dinner. shows up with guys that did the rubdowns in house gym and dinner they have together. he shows up at that with reagan and bush and they work the guys. i knew that day which way the wind was blowing because every democrat wanted their picture taken with reagan in the gym dinner. he would call tip up and say can i come by and tell you what s going on? they would meet back in the autograph room and sit with him and tell him everything that was going on. total respect for the other guy s office. respect for deadlines. they had a few fights over what shutdowns. you know what? they resolved them quickly because the government had to go on. you ve got historical document there. tell us about it. aren t you nice. today because of subpoenas in the last 20 to 30 years, nobody kept a journal. look at this. an old ledger. every day i get up and every night i went to bed i wrote what happened between tip and reagan and fights that went on.
barry was found guilty, went to jail, came back. laura: that s standard? wait, is mayor barry the standard now? if he is the standard, we are in trouble. i know we are. laura: i m just teasing on a friday. here is what you see. you see that weiner is going away with this pension, right? no one is going to forget these pictures. at the house gym. that s going to be imprinted on people s minds. isn t it true though that president obama is pretty uncandidly smart politically. he probably could come back politically. i don t see that people saying he has no political future. i don t buy that i mean. well, he also has done very well in the past in defying the political odds. first election to the city council. laura: right. he was able to pull that off when no one thought he could. i don t think in the next few years you will see him. laura: the show on the other network that he might be wanting to work with would be called
capitol hill correspondents sleeping at the office? these guys they worked until 1:00 a.m. this morning. and they are back again at 10:00. even if they don t get a lot done they do put in a lot of hours. and you shower at the house gym. yeah. they pay for that. they pay to shower at the house gym. all right. i m imagining a coin operated shower. anyway, kelly o donnell, very interesting. membership dues. got it. thank you. oh, my. i ll do the trivia. which senator once served as a driver for republican john ashcroft? the answer is republican senator roy blunt of missouri. he was ashcroft s driver back in 1972 campaign when ashcroft unsuccessfully ran for congress. he later became governor and then senator and attorney general. up next the be republican rift. purity is not a winner in politics.
house was out to get him. i was a congressman in my first eight weeks and i was in the congressional gym and i went down and worked out. i went into the showers and i m sitting there, showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes rahm emanual, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest yelling at me because i wasn t going to vote for the president s budget. do you know how awkward it is to have a political argument with a naked man? no, frankly, i don t. joining me now co-host of the daily rundown, chuck todd and chris cillizza, who writes the fix on washingtonpost.com. chuck, i don t know where to go. help me out of this. reporter: exactly. here is what is factually correct. it is true that rahm emanual still works out at the house gym. beyond that, it s hard to fact check anything else that congressman, now former congressman massa has said. why would you want to? reporter: that s right. who is going to dig deep into that one? in all se
barry was found guilty, went to jail, came back. laura: that s standard? wait, is mayor barry the standard now? if he is the standard, we are in trouble. i know we are. laura: i m just teasing on a friday. here is what you see. you see that weiner is going away with this pension, right? no one is going to forget these pictures. at the house gym. that s going to be imprinted on people s minds. isn t it true though that president obama is pretty uncandidly smart politically. he probably could come back politically. i don t see that people saying he has no political future. i don t buy that i mean. well, he also has done very well in the past in defying the political odds. first election to the city council. laura: right. he was able to pull that off when no one thought he could. i don t think in the next few years you will see him. laura: the show on the other network that he might be wanting to work with would be called