career it'd take him another decade in thede early nineties by the deceased journalist it was called ted kennedy on a rock very bad misbehavior by kennedy and chris dodd in a french restaurant across dc. >> and in the caribbean and not to be in a good place that accumulation of everything he accomplished and in a day now where so many people go to congress more to posture than anything with joseph kennedy the third he is now in congress and it is striking to talk to joe kennedy about his approach to be a member of congress. he was very clear eyed that his past down from knowing ted kennedy and his legacy. he was very clear about the jb of a congressman is and isn't. and that the republicans control the senate if you want to pass legislation you have to work on things that have ao good chance of going through the senate. so to see that institution for self-promotion of which they go to and work through. >> that is a race to the campaign with a great embarrassment but interestingly the succession speech lives on in so many ways the dream will never die because when he endorsed barack obama for pre

in 91 i believe and it was called ted kennedy on the rocks. many a story a very bad misbehavior by kennedy and chris dodd. and fresh -- french restaurants across dc. he was in the state of not being a good place for yet another decade but in those last few decades has the accumulation of everything accomplished in the senate career. to me he is a model legislator. in a day now where we have some new people who go to congress really more to posture than anything and i just actually interviewed joseph kennedy the third he is now in congress and it was striking to talk to joe kennedy about his approach to being a member of congress. he is now in a majority for the first time in the house. he was very clear eyed in a way that i think is passed down from knowing ted kennedy and knowing his legacy he was very clear about what the job of the congressman congressman is and is it. and his goals should be in congress. he's going for mental health legislation. he was very clear. he knows republicans controlled the senate. if you have to work on things tha

and of course there's senator ted kennedy. the bill was his idea and his commitment, perseverance and legislative skills for indispensable. ted kennedy understood the moral dimensions of accepting refugees and the enhanced stature that doing so gave to the u.s. i also want to acknowledge his staff, jerry tinker and my staff jim shwhitzer. i also want to applaud hias. we should all do that for organizing the conference and for persisting in its vital work of refugee resettlement since the 1980s and resettle my families as well. these are dark days for america. because these are dark days for immigrants to this country, those seeking refugee status or asylum, those who are undocumented aliens, or even those helping them. let's not forget that the fits pittsburgh assassin killed 11 jews at the tree of life synagogue to retaliate against hias's life saving refugee work. our country has been in this circle of hell before. think of the very antiimmigrant know nothing party in the 1840s. the chinese exclusion act of 1882, the 1924 ra

the privilege of having so many mentors, including my former boss, ted kennedy. the liberal lion of the senate. he was a dreamer and a doer. he literally has a museum of accomplishments. why is that relevant to today? it is relevant because he taught me so many lessons. one of the most important lessons he taught me was that idealism and pragmatism can never be mutually exclusive. he also told me once, come. what wing ofyou the party do you belong to? tell them you belong to the accomplishments wing of the party because you want to get things done. every candidate tonight and last night wants to get important things done for the american people. they want to move the ball forward. they are part of the accomplishment wing of the democratic party. one of the leaders is our proud speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [applause] thank you to our house members who are here tonight. under her leadership, the house has passed bills to raise the minimum wage, lower the cost of prescription drugs, stabilize the markets and, make no mistake about it, they want to destabilize

it was the ted kennedy plea to the kgb to assist john tunney.hat document named eva carr -- david carr as a competent kgb source. that was the phrase used. suddenly, the lights went on and i said, aha. here's the explanation for david carr's remarkable journey. host: let's go to darrell joining us from matthews, north carolina. this as we look at a picture with senator kennedy with former senator connie. darrell, good morning. caller: good morning and then queue for your program. many question what the president said. is there a difference between what president trump says and his actions as president he takes? if not, can you share what are the differences. thank you. guest: there are differences. in spite of his kind words about putin, in fact, president trump has imposed various kinds of sanctions and refused to remove sanctions against russia for various activities, including and thesion of crimea ongoing war in ukraine. anomaly, butf an his actions and rhetoric have not always aligned precisely. host: robert from clinton, maryland. good mor

