i think bill clinton _ service to the nation. i think bill clinton said _ service to the nation. i think bill clinton said during - service to the nation. i think bill clinton said during the l bill clinton said during the election campaign something about abdul being a bridge to the past rather than the future which was another of those death knell is terms of the campaign. bed is he the sort, the likes of which will not be seen again? i the likes of which will not be seen again?— the likes of which will not be seen auain? ~ ,:, :, seen again? i think some of the --eole in seen again? i think some of the peeple in the — seen again? i think some of the people in the us _ seen again? i think some of the people in the us senate - seen again? i think some of the people in the us senate who i people in the us senate who have been there a long time, mitch mcconnell is also a master at parliamentary rules and strategy and tactics. he is not a great orator. so i don't think we will see many more bob dole —like figures in our new era in which we speak in soundbites. on social media

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there was a famous quote when bill clinton was elected in 1992. bill clinton won 43% of the vote and he reminded people that there were 57% of the american people who didn't vote for bill clinton, they voted for ross pert or george bush. he said the good news is is there's a honeymoon and the bad news i'm the chaperone. he had a wit that everybody discusses and bret alluded to as well. he had flashes of anger sometimes which, remember, somebody talked about earlier him being a quote, hatchet man. that vote came in 1971 from former republican senator william saks and you had bob dole in 1988 when he lost the presidential primary, the republican primary in 1988 against george h w. bush and the famous video clip of this, quit lying about my record and also having president bush went back on his no new taxes pledge, he said, well, it's time for him to get some lip balm. i hear those are good for cracked lips. again, he would let both sides have it. but even just a couple months ago, you might remember that norm mcdonald died from saturday night live w

i talked to bill clinton directly about this. because i asked him and confirmed he gone to hillary clinton convince her not to leave bill after he admitted the affair to hillary in 1998. and i said is that true? he said absolute gone person i could trust is the only person that she respected enough to have that conversation. and i said let me ask you something, did he know about the relationship you have with monica lewinsky? such that he is getting her job to get her out of town. he said i never talk to any of my closest friends about my relationship with women. for two reasons, one is that i was ashamed in the second was a did not want to implicate them. i was very, very careful to never talk about those kinds of matters. his closest friends are probably two or three other people i can think of. i don't think they intentionally obstructed justice. i think in many ways very positive i think he gave a very good advice on personnel. i think he can see when people personally or the presidency will but themselves pretty quickly poin

and a picture of bill clinton receiving a massage. it's justice tonight that ghislaine maxwell sleeps behind bars. everyone is concerned that justice stopped here. she was trafficking these young women to other people. to individuals. you would have to suspect beyond jeffrey epstein. the prosecution discouraged any names coming out in this trial, third parties. i have to wonder, with everything found in his apartment, cd's and binders will we get those names? will somebody ask? will we pursue the next step in justice? >> i believe with all of the heat on federal prosecutors right now they will go forward. they will explore the possibilities within those binders. it's hard to keep a secret like that. there were investigators and crime scene tapes. they saw all of that. i find it difficult to believe they would keep it all under their hat. that's not going to happen. if the evidence to which you are referring exists. >> will: what do you make of what was cataloged inside of jeffrey epstein's apartment? >> well, if it had anything to do

i talked to bill clinton directly about this. because i asked him and confirmed he gone to hillary clinton convince her not to leave bill after he admitted the affair to hillary in 1998. and i said is that true? he said absolute gone person i could trust is the only person that she respected enough to have that conversation. and i said let me ask you something, did he know about the relationship you have with monica lewinsky? such that he is getting her job to get her out of town. he said i never talk to any of my closest friends about my relationship with women. for two reasons, one is that i was ashamed in the second was a did not want to implicate them. i was very, very careful to never talk about those kinds of matters. his closest friends are probably two or three other people i can think of. i don't think they intentionally obstructed justice. i think in many ways very positive i think he gave a very good advice on personnel. i think he can see when people personally or the presidency will but themselves pretty quickly poin

