i got an e-mail from larry sabato and a student of his did a paper and plotted out every walmart and star buck and it was dead-on. i said tell him if he ever wants an internship let me know. and once chuck left we brought david over to take amy's spodand amy came back to help -- spot -- me out. and we have two other people here to help me as well. i had a brief repairing moment. let's gets down to do it. i will lay out the macro and then we will have jennifer first

larry sabato, thank you very much. holman jenkins and steve mcmahon. >>> now we have some late-breaking news on jon corzine's old firm, mf global. the ex-new jersey governor close to real punishment or even jail time? cnbc's bertha coombs has that story and much more for us. >>> later on the show, the 50th anniversary week of the kennedy tragic assassination. we take a close look at the myth that jfk was a liberal. he was not. and he was a supply-sider on taxes and the economy and an anti-communist. just listen to this. >> the worst deficit comes from a recession. and if we can take the proper action in the proper time, this can be the most important step we could take to prevent another recession. that is the right kind of a tax cut, both for your family budget and the national budget. resolving from a permanent basic reform and reduction in our rate structure. a creative tax cut, creating more jobs and income and eventually more revenue. what you wear to bed is your business. so, if you're sleeping in your contact le

he's written nine books including "presidential courage" and larry sabato, author of "the kennedy halfy." michael, as we look back at the kennedy legacy in an article that politico has out, it says five decades later as debates about kennedy's use or misuse of presidential power and the gulf between his private recklessness rumble on, it is the hope that inspired that lingers. the article goes on to recall caroline kennedy endorsed barack obama back in 2008. do you think in our political climate, in this climate that we have lost track of that hope, of that optimism that surrounded president kennedy? >> i think we have. in fact there was a doonesbury cartoon that had something reading ask not what your country can do for you. a lot of kids were laughing and the third frame, someone was saying what's happened to us. >> so when we look at the time of where we've gone over the last five decades, we have a very interesting piece on msnbc.com that really breaks down what life was like before jfk and the assassination, some of the highlights being that a stamp cost 5 cents, minimum wage was

this week larry sabato and his new book the kennedy half-century. .. she placed her hand up against her chest and she came back to class and said students i have terrible news. president kennedy has been shot but he's stil he is still alive. take out your rosaries and we will pray. rosaries were standard operating equipment so we took out our rosaries and we were holding each bead for dear life and i don't know maybe 20 minutes later or so she had to go out and thinthe hallway and

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i'm joined by the author, larry sabato.irector of the university of virginia' center for politics. so, debunking one of the biggest of all the conspiracy theories, the second gunman on the grassy knoll has always been the one that folks feel like there was actual evidence, potential evidence pointing to that one from people that day to, you know, we played the spoof, but the whole idea of which way conley and kennedy and jackie kennedy reacted. there's always been at least some potential evidence that pointed to the grassy knoll. you feel like you've completely ruled it out? >> no, i haven't completely ruled it out. you'll never completely rule out anything on this, chuck, and we'll never change anybody's mind. i can tell you that right now. we'll be debating this 100 years from now. what we did in the kennedy half-century is to -- it re-examined the evidence that the second big investigation of the kennedy assassination, the one in the 1970s by the house of representatives select committee, which reversed the warren commis

. >> reporter: larry sabato is the author of "the kennedy half century." >> people couldn't get enough enormous. >> reporter: crowds rows deep were eager to see the young stylish couple. >> reporter: at about 12:30 p.m. as the president's limousine turned onto elm street, the police chatter turned from routine to urgent. >> reporter: sirens can be heard as the motorcade races four miles to parkland hospital. >> reporter: it was the first real assessment of just how seriously the president had been hurt. back at dealey plaza, the search for whoever killed the president and wounded texas governor john conley focused on a seven-story brick building. >> reporter: the suspect turned out to be lee harvey oswald. he had taken a bus in a camp to his rooming house, picked up jacket and pistol, then headed out again. he was walking down the police and police officer j.d. tippett called him over to his police car, and he just shot him at point blank range. >> it was a horrible act and certainly not the act of an innocent person. >> reporter: now oswald was wanted for two murders. he was on the ru

larry sabato, thanks for being with us today. >> thank you, jon.ppreciate it. >> right now, new fallout in the miami dolphins bullying scandal. the details what sparked the scandal unknown at this time. alleged victim jonathan martin is meeting this hour with the nfl's investigator in new york city. as the alleged bully, richie incognito filed a grievance against the dolphins over his suspension. rick leventhal is outside the office where martin is meeting with investigators, rick? >> reporter: jenna, those meetings could go on for a while. martin arrived with his attorney david cornwell and headed inside this office building to meet with the nfl special investigator ted wells. they will discuss martin's issues with the dolphins and accusations of bullying by teammate richie incognito. martin left the team last month because of alleged bullying that went way beyond locker room hazing. he saved tex messages and voice mails which the beefily white lineman threaten his family and repeatedly called him the "n" word. butting -- incognito told fox sports

