one day he said, you know -- my brother worked for bob kennedy at one time. and he says, you know, there was -- he did not work in president kennedy's administration, but he worked for senator kennedy. both when he ran for the senate and then after. >> what's your brother's name? >> john. john o'brien. >> what did he do for the senator? >> a political aide. he worked in the '64 campaign. that's how he did it, and he was political person, but he called one day and said you know, there was a man named john doar who worked for president kennedy and works for senator kennedy who was -- who during president kennedy's administration was a very well-known civil rights lawyer, and was one of the people that the justice department then robert kennedy was attorney general sent south to -- to help work on the civil rights issues that were there at the time and was very highly respected. so i took that in. great. so we began the search. well, where's john doar? no internet. no computer. i didn't know how to spell his name. so i had d-o-r. d-o-r-e. i just couldn't find hi

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kennedy came to city hall. had a room to himself for a while to rest. two people were with him bob lock ner then the head of usia, a german interpreter, and another interpreter. kennedy looked at his speech. i've seen that speech in the kennedy library i've seen about four or five drafts and i can tell you that they are god awful. it was the kind of speech that he wouldn't even make to an american crowd. yes, things are tough, but sooner or later one day the wall will fall and this kind of stuff. kennedy looked at it and he said i can't give the kind of speech to people who have talked to me this way. he decided to go back to his ole latin where he learned and to say -- there was a discussion of course, which all of you know, did he said, i am a jelly doughnut. no, he did not say i am a jelly doughnut. he said, i'm a berliner. i talked to vaber about this. very extraordinary. and i asked him what he had recommended. he said, i'd recommended i'm a berliner. nobody would have thought that kennedy was saying that he was a jelly doughnut. if he had said that, it would have implied that

. >> joining me now is bob, democratic strategist, who ran ted kennedy's race against mitt romney in 1994. and peter goodman, business editor for the huffington post. he's written a cover story in the premiere issue of "huffington post" magazine about obama's relationship with young voters. thank you both for being here this evening. >> thank you. >> glad to be here. >> bob, let me start with you. clearly the obama campaign is going on the offensive again -- to the bain's capital ties to outsourcing. is that biden appeal effective? >> i think it is tremendous will you effective. i think it is going to hurt romney very badly. you know, the establishment in the port look down on the obama campaign. criticized it when it started doing this. and i think what they are doing is they are weaving a narrative ark here that says the guy destroyed jobs, made money in business. the guy outsourced jobs, made money in business. 47th in job creation as governor in massachusetts. this narrative ark will con all the way through medicare and proposal is on taxes and the republicans blocking jobs bills

. >> bob: the president are not president -- the people are not president of the united states. jack kennedy people said they were against catholic as president. it fell to 8% on election day. see what happens with romney. maybe the numbers will fall. you have to hope. if it stays at 18% he is toast. >> greg: we have all the sensitivity training in the media -- >> kimberly: you can't tell. >> greg: one exception to all sensitivity training and it's people who practice religion. they're the easier target, funnest target. in general, thaw don't fight back. there is a small subset in exception that are muslims. people are scared to make joke about the muslims and scared to put out cartoons because they'll get death threats. everybody sales fair game. >> dana: no musical on broadway called "quran." >> eric: your 18% number isn't accurate bob, because it includes 24% of democrats. if you take the democrats out who weren't going to vote for romney anyway you are down to 12%. that my good friend probably wouldn't swing the vote. >> bob: in a 2 or 3% election it's a lot. >> dana: let's talk about so

kennedy to put together the cabinet and that was dad's role. he recruited the best and brightest -- >> rose: being head of the transition. >> he was to go -- >> rose: from dean russ, bob mcnamara. >> he brought them all in, republicans and democrats. he told me president kennedy told him to go out and get the best people, he didn't care if they were democrats or republicans. he had an amazing ability to balance all these things. he was first in my mind a father, later a grandfather. he was a fantastic husband. and i think so many guys my age are bouncing different-- i know you must be doing it. you've got work. you've got friends. you've got family. you've got faith, and i hope this book gives pointers how to do that. >> rose: how to find the balance. >> because that's what he did. >> rose: there are some things i want to show. this is from the a documentary, january, 2008. >> we're looking for people who have empathy, who are able to live in a foreign culture without worrying about the fact they can't get a hamburger to eat or thick shake or something like that. sometimes i thought there were some american tourists and businessmen and others who go overseas and almos

