engineer. right? i mean. they 1871 inaugural address for the never forgot who they were and where they were from. no matter first time, a georgia governor called for a commitment to the what happened in their lives. >> this show is all completely traditions of martin luther fake. don't get fooled and but i king, jr. and for recognize that we are not here everyone knows what's going on. the decency that his leadership what the. what the. >> except. ben. community is d stood for over his lifetime i because he was just a regular guy. as you've heard from the was surprised when then-candidate carter asked me to join him as other speakers, his political life and his his running presidency for me was not just ahead of its time. it was mate in 1976. >> he amazed me then, as he prophetic. he had the courage and strength to stick to his has every year since. he, of principles even when course, was brilliant. he also they were politically unpopular. as governor of had a great sense of humor, and georgia half a century ago, he while we had only four years in the white preached an end to racial discrimination and an house, he achieved so much in end to mass incarceration. as that time. it stood as a marker president in the 1970s, as you've heard, he protected more our strength and for americans dedicated to land than any other president share our hope. in it's the way dinner on the history. 50 years ago. he was a table brings a justice and decency. carter was a man of his word. i remember family closer together. it's the way we make sure his climate warrior who pushed for first chapter book is the first a world where we conserved when he talked about the energy, limited emissions, and step on his path to greatness. concept of the vice presidency. traded our reliance on fossil i told him i'd like to do it it's the way we rally in hard fuels for

times and rise back and had only two requests. i up stronger than ever. an expanded renewable sources. united is the way we come wanted to make a real by the way, he cut the deficit, together so wanted to decriminalize everyone can thrive. contribution, and i didn't want marijuana, and deregulated so join us at unitedway.org. to be embarrassed many industries that he gave us cheap flights. and as you heard, craft beer. basically weeks, get your custom formulas as many of my predecessors have. he agreed. welcomed my all of those years ago, he was today at proz.com. the first millennial. and he full participation and directed >> erin burnett out front tonight at seven on cnn could make great playlists, as his staff to treat me as they would him. he was very careful we've heard as well maybe this to protect me from the frustration, and too often is unbelievable to you, but in humiliation, that had cursed the my 49 years, i never perceived lives of many vice presidents. a difference between his public i want to thank the president for the good choices he made face and his private one. he was the same person, no matter with his key personnel. we who he was with or where he don't have time to mention was. and for me, many of them, but stu eizenstat comes as close as possible to at the u.s. that's the definition of rivaling president integrity that honesty was matched by >> capitol, a final salute to carter's formidable work ethic. hamilton, jordan and jody love. it was matched by faith, president jimmy carter begins just minutes from now, with and in both public and private. powell were blessings every day more of the fanfare of the to my grandparents did nation's highest office and an me, to the president and to the fundamentally live their lives in an effort,

extraordinary gathering of five nation. one of the things that as the bible says, to do american presidents. >> welcome to cnn's special coverage of the state funeral dawned on me during the course justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with their of james earl carter. i'm jake of our time together is how tapper in washington. president well we work together, and how god. sometimes i feel and felt carter's flag draped casket is about to be carried down. the we understood each other. i like i shared my grandfather with the world. today is one capitol steps from inside the think one of the realities with rotunda, where he has been the carter was a devout lying in state, the christian who grew up in a small town and was active in of those days, but really, he first of many solemn rituals in his faith for almost every shared the world with me. the moment of his life. i was also washington, d.c., on this power of an atom. the beauty national day of mourning. we a small town kid who grew up in and complexity of a south will in minutes see the hearse georgia forest. when we fished, and motorcade travel through the streets of washington, a methodist church, where my he celebrated the majesty of dad was a preacher, and our everything from the smallest d.c., passing near the white faith was core to me. as house with a flag is at half minnow to that grand carter's faith was core to staff in honor of president circulation of waters. and he carter. then it's on to him, that common commitment to shared this love our faith created a bond washington national cathedral with my boys, taking these for the funeral service. the between us that allowed us to atlanta public school kids out into the fields to show them carter family will join with us understand each other and find about row crops and wild plums and u.s. and world leaders to ways to work together. he pay tribute to jimmy carter's in the end, his life is a love 100 years of life and his allowed me to take a leadership role on issues that never would legacy. a bipartisan moment as story. and of course, it's a have happened before. for love story about jimmy and washington is on the brink of rosalynn and their 77 years of dramatic change. instance, he directed and trusted me to take a central marriage and service. as the five of president carter's successors are expected to be role in trying to bring decency song says, they were the

to the vietnamese and southeast in the cathedral. current flagship of the fleet. and rest asian boat people who were president joe biden, the former fleeing their country. with assured that in these last president and now weeks, he told us that he was president-elect donald trump president carter's orders, the and ready to see boat people were picked up by former presidents barack obama, our great navy from their her again. but his life was george w. bush and bill flimsy boats, which were also a capsizing and taken to clinton. president biden will broader love story about love be the one to eulogize carter, his longtime friend, whom he safety. most became good for his fellow humans, and endorsed in 1976, just days about living out the commandment to love your american citizens working for a neighbor as yourself. i believe healthy and prosperous nation. before his own presidency ends that that love is what taught and trump's begins. we're going to be closely watching all the him and told him to preach the joan loved her time interactions among the presidents. of course. we're power of human rights, not just also following breaking news on as the second lady, and we have for some people, but for all the most destructive wildfire jimmy and rosalynn to thank for disaster ever to hit the los people. it focused him on the helping her champion the public power and the promise of angeles area. and we're going to bring you updates on this democracy. its love for arts and for just being so kind to her. these were good years very fast moving and dangerous freedom, its requirement and founding belief in the wisdom of regular people, raising situation. but right now, as we their voices, and the wait for the carter funeral for joan and i. president ceremonies to begin, let us go requirement that you respect to washington national carter and i became very close all of those voices, not just cathedral, where we find cnn's friends. we often spent hours some. that conviction made him a naval kaitlan collins. kaitlan, official washington is about to honor a proud d.c. outsider, officer who believed and jimmy carter. together throughout the day. we demonstrated, as you've heard, that the greatest were working on real problems, >> yeah. one of the ultimate not wasting time. the personal outsiders, jake. of course,

power of america was not the military, but its values. and jimmy carter himself later said those values were personal to maybe he should have been less him, and he lived them both of an outsider in attempting to relationship we established while in get his legislative agenda office continued throughout our publicly and privately. as you life. carter was farsighted. he passed. he has been here for heard stu say, as president, he over 48 hours now, lying in put aside his short term gave voice to dissidents, stood state at the nation's capitol. political interests to tackle up to dictators, brought it ended just after a few challenges that demanded countries together in peace. moments after seven this morning. and jake, it's one of sacrifice to protect our kids his heart broke for the people the most special things in and grandkids of israel. it broke for the washington to to see when a former president does lie in from future harm. very few people of palestine. and he state because members of the public wait in line. it is spent his life trying to bring cold. you can't tell here in people in the 1970s had heard peace to that holy land. and he washington. it hasn't even hit the term climate change, yet 30 degrees this morning yet. talked about it at the dinner and overnight, late into the carter put his presidency on table. it was the same in the line to pass laws that, to hours, people were waiting in public as it line outside to go in and pay conserve energy, deregulate new was in private. and for the oil and gas prices, and invest tribute to president jimmy carter as he was lying in state last 40 years, as you've heard, he spent his time living and his legacy that so many out that love and that faith people have been remembering alternatives to fossil fuels. over the last several days. alongside the poorest and most it wasn't a perfect program, that includes everyone from marginalized people in the former presidents. we saw president elect trump there but thanks to president carter, world. and that work, again, last night, senior members of u.s. energy consumption declined by 10% between 1979 congressional leadership, but has been based fundamentally on also just general members of the public who wanted to have that chance to go in. it's love and. respect. the carter and 1983. in many ways, he laid center has 3500 employees, but quiet in there. there's no the foundation for future only a couple hundred in the

presidents to come to grips pictures taken. it's very solemn. and just to take that with climate change. some united states. the rest are time before, of course, spread throughout the countries today's funeral, where we are going to see all of the former thought he was crazy to fight where we work ethiopia, south so hard to pass these laws, but presidents who are living gathered here today, in sudan, chad, bangladesh and all addition to so many other he was dead right? and we know of the carter center's dignitaries paying tribute to programs are based on a respect that now. jimmy carter and his funeral that same respect for the and his final goodbye from we also know that president washington this afternoon power of regular people, even before he returns to georgia. carter elevated human rights to if they are in tiny villages the we're here outside the national cathedral, where everyone will be gathered inside in just a top of his agenda. but miles from anywhere else. to give one example, we've all matter of moments. jeff zeleny sometimes, sometimes we forget heard a lot lately about guinea and kasie hunt are with me. worm disease. it's an ancient and, jeff, you know, when how seriously he pursued. he president biden, who is going and debilitating disease of pushed to advance the rights of poverty, and that disease will to to eulogize jimmy carter here in just a few hours from women. he proposed and signed now, comes in? you know, when the law, extending the period have existed from the dawn of he first took office, one of for states to approve the equal his first trips, he was going humanity until jimmy carter, down. he was in georgia. he rights amendment. he appointed women to head the when he started made a side trip over to plains working on this disease. there to visit with president carter departments of commerce, education, hud and what is now were 3.5 million cases in and with rosalynn. >> he did, and that was back in humans every year. last year, there were 14. and the thing h.e.w. 2021. and during that meeting, women on his white house staff that's remarkable is that this it was at that point we didn't disease is not eliminated with know it at the time, but that played crucial roles in is when president one moment, jeff, the casket is coming out. developing his highest priority energy and medicine. it's eliminated >> i wanted to take a second environmental proposals, and he essentially by neighbors talking to neighbors about how to collect water in the poorest to listen in. and most marginalized villages

