now, while i believe the -- let me see that byrd quote again. while i believe the that the congress has the power -- it was not byrd but the republican policy committee. you see, it's at the beginning of a congress, as senator byrd said. "it's my belief which has been supported by rulings of five presidents of both parties and votes of the senate, upholding the power and right of a majority of the senate to change the rules of a new senate at the beginning of the congress." you can't go changing the rules every other week. but at the beginning of a congress every two years the senate has a right by majority to set down the rules, and you operate by those rules for two years. what senator frist was trying to do was change it in the middle of the game. if you go down that pathway, my goodness, the majority could change the rules next week and the week after, do it one time one week and one week the next. how would you ever know what the rules of the road were? that's why the only reason i opposed the frist motion at that time is because it was cha

ron byrd become us grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream. the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts good boy scouts of america. my mother take me up to the scout to be good you robert plant where the original blue if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there go up there to join the boy scouts my mother did not the scoutmaster. it was nice. but it kills my mother well i don't know what some parents might object because it was a white truth. to say be prepared to do a good turn daily the scout is trustworthy loyal friend he could just kind of be cheerful brave clean and referee that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the businessmen gladiators and sloss and black teenagers began forming their own street plants returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated pollution won't want the sixty second to open call slawson that's where the name comes from to. sussex evolved into what many conside

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senator byrd and kennedy. we had fifty four votes to pass it. sixty votes for cloture but we couldn't get senator byrd and senator kennedy to the floor at the same time and nobody had to go to the floor and hold forth on why they were opposed to workers haven't the right to form unions and this is happened over and over and over again so for many of us progressives not just union people the question is how do you enact progressive legislation. when you've got to get sixty votes in the senate where forty senators representing seventeen percent of the population of america can stop anything definite say dead in its tracks and they can do it four times it's now just one vote on cloture. and cloture isn't the only thing that they can philip exactly so it gets insane mark at what point do we where they and they and they can get they can do it by telephone call skis or send an e-mail or text message in fact i was astounded to discover today that a lot of a lot of these filibusters are actually done by by by e-mail or somebody will even just simply say

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the former street fighters like byrd and ron the power rather than the other gangs were going along side groups like the black panthers and civic programs that range from free breakfast to neighborhood restoration to political activists. elite. athlete. this new black power structure quickly found itself in the crosshairs of government agencies like the f.b.i. . according to recently declassified documents f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover bust a covert counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. they turn around and squash stones. from a slawson intent the chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. blacks to meet while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lift the jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders either been incarcerated . or sas. they ran him down and chased him down a kind of down a murdered everybody they could and made their body else either go to exile or to

ambassador young, the orange byrd massacre is one example of jack bringing investigative reporting to the civil rights story. the other is the fbi involvement in the killing. the meridian -- i mean, the attempted -- this set up by the fbi that led to the arrest of tawny terence, the klansman, murder in athens. tell me, if you would come ambassador, the impact that having that kind of news coverage on the movement had pawned sort of the national understanding of what was going on. >> well, we really understood the press has educational media, educational tv. there was -- everything that had been going on that we were involved in had been going on for a hundred years. and it was very hard to get out. now, i was -- because this is 1963, i was reminded that fred shuttles word came to get martin luther king on the 17th of december to promise that he would come to birmingham this year. but that is because on the 14th or 15th fred's church had been bombed for the third time in 1962. there had been 60 bombings of homes that had received no publicity. and fred shuttles worth was quite frank th

he had harry byrd whether he wanted or not. they realized that he wanted the budget under $100 billion. johnson gives him that. c-span: robert caro is our guest, this is his fourth book, lyndon johnson and the passage of power. thank you for joining us. >> for a dvd copy, call 1(877)662-7726. >> transcripts are also available. bioko that he was going to die young. he didn't have that much time. >> host: c-span: how often were you in the same room? >> guest: the only time i was in his presence was 1964. as a substitute reporter for the regular political reporter. so i covered three days of this campaign. he went to new england, but he wants actually shook my hand, but i was never close at hand. i just followed him around. c-span: can you run to the first instance, the first moment with a flash to me that you wanted to study the power of lyndon johnson? >> guest: well, not the moment, i don't believe my book, i never think of them as biographies. i never had the slightest interest, brian and writing a book to write the life of th

