if you read his message in the 1960's, it deviate hardly at all from barry goldwater's, yet barry goldwater did not have an observable sense of humor like that, did not draw people in. it strikes me that -- i do not know if it is a default setting for conservatives. it is maybe in the nature of conservatism in the united states that they tend to do righteous indignation better than they do a lot of other emotions. with barry goldwater, there was this sense that you were being lectured to. there is an undercurrent or explicit overcurrent of anger, but reagan took that away. is reagan maybe the anomaly amongst conservatives? is barry goldwater sort of more like the conservative mind and maybe we are returning to that where as jonathan suggested, there was blood on the floor in the convention of 1964 among republicans. it was are we going to be conservative enough? is it too much to ask republicans or conservatives to come up with another reagan because is the personality type just really rare? hubert humphrey does well amongst liberals, but reagan is almost the hubert humphrey of conservative

with barry goldwater, there was a sense that you are sort of being lectured to, there was an undercurrent or maybe a explicit over current of anger, but reagan took that away, so is reagan simply the anomaly among conservatives? is very cold water sort of more like the conservative minds and maybe we are returning to that, where as jonathan suggested, there was blood on the floor at the convention of 64 among the republicans and it was, are we gonna be conservative enough. is it too much to ask the republicans to come up with another reagan? is the reagan personality type just really rare, you could see hubert humphrey, he does fine among liberals but reagan is almost the humphrey of conservatives. what do you think? very >> you know, i think the question is a really interesting one, it is in a lot of ways why have we not seen conservatives over the last 50 years, it's spite of the fact that republicans have this long streak of winning the presidency. why have republicans not been able to put forward whatever one thinks of as the positive governing agenda under conservative vision, republ

old-style anticommunists, the toughest of the anticommunists, people like barry goldwater thought this was dismaying. his view was, the russians won't have assented to it unless they believe it can help them. if it helps them, it can't help us as well. there were people who said, whatever one side gains, the other side must lose. this is a condition in which both sides can gain because most can be reassured of the reduction of the danger of nuclear war. another thing that made it painful was that only the year before, or the year before nixon came into office, 1968, soviet tanks had rolled into prague. they attempted to establish a little bit of distance between themselves and soviet control. even the new czech government was in no way hostile to the soviet union, it wasn't subse e subservant. this is one of the many traumatic events of 1968. it was one more sign that the soviet union is utterly untrustworthy. it was only because nixon had got some such strong anticommunist credentials that he could get away with doing this in the first place. if a democratic president had done this, i

i started out my spent on barry goldwater's candidacy, and what i found bar. hroughout the month of september, the world was virtually unchanged. goldwater was cruising to lose, and he did, he lost by a historic margin at the time. i think even today these spots are not as effective or f determi determinative as you might think. thesepercen o candidates are sp thousands of dollars aimed at certain people, many who may not vote at all. i think people are kind of i am p -- what impervious to this std they don't know what else to do. now, at the local races, senator, congressional races, mayoral races, i do think it makes a difference. in those instances, the voters don't have a lot of information about the candidates. newspapers are going out of business, tv stations are airing much and much less political news, so a lot of the ampaig information that voters getn today is not from the media, fc they get it from the campaign commercials. that's a $fact than they do at the presidential level. >> here's dawn -- don. >> caller: robert, i've got l several questions he

thearted out in my book on daisy girl spot thinking it destroyed barry goldwater's candidacy. at it didn't. it had very little impact, before that spot aired, goldwater was going to lose the race. after that spot, and very rough spots to johnson campaign aired some of the race was virtually unchanged. goldwater was cruising to lose. historic margin. i think even to davies as are not as effective or determinative as you think. 3%, 4% of the voters are undecided. the candidates are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and get a small percentage of, many of whom may not vote at all. i think they are impervious to this stuff, but candidates have been doing this for time immemorial and i think a lot of campaigns do it because they don't know what else to do. congressional races, mayors races, i think we do make a difference. many voters do not have a lot of information about the candidates. airing less and less political news, so a lot of information that voters get is not from the media. they get it from the campaign commercials. that's a sad fact. don in oklahoma -- independe

