captioning sponsored by cbs good mornings, welcome to face the nation from the center here in greenville, south carolina. at last night s republican debate was anything but peaceful. the reputation for brass knuckle candidates they took their brawling primary on to the stage. donald trump was on the offensive attacking george w. bush for the war in iraq. obviously the war in iraq is a big, fat mistake george bush made a mistake. we can make mistakes. but that one was a beauty. we should have never been in iraq. we have destabilized the middle east. dickerson: you still think he should be impeached. do whatever you want you call it whatever you want i want to tell you they lied. they said there were weapons of mass destruction. there were none. they knew there were none. there were no weapons of mass destruction. dickerson: okay. all right. i am sick and tired of him going after my family. while donald trump is building a reality tv show, my brother was building a
this is overheard. [applause]. evan: thomas mallon, welcome. thomas: thanks for having me. evan: congratulations on this thomas: thank you. evan: brand new book. why reagan? why the reagan administration as a setting for a novel? what propelled you to have the book be set there and then? thomas: i seem to be visiting republican presidents at their lowest points. evan: you have a thing. you have a thing for republican presidents kind of on the outs, or heading there. thomas: the previous book to this one was watergate . and this shows reagan in 86, which is arguably the low point in his presidency. evan: we have iran-contra. we have really the coming apart of a lot of personnel things within the white house. thomas: democrats retake the senate. evan: democrats retake the senate. thomas: reykjavik, the summit. today there s a strong school of thought that argues that reykjavik was what won the cold war. evan: right. thomas: but at the time it
speedy a process as possible. holds the necessary hearings and hopefully appoints and selects the president the supreme court justice that the president nominates. dickerson: what levers, senator, do the democrats have though if the republicans in majority they decide to slow walk this, what could democrats do? how far could it go? well, i think should do everything that we can. i think the main leverage that we have is rallying the american people. look, you could be conservative, you can be a progressive. but you cannot allow, we cannot allow the republican majority in the senate to deny the president his basic constitutional right. there are very important cases that need to be heard that are not going to be determined if we do not have a ninth member of the supreme court. i think the issue is taking the people. and i think fair minded political point of view will be say this is absurd. this is obstructionism. this is not what democracy and what the congress is suppo
speedy a process as possible. holds the necessary hearings and hopefully appoints and selects the president the supreme court justice that the president nominates. dickerson: what levers, senator, do the democrats have though if the republicans in majority they decide to slow do? how far could it go? well, i think should do everything that we can. i think the main leverage that people. look, you could be conservative, you can be a progressive. but you cannot allow, we cannot allow the republican majority in the senate to deny the president his basic constitutional right. there are very important cases that need to be heard that are not going to be determined if we do not have a ninth member of the supreme court. i think the issue is taking the situation to the american people. and i think fair minded political point of view will be say this is absurd. this is obstructionism. this is not what democracy and what the congress is supposed to be about. dickerson: let me sw
all ahead on face the nation. captioning sponsored by cbs good mornings, welcome to face the nation from the center here in greenville, south carolina. at last night s republican debate was anything but peacefef. the reputaon for brasss knuckle candidatesthey took their brawling primary on to the stage. donald trump was on the offensive attacking george w. bush for the war in iraq. obviously the war in iraq is a big, fat mistake george bush made a mistake. we can make mistakes. but that one was a beauty. we should have never been in iraq. have deststilized the middle east. dickerson: you still think he should be impeached. do whatever you want you call it whatever you want i want to tell you they lied. they said there were weapons of mass destruction. there were none. they knew there were none. there were no weapons of mass destruction. dickerson: okay. all right. i am sick and tired of him going after my family. while donald trump is building a reality tv show,