that was jason carter, the grandson ofjimmy carter speaking there. we will bring you some of the sounds now and it seems there in georgia outside of the carter family home. quiet, sombre scene there. this is thejimmy carter national historic park, expecting the motorcade carrying the 39th president of the us to arrive there, retracing his boyhood steps, coming to the family farm where he was born and raised, he was born back in 1924, raised, he was born back in 192a, nothing to be 100 years of age. and we are expecting the rangers and groundskeepers there, those who take care of this site, which is now a national historic park, to honour the man who they essentially worked for and memorialise. you'll hear a bell rung 39 times. we will definitely bring you that moment when that happens. we have a couple of guests you. i want to bring them back in. but apologies if you have to interact, we want to make sure we don't miss that moment. amber ross, robert strong. amber, as we see this gathering here of park rangers, it is an interesting site, thejimmy car

she supported jimmy carter. fond memories of president carter. i was stationed in korea in 1978 and 1979. during that time president carter came over to korea. i was air defense artillery. we were concerned about protecting our airspace while he was there. that was very exciting for me. i recall that he ran with the second infantry division. i just thought that was just amazing, that the commander-in-chief would actually get out and run with the troops and could actually run with the troops. that was exciting for me also. those are just some of my thoughts. host: you can see the flag is at half staff for the state funeral of former president jimmy carter. he died at the age of 100 on december 29. this is roger in great neck, new york. democrat. caller: good morning. i want to thank c-span and take this opportunity to say thank you. my question is, all the press, msnbc, cnn, fox news, the regular channels, channel 2, channel 9, channel 11, all the news programs and the newspapers , new york day, post, newsday, they did not mention one thing reside

i know a lot about the carter. president carter's life and his presidency. i've taught seminars on as presidency four or five times, but there were many, many things that i did not know that i learned from from your book and from your research. so thank you for this for this work. and i'm really excited about talking with you about it. well, thank you for having me. well, you've written a biography is about a variety of fascinating figures. carrie talked about some of them, robert ames, mcgeorge bundy, william bonney, most notably j. robert oppenheimer, the book that you won the pulitzer for. but what attracted you to jimmy carter as a biographer? biographical subject. well, back in 1990, you know, literally more than 30 years ago now, i was just finishing my first biography that took me ten years to write on john j. mccloy. and in that book, i had to write a long chapter, really, about the iran hostage crisis, which, of course, involved jimmy carter's presidency. and that was my sort of first introduction to writing about him. and i got curious about his pr

jimmy carter did that.ough his persistence and perseverance, through his own shake police leave -- belief and the power of american diplomacy, he secured the camp david accords, one of the most significant, and durable peace treaties since world war ii. throughout the world, jimmy carter elevated the role of human rights in america's formann -- foreign priority and uplifted civil society in doing that work. jimmy carter was a forward thinking president with a vision for the future. consider his establishment of the department of energy. in 1977, which anticipated the central role it would play in addressing the climate crisis, his creation fema in 1979, which enabled our imagination to mobilize a national response to disasters, which has helped countless communities rebuild and recover. and his founding of the department of education later that year, which elevated public education institutions and increased national standards for the education of america's children and future leaders. jimmy carter was that

we saw that before jimmy carter. we certainly have seen it after jimmy carter. jimmy carter didn't really do any of that and

capitol, jimmy carter? >> host: sorry, carter. , when is he supposed be removed and taken to planes? >> host: the schedule is there will be a a departure ceremont 9 a.m. from the u.s. capitol. there's a motorcade that will take the casket to the national cathedral. then the arrivals are going to be at about 9:30. the funeral itself starts at 10 a.m. we have live coverage of all of that for you. there is after that ceremony then it's expected to last for about an hour then to go to joint base andrew's and the casket, the family will depart and arriving in georgia. there will be a motorcade to take into mehran ossa baptist church in place. there will be a private funeral service in the afternoon and then a private internment ceremony later today. does that answer -- >> caller: i was also just why don't they put them on trains anymore to tour the country after they are dead? >> host: i don't know the answer to that. donald in pennsylvania, democrat. good morning. >> good morning. i would like to say that ever