always been one of the most rock ribbed republican states in the union it is the home state of barry goldwater who considered the founder of the modern conservative movement although some of the developments of that movement would probably shock the former senator from arizona the late senator from arizona barry goldwater. this state has gone democratic twice in its history once in 1988 when harry truman beat thomas dewey the 2nd time when in 1906 when bill clinton beat. bob dole rather resoundingly the numbers we have now with 80 percent 82 percent of the vote in is biden 51 and trump 46 percent also in arizona a flip of a important senate seat the democratic challenger mike mark excuse me mark kelly has beaten martha mick sally the incumbent republican who was appointed to her seat to fill out the term of the late senator john mccain and i read mccain as well as having some impact in the outcome here in arizona because as many people are aware president from even before he became president rather a spoke rather insultingly of mccain derogatorily saying i don't like people who are. taken pris

belonging to the opposite wing of the party from barry goldwater. victory,after nixon's when nixon approached him with the possibility you might become national security advisor, he was perfectly well to jump over to nixon's camp and sees this seize this marvelous opportunity to become a senior policymaker inside the new nixon white house. although eisenhower had been president in the 1950's, eisenhower was really a very bipartisan politician. i mention earlier the democrats also asked him to be their candidate. so in a way, this is the first time the republicans had been in the presidency since herbert hoover left the office in 1932. there wasn't a big pool of experienced republican officeholders as there were democrats. because the democrats had dominated the recent generations. one of the things nixon and kissinger did together was to revolutionize america's diplomatic posture with respect to two of the other great powers in the world. one was the soviet union. the other was china. the nuclear weapons race had been going on ever since the end of

the problem is, it's hard to see who the new barry goldwater would be.nd if we could find him, would the president listen to him? this is a dangerous period that we're headed into, i think. >> i'm going to answer that question for you. it's no and no. how critical is it for an outgoing president to actually work with an incoming president? does real -- does important stuff get done? or is it just a photo opportunity? >> four years ago, we saw what happened when an incoming white house paid no attention to the transition. barack obama ordered the most thorough transition in history. they threw all of the research into the dumpster, including the pandemic plan. and we've seen the results. it's really critical. transitions are important. and like i said, the enemies don't stop plotting because you have a dysfunctional transition going on. it's really important that the new white house hit the ground running. joe biden has a challenge that's every bit as daunting as obama's. and you won't be surprised, stephanie, to hear me say, he will be a superb white hou

disappointingo defeats at a law practice in new york, nixon loved the political arena and when senator barry goldwaterlp in the 19 62 four presidential campaign nixon responded with characteristic emotion he chose to play the role of peacemaker among the liberal and conservative factions of the republican party. with nixon's tireless efforts his campaign and fundraiser, the republican party made big gains in the 1966 off year election. ♪ elected or reelected by big majorities were governor rockefeller of new york, governor romney of michigan, governor reagan of california, senator brooke of massachusetts, and senator percy of illinois. the future looks brighter. nixon had been the decisive factor in the republican resurgence. by reestablishing the force of his name and personality and by service to the body, just to the party, nixon found a new political base and respect. he added knowledge and experience to the base by another journey, leaders throughout the world and getting first-hand impressions -- visiting leaders throughout the world and getting first-hand impressions of vietnam. ♪ if he could a

so that by 1864 was barry goldwater who built the western cowboy's big nominee for the republican nationalion. estate the puts him over the top in that convention is southarolina, the birthplace of themerican confederacy. like all of my books, this book began with what i thought was a very small idea. that was the question again of trying to explain how today's republican party became so attached to the confederacy. which is really counterintuitive if you think about it. the confederates are people who tried to destroy america. it was a rebellion against united states government. so why is it that 21st century american political party has so identified with that particular movement. one the things it's fascinating about the materials that i cover in this book is the way it looks at the american west. because many people think of the american west and they think of it as a land of freedom. a land where anybody could become prosperous and controlle controlled, usually his destiny. what's interesting to about the material in this book as it suggested just the opposite is true. that image was

