host: adam thomas, the policy angle? guest: we talked earlier about the fact women are having children at later ages then they were a few decades ago. what is going on at the subgroup level is potentially somewhat distressing. well-educated women are postponing marriage and childbearing. less educated women are postponing marriage but not childbearing. there are a lot of scholars who talk about family structure as a major new divide in american society, a new class delineation. there are a lot of heroic single mothers who do an amazing job with their kids. they are at a disadvantage. yhere are important policie shifts with these trends. we ought to be focusing on figuring out how we can empower parents to ensure that they wait to have children until they're ready to become parents. two things need to be true for a single parent family to exist. you need to have kids and the parent that is not married. we know a lot more about how to prevent non-marital childbearing than about how to encourage people to get married. i thi

adams? it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian tsar. thomas jefferson? election would result in, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." so until we get charges oo robbery, nuclear war-starting, or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait . the president is taking things to a new low. they might be mean, cruel and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history,they are our history. -----end----- cnn.script----- manny machado's firt mistake... mistake...see if it cost the o's... next in sports. ((break 3)) when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfast, i need all the help i can get. that's why i like nutella. mom, what's the capital of west virginia? charleston. nutella is a delicious hazelnut spread my whole family loves. mom, have you seen my -- backpack? nutella goes great on whole-wheat toast or whole-grain waffles. and its great taste comes from a unique combination of simple ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. yeah, bye. have you seen my -- yes. and...thank you. [ male announcer ] nutella. br

to go back to the election of 1800, the election between john adams and thomas jefferson was equally as better or even more bitter than the fights we are seeing today. we have survived all of this. maybe this pendulum will swing back. >> we have had periods of incivility and polarization. we're not in a time that is that paul rise. we have just come out of an era in the 1950's and 1960's were there was a lot of civility after world war ii. after a circumstance like that where you work together to solve problems. >> there is this ideal of we did not talk to each other so we cannot get things done. looking back to the civil war in the u.s., the is a tuition where you worked is the product of the transcontinental railroad. we're literally fighting, but able to do big things. what is different? >> i think -- that is a good question. the institutions are a little bit complicated there was certainly one party that's controlled everything. it was not like they had a hard time getting legislation through. [laughter] it was only after the civil war that we it's a really hard times. that is on

perhaps we will remember the deck calculation of independence itself, the product of what john adams called thomas jefferson's happy talent for composition. take some ti thiseek re ialone to yourself or aloud with others and tell me the words aren't still capable of sending them on ablaze. the founders surely knew that when they left these ideas loose in the world, they could never again be caged. yet from the beginning, these sentiments were also a thorn in our side, a reminder of the new nation's divided soul, opponents who still sided with bryn greeted it with sarcasm. how can you declare all men are equal whout feing your aves jefferson himself was an aristocrats who inheritance of 5,000 akers and the slaves to work it mocked the notion of inequality. ty. he acknowledged it did that but would would not give his slaves their own freedom. their labor kept him financially afloat. hundreds of slaves like beast of burden from sunrise to sunset enabled him to thrive as a privileged gentleman. to pursue his intellectual interest and to rise in polics. venhe children born to him by the slave sally hem

to go back to the election of 1800, the election between john adams and thomas jefferson was equally as better or even more bitter than the fights we are seeing today. we have supplied all of this. the this is a pendulum that will swing back. -- we have survived all of this. may be this pendulum will swing back. >> we have had periods of incivility and polarization. that not in a time that is paul rise. we have just come out of an era in the 1950's and 1960's were there was a lot of civility after world war ii. after a circumstance like that where you work together to solve problems. >> there is this ideal of we did not talk to each other so we cannot get things done. looking back to the civil war in the u.s., the is a tuition where you worked is the product of the transcontinental railroad. we're literally fighting, but able to do big things. what is different? >> i think -- that is a good question. the institutions are a little bit complicated there was certainly one party that's controlled everything. it was not like they had a hard time getting legislation through. [laughter] it

