jimmy carter kind of prepresidential jimmy carter, postpresidential jimmy carter can a presidential jimmycarter is all the same person. he is the same goals, same personality, did the same kinds of things. we hear a lot today about what a wonderful ex-president, but really hasn't done more as an ex-president than he did before he came president and why he did in the circumstances in which he was able to work of course were vastly different once he was freed from the restraints of the office of being president and plus added boost but that position gave him. but he is still the same -- he's still very much the same name. there's probably a few republicans in michigan who disagree with that, but anyway they are entitled to their opinion. the book begins with the ancestry and first introduction is called the carders and the smiths. i had a huge battle with the editor to keep as much as the ancestry in it as is still in it and i won about half of the battle. about half of it got lost. but the interesting part was kept in a period the carter family, of course the original one in america showed

if we are drawing the analogy to carter and obama.y, president obama would be lucky to be jimmy carter because his presidency has been so much worse. and by that i mean that carter was sort of a misguided center left kind of guy whose policies were all temporary. and, yes, they did lead to economic destruction, catastrophe in this country. high unemployment. high inflation. stagflation. high gas prices. they were temporary. when reagan came in shortly thereafter. he was able to institute policies that reversed all of those things. this guy's policies are much more permanent. and that's what makes them much more dangerous. >> bill: here is the deal with carter. you were just about, what 2 years old? >> embryo. >> bill: people had to wait in line for gas. that was it once that happened -- you remember that colmes because you were older. >> i was much younger at the time. >> i was in denver working for channel 7 out there. people had to line up for hours to get gasoline. once that happened, he was dead. no matter what else he did, he was

freddie carter is not only the vice-president, superintendent on this job, he was our first local higher on this job. he is -- this is his local library. i will not tell you what his address is, but he can walk home after this is done. if anybody is going to get this library done right, with people from the bayview benefiting from it, it is going to be freddie carter. what we did is rather than award one big contract that other folks could be competitive for, we broken up into a lot of pieces so that we could maximize opportunity for local business. we have a large number of local businesses. i think we already have tens subcontractors from the bayview who are going to be working on this project. one of them already started and cleared the space here. we want to give a shout to

. >> carter has a green thumb, but he doesn't use it to grow grapes. he grows marijuana. >> this is what they call pink panther here. it's a few weeks out. >> his crop is medicinal marijuana plants he nurtures in his home. legal under the eyes of california. >> your money's tied up for a number of years before a return. this is different. >> unlike mini-marijuana growers, carter has a farm in the shadows. >> amazing. >> recently the napa county farm bureau accepted him into its ranks. the distinction makes him the first declared marijuana grower in the nation to join such a legitimate body. >> it's a wonderful feeling to be accepted in that group. and we don't have to hide, we don't. and we won't. >> in terms of people that don't agree with that, i can understand their viewpoints, but he's working within the bounds of the law, and that's what we're looking at. >> despite carter's crop of choice, it represents a legitimate interest. >> we're looking at agriculture and what agriculture encompa encompasses, that's changing. so we're just going with the ti

do we have carter? >> no. >> okay. we don't have carter right now. we'll get back to him and get the latest on what's happening on wall street. >> actually, i can tell you right now. the dow is up 36, the nasdaq up 20, s&p up 6 for the moment. obviously, with the volatility things can change. >>> one thing that's heading up is the price of gold. it's set a new record, topping 1855 an ounce this morning. a lot of people saying $2,000 not that far away. a lot of people are searching through their jewelry boxes and digging up things they haven't worn in years and taking them

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set carter up for failure. >> fame is like a drug.a big high. you try to do everything you can to get it back. >> reporter: he was arrested for possession. >> he came to me. >> reporter: he did. and he said, i need help. >> he said, i need help. the one way to do that was to say to him, before we go on this journey, you need to get professional help. he agreed. >> reporter: wright said he made sure that carter entered rehab. now he's wary of talented kids whose only goal is to bathe in the spotlight. how many kids come up to you and say, i want to be famous? >> a lot. if they say that, i have to time for you. group, if you want to be in this because you want to take a craft and a gift god gave you and present it to the world, that's fine. if your only motivation is to be rich and famous i don't have time for that. ♪ i've known it all of my life >> reporter: this is not a fame factory? >> it can be. it's about taking talented dreams come true.g make their >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm juju chang in florida. [ clears throat ] hop to