dramatically increased the ranks of female circuit and in the world. and those district court judges, neighbors including ruth bader, bader truly were my grandfather's ginsburg. in all in all, he partners for the last 40 years. and as this disease has been appointed five times as many women to the federal bench as eliminated in every village in nigeria, every village in sudan or uganda, what's left behind all of the previous presidents in those cult center had. from the beginning of our tiny 600 person villages is an based. country. two decades ago. army of jimmy and rosalynn president carter said he carters, who have demonstrated believed income inequality was their own power to change their >> on three men who are. the world. and that is a fundamental truth about my biggest global issue. more grandfather. it begins where it recently, in a 2018 ends. when he saw a tiny 600 commencement address at liberty university, he said, i think now the largest global issue is person village that everybody the discrimination against else thinks of as poor, he recognized it. that's where he women and girls in this world. was from. that's who he was. he concluded that until. until and he never saw it as a place to send pity. it was always a place to find stubborn attitudes that foster discrimination against women partnership and power, and a place to carry out that change, the world cannot commandment, to love your advance, and poverty and income neighbor as yourself. equality cannot be solved.

essentially, he eradicated a towards the end of our time in disease with love and respect. the white house, the president and i were talking about how we he waged peace with love and respect. he led this nation might describe what we tried to with love and accomplish in office. we came up with a sentence which respect. to me, this life was a remains an important summary of love story. from the moment our work. we told the truth. we that he woke up, until he laid his head. conclude with this. obeyed the law, and we kept the as andy young told me, he may peace that we did. mr. be gone, but he's not gone president. i will always be proud and grateful to have had the chance to work with you far. the outpouring of love and support towards noble ends. it was that we have felt from you and from around the world has shown then, and will always be the how many lives he has touched most rewarding experience of my and how his spirit will live on public career. thank you. in many ways, for us. he'll be in the kitchen making pancakes. or in his woodshop, finishing a cradle for a great grandchild. we're standing in a trout stream

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never to for. three. will lead me our rights will meet the needs home. of. grace the. life is a or grace. that is grace grace of. life will. lead me. one day. our nation home mark zwonitzer a reverent moment there as president jimmy carter's casket was brought down the steps on the east side of the capitol. michael mann. rise >> placed in that hearse. and now they will begin the motorcade procession here to where we are at the national cathedral. they will pass by the white house on the way here, as president carter

leaves the capitol for the last time. and jeff is, you know, looking at this and just thinking of so much history that is in this moment that we're looking at on the screen. and as you were talking about that moment just a few years ago, where president biden and president carter were meeting to talk about the very moment that we're all going to listen to shortly, where president biden eulogizes president carter. >> it is so poignant. and neither of the two men back in 2021 could have envisioned the world that is underway right now. but for president biden, this eulogy he has delivered countless eulogies over nearly a half century in washington. but for jimmy carter, i am told his is a clergy. by his advisers, this is one of the most personal and poignant >> distinguished guests. most and important. i'm told he was importantly, the carter family. working on this speech last night when he was flying back to washington aboard air force in one. i'm told that he's going immy april. 2021, jill and i visited to implore americans to take carter was as close to lessons from carter's life, and he'll tell people to jimmy and rosalynn on a warm being a renaissance man as any study. jimmy carter, a man of spring day down in principle, of faith and

humility. but for joe biden, of president entering the oval course, he was a young senator plains, georgia. we wanted to office in modern times. in, you know, in his 20s and see them. rosalynn met us at then 30s and he was the first >> he was skilled in the front door with her senator to endorse jimmy carter. and he was and he could an astonishing array of signature smile. together we have endorsed other democrats. activities. farmer, entered a home that they had absolutely. he was an improbable candidate, for sure businessman, nuclear engineer, shared for almost 77 years of from the peanut farm to the marriage. an unassuming red presidency. and that was not a naval submarine officer, woodworker, painter, fly sure thing. but biden endorsed brick ranch him early. but today, i'm told, fisherman, music lover, poet, home that reflects their modesty more than any trappings will give a very poignant author, sunday school teacher, reminder of jimmy carter's life of power. we walked into the and the lessons that we should creator of the take from it still today. carter center and yes, loving living room where jimmy greeted >> and of course, you know, us like jimmy carter represents and husband, father, grandfather family. that day, just the four comes from a time and an era. and great grand father and of us sat in the living room >> obviously, there, there nobel peace prize winner. and shared memories that there were many, you know, a behind spanned almost six decades. a number of years apart, but that toothy smile was a generationally it's, it's deep friendship that started in we're at a time where this man of steel determination. torch is passing, right? 1974. i was a >> we're we're in a new kind of political era. >> and the symmetry between discipline and self-confidence. what jimmy carter experienced, 31 year old senator, and i was in 1974, when he was governor the challenges he had during the first senator outside of of georgia. i suggested that if his presidency. >> of course, the fact that he he ran for president and won a georgia, maybe the first ended up being a one term senator to endorse his democratic president there, echoing in this moment as candidacy for president. it was few southern primaries, he an endorsement based on what i president biden remembers him.

might get lucky and be the vice >> but just that relationship with with president biden and presidential nominee for believe is jimmy carter's president carter, i mean, they weren't always the closest of regional balance. with his broadest grin, he said, stu, enduring attribute character. of allies. there was that i've already decided to run, moment where i was, you know, but i will be the democratic character, character. they disagreed on bussing and, nominee for president, not vice you know, tactics there and president for one of our because of that character, whether or not it was constitutional. and there was this famous quote from i believe, is destiny. destiny president biden, then-senator nation's most religious in our lives. and quite presidents. it's appropriate biden at the time, saying, to celebrate jimmy carter's frankly, destiny in the referencing nixon's enemies list and saying, you know, i don't know if it's better to remarkable life and this life of the nation. it's an be on jimmy carter's enemies magnificent cathedral. his list or his friends list accumulation of a million because of just how he religious values gave him an unshakable things built on character that operated. and, you know, as he leads to a good leaves the capitol, just reflecting for a final time on sense of right and wrong, life, a decent country, life of how he didn't like the animating his support for civil washington deal making in the purpose, life of meaning. now, back room, and so much of how, rights at home and human rights how do we find that good life? you know, getting stuff done abroad, and propelling legislatively is the way to go. what jimmy carter just resisted him to major achievements as does it look like? what does it that. the only democratic president >> and how he's going to be riding up pennsylvania avenue, take to build character? to the a reminder of during his elected between 1968 and 1992. ends? inauguration that he and his faith brought integrity to justify the means. jimmy rosalynn and amy walked out because he wanted to be seen the presidency after the with the people, and he was carter's friendship taught me.

proudly an outsider and never watergate and and through his life taught me became part of official vietnam eras. i'll never lie to the strength of character is washington and didn't mind that. and then when he took his leave after his defeat, he also you, he promised. it was a vow more than stayed far away from just the title or the power we hold. he fulfilled. but his faith it's the strength to respected trappings of washington. except today, he planned this funeral understand that everyone should service today for one last, other religions as well. he was the first president to light a be treated with dignity, really poignant move through the city. respect that everyone. and i >> yeah, it's it was a remarkable decision, i think, hanukkah menorah. he created the mean everyone deserves an even considering the way that he lived his life. but he both set u.s. holocaust memorial museum, shot, not a guarantee. but out a map for what a which i have the honor of it's a shot. you know, we have post-presidency could look like chairing. he had a kosher right after he left. but he an obligation to give hate. no shabbat dinner at camp david also rejected many of the things that other presidents for the israeli delegation, and came to our house for a safe harbor. and to stand up to gone were willing to do. they were willing to take payments passover seder only weeks after what my dad used to say is the for speeches. they were not he negotiated the treaty greatest sin of all. the necessarily living the kinds of between israel and egypt. as we humble life that jimmy carter abuse of power. that's not really exemplified in the years lay our 39th president to rest, after he was president of the it's time to redeem his about being perfect, because united states. and, of course, none of us part of why he may have lost presidency and also lay to rest are perfect. we're all fallible, but it's about asking reelection, why he may have been a one term president, was ourselves, are we striving to the myth that his greatest because he was unwilling to do achievements came only as a play the game here in things the right things? what washington that can get you former president. the test of values? what are the values reelected. and that sort of that

