king talked about the kennedys were really not his allies. jack and robert. let us talk about history. robert kennedy signed off as attorney general on the wiretapping, illegal wiretapping, if you will, instigated by j. edgar hoover, on martin luther king to get dirt on him. hoover was famous for getting dirt on politicians. so, the kennedys, robert and jack were no great friend of martin luther king or the civil rights movement. guest: thank you for the question. for whatever it is worth, senator kennedy says in this book that he thought j. edgar hoover went way too far. he was disgusted by the wiretapping and he says that whenever he passes the j. edgar hoover building he feels a sense of despair. senator kennedy in his book was very careful to talk about his own personal experiences. so this is not a book about robert f. kennedy, it is a book about ted kennedy. his own experiences with the civil rights movement -- i believe i ever presented them accurately and i encourage you to read it. host: victor on the democrats' line from carlsbad. caller: good mornin

stahl: we went up to the kennedy compound in hyannisport to talk to ted, jr., who recently bought jack kennedy's kennedy, jr.: it was actually right here where he held his press conferences when he was president. he learned that he became president of the united states... he woke up in this house. >> stahl: where's your father's house? >> ted kennedy, jr.: my father's house is over there. >> stahl: right there. >> ted kennedy, jr.: right there. and bobby and ethyl's home here. >> stahl: he said one of the things that surprised him when he read the book was how personal and intimate it was. >> ted kennedy, jr.: i think one of the things that comes out of this book is, you know, just what a humble man he is. his letter to the pope, you know, just a few short weeks ago. you know, every time i read that letter, i cry, because he's asking for forgiveness. >> stahl: he got it. >> ted kennedy, jr.: and he says that, you know, he's fallen short in his life. but you know, he's never tried... never stopped trying to make right in everything he did. and that's a lesson we can all learn. >> stahl: redemptio

there was a brief blip between 1961 and 1962 when jack kennedy became president and ted kennedy won action to the senate, but it looks like the 62-year streak of massachusetts-based kennedys in congress has come to an end. that, 62, is tonight's "big number." >>> up next, why is the conservative right so angry at everything president obama does, from his speech today to schoolchildren to his efforts to reform health care? the right wing attack machine is powered up against the president's every move. what the white house can do to combat it, next. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ ♪ to my family [ female announcer ] clean you can see. softness you can feel. tide with a touch of downy. [screeching] [dejectedly] oh. [screeching] [barks] (man) if you think about it, this is what makes the ladders different from other job-search sites. [screeching] we only work with the big talent. [all coughing] welcome to the ladders-- a premium job site for only $100k-plus jobs and only $100k-plus talent. i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3

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it reminds me of jack kennedy saying i'm not going to fight for laos. kennedy didn't believe in the south vietnamese struggle. he was indecisive. when a president is not following his own hunch. he is making a political move and finds himself in a real situation that is hellish. should we be losing lives in afghanistan right now? >> that is the question on the table. march, barely six weeks into his presidency obama sent additional troops with a new strategy into afghanistan. he talked about the campaign that afghanistan was the good war. we took our eye off the ball. we should have nipped that in the bud. we didn't do it. things have deteriorated. we had escalating casualties, the debacle of the election in afghanistan. the president has said let's take a look, let's not send resources after a bad strategy. let's re-evaluate our strategy. on one level that is solid to the president rethink things. he is being pushed around by the generals, the secretary of state and others. >> chris, if this is not a wise war or winnable war he ought to say fe are goin

i said it reminded me a little bit of jack kennedy after the bay of pigs. before he took the advice of the general and found out that wasn't so great and started making up his mind afterwards, particularly in the cuban missile crisis. obama hasn't had a bay of pigs. but i wonder if he hasn't shifted and decided that he's not going to simply take the advice of the establishment in this town. he's got his own vision of where he wants to take the country and he's going to do it substantially on his own authority and his own judgment. so i'm not convinced he's going to go into afghanistan. i think he may very well decide to try to take a path that doesn't have more troops and gets out pretty quickly and takes the consequences -- take the consequences of contradicting what he had said only a few weeks ago. >> jennifer, tony's clearly referencing the general mccrystal's report to the white house that was leaked sunday and monday actually to "the washington post" and bob woodard. who do you figure leaked it? what element of the government leaked it? and why do you