bob barnard was at the nations highest court and he joins us live from the newsroom. >> reporter: justice kennedy read the majority opinion strike down three provisions of arizona's controversial immigration law but the court let stand a key section of the state law requiring police to check the immigration status of someone they stop for another reason, who they suspect may be in the country illegally. from the bench justice blasted the federal government's border enforcement efforts saying the state of arizona is only trying to do what the federal government is not. arizona's governor tonight is declaring victory. >> arizona did not ask for this fight nor did it seek out the task of having to confront illegal immigration. we cannot forget we are here today because the federal government has failed american people, regarding immigration policy. >> members of congress return after elections i don't see anything happening now, but after the elections with accepting responsibility they have to do comprehensive, something humane, and come up with some solutions here. >> arizona congressman's distric

bob, let me go back to massachusetts. you ran the campaign ted kennedy ran against mitt romney.id over and over again that he won't raise taxes following the orthodoxy of the far right wing. but in a "meet the press" interview in 2007, he admitted that he had posed what he call fees as the governor of massachusetts. now, some of the fees romney proposed and a few he managed to pass as governor was romney wanted a fee on the blind to charge them for a certificate of blindness photo i.d. but the legislature scrapped his proposal. he also proposed a $100 fee for the mentally handicapped to pay for a state medical assessment of their disabilities. this, too, was scrap candida candidate -- scrapped by the legislature. but a fee on volunteer emt's and firefighters fees doubled in that area. nurses, increase on fee for applications. fee on hairdressers. increase hairdresser and barbershop licenses. quadruple the fee for a car repairshop license. fee to change your name. more than double the fee to change your name to $150. while he's talking about i won't increase taxes, things that pe

kennedy, not a flower. >> greg: i had no idea. >> dana: i believe so. >> greg: thorny subject. >> bob: it's very pretty. >> greg: i'm not allowedr the white house. >> bob: then why allow the daily caller? i don't know. >> greg: good point. >> kimberly: speaking of roses or thorns in somebody's side, is the new obama girl more of a help or hindrance to him? >> bob: who is sandra fluke? >> greg: you have a short memory. president obama got endorsed by julia, because the fictitious woman depep dept on government is sandra fluke. this is anti-endorsement for you think about it. he needed a champion of private enterprise. got the poster child for whiny entitlement. >> dana: trying to mold her to a new spokesperson. desperate to have people out there, women who make arguments op their behalf. they should have spent more time with obama girl to get her up to speed. rather than this one, because it really was not convincing at all. >> eric: ask you a question. does the white house or try to get the endorsement of sandra fluke? >> dana: i think really, right, some endorsements you don't want? >> eric: right. did they entertain the endor

bob: sorry. >> dana: she doesn't get to say much. >> kimberly: i agree about the last comment when kennedy was running for office.say about this, if you look at the numbers you see fluctuation. majority of the polls are within a 3-4% margin of error. the snapshot in time of where we are right now. if the economy continues to do it poorly as it has been and there is no indication we'll have a miraculous recovery in time to save the president at the ballot box. it will be in romney's benefi benefit. then close to president obama who is popular when he got elected. >> bob: can i make one point? bloomberg national poll came out. 45% say they are better off than they were at the beginning of 2009. 36% said theyre worse off. the recovery is here. you're toast. >> greg: the poll you brought up was taken by a.p., right? better off having a poll done by valerie jarret on hollywood model on may day in a diversity rally. democrat's complicated. >> dana: all right. that was fun. coming up, the supreme court set to r w will their decision affect you? we'll explain that next. ♪ ♪ eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but