. >> senator ted kennedy, the bill was his idea, and his commitment, perseverance and legislative skillswere indispensable. ted kennedy understood the moral dimension of except refugees and the enhance stature that doing so gave to the u.s. i also want to thank the staff, his staff, jerry tinker and my staff jim sweitzer and skip is here and the judiciary committee staff who are indispensable in writing in drafting the legislation. i also want to applaud highest and we should all do that for organizing the conference and persisting in the vital work of refugee resettlement since the 1980s on a personal note on my family as well. these are dark days for america because these are dark days for immigrants to this country both seeking refuge your asylum, undocumented aliens, and even those helping them. let's not forget that the pittsburgh assassin killed 11 jews at the tree of life synagogue to retaliate against life-saving refugee work our country has been in the circle of before. think of the anti-immigrant party in the 1840s, the chinese exclusion act of 1882 and the 1924 races quota law

thurman was the first main supporter in the senate and ted kennedy and other liberals in 1968, were using similar tactics. thurman you did the same thing to fordyce back in 1968. he said, any senator should also filibuster him. you could see the aftermath immediately using a lot of the people. >> with a confirmation that you discussed in the more recent ones as well, how do you count for the numinous confirmation both for something of clea, i'm sure there's some others on the era. >> what happened during those years. . . . the apocalyptic battles but they all had the potential after that some of them got confirmed rather easily but if they were more palatable and the president have a political vulnerability, but if those commissions existed then you would have a big battle on your hands. thank you for that. >> [inaudible] was able to accomplish so much that a lot of people started to see the court as another way to promote the public policy so if you couldn't get through the political process hundreds of congrescongressman, state legiss and hundreds of millions of american voters people s

jesse jackson called ted kennedy. the 70 he has for a very long time. aces look you'd be so impressed with what we are accomplishing here you have no idea what we are about to pull off i don't need you to come endorse us. all i am asking is for you to stay out of this race. like you just let the thing play out in ted kennedy says to him look, there's an old family friend. i hear what you're saying but there's just nothing i can do and jesse jackson, first of all there is rather a significant debt payoff that was probably stolen in illinois for his brother and made him president. that's a significant part but jesse jackson doesn't see himself that way what about him are we are we chopped liver. the primary comes around and congressman wins it anyway. the next day the chicago machine, switches sides they had been democrats they'd been democrats for as long as anybody can remember. they endorse a republican. >> ryan grim: they pretend that they are democrat but they are actually trying to help the other person on the inside. they actually endorse publicly

jimmy carter with ted kennedy, under 50% with democrats. >> he still beat him, though.. >> sure. i'm just saying to even get into trouble in the first place. george h.w. bush was at 73% and falling fast with republicans when buchanan got in. 88%, not a lot of room for a challenger. >> you were hitting on something. i'm the history guy around here. so i remember 1979, roger mudd, one of the greatest reporters ever in television, asked ted kennedy, a very attractive candidate, why do you want to be president? he didn't have the answer. and that's the biden question. >> that is the biden question, and i think that he wants to be president because he thinks that he's electable. i think he wants to be president for the same reason that dr. jill biden came out and said sometimes you got to swallow a pill. >> did she say that? >> she said it and i didn't understand why. >> thank you very much. you're so tough but so smart. thank you danielle moodie-mills and thank you, steve kornacki. i love this sort of chat. i love you at the board, too. i love this chat. >>> up next, the on