did richard scafe end up helping bill clinton? the end? no. i'm afraid not. it's an interesting question, i think worthy of real inquiry because i think it would make for a great book. listen, if you want to work with me on it, whoever you are, through bill, reach out to me. exactly. >> so gary, the person who asked that question, by the way, was, someone you and i both know. >> okay. >> i'll leave it at that. this is book number one. and hopefully this will be many more. what's the next one? >> first enemies. i don't know. i've been toying with a lot of different ideas. i think i do want to write another book because i just love the process. you know, i've watched you write books for years and years, i didn't know i had it in me because i've been such an externally facing person all my life and didn't know if i'd have the discipline to sit by myself in solitude but i found the beauty in it, maybe because the world came to a screeching halt during the majority of time i was writing, but got inspired by these personalities and putting it into words that really

after bill clinton, factories started closing. this particular steelworker told me he stopped calling himself a democrat. he was angry. he thought the democrats had sold out the working people. he enthusiastically cast a ballot for trump. a lot people do not understand the depth of anger at nafta, at bill clinton for nafta, the sense of betrayal. there was no way they were going to vote for hillary clinton because of it. host: you write, the fear of being replaced, of no longer being needed, is an anxiety that has only grown with time. billions of americans are coming of age in places where jobs are expected to be outsourced or automated in the coming decade. the deep insecurity of unskilled workers has been exacerbated by a global pandemic that put millions of people out of work. even with this new variant, how much do you see the pandemic being part of concerns you write about particularly for unskilled workers? guest: i did not miss a day of work because of the pandemic. the pandemic was great for me >> we are taking a live to

look at this extended conversation between bill clinton and i believe that is dan quail sitting next to vice president cheney which something that bob dole would have loved. his sharp language as tom brokaw points out today is let me quote, he had been a young adonis, three-sport great athlete. he once his said his outfit stopped fighting on the day they heard franklin died. when combat resumed the next day, he was wounded trying to rescue fellow americans. he often wondered what if fdr had not died that day, but the man from kansas didn't give up. his long life of service, his kansas values, his love of country, they were all great gifts to his and succeeding generations. wonderful words from tom brokaw. and that sharp language, by the way, he went onto write, was not reserved for democrats alone when he shared power with newt gingrich. when he took over as speaker, it changed the nature of the house of representatives from his predecessor. the speaker's office had several big file cabinets and one tiny one for gingrich's good ideas. that is the way he talked. there's another reason

we are already seeing mike pence, dick cheney, bill clinton. they're all there, gloria. and so many others who have come to pay their respects. i remember an interview you did with bob dole in recent years that was so moving. >> it was moving because i was doing a documentary on people who were almost president, who made it to the final two, and what that felt like to lose in front of the world. there's nothing like it. i met him. he was severely disabled. he said it really hurts, and he talked about the races as if they were yesterday. he said, you know, bill clinton beat me, but he beat me fair and square, and i had been advised to go out there and be the hatch etdman against bill clinton for the republican party, and he ree fused to do it. one other thing, he gave up his senate seat when he ran, so he didn't have anything to come home to like john kerry could go back to the senate. so for him, it was deciding what he was going to do next, and we all know that towards the end of his life, the world war ii memorial became his big cause. and i asked him, is that going to

a good indication he was there to see the president, bill clinton. after bill clinton left the white house flight logs show he flew on epstein's private jet at least 26 times. clinton always denied wrongdoing. author bannial halper said maxwell and bill clinton had a sexual relationship. he said he saw clinton on maxwell's jet and had to clean up afterwards. before the trial began new york senator chuck schumer appointed the judge overseeing the maxwell trial to a higher bench but the judge refused. she says she'll stay on until the case concludes. epstein was documented to be an fbi informant. in one matter he was snoichght fbi about wall -- he was snitching to the fbi about wall street. he was characterized as an intel asset. one of the federal prosecutors in the case for maxwell is james comey's daughter. many believe epstein was in deep with the feds. and the feds are still doing damage control trying to contain this case at trial. remember the feds raided all of epstein's properties and seized massive amounts of surveillance footage epstein used

