another memo to bill moyers? this week marks the one year anniversary that some nut shot and killed 77 human beings in norway. norway. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. 24-year-old james holmes appeared in court today. he will be charged next week you can see how bizarre this guy is colorado has the death penalty and odds are this guy will get it. joining us from the mile high city colorado prosecutor craig silverman and fox news anchor jon scott has been covering the story from the very beginning, did great work for us on friday night what's the headline today, john? >> his first court appearance judge appearance for yourself. onk hair detached expression. to me, it looks like he is some where vacillating between sorrow, drowsiness and bemused attachment when he is appearing in that courtroom filled with the weeping victims and their family members. the people he is accused of shooting. when asked whether he understood his rights holmes lawyer spoke for him as far as weekend tell, he didn't say

. >> i called up the white house and bill moyers took my call. and i said, do you think you could arrange for me to see the president. and without thinking about it, too long, he said, yes, you can. you want to come tonight about 7:00. the very same night i thought he would say it would be a week or so before we could get to you. but that was the way the johnson white house functioned. it's the way the president functioned. so i walk in there that night, it was the first time i had been in the oval office, and i have to confess, i was kind of overwhelmed. with the atmosphere. and johnson is a big man. he got up and he took hold of both of my lapels here. and he, he stood up, he was two or three inches taller than i was. he got his head way back like this. and i was looking right up his nostrils. and i learned later this was called the nostril treatment. and he said, now, george, i know why you're here to talk to me. i had joe rau in here the other day. and he wants me to just pull out of there today. get our troops out of there. you know i can't

i might have carried two states instead of one. [ laughter ] >> bill moyers, what was it like to just work for lyndon johnson? >> you had to run just to stay up when he was walking. he never stopped. he was consuming in his passions and his objectives and demanding, but he never asked more of us than he gave himself. it took 12 of us, 10 of us i think there were in the white house to just keep up with him. he was 13, as i've said before of the most interesting complicated men i have ever met. and playing his moods and reading them and trying to integrate them and advance an agenda that all of us had a part of was really a demanding task. it was exhilarating. i was exhausting. it was rewarding and it was sometimes punishing. but you always were satisfied that the result made the effort worthwhile. >> evan, how did he know so much? he seemed to know everything about everybody. >> well, j. edgar hoover helped him. [ laughter ] he was a sponge of political intelligence. today big controversy over these political intelligence firms that looked for the intelligence. lyndon johnson got it in

>> bill moyers has refused to talk to me. >> rose: why? >> you would have to ask him that. i've been trying to talk to him for, like, 30 years. at first he said he was writing his own book on lyndon johnson. but i think that's over. and recently he's just been saying that he doesn't have his thoughts in order and he wants to get-- you would have to ask him why he doesn't talk to me. >> rose: has anybody else close to him refused? >> off the top of my head, i think the answer is no. >> rose: valenti talked. >> valenti finally-- who really attacked the first two books more harshly than anyone else, finally said basically, i see what you're doing and i want to talk to you. george christian, lyndon johnson's last press secretary, basically called-- high had lung cancer and he was dying, and he basically said to me in effect, "i want to talk to you. i've been attacking you for however many years." so i went down there and to austin, and we had three interviews. he had lung cancer. and he had an oxygen tank in his office, and the first interview he only had to use the mask occasi

bill moyers comes in, jenkins, george reed. >> rose: all those people who had served him. some had gone on, like moyers, but others had been working for him as vice president. >> but a small staff. the reality and what he says in his memoirs is, "i knew i had to keep them with me." and, you know, they laughed among themselves. they said he says to everybody, "i need you more than he needed you." but what they didn't realize was that this was a genius. he tailored that to arthur schlesinger the greatest historian. he said, "john kennedy knew history like you do. i don't know history. i need you for history." for someone else he said something tailored and they all stayed. >> rose: when did he begin to reach out to mrs. kennedy to comfort her? >> well, constantly. from the very-- you know, from the very beginning. >> rose: a telephone call here "what can i do?" they had to plan the funeral. >> he does even more than that. that very night-- you know, i said that night is remarkable. he gets back to washington, and there's so much on his plate. there's a memo there from budget

paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a corps i don't know. >> bill: moyers has no

bill moyers and i spent three years each with him in the white house, and we're still exhausted every time we think about it. ladies and gentlemen, the great bob caro. >> thank you. >> that was such a nice introduction that i'm reminded of what lyndon johnson used to say when he used to get an especially nice introduction. he used to say he wished his parents were alive to hear it because his father would have loved it and his mother would have believed it. you know what winston churchill said when he was asked where he was in his great biography of lord malboro. he said i'm working on the fifth of a projected four volumes. well, not to equate myself with winston churchill, but i'm in