members had gathered there, there was a big fourth of july party that happened on those grounds, ted kennedy lived there up until his death, but now we are hearing that a death has occurred at the kennedy compound in hyannis port, massachusetts. so we will try to get more information on the identity of this young women, and get you that as soon as we know. >>> moving on comes to the san francisco 49ers invited a number of first responders to their training camp. included on the very special guest list come the family of the late sacramento police officer, tara o'sullivan. was packed with faithful's on the stand. after practicing the coaches, quibnd tofiofr o'sullivan was s killed will helping a woman during a domestic dispute. >> it is very humbling and inspiring to see them out here, i'm from sacramento, my dad's house is around the corner from where it happened so i saw the caution tape and stuff over the summer when it happened, and once again, just inspiring. >> a vigil is planned saturday for the phone officer at martinez city hall. community members are invited to bring a card, or lett

are rare but have happened before ronald reagan strongly challenge president gerald ford in 1976 ted kennedy came close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. while she and fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially with the potential economic downturn learned looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really doubt the president. trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the chair of the u.s. federal reserve an enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china get the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challen

are rare but have happened before ronald reagan strongly challenge president gerald ford in 1976 ted kennedycame close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. while she and fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially. lee with potential economic downturn loom looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really does the president trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the chair of the u.s. federal reserve an enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china. but the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challenge h

kennedy, there was a time when ted kennedy could work with orrin hatch and they didn't hate each other other and gave each of their personal advice. we did have to get to the point where we could disagree with someone. i bet i disagree with dennis and you disagree with me on almost every big issue. but we like each other and kind of thrash it out. but in what we are actually talking about here is a call for calm, and not just looking at those differences. it would be good as americans to look at ourselves as americans, but as americans there something that connects us. i want to share something with you. when i campaign twice for president i saw something that was so important. i saw an underlying community. and that's a deeper meaning of america. >> how about people stopping and doing cpr on the victims? i know these are tragedies but there's also beauty of people stepping up and doing the right thing. >> laura: we do focus on the come at those who refused to stand for that anthem. >> yes. most people all in all are pretty darn good countries. i think it is a time for everybody to tak

barack obama got a got it hillary clinton got it, ted kennedy got it. then sharon seckman got it last year. a big handout for sharon seckman. our very own amanda raymond got it. we have given it to tom vilsack and tom harkin. now we have got a great dual. [applause] >> thank you randy. these are certainly dark and scary times we live in. politically right now. it is especially important for us to honor people who shed a beacon of light upon what the best democratic principles and some of the best democratic ideals, among our former elected political officials. when we looked around for this year's awardee, we realized that in the state of iowa we have a couple right here in our home state. that we all have been very, very proud of. so it gives gary and i great pleasure to introduce this year's wing ding beacon award winner. the award goes to bob dworsky and sue dworsky. i said to bob it seems really strange to know him far more than a decade now and not realize until i got the bio, that bob served as superintendent of recreation for the city of mason ci

kennedy, there was a time when ted kennedy could work with orrin hatch and they didn't hate each otherthey liked each other and gave each of their personal advice. we do have to get to the point dvwhere we could disagree with someone. i bet i disagree with dennis and you disagree with me on almost every big issue, but we like each other and kind of thrash it out. >> dennis is one of my favorite people. >> but i don't want to kill you, i think you are a wonderful people. it is a shame we came to this. >> but what we are actually talking about here is a call fog on these things. it would be good as americans to lookes at ourselves again not republicans or liberal, but as americans. there something that connects us. i want to share something with you. when i campaign twice fort president, i saw something that wass so important. i saw an underlying community. and that's a deeper meaning of america. >> there are things that people agree on. >> how about cop being rubbing inin when people getting shot. how about people stopping and doing cpr on the victims? i know these are tragedies but the