when senator barry goldwater call for his help in the 1964 presidential campaign, nixon responded. the liberal and conservative factions of the republican party. tireless efforts, the republican party make a big gains in the 1966 off-your off-year election. ♪ elected or reelected by big governors were rockefeller of new york, governor romney of michigan, governor reagan of california, senator brooke of massachusetts, and senator percy of illinois. the future looks brighter. nixon had been a decisive factor in the republican resurgence. by reestablishing the force of his name and personality, nixon found a new political base and the prize of respect. he added knowledge and experience to that base by another journey, visiting leaders around the world and giving first-hand impressions of the war in vietnam. ♪ if he could again demonstrate his ability to win votes for himself and his party, the path would be open to the 1968 republican presidential nomination. nixon began that task in the winter snows of new hampshire, when his only primary opposition withdrew. ♪ after rolling up huge

nominees, senator barry goldwater and senator john mccain.d its republican character, until recently. >> mark kelly: i trust arizonans. >> dickerson: now, arizona may be on the verge of electing democrat mark kelly, which would give the state two democratic senators for the first time in 70 years. republican jeff flake represented arizona in the senate until early last year. did you ever imagine that a red state like arizona would suddenly be thick with democratic politicians getting elected? >> jeff flake: not at this stage. i mean, you look in the future and you think, "unless a republican party, you know, transforms a bit, and appeals to a broader electorate, then, you know, we're going to be irrelevant." that's-- that's always been, you know, far in the future. but did i envision it this fast? no. not at all. >> dickerson: so president trump is accelerating the changes in arizona, right? >> flake: definitely. if you run a candidate, a republican candidate statewide, for state mine inspector, for example-- we do have one. ( laughs ) --nobo

there was an advertisement because the case was trying to be made that barry goldwater was ready, fire, aim type -- >> said he was going to lob one into the men's room at the kremlin, right. >> that's right. >> yeah. >> goldwater used colorful language. i loved the guy, by the way. but that was an issue in that campaign and it probably had a real affect. i have talked to a number of leaders and i wouldn't identify any presidents in crowd that seriously would think very, very probably long and hard before they would actually give an order to release nuclear weapons. and that includes some top people in the military command. so it is a moral question, but every military commander is charged with the responsibility of carrying out orders from the commander in chief. but those orders have to be moral orders. how do you determine that? do you have ten new york lawyers come in in the middle of a crisis and say this is legal and moral? no. so it gets down to judgment. generally speaking, the rule -- and i think we all have to assume this in russia and the united states and france and great br

and barry goldwater and john rhodes kind of mthat we've seen in the last few weeks. that's for sure. robert: peter,ou just referenced goldwater going to nixon in 1974. i'm reading your book about jim baker who would intervene with president trump? is there a jamesaker in this republican party who could pull president trump aside and senator romney has spoken out, play that baker role? ho could peter: well, the problem is there is nod james baker in the republican party. it's a different kind of party. it's a dferent kind of party and a president that's not all thatonterested in listening people that had any other point of view other than his own. l in n d.h.s. offic saying the election was secure the president this week just fired him. he doesn't want to hear anybody telling him anything other than what he believes. the only person i think with the kind of weight to really go to hime and hy possible impact would be mitch mcconnell. and have to be with the bofking he senate republican caucus which mitch mcconnell would never do unless he did have that backing. mitt ro

also talking about the possibility of the legalization of recreational marijuana in a state of barry goldwater. so there a lot of things going on. but it's not necessarily a reflection of the true political demographics here. we still know that the republicans outnumber democrats. this is more of a nudge from the sizable independent population here in arizona. they make up about a third of the electorate, but of course all those numbers are still to be gleaned from those returns that we see. we know they are still counting those returns. we are hearing that there could be another data drop coming at 7 p.m. tonight but a lot of people are hoping it's a lot earlier than that. back to you guys. >> gadi, thank you very much. >> let's take a pause. >> you know what time it is? it's roker time. >> thank god. >> you might not be happy about this either, it's tropical storm ada. it's 2020! get off my back! >> really? >> yes. moving west at 8 miles per hour, this is tied for the strongest hurricane of the season, third strongest november hurricane on record, it works its way through guatemala and now t

well remarkable change for this state which had been a rock ribbed republican state the home of barry goldwater's who some call the founder of the modern conservative movement a state that has only gone democratic twice since it became a state in 1912 so that is certainly as i say one of the brighter spots in what is otherwise for democrats a pretty dull evening. all right thanks for that reverend else. another big state is florida and like texas it voted for donald trump gunning for his in miami and has moved. when you look at where i'm standing now this is miami dade county and you look at how biden did among the latino vote here and it was extremely poor when you compare it to how hillary clinton did with the same community back in 2016 it seems to me the president's push to paint joe biden as a socialist works we already knew that about a 1000000 of the cuban americans that lived in a city like this in miami would likely vote republican but it seems like a lot of latino and hispanic voters who didn't vote for trump last time did so this time now the margin by which won this state was still pr