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c-span: senator harriet elizabeth byrd, cheyenne, wyoming. >> guest: fifth-generation wyoming, state senator, african-american woman, good catholic. i had a very interesting conversation with her about growing up in cheyenne and what it was like to be black in wyoming. c-span: what did she tell you? >> guest: well, she had a fairly active life. i mean, she'd been a schoolteacher for many, many years, and that's how she became very active politically. her father, i think, rhone not byrd, but had been, you know, a high school and--and college football star, and he'd also been very active politically. i mean, she--it was a--it's a very inspiring and but bittersweet interview in many ways. and she talks about the discrimination she sees going on among native americans as well as black folk out west. and she tells a very moving story about a very good friend of hers, ruby, when she was a child, who was japanese, and how ruby's family--ruby and her family were put in a concentration camp during world war ii and how--i mean, that sort of--she never-- her friend never forgave this country fo

lady byrd johnson comes up with motorcade. it's picked up by time magazine. there was no example of that in writing before. richard nixon had some nice ones. expletive deleted is really his. when they go over the watergate trial, it became its own sort of curse word. another one was really interesting at the time. talking about winding down the war. george h. w. bush had his own words. the cheap shot was to say that these were all off the wall. the word resume came into the english language in 1531 and one other words of the words it was always attributed to him which was stranded jury, was actually a creation of saturday night live. [laughter] with the one you can really hang in business under estimate. there have been several pretty well-known people about language online. many top riders have said it is under estimate by mistake, what happens to all of us. so it may not be words like normalcy which will gradually become a more acceptable thing. the king of them all has to be -- even though jefferson wins on volume -- it has to be teddy roosevelt. he just g

talked-about dragging harry byrd behind the car. such an outrageous in-your-face ad.is of that help, and it is so incredibly misleading. it is precisely the opposite of the impression. and if these kinds of groups start starting moderate read state democrats, there will be a lot fewer moderates a democrats would. lou: this is beyond belief. that is a despicable act by that group. whatever their motives. there is clearly on the left of this country. of you that their purpose is a lofty that their goals so pure, they can do whatever the hell they want to whomever they want. this is a very frightening trend >> that is the most frightening concept. this conversation to suggest that those of us is a justifiable the second amendment that are surrounding. but the worst part for me is exactly what we just saw, the people willing to exploit the death of an essential and for their own political gain at the detriment of those who didn't agree with. lou: and as we look at the apple , this is a huge margin. surveying the american people a lot tougher gun-control legislation. is th

. >> the police said the suspect approaches home near byrd park between 7:30 and at 11:00 a.m., rings bell, knocks on the door, and that leaves a note behind. >> there is a consistent name on each node, and is for a specific person who lives in the neighborhood. we have spoken with the individual who has no idea what this is about. >> what is more bizarre, each note is connected -- said to a person was no connection to the threatened homeowner. he's described as middle eastern, hispanic, or south asian, 5 foot 10 inches, with a thin build and dark jacket and jeans. the notes suggest that his english is not good. the police are increasing surveillance of the quiet area. >> i am hoping that it is just a scare, playing around. >> the police think it is more serious. >> somebody who was willing to do this is either violent, dangerous, mentally unstable, who knows. >> another resident who did not want to be identified said he came home from the movies one night with his kids and a guy came to his door with a pickax. so far, nobody has been hurt. nobody has open their doors to confront the

serious students of robert byrd of who carl levin is apparently one. who will oppose doing it through a simple majority way and would rather do it the old fashioned way, which would require two-thirds, the old fashioned way would be great. but the old fashion way has died as we have seen time and time again over the past few years. >> john: in more legislative news harry reid said he would open up the gun legislation to amendments. is this a way to encourage support from senators who might otherwise not have supported it but allowing them to put in their amendments? isn't this really bribes for votes? >> yes, but that's what the job is isn't it? i mean, that's how you do these things. you let them vote for an amendment that says, well, my amendment would have curtailed x. but they can stand up and say that and maybe you'll get a vote for the whole package. i think the bottom line on all of these things, john, remains public opinion. we often think public opinion doesn't really matter, but i really think public opinion actually does matter. if it didn't

