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joining us now is the reporter who broke this part of the story, john archibald with "the birmingham" i imagine you're in the middle of quite a lot of this right now. thank you for taking the time. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> let me ask if i explained the basics here. there are twists and turns and intersections with other alabama scandals and stuff. did i get the basics right of what's happened here? >> you absolutely did. you got about as much as people can digest in one meal here. it's quite a bit. >> why did you decide, you and your editors decide today to post the audiotape of the governor basically having phone sex? what was your decision about the newsworthiness of that? >> well, there was a lot of discussion, frankly, and until the governor decided to have a press conference that he made specifically about that recording, i don't think it ever would have seen the light of day but basically he stood up and said, i'm going to apologize for everything i think you can prove but then i'm going to deny everything i think you can't prove. which came across as disingenuous an

of the book, these are the realists, people like walter lippmann in the 1920s, or all to a lot -- archibald mcleash. theodore white in the 60s pulled back the curtain on how the strategy is planned and how campaigns are conducted and given us the understanding of political campaigning today. even the german-american philosopher wrote an essay called lying in politics during the vietnam war. he is deeply critical of lyndon johnson and the credibility gap opened up, and the official line of the government was failing to reflect the on the ground realities and also didn't want to throw her loss in with the moralists who condemned politicians for being liars. when she asked has politics and truth ever been in at the company in effect. she recognized from time immemorial politics is a realm in which people are always grazing the truth, putting the best face on their arguments and this is the way it should be and the way it has to be if we want pure truth, we look to the judge, scholars, philosophers, there are rooms in public life. politics has never been one of them. these other three stories t

. >> the poem is "the young dead soldiers" by archibald mcleash. what it is is really about remembering these young soldiers that gave their lives. >> reporter: the lesson is part of a program by san francisco's presidio educator mary myobelieves teaching about sacrifice is one way to connect udents to the former military ground. >> we have a generation right now that's completely disconnected from the casualties of war. >> reporter: but to read about sacrifice is one thing. it's a whole other thing to walk it. >> are you ready? we're going to be going to the national cemetery. look at the different grave stones. look at the names. >> reporter: as part of the program, the students walked among the military graves in the prosecuto presidio national cemeteries. >> i was just shocked. >> i didn't know there would be these much graves. >> we are young but we have died. >> reporter: the students growing up beyond the grip of major conflict, this reality was etched in granite. >> some of the stones don't even know their birthdays. >> i think it's a good

[video clip] >> the man who fired archibald cox does not deserve to sit on the supreme court of thenited states. mr. bork should also be rejected standssenate because he for an extremist view of the constitution and the role of the supreme court that would have placed him outside the mainstream of american constitutional jurisprudence in the 1960's, let alone the 1980's. he opposed the public accommodations civil rights act of 1964. he opposed the one man, one vote decision of the supreme court the same year. he has said that the first amendment applied only to political speech, not elective chairs or scientific expression. under the twin pressures of academic rejection and the prosser of senate rejection, he suddenly retracted the most neanderthal of these views on civil rights and the first amendment. but his mindset is no less lostus today. brian: he 58-42. the conservatives call that slanderous. how old were you in 1987? gabe roth: i was five. brian: do you have any impact on that? gabe roth: i remember that. it was a formative event. it was clarence thomas. there were accusations th

[video clip] >> the man who fired archibald cox does not deserve to sit on the supreme court of the united states. mr. bork should also be rejected by the senate because he stands for an extremist view of the constitution and the role of the supreme court that would have placed him outside the mainstream of american constitutional jurisprudence in the 1960's, let alone the 1980's. he opposed the public accommodations civil rights act of 1964. he opposed the one man, one vote decision of the supreme court the same year. he has said that the first amendment applied only to political speech, not elective chairs or scientific expression. under the twin pressures of academic rejection and the prosser of senate rejection, he suddenly retracted the most neanderthal of these views on civil rights and the first amendment. but his mindset is no less ominous today. brian: he lost 58-42. 54 of those were democrats, and the conservatives call that slanderous. how old were you in 1987? gabe roth: i was five. brian: do you have any impact on anyrian: it do you have sense of how big an impact on that? gab

man who fired archibald cox does not deserve to sit on the supreme court of the united states.jected byould be the senate because he stands for an extremist view of the constitution and the role of the supreme court that would have placed him outside the mainstream of american constitutional jurisprudence in alone, the let 1980's. he opposed the public accommodation civil rights act of 1964. he opposed the one man, one vote decision of the supreme court the same year. he has said that the first amendment applies only to literaturepeech, not are works of art or scientific expression. under the twin pressures of academic rejection and the prosper of the senate rejection, mr. boric subsequently retracted the most neanderthal of these views on civil rights and the first amendment. his mind set is no less ominous today. that seat up when they went to one of the current justices. guest: it did. first of all, it is always powerful to see senator kennedy on the floor engaging in his speeches. the truth is, the senate of the united states is the world's greatest [indiscernible] i think

[video clip] >> the man who fired archibald cox does not deserve to sit on the supreme court of the united states. mr. bork should also be rejected by the senate because he stands for an extremist view of the constitution and the role of the supreme court that would have placed him outside the mainstream of american constitutional jurisprudence in the 1960's, let alone the 1980's. he opposed the public accommodations civil rights act of 1964. he opposed the one man, one vote decision of the supreme court the same year. he has said that the first amendment applies to only political speech, not literature or scientific expression. under the twin pressures of academic rejection and the prosper of senate rejection, he suddenly retracted the most neanderthal of these views on civil rights and the first amendment. but his mindset is no less ominous today. rian: he lost 58-42. 54 of those were democrats and the conservatives call that slanderous. how old were you in 1987? gabe roth: i was five. brian: do you have any sense of the impact on that? gabe roth: i remember that. it was a formative even