Trent Lott: “The stakeholders wanted more. I wanted more. I know my colleagues wanted more. My friend Mr. Gorton was explicit in his…”

It's called leadership, Anderson.

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.