i'm sad about is like the great compromiser, you know, like inouye and kennedy and even like senator byrd, they're gone and those are the people that were reaching across the aisle working together. >> reporter: when the government is finished spending, there's not enough left on the table. >> bottom line is when you got $100 coming in, $100 is the limit to spend. >> we all are expecting everything, but we need to make a little sacrifice to get there i think. >> reporter: the deal includes a 2% social security payroll tax increase. does it upset you? >> no more than a speeding ticket. it's all money i wished i could keep in my pocket. >> i say 2% probably won't kill me. i think i'd rather do my part and contribute. we're in a world of hurt right now i think financially. >> it's a part of the thing that must happen in order to make things better, whatever that means. >> reporter: now some of the people we approached wouldn't even talk to us. they said they are so angry at congress that they were worried they might swear during the interview. pay lot of the people here are getting -- a lot

among that list are signing the matthew shepherd/james byrd hate crimes act in his first year in officeusly repealed the don't ask, don't tell policy, which is allowing service members to serve openly and honestly for the first time. he also was able to personally express his support for same-sex marriage, which really became a game-changer especially going into this election cycle where for the first time voters in three states decided to affirm the rights of gays and lesbians to have marriage equality in their states. >> when you call this first term for the gay and lesbian community a game changer, and it was a very big election for that, as well, what does that mean, then, do you think for the second term? we've been talking, you know, throughout the day about how the president has many major issues on his plate right now. do you fear that the lgbt communities and the issues they care about will then be pushed to the back burner? >> there is that concern because there are a lot of issues on his plate. and although there are a lot of accomplishments in the first term, there's still a

to count black people in the census before the predomina predominantly black audience and the james byrd he wanted to be equally as critical, i can't get a direct answer. who are the people, name names and identify what they said and if in fact they are what owe sa he says they are, racism is repugnant. >> it is, and a good friend of ours said if everything is racism, nothing is racism and that's the most unfortunate thing of that phenomenon. i call it it the sharptonization of american politics where you have people that use the race card as a political weapon of mass destruction. and look it, there 's an intolerance in politics, there's an intolerance within the elite circles of new york, within the beltway, republican and democrat, by the way, an intolerance for constitutional conservatives that believe in limited government. >> yeah. >> that believe in low taxes and you times call racist-- >> until you open up your tent you're going to have these problems within the republican party. >> talk the tent of marco rubio being open, michael. >> you're naming, one, two, or five people. you

maryland or baltimore, its hostile territory so lincoln reluctantly agrees and steps out of paris byrd. he puts on not a skull cap but a soft hat that he got in new york and he admitted he wasn't recognizable and i don't see how that's possible because he was bigger than everybody else one of the generals is with him and it's serious. is that a great name for the guard and the other driver generals became famous in the civil war and it all at once bounced off his head and pinkerton, a stranger, just very strange, security isn't -- wasn't what it is now the part i find really strange about the story besides the fact that it was catastrophic for his image when people found out about it and it is that mary lincoln from hannibal hamlin and there's children, not mary's children with hamlet but lincoln, willie and tad come through on the regularly scheduled train and they are menaced by the crowd. lincoln didn't seem very concerned about fat. i find the whole thing strange. he was worried about himself and he was safe. it was a very strange episode. i looked at it very carefully and the thre

you can stay right -- that's all right, man, just don't tell bob byrd's ghost. [laughter] >> never happen. >> could you all -- >> never happened. [inaudible conversations] >> hiding a little munch kin. be. >> don't hide. >> she's the star. >> congratulations u everybody. enjoy the day. >> thank you. >> enjoy the day. >> thank you again for your service. >> you're welcome. [inaudible conversations] >> thanks again. oh, thank you. he and i go back, actually -- [inaudible] do you know this man? [laughter] >> i've been here for 200 years. [laughter] okay, you stand right there in the middle. you see, this is my -- [inaudible] can you put that in for me? >> i can. >> i'll have to tell you a story about -- [inaudible conversations] [laughter] just plain old nuts and bolts. all right. if you will place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. >> do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this oblig

