pieces open the weekend about what exactly he's been doing since we saw him last serving in congress personally, approximately. maybe taking too much material money to pay for his private lifestyle, things like that. still ahead on "morning joe," more on lindsey graham joining the field for 2016. also new polling out of iowa and the top republican right how who is now someone who isn't even an official candidate. plus it's such good news. walmart, everybody will get $15 an hour. i just found out from watching
so many years later when the vice president was speaking to military families who had lost their loved ones. >> i was down in washington hiring my staff and i got a phone call saying that my family had been in an accident. and just like you guys know by the tone of the phone call you just knew, didn't you. you knew when they walked up the path, you knew when the call came you knew you just felt thisitn your bones something bad happened. and i knew. i don't know how i knew. about but the call said my wife was dead my daughter was dead and wasn't sure how my sons were are going toeau biden was one of those sons before he was all cut up, prop bones. he had to be put in traction.
maybe it's because i just love the news, but at the time, i thought every job i ever had was the best job in the world. i'll be honest i'm going to miss being in the middle of things but the one thing i will never forget is the trust you placed in me and how nice you were to have me as a guest in your home over so many years. that meant the world to me. and it always will. thank you. >> bob schieffer yesterday as he retires from cbs news after nearly half a century. 24 of those years he also moderated "face the nation." and i want to talk about it with al hunt. al is this washingtonin washington right now. bob is a giant and there are fewer and fewer giants roaming the media worlds and he's one we'll miss. >> we'll miss him terribly. he is a chieffer just did it well.
>> secretary clinton will be a candidate who could win the general election she has to show what she's got under more pressure from bernie sanders, from o'malley, whoever it is. and i actually think this would be good for her, this period in which she is the monarch in waiting has been gredful. she gets bashed every day. so this may bring out her fire. as you look at the democratic race, you see the populism is the driving theme in the mood of at least democratic base voters at this point in the campaign. and hillary clinton will have to find a way to address it speak to it and that will be tough. she is not a convincing populist. >> matt, let's look at the republican poll again. i think it was iowa numbers that show governor scott walker at the top. are you surprised by that? i'm not. >> no not at all. in fact i think that he has several things that are really appealing to republican voters. one, he's not from washington,
interests of a fellow republican, when you have mcconnell saying what he did, that's very unusual in washington. for once president obama gets to look on national security issues like the responsible quiet voice urging compromise. he's working with john boehner of all people to get legislation passed. but it was an extraordinary weekend that exposed what i think are much deeper tensions in the party. >> congressman, where do you come down on this question that rand paul raises of privacy versus security? >> well, i'll go back to something somebody a lot earlier said, benjamin franklin. he said those willing to trade their freedom for security deserve neither and will probably lose both. we can do it the right way. last year i co-sponsored a rewrite of the patriot act with jim sensenbrenner. it came out of the judiciary committee unanimously and then the rules committee changed it. it completely changed it so that sensenbrenner, myself and others voted against it.
joe." sam stein an al hunt still with with us. joining us, matt salmon, and from washington, david ignatius. >> let's talk about the patriot act. why didn't weon't we break into that news. >> on capitol hill, several key parts of the patriot act are no longer in effect. at least for now this means the nsa bulk collection of phone records must come to an end. the senate vote will vote to advance surveillance reform bill already passed by the house, about republican senator and presidential candidate rand paul is taking credit it for delaying action on the measure and triggering the lapse. >> the question we have to ask ourselves, are we really willing, are we so frightened that we're willing to give up
passion is his kids, his grand kids. i had a chance to go to iowa in 2008 when he was campaigning for president and the entire biden family was there. and you just had to marvel at the love and respect that they held for each other. and this is not just words, this is not just a speech you saw it every single day. and the bond between beau and his dad, between beau and his entire family was just so tight. and topping of a 9-year-old and 11-year-old beautiful kids losing their dad, haley his wonderful wife losing her husband and the whole family losing just an amazing human being, just unspeakable tragedy. >> and as you've said so eloquently, governor, the state of delaware the people of delaware losing a fierce and very very effective public servant. thank you so much for being with us. >> governor jack markell. thank you. now to washington where after the senate failed to reach a key deadline last night several key parts of the patriot