those members when they took overseas trips and he became sort of a protcgc of john power and barry goldwater, steve jackson and so of the old bowls and national security guys. anhe became kind of peers and personal friends with the younger guys. at that time they were young back in th70s. barry hart, bill cohen, young senar biden . he became friends with them and he told me he would watch in amazement. he would be in markup in the armed services committee and he would see scoop jackson or powers or somebody motion and scroll something on a piece of scrap paper and that would become an amendment to the defense bill and hundreds of millions of dollars would be sent from one account to another just like that and he said it dawned on me most of these guys had more power than a onor two star general would ever have which was the mosti think he thought he could reistically aspire to . he decided to retire from the vy and he went at it with an entry to politics in mind. >> i want to ask you why yo chose that structure instead of gng straight into the dra and the incredible story of john mccain gett

barry goldwater, john mccain. my annestors go back here, a you have to win this. vote donald trump. is that the right direction? >> i think the republican party should be the party of jobs. 15 million americans lost their jobs in five months. i think the american people want to go back to work. there is a stark contrast between the agenda that republicans in there have if we want to bring the economy back, we need to bring it again this pandemic taken the lives of many. how can you say this president is the right leader to lead the country through the pandemic right now? >> i think most americans want to see us fight the at the same time, bring back jobs. >> protect the most vulnerable. it is a mistake to destroy restaurants, movie theaters, across this country. >> there is a lot of focus, when we are talking about this president. who he owes money to. back in 2016, you and i were together, you questioned ties to the mob, mafia, business dealings we don't know about. doesn't the american people deserve to know who the penalty owes this money to? >> you and i spent a lot of time all

this is the state of john mccain and barry goldwater.licann some protests around these election counting centers. tally the electoral , where on thena kospi of nevada, pennsylvania, georgia, these are all the votes that need to come in and could swing. they are ground zero any political challenge or legal challenge could cause pennsylvania, that's where a lot of people are inferring could be the basis of a legal challenge. it's a whole other discussion. sure,ing that's for everybody wants a little bit of america in terms of stocks tax,se less capital gains dansk bank wants to be long on everything. the overall index, volatility is imploding, but the ground zero, i would say of repricing comes in the bond market. 30 year bond yields imploding yesterday. this is about the lack of belief in stimulus coming at a size and scale the market believed it would come through before. inflation is have been decried. our guest host in the last 30 minutes had said tenure paper take it down 2.65%. that's the state of play on the markets. let's get the r

vote for barry goldwater. host: there is a lot of there.ad antenna less the tenor of the times. 1964, why that ad came about -- and tell us the tenor of the , 1964, and why the add came about. guest: the atmosphere in the country in that time, we were still in the shadow of the cuban missile crisis. we were still armed to the teeth , facing the soviet union which was also armed to the teeth with their weapons. people at the time were really cheerful that the soviet union in the united states, even though the cuban missile crisis had been resolved, that we would still end up going to war and it would not be a conventional land war, it would he a nuclear war that would destroy much of the world. in that environment comes along coldwater, a very prominent leader of the conservative wing of the republican party since the 1950's, republican senator from arizona, who is using a lot of the other close language. when kennedy announces them was -- when kennedy announces them whe -- the loan shark, he calls nuclear bombs just another weapon. he sugge

duty would escort them when they took overseas trips and he became a protÉge of john power and barry goldwaterand scoop jackson and some of the old bowls, national security guys and became a kind of personal friends with the younger guys at the time and they were young in the 70s, gary hart, senator biden, he traveled with them and became friends with them and told me he would launch in amazement, and he would see scoop jackson or somebody motion and 8 over and on a piece of scrap paper, become an amendment to the defense bill, hundreds of millions of dollars sent from one account to another just like that and it dawned on me most of these guys had more powerful than a one or 2 star admiral would ever have which is the most he thought he could realistically aspire to so he retired from the navy and moved to arizona with an entry into politics in mind. >> wanted to ask why you chose that structure, talk about politics instead of going straight into the dram the incredible story of jo mccain. and watortured and refused to accept an early release. why did it shift to politics? >> it would show ho

