the only thing they can settle on is jimmy carter. .. >> colossal air on jimmy carter's part in the 80 sensually assured him to be defeated in 1980. i'm going to read a quote from a historian who gives the kind of typical take. this was written just a little while ago. here is a typical take on the speech. by sermonizing, carter appear to be advocating his role as leader and blamed the people themselves for their own afflictions. that is, that jimmy carter was taking the blame off of his own presidency and putting it on the shoulders of citizens. this is the standard take of the speech and a dodging speech and was essentially jimmy carter admitting he was weak and ineffective president. if you read the speech itself, which many people don't talk about it, you'll find that there is a lot in it where you can say this sounds like a president who is castigating the american people. i will read you a few highlights of the speech is on july 15. he is supposed to document the energy crisis in mideast stores document things like this. we worship self-indulgence and consumption, and we were mir

carter was saying, and by the way, carter is still saying it.his secretary said that we did not agree to these things. the camp david accords failed because carter was trying to solve all the problems in the middle east at once. he wanted a complete solution to everything at once. israel was the center of gravity at that time, seemingly, on all of the problems. he still thinks that the center of gravity for all the problems -- that is not true. when you have iran, a terrorist state, most of it mahdi army with hamas, there is a lot of problems in the middle east besides israel. host: james, democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call. mr. evans is the first person who has ever caused me to stay on line long enough to get on line. i'm a first-time caller. thank you very much i am an ex-navy man, and jimmy carter was one of the reasons i joined the navy in 1973 he was a wonderful man, and the things that he felt about people are totally anathema to what this man is saying. he just upsets me so much. the first thing he did was dehumanize ay

amounts of money into the carter center and jimmy carter is there poster boy.and talking about the ones that are anti-israel, finally taking the position -- fundamentally taking the position that "carter is our man." habitat for to manatee is wonderful. ." and for that. but i do not -- habitat for humanity is wonderful. god bless him for that. but i do not have any respect for the carter center. caller: someone finally what about saying how horrible jimmy carter's presidency was. he was the worst president of the 20 was century. the unrest in the middle east is due to him. they did not do it because they finally saw their shot in 1979, 1980, because they saw that we had an unfit president, and that is what started all of people taking shots at the u.s. from the middle east. if anyone else is president at the time, they would not dare do that. that led up eventually to the impact in 2001, when they started taking attacks against the west and they should not let him go around being ambassador for the u.s. if he has something to say, don't say nothing at all. gues

challenging incumbent president jimmy carter. >> i had no doubt that jimmy carter was going to lose to ronald reagan, and that if the democratic party didn't put up a real alternative, someone who was strong and seen as strong, that we would lose that election. >> kennedy's main legislative interest at that point was a national health care system. kennedy became convinced that carter wasn't serious about it and thought carter was not -- not really a liberal enough democrat. >> today i formally announce that i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> ted and joan reunite in the fall of 1979 as he becomes the third kennedy to run for president of the united states. >> you shake my hand? >> yes, i will shake your hand. >> the 1980 presidential campaign was in fact one of the wildest rides there has ever been in american politics. >> i have a mother who's 89 years young. >> he was awful at first. one of the worst campaigners i

kennedy became convinced that carter wasn't serious about it and thought carter was not -- not reallye third kennedy to run for president of the united states. >> you shake my hand? >> yes, i will shake your hand. >> the 1980 presidential campaign was in fact one of the wildest rides there has ever been in american politics. >> i have a mother who's 89 years young. >> he was awful at first. one of the worst campaigners i think i had ever seen. >> i bet many of you need to care for your feet. this is a need i find for, let's see some hands on that issue, too. >> there were enormous highs and unbelievably depressing lows. >> the first of those lows comes early in the campaign. cbs news televises interviews kennedy had given to correspondent roger mudd earlier that year. >> kennedy was forewarned that these interviews he had agreed to were not going to be patty cake but tough. and yet he didn't prepare himself to answer a question that almost any senator in that building back there can discourse for you for ten minutes. >> why do you want to be president? >> well, i'm -- um, were i to ma