. >> reporter: larry sabato is the author "the kennedy half century."ouldn't get enough of it. >> the crowds were enormous. >> reporter: crowds a dozen rows deep were eager to see the young, stylish first couple. ple. >> the cro eet's in real >> reporter: at about 12:30 p.m., as the president's limousine turned on to elm street, the police chatter turned from routine to urgent. >> of >> reporter: sireps can be heard as the motorcade races the four miles to parkland hospital. >> i believe the president's head was practically blown off. >> reporter: it was the first real assessment of just how seriously the president had been hurt. back at dealey plaza, the search for whoever killed the president and wounded texas governor john connally focused on a seven- story brick building. n-story bri b >> up th to cover exas book depository >> reporter: the suspect turned out to be lee harvey oswald. he had taken a bus and a cab to his rooming house, picked up a jacket and pistol, then headed out again. he was walking down the street, and police officer j.d. tippett

but i did read a very fine opinion piece by larry sabato, the political scientist from university ofe goes ahead and lists all of the unanswered questions that the warren commission failed to examine or chose not to examine. and then he finally says, well, let's look at the facts, was we should base our conclusions on facts. and the facts were that, number one, people saw a rifle up there. number two, the floor below where lee harvey oswald was, they heard the shots, and then they heard the bolt action rifle, and they heard the expended shells hit the floor. as the day went along, lee harvey oswald's actions were certainly not one who was innocent, because he took a bus and then a taxi and went out to suburban dallas where he encountered officer tipett who he shot four times when he was trying to ask him questions. then, of course, he was inside the movie theater where he was finally apprehended. and there he came the closest yet to admitting his guilt in which he said now it's all over. jon: bill lord, who was there that day 50 years ago in be dallas, a young reporter for abc, barba

larry sabato from the university of virginia center for politics and author of the new book the kennedyy. larry, what are of the implications of this if true, what could have been with the implications of this especially with what's going on in benghazi. >> i'm glad you said if true. i wish the authors all the best. i know you have to come up with news nuggets to sell books. i think this was a low level discussion. it may have involved some high level aides, it was a low level low burned discussion that never got serious. look, if obama had dropped biden what would we all have said he was admitting he made a big mistake in 2008 which when he put him on the ticket. this has happened over and over with incumbent vice presidents. i remember in 1992 when george h.w. bush was having trouble in the polls, some of his advisors talked behind the scenes and some to the press about dropping dan quayle and putting colin powell on the ticket? did it happen'? of course not. because bush would have admitted he made a big mistake in 1988 in putting quail on the ticket. >> susan, your thoughts. >> i wi

this week larry sabato and his new book "the kennedy half-century." the university of virginia politics professor explores the legacy of the kennedy administration knowing how each successive president has used his image to further his own agenda. the program is about an hour. >> host: larry "the kennedy half-century" is a marvelous achievement. where were you on november 22, 1963? >> guest: i was 11 years old. i was in catholic elementary school, sixth grade. i had a wonderful sister a nun sister roberta miriam and sometime in the early afternoon a knock at the door came and that was rare. back in those days you were not interrupted in class. she went to the door and i heard her gasp. she placed her hand up against her chest. she came back to the class and she said students i have terrible news. president kennedy has been shot but he is still alive. take out your rosaries and let's pray for the president. back in those days rosaries were standard operating equipment and the catholic classroom so we all took out our rosaries and we were holding each b

joining me now, larry sabato, author of "the kennedy half century."yes on the two governors' races, the results which could hold clues about the attitudes of voters for both parties and messaging as we head into the mid-terms of 2014. that's when congress will be at stake here. how important has the support of the president and the vice president and the clintons for terry mcauliffe been as they're all making the rounds for him in virginia? >> well, thomas, it all helps obviously because you want to get your party base out. and of course this is an off, off year. in fact i think you were a virginia reporter for a while -- >> i was. >> it's very difficult to get people to vote right after a presidential race, and we tend to drop 30 percentage points on turnout. that's what this is about, it's about building base turnout on both sides. >> so president obama, as we saw over the weekend, out stumping for mcauliffe. he linked republican ken cuccinelli to the national tea party. let's see if he made the proper connection. take a look. >> you've seen an extr

larry sabato, who wrote a book about the assassination, says president kennedy didn't have enough security that day. >>: he liked to mix and mingle with the people which made him a very vulnerable. he did not have enough security that day. the assassination was inevitable. >>james: house wald was shot and killed three days after the assassination while in police custody. --oswald. there have been many conspiracy theories over the years about who might have been behind kennedy's killing and if oswald acted alone. a new developments in the l.a. at shooting investigation. officials are looking into why the t s eight officer was shot lead for more than half hour before he was taken to paramedics. the gunman was shot by airport police and taken into custody just five minutes after the attack started. but officials said surveillance footage shows tea estate officer--tsa officer gerardo hernandez was wheeled out 33 minutes after being shot. investigators are now looking at weather paramedics could have entered the terminal earlier and if so, like that did not happen. the two officials spoke anony

