a decade, we had the assassination of president kennedy, the assassination of bobby kennedy, the assassination of dr. king, the war in vietnam. trying to extract ourselves from vietnam. quite a heavy load the american people were being asked to bear at that time, and it showed in the voices and expressions of the members. railsback was under enormous stress because he was a strong supporter of president nixon. he lost his voice during the course of those proceedings and never regained it. hamilton fish under tremendous pressure from his father, who had served previously, and a leader of the conservative movement and those who would come to closed sessions in , he would come rabbi from new york. i made it very clear that they were fundamentally opposed to what ham fish was saying and doing and where the committee was going. so there were a lot of personal things that were taking place in the lives of individuals that perhaps were never known to the public over felt in the committee. chris did you have a sense of how riveting these moments were and how many americans were washed into proceedings

kennedy was and bobby kennedy. of people did come over from journalism and other fields into government service. but the way that he did it and the passion he brought to it and his able ility to go back to journal typically say that's where my roots are, that's where my heart is, that's singular. >> he had a demeanor about him. talking a man down from the bridge, the bridge later named after him. >> one of the things, i met him a few times and certainly was in the audience at a lot of his speeches growing up and when we would do class trips to the tennesseean. >> he had a way with words >> but he was always very, very willing to talk to you if you had a question, if you had -- used very much about mentoring another generation, about just, you know, being open, and this was somebody who had been in the highest levels of power and, you know, certainly could have played it aloof and could have played, you know, but he was always gist a down-to-earth dpie. >> what do you think we will take away from his legacy? >> i wo

sundering apart you had wallace on the populous right at one point getting twenty one percent bobby kennedy and gene mccarthy the antiwar liberals the students the radicals all of that and you had dick daley and humphrey and johnson in the center and we looked at that whole coalition and we said you know we may newt lose our liberal republicans we can sever off those northern catholics were enormous voting bloc and we can sever off the south once segregation is no longer an issue that's what held the south in the democratic party was a segregationist deal i'm sure you like adelaide stevenson look we put on the ticket john sparkman of alabama and he got he got north carolina south carolina georgia louisiana alabama mississippi and arkansas against ike do you think those southerners thought adelaide would be tougher on the commonness that was that was back in the days when the bastion of racism was the democratic party sure and you know. l.b.j. rather effectively blew that up. at least in the north but and that was another thing in your book it seems to me that in some ways you're in fact you

he twice worked for bobby kennedy. he was an air force veteran and effortless writer with the restless mind. he loved the newspaper business and later had a hand in shaping "usa today." he meant the world to tennessee and he loved it right back. john seigenthaler was 86 years old. >>> on the eve of the world cup finals it has occurred to several million people around the world these two teams playing for all of it represent the home nations of two living current and former popes and they just might be praying for different outcomes. here's the artful photoshop making the rounds on social media today. pope francis pulling for his native argentina, while benedict is thinking only of germany. it will all be over but the shouting sunday afternoon. >>> and a word about the heavens. here's hoping you have cloudless skies this weekend starting tonight, so you can see one of three so-called super moons this year. it looms so large in the sky because it's nearest to the earth about now. it will appear especially enormous near t

to go and speak to a group he and governor hoff, myself and others on behalf of robert kennedy, bobby kennedy. i remember the look of sorrow on governor hoff's face as he stood as one of the honorary pallbearers at robert kennedy's funeral. but even after that, he continued to push, to make vermont a better state. i think -- i realize we have others waiting for the floor, but i just want to say again vermont is a wonderful state that has a -- that is a beautiful state, it is a progressive state. senator sanders and i have both said it would not be what it is today were it not for phil hoff. we have all tried to follow in those footsteps. but he led the way. sometimes an overused expression, but i think in this case every historian would agree with us. mr. sanders: let me just concur with senator leahy. i will take this opportunity to wish governor hoff a very happy 90th birthday. we see him quite often -- jane and i see him quite often. we just bumped into phil and jane. we look forward to continuing that relationship. as senator leahy just said, we are very proud that vermont is a leader in

and with bobby kennedy and we was very close friends with and. there there was an invasion of cuba planned or actually an assassination of castro and then we will help for a december fifth of nine hundred sixty three and which had been postponed because of jack's assassination and he said that to lyndon johnson you know would you please let this go on you know we want to want to do this invasion of cuba and johnson and johnson was at that point kind of half convinced that castro had something to do with killing kennedy and he said i don't want to ever do it any more blank blank cubans he says i'm going to make my stand against communism in vietnam it because it was like obligatory back then you had to make a stand against communism someplace and. long story i'm sorry it was this is this your interview. that you shifted to the middle east from from vietnam why well again it was a war that came in in really determining my my future iraq was happening two thousand and three two thousand and four two thousand and five and i was trying to figure out w