kennedy became convinced that carter wasn't serious about it and thought carter was not -- not really liberal enough democrat. >> today i formally announce that i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> ted and joan reunite in the fall of 1979 as he becomes the third kennedy to run for president of the united states. >> you shake my hand? >> yes, i will shake your hand. >> the 1980 presidential campaign was in fact one of the wildest rides there has ever been in american politics. >> i have a mother who's 89 years young. >> he was awful at first. one of the worst campaigners i think i had ever seen. >> i bet many of you need to care for your feet. this is a need i find for, let's see some hands on that issue, too. >> there were enormous highs and unbelievably depressing lows. >> the first of those lows comes early in the campaign. cbs news televises interviews kennedy had given to correspondent roger mudd earlier that year. >> kennedy was forewarned that these interviews he had agreed to were not going to be pattycake but tough. and yet he didn't prepare himself to answer

i congratulate president carter on his victory here.he work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. [ applause ] >> i ran for president, and lost. i wanted to be president. that was not in the cards. and that's certainly not a pleasant experience. >> for the members of my family, the 1980 campaign was a difficult experience. i am involved in a divorce, it's a painful experience. both for joan and myself and for the members of my family. ♪ >> i'm going to be active in terms of party affairs, active in terms of discussions and the debate. by disposition, nature and desire. i'm an activist. >> i will not rest or retreat until our nation at long last holds this truth to be self-evident, that not only all men, but all people are created equal. >> you don't have to be president to make a difference, all you have to do is care, and be involved. >> if the government cannot control nuclear arms, then people will change the government. >> ronald reagan must love poor people, because he's creating so many mo

and i think bill clinton was influenced by jimmy carter's experience. if you push congress too hard, they'll just give up on you. i think he was quickly cured of that approach by the '94 midterm results. because we found that really the only way we could govern effectively is to govern the way we had campaigned and through trial and error we got to that point. it's an important debate that a party has to have. if you don't -- if you don't make any incremental progress on your agenda, then the country is going to regard you as a failure and so i think that the most successful presidents with their domestic agendas have found a way to keep speaking past the congress, past washington directly to the country on the items that they want to get done and eventually congress is more likely to bend to the will of the people and a popular president than to stick to their guns. >> i do think there's a point to be made here to defend the guy who only got through four years. you know, carter came into office right after the nixon and ford administrations which were

jimmy carter and the democrats retook the white house but senator kennedy had little affection for carterregarded teddy kennedy as a constant, daily, hourly challenge and for the kennedys i thought they regarded carter as sort of a bumpkin. >> in 1979 with carter's popularity at a record low teddy decided to revive the kennedy party and do what his brother bob di, run against a sitting democratic president. >> today i formally announce that i'm candidate for president of the united states. >> there did seem to be this family legacy to be satisfied to be the president and more than he obviously knew from watching his brothers that the presidency had a power that no matter how big a senator you could be you could still do more for the things you cared about if you were president. >> he did it in some degree of discomfort because he's taking on a president of his own party. he also i think had personal reservations about whether his personal skills fit well with the presidency. >> that became clear after kennedy agreed to a high profile television interview with cbs's roger mudd taped prior

but senator kennedy had little affection for carter, and advise versa. >> president carter probably regardedily/hourly challenge. and for the kennedy, i thought they regarded carter as sort of a bumpkin. >> in 1979 with carter's popularity at a record low, ted decided to revive the kennedy party and do what his brother bobby did, run against a sitting democratic president. >> today i formally announce that i'm a candidate for president of the united states. >> there did seem to be this family legacy to be satisfied, to be the president. and more than that, he obviously knew from watching his brothers that the presidency had a power this no matter how big a senator you could be, you could still do more for the things you cared about if you were president. >> he did it in some degree of discomfort because he's taking on a president of his own party. he also, i think, had personal reservations about whether his personal skills fit well with the presidency. >> that became clear after kennedy agreed to a high-profile television interview with cbs's roger mudd prior to announcing his candidacy. >>

he survived in the minds and hearts of the american people. >> former president jimmy carter. the israeli prime minister continues his tour of europe today. he has been meeting the special envoy to the middle east, george mitchell in london. talks are aimed at finalizing conditions for the restart of the middle east peace process. president obama is seeking a middle east breakthrough by the end of next month. he has called on the freeze of all israeli settlements. our middle east correspondent. >> the spokesman has been giving a briefing. he said i think we will get a bridging formula. that is code for they will make some kind of agreement. it will enable them to restart talks between the palestinians and the israelis. we should not get too excited about what is calling on here. that's what they're talking about. these are all talks about talks. if they are successful, they're hoping that israelis and palestinians will once again get around the table. it is all building up. it's all building up to the next moves in president obama's attempts to try to bring peace to the middle