lack of cynicism, in a way, may american presidents is not the number of years they serve, but animate our spirit? do we have ultimately been part of the duration of their operate from fear or why his presidency is remembered as it is. accomplishments. by this hope, ego or generosity? do we >> and president biden has just left the white house. he's on measure, jimmy carter was among his way here to the national cathedral, where he will the most consequential one term show grace? do we keep the eulogize president carter. presidents in american history. it's going to be a rare his intellect, prodigious work faith when it's most tested gathering of what is known as the presidents club. all of the for keeping the faith with the habits, discipline, and mastery living former presidents will of details were crucial to his best of humankind and the best be here. that includes the of president elect. donald trump, notably, is going to be in the success at home and abroad same room for the first time america is a story, in my view, with his former vice president, president carter parked from my perspective of jimmy mike pence. and for years, this politics at the oval office carter's life. the story of a is all coming. as we were door to do what he believed was man to state the obvious you've tracking the carter funeral motorcade, it's going to head heard today, from a great, here to where we are at the the right thing. taking great eulogies who came from a washington national cathedral. controversial challenges on dignitaries arriving. by the moment the service is set to regardless of the political begin. less than an hour from house without running water or consequences. and frankly, now, including that rare gathering of those five there were many. much of his presidents. we'll show you it electricity and rose to the agenda passed with bipartisan pinnacle of power. the story of all right here, straight ahead. we're also going to get an a man who was at once driven update on the l.a. wildfires, support. the deaths and devastation that a quaint notion in today's. we have been seeing. the and devoted to making real the evacuation still underway. our hyper polarized politics. special coverage continues in a independent surveys indicated words of his savior, and the he had one of the highest moment. success rates in passing his ideals of this nation. the

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friend walter mondale, whom we in advance that volcker's tough all miss very much. together, monetary policy would raise interest rates and unemployment because paul told him that and they formed a model partnership would do so in a presidential collaboration, and trust because both were men of election year. you take care of all you have to do is tap a few buttons and they take care of character. and as we all know, it. download rocket money the economy, paul. i'll take care of the politics. inflation today. >> anderson cooper 360 tonight indeed at eight on cnn. dropped like a rock after he post-presidency by making a powerful difference as a left office, and remained private citizen in america. and >> james earl carter, the nation's 39th president, low for decades abroad. jimmy i might add, as you all know, beginning a final journey around the world, through it through the nation's capital. carter laid the building blocks right now, the funeral for a better world. he was the all, he showed us how character motorcade now leaving the u.s. first president to make human and faith start with ourselves rights a priority for u.s. capitol and driving to washington national cathedral, and then flows to foreign policy, and this led where the leaders of directly to the release of others at our best. we share washington, d.c. and the carter thousands of political family will pay their respects the better parts to the late president. that prisoners in latin america and of ourselves. joy, solidarity, stimulated them to a lasting includes the five men alive who have also served as commander love, commitment. not for democratic transition. he in chief. as we stand by there, ushered in a new era of you see a former vice reward, but in reverence for hemispheric relations with the president, al gore, as he stand by for the funeral service. the incredible gift of there is, of course, the panama canal treaties. the toughest legislative battle of

breaking news on the wildfire his presidency. he uniquely catastrophe in southern life we've all been granted to combined the soft power of make every minute of our time california. residents in los here on earth angeles county are waking up to human rights, championing count. that's the definition freedom from the communist east continued mass devastation this morning, with thousands of bloc countries and tripling the of a good life. a life jimmy homes and businesses now reduced to rubble and ash. emigration of soviet jews. he carter lived during his 100 you're looking at live combined that with hard power, years to young people, to pictures from the pacific palisades, courtesy of our rebuilding america's military affiliate kabc. at least five strength after its people have died in these anyone in search of fires, but officials expect meaning and purpose. study the post-watergate decline. he that number to rise. sadly, as power of jimmy carter's the most destructive fire is negotiated a major nuclear arms example. i miss him, but i take treaty with the soviets, while still 0% contained. cnn's julia at the same time initiated vargas jones is in altadena. every solace in knowing that he is julia, tell us what it's like beloved. rosalynn. are reunited there on the ground. single weapon system that came >> well, jake, scenes like this online. in the 1980s. those new again and to the entire carter one, this house is still on weapons helped end the cold war. he normalized relations family. thank you. and i mean fire. it's street after street with china and even his critics this sincerely and you see, you know, this vegetation, dried out applauded his tough measures. for sharing them both with california vegetation that is so after the soviets invaded america and the world. we love ripe to just ignite as the fire afghanistan. jimmy carter's you all. makes its way through most lasting achievement, and jill and i will cherish our construction materials and destroying people's the one i think he was most visits with them, including that last one in their

homes. their memories, their proud of, was to bring the lives in these homes we see on first peace to the middle east the other side here, a neighbor home. we saw jimmy as he always through the greatest act of was, at peace with a life fully has a gas leak that's been personal diplomacy in american going for at least a few hours history, the camp david lived, a good since we've been here. accords. for 13 days and firefighters working tirelessly life, a purpose and meaning of to try and contain this. as you nights, he negotiated with israel's menachem begin and character driven by mentioned, 0% contained. this is the eaton fire that has come destiny and filled with the down from the angeles national egypt's anwar sadat, personally power of faith, hope and love. forest, on the hills that are drafting more than 20 peace just behind altadena in pasadena. these cities just proposals and shuttling them i'll say it again faith, hope between the east of los angeles, and it's ravaged through these israeli and egyptian and love. as he returned to delegations. and he saved the neighborhoods. we've witnessed agreement at the 11th hour. and people here trying to make their way back to their homes, plains georgia for his final it was the 11th hour. by trying to check on their homes resting place, we can say appealing to begin's love of and being faced with just goodbye and the words of the rubble skeletons of what it his grandchildren for the past prophet micah, who jimmy so used to be. meanwhile, 45 years, the egypt-israel admired until his firefighters working. 36, 48 hour shifts, and we have peace treaty has never been support from national guard and violated and laid the foundation for final breath. jimmy carter did justly firefighters coming from as far the abraham accords. on the as oregon to help fight this. other side of the ledger was love mercy and walk humbly. may the main aspect that might iran. jimmy carter did god god bless a great american change the luck of these not lose iran. the shah did, a dear friend and a good man. firefighters in the coming hours is the wind. jake, you but the hostage crisis was a

may he rise up, be raised up on know, i've described this event major factor in denying him a as kind of a hurricane of fire, and bear you on the breath of dawn. and make and it's because the winds are second term. despite his the most important element here support for the shah, because you to shine like the sun. and in the containment of this he placed the safe return of fire. firefighters have had a hold you in the palm of his the hostages above his own lull for the past almost 16, 24 hand. god political fortunes. he took full responsibility for the bless you, jimmy carter. hours of just having the being failure of the bold hostage able to get some aerial support with the winds not being so rescue mission and worked high. but we are expecting for tirelessly even after his them to pick up back again this bitter reelection defeat to ronald reagan, securing their afternoon, thursday afternoon. and it's anyone's guess what release on the last day of his that could do. we're still looking at 10,600 acres out presidency. in the end, jimmy here in altadena and in carter taught all of us how to pasadena and up in these hills. live who knows where that will go next. what i will say is the a life fulfilled with faith and service. he said, i have one scale of this life to live. i feel like god destruction is jarring. driving through the streets, going wants me to do the best i can do with it, to let me live my through these neighborhoods, it is people's homes and it's businesses. it will take a life so that it really long time for these will be meaningful. well, communities to get back to what

they used to be. >> jake. all right. thank you mr. president, you've more than so much. let's go to achieved that goal. he may not meteorologist derek van dam, who is in the cnn weather center. derek, what kind of be a candidate for mount conditions are we expecting in rushmore, but he belongs in the the coming hours as firefighters attempt to to foothills of making the u.s. contain these blazes? yeah. stronger and the >> residents. >> jake, in los angeles county were encouraged to hear the world safer. jimmy carter has sounds of helicopters, see them earned his place in heaven. but drop their water on the just as he was free with firefighting efforts here. >> that is a big difference sometimes unsolicited advice from 24 hours ago when they could not fly that aircraft. so for his now we're getting that aerial support, at least for the time presidential successors, the being. so the wind, as julio was saying, is so incredibly lord of all creation should be important. an important weather ready for jimmy's recommendations on how to make god's realm a more factor for the flames that are still ongoing. and right now peaceful place. they're generally weaker than it was 24 hours ago. but i want you to see, as we go through time, through the course of your thursday, this area will see more santa ana winds picking up in intensity. 60 mile per hour ridgetop winds 40 >> a reading from the gospel to 50 mile per hour. winds in the canyons, the valleys, and according to saint matthew. near the coastline as well. some of the hardest hit areas. we have to wait to friday until now, when jesus saw the crowds,