. >> tucker: so those are strong words coming from the party of bill clinton and ted kennedy.o they actually mean any of them? it's pretty easy to find out. how do you treat people you really care about? would you leave your children home alone with the door unlocked? would you invite strangers over to stay with him while you were going? only of cruel and stupid person would do something like a that. democrats are very intent on doing the same thing to our country. they brag about it. >> on day one, i will make sure the number one policies -- -- >> if you could, would you take the wall down to mexico yesterday >> offer a home to refugees, that is who wee are. that's part of what we do. >> instead of building a wall or closing the border, we should choose compassion instead of cruelty. >> we welcome refugees and bring people out of the shadows. >> immigration is not a security issue. it is economic and humanitarian at a family issue. >> i think undocumented people need to have a means by which they can be covered when they are sick. this is just common decency. >> tucker: you h

always trying to woo ted kennedy. it's not new. it expresses early on a little bit of frustration. but you're not worried, kristi? >> i'm not worried and i think it's incredibly early. i don't want you to take this as an endorsement of mind of joe biden either. i just don't think that the so-called gaffes are the things we should be looking at. i think he might be a week in a policy sense against people like elizabeth warren or even bernie sanders. but no, i don't think, especially when you're going up against donald trump with "the washington post" has lied 12,000 times all he's been in office. >> neil: let me understand that you are not for president trump, i just want to get that out of the way. all right. ash is a republican strategist. the issue that is getting some attention, it's not the first time michael moore, no other restorative, steve bannon raising the michelle obama name. might have different reasons for recommending that, some discord among democrats. having said that, she is an appealing figure, perhaps the most popular woman on the planet right now. there is an ad

who shot this, ted cruz's father had something to do with killing kennedy. get it all up in the air, completely crazy, everybody afraid of everybody else. everybody suspecting the other ethnic groups or racial groups. everybody is ready, and trump feels in that crazy 52-card pickup world he wants to live in. explain. he does think he can win with craziness around him. >> well, he did, and so that's why. >> you're right. that's a good point. >> that's why he continues to think -- i don't think it's much more complicated. he believes in the kind of chaos theory. that if we're talking about this, he can point out, oh, my god, what are we now, the lame stream media, whatever we are today. they're talking about this. they're negative and then it gets lost in this kind of -- to go to eli o's point, it gets lo in the mad era of the trump era. i struggle with this all the time. at some point, you have to decide, do you always call him out on things and if you always call him out, are you show enabling? are we part of this abusive drama in the country right now, and

ted kennedy in 1980 softened jimmy carter, ronald reagan softened gerald ford. you look back historically and say, hey, if a president gets primaried, it can weaken him. you don't see that? >> i don't see that. so viewers know, there's no road to redeching. what i have heard from joe walsh, how did he come to terms with vitriol? what process did he come through? his actions. watching donald trump illuminate to him the ugliness in him? i don't buy it. >> why isn't that possible. >> he stood with that same hatefulness, in fact, some argued gave birth to it. he preceded it. >> he argues that himself. >> now i want to see him doing the work. doing the work doesn't mean running for president of the united states. i want him to have courageous conversations illuminate there's been a growth period rather than what i am concluding to be a very self-motivated act. i consider the same to be true for scaramucci. >> we're going to have this discussion on religion later but i will quote james. faith without works is dead. before you come up here and want me to have faith you

there was ted kennedy against carter. it can leave a mark. so you don't even see the possibility of it leaving a mark? >> no. and here's why. in the case of all three of those buchanan, kennedy, and reagan, they came from the id logical base of the party. they caused the incumbent of not being enough of a party base. donald trump is good at holding the base. what democrats need to listen to is they need to create an offramp. this is how nancy pelosi won the house. she first recruited great candidates. democrats need great candidates. i think there's a lot of talent in that field. but then they ran in trump districts on a message that welcomed and included republicans. i mean, i'm a catholic. i'm a pope francis catholic. we're seeking out converts every day. we're not hunting down heretics. >> michael, your thoughts? >> how do i follow that? i think he's absolutely right. i also think part of what much was saying was it depends what kind of a democrat was nominated. there needs to be an appeal that are not far to the left. this old practicalit