jimmy carter. did a few events, very minor events, but never really got into the swing of it. we certainly saw at the convention in madison square garden, there was never really a coming together. dan, also joining us now, rejoining us is michael beschloss. we've been talking about ted kennedy as a figure in political campaigns, but also internationally. ted kennedy had a moral authority, northern ireland comes to mind. there were other issues, the iraq war we talked about memorably. he, as a member of the armed service committee, but also as a candidate, he immediately was rejected on the international stage. >> that's for sure. in the mid1970s, for instance, he went to the soviet union a number of times and would always be taken in to see the chief leader. because they figured he was a future president and they wanted to stay on his good side. and he always had guts when heb. on occasion, he did. >> the other thing that comes to mind is the relationship with nancy and ronald reagan. dan, nancy re

carter, always great to have you. thank you. what a good spaort carter is. he's getting so good at the finger pointing and the levels. >>> next right here, john paulson surprised us with his massive bullish stake in the banks. could there by more shocking stockholdings? karen finerman has been digging through the fineprint to see who else could surprise us. who else will? >> we have two days left. we'll see in the next two days, tomorrow and monday, a whole slew of filings. number one for me, i like to look at david einhorn. he has had notable positions in the past. he took physical delivery of his gold instead of owning the etfs. it will be interesting to see if there's any movement there. you don't see the short side. he has been short against warren buffett, which has worked. i like to see what he's up to. he's had emc positions. that's going to be interesting to watch. carl icahn, i love him. i love to see what he's doing. he's all over the place. we'll see if he's doing anything in yahoo or not. and then leon cooperman, who -- at omega, he is a great va

and then comes carter, who is saying, no. and i do think that the big electoral defeat, especially in the senate in 1980, made the lives of subsequent presidents easier than it would have been. there was a sense that we will hang separately if we do not hang together. >> talking about how campaigning translates into governing, there is an entertaining event of the actual election and the size of the victory that the incoming president wins. carter, clinton, bush, they all campaign talking about comprehensive changes that they wanted to bring about or something equally big. they win victories that are not landslides. carter very narrowly elected, no coattails in the form of new democratic members of congress. bush famously a minority president in terms of popular vote. clinton wins a significant victory, but far from the landslide, a 43% of the popular vote. in helping the president make that transition, and do you take into account that they were not elected with a reagan-style or even in obama-style landslide, and adjust acc

carter went there in 1994, if i remember correctly.negotiated an agreement and they've broken every agreement we've had. is there any chance to change that? i doubt it. >> why did they demand clinton? was it because he was involved in the framework agreement? [ all talking at once ] >> there were four people who were suggested. >> bill richardson. >> al gore. >> kerry? >> and john kerry. he picked bill clinton. by the way, he was right to do that from his point of view, because he's much more of an international personality and gets all of this attention. >> what about the letter of condolence that clinton wrote to kim jong-il on the death of his father? >> when he was president, that's a long time ago, and that's a conventional. >> it was a moving letter. >> it was a moving letter. that's what clinton is very good at. >> john, the key thing here is, what kim jong-il is demanding get rid of the six-party talks, one on one negotiations with the americas. >> right. >> clinton comes over and the north koreans say we have had exhaustive ta

it's difficult to -- >> the other thing that happened was when jimmy carter became president, i think ted kennedy saw the legacy of the democratic party as he read it going back to roosevelt under assault. >> yeah. >> because jimmy carter as you know, was a different kind of democrat. and i think. >> he was grover cleveland. >> and teddy move even more to the left to challenge jimmy carter and preserve the legacy of the old democratic party. >> gentlemen, all three of you, as they say in massachusetts, you're the smart ones. thanks very much. you are the smart guys. i mean it. thank you howard fineman, eugene robinson and pat buchanan. much more on the life and death of senator ted kennedy and the future of the issue which he thought fought for for so many decades universal health care when "hardball" comes back. >> this november, the torch will be passed again to a new generation of americans so with barack obama and for you and for me, our country will be committed to his cause, the work begins anew. the hope rises again. and the dream lives on. once you've mastered the complexities