we experience more calm weather he went up on a mountainside and wind conditions. so when we look at the five fires that and sat down. his disciples we're monitoring right now, came to him, and he began to the five large fires, we've got teach them, saying. blessed are palisades near the coast, but the eaton fire just north of the poor in spirit, for theirs pasadena, coming down the is the kingdom of heaven. mountainside, threatening these homes and continuing to burn blessed are those who mourn, this area. the shade of red, of for they will be comforted. course, are the already burned blessed are the meek, for they will acreage that is currently ongoing. so spot fires will ignite new fires, especially as inherit the earth. blessed are the santa ana winds pick up those who hunger and thirst for through the course of the day righteousness, for they will be today. now i'm going to take you into santa monica. there's filled. blessed are the the famous pier, the shoreline there, and then going into the merciful, for they will be actual. this would be the shown mercy. blessed are the eastern flank of the fire. pure in heart, for western l.a. county, near santa monica. you can start to see they will see god. blessed are this spiral effect of the the peacemakers, for they will residential communities here. this fire continues to encroach be called sons of god on heavily populated areas of blessed are those who are the western l.a. county region. in fact, persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is satellite imagery proves just that. what an incredible sight to see. the charred homes from the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when people insult you, space on this recently released persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you satellite image. i mean, just

incredible. jake, the level of destruction from these fires that's still ongoing. >> in my church, we sing a song >> yeah. derek, brandon, thanks because of me. rejoice and be so much. we're going to keep glad, because great is your that says, from the moment that bringing you updates on those fires. and if you need reward in heaven. for in the same way they persecuted the information right now, i wake up, until i lay my head, obviously, please go to cnn.com prophets who were before you where we have all the updates i will sing of the goodness of you are the salt of the earth. from local authorities. but we are going to continue to cover but if the salt loses its these devastating fires still saltiness, how can it be made ahead. we're going to turn back god. i don't know how many to the state funeral of former people in here can say that. i salty again? it is no longer good for anything except to be president jimmy carter. know i can't, but my washington national cathedral thrown out is filling up with u.s. and grandfather certainly can. from the moment that he woke up, world leaders there to mourn and trampled by men. you are the 39th president of the the light of the world. a city united states. we're told the president, biden and vice on a hill cannot be hidden. until he laid his head, his president harris have both life was a testament to the neither do people. light a lamp arrived at the cathedral. and put it under a bowl. let's take a quick break. we'll be right goodness of god. and i thank all of you for being here to instead, they put it on its stand and it gives light to back. everyone in the celebrate this life, to the house. in the same way, let presidents and first ladies, it >> this park changed my life. is a great honor to have you your light shine before men, that they may see your good here. you know, the human side >> superman. crazy. just that deeds and praise your father in simple little thing over the horse. of the american presidency like >> chris wanted to change the no others. and heaven. the word of the lord. world. >> people are literally walking we appreciate you. to the vice thanks. because of him. >> super man. the christopher reeve story february 2nd on presidents, other distinguished guests and friends of all cnn. kinds. thank you for

>> so we really need to see your ldl-c come down more to being here. to those of you who lower your risk of another heart attack. came from all across the world, >> i was afraid we had to do more. >> like what? i already thank you for being here to exercise, take my statin, eat celebrate and pay tribute to my grandfather i say grandfather, kale. >> i can tell you're trying, but there's a high chance but we called him pawpaw. as you'll have another heart attack. >> i don't want to go through many of you know, we called my that again. >> what else can we do? let's grandmother mom carter. so we add repatha. spent our time talking about >> repatha plus a statin dramatically lowers ldl-c by mom and pawpaw and mostly speaking of the human side of 63%, and drops the risk of having a the presidency, just letting people know that they were heart attack by 27%. do not regular folks. yes, they spent take repatha if you're allergic four years in the governor's to it. serious allergic reactions can occur. get mansion and four years at the medical help right away if you white house, but the other have trouble breathing or swallowing. swelling of the 92 years. they spent at home in face, lips, tongue, throat, or arms. common side effects plains georgia and one of the include runny nose. sore throat. common cold symptoms. flu or flu like symptoms, back best ways to demonstrate that they were regular folks is to pain, high blood sugar and take them by that home. first redness, pain or bruising at of all, it looks like they the injection site. might have built it themselves. >> so i have your latest blood work here. and we did it. your ldl-c came way down. second of all, my grandfather >> listen to your heart. lower was likely to show up at the your ldl-c and your risk with door in some 70s short shorts repatha. talk to your doctor. and crocs

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>> the making of a legend georgia. premieres january 25th on cnn. i >> it is a cold and somber day here in the nation's capital, as president jimmy carter's knew planes from my pastorate funeral motorcade is due to in thomasville, georgia, about arrive any minute at washington 60 or 70 miles south national cathedral. it passed by the white house just moments of there. and i was even ago. mourners are awaiting the start of a service that will nervous driving through combine the pomp prayings and planes and and ceremony of the presidency with the very personal touches sumter county. gave us one of reflecting carter's roots and his deep religious faith. we have the meanest experiences that we seen all sorts of officials had in the civil rights movement. so much so that going into the pews, walking into the pews of the cathedral, martin luther king said that we saw former vice president the sheriff of mike pence just a few minutes ago. there he is. he plains of sumter county, he was talking to al gore, the really thought was the meanest former vice president, at one man in the world. and point there he was, mr. gore's head on the left side of your when i first met jimmy carter, screen. and anita mcbride, one running for governor. and said, of the things that's so remarkable when you live to be the only thing i know about 100, you tend to outlive a lot plains and sumter county is of other people. and we're

going to fred chappell, and he said, oh, yes, he's one of my good hear two eulogies today from individuals with whom president carter was close. one, his vice friends. and that was the last thing i president, walter mondale, and the other the man he defeated for the presidency in 1976 and wanted to hear. and yet time became a good personal friend and time again, i saw in him of his former president, ford. and both mondale and ford wrote the ability to eulogies for jimmy carter. but jimmy achieve carter outlived them. >> well, again, here we see this wonderful display. greatness by the >> this church to house and to have these ceremonies was built diversity of his personality and his upbringing. doctor king specifically by the founders in used to say that greatness is mind to be a great place of national significance and to characterized by antitheses have people like former presidents be together and to strongly marked. you've got to have a tough mind and a tender honor each other. and it's interesting you said about the heart, and that was jimmy eulogy that president ford has carter, and he grew up in the left a letter at president ford's funeral. jimmy carter was not a eulogist. it was tom tremendous diversity of the south, and he embraced both brokaw who was henry kissinger. sides. he was a minority

it was bush 41. it was bush 43. that's very interesting. in sumter county, just about doesn't dispute the fact that their relationship was close. 20, so i think that's going to be a very moving moment to hear the words from former president 25% of the population was ford. yeah. >> read by his son, steve, read by his son and walter white. but growing up as a mondale's eulogy read by his minority, son, ted. yeah. >> and just to go back to what he became we're already starting to see in that cathedral, just the the friend of the majority. and notion of, let's just start when he went to the with the people we have seen on naval academy, he the screen. mike pence, when was the last time mike pence asked that his roommate be was in the same room as donald the first black midshipman to trump? >> four years ago. >> that's going to happen come to annapolis. and he said, today. mike pence there with al i know minorities. i've been a gore, who we now know was a minority most of my life, and maybe i can help him in his sort of north star for him in adjustments. and he went out of on january 6th, 2021, when mike his way. to pence. there he is. there he is talking to al gore. i'm sorry. embrace those of us. oh, and dan quayle. i mean, that's the vice presidents,

vice presidents club, three of who. had grown up in all kinds them together. we learned that of mike pence, on that fateful conflict. but that was the day, that horrible day, said he was going. he decided to sensitivity, the. spirituality buck donald trump and not overturn the will of the people, in part because he that made james earl carter a remembered being a young member of congress. hunter biden and truly great seeing al gore doing it. and there's hunter biden, a new president. james grandfather. his grandson was born yesterday in l.a. amid all earl carter was truly a child of the fires going on there. of god, not only a there you see, marilyn quayle, good farmer, but. a nuclear the former second lady, in addition to dan quayle, at moments like this, number one, physicist chosen by admiral you see all the dignitaries paying due respect to former rickover to assist him in developing a new nuclear navy. president carter. >> you try to trace arcs of but at the same time, he was history, like what is happening today that you can trace back to those days, and you can look working on a nuclear navy. in our american politics, you can certainly look in the he was thinking of peace on middle east and find the arc of earth and goodwill toward all history that things that began or at least gained fruit in men, and especially women and time and space during the carter era are still with us children.