so we sell--the majority of our olives go to bell-carter. um, they've been great for the industry, and they produce a great, great product. >> california's weather is perfect for olives, and some of these trees can grow for several hundred years. but you may be surprised to know that harvesting in california is largely done by hand. flash back more than 100 years to 1912. back then, olives were harvested the very same way, by hand. that's when two brothers, arthur and henry bell, decided to buy a small olive grove near fresno. they even carried on harvesting and selling olives through the great depression. no one realized it back then, but the brothers were planting the seeds for a multi-million-dollar business lasting at least 4 generations. >> just to give you an example, bell-carter's first canning operation was in berkeley, california in 1930. the company had 12 employees, and i think their annual--annually they canned about 7,000 cases of olives. come up to today's standards. we have over 500 employees canning well over 9 million cases

carter evansing god ble you for that. that is fantastic. muck all ovr the place carter sees the bright spot. he's coming back tomorrow morning, 5:00 a.m. eastern. catch him on cnnmoney.com. that's it for us on "wake up call" "american morning," cheery as ever starts right now. >> i like what carter said too. good morning, i'm carol costello. tears and cheers on capitol hill not for the debt ceiling deal but for gabrielle giffords, the wounded congresswoman bringing down the house last night. >> funding fight over the faa. i'm ali velshi. the agency forced to partially shut its doors. what it means for your safety and the price of your next airline ticket on this "american morning." >>> oh, good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, august 2nd. this is "american morning." christine has the day off because boy, she's a little under the weather yesterday. >> trying to fight that cold and it keeps coming back. >> those kids, little germ incubators. >> i keep none of them around me. >> a lot going on today. this debt debate not over. it was supposed

carter had to do with the iran hostage situation and the failed rescue attempt. the first bits of the carter chapter he was actually doing fairly well with a lot of different -- with the middle east, with china with a lot of areas that he was working on. but he was completely undone by the hostage situation and by the outcome of that rescue mission which was a complete disaster and so i think sort of if you took the carter presidency it would have been stopped and it would have been successfully in terms of the foreign policy piece. it was the last year or so of his presidency and that's why he came out in that way because that was the end of the chapter. >> what about george w. bush seven >> george w. bush was completely -- the 9/11 and the whole war on terrorism kind of overshadowed that chapter as it did overshadow his whole presidency when i think that at the time -- i mean, we were working on this book during that whole time, during his presidency, well, not the entire presidency we were working on the second half of his presidency and i think that that chap

carter evans, thank you so mump, my friendful good to see you as always. we'll check in with you in layle bit. >>> the nba has had their first formal bargaining talks. the lockout has been going on for a month now. here's colby bryant's two cents. he hinted to playing overseas if the season is canceled. >> i don't know. you know, it's not looking too good right now. we're going to hold our ground. we'll have to sit and watch. >>> watch the wrestler in the blue. he's wrestling the other dude and gravity and beatinging both of them. his move is called the flying squirrel. watch. check it out on youtube if yu even got time to kill. he took the bronze at the weight division at the world junior championship. >>> check out this day in history. august 2nd, 1790. the first u.s. census conducted. boy, has america grown. it's 44 minute after the hour. yup, we had a good year at chevy. they gave us a consumers digest best buy award. then they gave us an iihs top safety pick and you... well, you gave us your approval. so we thought, why not give a little back. the che

you saw me smiling this morning as i embraced this man, freddie carter. he is part of the construction team here. freddie was certified when i was the director of the human rights commission. he had a joint venture. it was a small firm, and they had to get some beer projects, and i remember, you went out and bought yourself a red truck. do you still have that truck? freddie is part of the kck general contractors team that formed the property bid on the dpw and library bid process. they ultimately won the right to build this. and guess what, he is local, right here in the bayview. that is important to me, personally, it is important to the city. that is why the library director works so hard with dpw, our human rights commission, to do it right. this is the right way to do it. i know reverend walker knows that. it is so important to this community that we not only buildings for the future, but in a way that everyone in the community participates. so that they know that we, as a city, as a community, built this library. not some contractor or a department t

efforts to promote tolerance and understanding between communities of color. 20 years ago, president carterned into law a resolution declaring one week in the month of may as asian-pacific american heritage week. in 1990, that celebration was expanded to the entire month of may and in 1991, legislation was signed into law, proclaiming asian-pacific heritage month in may to be a permanent celebration in united states. that is wonderful for us. thank you again for being here this evening. back in 2005, mayor newsom enthusiastically supported the idea of a celebration each year that would include all apa communities in the city and county of san francisco, where -- get this. more than one-third of the population is asian-american and pacific islander. you rock. our next speaker is no stranger to this event, but within the last few years, he represented mayor newsome at this very celebration. in january of this year, a new chapter was written when the board of supervisors unanimously voted in city administrator edwin lee to be the mayor of san francisco. he was noted as the best candidate for l