of course, the latter's bid was not successful when he took on an incumbent, jimmy carter.he library. this will be the first time a presidential library has been used in this capacity,ç reallyo to the nature of the historic significance of what is goingçn here, and a man who has served his country, the third longest- serving senator in u.s. history. ted kennedy is about to pay his brothers library a visit, and library that he helped build, that he helped make a reality against enormous objection from a cambridge community who did not want it there, so he moved it to where his brother wanted it to where ted kennedy study had the best chance of achieving it, and now, the biggest "i told you so to speak when brother teddy goes to visit. -- "eye-to-eye g-7" when brother teddy goes to visit. -- "i told you so." and another issue that has caught the attention of dave ramsey. ♪ change it up a bit... and you're sure to get a reaction. [ motorcycle engine growl ] ♪ don't let erectile dysfunction slow things down. ♪ viva viagra! viagra, america's most prescribed ed treatment, can h

but the difference between this and jimmy carter when jimmy carter went in 1994, the white house was at best ambivalent, if not unhappy about it. bill clinton has to be a good soldier with his wife in the cabinet and this is a very different animal in terms of his trip this morning. >> it was interesting, this morning, when bill gibbs was briefing us this morning at the white house he said, you can ask away, but we're not in a position to talk about this. he did answer one. someone asked about a report coming out of south korea that clinton carried a message from president obama to kim jong-il. he said, that is not true. so i don't know what you make of that. maybe it's north korea that's hoping to expand the dialogue. >> well, look, i think the president certainly wants to have a broader dialogue. you know, and he's been, i think, frustrated by the north korean actions, like the iranian actions. go back to the campaign, one of the great disputes on foreign policy, both in the primary and in the general election was his determination to talk to these rogue nations. the rogue nations

he was also part of the carter administration. he was a domestic policy adviser to president carter for the entirety of his service in office. he also served during the clinton administration as well as in other capacities. he has been working in the area of holocaust issues, restitution and so on. he has written a well-received book on that issue. third member of our panel who will be participating in the discussion during this session is bruce reed. he is currently president -- democratic leadership council. he famously served al gore as chief speech writer when gore was in the senate, became part of the clint-core campaign in 1992. and then for all eight years of clinton presidency serve as domestic policy adviser. he is associated with the clinton reforms in the area of welfare reforms. finally in this group today, margaret spellings, who, in terms of this conference, has the greatest relevance is that she was bruce reed's successor in the george bush white house as policy adviser during the first term and was later confirmed

carter? >> no, i was thinking of something else, actually. i was thinking about the irony of what both of you were saying about the principle rational and argument for this healthcare initiative is to provide coverage to a broader group of people, people who aren't currently covered but as i was saying before, any kind of system where the government is picking winners and losers, there will be serious risks of gave injustices and that is an ironic feature of this whole discussion, the raggal is to -- rational is to cover everyone but the mechanism to do that will be to discriminate against certain groups of people. glenn: they will say we have a horrible system now because it discriminates against people now. anyone want to address that? >> i want to speak to that briefly. no one here is defending the current system as a perfect paradigm system, but i think this is a moral difference between the government picking winners and losers and winners and losers emerging from a process of aggregated individual choices that people are making. certain

you could sense carter believed, much like obama, in big government. if only we create enough departments and hire enough bureaucrats and raise enough taxes, everything will work, which is a fundamental misunderstanding of america. we are not a great bureaucratic country. we are not a country where if we hire more bureaucrats things would be terrific. it is entrepreneurial energy, small businesses, people who create the next wave of jobs. so a number of us, i was a candidate during that period. a number of of us felt like carter would not succeed because his models were wrong. for example, we didn't have enough gasoline. instead of encouraging exploration, they raised taxes on the oil and gas companies and went to rationing. rationing turned out to be a nightmare and a good friend of mine, dave boss, of citizens united, was 13 that year and his father every morning would give him the screwdriver to go out and change license plates so that the car that needed gasoline had the right license plate and could therefore go and buy gasoline. i've told people,

