before we talk about those, if you wanna get into it, let's just say that the question can even be posed about Romans who live at the same time. I mean, if you take a senator from the age of Cicero and someone from the slums of Rome, who's maybe the son of a slave who was brought from the East by some general a generation ago,and put them in a room and say, "Now, you discuss. You're both Romans. What do you have in common?" They might have trouble in coming up with something.
uh, especially in comparison to the Gretchen Whitmer endorsement and Gary Peters endorsement, the outbound Other things matter more. senator . Of course, of course they mattered a lot more. So, it's always a calculation, right? It's always a calculation for the campaign. campaigns,they poll me in these districts. It's not like these guys are, you know, out in the water, totally blind, where they're like, "This is a song guy. Like,
Yeah, I guess I do think that they for the over last 10 years have been better than the left. Senator Chris Murphy, welcome to the show.Thanks for having me.
I know there are people who will hear the premise of the book and say, "Well, hold on, Senator . Wait a second. Democrats aren't failing because they refuse to offer people meaning. And it's not that Republicansare better at giving people the things they need to live a more meaningful life. That's for damn sure. They're just lying to people, right? They're just
If I can do that as a rock and roll piano player, certainly you all can sit at your dinner table and have conversations with your family about anything. Senator Robert Byrd, who just passed away a few years ago, oldest living senator from West Virginia.
More importantly, McCarthy's fellow Republicans failed. Senator Bob Taft, who ran for president in 1952, lost to Eisenhower-- lost the nomination to Eisenhower.But the Senate went into Republican hands, and Taft became the majority leader.
I want to take one of our online questions now. Senator Tim Kaine was like that when it came to the authorization for use of military force.
And then there were two others after me, before Obama. Senator Lindsey Graham has been saying repeatedly now on "Meet the Press" and others, I've told the president,
everybody watched every night and in the 1950s one of the people who brought down Senator Joe McCarthy and his communist witch hunts was Edward aruro who everybody watched and trust but now wedon't have that kind of person and you're raising not only that problem but an even bigger problem and
She ran a good 20th century campaign. Senator Obama ran a good 21st century campaign.And so her theory becoming Secretary of State was that information networks would impact
From Jeff Connaughton, who's the Washington guy who arrives there full of idealism and becomes an aide to a young senator named Joe Biden, thinking he will ride Biden's charisma into the White House, and then gradually becomes disillusioned and ends up becoming a lobbyist andpassing through that revolving door that so many people in Washington do, makes a lot of money, loses a lot of money in
Reasonable question you're asking. Senator Begich from Alaska has introduced a bill in the Senate to do this.
the bill on the floor of the house, no hearings, no public testimony, no public comment. Senator Cranston and Senator Leahy carried it in the Senate.One hearing, one time and on the house it was voted 198 to 189 and we won the amendment on the floor of the House.
So, if I may, Senator --. Senator Shultz: Let me interject something that builds on what you just said.Sometimes people say, "Well, this sounds good, but it's impossible.
Phillip Taubman: Good. Good point, thank you. Senator Nunn, as the author of Nunn-Lugar, when you look back over the 20 years or so since then, how would you rate what we've been able to do in terms of preventing proliferation?Senator Sam Nunn: Well, it's very hard to quantify something that did not happen.
Senator Nunn, as the author of Nunn-Lugar, when you look back over the 20 years or so since then, how would you rate what we've been able to do in terms of preventing proliferation?Senator Sam Nunn: Well, it's very hard to quantify something that did not happen.But after the Soviet Union broke up, I happened to be there when they were having the debate about breaking up.
Phillip Taubman: '91. Right. Senator Sam Nunn: Right when the empire was coming apart.Very fortunately, within the next couple of years, Bill Perry, who had helped envision this idea, became Secretary of Defense.
So, I think that the whole atmosphere has changed and changed for the better. Senator Sam Nunn: Fourteen countries, George, to your point where former Secretaries of State or Defense or top officials have basically written and endorsed our position on this,which we call "The Vision and the Steps." The vision being a world without nuclear weapons.
George P. Schultz: You remind me of Governor Perry. Senator Sam Nunn: I learned in politics a long time ago, when you're gonna say something about numbers, don't ever use the number.Say, "I have a few questions today." You can stop at two or three or four, nobody knows.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: We were frustrated for a number of years because Russia was, as you said, furnishing technology and so forth for the Bashir reactor in Iran.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: We're also trying our best to get countries around the globe and private sector to use low-enriched uranium instead of high-enriched uranium.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Let me add one other point here.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Well, I would--.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Phillip Taubman, I would imagine--.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Let me ask a question of Phillip.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Let me add one point.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. Senator Sam Nunn: Just one final word.
And when you meet them, they invade your personal space. They stand way too close. They rub the back of your head. They give you the full man hug. Thing, I had dinner with a Republican Senator who kept his hand on my thigh the whole meal, squeezing it for emphasis when he wanted to make a point.And so what they have is just incredible social skills. A story I tell about Bill Clinton, which you'll call name-dropping, but I call reporting, I'm walking out of a hotel lobby
Thanks to Eric and his friendly fellow staffers, there I was with backups to backups of access to see one of the most important public figures in the world. Senator Clinton's speech was impassioned and exhilarating in the way that television can never quite capture. The audience was transfixed while she spoke and erupted into thunderousapplause as she finished.
up that rallying cry. And they were the second group responsible for killing the climate bill, where the Senate Republicans who opposed climate action to a man. There wasn't a single senator and a woman, a single man or woman in the United States Republican Caucus this year who was willing to come forward in support of climate action. We look back now on 2008,2007, even 2005 as the good old days of bi-partisanship on this issue. When you had John McCain as
Senator Obama gotta start getting that right um president- elect Obama uh introduced a bill last year that we were
Senator in 2007. Then the Post editor predicted that in the lead-up to the election, he would keep trying to claim that he's post-partisan,
Senator Obama uh or Senator McCain who whoever you know whoever's elected president what we want to do is be able
senator and you go visit some impoverished country you fly over in a helicopter and you look down at these teeing masses of
senator and he put something on the ballot that is so outrageous in
senators . So do you have any suggestions for effective ways for people like me who live in liberal districts to put pressure on members of Congress
senators from Arizona one was a Republican and one was a Democrat I knew
senators and two of its congressmen delegations from our task force have been meeting regularly with them tense
senators ago something I think it's very relevant you said anybody who thinks that ignorance is reader go hand in hand thanks something that never was never
And Senator Jim Webb. incredible, incredible man.
progressive senator , has you know, proposed a moratorium on new data centers. But the the politics of this are super weird, you know, Josh
Then Senator Kennedy, you must address this audience.
Every senator 's son and daughter is going to go to a school somewhere that has good music and good art.
When Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii learned about this, he was mortified and outraged.
and Senator Gillibrand in New York.
but Senator Franken felt that Justice Scalia's dissent was very gay.
But Senator Sessions on the floor of the US Senate in 2006-- not in some club, not during lunch, on the floor in 2006 said that-- and I'm paraphrasing--
a senator Congressman anyone know remember that guy see this is total stuff you should know we got one part right and then we add some other weird
and Senator Kennedy, for whom I worked.
And Senator Cruz tweeted before one of the Republican debates something that picked up on "The Force Awakens."