of jimmy carter's life. he saw 17 american presidents, including donald trump. and it's quite extraordinary when you think that one of his biggest achievements there, which was controversial at the time in the 1970s, there's no question. but it reached bipartisan support. now it is in the crosshairs of donald trump. but at that news conference earlier today, just 13 days before donald trump is indeed sworn into office, so many other headlines, including, he said, the gaza hostages should be released before he takes office or all hell will break loose. he also declined to say if he would offer pardons for even the most violent offenders of january 6th and on and on. a few other headlines. but jake, it was jimmy carter who donald trump mentioned several times. and i'm thinking back to when donald trump was in office. there actually was somewhat of a conversation between the two men about relations with with north korea and china. but jimmy carter also said yes, he was looking forward to living to 100, but he w

thatjimmy carter asked him to do.ents will be there. it takes place at the national if here in washington. from there, jimmy carter's washington. from there, jimmy ca rter�*s casket washington. from there, jimmy carter's casket will travel back to plains, georgia, where he grew up. she will be laid to rest alongside his wife, who died at the age of 96. they work the longest presidential couple ever, they were married for 77 years. he was 100 when he died, an extraordinary life. more than 44 years of a life after being president of the united states, in which he accomplished so much in terms of his charitable work, his work with democracy around the world, his world with supporting elections and human rights around the world. i think that's one of the parts of his legacy people will focus on quite a lot. back in the 70s when he was president, the whole movement around human rights and normative values was very new, and love something he introduced into the world dialogue. mil introduced into the world dialogue-— dialog

president carter, i'm trying.s the one to get browns and blacks and whites and others around the world to sing "amazing grace." "let there be peace on earth." i can tell him today. in his book, "why not your best," admiral rickover asked him two questions. one was, what range did you graduate in? and he asked him another question, why did you not give your best? today i can tell the admiral that j.c. gave his best. to the world. even in his latter days. today i can tell the admiral that j.c. gave his best all the way to his dying moments. today, i can tell the admiral that i saw seamen at every air force base we went to, with the wind blow, seamen holding a flag, the flag is fully extended, he's holding the presidential flag, it's flapping like crazy, he's weighing about 150, every now and then that flag was lift him up, he would anchor it back down. he was freezing, he was cold but he gave us his best. then when we get to d.c., there was another seaman holding a flag. the wind was blowing. it was cold. he was hol

carter got into that program. it takes a special kind of person to go from a to b with no radar detection, going low on the ocean floor, going all over, along the shores of china and asia. he was in the atlantic fleet and the pacific fleet. he had one ambition in life: to be chief naval operations. that left him when his father died because he went back in 1953 and took over the family business and also saw how many people his father helped by giving loans on things during the great depression and the like. the naval academy now is really celebrating jimmy carter and the navy is but for a while in the reagan era, he wasn't given the love out of the u.s. navy we are seeing today. >> they do not want him to leave, trying to block him from leaving buddy's dad died and somebody had to go back. >> rosalynn didn't want to go back to plains either. >> norah: john, there was such a formative moment for jimmy carter. he talked about the courage, self-sacrifice and discipline he learned during not only the academy but his s

president carter: yes. i was one of the earliest young officers that went into the nuclear program, and i was a senior officer in developing the second atomic submarine. when i was interviewed by rickover, he asked me all kinds of questions. every time i answered the question, he would ask me a more difficult question until he finally proved i didn't know anything about the subject i had chosen, whether it was music, art, literature, or current events. he finally asked me how i stood in my class at the naval academy. i told him i stood so and so in a class of 8800-something, very proud. and he said did you do your best? i thought for a long time. i didn't always study as hard as i could. i finally told him, no, i did you not always do my best. and he said, why not? and he turned around, and ended the interview. that was the last thing he ever said. he didn't look at me again. i sat there for a long time not knowing what to do. finally i got up and walked out of the room. i didn't know where to go. a couple