>> how does carter figure in this? >> a famous name, what the publisher of the fort worth star telegram. was the president of the fort worth club. it was a big place for the shakers and movers of ft. worth. he was one of the pallbearers at the funeral of d. e. chips, friend of chips. he managed -- he was a pretty wise person. he managed not to allow himself to get baited and sort of drawn in to j. frank norris' web, but i deal with him an awful lot in the book and he is a fascinating character, and after mayor meacham died. mayor meacham's daughter married amon carter, and they were a very big power couple until carter died. >> when was that? >> probably in the early 1930s. and they were married when he died in the middle 1950s. that was his wife, and the daughter over mayor meacham, and to this day their papers are together at university of texas at arlington, i researched them, the meacham carter family papers. >> distanced him from the norris camp? >> everybody sort of forgot about it. on the one hand the baptists -

. >> reporter: but unlike many growers, carter doesn't farm from the shadows. >> amazing.mazing. >> reporter: recently the napa county farm bureau accepted him into the ranks. the distinction makes him the first declared marijuana grower in the nation to join such a legitimate body. >> it's a wonderful feel be to being accepted in that group. we don't have to hide. we just don't, and weapon won't. >> in terms of people who don't agree with that, i totally understand their viewpoints but he's working within the bounds of the law and that's what we're looking at. >> reporter: eric pooler was part of the farm bureau committee that selected carter, despite carter's crop of choice, pooler says it represents a legitimate ag interest. >> we're looking at agriculture and what it encompasses and that's changing. so we're just kind of flowing with the times. >> reporter: carter is also flowing with the times, selling t-shirts labeled with his napa valley marijuana growers logo. his dream is a day when napa valley is as famous for its cannabis as its cabernet. >> they're not on top o

the weekend she disappeared and carter says he calls it everyday. >> i daul it and hope.all i do is hope. i just hope. >> thanks for the anonymous donor, the award for caitlin's whereabouts now stands at $5,000. tamron? >> all right. john, thank you. in the "newsnation" gut check is next. a grizzly bear goes into the backyard of a homeowner's home where his children are playing, and he shoots the bear, and now he is facing charges. it the "newsnation" gut check next. there's another way to help eliminate litter box dust: purina tidy cats. tidy cats premium line of litters now works harder on dust. and our improved formulas neutralize odors better than ever in multiple-cat homes. so it's easier to keep your house smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model-year newer... with 15,000 fewer miles on it. there's no other auto insurance product

we had reagan beat carter.lways imagined as a kid what would a second jimmy carter term have looked like? we now know. we can't give jimmy carter three terms. >> all this name calling -- >> carter is name calling? >> if you want to put people back to work -- >> lower taxes. >> we had the bush tax cuts, how come unemployment keeps going up? >> obama is in the white house. >> had your tax cuts and haven't worked because we have 9.2% unemployment. >> it was 5% now it is almost 10. >> because of the bush tax cuts. >> they weren't jerry. >> they didn't work. >> you and buffet ought to send your money to washington and let it be wasted there. >> do we still have the bush tax cuts? >> we do. who extended the bush tax cuts? obama. >> just before we go off the air, you are now in favor of us doing away with the bush tax cuts? >> i'm in favor. >> thank you sean. >> thanks for joining us. >> i'm normal. >> sean: when i come back a final thought. your show starts? >> september 19th. >> watch his show he is not crazy like t