today. i've known >> i would posit that what we're seeing right now, which is wonderful, a moment of president carter for more than bipartisanship, people coming half of my life. and i never together, well, not an arc. it will be a brief moment. we are days away from the return of donald trump and bipartisan cease to be surprised. i never washington. we should celebrate cease to be enlightened. i it today. we don't get enough of it in this town where people never cease to be inspired by have respect for service, the little deeds of love and respect for individuals, respect for bigger things than party labels. so i mercy that he shared with us every day of his life. it would celebrate it today because we will in days we will not see mike pence in the same room as donald trump after this day. was president james earl carter >> so the reality is, jimmy that, for me, symbolized the carter lived to be 100. greatness of the >> you saw in the picture before the vice presidents were united states of america. and i laughing. >> they were catching up. >> one of the things we'll see am truly grateful for him today is just the dynamics because in spite of the between the presidents club, harshness of the depression between the vice presidents club and i'm told the seating and the explosions of inflation chart changed a couple of he never wavered times, but last i heard, vice president pence is sitting for his from his commitment to right behind president elect god almighty and his love of

and former president donald trump. so? so those dynamics all of god's will be interesting. the other thing that we're going to see are a lot of children and children. jimmy grandchildren of of former carter was a blessing that presidents. so in addition to the clintons, chelsea helped to create a great clinton will be there. former united states of america and for all of us, and many who are president lbj, johnson's daughters will will be there. not able to be here. i want to and truman, president truman's there's eisenhower. so it say thank you. you have been a really is one of those rare times when everybody comes blessing from god, and your together. can we just go back spirit will remain with us. to the age and outliving most of and as jason said, he may be his people so that the inner circle for jimmy carter was jody powell, his white house gone, but he ain't gone far. press secretary? hamilton jordan, his chief of staff, pat thank you, president carter, and thank caddell, his pollster. jimmy carter outlived all of them, but there will be, i'm told, you, almighty god. today, the following people from the carter administration. joseph califano, 93 years old,

who was secretary of health, education and welfare. andrew young, who is the former ambassador to the u.n., 93. and judge william webster, who? jimmy carter, he. judge webster is about to turn 101. and i spoke to judge webster and his wife, linda, this past week. they told me two interesting stories. one, we should all keep in mind that jimmy carter, the democrat, picked judge webster, the republican, to be head of the fbi. knowing that webster, the republican, would go on for a ten year service, it was a, you know, jimmy carter thought the man was right for the job. it or. wasn't about politics. and linda webster also told me one of their favorite stories is that jimmy carter never interfered with what judge webster did. he always worked through the attorney general. >> imagine there's

he believed the fbi should be separate, and except once, once no heaven. it's easy if you president carter, they don't try know why no. hell below us. called. then fbi director judge webster to ask about something out west. and, above us only sky. uh, the fbi director said, if we can, we'll do it. and jimmy imagine all the people. carter said. understood. you know, hands off. very different from today where christopher living for wray is going to be resigning so that donald trump can today. i. imagine there's no appoint his own fbi director. >> you know, i think about the country. century of jimmy carter and the it isn't hard to do. century of american life. and it strikes me, i mean, even watching all the people nothing to gathered in that room, that you can only look at the presidency of jimmy carter as just one kill or die for. chapter. and honestly, a no relatively small chapter in religion too. this man's enormous life and the impact that he had on these

institutions. hearing you, imagine all the people. jamie, talk about his respect for the independence of living life in peace the fbi. seeing hunter biden on the screen and some of those folks that we've just been discussing you know, the you. you may say i'm a dreamer independence of the fbi at that point was still a relatively but i'm not the only one. new phenomenon. so it was so important for him to take those ideas and to hold fast to them i hope someday you'll join us. so that they could become a part of the american system for decades after that. now we're in another >> and the world era. perhaps all of that is being revisited. but one of the will be as one. things about jimmy carter's legacy throughout all of these things, whether it's how he >> imagine no possessions. governed, how he thought about american energy, how he thought about the future, how he i wonder if you can. thought about the importance of science and engineering and future proofing this country. he saw, no need for beyond his four year term, and greed or hunger. then he ended up living to to

a brotherhood see years that most american presidents never see. so it's of man. imagine all the people an incredible thing. >> one thing we were just we were just listening to the in the national cathedral, the song wind beneath my wings, sharing popularized by bette midler from 1982. we're told that the song reminded jimmy carter, all the world. >> you you may say i'm a reminded the former president dreamer. but i'm not the only of his wife, rosalynn carter. and as we've been discussing for several days now, when you are a former president, every one. three months, you have to go >> i hope someday you'll join over plans for your funeral. there is a vice president, vice president elect jd vance and us. >> and his wife usha, and at least one of their children. but in any the world will live as one. case, this is something that vice president-elect vance and president-elect trump and others are going to have to do as well. this is just part of being an american president. you have to make plans for your

funeral. as macabre as that might seem, george h.w. bush let's go ahead. once said that you get used to it every three months. >> every three months. >> he was reviewing it. every three months. they come to you and check out the seating chart. there is one of our some of the supreme court justices. let's go to john berman up in >> our father, who art in new york. >> thanks so much, jake. you know, we're watching two of the heaven, motorcade carrying the casket with jimmy carter traveling hallowed be thy name. from the u.s. capitol to the >> thy kingdom come. thy will national cathedral. somewhat be done. on earth as it is in symbolic journey, right, because the u.s. capitol, the kind of place where maybe jimmy carter was never quite as heaven. give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our comfortable. but the national trespasses, as we forgive those cathedral, that's a different who trespass against us. and story. kai bird, you know, biographer for jimmy carter. faith not just central definitional lead us not into temptation, but but deliver us from evil. to jimmy carter. >> yeah, he was a southern for thine is the kingdom, and baptist, a born again southern baptist who was, you know, he took his religiosity very seriously. >> and he he was always an outlier, an outsider running

against washington. but he central was his morals. and i think in retrospect, we have to understand that he obviously was one of the most decent men to have occupied the white house, but also the hardest working and probably the most intelligent president in the 20th century. so. well read. and he took his faith so seriously that he would ignore the political consequences of many of his political decisions. he would try to just do the right thing. >> secret service code name was deacon. that gives you a sense of just how central faith was in the motorcade pulling in right now to the national cathedral. on stage, we were told trisha yearwood and garth brooks will be performing. they were close to the carter family. i don't know if any of you have seen the cnn documentary rock n roll president, but music is such a central part of jimmy carter's life and presidency. i don't think the allman brothers will be there today, but. but they

obviously were were big in his campaign as well. >> connect those two ideas. >> when he made one of his one of the speeches as candidates, that drew him into national prominence, he cited bob dylan and reinhold niebuhr as his two biggest influences. a christian theologian who is one of the more influential on the progressive left, martin luther king, et cetera. we're going to hear elements of that ideology. >> let's go to kaitlan. collins is at the cathedral where the motorcade is just arriving. >> yeah. john berman obviously, you can see here president carter's casket has just arrived at the national cathedral. it is. we're looking at it. it's right over my left shoulder from where we're sitting here. obviously, a solemn moment here. and the u.s. coast guard band is gathered outside as they prepare to to bring his casket inside, where all of the former presidents have gathered, as you saw them sitting amongst the pews, you know, and just

the moments here of what you can't miss are how much this, this person, this life that we're about to hear eulogized has shaped, shaped and shaped the presidency. i was thinking about that, just looking at vice president elect jd vance sitting there with his wife, usha carter, changed what his job is going to look like in a few weeks from now. in a fundamental way, from from putting his office into the west wing to to bringing the vice president into critical briefings on things like arms control that he couldn't believe they were left out of before. i mean, he he was a one term president, but he had such a lasting legacy. and i think that is something that will that will pertain to so many of the the figures that you see in there as they are preparing to take his casket out of here, to bring it inside up those steps, and then his funeral here at the national cathedral will begin. >> john. pallbearers, the honorary pallbearers, all all members of his family, grandchildren. he has so many. and we were talking about the role of faith in jimmy

carter's life. and it was central to his marriage as well. his 77 year marriage to rosalynn, who passed away two years ago, and they were both such major figures in their own church community in georgia. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, talking to people down in plains, they would they would do anything for the carters. um, and you think about their life of adventure that they really lived together. rosalynn liked to joke. they had an involuntary retirement after they lost the election. and then the fact that, you know, here they were married in 1946, right after world war ii. they lived in virginia, hawaii, connecticut. and then they go back to plains. and he begins a political career that she is a key, um, partner to him. you know, she makes speeches around the country. she introduces jimmy carter, who is an unknown at the time. she helps introduce him to the country.

and i don't believe that he could have done it without her. >> and she said cabinet meetings. she was such a central figure in every aspect of his life, both in the faith community and in the political community as well. we're joined now by renowned presidential photographer david kennerly. he's photographed 11 presidents, including jimmy carter. it's an honor to speak with you, sir. i will note jimmy carter himself did not have an official white house photographer, but the first time carter stepped into the white house, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, was during the transition after he had beaten gerald ford. he was there at ford's invitation, and you were literally in that room snapping pictures. talk to us about what that moment was like. >> that was, uh, as you say, the first time that carter had been in the white house. i was astonished when i found that this is the moment where ford reaches over and said, i haven't really congratulated you on becoming president, and ford

was incredibly gracious and offered carter his private office right next to the oval office. and that's how gerald ford was. i mean, he was very sad that he lost the election. i think the staff was even sadder. i know i was, and but the two of them really hit it off. and ford had an exemplary transition, unlike some other recent presidents or presidents. >> we're looking at live pictures right now from the national cathedral, where the living presidents are gathered. we haven't seen them yet inside, although we have seen all the living vice presidents waiting for the arrival of the casket carrying jimmy carter. but you photographed yourself these ceremonies in the past, including the funeral for george h. w bush where carter was. what was that like? what is that like for you when you see all these people in one place? >> yeah. this is the ford funeral in 2007. on january