i understand your recently bought jack kennedy's old house. that allows you to become a massachusetts resident if you so desire. are you sure you don't to want run your father's seat? >> yeah, i'm flattered by a lot of people who suggest i run. i don't want to be a carbon copy of my father. i don't want to run as his surrogate. i've made no -- you know, people know that i love politics. i'm interested in politics one day. you know, i have a young family. i have an important -- a business that i'm running, the marwood group out of new york i'm committed to run. but i want to go -- if and when i do go into public service, i want to come at it with my own ideas and my own expertise and my vision for what i'd like to do and contribute. and i'm -- i've been very active in the civil rights movement for people with disabilities. it's a cause i really believe in. and, you know, but it's a tough decision because, as you know, it's -- politics can be a brutal business. and it's extremely taxing on a person's personal life and their family. so it's somet

including jack kennedy, who started it. you laugh.ou take this too lightly, howard. >> no, i'm not. >> let's get to the substance here. >> my shoes are shined. >> is the president selling too much, the same product, without any success? >> well, if you look at it, you know, you could say maybe he's overexposed. but i think this works for him. i think what he did was dominate the news cycle, and get his message out, and when he's getting his message out, that means his opponents are not getting their message out. so you know, it's kind of odd that the president -- >> is this blackening the skies with airplanes? let's look at lindsey graham. because lindsey graham is pretty funny. here's what he said on sunday. making fun of the president for doing somewhat tube time but not enough back room time. here he is. lindsey graham of south carolina. >> when he came to the house, he was very combative, i thought. we're not bickering. he accused people of demagoguery who objected to his plan, of basically accused people of lying about certain as

it reminds me of jack kennedy saying i'm not going to fight for laos, though eisenhower said to do it in the south vietnamese struggle. he was indecisive. is this a problem when the president is not following his own hunch, simply making a political move, then finds himself in a real situation which is hellish and has to make a real decision, not a pr or political decision? isn't there something more important than politics? should we be losing lives in afghanistan right now? >> that is the question on the table. in march barely six weeks into his presidency obama decided to send additional troops, new strategy, into afghanistan. he talked about it throughout the campaign and in the early weeks of his presidency that afghanistan was the good war. we took our eye off the ball in iraq. we should have nipped that in bud. we didn't do it. things have deteriorated. in the last six months. the debacle of the election of afghanistan. the president said, let's take a look, let's not send resources after a bad strategy. let's re-evaluate our strategy. on one level, that's a solid thing. you wa

the hatred of jack kennedy that may have sprung a left winger like oswald to do what did he? >> you're absolutely right. it's interesting, it was during that period almost a climate of hatred that was created. look at the hatred that arrived, chris, in dallas on december 22, 1983, the day oswald killed him, what greeted him, you open up "the dallas morning news," and in there welcome, mr. kennedy and the right wing organization sets forth their charge that kennedy is really a communist toll. this is a full-page ad in the city on the day he's murdered. there's a climate, as nancy pelosi said, people who weren't balanced, oswalds of the world, were able to act out violently. and you were writing in san francisco. i lived there. i was going to school there. there's no question that people like dan white, and the people who killed the mayor and went on to kill the supervisor harvey milk were pushed in this type of feeling that you could get away with anything because you could denigrate a publish official by comparing them as they are with obama to hitler and socialism and fascis

the assassination of jack end kennedy of robert kennedy, senator kennedy's plane crash, the death of john jr. we've lived through those. but for the first time we hear in this book in his own voice the account by the person who actually lichede it. -- lived it. he's never spoken about most of these things. he writes candidly and completely about all of them. so while we don't know the events we don't know the candid inside story of how it felt. greta: whether you're a kennedy fan or not, it's a great read. he's a great irishman in terms of telling the story. one of my favorite stories is when he got punished by stand tg in the closet and he goes in and discovers his sister jean is already standing in the closet. >> i know the humor is terrific. there is a lot of sadness in the book but also a lot of humor. my two favorite stories involve his mother, a wonderful character who died i think at 104 and when she was 101 he used to go up and see hefner every weekend he could at high annis. one weekend he was up there and going out to play tennis and she stopped him and said "teddy, are you

jack kennedy, robert kennedy and of course teddy kennedy. that's never happened before in the history of our nation. one of the rooms that has been such significance to our nation is the caucus room in the russell office building. it's been the site of remarkable hearings and meetings since its building almost a century ago. that room has been very important. the caucus room is where many important meetings, the hearings on the titanic were held in that room, the watergate hearings were held in that room. i think of countless occasions. important markups and meetings over the years. it is there we commemorated tragedies in our country, we met to celebrate the lives of our colleagues. we celebrated triumphs in that room. we gathered with spouses from time to time to share quiet moments with each other as we reflect on our responsibilities here a senators. we've held some greatest debates that have occurred in that room. it is there that senator kennedy's health committee which i was privileged to act in as a fill-in for him over the last coup