. >> one of the more memorable images in presidential campaign history, bobby kennedy in the west virginiamary, trying to have a populist message. on monday senator elizabeth warren will head to campaign for the democratic campaign there. this is a test for warren. can she go into a red state and resonate with working class voters and paul ryan will be there training for the republican. >> i'll close with this, rand paul continues to get most of the buzz among those taking an early look at the 2016 republican presidential maneuvering. he continues what one activist calls a relentless courting of an establishment skeptical of him because of his foreign policy issues and his dad. marco rubio, remember the freshman senator from florida has given a number of policy speeches in recent weeks and months and also using his political action committee to dole out money to key republicans in key states and key races, so more of a buzz brewing about rubio, but remember it was the immigration te bait in the senate a little more than a year ago that caused his start of fame, a lot of people seeing if he

>> if it hadn't been for the disaster in 1968, the tet offensive, bobby kennedy getting in, robert kennedy shot. neil: you argue had he not been killed he would not have gotten the democratic vote. >> humphrey would have gotten the nomination. neil: humphrey was way ahead in delegates. >> i don't think kennedy could have beaten richard nixon. he was too far to the left. neil: you honed in on the book, i'm not blowing you smoke, nixon got the great silent majority, attach that to spiro agnew, i attach it to you, the idea we hear all the commotion on tv, but we forget the people sitting watching the tv, and they're the ones befuddled by all this. >> that phrase came in 1969 after the mass demonstrations, 500,000. buses surrounding the white house. they're going to break your presidency like johnson's and you got to go on national television and he did and used a phrase that had come out of one of my speeches. but he went on national television and said, look, i've got demonstrators, i want peace for vietnam. don't let the north vietnamese beat us in the streets. stand with me. 63% of the cou

of course bobby kennedy. meetings occurred in dirksen's office. this is one of the ego trips. to cover what was going on in the floor. that was a public event. we had to do what was going on behind those doors. >> i lost the gist of your question. was it on use of the filibuster? i think what i was trying to ask is that sometimes people see it to hold members of congress accountable. they are supposed to ask tough questions and allow the public debate to occur and allow controversial issues. one is the filibuster. it is such a unique process that we have in our government. did you see any of that kind of ofber station -- that kind presentation? >> the idea of a filibuster. powerfulwas a big company that they would decide a not in theue those best interest of the company. its instruments to convince the country to do something it was reluctant to do or never thought to do. that was an interesting case of journalistic ethics. the company be in the business through its reportorial coverage of an issue in the business is trying to change people's minds or just laying out and let t

nixon comes back in 1965, '66, '67, '68, a year of turbulence, violence, assassinations, war, bobby kennedynd moves through this with wallace here and humphrey here and becomes president of the united states. you know what he accomplished 49 state electoral victory. >> can it be duplicated. it can't be now. nixon won california five times on national tickets. reagan won it four times. >> can't happen any more. >> i think reagan and nixon both would have a difficult time carrying california today. what's happened is the cultural revolution which is described there which we used as a foil and ran against and built a great silent majority that cultural social moral revolution captured a lot of americans young, captured a significant slice of the american people, captured the media, captured hollywood, the culture is gone. we're the counter culture now. >> where is the grateful dead concert. pat as always you're one of the great writers. provocative, smart, as always historic. >> nixon now more than ever. >> coming up new video surface out of the iraq reportedly from the head of the islamic sta

back then it was lyndon johnson defending against bobby kennedy and eugene mccarthy. todays is another texas hawk defending against rand paul. the hawks versus the doves on republicanle turf. can rick perry stop rand paul? can he lead a movement headed to the coming convention in cleveland? it's been tried before, the efforts to kill the chances of a rising candidate. i love the line from nixon on the 1968 electoral come back. if you ever hear of a group forming up to stop x, put your money on kprk. if perry is out to stop paul the senator from kentucky might be the candidate who win this is thing. the one going up against hillary clinton. if they are ganging up on paul and perry think it is smart thing to do is pile on, put a few bucks on rand paul. i would. whether are you like his libertarian philosophy, rand paul has street smarts. he doesn't let perry call him an isolationist. he's nailed perry this morning for saying he wantses to send u.s. troops back to iraq. let perry carry that around for a while. the american people followed w. and dick cheney and the rest