president james earl carter jr.was in middle school when jimmy carter was elected president and i vividly recall how my morad meyered him, how much -- my mother admired him, how much she honored his determination and work ethic, his intelligence and generosity and spirit. we've heard much today and in recent days about president carter's impact in the four decades after he left the white house. rightly so. jimmy carter established a new model for what it means to be a former president and leaves an extraordinary post presidential legacy, from founding the carter center which has helped advance global human rights and alleviate human suffering, to his public health work in latin america and africa. to his tireless advocacy for peace and democracy. jimmy carter was the president of the united states and ahead of his time. he was the first president of the united states to have a comprehensive energy policy, including providing some of the first federal support for clean energy. he also passed over a dozen major pieces

members of the carter family, leaders of the carter center, will also be here.ost importantly for the carters, though, will be the presence of the employees of the carter center and the presidential library and museum. they'll have a chance to pay their respects. this is a testament to the respect for the man who defined what it meant to remain in service of others after leaving the most powerful office in the world. jeff zeleny is here with me. jeff, a symbolic journey for the late president today, mirroring his life from humble beginnings in southern georgia, here to the capitol, here in atlanta. >> victor, it's extraordinary, that improbable journey from a peanut farmer to the presidency. but it would not have happened, of course, without georgia and atlanta, where he served, as you said, as a state senator and as a governor. and it was his work as a governor also ahead of his time at that moment that led him to the presidency. and his life will be celebrated, i think, quite appropriately, through the chapters in which he lived. we will see him going obviousl

carter. impressive 77 year marriage every day of their married lives and in fact from childhood they grew up next door to each other. rosalynn and jimmy carter's mother was the midwife. she brought 3-year-old jimmy in to see the baby, rosalynn. here with me now, msnbc contributor jonathan alter. so, jonathan, in this beautiful ceremony, we have seen five living presidents sitting there. current and past. some rivalries resolved. some not. it's the first time we have seen president-elect trump and mike pence shaking hands since the disputes of their presidency january 6th four years ago. and is seeing president-elect trump sitting next to barack obama and the two of them chatting more than anyone else. we saw, of course, george w. bush, hillary and bill clinton, dan quayle. i mean, it was really a power play of the american presidency. >> you know, it was also about our civic religion and for all of the polarization, all of the alkaloid. we are one people and it is important to be reminded on

carter. i am cristian benavides at the carter presidential center in atlanta with how the nation plans to say good-bye. >>> we're looking at some fog this morning. but don't expect any rain as much drier weather moves in. i will let you know how long the dry air will stick around and what your first full week of 2025 will look like. that will be coming up - man, i need some serious help with this health insurance stuff. - check out covered california. it's a free service from the state that helps you get health insurance. millions of people have used it. - wait, for real? - mmm hmm, they even offer financial help to lower the cost. - nooo... how you know about all this? - that's how i got my insurance. i got a great plan for about $10 dollars a month. - okay, i see you. - if you've got questions, covered california can help, every step of the way. enroll by january 31st. covered california. this way to health insurance. >>> a beautiful shot of downtown san jose on this saturday morning. a lit

carter was not a liberal democrat. he was a conservative to some extent a conservative democrat on fiscal issues and liberal on social issues. so his legacy at the time was difficult to understand. he had opponents within the democratic party led by ted kennedy, who presented a different version of the man. so it is not a surprise that such a complicated political figure should take or should take decades to fully understand his effect on our country. >> errol, we're going to spend a lot of this day talking about president carter's influence on, obviously, the presidency, but we should also talk about his influence on the vice presidency and his allowing walter mondale to have a substantive role on policy and on the the role of the administration and actually creating a framework that we saw dick cheney, george w bush's vice president, take to a level that maybe even at that point they didn't even think was was possible. >> that's right. victor, we take for granted now that the vice president is a fully functioning mem