2nd. uh, and you have president bush, his dad, senior, and then clinton and carter there, along with their wives and nancy reagan on the right, as you can see. but that's from my spot, right in front of all these people. and i was there as the official ford photographer, and i covered all of the funeral. that was a really hard one for me. i remember when the music started, i really started crying and it was a hard thing. anybody that knew the president ford and susan ford was they're also today, um, felt that way. and just to be in watch the casket and hear the singing and being in the national cathedral where my son byron was. baptized, and it was all very emotional for me, um, an emotional time in such a tight

bond between those two former presidents, ford and carter. >> david kennerly, as i said, an honor to speak with you. and i'm here, tim naftali, you noted we were talking before about the fact that carter did not speak at the national cathedral, at the official washington ceremony for gerald ford's passing, but maybe even more poignant, he spoke at the private ceremony back in grand rapids. he spoke at the private ceremony, and it was a beautiful eulogy. >> uh, carter teared up at the end when he described ford as a healer. >> he also talked about the love that developed between both couples, and this emerged from, as david just discussed, what was a bitter political fight. but their. relationship flowered on a plane on air force one, coming back from anwar sadat's funeral. he'd been assassinated largely for his efforts to bring peace to

the middle east. he'd been assassinated in 1981, and ford and carter realized they were with nixon. but nixon, as was his wont, went off in his own direction, left them alone, and they realized they had hours together. so they started talking and they started bonding over how difficult it was to raise money for the presidential libraries. and before the trip ended, they were they had been professional allies. uh, carter had invited ford into the white house during his presidency. he had relied on ford to lobby for the panama canal treaties among republican senators. but they became friends, and that friendship was clear from what jimmy carter said in 2007. one more point. just before ford died, one of his last conversations with jimmy carter, he called carter to ask him, would you give the eulogy at my funeral? carter was

surprised and said, only if you'll let me. if you'll give the eulogy at my funeral, if i go first. and so what we're seeing today is closure. it's a promise that ford made to carter, and carter made to ford. and carter, of course, outlived ford. so we're going to see that today. >> very, very moving examples of friendship. and i think of grace as we watch the motorcade carrying jimmy carter arrive at the national cathedral. let's go back to jake in washington. >> thanks so much, john. yeah, we're watching this very moving moment. it only happens every few years. and it is macabre to think about the fact that we will be doing it again sometime in the not too distant future. hopefully not. not soon. for one of the gentlemen sitting in the pews. we are reflecting on the life of jimmy carter, the life he led and his continued

activism and john king. one of the reasons why i think there is such an outpouring of of love and respect for jimmy carter from all political corners, left, right, center and also the apolitical is because he continued to try to. there is some of the world leaders that you see justin trudeau, perhaps most notable in that pew, not having a particularly good week. prime minister trudeau. but one of the things that's so, so notable john king, is how much he continued to stay active, both in personal charitable works like habitat for humanity, building homes for people who need homes, but also continued diplomatic missions abroad. >> uh, consistent character, faith driven. abby mentioned this earlier. you could make a very strong argument that the carter post-presidency in some ways was as important, if not more important, than the carter presidency. speaking his mind, not afraid to speak his mind. one of the reasons he was

always an outsider in the presidents club is he thought those who came after him were not as willing to speak out for human rights, to speak up for civil rights, to make hard decisions, and to and to stay with them. so you see here at home, habitat for humanity, building homes for people who don't have them, building homes for people who don't have the means, doing it quietly. carter would go to these building sites and it wasn't like, where's the media? why am i not on television? it was, let's help people. you see what's happening in venezuela just today, if jimmy carter were president, i think we would have a louder voice from the white house about a man who stole an election. and, you know, and so the dignity of the man, the character of the man, whether it was at his projects here at home and his projects around the world. and you hear each of these presidential historians, people like anita and tim talk about, he would pick up the phone as a post president. can i help something? can i help nelson mandela? can i help a poor person in georgia or anywhere else in the united states of america? and he viewed those people as equals. i think

that's the gift of jimmy carter. nelson mandela needed a hand. i'll give it to you. a poor person didn't have a house. needs a hand. i'll give it to you. just the character of the man, the humility of the man, the decency of the man. again, you trace the arc of history, character traits that are sadly often lacking in this town these days. >> let's bring in a longtime friend of former president carter, jill stuckey. jill is superintendent of the jimmy carter national historical park in plains georgia has knew the carters for 30 years. miss stuckey, thanks for joining us. you you have had the the privilege, the honor of having saturday night dinners with jimmy and rosalynn carter. i'm sure. countless memories. what do you want the world to remember today about not just the 39th president of the united states, about not just perhaps the most consequential former president in the history of this country, but your friend, your friend, jimmy carter. what do you want

people to know? >> oh, so many emotions are going through me today, and i just want people to do more research, love people to come to jimmy carter national historical park and learn about president carter. governor carter, um, the world leader carter and the carter center. just they packed so many things into their 77.5 years of marriage. and president carter's 100 year life. >> i'm sure you had dozens of conversations with president carter over the years about his thoughts on world events and world leaders and today's politics. um, did he ever say anything to you about how he hoped his legacy would be remembered? >> you know, one time i asked him about that, somebody was doing some some fact checking, and he just looked at me. he said, you know more about me than i do. just handle it. you know, that didn't concern him.

what concerned him was the president helping people just as much as he could. he really didn't waste any time thinking about after he was gone. he he lived for the moment. >> president carter, of course, was known to have a fairly simple life at his home in plains, georgia. um, and, you know, we had some people on the panel a couple of days ago who served in his white in his white house with him in his administration with him, and talked about how he kind of had to be convinced that it was important for americans to hear hail to the chief played whenever he walked into a room. he was uncomfortable with it. how comfortable do you think he would be with all the pomp and circumstance today? did he? did he come to make peace with it? >> yeah, i think so. but, um, as you mentioned a little earlier, he didn't want to talk

about the funeral. it again, wasn't, um, something he felt comfortable at all discussing. he'd rather discuss who he could help today. um, you know, a latrine. he could dig in a poor country, eradicating eliminating diseases. that's what he cared about. >> we see president elect trump and first lady melania trump at the national cathedral. right now, we have seen, um, i think this is the first president that we've seen come into the room. we are still waiting, of course, for bush and clinton and obama as well. there is donald trump and mike pence, al gore, the former vice president, uh, pence and trump. it's the first time they've seen each other since january 2021. a lot of tension between the two then, and it didn't look particularly warm just now. one might observe in any case, this is the first

president of many that we're expecting. of course, we expect president biden to deliver a eulogy. president biden, back when he was a senator, he and jimmy carter shared a political adviser, pat caddell and pat caddell. there is former president obama walking in, um, first lady michelle obama is not going to be with him today, but here he is joining the club, saying hello to mike pence, saying hello to. mike pence, his wife karen, saying hello to al gore. uh, we did not see a greeting of or by president trump. there he is saying hi to marilyn quayle. uh, well, they did shake hands. did shake shake. okay. i couldn't see it from the angle i was at, uh, obama and trump sitting next to

each other, talking to each other there. but president obama did say hello to marilyn quayle and former vice president dan quayle. >> well, that's such an image there. >> that is an image. i mean, you don't you don't see. it's always striking whenever you see any of these people who were political opponents. although obama and trump never ran against each other. here's george w. bush and first lady laura bush interesting how barack barack obama stood up to let them through again. um, saying hello to the former vice presidents al gore, mike pence george w. bush. >> i may have missed it, jake, but i do not think former president bush or laura bush shook hands with. >> they walked right past it. >> i with trump's i would find that very surprising if they didn't. >> maybe we didn't see that. >> we might not have seen it. the the angle keeps shifting back and forth. right. might

still happen. um, but you see, barack obama and donald trump having what seems like friendly chit chat there is former president bill clinton with first lady and secretary of state hillary clinton walking around on the other side. it's, of course, the closest to the seats, but also avoids the potential awkwardness of a moment between the trumps and the clintons that might not be as warm as the ones she's having with the former vice president. so let's go to kaitlan collins, who's outside the cathedral. >> i mean, jake, to be able to hear those conversations that are happening. these are just moments that that you don't you don't see hardly ever. and just to go back to that moment where trump walked into the room and shook hands with mike pence, that is the first interaction that those two have had. they have not even been in the same room in four years. i called to to just double check that this morning with a few aides of both of theirs, and it just was

a moment to see them come and shake hands with one another, and obviously to see this moment. jeff, you covered president obama to see the two of them speaking to to one another seated next to one another, which i don't think they have been at one of these, these funerals or gatherings where they've been in the same room before. >> they have not. it truly is extraordinary. the last time most of them were in the same room was in 2018, at the funeral of george h.w. bush. president trump was in office then. one person missing from this is michelle obama. i'm told by her advisers that she had a scheduling conflict. she's actually still in hawaii from an extended holiday vacation, so she's missing there. but if you look from these presidencies, they are linked one to another to another. that's how it works. of course. uh, the and hillary clinton seeing her there and jimmy carter, as you'll remember, casey, we covered the bernie sanders campaign. jimmy carter supported him over her. so there are so many rifts between, uh, and rivalries between these former presidents. but today, for at

least you can see them. there is comedy in somewhat of a camaraderie. >> well, they're united in a unique way now that they have all won the right to be a part of the fraternity. but as you point out, they are, before arriving to the oval office, fierce rivals with those. and in the in the case of the way our politics has played out in recent decades, you have seen members of the same families running for president. you know, two bushes serving as president of the united states. obviously, one clinton serving the other running. and this extended conversation between donald trump and barack obama. just so fascinating, especially when you think about how some of the things that donald trump said and did while obama was president. while your point is taken, they didn't run against each other. it was so incredibly personal. >> he claimed he wasn't an american citizen. >> and of course, as ken here comes in the room, vice president harris and doug emhoff also entering the room.