political stage with his "a time for choosing" speech in support of republican presidential nominee barry goldwater. in 1966 he ran and won his campaign for california governor of this next on "reel america," ronald reagan's critique on president lyndon johnson's policies in this speech called "the myth of the great society." the exact date and location of his remarks are unknown. but the library believes it was in new york in 1966. ♪ [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you. i haven't even announced yet. you make me think i've been elected. ladies and gentlemen, you have given me a welcome that is so heartwarming. it's something i will remember always. if i had no such reasons at all to be happy about the form of the greeting and the introductions and all here tonight, i could be grateful, because every once in a while, being introduced, i get self-conscious when they begin to introduce me and start mentioning the pictures that i've been in. now, i don't mean that i'm ashamed of them. but everyone who's been around hollywood has been i

there is a common line and arizona politics and national politics ticketed to barry goldwater. libertym in defense of in moderation and pursuit of justice is no virtue. what is interesting about that comment is not actually speaking to the political extremism plaguing our country now nor the violence plaguing our country now, but rather speaks to a deeply libertarian philosophy is very much part in parcel of arizona politics since 1964. withntly, to the present candidates such as jeff flake. the quote which is often misinterpreted, addresses this deep philosophical individualism, which is very much part of the state. what we have seen with the president's rhetoric is it is really not resonating with political moderates. political moderates are overwhelmingly leaning towards both joe biden and much more so mark kelly. one andtion is a good the answer is the extremism, which i wouldn't even call ideological extremism, but the divisive rhetoric is one thing that has put this state of foreplay. caller brought up former u.s. senator john mccain and the fact that his wife has now end

this is not a president you with go to and say it's time to resign like barry goldwater did to richard nixon. this is a president you have to sort of take care of make sure he's okay, and then do this in a gradual way without sort of stepping all over him and getting him angry. this is one way to do it, gradu gradually they have to see the intelligence, transition has to start. >> dan, what about the republicans who continue to egg on the republicans? what is it in for them? >> i think they're in a hard spot, some of them are. most of the people in the party are really about the georgia senate elections. i know mitch mcconnell is, so they're trying not to anger trump and have him storm out the door by slamming and really causing more consternation, because trump is the number one thing the republican party has for a turn out-of-. and all eyes are on georgia for this next month, notwithstanding the biden transition, but it's past time for trump -- respect for the country, respect for the election, it's time for him to acknowledge it, open the doors so biden can start getting the keys to

about arizona, it was the home to really father of of the conservative movement that we now know, barry goldwaterepublican presidential nominee sophomore this is a big win for democrats, don, demographically, and certainly it just adds to joe biden's status as the president-elect. >> when you think about -- listen, john mccain and his legacy and how john mccain was really not a fan of this president. this president saw the late john mccain as a thorn in his side, especially with his voting down -- the president wanted to get rid of the affordable care act, and now you have the state of arizona, us a said, democrats haven't won since the 1950s. i would imagine it's something to do with mccain's legacy and his widow cindy mccain supporting biden. >> we should note, mark kelly, nasa astronaut, won the democratic senate seat. democrats win the senate seat there. that race was called a few days ago. democrats are showing us that the shifting demographics in states such as arizona, texas, we're seeing it in georgia right now, where democrats are making inroads where they have not really played for a ve

there are few people, like libertarian barry goldwater, who wanted to tinker with the social security state. but nobody else did, or nobody else with any power. in 1973, a gallup poll said that 91% of americans believed that tax laws should be changed to ease the burden on moderate and lower income and increase those on higher income and corporations. 91% of americans want to see their taxes lowered and taxes on the rich and corporations are raised. the majority of americans still believe that. it just hasn't been part of policy. in 1973, 72% of americans agree that the federal government has a responsibility to do away with poverty in this country. although 69% were skeptical about welfare, 62% thought more should be done to help the poor. one thing to bear in mind is that full employment as a goal is part of the basic platform of every political party until the 1970's. they don't achieve it, but it is there as a goal. the idea that everyone should have a job. they don't get it. it is there that has the value. it is something that disappears later on. but the key to prosperity in thi