we mentioned of course jimmy carter, what about him? >> well, jimmy carter played a really important role in bringing about a democratic free elect in nigraggia following the sand anista fall several years ago. at the same time, richard nixon played a key role and help lessening tensions between the united states and china following tiananmen care. the bush administration had sent him on that mission. so i think presidents can play a very important diplomatic role here in terms of easing tensions and getting certain american foreign policy interests on the ground. >> has it always worked out, or had their been gaffes? >> well, i think that president carter made a major faux paw recently when he tried to interject himself in the israeli/palestinian dialogue. and he ended up alienating israel, and really making the situation far worse than it was when it -- when he first began. >> we've only got about 30 seconds left. but i was surprised by how this is actually a policy that goes back sometime. i mean, all the way to theodore roosevelt? >

grow up. >> carter was -- lovely child. i knew him as a child. and he was -- he was a gre kid. >> reporter: friends left flowers in front of home in cart areas honor. today a cleanup crew worked to put the home back in order. the two pit bulls are being held at the loudoun county department of animal care and control. >> have they calmed down from yesterday? yes. are they still aggressive? yes. >> reporter: it is still unknown what caused the dogs to turn. police say it is possible kartder was protecting the small pug from the pit bulls. the pug was also found mauled. what happens to the pit bulls has yet to be decided. >> it is not up to us. we take it before a court of law and a judge makes a final decision as to what the outcome of the dogs are. >> it was tracee wilkins reporting. we have an update on the dog that was duct taped inside of plastic bag and left to die in a trash can in d.c. trooper, as she has been named, was found outside of an apartment complex in a dumpster friday in southeast. she was seriously wounded

congressman carter? >> that's the $64,000 question. we've got a trillion dollars deficit already this year, moving towards $2 trillion in just what we've created so far. we all know that health care costs a lot of money. we know what medicare costs and we know that they're running out of money for medicare that exists right now. and we should sit down -- i agree with dennison this -- we should sit down and start talking this up, talking together, not let politics get involved. >> i want to inform everyone that air force one has touched ground in colorado. this health care reform town hall meeting will be expected to start early. it seems that it's 30 minutes ahead of schedule and here is actually a live picture of what will be a very interesting event from 600, 700 people will be attending the town hall meeting. and the people of grand junction will have a lot of questions for president obama as he tries to sell his health care reform. congressman, kucinich, i know you voted against the bailout and you believe health care reform plan i

we had elected carter in976. black vote me a huge difference in putng him in te white house, and i think there were some feelings about which way to go, whher to stay with e incumbentr stay with kennedy. i forget at the breakdown was, bui was very much aware there was a sit. tavi w have heard t since his passingabout his strong and unequivocal record on cil ghts. let me ask you to properly contextualize where he stands, how the rates, juxtaposed against his brother? my read of it is john f. kennedy h the record, robert kenne got better over time before he di duri the civil rights er but edward kennedy was the best othe three. >> there is no questi about that. he had something to bld on. an he had with his brother the presidt did and his brother the attorney general and nator did, and built on it and he had launded work on ithan they did. -- and had longer toork on it thanhey did. the president was in office not that long, and robert keedy was attorney general not vy ng and not very ng as senator, but teddy served

i'm brianne carter at redskins park. the story coming up. >> the cash for clunkers program is a hit with car buyers but repair shop owners say they're payi p >> car buyers and dealers are cashing in on the cash-for-clunkers program but car repair shops say it's costing them business. some shop owners and mechanics say people who would normally be getting their cars fixed are buying new ones instead. >> they're taking,ay, a $2,000 car that's only worth $2,000, it might need $1,000 in repairs but now they're getting $4,500 from the government so why wouldn't you get rid of that car? >> yesterday president obama signed legislation extending the program into labor day. eunice kennedy shriver is said to be in critical but stable condition at a massachusetts hospital. family members have gathered at her bedside including daughter maria shriver and her husband, california governor arnold schwarzenegger. the 88-year-old sister of president john f. kennedy is best known for starting the special olympics. secretary of state hillar

nobody could find out what happened with jimmy carter. and then we turned on the tv and there he was. >> giving his own account. god love him. >> right. that's jimmy carter for you. thanks so much, chuck todd at the white house. and be sure to watch "nbc nightly news" tonight for more on our new nbc news exclusive poll results with chuck todd. >>> for more on the liberal uprising that now has the president on the defensive with both the left and the right, let's bring in our panel. susan page, "usa today" washington bureau chief and political editor ron brownstein, atlantic media political director, dan balz, national political reporter for "the washington post," and co-author of quality battle for america: 2008," best-selling book. thanks so much for joining us. susan, first of all, to you, the battle of the left and the right, kathleen sebelius, the health and human services director went out today and said, nothing new, we weren't sending any signals, but they were! they weren't changing the actual words, but they -- >> apparently, las