carter was farsighted.term political interests to tackle challenges that demanded sacrifice. to protect our kids and grandkids from future harm. very few people in the 1970s had heard the term climate change. yet carter put his presidency on the line to pass laws to conserve energy, deregulate new oil and gas prices, and invest in clean, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels. it wasn't a perfect program. but thanks to president carter, u.s. energy consumption declined by 10% between 1979 and 1983. in many ways, he laid the foundation for future presidents to come to grips with climate change. some thought he was crazy to fight so hard to pass these laws. but he was dead right. and we know that now. we also know that president carter elevated humarights to the top of its agenda. sometimes, sometimes, we forget how seriously he pursued, he pushed to advance the rights of women. he proposed and signed the law extending the period for states to approve the equal rights amendment. he appointed women to head the

god bless you, jimmy carter. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] >> president biden's eulogy for former president carter earlier today at washington national cathedral. and as you can see, the motorcade transporting president carter's body has arrived here at mar neta baptist church in plains, georgia, where the private funeral service is expected to get under way shortly. it will be presided over by president carter's personal pastor, son of the musical selections that will be played at the service include "america the beautiful," it is well with my soul" and "let there be peace on earth." following the service, president carter will be laid to rest at his home that he shared with his wife, rosalynn, here in plains, georgia. rosalynn carter died in november of 2023. >> order. present. >> as we wait for the start of the plains, georgia, funeral service, form

gradually he began to close the gap between jimmy carter unknown and jimmy carter a candidate to be consideredw hampshire. the first primary. the first state in which voters would make their choice. traditionally no candidate who lost in new hampshire ever won the presidency. a group of georgia supporters often referred to as carter's peanut grade -- peanut brigade flew into new hampshire. >> i'm a volunteer. >> if we had snow on the ground like this we would be paralyzed for a week. we couldn't get out of the house. >> her schedule was grueling, yet through it all rosalind remained an earnest and gracious campaigner. >> people ask me every day, how can you stand for your husband to be in politics and everybody know everything you do? i just tell them, we were born and raised in plains, georgia. it has a population of 683, and everybody has always known everything i do. [laughter] jimmy has never had any hint of scandal in his life. i believe he can restore that honesty, openness, confidence in government we sorely need. i think he will be a great president. >> the last boat was cast, and the

>> jimmy carter? >> i don't know who he is. >> jimmy carter is a baseball player. >> jimmy carter is running for what? >> i told my boss as a mbc, you really need to pay attention to this guy. you are focused on his accent but these people are serious. they may have dismissed it, he is not from washington. >> the party elite in washington, carter was invisible . did you know that attitude was in georgetown? >> i knew it, i did not feel all that at home with the so- called democratic party elite. >> carter related to the american voter in a way while his established opponents did not. they offered policy changes, he offered more basic change. >> when i'm president, i will never tell a lie. >> i promised to tell the truth, people believed me and i think they were ready for something different. >> he fashioned a campaign that is really a moral campaign at a time the country is still recovering from the most immoral president in history. >> neither the conventional nor conventional republican or democrat

the motorcade is then going to make its way to atlanta, where carter will lie in repose at the cartersidential center until tuesday morning before his body makes its way to washington, d.c. next week. we'll be monitoring these events. we will bring these images to you through the course of the show as they happen. but first, we're going to turn to capitol hill where republicans have now officially taken control of both chambers of congress as the 119th congress gavelled into session yesterday. republicans got off to a much smoother start this time around than they did two years ago, you'll recall. when the house was brought to a standstill for days because of a bitter and protracted battle for the speakership, that's the first thing that has to happen in a new congress. kevin mccarthy ultimately won that election after 15 rounds of voting, but he would be booted from the chair just 269 days later in the third shortest tenure in history. his successor, mike johnson, managed to avoid a long, drawn-out contest in order to win re-election as speaker yesterday by the narrowest of elections