in this book, including family stories like the time the station wagon got stuck on the way to jack kennedy'sguration. the dad got out and helped the driver. shows you how the kennedys are a little different from you and me. in here he talks about one of the first meetings he had with president clinton when he game to the white house. he was stuck on the gays in the military debate. and he had the democratic members of the armed services committee into the white house. senator byrd was there. even at the time you could never be sure what he would say. he started, when he was asked his views about this, he started telling stories about young boys in the military in rome who got turned into sex slaves. and senator kennedy said, nobody was really sure where he was going. but he kept going on and on. the room got silent. he kept talking. finally, president clinton stood up and said, moses went to the mountain, came back with the ten commandments. i've read those tablets. so have you. nothing on there about homosexuality, and that was the end of the meeting. nobody ever really got senator byrd's p

jack, thanks very much. >>> on our political ticker, a new vote to give the late senator ted kennedy his dying wish, the massachusetts state house just gave initial approval to a bill that allows the governor patrick to name an interim senator to fill kennedy's seat until the special election in january. the measure still faces a second vote in the state house then on to the state senate where the bill's prospects are uncertain. we'll watch the story. the democrats need every vote they can get. >>> a white house correspondent gets called on the carpet by the health secretary. watch what happened when nbc news white house correspondent chuck todd sneezed -- sneezed during a white house briefing today and didn't follow the recommended protocol. >> bless you. >> a possible impediment. >> i mean, what is that about? geez. >> marring kwet sneezed a few minutes ago very correctly in the shareef. >> i don't know. who's got some purell? give that to mr. todd right away. a little hand sanitizer. good. we'll have elmo give chuck a special greasing. get elmo over. he knows how to sneeze. >> you may remember the muppet character

you could see as life went on, the letters from jack began to get better and more eloquent. >> president kennedy takes tea with the clan at the farmhouse where his paternal great grandfather was born. the town has never seen a day like this before and the irish wit flows like tea. >> larry: i was telling the senator the late jim bishops was interviewing his mother once and asked her about john kennedy's trip to ireland, very famous trip as president, and mrs. kennedy, your mother, said, when he was in ireland he mentioned the kennedys a lot but he didn't mention the sherrills a lot. when i see john i'm going to bring that up to him. you said you had a story about that. >> when he came back to boston, he had one of the press ask him that question, why he didn't mention fitzgeralds. he said when he first campaigned for congress with grandpa fitzgerald, he ran in that district, grandpa had been elected to congress in 1896 with three terms and came back and was mayor of boston. when he campaigned with my brother, right after the war, my brother came back from the pacific, he said we traveled around

kennedy in 1963 or 1962. why? we want to know who killed him. somebody by the name of lee harvey. then someone else killed lee harvey. why did he kill him? jack ruby, and is really, killed lee harvey who killed kennedy. why did and is really kill the killers of kennedy? -- why did an isreaaeli kill the killer of kennedy? we should open the file. the whole world should know. kennedy wanted to investigate the nuclear reactor of israel. it has to do with the security council and the peace and security of the world. we should open this file wide. then there is the killing of martin luther king. this black reverend who was a human rights activists was killed. we should know who killed him and why. then there is the palestinian. he was in tunisia living peacefully there. the independence of this country was not respected. we cannot keep quiet. even though submarines and ships came along the shores of tunisia, was killed there. no one is blamed. no one is judged for that. someone else was also killed. we should know how he was killed. in one operation, palestinians were killed in a country as a sovereign member state of the security council. in leba

unbelievable speech today, saying that the israelis assassinated kennedy, calling lee harvey oswald and israeli -- an israeli, saying jack ruby was an israeli. he went an hour and a half when he should of had 15 minutes, so that let the whole schedule slip down for the rest of the day. it is also by lottery when they choose their time slots. shepard: new pushback tonight against obama's plans for the future of guantanamo bay. this comes from a judge at guantanamo. the white house has once again requested more time to decide how and where to try detainees, including the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, khalid sheikh mohammed. today, 1 gitmo judge had harsh words of the had been a station -- for the administration, criticizing their decision for a january closure. catherine herridge is live there for us. >> these delays are inconsistent with the president's own executive order stating that cases must be dealt with promptly. right now, three delays have been received, for total delay of 10 months. this all unfolded in the case of a saudi national an alleged terrorist -- an alleged terrorist. the judge strongly insis