king was murdered, bobby kennedy murdered, riots in a hundred cities, 200 guys coming home every week from vietnam in caskets or body bags, led the party through that decade to take back every day in caskets and body bags. it's an astounding story because he was not a charismatic man. >> and you were a close advisor. you got to witness history as it was happening. he was able to take on the presidency six years after his defeat was amazing. >> well, when i arrived, rosemary woods was at the other desk, and patricia ryan, she was answering phones. that was all he had going for him. started building to '67, '68. it was an incredible comeback. and after he won the victory, the party he put together won four landslides. >> and he was able to unite the party. the liberal faction, with rockefeller, and the conservative faction, he brought them together. >> well, the story of how he brought them together with patience and perseverance, working for everybody in the party, in '66 all the way through '68, it's an amazing story by a man who was really flat on his feet. >> and the gop could learn

be elected was so miraculous -- i mean, it was like a once in a generation thing, like electing bobby kennedy. for that to be manufactured without understanding how we let this opportunity slip through our fingers and just kind of moveon and have discussion about how entertaining it will be to president, these are puzzling options to me. saw hadne thing you meant roots was a lack of enthusiasm for hillary clinton. there is one woman i talked to, a young woman wanted two years old, and she said, you know, elizabeth warren really speaks to me. i said, o, that is really interesting. i was asking her for her name to include in my story. and she said, i don't want to give you my name, because i think i will try to work for the ready for hillary super pac. there was this kind of resignation that this is his our person was going to be. who our person was going to be. you may -- there is this lack of enthusiasm for another candidate. and there'sfinished not a lot of space for an insurgent candidate like obama to come up. host: this energy that you are seeing, is a translating into fundraising dollars

it's hard to run from out of state unless you are a bobby kennedy or a clinton. >> thank you, panel.ays, thanks for inviting us into your home tonight from concord, new hampshire, that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid. no online show tonight. greta goes "on the record" right now. >> >>> developing now, ukraine out of control. more missiles shooting down planes, this time fighter jets. so were they fired by the same attacker who's took down flight 17? at this hour president obama is on the west coast busy on his fundraising trip. meanwhile, back at home in washington, d.c., senator john mccain is calling the obama administration cowardly. he will go on the record in just moments. fox news steve harrigan live in ukraine with the very latest. steve? >> greta, two more planes shot down in eastern ukraine today. this time both military planes. they were f-2 fighters. soviet era made by the ukrainian government flying low within the crash site. near the border with

it's a limited, we're not talking bobby kennedy here, it's a limited way of trying to change their -- >> that's one of the differences too. republicans killed health care reform -- we're going to do something better with george w. bush. paul ryan cuts food stamps by $137 billion. he doesn't cut food stamps at all. chuck todd asked him about that this morning. >> your poverty plan numberswise conflicts with your budget plan. you call for some cuts and cernanty pov irt programs. you're not calling for that here, you're calling for the expansion of the earned income tax credit. which proposal is the one -- does this mean you would change your budget proposal to reflect your new poverty plan? >> i didn't want to get into a debate over the funding levels of the status quo. we could keep doing that over and over again, i want to talk about how to reform the status quo. this program could occur under any funding level. >> he was talking about this a minute ago, i mean, this is a departure from the paul ryan we know who is sort of -- nothing is more important to him than budget deficits, aust

be elected was so miraculous -- i mean, it was like a once in a generation thing, like electing bobby kennedy. for that to be manufactured without understanding how we let this opportunity slip through our fingers and just kind of moveon and have discussion about how entertaining it will be to president, these are puzzling options to me. saw hadne thing you meant roots was a lack of enthusiasm for hillary clinton. there is one woman i talked to, a young woman wanted two years old, and she said, you know, elizabeth warren really speaks to me. i said, o, that is really interesting. i was asking her for her name to include in my story. and she said, i don't want to give you my name, because i think i will try to work for the ready for hillary super pac. there was this kind of resignation that this is his our person was going to be. who our person was going to be. you may -- there is this lack of enthusiasm for another candidate. and there'sfinished not a lot of space for an insurgent candidate like obama to come up. host: this energy that you are seeing, is a translating into fundraising dollars

