compromise is the oxygen of democracy. and bob dole provided a lot of oxygen over those years he was in senate leadership. on my very first day in politics, i watched new york s liberal democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan take ten minutes to write himself a tv commercial for his 1988 re-election campaign in which senator moynihan included a quote from bob dole saying, pat moynihan and i saved social security. the campaign professionals in the room told senator moynihan the republican leader of the senate was never going to appear in a democrat s commercial saying that, to which senator moynihan said that he had seen bob dole say that in a speech in kansas that was carried on spoin. it was carried on c-span. the campaign professionals explained bob dole would publicly object to the moynihan campaign using that video of bob dole for a democratic candidate for senate and demand that the ad be taken off tv.
it was he and tom who created the disability act that made it historic. when he was governing, they created one of the best nutrition programs today. that is the kind of institutional political leader that we need so badly today. bob dole understood the importance of compromise. compromises the oxygen of democracy. and bob dole provided a lot of oxygen in those years. on my very first day in politics, i watched new york s liberal democratic senator, daniel patrick, take ten minutes to write himself a tv commercial for his 19th 88 reelection campaign. in which senator morning ham, including a quote from bob dole saying, pat mourning him and i saved social security. the campaign professionals in the room told senator morning him that the republican leader of the senate was never going to appear.
use to save their political hide. steve, let me just add something sam was saying. they brought donald trump in to try to pump up republican turn out, but what campaign professionals know is there s always a danger that with that kind of speaker does is pump up the opposition s turn out. i knew senators who used to say to other senators, you know, i ll come to your state or stay away from your state, whichever will help you the most. and for liberal north eastern senators their deal was don t worry, i ll stay away from your state because i know an association with me is not helpful to you. donald trump went there, and maybe he did pump up a turn out on the democratic side. i m actually guessing he did. one of the reasons that those senators would say that is because they would look at polling numbers and they would understand if you have a 41% favorable rating in a state, you don t want that person in
so very little. very little. thank you for that. very little. so this wasn t an e-mail to the son of the president of the united states. if it had been, i might have spent a little bit more time on it. this was written in about three minutes on my cell phone. interpreting what i believed my client was trying to get across and puffing it. that s what i do, i m a publicist. the strategy worked. 17 minutes after goldstone s e-mail, the future president s son responded with these words if it s what you say, i love it. campaigns accept opposition research all the time. but most campaign professionals will tell you they wouldn t accept it from a foreign government or a foreign intelligence service. that s just something that s considered out of bounds in american politics. how are you? thanks for coming by. and if the e-mail lacked specifics, trump jr. had at least three opportunities to clarify the details. there s a clear trail within the phone records that shows
so this wasn t an email to the son of the president of the united states. if it had been, i might have spent a little bit more time on it. this was written in about three minutes on my cell phone. interpreting what i believed my client was trying to get across and puffing it. that s what i do, i m a publicist. the strategy worked. 17 minutes after goldstone s email, the future president s son responded with these words if it s what you say, i love it. campaigns accept opposition research all the time. but most campaign professionals will tell you they wouldn t accept it from a foreign government or a foreign intelligence service. that s just something that s considered out of bounds in american politics. how are you? thanks for coming by. and if the email lacked specifics, trump jr. had at least three opportunities to clarify the details. there s a clear trail within the phone records that shows that donald trump jr. and emin agalarov connected by phone. but donald trump