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yes, it's wrong but it's been going on since job adams ran against thomas jefferson. to his credit, mitt romney is playing the assaults on him verywell. you may remember obama support contributing to the cancer death of a woman of failing to pay income taxes. and of abusing poor people by proposing to take their money and give it to folks like donald trump. flbleg here is how romney replied today. >> the president's vision is about division and attack and hatred. my campaign is about getting america back to work and creating greater unity in this country which of course has always been the source of america's vitality and strength. >> bill: the question becomes will the over the top rhetoric actually hurt the president in the upcoming vote? impossible to answer that question. but even the dimmest americans must be noticing the vicious tone. just today in the "new york times," columnist maureen dowd says paul ryan wants to hurt people. do you think mr. ryan wants to hurt people? do you think he gets up in the morning and says, you know what? today i'm going to cause so

campaigns have been negative sense basically john adams and thomas jefferson went at each other backn the 1800's. >>darya: when the media here is something, which accounts. the latest big headline is taught a get, he made this comment in cases of legitimate rate, at a woman's body shutting down. did the media over did this? >> f mitty, is ioriumgl ttarch m taa. ea hs to deal wite fact that hig tes tie ght-to-li and the fact that eight it will not get out of the race is a giant ball and chain around mitt romney. >> the president seems to have over two delegates and is leading in ohio. it seems it may be coming down to florida? >> wisconsin could be back in the plague. medicare is the no. 3 issue. that is good and bad news. you can bet that romney is going to be in florida talking about the economy and talking about obama care, trying not to talk to much about orion's medicare plan. national polls mean nothing. it is state-by-state. you could have a 20. advantage in california and means nothing if you lose by one vote in florida. that is how these alleged oral colleges go. >>darya: the

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john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar. thomas jefferson. ms supporters once said his election would result in murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest. so until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting, or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel, and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history, they are our history. if there is one thing that does seem different this year, it's not that the negative campaigning has started earlier, it's that the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. john berman, cnn, new york. >> and if you're wondering, perhaps the last presidential election that didn't go negative, well, 1820. president james monroe ran unoopposed. >>> where an easy win in '08 has become a big campaign battleground. >>> and look who's watching your every move. is new facebook technology pushing the bounds of privacy? producers are committed as to safely and responsibly providing generations of cl

it looks very similar to the election of 1800 between john adams and thomas jefferson. and we have had a lot worse and a lot better between. and so i don't like the fact that historians often like to say that things are in cycles or that whenever we don't remember we are condemned to forget. that seems an obvious corollary to the very central theme that i hope i have made. human nature never changes. we are the same kind of people we work 10,000 years ago. the grievance and the generosity, the hypocrisy and the sincerity exist in equal measures not only between but with dennis. that has to become our struggle. that question who are we is actually a convenient mass to the real question that all of us face regardless of what we are in which is where my, what am i doing here, what as my purpose, when will i leave? >> of a political question. having studied the prohibition era you think any of the modern efforts to implement a constitutional ban such as a ban on gay marriage or abortion can all might be successful? >> one of a lasting positive legacies of prohibition has be

to go back to the election of 1800, the election between john adams and thomas jefferson was equally as better or even more bitter than the fights we are seeing today. we have supplied all of this. the this is a pendulum that will swing back. -- we have survived all of this. may be this pendulum will swing back. >> we have had periods of incivility and polarization. we're not in a time that is that paul rise. we have just come out of an era in the 1950's and 1960's were there was a lot of civility after world war ii. after a circumstance like that where you work together to solve problems. >> there is this ideal of we did not talk to each other so we cannot get things done. looking back to the civil war in the u.s., the is a tuition where you worked is the product of the transcontinental railroad. we're literally fighting, but able to do big things. what is different? >> i think -- that is a good question. the institutions are a little bit complicated there was certainly one party that's controlled everything. it was not like they had a hard time getting legislation through. [laughte

then in our third election in 7194 john adams won and his opponent thomas jefferson became vice president. so just think about it today we have president obama and vice president mccain now this happened because the constitution didn't provide for any separate vote for vice presidents. the electors. we still have the system we're supposed vote twice for president. each one had one. whoever got the second most was the vice president. adam's opponent won for vice president. everybody recognized this was a problem. when the next election comes around, jefferson and burr are the candidates for the republicans what are then called the republicans. jefferson clearly spoke to to be the vice vice presidential candidate. nobody who wants to be the guy who votes for two of them. all the republicans electors vote for both of them. they finish in tie. nobody won. so the election was thrown into the house of representatives. suddenly in the house of representatives the federal really aists decide they like burr. they like him before than jefferson they start voting for adam witness i'm sorry burr. on