why are michelle and bill clinton back in the spotlight? raymond arroyo explains in friday's follies. >> ♪ ♪ a federal appeals court reinstateded biden administration covid policies that requires vaccinations for all businesses with more than 100 workers or weekly testing or masks. some exceptions apply to remote workers. new york state set a new single day high for covid inflections. over 21,000 cases reported. infections are up 56% over the past 2 weeks. hospitalizations climbed 25% according to the "new york times." health officials blame the delta variant and omicron variant. back to "the ingraham angle." >> ♪ ♪ >> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for friday's follies. of the christmas variety. we need christmas decorations on on that follies. raymond arroyo with all of the details. fox news contributor. the spider that saved christmas. author. this is our last friday's follies together this year. not forever. biden gave a commencement address. you heard some interesting things? >> it's instructive. watch. >> i know t

he ran against the incumbent, bill clinton, who was having problems with scandals but the economy was good and he had staked out the centre ground. clinton represented a new generation of politicians that represented things that appeal to younger voters and dole represented an older generation so he lost the election but continued to serve in the senate where he was a master at senate rules, much like your parliamentarians are. that is a good point. you called him a master and i was going to say he looks like a real operator on the inside. but he was a very disappointing orator for the external consumption. great orators in the senate, in the us senate, those days are long past. now you go for soundbites and bob dole was not terribly good at that. so he stands as a figure who was much admired by the republican party and i think he will be remembered for the service to the nation. i think bill clinton said during the election campaign something about bob dole being a bridge to the past rather than the future which was another of those death knells terms of the campaign. but is he the s

annoyed him about bill clinton. bill clinton very glib and bob dole was terrible at it, because in kansas where i was born and raised it is not to be -- to be glib is not seen as a compliment. people on the east and west coast who talk so much are viewed with some suspicion. you say what you have to say in as few words as possible and you stop. >> he was, so this is a clip from david letterman after the 1996 election. bob dole was just one of the funniest people you ever meet, did it on the fly and reflexively. letterman-like. hilarious welcome back to "the late show. >> what are you doing? >> apparently not enough. >> people are sec lating that maybe you'll take a position with the clinton administration, is that a likelihood, anything that you're interested in? >> well, if he wanted to give me his job i'd think about it. >> both funny and he meant it. i just want to show this old headline written by some schmuck john king pack in the day. one of the interesting things, a joke there about bill clinton if bill clint

remained someone who really respected and admired bill clinton's resilience. speaking of resilience, we saw an example in that in an extraordinary interview for master class that hillary clinton did, and the bidens are walking in. we can see the first lady. the president of the united states. coming in, they'll take their places in the first pew. and then we're going to see a service you will hear from president roberts, the former senator from kansas. you'll hear from tom dashl from a minority leader defeated when he left the senate. here are the bidens walking up the aisle. to their seats in the knave in the front seats. they'll be directly across from the dole family, senator elizabeth dole, robin dole. senator dole's daughter from the first marriage. elizabeth dole and senator dole were married for a day shy of 46 years. kamala harris, of course, the first gentleman also in that first row. coming in the white house motorcade. you will hear also lee greenwood singing today. it has become really a republican anthem, starting with ronald reagan, really, but a

bill clinton is in the white house. he has what was then considered a massive budget reconciliation bill that has sailed through the house of representatives and is now stuck in the senate on the floor of the senate but there's only 49 votes supporting it. a 50th vote, 50th democratic vote will allow vice president al gore to cast the tie-breaking vote and bill clinton will get to sign his first piece of legislation into law. the undecided senator of nebraska went into new hampshire the year before looking like the most stable democratic candidate for president while the clinton campaign appeared to be drowning in scandal but bill clinton became the comeback kid in new hampshire and went on to win the presidency. television cameras followed bob kerrey everywhere he went for a couple weeks in the summer of 1993 as he decided how to make up his mind on a budget reconciliation bill that was significantly different from what he would have offered that year if he were president of the united states. no one then suspected bob