. >>> steve byrd has one safeway chain for 20 years. he says he wants to spend more time with healthcare. he wrote the policies that rewarded workers for healthy behaviors, including not smoking and regularly experting. he's also given credit for the idea of offering a prepaid card network for the stores. sources say that gave safeway a boost. >>> if you are tired of robo calls and telemarketers, you have a chance to help block those calls. and also win $50 nourk at the same time. the federal trade commission receives more than 200,000 complaints every month about illegal robo calls. well, the government is holding a contest. they want to find the best play to block those prerecorded messages. suggestions include 24 hour hot lines to report robo calls and black listing repeat callers. >>> phone books will be delivered to san francisco homes and businesses unless you ask specifically that you don't want them a federal court panel ruling on a case in seattle says phone books should not be treated any differently than newspapers or magazin

legislation bipartisanly cosponsored with senator graham and a number of other republican senators, senator byrd and a bunch -- a group of democratic senators passed my legislation to punish china when it manipulates its currency. the bill can create more than two million jobs, mostly in manufacturing. we know what would happen in places like the presiding officer's state of massachusetts and my state of ohio with lost manufacturing jobs, despite the clear evidence that leveling the playing field will -- stopping currency manipulation would create jobs, despite the clear evidence of an overwhelming vote in the senate and two years ago an overwhelming vote in the house on the same issue, this legislation's languished in the house for the past two years. but why stop at the budget? why not a no farm bill no pay legislation? congress is obligated to pass a farm bill every five years. the senate passed our bipartisan farm bill, which, among other things, saves some $20 billion of direct savings by eliminating the -- the long-time discredited, the long-time discredited direct payment program, it woul

safeway ceo, steve byrd stepping down, joined safeway about 20 years ago.here's a look at the stocks for you. back to you. tracy: thanks nicole, see you at the top of the hour. ashley: a new rule making it easy for illegal imgrants to stay in the united states, but is it another end run around congress? judge napiltano joining us next and may be fired up about it. tracy: we'll see. staples up 3%, and priceline up almost 2%. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ under mbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the world moves... futures move first. learn futures from experienced pros with dedicated chats and daily live webinars. and trade with papermoney to test-drive the market. ♪ all on thinkorswim. from td ameritrade. ashley: we said how new car sales finished strong in 2012, but what about overall retail sales? lauren has details on december. same store sales, lauren? >> ashley, a little bit better than expected for the the month of december. sales grew by 4.5%, and that was better than last year's growth, but there are still problems.

married landra and they eloped in 1959 and rented from a loving mormon family, matthew and louise byrd. harry reid and landra decided to join the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints based on the wonderful family that served as their landlords. he said he didn't come from a religious family. he said the only religion he remembered is the love for franklin and delano roosevelt in his house. harry reid put himself through law school by working nights as a u.s. capitol police officer. in his book are pictures of harry in uniform as a capitol hill police officer and law student, a job callahan helped line up for him. he returned to nevada after law school and served as henderson city attorney. in 1970 at age 30, harry reid ran for lieutenant governor of nevada with his friend and mentor michael callahan running for govern. they won the race and harry reid served as lieutenant govern from 1971-1974 becoming friend to paul simon, then lieutenant governor for illinois. harry lost his race for u.s. senate in 1974 but he lost by fewer than 600 votes. governor callahan asked him to serve

the camper that was on that side and blocking lanes on 280 southbound near the guadalupe parkway at byrdeavy on 1 01 northbound up to and past the guadalupe parkway. still have the leading to it on 280 southbound. once they have finally cleared the scene that things will improve. until then we are likely to be contending with slow traffic here. 280 southbound all lanes have been reopened before the guadalupe parkway. we will give you another bridge check now as we look first at the bay bridge which has been an easy ride today. we cleared out the back up about an hour ago and it has been a smooth ride ever cents. this and the sale bridge never got as low as it had been over the last several months. the drive times never really got above 15 minutes. for the ride to the golden gate bridge we are past the peak now. not only on the span of but from marin county on the 1 01 southbound. >> we'll be right back with the kron4 morning news and give you a peek at the cool electronic gadget show and las vegas coming up after the break. [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby

byrd, the institutional flame of the senate from west virginia, who would have repeated that the debtlimit is the means by which congress -- we can't give that authority to the executive, should not, cannot, it's not constitutional. to implement this congressional prerogative, the amount of money the federal government is allowed to borrow is subject to a specific statutory limit. now, from time to time while congress considers and adopts legislation to change this limit and has done so more than 100 times since the first modern debt limit was set way back in 1939, and we will do so again shortly. we have to. so preserving this role and establishing the debt limit is vital to encourage deficit reduction and to uphold our constitutional tradition of legislative control over borrowing. not only does the debt limit provide an essential check on executive borrowing, it provides public accountability. everybody is talking about transparency. public accountability for congress is bor -- congress' borrowing and debt management practices. we can't duck that responsibility. we can't pass this

they didn't win but i made my points then and i got engaged in a very, very good debate with senator byrd at that time in 1995. you can read it in the record. i think it's probably january 8, if i'm not mistaken, of 1995. at that time, i introduced the resolution because as i said i saw an arms race in which each side would simply escalate the use of the filibuster and abuse procedural tools to the point where we just ceased to function here in the senate. i said that at the time. i said, you know, what happens is that when the democrats are in the minority, they abuse the filibuster against the republicans. then when the republicans become the minority, they say well, you democrats did it to us 20 times, we'll do it to them 30 times. then when it switches again and the democrats get in the minority, they say well, republicans did it to us 30 times, we'll do it to them 50 times, we'll teach them a lesson. and on and on and on, the arms race escalated. i said at the time we might get to a point where this body simply cannot function, and sadly that is what happened. that's why 18 years aft

half the state of west virginia is named after former sentor byrd who named buildings after himself whileyourself. >> a good rule of thumb. >>> stanley mcchrystal speaking out and taking the blame for the career ending rolling stone article. >> peter doocy joins us live from washington, d.c. with this story. >> tucker, retired general mcchrystal says in his new book, my share of the task, that he's typically open and transparent and trusting by nature. but he suggests that the freelance author of the rolling stone author, michael hastings, might have been unworthy of his trust. still he does not blame hastings for the bankrupt end to -- abrupt end to his career and cardless of how -- regardless of how the judge the article, the responsibility was mine. the article he takes responsibility for is the one that prints a conversation between the general and his aides where they make fun of the vice president, biden, he writes when the backlash began he got on the plane to d.c. to offer president obama his regular nation. that came after tension between the general and president which are detai

he was sworn in by his cousin john marshall and he was sworn in with byrd, one of his political opponentsust have been a tense inauguration. then he delivered his inaugural address in a voice that was so low that most people in the room, and the room was absolutely packed, most people couldn't hear what jefferson was saying. thomas jefferson as president for eight years delivered two public speeches in the entire eight years of his presidency. one was his first inaugural address, and the second was his second inaugural address. washington and adams went to give their state of the union addresses in person. but jefferson thought this was too much like the king going to parliament. he was going to strip that away. you set precedent from doing things and from thomas jefferson on presidents did not go to congress to deliver their state of the union address. they sent it up for a clerk to read. they missed an opportunity to take some leadership over the legislative branch. it's not until 1913 that wilson gets elected president and he says there is nothing to prevent me from going up there. thi

senator ted kennedy and robert byrd had to be taken away, illness. >> another kennedy, seizures afterl that was reached on new year's day. he's become the president's chief liaison to the senate where he used to serve. >> cokie, where are we? >> we are in the statuary hall which was the old house of representatives room through the 19th century and considered the most beautiful room in the country, although the acoustics are so odd that people could overhear the conversations of their enemies. ♪ >> every state is allowed to send two statues to the capitol of their prominent citizens and there are -- you're seeing the overflow. senator orrin hatch walking through the rotunda which has the enormous paintings of our history, the one you see over there with the woman in the white dress is the baptism of pocahontas who took the baptismal name rebecca and that, of course, is a moment in our history that allowed the english to stay in jamestown, so this -- this room through the early part of the 19th century is where many inaugurations were held, so it is appropriate for this to be the place