political stage with his "a time for choosing" speech in support of republican presidential nominee barry goldwater. in 1966 he ran and won his campaign for california governor of this next on "reel america," ronald reagan's critique on president lyndon johnson's policies in this speech called "the myth of the great society." the exact date and location of his remarks are

tom: this goes back to barry goldwater and this is the goldwater beyond the political election. goldwater nichols act of 1986 which forever changed the pentagon. what is the responsibility of general milly and the joint chief of staff giving this political earthquake? kevin: we still have not heard from president trump on camera. so that has been a question that republicans, and democrats are trying to sort through. the political nature of the georgia january 5 runoff in which control of the senate is at stake is very much impacting and casting a shadow over all of the different dynamics at play here to the transition process. president-elect joe biden has also announced yesterday that his transitional landing teams. people like ellen hughes caron wick, the former chief economist at ford motor company being named to the various economic agencies in that case the commerce department but all of the different agencies and departments getting their thoughts together as a result of that announcement yesterday. and the names i would note this, the names that are not on that list, tom,

you object to what you felt was going on in michigan and pennsylvania when you were told that barry goldwatertate, social the bastion of conservatism was lost 20 minutes after the polls closed or that texas and florida can't even be called up because has been wiped out in his home base, that shakes perceptions even after the polls closed, so the only mystery is what's behind all this? but i think it's a transition from the rugged individual who has to take a responsibility to know the issues, show up on election day unless he's working or she's sick and then turning it into sort of an entitlement. you just lay back and they will send you a registration form and someone's going to harvest that and knock on the door and filleg it out and the polls are going to tell you who you should voteu for because they are scientific and they have the authority of twitter or facebook. and add final insult with all of that, you'll be told you're a winner or loser based on these perceived polls on election night and the analytics, so to finish. we took voting. it has to be approved and have some authority. sa

reagan entered the national political stage with his "time for choosing" speech in support of barry goldwater. in 1966 he ran and won his campaign for california governor. next on reel america, ronald reagan's critique of president lyndon johnson's policies in the speech called "the myth of the great society." the film was donated to the ronald reagan presidential library and the exact date and location of his remarks are unknown but the library believes it was in new york in 1966.

die-hard republican and ep encouraged his daughter too campaign for republican candidates like barry goldwater. >> his father was furious when she went to the east coast to one of the finest women's schools in the country. >> hillary majored in political science and became president of the wellesley young republicans in her freshman year. >> but as a child of the 60s, events in the country started to influence her politics. >> it's a fascinating turn that she took at wellesley. she sort of found her own violation, started to look at the vietnam war differently, talk about women's rights. she game an outspoken democrat. >> she would do rallies on the steps of her college and bring other women along to get into politics. >> in hillary's final year her peers picked her to be the first student ever to speak on their behalf at commencement. what happened that day became a seminal moment of hillary's early career. >> distinguished senator edward brooks had been invited to give the graduation address. he was a liberal republican. he talked about the need for change. and she really disagreed with what

. >> to tim who knows this better than anyone, there were members of congress, barry goldwater, who wento richard nixon saying you need to resign and he did. there are no people like that on capitol hill anymore. nobody can get through to the president. he doesn't trust anyone. i mean, tim, there aren't any people look that. correct? >> two things. there aren't any people like that other than mitt romney. and two -- >> he won't listen. >> the american people had given up on nixon and they haven't on trump and that's a big dimp difference this time. >> that's a good point. thank you so much to both of you. >> thank you. >>> hundreds of thousands of americans filed new unemployment claims in the last week and we are seeing the impact of that in long lines at food pantries across the country. we'll take you live to one of them in new york next. greetings mortal! your journey requires liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. liberty power! wow. that will save me lots of money. you're insured! this game's boring. -let's get tacos. only pay for what

hadn't voted for a democrat since 1996 for president, at the same time that state, the home of barry goldwater and john mccain now has two democratic u.s. senators. with this win, president-elect joe biden adds more than -- adds 11 more electoral votes to his total. bringing him currently to 290. north carolina and georgia are now the only states left, but the race is still deemed too close to call. just over 14,000 votes separate biden and trump in georgia where a statewide hand recount has been ordered. but most likely north carolina will go to trump. georgia to biden. and perhaps it was waiting on arizona to be called. also breaking overnight, china congratulated president-elect joe biden on his election victory. a spokesman for the chinese foreign ministry said, quote, we respect the choice of the american people. we congratulate mr. biden and ms. harris, proving once again, willie geist, the old saying that my god, you have heard in political science classes for the past 100 years, as goes scottsdale so goes beijing. and -- >> joe, beijing traditionally waits for the nbc decision desk bef