you know, the one thing that george washington, john adams, james madison and thomas fferson all agreedon was don't create political parties. and the parties they had in that day were things where a few people got together on three issue, four issue, five issues, but not like what we have today, permanent factions, republicans democrats, always on opposite sides and the founders all warned against that. >> woodruff: what you write here is the real culprits are the parties. >> right. >> woodruff: you krib describe them as private clubs. what has happened to the parties? >> what happens is they over time have got to be in -- they're control of who gets toe onhe ballot. so they have closed party primaries where a small segment of the electorate gets to decide who is the most pure candidate they have got. >> woodruff: in each state. >> in each state. then what happens is because of sore loser laws, that they got passed in most states, the person who lost the primary can't be on the ballot in november, even though that may be the choice of most of the voters in the state. you end up with can

and thomas jefferson, john adams supporters once said his election would result in murder, robbery, rapetery, and incest. until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel, and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history, they are our history. if there is one thing that does seem different this year, it's not that the negative campaigning has started earlier, it's that the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. john berman, cnn, new york. >> and if you're wondering, perhaps the last presidential election that didn't go negative, well, 1820. president james monroe ran unopposed. >>> what a difference four years make. the president shakes hands and buys beer at the iowa state fair. an easy win in '08 has become a campaign battleground. >>> look who's. whatting your -- look who's watching your every movie. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us ban

. >> guest: that is absolutely true john adams accused thomas jefferson as being in the pocket of the french and procuring american versions for french nobility. andrew jackson when he ran for president was criticized to read and his mother was a british war balad the political advertising back in the 1840's. look at the highest level of what we think of has historically the highest level of american political debate or of rhetoric. the lincoln-douglas debate. the the date has to bring in the supporters and the douglas supporters separately so they wouldn't brawl and put them on separate sides. it might be wrong for people to pay attention to now maybe one person speaking yet another for 90 minutes and another person speaking for an hour. but what they were doing is attacking the their person's position and the other person's position on slavery. what we not want to have a negative ad by abraham lincoln criticizing his opponents for supporting slavery? it seems okay to me. >> host: let's go to fred on the independent line from bedford pennsylvania. you are on. >> caller: good morning,

thomas jefferson and john adams were calling each other crooks and liars and grover cleveland's opponentsacked him for having children out of wedlock. this goes back from since the beginning of the reap. republic. what i think is different this time is it's all happenin happen realtime. the media landscape has changed enough that we're no longer in a daily news cycle, we are in a minute-by-minute news cycle. campaigns are being waged on twitter in 140 characters or less. and so... and it's really difficult to have a thoughtful discussion on issues in 140 characters or less. and i think that's import a challenge for the cam pains. it's also also in part a challenge for the media that cover the campaigns is nay get sucked into this. >> ifill: what is driving this particular spate? the last 48 hours. is it the selection of the vice presidential candidates who are supposed to be attack dogs? is that what sped everything up? >> i think it's interesting. because it... as you notice, the president and the vice president have both been fairly generous in their characterization of paul ryan in cha

things out of context such as letters he will use to have ideas such as a letter with john adams between him and thomas jefferson discussing the holy spirit and what he reads a part of the letter from adams discussing the holy spirit and sounds like he supports it, but if you read the letter, he's making fun of people who believe in the holy spirit. >> i think david -- okay, i'm the kind of guy who wants to read a history book more than anything else, but i think he's 80% right. i think david barton goes too far in suggesting the people were orthodox christians. to be honest, it doesn't matter. i'll find out one day whether they were orthodox christians, but i don't think it matters as much as that these men and women, the few women involved, had the christian world view. whether jefferson was an orthodox christian or not is religious relative because you read the deck lar right, he had a world view and acted on that, and that's what shaped this country. i don't think, from what i read of jefferson, who knows -- he could have changed on his death bed, i don't know that. these people sometimes go throug

