my thanks to glenn rink, and bobby kennedy junior.oming up next, we will find out how one company wants to keep superbugs from spreading. that's next on "taking stock." ♪ >> the centers for disease control recently reported an outbreak of infections related to endoscopic procedures at a hospital near chicago. we're talking about cleaning things today. joining us is dr. cheryl pegus, the lead independent director at vision sciences. thank you for being air. let's start with the medical issue. we were just talking about what happens with storm water if it is contaminated with oil or other toxic chemicals. you have to get rid of it because the water has to be cleaned. what is the issue when it comes to infections? is it about cleanliness? >> first of all, contaminated endoscopes are the number one source of infections in the medical process. we have a patented technology that puts a barrier around the endoscope. for every patient getting a procedure, there is a clean sheet, so they are never in contact with one that comes into contact wi

c-span: and bobby kennedy was 27 at that time? >> guest: it was a young, brash, youthful, fresh-faced team. this was--this was the image that was being presented here about them. kennedy and cohn hated each other. they came to--they came--they came--almost came to blows, in fact, later on, and kennedy resigned--reluctantly resigned from the committee because he realized that there wasn't room for both of them on the--on--on mccarthy's staff. c-span: and a young man named david schine who was 25. >> guest: that's right. c-span: and i want you to tell us who he was--but why is there no picture of him in here that i could find? >> guest: there's only so many pictures you can get in. that's one reason why. c-span: but is there a picture of david schine around? >> guest: oh, yeah. he's--you can--you can find him in--in--in a number of books, roy cohn's book, for example, but he was a kind of--he was engagingly handsome, not very bright, came from a millionaire family from florida, and roy cohn seems to have been quite enthralled by him.

he was not charismatic in the way we think of martin luther king, bobby kennedy, yet he exudes real powerver people. charismatic,s certainly alec, but initially thested the call to be leader. is cesar chavez the same way? >> it was the reverse in some ways. he became the leader, and the movement grew up around him. tavis: there was no resistance on his part to accepting leadership? >> no, he took it and ran with it. >> i have read a couple of thatles that talk about one is trying to research the text of the people say a person didn't want to be cooperative. how much trouble did you have getting this done? >> i knew i wasn't going to have cooperation from the family, and fortunately, it. he left a meticulous record of his life and documents, and there were also many oral ,istories done over the years so i knew he was an incredible resource, and i also knew i was not going to have cooperation from the family. tavis: why not cooperate if you are a member of the family? this is a guy i would think if you want to see more celebrated, his birthday, the holiday in daye states, perhaps one nation

most recently, a year and a half ago came the headline that the daughter of bobby kennedy and ethel khad been in a traffic accident after driving under the influence of what we later learned was a sleeping pill. but the case went all the way to a trial, all the way to a verdict of not guilty. and now, kerry kennedy is talking about the lessons learned about our system. her story tonight from our national correspondent kate snow. >> reporter: on friday, her relief was visible, kerry kennedy, the 7th of robert kennedy's 11 children, herself a mother of three and a human rights activist was acquitted by a jury who deliberated for just an hour. you think your case says something about the american justice system. >> i worked on this case for 20 months, and it was five days in court. most people can't take off that length of time for work. so they end up pleading, which is essentially signing a false confession for something that they didn't do. >> reporter: do you think the jury's verdict had anything to do with the kennedy name? >> you know, i really don't. i think it was because i was i

she was attacked for testifying her taer, bobby kennedy, was assassinated when she was 8. re nauseated by the glittering array of kennedys at the trial and calling kerry kennedy a slacker and a professional human rights activist with conclusions of gran did he ur. kerr re-kennedy made a huge mistake, but she was found not guilty on friday despite this media trashing. >>> reaction to the chaos in ukraine when we return. @w@wowowg >>> the reaction to russian troops invading ukraine, so far, at least, is not unlike how washington copies with most problems, plenty of talk. joining us now is jackie kucinich. so based on your experience, do you think that him reporters will run to republicans who will then trash the obama administration? we have john mccain and lindsay graham, lindsay graham saying this morning we have a weak president inviting aggression. >> lindsay graham can always be counted on for a quote against the president, usually. but there are some flashes of bipartisanship when it comes to foreign policy on. you had adam kinsinger. he is a house republican from illin

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. >> like the bobby kennedy case, like amelia earhart. >> reporter: the answers don't always satisfy. questions. the strait of gibb brawl tar, 100 years ago, what happened to the crew, pirates, perhaps a sea monster. all popular theories debunked in this 2007 documentary, which tells us what didn't happen but doesn't tell us what did. 77 years after amelia earhart disappeared during her trip around the world, the search continues. wreckage has never been found. and los angeles county where new questions have come to light about the long-debated death of actress, natalie wood. in 1981, it was ruled an accidental drowning. in 2012, a coroner changes the death scertificate, drowning an other undetermined factors. ♪ >> marilyn monroe. in 1962, her death was called a probable suicide. an overdose of bar bit tu ats. how did her internal organs disappear at the morgue? for sceptics, what about her links to john f. kennedy, robert kennedy, the various crime bosses? >> i have talked to at least 40 people that talked to her before she died and said how happy she was, how excited and how she mad