the home or was the home to really the father of the conservative movement that we now know, barry goldwater, who was 1964 republican presidential nominee. this is a big win for democrats, don, demographically. and certainly, it just adds to joe biden's status as the president-elect. >> and when you think about the -- listen, john mccain and his legacy and how john mccain was really not a fan of this president, this president really saw john mccain, the great john mccain we should say, senator john mccain as a thorn in his side, especially with his voting down. the president wanted to get rid of the affordable care act. and now you have the state of arizona, as you said, democrats haven't won since the 1950. >> right. >> i would imagine it is something to do with john mccain's legacy, and his widow, cindy mccain really supporting joe biden. >> yeah, we should note too that mark kelly, a nasa astronaut has won the democratic senate seat. a democrat winning the senate seat out there. that race was called a few days ago. so, again, democrats now are showing us that the shifting demographics in

the election he was talking about was linden johnson versus barry goldwater.n day was the same november 3rd at a very different time in our country. though like now, it felt like a watershed. it felt like a choice between two very different futures, two very different americas. like the choice we face tomorrow, the results of which we'll be here to cover for you tomorrow night. our prime time team goes on the air 6:00 p.m. eastern. we're fixing for a long night as i know many of you are. it's not an exaggeration to say the story we cover tomorrow night is entirely up to you. and so that is our broadcast for this election eve. with our thanks for spending this time with us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> it is a big night. let's not pretend it's not. we're going to go to something live right now before we get started with our show tonight. i want to go live to pittsburgh, pennsylvania, because former vice president joe

this is the home state of not just john mccain but barry goldwater. you take a look at it here, only 11,000 votes ahead but cnn has called this. this is a major shift. maricopa county going hard for democrats electing also mark kelly to the senate. independent voters being critical there. you see in the map democrats making real inroads under joe biden in the southwest. the exception of utah they're starting to fill this that corner of the country which used to be rock rib republican, that's a very big deal. take a look at what it means for the popular vote, joe biden remains ahead 5.3 million. this is not a normal lead, particularly for a challenger confronting an incumbent. donald trump lost the popular vote last night by almost 3 million, here joe biden winning it by 5.3. 97% still is in, which means this number there's still room for joe biden to increase his lead, but it's the electoral votes that count. two states outstanding right now, as you know, jim, let's take a look at georgia, this is the one going to a manual hand recount, but biden is n

fashioned republican party of dwight eisenhower, and phyllis, who was a very early supporter of barry goldwater was an important element in the shift of the republican party in the radical right wing direction which takes issues of racial and gender rights and turns them into hot button issues on which the party ran increasingly, and now that's all they run. at the same time that phyllis schlaffley is organizing the campaign, there's a young lawyer coming before the supreme court. her name is ruth bader ginsburg, and she's using the 14th amendment, the very same 14th amendment that the supreme court had refused to use to defend women's rights in 1874, and 100 years later, she's often called the thurgood marshall of the women's rights movement and the thurgood marshall because she became a supreme court justice as a result, and she convinces the court for a series of decisions that locate women's rights in the 14th amendment. so even though the e.r.a. defeated, there becomes decades of jurs pruny is prudence start these injuries that defend women's rights. it's very interesting. many people say

elections, i'm thinking of 1964, cow palace, 50,000 people show up to protest the nomination of barry goldwatere in multiple directions and the nixon campaign thought about contesting it with john f. kennedy, but also i'm thinking about the 2000 election, bush v. gore, and this goes all the way to the supreme court. there are contentions over which hanging chads and things like that, who would have won, you know, we might have been -- if the decision had gone in a different direction we might have been talking about president gore, but i don't think there's been anything of this, you know, of this type in the modern period in the ensuing years. what we've seen over the last couple of days has been remarkable and in a lot of ways it's shocking. in fact, we're getting into a period where we might see a president that refuses to concede the election in the event that he has lost and it looks like he has lost so we haven't seen that before. even when we see something like nixon v. kennedy, you know, nixon made the decision to call it, to say, you know what, i'm not going to contest it. even in the