to go back to the election of 1800, the election between john adams and thomas jefferson was equally as better or even more bitter than the fights we are seeing today. we have survived all of this. maybe this pendulum will swing back. >> we have had periods of incivility and polarization. we're not in a time that is that paul rise. we have just come out of an era in the 1950's and 1960's were there was a lot of civility after world war ii. after a circumstance like that where you work together to solve problems. >> there is this ideal of we did not talk to each other so we cannot get things done. looking back to the civil war in the u.s., the is a tuition where you worked is the product of the transcontinental railroad. we're literally fighting, but able to do big things. what is different? >> i think -- that is a good question. the institutions are a little bit complicated there was certainly one party that's controlled everything. it was not like they had a hard time getting legislation through. [laughter] it was only after the civil war that we it's a really hard times. that is on

john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar. thomas jefferson? rs once said his election would result in murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest. so, until we have charges of robbery, nuclear war starting or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> they might be mean, cruel and cynical, but negative campaigns are not lights on history, they are our history. so to me, the one thing that seems different about the campaign, it's not that the negative campaigning started so early, it's that the complaining about negative campaigning has started so early. >> i had a full conversation about this yesterday. i was in detroit, and you know, that was the question -- do you think this is the most negative campaign? but apparently not. history shows us this is pretty mild. >> this is how we roll in america. >> wow. thank you for that. >> all right. >> nice to put that in perspective. >> 48 minutes after the hour now. >>> the printer, it's not jammed, it's hammed. >> what? >> how the meat of the

we had people do attack ads on thomas jefferson and john adams, using contemporary cs accounts and slursinst these guys. >> host: virginia pastor leaves to see when she was editor before you. but here is a video of the true kerry narrates. it is about the fact that virginia pastor gave her kidney, one of her kidneys to sally's to trail trial whose adopted and this is about that whole episode. let's see what it looks like. >> host: one thing we can try because it's illegal. stay with me. paying people to donate kidneys. i know. it sounds really ghoulish, a key, but they are your kidneys and it helps people in need. if you want to sell one, why not. >> the most straightforward would be to repeal what is to sell organs. >> that would be a dreadful mistake. >> he says money would take the carrying out of the donor recipient relationship. >> it would take the carrying out of it as it becomes a matter of paying off people. >> but the donors are the only ones in the transplant process who aren't compensated. >> the surgeons are paid, supplies, the people who clean the floors in the hospital are

. >> reporter: thomas jefferson and john adams supporter said his nomination would result in robbery,ape and to more things. >> reporter: they may be mean, the negative campaigns are our history. >> james: let us turn our attention to weather. >> erica: we are working with in the the fog and cloud coverage. you may want to use a winch to wipers the closer you are to the coast. the top of the building overlooking downtown san francisco. and taken the the numbers run outside the door. >> erica: in terms of visibility we have clear mouse on a freeway the checkout oakland. >> erica: we do have '50s and '60s for the most part, but heading into the afternoon was the '70s and '80s and the south bay we have a slightly cooler conditions and what we saw yesterday. it looks like mountain view could reach 75 degrees, 82 on tap for los gatos. antioch could reach 90. expected to of sunshine. concord is hanging in the mid '80s and the same goes for walnut creek. and of side castro valley is hitting an afternoon high of 73 degrees. east-- >> erica: their seven then run the bay forecast shows a little

john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar. thomasis election would result in murder, robbery, rain, adultery and incest. so until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel and cynical, but negative campaigns are not lights on history. they are our history. you know, if there is one thing that's different this year, it may not be that the negative campaigning is actually starting earlier. it's that the complaining about negative campaigning seems to be starting much earlier, joe. >> that's absolutely right. and if there wasn't negative campaigning this time of year, what would we be doing? covering the issues maybe, huh? >> gives us something to talk about. >> you got that. all of you early risers catch john berman and zoraida sambolin. >>>ed syrian problem is spreading. where it's spilling over just ahead. also, a hearing today for james holmes, the man accused in the movie theater massac