>> harris is right behind president biden and her motorcade. so obviously we should expect to see him soon as well. and as we know, we're thinking as as gerald ford's son is going to be reading his words, his eulogy for president carter here. i was thinking this morning, you know, about how gerald ford and jimmy carter, both, in a way, had president nixon to thank for for coming into office and to look at this rare club here known as the presidents club. so many of the trajectories of their presidencies is what led their successor to to then get into office with biden and trump and to see this moment as, as trump and obama are continuing that conversation i with second, second gentleman, doug emhoff there, vice president harris there. jake, the only person we are waiting on is president biden himself. >> that's right. and you know it is. it is tempting to try to read into what is going on in terms of who stood up for whom and who said hello to whom and who walked over to whom and who did not. we should also remember that this is a

funeral, and people are, generally speaking, trying to behave in a somber and appropriate tone, um, for evidence of that, just look at the normally backslapping, garrulous bill clinton and george w bush, both of whom are are fairly restrained. it is it is a funeral of a member of their club, the presidents club. that said, it can't be easy for people in that group who have heard nasty things said about them by one or another of the people present. um, whether somebody's saying that donald trump is an existential threat to democracy or some of the more vicious things said about barack obama and where he was born, and on and on. but it is a funeral, and it is a moment where people try to put aside such such grievances for the larger purpose. anita. >> thank you. make a good point there, jake. and but it

conjured up a memory that i have from bush 41 funeral, when all the former presidents for whom first families, everybody were seated. george w bush was one of the last people to come in the room before the sitting president, of course. and he went and shook every single person's hand of his former club. former first ladies. and again, it does. yes. this is a reverent moment, of course, but it does take a person to of character to sort of change that tone. >> i just want to it's not happening right now, but i just want to emphasize that until 30s ago, donald trump was talking to barack obama's ear off. >> yes, his ear off. i like seeing that, actually. >> well, i'm not sure how much barack obama liked it, but he was he was being gracious and and, you know, classy as one does. and now, of course, he's turned

threatened. mike pence's life was threatened on january 6th, 2021. but just that, that moment because there is a president joe biden and first lady, jill biden. >> i think he has 11 days left. as president of the united states. obviously, an eventful year, one that he did not plan for. started the year as the would be democratic presidential nominee. and we all know what happened after that. again, you didn't see a particularly warm greeting between the first couple and the second couple. but again, we are at a funeral, so one has to take that into account when trying to read the body language of the individuals there. >> it also strikes me that we're witnessing a certain almost end of an era. there's only one president left of the 20th century. which is a

quite a statement that we are in a completely different era now from when jimmy carter was president of the united states. and you have to imagine that if you are a former president in those pews, you're thinking about the fact that at some point this is going to be a moment that will happen for you. i mean, i can't imagine what that must be like to know that, um, that this pomp and circumstance that you're witnessing for someone else could be at some point extended to you and all these will be, will be extended to them. all of those men there have gone through the planning process. all of those men there have thought about it. i think particularly of president trump, who i think surprised a lot of people with how at least his written statements and some of his verbal statements about jimmy carter have been incredibly gracious. he disagrees with jimmy carter on virtually everything, but something tells me that

understanding he has been president once, he will be president again, understanding what that job entails, understanding what this moment means, having president trump not one, but two near-death experience. just in the last year, he has been incredibly gracious about jimmy carter in in at least his his written word and some of his spoken word. despite a lot of policy disagreements, including some that he's trying to actively overturn right now as we speak. >> right. the casket is being removed from the hearse and soon will be carried into national cathedral. a solemn moment outside the national cathedral right now. >> so much of this is the military precision. and you talked about the presidents that have to review their plans. the military practiced this every six months. they practice to make sure that it's perfect, because there is only one chance to get this

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what i wanted to point out is that, you know, we're seeing the military conduct most of of this. but his secret service agents and detail will be with him escorting the casket through to the very end. they will be there at the burial. they will be standing guard throughout. it is that kind of devotion and just one quick story. he was under secret service protection for 48 years as a protectee. >> it's the longest one in the history of the secret service. >> and one of his former agents, who had actually retired, came back in under a special program and was asked to be assigned to carter. in his final years. just because of that personal relationship. obviously, the most important thing is protecting him, but he really

developed a very special personal relationship with his detail. >> i think it was that agent who actually said in the latter years of his life, president carter wanted to drive a car one last time, and the agent said to him, you can't, you don't have a driver's license. and he said, well, take me to the driver's license agency then to get a card. i don't think it happened, but that just shows you again, just the humanity. >> amy carter the president's the late president's daughter. i'm one and only daughter. that's one of the things that he and gerald ford bonded over, that they both had three sons. and then finally, with their fourth child, had a daughter. >> susan is there today to. i. can come. >> my home that i. left that i love. our home. and

go over his hit the road home sung by the cathedral choir. >> we saw some world leaders there, probably, as we've noted, the world leaders with whom jimmy carter dealt, uh, passed away a long time ago. uh, i'd have to go back and do my research on who was the prime minister of this or that in the 1970s, but i don't think any of them are. are left. >> no, i mean, i'm not sure if he if he was with justin trudeau's father, but as we had seen justin trudeau before, what i was thinking about was, uh, jimmy carter admitting that after he lost and didn't get reelected for a second term, that he was so depressed he couldn't get out of bed for a while. and just thinking about where we are

now, where there are democracies, including this one, but also all around the globe where world leaders are being ousted by their people, whether they're democrats or republicans, uh, for lots of reasons, but in large part because of economic despair, because of inflation. so there are a lot of kind of bookends and similarities and parallels between the times back then and now. justin trudeau coming back to him, he's on his way out because of that. and of course, there we see president obama, president biden, as chip carter the president's son, who last saturday was talking about his father teaching him latin when he was struggling in school and then was able to do a makeup test and got 100 on it because his father learned the latin during the day, then would come home and teach his teach his son.

>> it is fascinating how presidents get to plan their funerals. i'm thinking now about the the funeral we saw for the late senator john mccain, and he had the two men who had defeated him, george w bush, running for president in the republican primaries in 2000 and barack obama in the general election in 2008. he had them. those two men eulogizing him, which was remarkable. we're going to hear from, as you noted, the honorable andrew young, who was president carter's ambassador to the united nations. we're also going to hear from the joshua carter, the president's son, eulogies written by the fathers. uh, steve ford will deliver the eulogy written by his father, former president gerald ford. ted mondale will deliver the eulogy written by jimmy carter's vice president, walter mondale, both of whom jimmy carter outlived. stu eizenstat, who was here at the panel a couple of days ago, who was in the carter administration. jason carter president carter's grandson and also a politician in his own

right. president biden will speak, give a tribute. garth brooks and trisha yearwood will perform the song imagine, which is an interesting selection. uh, and and also, we're told, one of president carter's favorite songs. see, now, the. >> staff of the cathedral about to lead the president.

anita mentioned this earlier on a day when we can talk politics when it's appropriate. but i think more importantly is to talk about the service here, both those in the cathedral and the remarkable service of the members of the military, of all branches of the military, and just the precision and the. respect. >> it's their final honor to their former commander in chief. >> we we sadly only say thank you on days like this, when we say thank you every day for what they do. >> um, and for the people who are wondering why there is so much of the military represented. for me, it's important to remember that this is, again, a special american tradition that the entire military is honoring their commander in chief, who is a civilian.

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never die. i know that my redeemer lives and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and though this body be destroyed, yet shall i see god, whom i shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold and not as a stranger. for none of us liveth to himself. and no man. dieth to himself bears all rennae stubbs writing stuff

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>> ready. faith ready. oh! ready. ace. >> oh, march oh, lord. >> god for none of us liveth to himself. >> and no man dieth to himself. for if we live, we live unto the lord, and we die unto the lord. whether we live therefore or die, we are the lord's. blessed are the

dead who die in the lord. even so saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors. >> the lord be with you let us pray. oh god, whose mercies cannot be numbered. accept our prayers on behalf of your servant james, and grant him an entrance into the land of light and joy in the fellowship of your saints. through jesus christ our lord, who lives and reigns with you and the holy spirit, one god, now and forever. amen.