. >> larry sabato, thanks for writing this book. >> nancy, great cover story 50 years after the assassinationht now. like so many americans, cnn's jeanne moos took the president's death very personally. >> reporter: pick your most iconic moment of the aftermath of jfk's assassination. was it john john's salute to his father's casket? was it jackie kennedy refusing to take off the blood-stained pink suit, a favorite focus of kennedy moves. >> we can get someone to bring you a change of clothes from the plane. >> no, i want them to see what they have done to jack. >> reporter: but my most persistent memory was something else. it was a time of transition. i went from long hair to short hair, said good-bye to my pigtails. these pigtails. my mom actually saved them. in my baby book was this notation, took kennedy death seriously. what cause the eye of this 9-year-old girl was a horse, of course. 9 a riderless horse with empty boots reversed as if the rider were looking badge over his past. the horse's name was blackjack. the 19-year-old was army private first class andy carlson. >> my skinny arm w

i got an e-mail from larry sabato and a student of his did a paper and plotted out every walmart and star buck and it was dead-on. i said tell him if he ever wants an internship let me know. and once chuck left we brought david over to take amy's spodand amy came back to help -- spot -- me out. and we have two other people here to help me as well. i had a brief repairing moment. let's gets down to do it. i will lay out the macro and then we will have jennifer first and david second and have a conversation about the senate and house. as poppy suggested i came up a year early this year. i was trying to think about is the election going to be about and i came up with two theories. and the interesting thing about them is i think they are good for 2014 and probably useful to frame up where they will be in 2016. and that is will the republican brand -- will republicans be able to fix their overall brand image and specific problems they have with minority, young, women and self-described moderates. the flip side is second term fatigue. we know from history it almost always the case that sec

and i got this e-mail one day from larry sabato who said that he had a student that heard that i had said that and did a paper where he plotted out every walmart and every starbucks location in the state of virginia. this is down at uva. and lo and behold, it was actually dead on. and so i told him, i said, well, tell him if he ever wants an internship, let me know. so david came up and intershipped with us one summer, and as soon as amy walter left to take chuck todd's job when he went to go to nbc, we brought david over to take amy's spot, then amy recently came back to help out on some of the national stuff, macro stuff with me, and we have two other able people that are both here, ashton berry and lauren fulton. yes, so i just had a brief rick perry moment. anyway -- [laughter] anyway, let's get down to it. i'm going to sort of do, lay out the macro, and then we'll have jennifer come first and then david second, have a little conversation, have a little conversation about the senate and the house. as poppy suggested, i came up early this year, and i was trying to think, okay, wha

. >> larry sabato on a lasting legacy of jfk.unday night at nine on "after words," part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. this wednesday booktv as life for this year's national book award in new york city. coverage starts at 6 p.m. eastern online at booktv.org with red carpet interviews with the nonfiction finalist. watch live coverage of the awards ceremony at 7:40 p.m. on c-span2. >> earlier today several women senators gave a series of speeches on provisions dealing with sexual assault in the military that are contained in the 2014 defense programs bill. here are their comments leading up with maryland democrat senator barbara mikulski. >> mr. president, today we, of course, are beginning the debate on the national defense authorization act. throughout the next hour and throughout the rest of the day, you will see the women of the senate take the floor one come in support of her military, but also to express their concern and ideas and how to do with sexual violence in the military. you will see in the next hour our ideas, th

larry sabato, thank you. >> thanks so much. >> absolutely. >>> let's bring in our brain trust now.edes shop, political commentator and former spokesperson for the george w. bush administration. great to have you all here today. bob, i'll start with you. there are so many "what ifs" when it comes to the kennedy legacy. one of the biggest is the vietnam war. i was born in vietnam. i am a product of that war. michael cohen writes in "foreign policy" kennedy was a reluctant hawk who believed that the united states should try to prevent south vietnam from falling to the communist but who also avoided deploying american combat troops. lbj had a different take on vietnam and it ultimately became the issue that drove him from the white house. how different was the johnson approach from the kennedy approach on policy, bob? >> well, the kennedy approach was to use special forces to put advisers on the ground. and after president johnson took over, he kept on expanding at the behest of the generals, and then there was the gulf of tonkin resolution which has shown to have been based on some mi

this week larry sabato and his new book "the kennedy half-century."essor explores the legacy of the kennedy administration knowing how each successive president has used his image to further his own agenda. the program is about an hour. >> host: larry "the kennedy half-century" is a marvelous achievement. where were you on november 22, 1963? >> guest: i was 11 years old. i was in

joining me now from dallas, university of virginia, larry savato, the author of "the kennedy half century." professor sabator we were playing clips on foreign policy and you hear those words and it sounds more like a republican today yet he was a democrat and there's a lot of debate over his legacy. the obama administration hasn't done that pivot to the middle that bill clinton did i, which is more kennedy-esque. could he learn anything from it and do something? >> i think he ought to given where he is right now. he's in the 30s in most polls and still has more than three years as president. he's got to try to engineer a comeback. one way to do it would be to look at the substance of john f. kennedy's administration. not just the rhetoric. he was a mixture of philosophies, as you know, laura. he was liberal in some areas and eventually getting liberal on civil rights. he was conservative on others. you mentioned the tax cut policy but also his economic policies generally were rather conservative. he was concerned about budget busting, for example. and then the muscular foreign policy he believed in a tough