reporter: after his recuperation, russell elected dole to four terms as county prosecutor, and in 1961 its voters sent him to the house of representatives and reelected him there four times. in 1968 dole ran for senate and won, spending the next three decades in the u.s. senate. he became the senate majority leader in 1984 within aacerbic and often self-depracating wit, he established himself as a tire theless power broker, pragmatic and able to work out compromises with democrats. in 1976 presidential candidate gerald ford had selected dole as his running mate. after their defeat, dole saw his own nomination for president unsuccessfully in 1980 and 1988. but in 1996 he decided to try again. he resigned his senate seat to focus on the campaign. the new season before we make this moment far less the closing of one chapter than the opening
they were inspired by partly when they were inspired by partly when the wind blows, but also partly because her kids came back from seeing warhorse and said what would we do in that circumstance so it starts out like a christmas movie but it is the christmas movie goes to hell. and it sounds like an interesting idea, i have to say for me it did not work and that s for two reasons, for the first part of it when it is a comedy with irritating posh people, i did not find them funny and i did not believe in them. the second part of it when it becomes kind of apocalypse in which it is dealing with a lot of very dark material, it didn t feel earned. it felt like because i don t believe in these characters and because you are still doing the knockabout comedy stuff, none of this is earned. that said, i know some people who thought this is great, it s like an acerbic, i like acerbic christmas hills, you know, silent night deadly night, gremlins, thatjoke about silent night deadly night, gremli
moonshot but one that is really possible and doable and would be revolutionary. if you think about the two real structural causes of economic growth in the long run, one is population growth and we know that across most western countries it is not happening and in the us it only happened through immigration. the other way in which you can get economic growth is productivity increase and if this were to happen you really do set notjust the united states but the western world, given the us acerbic, the western world up for a renewed renaissance of growth. so the potential is enormous and i guess there is nervous excitement which may mask itself as pessimism but it is not. it is genuine optimism that we really do have a lot of moving parts here and the stars need to align perfectly. nervously excited. thank you very much for your time today. as you ve been hearing
democrats is they need trump voters to vote for the democrat running for the house. that s how conor run. he was not particularly harsh or acerbic about donald trump. so that is a difficult dance. they re going to have to create a certain level of buyers remorse with a sector of the electorate. and i think nia is right about those voters in the suburban areas. they have tended to turn out stronger in the special elections. they re going to need a more centrist economic message. one of the things they ve done very poorly, it has been a referendum on nancy pelosi and the progressive left leaning of the democratic party. stick around, we have a lot more. you ve heard about the allegations from the porn star and donald trump. what about after he became president? you ll be surprised what stormy daniels lawyer had to say to me. take listen after this break. -if you told me a year ago where i d be right now.
look, i hope he continues to tweet. i am very much in the group who believes that donald trump has to be donald trump. he got here despite everything. he beat 16 other republicans. he beat secretary of state with a billion dollars of media on her side. he has done it his way. his way is to be transparent. yes, he makes mistakes, they are out in the open. martha: here is what i see. go back to the campaign period. you look at what he would do when things look like they were kind of sliding off the rails. it feels a little bit like that now, with all of this back and forth and twitter and the focus on all of the petty stuff, some very real, sort of acerbic back and forth with the intel community. but he would do then is get out on the road and give substantive speeches that were based on issues, that people cared about. wouldn t it behoove him at this