congressman joe kennedy and his son joe iii a current congressman were pall bearers along with ted kennedy jr. nbc news anchor maria shriver was an usher. inside one of the songs "when irish eyes are smiling." the words changed to "when saoirse's eyes are smiling." an unnamed mourner telling "the boston globe" the service was full of hope and laughter and love. in celebration of the wonderful young woman who filled the world with her adventurous spirit. her father, irishman paul hill, carried his daughter from the church. "people" magazine reporting he told mourners, saoirse was the love of my life. before breaking down in tears. from her mother courtney kennedy hill who gave her life, a last good-bye. >> in his eulogy robert kennedy jr. said, if anyone ever wondered whether god loves the kennedy family, proof is they gave us saoirse. ♪ this is not just a headache. this is not just a fever. this is not just the flu. it's meningitis b... and you're not there to help. while meningitis b is uncommon... once symptoms appear, they can progress quickly and can be fatal... sometimes within 24 hou

compare that to worst case for modern president, jimmy carter, 1908 challenged by ted kennedy. kennedy almost steals the nomination. when kennedy got in the primary carter's approval with democrats was 40%. when reagan stepped forward to challenge gerald ford in the '76 republican primaries, ford with republicans was 60%. when pat buchanan stepped forward to challenge george h.w. bush in '92 with the recession and all of that, bush was 75% but dropping fast. bush ended up falling in the 50s for republicans. that number with trump has been steady since he was sworn in. >> the other historical piece is when these incumbent presidents face a primary challenge, carter, bush, they have gone on to auto lose the election, bucked presidents in the past. what do you think? >> the traction they got with examples was a symptom of the broader weakness of the president. the other dpampl we don't talk about too much and nobody remembers was richard nixon in '72. bad things happened to nixon after '72 but he had two republican challengers in '72. but nixon's support within the republican part

. >> it's interesting the question, and you remember it was ted kennedy running for president in 1980estion, why do you want to be president. the question is going to be asked to joe kennedy. he's been in washington for four decades on every sort of critical key litmus test, he's probably in alignment with where the sort of the party regulars are where the party base is. idealogically any clue, any sense what the justification would be for kennedy going after markey? >> well, it's going to have to be a generational argument if he does do it. they align pretty closely on a lot of policy issues. they are both progressives. they are both democrats. but what you have to look at here is markey's age. he is 73 years old. if he were to win another term, he would be almost 80 by the time he's out of the senate and he would living room certainly retire. that would be a huge giant primary for an open senate seat. there is so much political pentup in massachusetts. >> we always ask this every time a new kennedy emerges on the scene or one of the kennedys decides to make potentially a move like t

that was ted kennedy and john boehner with the legislation and that was ad big part of what he wanted to a conscious president. it fell far into the background. but we could never make him happy with an education speech draft because he simply knew too much about it, to a granular detail that speechwriters cannot get. it would go through the staffing process and anything was fine and then it would get to the president. you don't get it. [laughter] one time, this was in 2004 in the middle of a reelection campaign, a lot going on. i said to mike and matthew, my have anothere speech to do, let's take an education speech he didn't use and look at the transcript from what he actually said and use that. so we did commit we took the transcript of the last speech, , put ined it up, we did some current fax and local references to freshen it up. i thought, this is what he wanted to say, and clearly that event he hade rare a speech in front of them and didn't use it. it was education anyone in to do is own thing. so we made that into a speech, centered around and we sent to the president and we

you worked with ted kennedy in the senate and now one of his nieces reportedly died today, the news released by the family in hyannisport, possibly from drug overdose. i wanted your reaction to that. >> you just think of the tragedy that has hit this family. and it's just one thing after another. obviously we think of them today. but in problem of drug overdoses is happening all over this country right now. and certainly we know it here with prince in minnesota but it's not just famous people. it's everyday people. i talked about little casey jo, a champion swimmer at the end of the debate who went into the emergency room and got hooked. and her last words to her mom was mama, it's not my fault and she later died. this is happening because we have a lot of politicians talking about it. but just as i said in the debate to be straightforward, these companies if it was opioids i don't know what happened in in tragedy case but if it was opioids we know what happened here. the market was flooded by pharma companies. people turned to opioids and illegal drugs and started taking the drugs and they'