but the voting starts now in the 18th and 19th century bravenlth sherman, bobby kennedy.ou went with one one seed there, al gore and jack kemp, who always was the once and future of the republican party, it seemed, for a couple of decades and never was able to get to that next level. so, this is a fun bracket. i'm already getting a lot of grief. some people think tilden should have been higher than a five seed, he should have been a two seed in that 18th and 19th century bracket. that's the beauty. you get to decide. >> absolutely. >> my four, i'm going with sherman. i definitely have sherman, i definitely have hillary clinton in there. i haven't decided on my last two. i'm still sort of figuring it out on the next two. >> i had -- >> swron glejohn glenn is going into my final four. >> daniel webster, burr, which upsets the sweet 16 everybody wanted. chuck todd from the netherlands, thanks for being on your own show. always great to have you. rundown.msnbc.com to get in on our tdr bracket challenge. it's a lot of fun. you've got to do it. you'll spend an hour of your day

. >> that's a bobby kennedy phrase. i love that one. bobby's phrase. here's the question. if you look at all social advances it this country, i argue liberalism wins eventually. whether women's rights, abolition, gay rights, equal marriage equality. it always ends up winning eventually. that's just the way the country rolls. my question is, will the country roll in that direction on health care? will it eventually say, it was a pain in the butt, but, you know, we're better with it. >> well, if we learned anything from history, chris, we know people do tend to adjust and adapt to new government programs. as you well know, medicare was not terribly popular when it was first enacted. >> my dad ended up loving it. >> you go and ask a senior, they say, keep your hands off of my medicare. >> keep the government out of it. >> absolutely. absolutely. so we've seen that many times over and i don't think it should surprise us if a few years from now, it's simply a part of the fabric. >> let's talk women, for example. because, nia, you cover women,

was fighting for civil rights and bobby kennedy was an ally to him. >> i come here as an american citizen he's done not just for you, not just for state, but for all of the united states of america. >> like martin luther king and mahatma gandhi before him, cesar chavez was a champion of non-violent actions. he participated in picket lines, went on hunger strikes and led an historic march, a 340 mile trek from linda know to sacramento. >> they don't like working for a day's wage but they will walk over 300 miles for free. [ laughter ] even pilgrims ain't allowed in the street without a permit. >> >> we'll use the sidewalk. it's open to the public. >> chavez did not lead alone. his wife helen played a pivotal role in his success not simply by raising his eight children but by standing on the front lines with him and being arrested before him. >> she wasn't afraid of the work. that was woman who did what needed to be done. at the same time, her commitment to the cause was not about supporting cesar's pet project. she, as i said, had been working in the fields herself since she was seven year

the last guy i can think of in politics besides obama in his first run, president obama, was bobby kennedyble to unite the two. i know people argue about this. but i saw it in his funeral train. all those white faces and black faces saluting him as he drove by. the train went by in '68. you can be a white guy making a modest income and black fellow and see yourselves in the same condition and no more fighting. at least it seemed that way. he was one guy that could do that. >> look, what is happening here is you have the president who what been saying time and time again, not making a racial argument in terms of, you know, his view of where the country should be and economically, but where all americans should be. if you work hard and play by the rules, then you should be able to have access to opportunity, not guaranteed outcomes, but guaranteed access to opportunity. and i have to agree with frank. as long as the democrats maintain their message being one of economics, i think the more that it will break through. look, we've just gone through -- we're now going through president obama's s

anymore i just know that i can't but i would caucus with democrats you know like i said i am a bobby kennedy democrat and it's hard it's like well stone said i'm from the democratic wing of the democratic party it's hard for me as a democrat to find too much comfort anymore within the purview of the democratic party i'm you know i'm open i hope that this election you know one of the reasons i hope i win app is because i think it would really perhaps inspire a movement by which the democrats get their soul back not the people but the party sure i heard some people say that if nixon were running today you'd be the most liberal democrat i hope there it's pretty shocking how far right everything is kind of shifted let's talk about your fund raising efforts according to open secrets you've already raised over three hundred thousand dollars far surpassing your other opponents how we've been able to do this. it's grassroots you know part of the way americans are locked out today and that's why i'm running this campaign the average american is locked out of what should be considered the minimum in t

of the joy if you let it go let's start let's turn around to the lawyer my first job was with bobby kennedy and then i and then i was a lawyer and i was a news anchor and for ten years and he's commentator and mayor of cincinnati and. i do what is. my my talk show. for me at a talk show oh i'm sorry i went from mayor to news anchor. news and you'll have to talk yeah because i did the news for ten years in cincinnati for the n.b.c. affiliate there they hired me right after being mayor and the company that owned the station we did the news also on phil donahue sally jesse raphael etc it was multimedia and phil was getting close to retirement so one day. they took me to launch and the c.e.o. did a walter bartlett and he said phil came close to retirement and so we're going to start another talk show when you're the host and the bird who brought always my first executive producer and then it is start our luggage is that you know it was a normal show in the beginning. we didn't get stupid until about three theories later you know that regular guests and oh yeah we had like oliver north jesse jac