celebration, either. but we ve seen a lot of comradery. we met a lot of people in line, and shared their love of queen elizabeth. why was it so important for you guys to be here? you re live on cnn. we just needed to come for the history and just to pay our respects. it s very important. reporter: what did the queen mean to you? everything english. everything english. i think to die in bed at age 96, loved by the global population, nothing tragic about that. just wondering how long you guys were expecting to stay in line for today. they said in the back about three hours. you were expecting longer, i presume? i don t think so. why was it so important to bring your girls? girls, say it. why we came. because we wanted to see the
its citizen militia constitutes its army. most able-bodied men serve at least 245 days in the militia. they re all trained to shoot and most of them keep their guns at home. militiamen can hone their skills at their local shooting clubs, gun societies that boast more than 100,000 members offering classes, competition and comradery. we do competitions together and we are ayoung people and older peopler. this is ursula, a gun shooter since she was young. on the day we met her at her club she hit the bull s eye 18 out of 20 times. not bad for someone in her 70s. i was surprised, yes. i never did it. even the youngsters are expert marksmen.
i wanted to see them go to prison. i want the example made that if you commit fraud on a government like that, you ll go to prison. you won t get a slap on the wrist. you won t get a fine. you ll go to prison. senator leahy, quote, the senate is a broken place. i read and really enjoyed elements of your book. among the many vignettes you talk about iron mike mansfield with his back room bar. it occurs to me that if the back room bar existed today in the senate, it would be segregated by rs and ds. like wherein lies the break of the comradery that you enjoyed for so many years that no longer exists. well, it was a gradual thing. i think a lot of it came after the what newt gingrich did in
then he settled down and let three actors go to it with just quiet dialogue. this will be done in 12 minutes. didn t see the first shot for about half an hour. it was this comradery amongst these three characters that elevated what the movie was. 360 men come out, the sharks took the rest. jaws is a friggin masterpiece. jaws was the first gigantic blockbuster. hope on a billion screens at the time. it became a cultural milestone immediately. it changed everything. it was even more in my dna to make close encounters than jaws. i was always into ufos as a kid. always wondering when one was
fate. i would ask you as one of the few people that s been going through this with her from inside the same party, what has it been like being on the committee with liz cheney? has there been comradery or gal low s humor? what has that relationship been like for the two of you? yeah, look, it s been pretty amazing. i mean, this committee just outside of just liz and i, this is like probably never happened in history. and it likely will never happen again. you have a committee that is focussed on getting the truth, getting the answers, getting done what needs to be done. we thank kevin mccarthy for pulling his members. it s made it a lot easier for us to get to the truth. liz, look, i feel the same way, is if i went back 20 months and made the decision about am i going to impeach donald trump, i would have done it in a heart beat. liz feels the same way. it s like, what is it for a man to gain the world but lose his soul? and i think as we ve gotten into this committee, you know, liz