NBC / CBS / ABC morning shows (brief snippets) - 1992-03-11

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[0:01] has got to come home to conservatism and

[0:04] traditional values and the traditional

[0:06] views of the GOP. He who has hurt

[0:09] himself.

[0:09] >> Rich Bond, the chairman of the RNC, has

[0:11] said that you're basically David Duke in

[0:13] a coat and tie.

[0:16] >> I know Mr. Bond has said that and I

[0:18] think by that he reveals the character

[0:20] of many of Mr. Bush's surrogates. I'm

[0:23] not going to respond to those people,

[0:25] but it tells you about the hollowess at

[0:27] the core. But you haven't repudiated

[0:29] David Duke. You haven't repudiated David

[0:31] Duke.

[0:32] >> We did repudiate him in New Hampshire. I

[0:34] did better than that. I went down to

[0:35] South Carolina and Louisiana and beat

[0:37] him four to one and took the

[0:38] conservative movement in the party back

[0:40] from him. That's the way to do it. Not

[0:42] to behave like some of these blowhards

[0:44] up in Washington who sit there and talk

[0:46] and say what a menace he is and then

[0:48] well, he runs wild. We beat the guy.

[0:50] That's the way to handle it.

[0:51] >> As you can see, Rich Bond is listening.

[0:53] You have said that if he doesn't step

[0:55] down as head of the RNC, you may not

[0:57] support George Bush. That's getting a

[0:59] bit personal, isn't it?

[1:00] >> When Mr. Bond uses phrases about me such

[1:03] as he did, he smears not only me, Katie,

[1:05] but the people who have supported me. I

[1:07] want this party to be united in August.

[1:09] And I think he is incapable of uniting

[1:12] it after he has smeared and slandered

[1:15] the hundreds of thousands now, millions

[1:17] of people who have joined the Buchanan

[1:18] brigades by saying, "We're no better

[1:20] than Mr. Duke." And if he doesn't know

[1:22] the difference between Pat Buchanan and

[1:24] David Duke, he doesn't belong as

[1:25] chairman of the Republican party.

[1:27] >> Well, Pat Buchanan, thank you. We've

[1:29] been talking to Rich Bond. So, let's

[1:30] bring him in now. The chairman of the

[1:32] Republican National Committee is in

[1:33] Lansing, Michigan. Good morning.

[1:35] >> Good morning, Katie.

[1:36] >> You heard Pat Buchanan. What's your

[1:38] response?

[1:38] >> Oh, Pat, he's some kid, I'll tell you.

[1:41] >> Come on. Seriously, he made some pretty

[1:43] damaging comments just now.

[1:45] >> Well, he he gets a little wilder and

[1:47] wilder. Um last Saturday night he lost

[1:50] to by 40 points to uh George Bush in

[1:53] South Carolina and called upon the

[1:55] president to withdraw from the race. Uh

[1:57] last night he uh got clobbered in eight

[1:59] states and he wants me to step down. Uh

[2:02] you know Katie, he's been a television

[2:03] journalist of some competence over the

[2:05] years. Uh he may want your job next.

[2:08] Actually he if Willard's around he may

[2:10] want to have Willard's job because he

[2:11] doesn't like the way Willard does the

[2:12] weather. So watch out Willard Scott.

[2:14] >> Well we'll all watch out Rich. Uh, do

[2:16] you think the Republican party though

[2:17] needs Pat Buchanan and needs his

[2:19] support?

[2:20] >> Pat's candidacy has helped in a number

[2:22] of ways. First, I think Pat is right on

[2:24] David Duke and he has helped us rid

[2:27] David Duke off the national scene and

[2:28] for that I thank Pat Buchanan. Uh,

[2:30] secondly, he's been a vehicle for a

[2:32] protest vote which will strengthen

[2:34] George Bush and not hurt George Bush for

[2:36] the fall. There are people right now

[2:38] that are still hurting. uh the Democrats

[2:40] are blocking the president's uh economic

[2:42] recovery package on the Hill and this

[2:44] gives a a very good and legitimate

[2:47] vehicle for a uh for a message to go to

[2:49] the president. It's it's a message the

[2:50] president's heard though. And uh but I I

[2:53] respect Pat's right to continue to send

[2:54] it.

[2:55] >> But if you had your brothers, Pat

[2:56] Buchanan would drop out of the race

[2:58] right now, wouldn't he?

[2:59] >> Well, I'll tell you Pat's got the right

[3:00] to go on until he's mathematically

[3:02] eliminated. At least the way that I see

[3:04] it. What I'm uncomfortable with, Katie,

[3:05] is that Pat says he wants to destroy the

[3:07] Republican party. And as Republican

[3:09] national chairman, that's pretty tough

[3:10] for me to accept. Secondly, he has

[3:12] really been very, very hard in personal

[3:15] terms on President Bush. And I just,

[3:17] again, as national chairman, I'm very

[3:18] uncomfortable seeing my president uh

[3:20] road like that.