but they would not beat jimmy carter. >> i, jimmy carter, do solemnly swear >> after ford loses to carterthe rumsfelds go on vacation with the cheneys. >> right! >> what did you talk about? >> both of us were unemployed and we went down and we played a little 10is and sat in the sun and talked about the future. and it was pretty clear that dick was thinking about going back to wyoming and interesting himself in politics. >> cheney did go back to wyoming and ran for congress in 1978. in that first campaign, cheney, a 37-year-old three-pack-a-day man with a family history of coronary disease suffered his first attack. >> having had a mild heart attack, led me to pause and reflect. and upon reflection, we decided we didn't want to continue to campaign. >> his wife lynn stood him for him to enable chain tow take some time off, get better and return to the campaign trail and win a congressional seat. >> cheney would be re-elected six times. while in congress, he two more heart attacks. in 1984 and 1988. they wouldn't stop cheney's rise. he became minority whip. the second in command among hous

carter evans, thanks so much. we're going the continue to watch the markets. >>> meantime other news. new outbreak of deadly violence in the middle east. attackers took aim today in targets in southern israel firing shots at a bus assaulting sold chufrs and firing mortars and an anti-tank missile. israel says the attacks originated in gaza. cnn is live in london. how did these attacks stir things up potentially in the region? >> well, i think the fear is, fred, that it's going to have an escalating violence. it's been relatively calm in the region. there haven't been a lot of terrorist attacks. i think one of the main concerns not just in israel but in the united states is that as we head towards the end of september, where the palestinians are expected to seek independence of the u.n. that this could mess things up. what you're going to see is an escalation of violence between israelis and palestinians. that dim hope of peace talks is going to be even further than it is right now. fred? >> it's believed that thos

jimmy carter didn't look so great in the end because the last part of the chapter on jimmy carter had to do hostage situation and the failed rescue attempt. actually the first of the chapter she was actually doing fairly well with a lot of difference with the middle east and china and a lot of areas as he was working on. but he was completely undone by the hostage situation and by the outcome of that rescue mission which was a complete disaster. maybe not on the domestic side, but i think there was that last year or so of the presidency. >> george w. bush is interesting. he was completely, the 9/11 and the whole war on terrorism kind of overshot chapter as it did the whole presidency. during that whole time during the presidency would and should be the entire presidency but half of the presidency. you do have presidencies going on that were unresolved, and that we're not going well and it wasn't the situation that you would want to say okay here is a very successful outcome as he's leaving office. we get into the two chapters on obama where you were still dealing with afghanistan and

he went to washington to work for jimmy carter, i went to work for ronald reagan.re stubborn things. it's not both parties' fault. >> you couldn't be more wrong about that. let me tell you who agrees me. i spoke at a conservative summit, juan williams was there, dick morris, i ripped up both parties, and they gave me a huge standing ovation. you have a problem with them, as well as the polls. the problem is both parties are bad. >> i was in ohio with republicans, and they don't agree with you. here's the fact that you need to understand. in 2006, when the republicans controlled the congress last and had the president, the deficit was $269 billion. five years into the obama/pelosi/reid administration we have a deficit of $1.65 trillion. when democrats have any part of the government, they go crazy. they don't spend like drunken sailors, they spend like a drunken navy. >> the difference between you and i, i think the democrats are drunken sailor spending. the republicans are doing that. a couple points i made there. you know, your republican leadership are the people

. >> the most anti-business policies we have seen since jimmy carter. >> more than 100 c.l.'s pledge to halt campaign contributions until washington gets its act together. after 40 years in power, gaddafi is on the rhine. >> the regime is finished. >> at a memorial dedicated to the memory of dr. martin luther king jr.. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- let me be up front, we are somewhat focused on a national events in washington -- natural events in washington. hurricane irene is speeding up the east coast. we also had an earthquake, unusual for us. i think it is fair to say that it generally scared the hell out of a lot of people. the beauty of our business is that we can work politics into just about anything. as irene does for worse, let's talk about the debate in the republican party about climate change. rick perry says it is a scientific theory that has not been proven to jon holtzma -- jon huntsman told a capper that if republicans position themselves as the anti-size but, it will cost them 2012. >> it is what the national academy of sc

carter collins lives alone and likes doing things like paying bills himself. >> i'm blind.est access for me to be able to pay intils telephone. not the internet or a letter. not a stamp. and mail bok, but a telephone. >> and he's been paying for phone for seven years but last month it was different. >> i'd dial that number and enter the last four digits of my number. and this would default to a person, quickly online to be able to straighten it out. >> not this time. he was left on terminal hold. and three days he tried to call. >> i tried for three days to get in. i couldn't. and i got assessed a $25 late fee. i tried to negotiate way, at the supervisery level i was denied. >> there is erk yek tiff director of light house for the blind. he understands the frustration autos we find what is helpful to be able to talk to a human. this doesn't matter on the streets or phone helping us. >> he says the blind have powerful new tools to assist them and this is including how to live on their own. >> and we contacted wells fargo. the company declined an on camera interview and would

