states to go and to create kind of fitness rallies and summits and bring together educational leaders and health leaders to create more physical education classes all over the united states and schools. because he wanted everyone to stay fit. and so i did that. and it was a really great learning experience because as i was traveling from state to state, he would never, ever differentiate by talking about the democratic governor or republican governor. to him, it was all the same. i remember one time i said to him, i m going up to new york state, and governor cuomo, and he said say hi to him. he s a pal. say hi to him for me and all this. he was always kind of like very kind to everybody. and i learned from him the good sides of politics, that you can cross the aisle and that you can talk to the other side and respect the other side, even though you disagree and all that stuff. i learned a lot from him. i want to bring up this photo of you and the former president sledding at camp dav
austrian sleds, which you direct kind of with your feet. so we went down totally out of control. of course, we crashed into barbara bush, who broke her leg after that. so that s why he sent me this picture. we had really a great time up there at camp david. like i said, it was a great learning experience, hanging out around him. he was kind of like a mentor and kind of like a father figure at the same time. so touching in the end, but about the whole notion of the crash and your mom breaking her leg. so is he saying that he led to the breaking of your mom s leg, or did she break her leg in a different way? there are different stories out there. what do you recall? she broke the leg i wasn t there, but she broke the leg running into a tree. anyway, so yeah, i love hearing that orlanarnold schwarzenegger accent. he s been such a good friend. i don t know if it s appropriate, but there s a joke
it might seem surprising that you, a pro nfl player and the long-time senator had so much in common, such a tight bond. i wonder if you could tell us how your friendship came about? i got a chance to meet him in 2006, a chance meeting. for some reason, senator mccain just took a liking to me early. you know, the relationship kind of developed. i remember flying back on an airplane ride with him from d.c. and, you know, getting a chance to talk to him for four hours in the flight and then watching how he conducted himself once he got off the plane and how generous he was with his time, taking pictures, signing autographs. anybody that came up to him. i m thinking if he has time for this, then anybody should be able to make time. it was really a great learning experience for me and our relationship continued to develop from that point on. he was, of course, a big sports fan but i suppose had thing about your friendship is
meals in the community through his church. so you re not a fan, just kidding? so justin, what were your impressions working for him? well, you know, to everything that jennifer just said. you know, getting to work for judge kavanaugh was an amazing honor and it was exciting to be in his chambers. it was exciting to be around someone who has that kind of reverence for the constitution. someone who takes mentoring and family as seriously as he does. and someone who was always an independent thinker. every case they came to is whether the litigants were right, left or center, regardless of whether the government was involved, criminal defendants, corporations, plaintiffs, he just wanted to know, okay, what does the law say? what s the text? what is the structure? and so it was just a great learning experience. and like jen, i think the world of him. so, jen, having been around him so much, do you have a sense of how he will vote if a
their children to the capitol. some of the teachers have brought their own children to the capitol. it s a great learning experience or political movements, social sciences to come up and see the action being taken. but is been a busy week and an active week and a lot of people at the capitol. neil: thanks, governor. very busy news day. keeping track of that. just getting bigger and bigger. thanks very much. you re welcome. neil: i m old enough to remember when it happened when martin luther king was gunned down 50 years ago tonight. we know how things have changed and how in some cases they have not. the read on his mission a half a century later. he s playing with us. no, he s trying to tell us something.