they did wit ted kennedy. they did wit tip o'neill. they already found somebody from the coast. for a while there it was nancy pelosi. she is not a good person anymore. they always get an ethnic person from one of the coasts and turn him into their target. what do you think? is that strategy or impulse? >> chris, chris, this is so -- i remember when they did to it tip o'neill? do you remember? >> of course it never worked with him, but they were vile to him. they were vile to jim wright. but i do believe if you had as much bad news as this president has, you know, and you had no moral compass like that israel have shown them the true democracy. instead, they missed an opportunity for israel. >> oh, barbara. >> i feel bad about it as an american-jewish person. i really feel terrible about it. >> not being jewish, i went to israel. i was afraid the hawks over there would give me a hard time that is the most open country in the world. >> yes. >> you can debate. >> yes. >> i was debating somebody from "the jerusalem post," a real right winger. it was no problem. you come back to ame

are rare but have happened before ronald reagan strongly challenge president gerald ford in 1976 ted kennedy came close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. while she and fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially with the potential economic downturn learned looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really does the president trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the. chair of the u.s. federal reserve and enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china. but the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challe

ted kennedy passed away. democrats had a supermajority.d to use every bit of political capital to pass that legislation of i think something biden can use as a point of distinction is to talk about how hard that was and how democrats should not underestimate. >> come back we'll talk about joe biden defended himgs on the other issue immigration. >> the president came along, he's the guy that came up with the idea first time ever of dealing with dreamers. he put that into law. he talked about a comprehensive plan which he lay before the congress saying we should find a pathway to citizenship for people. to compare him to donald trump i think is absolutely bizarre. >> if you're a republican watching that, what do you take away? >> if you're viadvising donald trump, border. compassion, that's who we are. to have this notion you should decriminalize illegal crossings is absolutely absurd. tell that to people in the country having issues, local leaders, statewide, federal officials say we don't have enough money for these things but somehow we h

. >> amid the intense debate over obamacare, senator ted kennedy, a staunch supporter of health care passed away. the loss of his senate seat to republican scott brown cost the democrats their 60-seat super majority. any health care bill now needed republican support to pass in the senate, which did not exist. to many on capitol hill, the affordable care act looked dead on arrival. but not to nancy pelosi. >> the press would say to me, doesn't look like you're going to pass this, what are you going to do, are you going to give up? and i said, well, no, we believe this is the challenge of our generation. >> behind closed doors, white house chief of staff rahm emanuel pushed to scrap much of the bill for a series of smaller, more incremental measures with a better chance of republican cooperation. >> the white house wanted to break it up into pieces, take this now, a piece here, a piece there. and nancy pelosi said, no, under no circumstances. we are going to move forward, and we are going to win this vote. >> the president sided with pelosi. >> the time for talk is over. it's time to

are rare but have happened before ronald reagan strongly challenge president gerald ford in 1976 ted kennedy came close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. and the fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide. it would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially with the potential economic downturn loom looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really does the president trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the chair of the u.s. federal reserve an enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china. but the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challenge him

states ally in the fight against communist globally, but liberal pro-refugee advocates like senator ted kennedy emphasized the south oest east asian refugees deserved americans help to alleviate suffering. what happened to these refugees once they arrived in the united states? how were they resettled? a lot of conversation focuses on admission. but we also need to think about how refugees were resettled. because successful refugee resettlement made policy makers more likely to want to admit more refugees. and refugee admissions and refugee resettlement in this way are very intertwined. in the united states, refugee resettlement is a public/private effort. the government delegates a lot of work to private agencies, called voluntary agencies. interestingly, a lot of these agencies are also religious. 75% of southeast asian refugees who arrived in 1981, which is roughly the midpoint of southeast asian refugees arrivals, were resettled by religious organizations. some of these organizations are ones that are very active and prominent today. lutheran immigration refugee and the united states catholi