carter's of tranquility needs to be something that is pushed very strongly. right now, as far as i know it may be there, but not being pushed the way it ought to be. we need to get food for babies, children will die. and those people are leaving by their feet. they become refugees in places like kenya. so many are dying on the way. and when they get to the refugee camps, they are so close to death and the very young ones and the elderly die soon after entering the camp. the camp in kenya was made for 90,000 people and is now at over 370,000 refugees. it is building at the seams. and people are still arriving by the thousands every week. this crisis needs much more focus on the part of the world leaders. that includes president obama. we have serious problems with our deficit and other problems. the stock market took a real hit during the week. but frankly, we also saw people dying and i think there needs to be much -- a much more focused global effort. we need to get the foodstuffs to the people that need it, or else we will have a massive loss of life to add

carter evans, chris lawrence and, of course, our josh levs. >> carter evans, let's begin with you.arter is there along with perhaps some tourists. some folks who i know have been stir crazy, ready to get out and about. i know that where you are, that's the hudson river behind you. is it now back to normal? >> reporter: you know, it's back to normal in the sense of river height. as far as normal, though, you can see all those white caps behind me reaching all the way out to the statue of liberty. it's pretty rough. we normally don't see it that rough. it certainly is a lot better than it was earlier today. when the flooding was at its peak here, the water came up to about where i'm standing well past those benches over there. i would estimate it's a good eight or ten feet down to the water level right now. that gives you an idea of how high the water was. here in new york city, though, water wasn't the only problem. there were falls trees. i was near central park this morn ing. we heard a loud bang. it sounded like an explosion, really. this this gigantic tree came down. the scaries

people like josiah bailey of north carolina, tidings of maryland, cart carter glass and harry byrd of virginia and others. carter glass had been one of the very few people in congress who opposed social security, but not only did he support fdr on the war, he thought that the president was too restrained. he wanted him to blast hitler off the map, and glass was a strong supporter of selective service and lend-lease. millard tidings, whose hide fdr had wanted to strip off, said that he would rather have a ready and prepared army and not need it than need it and not have it. and he supported selective service. senator john overton of louisiana and richard russell of georgia even amended that select i have service -- selective service bill to allow the governors to seize industrial plants if their owners refused to accept government defense contracts. and in 1950 a dozen year after the purge, tidings was virtually the only senator with the courage to stand up to joe mccarthy. after mccarthy's committee -- sorry, after tidings' committee investigated mccarthy's reckless accusations, tidin

carter and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. i'm kim lawton, sitting in for bob abernethy. thank you for joining us. >>> this week, the world's more than 1 billion muslims began observing their holy month of ramadan. during the month, muslims are expected to fast every day from dawn to sunset and to offer special prayers and give to the poor. they break their fast with the traditional iftar meal. >>> a new survey out this week says american muslims are very optimistic about their lives in the us. and, according to the gallup organization's middle east center, american muslims' perceptions of their overall well-being increased more in the past three years than those of any other religious group. but circumstances are not as optimistic for muslims in several other parts of the world. >>> there was an international outcry about syria's intensified crackdown this week against anti-government protestors. the u.n. security council condemned what is being called "the ramadan massacre." the u.s.-based muslim public affairs

carter, and the corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome. i'm deborah potter, sitting in for bob abernethy. thank you for joining us. >> humanitarian organizations continue to rush aid to famine victims in east africa, as the united nations called for more than a billion dollars in additional relief funds. a british official warned that 400,000 children could die of starvation in coming months if more action is not taken. reports surfaced this week that food supplies are being stolen and sold in markets in the capital of somalia. the world council of churches denounced any interference with aid delivery as "inhumane." president obama called this week for the resignation of syrian president bashar assad. the administration also announced new sanctions that secretary of state hillary clinton said would further isolate the syrian regime. the syrian government crackdown on protestors has intensified in recent weeks in what some have called the ramadan massacre. several hundred people are believed to have been killed since the islamic