about to hear from jimmy carter's grandson, jason carter. he's the chair of the carter center now, and steve osunsami, who has reported extensively on the carter family. steve, you spoke with jason and he told you about those final days and about his grandfather wanting to see his rose. >> yes, he did. he said that he knew that his grandfather was ready. you know, he had been in hospice care for nearly two years, and he said that his it was a bit of a comforting time for them, knowing that his grandfather was prepared for this next moment. you know, i talked with jason as he was writing the words he's about to deliver right now. and he told me, it's a it's a speech that he's written many, many times, but he wanted to focus on the love that his grandfather had for not just his wife, but just for people around the world. >> in my church, we sing a song that says, from the moment that i wake up, until i lay my head, i will sing of the goodness of god. >> i don't know how many people in here can say that. i know i can't, but my grandfather certa

god bless you, jimmy carter. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] >> president biden's eulogy for former president carter earlier today at washington national cathedral. and as you can see, the motorcade transporting president carter's body has arrived here

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that's what jimmy carter did.ross the planet he was a voice for democracy, for human rights, for eradicating disease . especially in those countries that otherwise would not have had the capacity to protect their people from the ravages of disease. >> there is such a difference in the politics as today. as difficult as it may have seemed at the time washington has never been an easy place. jimmy carter learned that the hard way. i wonder what he would make of the politics of today. do you think that there are echoes of the person he was that can still resonate today with people going into political life? >> obviously donald trump does not share jimmy carter's view of the world, of the responsibility that a government has to deal with human suffering. i think this past week focus has helped us to once again focus on the better angels of our nature and how we can't forget those who would be left behind unless there was a conscious effort made by our government, by our people to focus on that suffering and not just h

that is the carter family. they are expected to be there for a few minutes before traveling to president carter's hometown of georgia. shortly, you will see the family getting out of motorcade and current and former special agent in charge from the u.s. secret service protection division will take president carter's remains to the hearse and walk alongside as the motorcade parts that center. back to your calls while we wait for the carter family to arrive. christopher in new jersey. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call and thank you, c-span, bringing us historical significance of events like this. jimmy carter was a man who showed all young people how to indeed do public service. to do good for all humanity and to change the world for the better. i know because as an advocate for people with special needs and as someone who is fighting to make a difference, i can understand jimmy carter and i have that in common. i do believe that if we can learn a great deal from jimmy carter's life is to be able

thank you so much. >> jason carter in tribute to the employees of the carter center. now we will hear the scripture reading by tony. >> usually every saturday i make the pilgrimage down to plains, georgia. sitting beside president carter in the compound . you walk in the room he is wrapped in a blanket that has psalms 23 on it create one of his favorite psalms. the lord is my shepherd, there's nothing i lack. he lets me lie down in green pastures. he leads me beside quiet waters, he renews my life. he leads me along the right path for his namesake. even when i go through the darkest valleys, i fear no danger, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life and i will dwell in the house of the lord as long as i live. you can use your spiritual imagination, for almost 2 years , our friend, number 39, president carter, pop pop, dad, wrapped in a blanket says psalms 23. >> that was

senator to endorse carter and then-governor carter in 1976.sident carter, they were both forged in the 1970s. carter goes to the convention in 1970 and thinks maybe presidential politics is something i could do. joe biden elected to the senate in 1972, during a year of tragedy as will. they've coursed not always on the same path, but aligned for a long time. president-elect trump will be here today. it's notable that president-elect trump went to the u.s. capitol and paid his respects to president carter alongside former first lady and incoming first lady melania trump. trump said to reporters he's always had a strong relationship with carter, not a close relationship per se, but a respectful one. a former carter advisor told me about a phone call trump and carter had where they joked about they did not particularly like john bolton, trump's national security advisor. trump and carter both have their owner regularities, shall we say, when it comes to that so-called presidents club in american political life. but they always had a relatively fr