kennedy back in 1994 and joan walsh, from salon.com. thank you both for being here. >> glad to be here. >> bob, let me start with you.fore and i'll say it again. in an election defined by fairness, how can willard romney win? >> he is trying to turn this into a referendum of if people are happy or not happy with where we are. last year, for example, we sold 11 million cars in this country. in year we will spell 14 million. but the republicans are rooting for a downturn, opening to turn this election into a situation where people say i'm unhappy, susan boyle try this guy no matter what his defects. i think the balm campaign has been very smart, they're downing this into a choice, same thing you're doing on the air here. here is this guy and who he is. he has an economic plan that would give himself a $5 million tax cut. and it would increase the deficit, and it would cut spending so sharply and so fast. >> now joan, romney -- let me show you this, he released his financial disclosure form on friday. it showed that he earned about $190 in speakers fees. he owns as much as $500,000 in go. he put $1 million in his son's

[laughter] >> i can remember hearing jack kennedy and bob miner was governor of new jersey, and there was a representative from massachusetts, can't remember who that was, debating fiercely which of them represented the most corrupt party. each of them claiming the honor for himself. [laughter] all agreeing on just one thing; that if louisiana were represented, it would carry the day. [laughter] >> so now we have the shackman decree which prohibits patronage. there's a decision which prohibits patronage of the state. as the great, great grandson of the ruthless guy who took out 40,000 republicans, would you bring back patronage to restore parties? >> no. no, no, those days are past. but there are a lot of things i would do to try to get the money out of the politics. and get people, you know, encouraged to really enter their politics and be of service. my kids, i mean, my son doesn't have the stomach for this. there's a lot that could be done, but i don't think i'd want to bring back patronage. it does force democrats to compete with republicans on republican terms x that means -- and

house correspondents, bob -- who died, told me he was livid cronkite's first news broadcast cronkite bigfoot him and got to do the big can of the interview, when he was covering kennedy as the correspondent of the time. but there became kind of a celebrity status afforded to these journalists. but what about cronkite that interests me the most, i knew it, but just how he liked talking to everybody. his real genius was even though he lived in new york and operated in social circles, he loves talking to cabdrivers and gardeners, a man on the street. he never said no to anybody. in many ways, many people used to laugh at that side of him. but that is where his genius was. he never lost touch with the average american people. >> how did you do this? give us some insight how you write 800 pages in a very short time and do all of their research? some people work for 12 years. >> the book is 660 -- but i put a lot of that material because i wanted a cast of characters for people and my voluminous notes. i am an academic, so notes are part of my training. >> where do you find times? >> that is all i do -- i teach at rice, three classes in the fall. my three little kids, they

justice kennedy's question about the purpose of language a ticket you interpret the statute to mean the following. for the purpose of means having the effect of, is that correct? >> this course in the bob jones case were a similar kind of argument was being made by the plaintiff in that case said look , where it is inevitable that this is about there are sort of two sides of the same coin, that clearly is a primary purpose of the sood and its -- you can't buy a clever pleading did away from that. >> but aren't you trying to rewrite the statute in a way? >> it has two sections. one is that you have to have insurance, and the other is the sanction. the statute has two different sets of exceptions corresponding to those different sections. you are trying to suggest the statute says it's your choice either you buy insurance or pay the fee. but that's not the latest statute that we use and the converse must eth the statute rt should instead be a regular recommend and penalty attached to that command. >> i wouldn't argue that this statute is a perfect model of clarity, but i do think the most reasonable way to read the entire statute is that it does impose a similar obligation to pay a penal

but the truth is -- the team with bob sha raum in 1994 working for ted kennedy made bain ads that were of the obama ad in that senate race against romney and romney lost by 17 points. so the ads might have helped. i think is to the obama campaign's credit, assuming they want to win, that they seem to have essentially ignored the cory bookers throughout and gone on with more negative advertising about bain and romney's massachusetts record among other topics. >> bill: what i don't understand is if mitt romney puts bain capital out there and his experience at bain as the reason why he's qualified to be president, right this proves that i know about jobs, he says because i was at bain capital. then why isn't it fair to tell the world what bain capital was really all about? >> absolutely no argument to be made that it isn't fair. essentially the early attack ads by obama bain and massachusetts are the two main parts of the record that -- that romney has. not much more to it except that. and you know, little stint at the olympics which is hotly debated. the rest of his time in sort of obscu