[3:21] >> Your president, our president's approval

[3:23] rating rating is at 39%, an all-time

[3:26] low. How nervous are you?

[3:28] >> Uh I actually am fairly confident. some

[3:30] of the some of the primary results that

[3:32] we had uh last week, particularly

[3:33] Georgia and South Carolina, show the

[3:36] dimensions of our general election

[3:38] electoral vote strengths. In South

[3:40] Carolina, for instance, President Bush

[3:42] outpold Songis and Clinton combined. We

[3:45] had more turnout in the Republican

[3:47] primary than in the Democrat primary. We

[3:49] had a stark turnout in Georgia. In

[3:51] Georgia, the president outp,000

[3:54] to 258,000

[3:56] in the uh in an open primary. But but

[3:58] Katie, I do want to return to one thing

[4:00] and it involves Pat Buchanan. Pat

[4:02] Buchanan is not the enemy. The Democrats

[4:05] are the enemy. And if you look up at

[4:06] Capitol Hill right now, there's eight

[4:08] days left on the president's demand to

[4:10] pass an economic recovery package. And

[4:12] they're arguing, the Democrats are

[4:14] arguing about how high to raise our

[4:16] taxes. That's their idea of economic

[4:17] recovery. And George Bush is going to

[4:19] veto that tax bill. And he's going to

[4:21] stand before the American people and

[4:22] say, "My way or their way, but you

[4:25] cannot have any more taxes."

[4:26] >> Okay. Obviously, the president's new

[4:28] strategy has already begun. Rich Bond,

[4:30] thank you so much for joining us this

[4:31] morning.

[4:32] >> Thank you, Katie.

[4:33] >> Ahead in our second hour this morning,

[4:34] we'll talk to Bill Clinton and Paul

[4:36] Sonis. But up next, Super Tuesday is

[4:38] seen by our panel of Washington

[4:39] journalists. It's 7:13. This is Today on

[4:42] NBC.

[4:50] I stand before you to joyfully announce

[4:53] that the Cascade Curtain is no more. The

[4:57] products that are produced the other

[4:59] side of the Cascades come here. They

[5:01] create jobs. They keep these containers

[5:03] full as they go overseas. What a

[5:05] marvelous contribution to our economy.

[5:07] That's the way our future has to be

[5:08] built of lack of job security, pessimism

[5:11] about the future. But if we can get the

[5:13] economy moving and pass the president's

[5:15] long-term growth agenda, this country

[5:18] can turn around. People can have hope.

[5:20] They can be optimistic about the future.

[5:22] And that's what the president wants.

[5:23] It's not about partisan politics in his

[5:25] mind.

[5:25] >> Do you still have reason to be concerned

[5:27] about the Buchanan protest vote? Because

[5:29] even in Florida yesterday, where the

[5:30] president has has been very very

[5:32] popular, 40% of the people who voted for

[5:34] Buchanan vowed they would not vote for

[5:37] the president come November.

[5:39] >> Well, people are very troubled right

[5:41] now. It is a protest vote. I I noticed

[5:43] in your your exit poll, it also said

[5:45] that over half the people who voted for

[5:47] Bill Clinton had reservations about him.

[5:49] Those are folks who voted in the

[5:51] Republican primary in the conservative

[5:53] primary. So when the president is facing

[5:55] a liberal Democrat in the fall, I'm very

[5:57] confident most of them will come home to

[5:58] vote for President Bush. Charles Black,

[6:00] we thank you for joining us this

[6:01] morning. Do appreciate it.

[6:02] >> Thank you very much, Paula.

[6:04] >> Thanks, Harry. 15 minutes after the

[6:06] hour. Coming up next on CBS This

[6:07] Morning, Paul Thongas, a winner in New

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[6:11] Democrats? Stay with us in our next half

[6:14] hour for Hattie Kaufman with our CBS

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[6:22] John Stair on moving your money to get a

[6:25] better return.

[6:39] finishing. What do you hope to

[6:40] accomplish at this point?

[6:42] >> Well, Charlie, there's no doubt the

[6:43] president is winning the delegates, but

[6:45] I think we are winning the national

[6:46] debate. Only a week ago, the president

[6:48] uh renounced his own budget deal and his

[6:51] own tax increase. His rhetoric is

[6:53] increasingly conservative. He's making

[6:55] statements and overtures to

[6:57] conservatives. He's moving in a

[6:58] conservative direction. Now, I admit

[7:00] there's a bad rate of recidivism in the

[7:02] administration, but there is a number of

[7:04] issues still have to be made, Charlie.

[7:06] the new world order, where's this

[7:07] country going in 1992 and '93? And we're

[7:10] still part of that debate. And as long

[7:12] as we are, we're going to keep on going.

[7:13] >> But Pat, I I come back to the string of

[7:15] quotes that I have in front of me and

[7:16] and so many Republicans