carter didn't like the sort of people-oriented liaison. he reorganized the system to an issue-oriented so you're in energy and you're in environment and you're on foreign policy, which makes sense, except that you didn't get to talk to members of congress until you were having troubles in that area and you weren't cultivating them on a regular basis, and after carter's administration, the people who handled his legislative liaison concluded that that had been the wrong approach. carter -- a lot of missteps in his administration, one of which most famously was the sequoia -- the presidential yacht that from hoover until gerald ford had been used to court members of congress on an evening basis -- you got 10 or 15 of them on board, you sailed them down the potomac river, took them to mount vernon, watched them lower the flag and play taps, you got back on the boat, had drinks, went back up the river, it was a great time for the president to talk in an intimate setting with medication of congress. jimmy carter sold the boat. it was too much -

democratic nomination. >> back in 1980 we spoke to jimmy carter about that.nk you very much. don't go away. go back it tony and he's watching what's going on, as well. >> wolf, appreciate it. thank you. let's check other stories in the news right now. the taliban are denying any involvement in a bombing that killed 43 people in kandahar, afghanistan, yesterday. the associated press said it received a denial in a text message from the militant group's spokesman. >>> a wildfire raging in the los angeles national forest and 1,000 firefighters were on the scene right now of the 750,000 acre fire. fire officials say it's less than 10% contained. >>> his message was clear and ted kennedy never wavered throughout good times and bad. >> beyond what he was in life to be remembered as simply a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it and saw suffering and tried to heal it and saw a war and tried to stop it. those of us who loved him and take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all th

carter is here with your forecast. carter, the question is, what have the past bear markets formed and when have we seen a bottom? can we look at those for today? >> we can. that's the point of history. let's compare past markets to the current. one, the smoothing mechanism, the 150-day moving average goes flat and then torque high in a big way. that's '74 and '75. look at the flattening mechanism in '82. look at 2002, 2003. it's the same thing again. now i want you to look at the current bearish-to-bullish reversal. we've only just now gone flat. the issue is, in order to qualify as an official new bull market, the smoothing mechanism must have an upward and immediate torque to it. so, the lows are in, everyone knows that the bear market is over. in order to constitute or qualify as a real bull, you need to be sharply rising in terms of this moving average, and it's happened every time. if you look back in the '20s, the same phenomenon. so, we're in the transition phase, and our thesis is we'll end up the year about w

. >> he had no reason for winning, and then he and carter had several episodes. obama/hillraiary -- this was week after week. just what ronald reagan fighting gerald ford split the republican party and cleared the way for carter's election in 1976, so kennedy fighting carter cleared the way for the election. bill: he actually helped ronald reagan gave the election, though i think it was more jimmy carter being inept than anything else. the gulf war. >> that was sort of a generic imposing anything that you need to do to oppose aggression -- a generically opposing anything that you need to do to oppose aggression. bill: but he did not step up loudly against the second war against saddam hussein, did he? he was opposed, but not as verbal. with kuwait, he really did not have a reason. these kuwaitis, they are standing there getting murdered and raped, and kennedy says, "i do not want to do that," that always threw me. >> stay out, is not our business. the third thing is health-care reform. -- it is not our business. there was this total demarcation between the left a

even president carter if we came back to 1977. but that is a president who came and said i'm going to head-on into that problem and solve it. it was not something separate from his general approach domestically or internationally. he is dealing with iraq and medical care head-on. he has quite an umbrella about dealing with such problems. in a way, he is credible. he is not doing that to show anything, he is interested to get to the bottom of this and get it into a conclusion in a reasonable amount of time. now, what he is going to do and what he has been doing in the last few months, i must be very frank with you that i found to stories, one in cairo and one in washington the one in cairo goes as follows, that president barack obama started listening to everybody and after coming down the islamic world with his wonderful speech in cairo, now he is proceeding to have the final listening for all the leaders of the region and after that, he will formulate a kind of a framework. people calling a peace plan. it will come out sometime i