for bill clinton to do this. laura: i had to look down for a moment and heard the voice and i said promoting the next mister magoo christmas special. he sounds like mister magoo. >> he and hillary were two for one on the master class deal. laura: time for the real versus fake debate, you start. >> for the first year i feel i don't have to defend my artificial tree preference but just so viewers can understand this is new video out of south africa. this is an unexpected garland out of the tree. it is a venomous snake. this is what happens when you bring these things home. mold spores, ants, rodents of different variety, stick with the box artificial tree, it is always safer. laura: i hate snakes for the poisonous ones in australia -- >> went right forward. >> i told everybody, i have a tall ceiling and it is maybe 9 feet and i went to get a real tree and i seem to have measured or they measured or someone measured it wrong and i have effectively a tree that is about this tall. it is cute. >> charlie brown is blush

. >> when i got hired in the mid- 90s by bill clinton, he didn't ask me to change press coverage, he said change my government, change my policies, help me move to the center on fiscal issues and cultural issues so i can get reelected. thus the same advice i would give to joe biden and i say that greetings, not from new york where i am from south florida where i now live. kennedy: you and karol markowicz, you guys are shacking up. bill clinton is like get me some policies that reflect the country to get me an intern. >> didn't have much to do with that but on the first one we did get a bunch of policies. kennedy: aoc would flatten him with a steamroller if they were existing in the same political moments. meantime, it looks like the white house has yet again been caught in a lie. a few months ago we learned the irs wanted a record of any transaction withdrawal over $600. he jumped to ten grand for an entire year they said it was to catch tax cheats. sleepy chose to truly know it spending plan, the biden administration said it would only affect millionaires and billionaires and soon t

i wonder, did the other two democratic presidents since jimmy carter, did bill clinton and barack obama face the attempts to tie mr. presidencies, their economic -- their presidencies, their economic policies. >> jimmy carter, a punching bag, a way of trying to pull other democrats down. and democrats contributed to that by shunning carter at many democratic conventions since he was president and they really -- most democrats didn't really want to be connected to him but carter was such an active former president that his successors all had to deal with him and i actually deal in my book, in some detail, with his very fraught relationships, in particular, with bill clinton but also with barack obama, although obama told me when i interviewed him for the book and i also interviewed george h.w. bush about jimmy carter, as well as jimmy carter on many occasions. but barack obama said very nice things about carter but at his 2008 convention, he didn't really want carter there or in 2012. so his involvement was minimal in part because of some things carter had been saying at the time and the

reaction continue to pour in to pouring from both sides of the aisle, bill clinton who defeated bob dole in the presidential race says his example should inspire people in public service today and for generations to come. flags are at half staff in honor of bob dole and nancy pelosi calls a towering leader who embodied courage and excellence in public service. former kansas republican senator pat roberts in tennessee senator marsha blackburn are standing by to offer their reflections. alexandria hoff has more on the reaction to dole's passing. that's good david spunt he begins live from the white house. >> good evening from the north lot of the white house. the president and first lady called senator elizabeth, dole, joe biden and bob dole have a relationship that goes back 50 years when joe biden first took the oath of office in the united states senate in 1973. a month after taking office, he went to visit bob dole. he recalled that meeting and a statement that he put out. i want to read and part it was a lengthy statement honoring former senator bob dole. true friendships regardless o