the election he was talking about was lynden johnson versus barry goldwater. the election day was the same november 3rd at a very different time in our country. though like now, it felt like a watershed. it felt like a choice between two very different futures, two very different americas. like the choice we face tomorrow, the results of which we'll be here to cover for you tomorrow night. our prime time team goes on the air 6:00 p.m. eastern. we're fixing for a long night as i know many of you are. it's not an exaggeration to say the story we cover tomorrow night is entirely up to you. and so that is our broadcast for this election eve. with our thanks for spending this time with us on behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. >>> tonight, the final rallies as trump's pandemic offensive continues. joe biden tries to restore the blue wall in the state of pennsylvania. we'll go to stacey abrams in georgia, ohio to senator brown, to pennsylvania with governor fetterman, and texas with beto o'rourke. when "all in" starts right now. good

that his republican opponent, if barry goldwater was elected president, he would end up starting a nuclearar. this was a fear already present in the public eye but this ad amplified it to a greater xtent. is this effective? the style was effective and this is a powerful ad effective in scaring the public and spreading fear of a nuclear war. the campaign ad sought to revolutionize- the campaign ad saw to revolutionize the style in switching the focus onto emotional appeal. johnson won by a landslide. here is a map demonstrating this. you can see he won the state 44-6 in electoral votes 86-52. >> the good and bad that came out of this ad. for johnson's party, the good thing is it secured the election for johnson and if you believe in his platform and helped avoid the nuclear warfare. on the negative side it did change political ads forever by adding an emotional element, notably fear that we still see today and ushered in a new era of negative ads that was not prevalent then that we often see today. >> the truth lies in the fallacies. there is not really a direct quote or claims made in the

some of those numbers when they took overseas trips and he became of a protcgc of john power and barry goldwater and jackson and some of the old bowls in national security guys and he became kind of peers in personal conflict to the younger guys at that time . they're all old now but they were young back in the 70s. bill cohen, young senator biden. he traveled with them and became friends with them and he told me he would watch in amazement area he be in the armed services committee and he would see scoop jackson or powers and they would scribble something on a piece of scrap paper and that would become an amendment to the defense bill and hundreds of millions of dollars would be sent from one account to another just like that and he said it dawned on me that most of these guys had more power than a one or two star admiral would ever have which was the most i think he said he could realistically aspire to. so he decided to retire from the navy and he went there clearly with an entry into politics in mind. >> i wanted to ask you why you chose that structure area you talk about politics instead of

a die-hard republican and encouraged his daughter to campaign for republican candidates like barry goldwaterious when she went off to the east coast to one of the finest women's schools in the country. >> wellesley was a liberal all-girls college in massachusetts. hillary majored in political science and became president of the wellesley young republicans in her freshman year. but as a child of the '60s, events in the country started to influence her politics. >> it's a fascinating turn that she took at wellesley. she sort of found her own voice. started to look at the vietnam war differently. talk about women's rights. she then became a really outspoken democrat. >> you can watch cnn's original series "first ladies" tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. right here on cnn. stay with us. more news just ahead. this holiday season, it's all about the bedroom. and with caspers black friday sale, you can save up to 30% and make yours a winter slumberland. the fluffiest down duvet you'll ever feel, soft and light percale sheets, a cool, supportive mattress and plush pillows, even our glow light for better

he didn't really want to debate barry goldwater and they could rely on this fairness doctrine to say there's no way to do it. there's ten people running for president. you have all of the minor party candidates and so forth, and it's just not practical. so he was able to dodge it successfully. in 1968 when nixon was running again from his experience in 1960, he was not too anxious to debate now. he kind of learned his lesson. in '68 and '72, nixon was on the top of the ticket for the republicans. and so this kind of stopped presidential debates. it looked like maybe 1960 was a one-off, that it was never going to happen again. but in 1976 gerry ford, gerald ford was the president, who took over for nixon when he resigned, he was trailing his opponent by as much as 30 points that summer. and found away around the fairness doctrine, which is if a third party -- i think in '76 it was the league of women voters, later became the commission on presidential debate, but if the third party held an event and the networks decided to cover it, it wasn't networks giving the candidates a form, the