kennedy. >> we want to know who killed him. somebody by the name of lee harvey, then another, jack ruby killed lee harvey, why did he kill him. >> reporter: mystifying the u.n. and the white house. >> if i had to defend his actions, i would be busy for the better part of the afternoon. >> reporter: tonight, iran's president is hosting for u.n. delegates. he vowed to continue negotiations and picked up the possibility of important support for the first time to consider sanctioning iran fw they do not comply. >> andrea, thanks. we have seen this kind of circus sphere inside the u.n. the fact is the stakes are high. our chief white house correspondent, political director, chuck todd here in new york while the president is in new york. chuck, for awhile, it looked like the bar scene in "star wars" except the stakes are so high. while the president spoke, you know, he's got other issues simmering. afghanistan and health care. >> let's start with afghanistan. it's been a public debate. watchers of the military tell me, not since vietnam have we seen a public debate between the white house and the pentagon. the white house says this i

joe jr., jack and bobby, he entered the senate in 1962 and over the decades emerged as an influential and iconic figure in the democratic party. i had the privilege of interviewing senator kennedy several times. we often talked about his family legacy and world-famous last name. what is it like to be a kennedy, to be ted kennedy? you drive around and there's the kennedy center. it can never leave you. it can't leave you. you live and you work here. what is that like? >> well, i think the first impression that i always had is how fortunate i've been to have grown up in a family and been able to learn what i tried to learn and continue to learn. but most people learn what i did from wonderful parents and great brothers and sisters. my sisters do very many interesting and caring things as well, as you're familiar with. so you have the challenges of being measured against the past. but that's really sort of a challenge, isn't it? that's to measure up. it's a high standard and you work at it and some days you measure up. >> larry: do you feel emotional? >> that's another, you know, personal sense of loss is obviously -- continues to -- >> larry: maybe because it's always around you.

kennedy, referring to lee harvey oswald as "lee harvey" and even talking about jack ruby, saying there should be some type of investigation. shepard: we will see ahmadinejad tonight. colonel qaddafi's speech was long, but not even close to the record. i bet you could figure out who has the record. according to the united nations spokespersons' office, the longest united nations speech ever was delivered by this man, fidel castro. it was in the 1960's, and it lasted about four and a half hours. if there is no up or about where the libyan leader is staying while here in new york. qaddafi finding it difficult place to pop his tent. its staff wanted to retain his staff wanted to pitch the tent in central park, and the city said no. libyan officials have pitched a tent in suburban new york on property which happens to be owned by donald trump. the town is bedford, n.y., about 43 miles north of the city. it ihome to celebrities including martha stewart, and back home, it is now home to a whole lot of trauma. chief correspondent jonathan hyde -- hunt. what is donald trump saying about this? >

." >> reporter: what emernlgs in the book is how scarred kennedy was by his brother's assassinations. first jack. then bobby. >> those of us who loved him and have taken him to his rest too. >> reporter: he writes how he, too, feared he would be shot. flinching at 21-gun salutes at arlington cemetery, recoiling when a car backfired recalls a former aide. >> did he a magnificent job containing the anxiety that had to be a part of it. i saw him drop to the ground when there was a loud bang. i saw him ask me to take a boombox away because he thought it was ticking like a bomb. >> reporter: in the end, ted kennedy passed the torch of his legacy to his family and to a new, young president. >> what we face, he wrote, is, above all, a moral issue. at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice. and the character of our country. >> reporter: kennedy pulls back the curtain on the terrible losses of his life and his final battle with cancer, as well as the illnesses of his children. and then there is his final advice to his grandson, teddy iii. he writes, "sure t

jack or bobby. >> more than any of them, because teddy kennedy never came off os a chosen one.ing up and in some ways, it speaks to more than anything his persistence, his willingness to continue to engage after dismissed this way and that way and faced with varieties of tragedies both self-created and from the outside world. >> well, yeah. i mean, when he was young, he was a little chubby kid. he was the runt of the litter, the last of the litter, an after-thought. >> handsome older brothers destined to be the president of the united states? >> absolutely. and so by fate and by accident, he is left alive. he is left over three decades as the only kennedy who ever got the opportunity to have gray hair. and i think he took it seriously, especially so after 1980. 1980 was a liberating year for him. >> why? >> he knew then he was never going to be president, so that weight of expectation and anticipation largely held by others and placed upon him as a vehicle for their desires, their ambitions, not necessarily his, the oval office, he was free of that. and he could be become who h