what if bill and hillary clinton had not gotten married? what if antonin scalia had not died in 2016? we created a special series on my podcast to discuss that, we're calling it "alternative history." you can listen to the first episode, what if bill clinton had resigned amid the monica lewinsky scandal in 1998? jeff greenfield has written books on scenarios like this. he's a five-time emmy-winning network journalist and now a columnist for politico. he joins me now. jeff, military planners war-game scenarios all the time and in some ways alternative histories i guess are the way journalists and historians sort of war-game things. but you've written some alternative history. and as a historian and political analyst, why do you do it? and why isn't it just simply fiction in your mind? >> if you do it right, it teaches you two things. one, the incredibly contingent nature of history. over and over again, tiny changes would have resulted in enormous consequences. if it hadn't stopped raining in dallas, that bubble top would have stayed on john

bill clinton was writing a very strong economy and was in a strong position throughout the campaign. i always sensed that for him it was enough of an honor to have been nominated by his political party. when they define the politics in a way that i think is rare today. i think that he never lost that sense of party loyalty and you could argue inu some ways he outlivedve the period that was considered to be an asset that led to achievements like the social security rescue for the martin luther king birthday bill. that kind of bipartisanship has virtually disappeared in part because the two parties are no longers themselves diverse collections one is essentially right of center and one a century left of center but both cases including in the number of liberals ands democrats. that political system if you will his history and you see it play itself out every day. president ford put him on the ticket and they were of a class of politicians who believed even in the minority that at the end of the day voters want to judge us on the ability to get things done increasingly in today's system

clinton, like prince philip, prince andrew, bill gates and others are being even queen elizabeth the 2nd has been implicated now with this epstein scandal and we have twitter more concerned about the fact that we twitter. but twitter politicians and other people other people, the media are more concerned about like kyle written house in censoring people who disagree with them. and getting rid of accounts, then they are about the fact that none of the names of the people that have been brought up in a case involving a man who was prosecuted for 6 trafficking, none of which had been brought up on charges. but sure, let's pretend as if this account that just merely kept track of a trial is actually the problem. like it doesn't, honest, it doesn't make any sense. it only makes sense if you're trying to protect those people who are being charged right now. you just touch on something i was going to ask you about the big names. do you think that this silence in could be linked to up? seems alleged connections with elite officials, a couple to name a few. britain's prince andrew, former us

bill clinton was riding the crest of a very strong economy and was only a very strong position throughout the campaign. i always sensed that, for dole, it was enough of an honor to have been nominated by his political party. but again, it is kind of a throwback. it is when political parties define politics, our political leaders, in a way that i think is rare today. i think he never lost that sense of party loyalty. and you could argue that, in some ways, he outlived the period when that kind of loyalty was invariably considered to be an asset. i think the larger issue, the bipartisanship that dole practiced when he was republican leader of the senate and that went to achievements like the social security rescue or the martin luther king birthday bill, that kind of bipartisanship has virtually disappeared. because the two parties are no longer themselves diverse collections, one essentially right of center, want essentially left of center, but in both cases, including in their number and also liberal republicans and conservative democrats. that political system, if you will, is history, a

i mean, a bill clinton's professor, back to georgetown. carol quigley, who was a rhodes scholar, dawning bridge to the establishment. he, himself, road in his opus that, you know, this is just a perceptual game in order to just be able to manage of anger versus elation. and give the feeling that we're quote unquote throwing the rascals out there, when i'm popular. presidents are and popular senators are congressman or replaced were ads cor, policy will continue. so even if there's a significant republican turn out in victory with the mid terms, does that necessarily mean that monetary policy will shift busy with the fed is doing? no, because it's an autonomous, a privately owned institution that doesn't report to really anybody domestically despite writer. well, you know, well richard, i mean, i think we've talked about this on your podcast here. is that if the city resounding red wave then you, you get the, the same leadership, you know, i mean, hey, that, that's not inspiring. i mean, and these leaders of the republican party and not par