. >> bill moyers, probably -- well -- one of our, one of our countries d most prolific and respected journalists. 35 emmys, a 40-year run on public broadcasting with a new series this year. i think it's "moyers and company." he helped to organize peace corps. he was press secretary and a close confidante of lbj, publisher of "newsday." when bill called me, i was working in the pentagon. when bill called me and said, you've got to come over here and work at the white house. i said well -- he said no, it will be fun. bill, i never knew what fun was until i started working for lyndon johnson. and last our moderator, bob schieffer. he is the cbs news chief washington correspondent. moderator of "face the nation." all of you who rue the fact that "face the nation" is only half an hour. it is going to an hour beginning in april and we look forward to that, bob. he's covered all four major washington beats. the white house, the state department, the pentagon and capitol hill. i think he's proudest of all, he said once, of the fact that his university, texas christian university, has named t

bill moyers and i spent about three years with him in the white house and we're still exhausted every time we think about it. ladies and gentlemen, the great bob caro. >> thank you. >> joe, that was such a nice introduction that i'm reminded of what lyndon johnson used to say when he used to get an especially nice introduction. he used to say he wished his parents were alive to hear it because his father would have loved it and his mother would have believed it. you know what winson churchill said when he was asked in his great biography, he said i'm working on the fifth of a projected four volumes. well, not to equate myself with winston churchill, but i'm in the same boat and in a way, this talk tonight is an explanation of how i got there. the role of government, the responsibilities of government, that's the theme of this symposium and the focus on lyndon baines johnson, 36th president of the united states. on lyndon johnson's concept of what the role of government should be, and that theme be explored in detail in the panels tonight and tomorrow. but to begin this conference i wi

uber liberal bill moyers is the poster boy for that. >> the killer in colorado waiting only for an opportunityre you have it. the arsenal of democracy transformed into the arsenal of death. and the nra, the nra is the enabler of death. paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a corps i don't know. >> bill: moyha

. >> that was journalist bill moyers of pbs commenting on friday's deadly rampage in colorado. in recent years, the nra's intense lobbying effort have made it next to impossible to pass any kind of gun control measures through the halls of congress. but the nra was not always such a mill tnlt group of right-wing idelogs as adam winkler writes in his 2011 book "gun fight" for most of its history, they promoted reasonable gun control laws. it wasn't until the 1977 nra meeting that a radical faction turned the nra into the fierce anti-gun control lobbying machine it is today. as the "new york times" wrote of the reporting in the case of nra hardliners, they succeeded in pushing the group to the right, riding the wave of conservatism that helps bring ronald reagan to the white house lrb since then, the gun lobby has become even more militant to the point that which many members not only reflexively oppose any attempt to regulate guns as leading to a sliply slope to involuntary disarmament, but also attack those who advocate for gun control, including police chiefs and heads of asso

uber liberal bill moyers is the poster boy for that. >> the killer in colorado waiting only for an opportunityt. the arsenal of democracy transformed into the arsenal of death. and the nra, the nra is the enabler of death. paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a corps i don't know.

and you know, the moment of this was in 1964 when lbj said to bill moyer after he signed the civil rights act i just handed the republican party to the south -- the south to the republican party for a generation. he was wrong because it was two generations. that's the only thing that was wrong with that analogy. you know, i think that in so far as people are paying attention at this point, romney does fine by going and speaking. i think it helps him to get booed a little bit, frank sfli i think so too. >> looked as though he actually said something. which is not a frequent charge leveled at governor romney. so, in that sense, he's engaging and that's a good thing. but, it's -- you're right. jon was saying, 95%. >> approval rating. to add on something you were saying, jon, not that he got booed, when he got booed he pushed back on the booing. when they booed him and what he said on obama care he went off script and cited a particular study. when he got booed on saying he would be better for african-americans, they booed him and he said, take a look. when he did that, i thought, wow, he's r