the court. that s how it happened. strom thurmond was instrumental in asking ronald reagan after he beat carter handily in 1980 not to remove breyer s then nomination from the list because strom thurmond tells reagan breyer is a really good guy, gets along with everybody, a lot of common sense. i, strom thurmond, like stephen breyer, could you do me a favor and let that nomination stand. ronald reagan did. that would never, ever happen in today s political climate. no, it would not. we are going to continue to talk about this, but we want to move to the other big story of the morning. there s been no let-up in the tensions in this region of the world, especially in ukraine, as russia continues to add troops near the country s border. they continue to do it. this comes as the u.s. and nato formally respond to moscow s security demand in a letter. nbc news chief foreign
to lead healthier lives and that s invaluable. abe lincoln s view of the mall. back for a few minutes. john, we had a giant killing tonight in new york. a real changing of the guard. a 28-year-old novice, her first race. way outspent. kind of the way it s supposed to happen, demographically and generationally. it is. i was thinking about the 1980 senate races. people expecting reagan to beat carter, but then the senate switch.
abe lincoln s view of the mall. back for a few minutes. john, we had a giant killing tonight in new york. a real changing of the guard. a 28-year-old novice, her first race. way outspent. kind of the way it s supposed to happen, demographically and generationally. it is. i was thinking about the 1980 senate races. people expecting reagan to beat carter, but then the senate switch. the big senators who lost. and that was a sign that the country was turning rightward. and i think this is a sign that the democratic party will turn to its progressive base. and incumbent arrogance. crowley refuses to debate until the very end.
generationally. it is. i was thinking about the 1980 senate races. people expecting reagan to beat carter, but then the senate switch. the big senators who lost. and that was a sign that the country was turning rightward. and i think this is a sign that the democratic party will turn to its progressive base. and incumbent arrogance. crowley refuses to debate until the very end. sends a stand-in. she exploits the fact that he basically lives in virginia, thinks he s going to waltz in. and people are mad and not voting. you don t need a whole lot of people. you were going to say? look at the board, look at
big push off to george w. bush s presidential library. the great irony it would have been a huge difficulty laying the fact the number one decision of george w. bush was to take us into the iraq war and also the chief reason for the election and nomination of barack obama. activists democrats didn t like the iraq war or foreign policy behind it or like the decision to attack and invade and occupy was made and told and made to happen. that explains why the word iraq was never mentioned today, not once. that said, it was a civilized today down here. the words spoken were as sunny as the weather. you couldn t tell the parties apart. you couldn t tell jimmy carter had won because of nixon s watergate that the republicans beat carter by calling him weak. clinton beat bush by calling him out of touch and the second bush said he wouldn t embarrass us the way his democratic predecessor did.