after bill clinton left the white house. he flew on epstein's private jet known as the lolitta express at least 26 times. clinton always denied any wrongdoing. >> tucker: just like his company. thanks, trace. joe biden's approval numbers are low and getting lower. one poll has him at 38% this morning. has joe biden gets less popular, he becomes more determined to punish the country that is rejecting him. that's why he announced new measures to crackdown on americans because of the omicron variant. that's next. victor davis hanson will join us to respond. [ sigh ] not gonna happen. that's it. i'm calling kohler about their walk-in bath. my name is ken. how may i help you? hi, i'm calling about kohler's walk-in bath. excellent! happy to help. huh? hold one moment please... [ finger snaps ] hmm. ♪ ♪ the kohler walk-in bath features an extra-wide opening and a low step-in at three inches, which is 25 to 60% lower than some leading competitors. the bath fills and drains quickly, while the heated seat soothes your back, neck a

in 1996, losing to president bill clinton. his trademark dignity and humor in the days after. >> bob, what have you been doing lately? >> apparently not enough. but in any event -- >> maybe you'll take some kind of position in the clinton administration? is that a possibility? is that a likelihood? is that anything you're interested in? >> well, if he wanted to give me his job, i'd think about it. >> and later, when presented with the presidential medal of freedom by president clinton, his hu >> i robert j. dole -- -- do solemnly swear. oh. sorry. wrong speech. >> and we all remember that moment, former senator bob dole saluting president george h.w. bush's casket in the capitol rotunda. and tonight, the elizabeth dole foundation writing, "we're grateful to have witnessed their love. a love that spanned decades, different seasons of life, and only grew stronger over time." >> bob dole. an extraordinary life. good night it the bay area bras for an omicron surge, butea bras there's preliminary data from south africa. sports call

clinton. but i never saw any sexual activity, no witness identified as jane says she was sexually abused. at the age of 14, jane claims maxwell instructed her on how to please upset, took part in abuse herself. he asked me to take my top off and then their hands were everywhere, and glean was robin him and kissing him and fondling. defense says accusers cannot be trusted memories, fade money doesn't accuses have shaken the money tree, and millions of dollars have fallen their way. reference to find sarah by abstaining state to compensate his victims. gillian maxwell trial to be continued news. now another news, our days after ukrainian president vladimir zalinski announced the threat of a case in the country. an anti government protest has been staged in the capital. kiev hundreds marched steve's independence square and through coins at the president's office, calling him a traitor and demanding his impeachment protests. his claim authorities are violating the constitution and are conducting a

bill clinton turning to talk to former vice president dan quail. even the political odd couple of polar opposites, amy klobuchar and ted cruz in deep conversation. a brief echo of the bipartisanship of years past when dole was republican leader, befriending a young joe biden. >> we served together for 25 years. we disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another. >> reporter: a far cry from thes toic rhetoric in congress that seems common place. one slurring a democratic colleague. >> whatever. i said look, the jihad squad decided to show up for work today. they said well, she doesn't have a backpack. we should be fine. >> what is unprecedented, and what is tragic is the dissent of transgression in this body. >> reporter: a fight over the biden social spending plan. >> the american people would be a lot better off if this tax and spending pack kalk never passed. >> we got a new name for the gop. the grand old phonies. >> reporter: and both parties divided among themselves. progressive democrats stymied for months by manchin and cinema ove

he was 73 when he stood unsuccessfully for the presidency against bill clinton in 1996. earlier this year, it was announced that he was being treated for lung cancer. thousands of homes are still without power — for a second weekend — in the wake of storm arwen, which swept across parts of the uk and tore down electricity lines. homes in parts of northern england are still waiting to be re—connected to their energy supplies. our correspondent peter harris reports from northumberland. in the nick of time, the pub has its power back. last night, a heavy snowfall left villagers snowed in, but at least they're now warm, after a week—long ordeal. it's been very eventful, long, but i said yesterday there was a few of us in the pub, and i said i feel like we all live together now because we've spent that much time together in this pub. throughout the power cuts, the pub at ridsdale in northumberland had been a refuge to huddle together. the last emergency food drops were arriving today, but being reconnected is a relief. beautiful, because i could get a shower last nigh