for the committee in john doerr who have been in the eisenhower justice department and in the bobby kennedyjustice department working on civil rights but he was a real hero but nobody could call john door a flamethrower or a partisan figure. and they understood that this had to come from the center. it had to be bipartisan for the country to accept it, and that's why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia, other things that have been suggested to be part of the impeachment proceedings were set aside. they had as much trouble pushing aside the lefties who want to go into all sorts of issues, and the people on the far right who could find no wrong with nixon. and then you have these members that you really didn't know about. there was a man -- butler was one, but from virginia, south carolina. you know i mean. james mann. james mann looked like a founding father. we thought they were all james madison and they were very, very serious. james mann was a really conservative on the democratic side to a southern democrat, died in the wool, member of the southern democrats. and james mann was ve

we mentioned the religious people, all three major religions were involved, and, of course, bobby kennedy, burke marshall, all of these meetings, by the way, occurred in dirksen's office because that was one of the ego trip, and so we had to cover what was going on on the floor because that was the public of it, and we had to devine, as roger was very good at, what was begin on behind closed doors. >> yeah, could you -- i'm sorry to ask again, i lost the gist of your question. was it -- was there a reaction from the public to the use of the filibuster? >> i guess it was however you would like to respond. the thinking behind what i was trying to was ask was, you know, sometimes people today see that the press is supposed to hold, especially members of congress, accountable, and they are supposed to ask, you know, tough questions and allow for this public debate to occur about, obviously, controversial issue, and i think now one of them being the filibuster because it's frequently, but such a unique process we have in the government. did you see any of that kind of conversation happen eithe

to take this time well it's going to take people time themselves of the fence like my partner bobby kennedy i mean every other week he's in some clash with the authorities that clash is necessary it's what make the suffrage movement take place for god's sake women spent time in jail they were arrested they were a billy club the same thing that happened the civil rights the civil rights movement they had dogs sicked on them they had a hose they were hosed down with fire hoses it has to be that kind of anger otherwise the beltway will do nothing about this media won't do anything hell what's the media got to do about money and politics look at all the money they're making by the billions moving into the system they're not going to cut down that advertisement money so it is self-help right now it's completely self-help and we're unwilling to do that at this stage and i'm not certain what it's going to take to put people in the streets to bring them to bring a constitutional change like we saw the women's suffrage movement yeah i think what it's going to take is it is a giant economic crash i t

then it becomes a free-for-all with utheen mccarthy and bobby kennedy starting to fight for being theentioned, of bobby kennedy and martin luther king, and then the chicago democratic convention where everybody exploded and mayor daley's place were beating people uhm and walter cronkite called them thugs, the police, on the air. there was a feeling everything was coming unglued. >> the pictures alone from 1968 so indelible and the turmoil military, social, political as you say. what held it together then over the course of that year or was it held together? >> well, richard nixon would say there was a silent majority that didn't like everything that was going on. he thought a lot of americans just wanted law and order, that they believed the civil rights movement went too far and all the hippie protesters had gone too far. there was a backlash to the change that was going on, and that's why, would would have thought in this tumultuous year nixon, the guy who was ike's vice president for two years, a guy nobody, everybody thought was politically dead, by the end of the year, nixon is t

we mentioned the religious people, all three major religions were involved, and, of course, bobby kennedy, burke marshall, all of these meetings, by the way, occurred in dirksen's office because that was one of the ego trip, and so we had to cover what was going on on the floor because that was the public of it, and we had to devine, as roger was very good at, what was begin on behind closed doors. >> yeah, could you -- i'm sorry to ask again, i lost the gist of your question. was it -- was there a reaction from the public to the use of the filibuster? >> i guess it was however you would like to respond. the thinking behind what i was trying to was ask was, you know, sometimes people today see that the press is supposed to hold, especially members of congress, accountable, and they are supposed to ask, you know, tough questions and allow for this public debate to occur about, obviously, controversial issue, and i think now one of them being the filibuster because it's frequently, but such a unique process we have in the government. did you see any of that kind of conversation happen eithe

to humble beginnings in nashville, tennessee, he was first a star reporter, then a confidant of bobby kennedy, then a defender of the freedom iders, then an editor of a pulitzer-prize winning newspaper, then founder of the first amendment center at the vanderbilt -- at vanderbilt he had the irish gift for words. he always epid -- he i pit miesed the best of journalism. he was on the right side of history because he helped everyone, including politicians, listen to the better angels of their nature. because of his leadership, nashville is one of the most dynamic and welcoming cities in the world today. over 4,000 people from nashville and around the country attended his visitation. the catholic church was packed for his funeral. it was broadcast on local television. mr. speaker, a truly great american has died and will never be replaced. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. jackson lee: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro temp

