would say i didn t know bob dole was funny. if i knew he was like that, i might have voted for him. well, he was one of the very few people in washington who didn t need a speechwriter, didn t need a gag writer when it came to humor. he had a marvelous sense of the ridiculous, and, in fact, sometimes there were people who thought it was he wasn t running for president so much as he was observing the process of running for president and offering wry commentary from time to time. as you were speaking there, we saw congresswoman liz cheney, congressman hakeem jeffries there. president biden attending this as well. i wonder, as you watch this here, bob dole, he fought hard for his party. he was a devoted confidant of richard nixon. he had the term hatchet man
he would never take the stand. i think it is highly unlikely that he will ever take the witness stand. it really would be a mistake. despite the tears and humanizing of him of late he is not a terrible person, we know that. and i think the jury has gotten to see that. even when you listen to his taped statement, we understand that this is not a bad man. this is a man who was a great cardiologist, perhaps not a good anesthesiologist. thanks. side bar now, john mccain may need to hire a new gag writer. approval was a low 9%. we re down to paid staffers and blood rel testifies, new york magazine it s one he has used in 26 different occasions. it found instances of him using that same stretch as farรง backs