david: say what you will about bill clinton he was a political genius in many ways and he did realize the americans didn't want what the people behind him were pushing. it would take a person with political cabbies you men that i don't think biden has right now. maybe at one point he did but he doesn't have that political accu men. larry: i would agree, bill clinton was a very smart fellow and working with newt gingrich and the republicans on welfare reform and cutting the capital gains tax i totally agree with that and bill clinton kept hillary out of the oval office for the next four years, no more hillary and nationalizing healthcare but this is different , you're right quite. it's a different group and manchin has done the nation a great service on this , in my opinion. i think he had some help more quietly from kyrsten sinema who, look, she was the one that pulled the plug on higher tax rates, on corporations, on individuals and capital gains, and now they tried to go around that with these taxes but that won't work either. one of the things that manchin said yesterday that i rea

and faced incumbent bill clinton in 1996. describing himself then as a fighter again at age 73. >> tonight, i stand before you tested by adversity, made sensitive by hardship, a fighter by principle and the most optimistic man in america. >> after politics, his service turned to causes close to his heart. leading fund-raising for the national world war ii memorial in washington. his bond with other warriors endured, and an emotional dole managed to stand before the flag draped casket of fellow world war ii veteran president george herbert walker bush. knowing physical challenges made him a credible champion of the americans with disabilities act. ambitious yet also self-effacing. in victory and defeat. >> i leave you all tonight with a full heart and a fervent prayer that we'll meet again. >> bob dole's commitment to country, tested and lifted by his resilient spirit. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. >> you have been watching an nbc special report on the death of former u.s. senator bob dole. he was 98. i'm joe fryer. w

bill clinton invited robert dole, his opponent, the one he had just vanquished, to the white house to bestow on him the medal of freedom. what an extraordinary moment that was in american life. the victor and the vanquished together to say, you know, look, we still respect each other, we admire each other, we know that each of us is a public servant and gives to this country. we're not going to take our rancor of the campaign and bring it into governance. we believe that it is time to govern the country now. that's what's different today. >> and you know what, peter, it just seems like it was so long ago, because of how things are so different now, peter. >> yeah, totally different, you know, you just can't have the kind of friendships across the aisle. i think of the humor, by the way, that bob dole showed. in that moment, in that ceremony that bill clinton gave him the medal of freedom, bob dole takes the podium and he starts his speech by saying, i, robert j. dole, as if he was about to take the inaugural address, and the room cracks up. he was able to laugh at himself, he was able

arthel: former president bill clinton who defeated dole in the 1996 presidential election saying today that dole's example, quote, should inspire people today and for generations to come. "special report" anchor and fox news chief political anchor bret baier has a look back at dole's legacy. [applause] >> i've never been prouder in my life than to have been the republican nominee for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> reporter: as the 1996 republican nominee, bob dole came as close as he ever would to winning the presidency, a dream he chased three times. he made his concession speech in russell, kansas, to the people who had known the him since his birth there in 1923. world war ii took dole from kansas to italy, and just before the end of the war nazi machine gunfire shattered his upper body and destroyed his right shoulder. >> it was about 11 months, i think, before i could feed myself. i think i could have done it, frankly, to be very honest about it, probably at 8 months. but the nurses were very attractive. [laughter] >> reporter: after his recuperation, rus

lbj people wrote to bill clinton, on and on and on and the navy has kept saying no. they sort of said he got his just deserves at the beginning when it first heard about hundreds of cases were like this we will send a letter. and they wrote a letter and got him the navy cross but the medal of honor carried certain connotations. you will know this better than you some of you military historians isn't there a requirement that congress stands or something in the presence of a medal of honor? i may be wrong. the navy has said no so many times they've almost been painted into a corner because now if you say yes you acknowledge all those nose were illegitimate nose. so name a supercarrier after him and hope that is enough. the campaign will go on is been passed down from texas representatives one after the other in it won't go wait nor should it. but at the same time there is a danger fixating on the medal of honor. doris is remembered else for the waco memorial is a big thing. the medal of honor can become almost a singular obsession he should have on i think he should ha