kennedy. >> translator: somebody by the name of lee harvey and then another jack ruby killed lee harvey. >>at one, moammar. i wonder what former congressman jim traficant would say about all this intellectual stimulation from colonel gadhafi. >> stimulate this. that's what i'm saying. >> stimulate this. the bumper sticker for his next campaign, jim traficant. there you have it. >> there you have it. >>> it is the top of the hour. welcome to "morning joe." i'm mika brzezinski. we're going to begin this morning, though, with breaking news overnight. there's news on afghanistan and on the gitmo deadline, but we start with iran. the news pertaining to iran will change the course of events. the situation and the plans in pittsburgh, where world leaders are meeting for the g-20 summit. and here's what we've got so far. the iaea confirming that iran told it on september 21st that it is building a second nuclear fuel enrichment plant. this news breaking overnight, acknowledging, again, in iran a second enrichment plant. it comes amid white house confirmation, though, that president obama, along wit

jack jacobs, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >>> in massachusetts, they are gearing up for a contentious hearing over whether the governor should be allowed to appoint interim replacement for ted kennedy's senate seat. the governor says the state should have two voices in the senate now and not have to wait until that special election which has been scheduled for january. now that the state senate president or the house speaker has said if they would back the move, the hearing is scheduled for this wednesday. >>> in san francisco today, transit crews working overtime to fix a crack in the san francisco bay bridge which connects san francisco with oakland. the bridge is supposed to reopen -- before tomorrow morning but crews now say commuters may have to wait at least one more day. kntv chris can sanchez joins us with the late e- >> yeah, the word from caltrans in charl of this project is telling commuters 260,000 of them to brace themselves for another day of closure. they expected to work through this weekend but did not expect to find a five-inch crack on part of the bridge that wasn't even the object of the retears. it doesn't look like much but the caltrans crews said they did signi

kennedy in '63 or '62. the president of the united states of america why? we want to know who killed him? somebody who by the name of lee harvey and then another jacke harvey. why did he kill him? alisyn: he is covering all bases there. the thing about jet lag he was saying, we shouldn't have the u.n. here in the united states because we all get jet lag. brian: he did thank us. he thanked us for having the u.n. here but time to get it moved. could it be that that you are so boring and droning on. steve: let's do move the united nations out of here. we pay too much for it anyway. we have been saying that on this show. alisyn: you agree with kadafi. very interesting, steve. i didn't know you were going to reveal it. brian: he wants president obama president for life who he called his son. alisyn: that is not what the president needs. you don't need to have kadafi embracing you in his strange rant. steve: the reason he said our son, barack obama, was the fact that he is honoring his kenian roots. because kadafi is from africa so he felt sympathetic co. i will tell you what, the canadian delegates they thought this is nuts, we are not going to stand he

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jack's desk. i, nf course, fell in love with this desk and got the opportunity to have sat here for the last three years. e other real quick story about senator kennedy i know senator kyl is scheduled to speak. i as others were invited from time to time to go up to his study just off the senate floor, one floor above us, just outside the chamb, to talk to him and hear him tell stories until late in the evening as we were voting sometimes util midnight or 1:00 or 2:00. what struck me about the study were the photos on the wall. each pto pictured people we all recognize: president kennedy, joe kennedy, rose kennedy, ethyl kennedy, bobby kennedy. eunice kennedy shriver, all the people we recognized, buted kennedy said to us these are my family photos. these were people we recognized in the photos, but i had never seen these photos. none of us had. these weren't the photos in "life" magazine. these were the photos of the kennedy family. what impressede about that was they were the kennedys at hyannis port, the kennedys sailg, the kennedys at the capitol, the kennedys at the whit house. what really impressed me was ted kennedy could have givenp. he could

jack's desk. i, of cours fell in love with this desk and got the opportunity to have sat here for e last three years. the other real quick story about setor kennedy. i knosenator k is scheduled to speak. i as others were invited from time to time to go up to his study just off the senate floor, one floor above us, just outside the chamber, to talk to him and hear him tell stories until late in the evening as we were voting sometimes until midnight or 1:00 or 2:00. what struck me about the study we the photos on the wall. eachhoto pictured peoe we all recognize: president kennedy, joe kennedy, rose kennedy, ethyl kennedy, bobby kennedy. eunice kennedy shriver, all the people we recognized, but ted kennedy said to us these are my family photos. thes were people we recognized in the photos, but i had never seenhese photos. none of us had. these weren't the photos in ife" magazine. these were the photos of the kennedy family. what impressed me about that was they were the kennedys at hyannis port, the kennedys sailing, the kennedys at the capitol, the kennedys at the white house. what really impressed me was ted kennedy coulhave given up. he could ha