in the senate you had the retirement of senator jim meesland, and ted kennedy took over chair of the senate judiciary committee. and you also had rodino's leadership through the process. with regard to some members or chairs of the subcommittee, he was watchful. he served on the subcommittee 24 years before he became chairman in 1971. and he continued to watch the subcommittee chair man with the exception of liz. liz came over, he said he had complete confidence. let her run it whatever way would be. he was there to help if she needed it, generally she didn't. he had a deep and abiding interest in immigration matters those years. her involvement, rodino's study hand, kennedy taking over, it was a confluence of events that made the refugee act possible. >> politically at the time senator kennedy and president carter were politically opposed. yet they were able to work together on this. in the current political climate, it is sometimes hard to imagine two political opponents coming together, working so seamlessly together. or was it seamless? that's my question. >> i was close to dale,

indo-china crisis is one of the events, and also taking over for the 1979 management, and also, ted kennedy taking over the chair of the senate judiciary committee and also you had rodinoh's leadership. and he had served on the immigration subcommittee for 24 years before he was chairman of the subcommittee in 1971. and so, he continued to watch the subcommittee chairman what the exception is. and when he came over, he said that he had a big conference, and the refugees and what she needed for help, but there was always a interest there. and so the steady hand, and gleason retiring and kennedy taking over, and so it was really a confluence of events that made the refugee act possible. >> politically at the time that senator kennedy and president carter were politically opposed. and yet, they were able to work together on this. and so in the current local climate it is hard to imagine, two political opponents coming together to work together or was it seamless? i guess that is my question. >> no, it is very close to the staffers that i can tell you that presidential politics never entered in

the late senator ted kennedy challenging the so-called kennedy curse, referring to the family's pastination of jfk and saoirse's grandfather robert f. kennedy, writing, that offends me, and it would have offended saoirse. our illnesses are no different than anyone else's the . the 22-year-old was found last tuesday, a possible overdose, sources say. her uncle posting a eulogy on medium detailing her last night saying, she finished a 25-page paper for boston college. she announced she would spend the remainder of the evening in an all-night celebration. she had dinner with her grandma, went to bed looking forward to her trip to los angeles. saoirse woke up with god. when she was just a teenager, she described her depression in a school newspaper. i suffered bouts of deep sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on my chest, and i attempted to take my own life. the kennedy family now celebrating her courage, remembering her sense of humor and love of philanthropy. she put out a bright light, her uncle writes. everybody loved her. she made people feel good. rfk jr. also writes that she wa

it served as the primary residence for senator ted kennedy in his final years. y, the kennedy family is all too familiar with tragedy. this year marking the 20-year anniversary of that deadly plane crash that took the lives of jfk jr., his wife and sister-in-law. as for the investigation here, authorities still looking into the exact circumstances surrounding saoirse's death. cecilia? >> such a tragic story. okay, whit johnson, thank you. >>> we turn now to that major flooding in the heartlan it's hitting kansas hard leading to water rescues. this as a tropical threat moves toward the southeast. rob is tracking the very latest. good morning, rob. >> good morning, michael. some of that tropical moisture already getting into the southeast. this is what marietta looked like yesterday, just north of atlanta. severe thunderstorms, talking about 3 1/2 inches of rain in a short period of time. 66-mile-per-hour winds there doing damage to trees as well. this is the wave that brought heavy rain into puerto rico, now into florida, parts of georgia and south carolina as wel