until 1980, when he announced his intention to run against incumbent jim my carter. despite ten primary victories, it became mathematically impossible for kennedy to win the nomination. he conceded at the democratic convention, rallying the party behind carter and delivering what many called the most passionate speech of his life. >> the work goes on. the cause endures. the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. >> that election would end his presidential aspirations and soon after that his marriage of 24 years to joan bennett ended as well. after years of questions surrounding his reputation and dips in massachusetts polls, kennedy took responsibility for what he called the faults of his private life. in 1992, he married are victoria reggie, a divorced mother of two. those close to the senator said he had finally found the happiness and peace he had sought for so long. with the death of his nephew, john, jr., in a plane crash, senator kennedy looked beyond his family's legacy and in january of 2008, he endorsed barack obama for president. symbolically pass

race heats up instrumental in working with the architect of this new china during your time in the carter white house. what do you think is the big mistake the next administration might make the? >> guest: i couldn't say it better than brandt just did, i agree with what he said. i think we should not jump to the convenience self-destructive conclusion the rise of china is

carter need is professor of notre dame. john huff is former health and human services officials in bush administration. gentlemen, first of all, anybody believe that eugenics is coming, building a master race? >> absolutely not. >> glenn: we're all clear on that. does anybody think barack obama wants to snuff out anybody's grandma? >> absolutely not. >> glenn: what is the connection that i've just been saying? >> i think what you are pointing out in any system where the governmental oh indicates scarce resources to the population based on the judgments who is entitled to receive benefits and who is not to entitled to receive those benefits there are serious issues and questions about possible discrimination and injustice. who is going to bear the burden of the regime and who is not going to get the treatment. those are serious questions about fairness. all of the proposals we have seen raise those kind of questions. peter singer is the most obvious one because his is indifferent to fairness and distribution. but others, ema

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we mentioned of course jimmy carter, what about him >> well, jimmy carter played a really importt role in bringing about aemocratic free elt in nigggia following the sand anista fall several years ago. at the same tie, richa nixon played a k role andelp lessening tensions beten the united stes and china following tiananmen ce. the bush admintration had sent him on tha mission. so i think presides can play a very iortant diplomac role here in terms ofasing tensions and geing certain american foreign polynterests onhe ground. >> h it always worked out,r had their bee gaffe >> well, ihink that president carterade a major faux paw recently when heried to interject himself in the israeli/palestian dialogue. nd he ended up alienating israel, d reallyaking the siation far wor than iwas when it -- when he first began. >> we've only g about0 seconds left. but i wurprised by howhis is actually policy that goes back someme. i mean, al the way to theodore roosevelt? >> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states a the ste funeral for the king of englandat the beginning of the 20t entury

carter had not pushed for health care in his first term as carter had promised. and kennedy, we are told, extracted a promise from barack obama that he would, indeed, push for universal health care in his first term. in return for, not yus an endorsement, but it was a very strong endorsement. >> right, thank you. roger, he has three more years to do it. anyway, roger simon great to have you on. i'll be back for another live edition of "hardball." then the premier of our documentary. we're very proud of it, "the kennedy brothers." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed shultz. >>> a great american, ted kennedy. the lion is gone but the fight lives on. remembering ted kennedy. >>> tonight, i'm going to take the liberty to speak to millions of liberals across america. it's been a sad day in america. we lost our man, senator ted kennedy. lost his battle with brain cancer overnight at the age of 77. every time he was on my radio show, i referred to him as the gladiator. he loved that. he was the gladiator for the people. a fighter, a believer. he fought for lab

was carter trying to rescue the small pet dog from the pit bulls? >> the family is deciding what to do with the dogs, it will likely not be their decision. >> if they choose not to euthanize, the judge will have to order for the dog to be put down. >> a woman was attacked by two men and sexually assaulted. she had come to check on a relative's empty house. >> i think it's very sad. >> it happened friday evening around 6:30 along gum spring road near braddock road. >> one of the men allegedly held her down and another man sexually assaulted her. they left the scene, she drove herself to a local hospital where she did receive treatment. >> the area is dotted with few homes, but near heavy traffic. >> the perfect cross over road from loudoun county. so especially when school is open, the road is backed up all the time. this is high traffic areas. i can't believe something like this would happen. in this area. >> detectives are working with the victim to come up with descriptions of the suspects. >>> topper is here with our 9forecast first. not so bad o