in his pespeech, right. he talked about the values of the republican party, being about inclusivity. he said to folks believe in this convention hall if you don t believe the values of lincoln and his party. that was a real moment for him. we saw an evolution in a different way for the republican p party, and he of course endorsed donald trump, who didn t necessarily stand for those values. i met him in his office, put on my best blazer, and to me he was the embodiment of power in washington but also someone who could connect with an average person. is that the blazer you re wearing? but as somebody who covered him, he could be really he could give you that glare and a couple of words when you wrote something he didn t like. on the other hand, he could just flip it in a minute and be incredibly funny. and, you know, i was talking to him about losing the race to cli clinton, an he said, well, i figured he could shake twice as many hands as i could, so that s why i lost,
they had no idea what he was talking about. he wasn t a great or ray or the, he was a great senator. a staffer, chief of staff on the hill said they tried so hard in 1996 to give him speeches. there you see schumer and mitch mcconnell and pelosi who slammed mitch mcconnell just slammed him 24 hours ago for what he was doing on the floor, and look at the way they re talking in the cathedral today. in any case, bob dole could not play the game of traditional candidate. and these set speeches, because he just wanted to talk the way he talked. and as warfield recounted in an op ed, just after his death, they were wrong. he was right. he was speaking honestly and from the heart to people. kansans i think have an aversion to pretense, and meeting grant s rhetoric seems pretentious. he would not like to refer to himself in the first person. he would refer to himself in the third person. bob dole did this or bob dole thinks this. i think a part of this is just being uncomfortable w
both sides kept their word. i think we did pretty dang good for the american public. can both parties claim victory? i ll talk to democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia and mike rounds of south dakota. plus, a crowded field. former vice president mike pence, former new jersey chris christie, and north dakota s governor are all set to officially announce their 2024 bid this week. meanwhile, the 2024 gop front-runners, ron desantis and donald trump begin to attack each other. donald trump, attack each other. he used to say how great florida was. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? with a crowded field help trump win? and trump on tape. the special counsel has an audio recorder of the former president taking a classified document after leaving office. all i know is everything i did was right. we had the presidential records act. which i abided by 100%. with the grand jury set to meet again this week, will the form
documents case against donald trump. it comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. we ll dig in to both of those stories. and a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. and we ll begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nation s capitol. yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f-16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. the response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. here s some of the sound surveillance cameras captured. the sound was heard across many miles. the cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. it then crashed in the shenandoah wall i have in virginia. officials say ther
Head in disapproval, and nod your head in approval. if you do all of that in one hour of this show, we ve done our jobs. so, again, this isn t good-bye, but know this, no matter who sits in this chair, if it s sunday, it s meet the press. startling moments over the washington, dc, area yesterday as fighter jets are scrambled to track a private plane that ultimately crashed. we ll have the latest in that investigation in just a moment. plus, new action is expected this week in the classified