then bobby kennedy said to his brother help him get out of jail. e republicans. when the kennedys helped to get martin luther king jr. out of jail, my granddaddy said i've got to give my votes to the guy who got my son out of jail. republicans historically have been at the front line. was not lincoln a republican? >> he absolutely was. >> people forget about it. >> and people forget that martin luther king was a republican as well. >> that's right. well, not really a republican. let me take that back. he was an independent. and he said that i might have to speak to either party. his daddy was a republican. not martin luther king. >> all right. dr. alveda king, her new book is out right now, came out a couple of days ago. it is doing very well. thank you very much for joining us on this great day. >> it is now 12 minutes before the top of the hour. coming up, forget the jaws of life. this guy used his bare hands to save a stranger from a burning car. the good samaritan and the man he rescued here next. then take a close look at this picture. it likel

be elected was so miraculous -- i mean, it was like a once in a generation thing, like electing bobby kennedyor that to be manufactured without understanding how we let this opportunity slip through our fingers and just kind of moveon and have discussion about how entertaining it will be to president, these are puzzling options to me. saw hadne thing you meant roots was a lack of enthusiasm for hillary clinton. there is one woman i talked to, a young woman wanted two years old, and she said, you know, elizabeth warren really speaks to me. i said, o, that is really interesting. i was asking her for her name to include in my story. and she said, i don't want to give you my name, because i think i will try to work for the ready for hillary super pac. there was this kind of resignation that this is his our person was going to be. who our person was going to be. you may -- there is this lack of enthusiasm for another candidate. and there'sfinished not a lot of space for an insurgent candidate like obama to come up. host: this energy that you are seeing, is a translating into fundraising dollars fo

everything and yet something chased him around for years that he was responsible for the death of bobby kennedye had the power to fight back but so many people don't. how do you -- >> you're right. >> you can have a great reputation all across your life and then on the internet it can be a sewer because of some horrible human beings. >> you have an excellent point. in our real lives we have control over our reputation, our identity. online it's not just what you post, it's what everyone else posts and says about you. unfortunately, i mean -- >> and like you said anonymously. >> it's very dot complicated because we live in this world where kind of anyone with access to a laptop or a phone can have an opinion on you that now lives on forever. >> so what do you do? >> well, i think there's several things that you can do. >> it's not just the opinion, it's the facts, the lies, that is so maddening, and yet google and other searching ins allo ie that to happen. >> the first thing i suggest to people is at least have a profile on all the top social media sites even if you never update because they in

loaded words like "hatred," but hatred is not too strong a word to talk about lyndon johnson and bobby kennedyell, it haunted him to the end. you know, when he was in retirement back in texas, because he didn't run again in '68, he would talk to people about how the kids sang outside the white house what he called that horrible song. hey, hey, lbj, how many kids did you kill today. you know, you can hear that song, because pennsylvania avenue wasn't cordoned off then. you could hear that in the white house where he was living. so i mean it dealt with him to the end of his life and of course it colors his legacy in history and will always color his legacy in history. >> we opened the interview with as an autocratic, authoritative guy got things down. let's bring that to life. contrasting him to obama who does not have those skills. he would not be able to cope with the media today and be completely ineffective. >> well, the thing about political genius is that it always finds a way. you don't know what the way is. johnson whenever throughout his -- until you get to vietnam where he can't find t

a a lot of real historical characters in the novels, not only the kennedy brothers and national security adviser but people like bobby fun of it is trying to make sure i have to the extent possible my facts right and that takes a lot of time. >> why not go full nonfiction and retell the story of what happened from a purely historical end? >> but i like to tell stories. people like to read the stories. >> you have a story to tell. >> i do. >> i want to bring you to real life for a second. as you have written in bloomberg view about the corridor controversy here in new york city and you write in part this. everyone is mad about the poor door. this is the name critics bestowed upon the separate entrance for the affordable housing units on the western side of manhattan. it is a little outrageous but some of it may be optical. the separate entrance for the cheaper units which is hardly heard of in manhattan real estate is part of a consequence of the very policies that new york is trying to enforce. so the title of this is "the poor door concept is nothing new in u.s. cities." i don't think that makes it okay. >> it's not