Theres no one victory and thank you very much im done. No. It is a constant commitment, year after year after year. So what im going to continue doing is to stay in that fight and i think the members of emilys list will. Weve learned that sometimes we win and sometimes we lose but we never stop and we keep packing that sailboat to get to where were going. Thank you for reminding all of us that even though you make progress that you should always be aware that going backwards is something that could happen. It does. If we are reminded of that and we keep that on our radar, we wont get so focused on the progress in saying that we have done this. Will always be prepared to fight that fight. There are those forces that would take this back. Thats a good, good lesson to share. Its a critical lesson. Otherwise we will win and it will all be gone before we know it. Do you have any final words you would like to give to the women, the thousands of women who are listening and watching you today
You talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you and the two of you just sat there and people are uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak and your account someone once told resident george w. Bush that you were excited over certain boat and he said really . How can you tell so why so few words . Guest im not afraid of talking but i found i learned a lot more by listening so frequently i start out listening and think about what i want to say before i do it. I think its fair to say that im in an era of trump, probably a very different approach to commenting on public affairs. Are not the first one. I remember the late bob novak used to say the hardest interview he ever had on meet the press was with senator mike manziel because he asked him a question and hed say you and he asked him another one and he say no and he run out of questions and the easiest one was hubert humphrey. One question and he talked for 30 minutes before you dont get in trouble for what you dont say and
University of louisville to become a senator, did and then set out to become the majority leader of the United States senate and did but mitch, i have a confession to make. When i was asked to do this your was what i thought. How can anyone get Mitch Mcconnell to talk for an hour . Because in your own book you point out that you only the press when its to your advantage. You talk about a time when bill gates came in to see you and the two of you just sat there and people are uncomfortable waiting for one of you to speak and your account someone once told resident george w. Bush that you were excited over certain boat and he said really . How can you tell so why so few words . Guest im not afraid of talking but i found i learned a lot more by listening so frequently i start out listening and think about what i want to say before i do it. I think its fair to say that im in an era of trump, probably a very different approach to commenting on Public Affairs. Are not the first one. I rememb
More here in washington, d. C. More of our tour next week. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you and coming up tuesday morning, jacob hacker, institutional for social and policy studies, director at Yale University will join us to discuss the Economic Performance of the state and how historically blue and red states stack up over medium income, taxation and education level. And National Association of corporate director peter glees n will be on talking about wall street is continuing to wane in the wake of the 2008 melt down. And talk about efforts to overhaul corporate governance. Washington journal begins live at 7 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight on cspan2, it is booktv in prime time with booktvs by politicians. Prosenate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and John Hickenlooper talking about the opposite of whoa. And then we hear from california senator Barbara Boxer who writes the art of tough. And darrell issa
Hosted the u. S. House of senate,tatives, u. S. And the library of congress. Enator mcconnell senator mcconnell takes us behind the scenes into the Republican Leaders Conference Room and his private office. And he recalls his own political career and the historic moments. N which he participated we are in the United States capitol in the senate wing and a tour by theven majority leader himself. Fork you, senator mcconnell opening you have this week to us. Where are we in the capitol now . Senator mcconnell we are not in the senate wing, which is further down. We are in the main happen toll. Came down from philadelphia in the summer of the capitol looked quite different at that point. The two wings were added right there the civil war during 1850s. But this particular space like the capitol has its own history. That know that during general period they began to develop what subsequently came as the library of congress in this particular space. The been the office of republican leader of