>> my grandfather started teaching sunday school when he was a midshipman at the naval academy. he taught the bible every sunday from world war two to covid for all my

grandfather's travels, he structured his life so that he was home in plains to teach at maranatha on sunday. it was central to his life. every time i went to church with him, it was packed. the line started before sunrise and i was always very thankful that i got to walk in with my grandmother. and as soon as we sat down, sunday school would start. my grandfather always began by asking if anybody had been in his church before. my grandmother and i raised our hands on almost no one. instead, and then my grandfather would pull the congregation, and we quickly found out that the church was full of people from all over the country of all different backgrounds and beliefs. and my grandfather would address the most diverse sunday school class ever assembled. again. before he delivered his bible lesson. my grandfather talked about his week. if he monitored an election, he'd talk about it.

if he stopped a conflict, he'd talk about it. if he eliminated a disease from a village or a country, he would talk about it. when my brother jeremy died, he announced that news in sunday school. in fact, i remember that my brother died on a sunday because it was the only time my grandfather was ever late to teach. my grandfather won the nobel peace prize. his sunday school class learned first at the end of his nobel peace prize lecture, he stated the most serious and universal problem on our planet is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. for the next two decades, as the problem compounded, he returned to this theme with stories from the bible and stories from today of the richest people in the world using their enormous wealth to buy a nation's

poverty. many of the people that my grandparents helped lived on less than $1 a day. my grandfather spent the entire time i've known him, helping those in need. he built houses for people that needed homes. he eliminated diseases and forgotten places. he waged peace anywhere in the world. wherever he saw a chance. he loved people. and whenever he told these stories in sunday school, he always said he did it for one simple reason. he worshiped the prince of peace, and he commanded it. the bedrock of my grandfather's faith comes from the apostle paul's letter to the romans, chapter eight one through 1838 and 39. therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are

in christ jesus, because christ jesus. because through christ jesus, the law of the spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. for what the law was powerless to do, in that it was weakened by the sinful nature god did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin, offering. and so he condemned sin in sinful man in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the sinful nature, but according to the spirit. those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires. but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their minds set on what the spirit desires. the mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the spirit is

life and peace. the sinful mind is hostile to god. it does not submit to god's law, nor can it do so. those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please god you, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature, but by the spirit. if the spirit of god lives in you. and if anyone does not have the spirit of christ, he does not belong to christ. but if christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. and if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you. therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the sinful nature to live according to it. for if you live according to the sinful

nature, you will die. but if by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the spirit of god are sons of god. for you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave. again, to fear. but you receive the spirit of sonship. and by him we cry, abba, father! the spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are god's children. now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of god and co heirs with christ. if indeed we share in his sufferings, in order that we may also share in his glory. i consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed in us. for i am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, the

present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of god that is in christ jesus our lord. the word of the lord. thanks.

>> um, before i start the carter children, um, my wife and i were sitting several rows behind you and i. we were praying for you, and i was. humbly reminded that it was 18 years ago, almost to the day that that our family sat in that very row and supporting my mom. and it was your dad and his great faith that supported my mom and gave her hope. that week. he he traveled with us for several days, and we were blessed. so thank you. god did a good thing when he made your dad. jack, chip, jeff, amy, mr.

president, madam vice president. former presidents and first ladies, members of the house of representatives and the senate, justices of the supreme court. distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, in the twilight of my dad's life, dad and president carter spoke by phone and dad asked president carter if he would do a eulogy at dad's funeral. president carter graciously agreed, and then he also asked if dad would deliver a eulogy at president carter's funeral. now, dad was thrilled to agree uh, after that call, as you can imagine, both of them got off the phone and had a pretty good chuckle, considering which one of them would return in person

to deliver that second eulogy. as you know, dad died in 2006, and president carter's eulogy continues to bring comfort, smile, laughter. joy and pride to our family. um, and thus, on behalf of my dad, it's an honor to share dad's eulogy to his old friend. i can just see my dad getting his his yellow legal pad out with his pen and writing this for his beloved friend by fate of a brief season, jimmy carter and i were rivals, but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us

as no. two presidents since john adams and thomas jefferson. it is said that president adams last words were thomas jefferson still survives. now, since jimmy has a good decade on me, i'm hedging my bets by entrusting my remembrances of jimmy to my son, steve. according to a map, it's a long way between grand rapids, michigan, and plains, georgia but. distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values rather than miles. and it was because of our shared values that jimmy and i respected each other as adversaries. even before we cherished one

another. as dear friends. now, this is not to say that jimmy never got under my skin, but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn't do that to one another? during our 1976 contest, jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. now, i didn't like it, but little could i know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships. in the summer of 1981, the two of us found ourselves together again, this time aboard air force one, bound for the funeral of the great peacemaker, anwar sadat there is an old line to the effect that two presidents

in a room is one too many. frankly, i wondered how awkward that long flight might be to cairo. and it was a long flight. but the return trip was not nearly long enough, for it was somewhere over the atlantic. that jimmy and i forged a friendship that transcends politics. we immediately decided to exercise one of the privileges of a former president, forgetting that either one of us had ever said any harsh words about the other one. in the heat of battle. then we got on to much more enjoyable subjects discussing our families, our faith, and sharing our experiences in discovering that there is indeed life after the white house. we

commiserated over the high cost of building presidential libraries, and the even more regrettable fact that most of that fundraising for these otherwise admirable institutions fell to us personally on the spot. we agreed to participate in programs at each other's library. beginning beginning with a series of conferences on arms control. and if that wasn't newsworthy enough, we told reporters on the plane that a lasting middle east peace would require the united states to make tough decisions, like confronting the palestinian issue directly, thereby building on the work to which president sadat had literally given his life. it was the first time, but by no means the

last time, that our unlikely partnership ruffled feathers in the washington establishment. now, honesty. >> jimmy carter. yeah, those traits were instilled in him by his loving parents, lillian and earl carter, and the strength of his honesty was was reinforced by his upbringing in the rural south. >> poised on the brink of social transformation, he displayed that honesty throughout his life as a naval officer, state legislator, governor, president, and world leader. for jimmy carter. honesty was not a aspirational goal. it was part of his very soul. now, i think

jimmy wrote more books than any former president once asked if he really enjoyed writing, he replied with that familiar twinkle in his eye. it beats picking cotton. but i think he enjoyed writing for another reason. as an author, he was under no pressure to tailor his opinions to some political constituency or potential. contributor. now both of us had experienced the harsh reality that defeat at the polls can be painful, but we also came to know more important consequence. political defeat and writing can also be liberating if it frees you to discuss topics that

aren't necessarily consistent with short term political popularity. now, jimmy learned early on that it was not enough merely to bear witness in a pew on a sunday morning, inspired by his faith, he. he pursued brotherhood across boundaries of nationhood, across boundaries of tradition, across boundaries of caste. in america's urban neighborhoods and in rural villages around the world. he reminded us that christ had been a carpenter, and in third world villages he successfully campaigned not for votes but for the eradication of diseases that shame the developed world as they ravaged the undeveloped one. now, of course, not all of jimmy's time was spent building houses,

eradicating disease, brokering cease fires, monitoring elections. while jimmy is probably the only former president to conduct a weekly bible class, i know for certain he is the only former president to perform a duet of on the road again with willie nelson georgia wasn't just on jimmy's mind, it was in his blood. however far he traveled. he never forgot where he came home to or where. now, in the end, he would finally come home to. of the of the many things jimmy and i had in common, the most important is this. we both married way above ourselves. way above. with

jimmy, every step of the way was his first lady from plains. and a life rich with blessings. none was greater for jimmy than his. the love he shared with rosalynn and the love the two of them shared with her, their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. like jimmy, rosalyn was and is a symbol of american compassion like no other first lady in our history. rosalyn carter is indeed a true citizen of the world, and she became a beloved friend to my wife betty and me, and to all the ford family. while the carter and ford men were decidedly mixed record when it came to lobbying congress. rosalyn and betty were unbeatable in their advocacy for

millions of people whom they brought out of the shadows of despair and shame. now is a time to say goodbye. our grief, comforted with the joy and the thanksgiving of of knowing this man, this beloved man, this very special man. he was given the gift of years and the american people and the people of the world will be forever blessed by his decades of good works. jimmy carter's legacy of peace and compassion will remain unique as it is timeless. the entire ford family. we extend our love to you. um. and we add our prayers to the prayers of tens of millions of people

around the world. may god bless and watch over this. this good man. may he grant peace to the carter family as they say goodbye to a man whose life was lived to the fullest. with the faith demonstrated and countless good works. with a mission richly fulfilled and a soul rewarded with everlasting life as for myself, jimmy. i'm looking forward to our reunion. we have much to catch up on. thank you, mr. president. welcome home, old friend.

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