from thomas paine's common sense, to the wealth of nation by adam smith, the fall of the roman empire. of course the declaration of independents book within articles the first major sometime engine came out in 1776. there's a lot of david human who is the kind of the father of the policy for of the enlightment died in 1776. george washington cross the delaware. there's a lot of things and not just george washington which was david point of view of 1776. so i'm working on that as well as a few other projects. but it's -- i love writing books. i love teaching. and love doing freedom fest. it's a great way to meet the authors and see what's happening in the world. >> we have been talking with author mark and founder of freedom fest. booktv is currently on location. "the making of modern economics" is his book. the lives and ideas of great thinkers. thank you for being on booktv. >> thank you. john kennedy once met with harrold prime minister in newspapers, you know, they discussed amples control or whatever. issues between the two powers which they sure did. but only long after wards did

wasn't because he had his cousin, sam adams, make beer for him. and in thomasm, i want to ask you, what is craft beer? i know it's a little bit of a moving target. are you still craft beer? >> yes. there is a brewers association, which is the association of craft brewers. and craft beer, technically, it's small, independent, traditional brewers. so, basically, the little guys like sam adams and 2,000 other craft brewers out there who are making the more flavorful, bigger, more interesting beers. >> and we should mention, by the way, i mean, you know, you talk about the tradition of beer and where it started, but really, i mean, america has been at the forefront of taking beer that step forward in the past 20 or 25 years, and that continues. i mean, nobody else is doing it like this. >> no. very few people in america realize that today, america is the envy of brewers in the rest of the world. the craft brewing movement in the united states has spawned craft brewer breweries in engla belgium, because they're going through now the same mass market consolidation wi

of context such as some letters he will use to promote ideas such as alert with john adams -- between him and thomas jefferson discussing the holy spirit, and he would read a part of the letter from adam, and makes it look like he supports it but if you read -- >> like the jefferson letter on the establish. -- i think, david -- okay. i'm a history major. i'm the kind of guy that would rather read a history book than do anything else. i think david barton suggesting that these people were orthodox christians and it doesn't matter. that's between him and god. i'll find out one day whether they were orthodox christians or not but i don't think it matters as much as these men and women had the criminal world view. -- christian world view. you read the declaration, he obviously accepted a christian world view and acted on the world view and that's what shapes this country. i don't think -- he got changed. he got changed on his death bed. i don't know that. and these people sometimes go through phases. i just said you go through times when your faith is stronger then when it's not. other times of temptati

event will be held from 7:00 to at thomas derickson library -- atlington boulevard onmas stewart prison library arlington boulevard? . now to adam caskey. >> not a bad day. sunshine. i always have a time lapse for of our weather conditions so far today. let's start with our rooftop time lapse this morning. e at 6:29. high, thin clouds: overhead this morning. now patchy clouds are starting .o attempt to build in the sky 22 minutes ofg 2 daylight now, but we are losing .ay light slowly day-by-day we are getting a little cloud east of washington at time. the eastern shore, over the atlantic as well. still have a frontal i havey, the same one about since monday. it is stationary. over the ocean and along the carolina and the georgia coastlines. for thehe main path widespread showers and storms and the thickest cloud cover. isolatedve a few around here the past evenings. looks like we will be dry today through saturday. we cannot rule out a few showers here and there. of uncertainty for the weekend forecast with an upper level system. we will have to tweak that forecast. like we could have a few showers on sunday. there's a tropical

and thomas jefferson was well known for being a very poor public speaker. john adams said he rarely spoke in public more than three sentences together. his talents lay elsewhere. his talents were in writing. the congress, in a very interesting way, had a kind of a writer's corps, people who it could call upon to write its public pronouncements. john dickinson of pennsylvania was one of the favored writers and probably the most popular because he had written a set of newspaper essays already--1767, '68, sometime earlier--that had been widely copied in the newspapers, which, of course, is the television of the time, the public median--medium. c-span: did you read all those, by the way? >> guest: i re--oh, yes. i've read them all. they're wonderful. and people took them as a statement of the american position. he was one of the first great american heroes... c-span: john dickinson? >> guest: ... in a sense, john dickinson, because people thought he spoke their thoughts and spoke them well. so he was very well known. he was, you know, quickly used to write documents and w