former congressman joe kennedy and his son joe iii a current congressman were pallbearers along with ted kennedyappy kennedy hill beamed from the program. inside one of the songs, "when irish eyes are smiling," the words changed to "when saoirse's eyes are smiling." an unnamed mourner telling the "boston globe" the service was full of hope and laughter and love in celebration of a wonderful young woman who filled the world with her adventurous spirit her father carried his daughter from the church. people magazine reporting he told mourners saoirse was the love of my life before breaking down in tears. and from her mother courtney kennedy hill who gave her life a last good-bye. the college student remembered as inquisitive and fearless, a passionate advocate for social justice and candid about her struggles with depression. as for why she died, officials are waiting for the toxicology report the autopsy showed no signs of trauma after all the ceremony, a simple good-bye from her cousin congressman joe kennedy, we love you, saoirse and always will in his eulogy, robert kennedy jr. said if anyone

barack obama got a got it hillary clinton got it, ted kennedy got it.astsharon seckman got it year. a big handout for sharon seckman. our very own amanda raymond got it. we have given it to tom vilsack and tom harkin. now we have got a great dual. [applause] >> thank you randy. certainly dark and scary times we live in. politically right now. especially important for us to honor people who shed a beacon of light upon what the best democratic principles and some of the best democratic former electedur political officials. when we looked around for this year's awardee, we realized that in the state of iowa we have a couple right here in our home state. that we all have been very, very proud of. -- gives give larry and i great pleasure to introduce -- it gives gary and i great pleasure to introduce this year's wending beacon award winner. the award goes to bob and sue twersky. dworsky and sue dworsky i said to bob it seems really strange to know 74 far more than a decade now and not realize got theid not until i bio, that bob served as superintendent of re

now former ufc fighter and special forces sniper ted kennedy is sounding off writing on instagram.what we are seeing is the most vile form of that rage being realized. masculinity is about being a protector, masculinity is about integrity. ainsley: tim kennedy joins us now from austin. good morning, tim. >> top of the morning. ainsley: top of the morning to you. ufc fighter and special forces sniper. and you have said america doesn't have a gun problem we have a young angry male problem. elaborate on that, please. >> yeah. the fact that someone is saying there is a toxic masculinity problem when there is not enough masculinity. we are built, we are hard wired to do incredible things protect is one of them. when you take a boy in school and say you can't act this way and can't be energetic this way you can't explore and do dangerous things. you are messing with the hard wire in their brain. everyone is made different but men have to be men. boys grow up to be men. when you give them adhd medications and tell them they can't go climb a tree and can't be busy in a classroom, those are

wasn't so long ago that ted kennedy and/or ren hatch could fight like hell and then, you know, after end of the workday become very close friends and spend time together. of course, the tip o'neill/ronald regan stories are ledgendar legendary. they fought hard until 6 p.m. and after 6 p.m. they were friends. that wasn't so long ago but we seem so far away from those moments. >> it is ever harder, and we need to be careful not to sentimentalize the past. it was a difficult time, but it's also true. one of my favorite examples of this is in august of 1974 the first call general ford made to tip o'neill when he was about to become president after nixon resigned and because ford had been minority leader, tip was the democratic leader. they're talking and o'neill's being supportive and ford's talking about cooperation and o'neill pauses and says, jerry, is this a great country or what? i'm going to be going around the country in a year kicking your ass in but here we are talking about the good of the country. that's the duality of it, right? mccain is a fabulous example of this. and one o

ted cruz. he really was an it boy, but since then. >> who lost. kennedy able person a lot of outside money. >> all press behind him, and maybe a few republicans that don't liked to cruz. kennedy: now, he is really stumbled on com campaign trail,i think he is damaged goods, what are his chances verse john cornyn. >> the democratic primaries are asking him to leave, he is 1% and under, he is trying to preinvent himself, last has been over e el paso massacre calling the president responsible for it. at some point you have to win something. go out win one for "the gipper" not blow one for "the gipper" for come within two points. kennedy: true. and i think if beto maybe waited, not run for president, he would have a better shot against john cornyn, but he is not even winning in texas, joe biden is beating him. >> it is not clear what he stands for, a lot has been the person, you know about who hes is. -- >> push ups in airport. >> what does he do for you as president, and promising to do that other candidates are not promising. kennedy: the problem he is a reg