carter never did that. he was not proactive about building relationships at any point throughout his life. because he was -- i think he viewed himself as being the smartest guy in the room. in all situations. and therefore he expected people to view him as such. obviously there is a lot of smart people in washington who are not ready to concede that outside from georgia is the smartest guy in the room. he never built up that level of support not only among american people as evidenced by his blowout loss to reagan, but even his own party. after he served four years, his party's not united. ted kennedy decides he's going to challenge carter for the democratic nomination in 1980. to be a successful president on the order of a reagan or kennedy or lincoln or a roosevelt or theodore roosevelt, you have to be a unifier. you got to be constantly building relationships and improving relationships with with all the people who are involved in the governing process. carter was never proactive about that. host: you ar

carter junior.cuments with the name i have always used, jimmy. >> a lot of letters to your family at annapolis. for you a prolific writer? -- were you a prolific writer? president carter: i think my parents would agree i was not a prolific letter writer. my mother wrote quite regularly. my father wrote every couple of months. i probably wrote home every two weeks, something like that. not prolific. >> did you both keep diaries? mrs. carter: no. in the white house the last couple of years i kept a diary. i disciplined myself i putting a schedule on the corner of my desk. i had my assistant leave spaces between events so i would fill it in. if they stacked up, i would know i was behind. i had to do it pretty regularly. >> you point out in the museum admiral rickover was your role model. is that accurate? president carter: my father and the personal aspects of my life. admiral rickover in my professional life, yes. those of the men who had the most impact on my own habits and moral values and my work p

carter. is that a reflection of your partnership? mrs. carter: was fun putting it together, but we have been involved in all of the things together. we got married when we were very young. i think maybe it is. fmr. pres. carter: everything we have done since we went home from the navy in operating carter's warehouse, operating the farms we did, running for office, serving in the governor's manchin, running for president and so forth, we had been full partners. and we are still full partners in the operations of the carter center here in atlanta. i would say that we have been pretty much on an equal basis. >> how does the museum fit in with the library and what the carter center is all about? fmr. pres. carter: i think the museum makes a good picture of what we did in the white house, what we did before the white house. it doesn't cover the time in our lives after i was president. that is basically part of the carter center, which is next door to the library and museum. but it is a very extens

and worked at the carter center, and i was struck by what chip carter said. he said the two of them together changed the world. it was amazing thing to watch. so truly we are seeing to a person there. these are carter center employees and people who who loved and dedicated their lives to the carters as well, from who had portfolios that spanned the globe from democracy to humanitarian issues. and as you said, this was not a farewell to a president that will come next week in washington. this was to jimmy carter, the man, the proud son of georgia. and what a remarkable life he had in scripture and song, sending him off as they planned several decades ago. and the choir from morehouse resonating there in the carter center was what he intended to send him off. and boy, did it. i think listening to that, we all, uh, we all felt something. and it struck also by psalms 23, his pastor, tony louden, talking about when he would visit the former president. he was wrapped in a blanket. and you made the point that that blanket was one that he had over him when rosalynn w

wasn't jimmy carter's yle? he was here to get wn in the weeds and the dirt, and he did that literally on numerousabitat builds, including one back in 1994, in eagle butte in my home state of south dakota. well into his 90s, he could be fou with his hardhat and tools on construction sites, doing the practical work required to get falies into homes. a son of man did not come to be served, but to serve. and jimmy carter did his very best to live. according to the calling of his lord and savior. today i join all americans in mourning. president carter and remembering his example. but i rejoice in the thought that he, together with his beloved wife rosalynn, is now before the face of his father. to the family, to jack and chip and jeff and amy and the entire carter family. vice president harris, members of the cabinet leader thune, my colleagues in congressnd my fellow citizens. we meet in ts sacred hall of self-government to honor an extraordinary man, a man who modeled the virtues of service and citizenship, as we

led by jimmy carter, of course. knows how many people would die in haiti had the 82nd airborne had to launch invasion? the military secret service was hanging on and definitely would have been shooting back at the american forces. >> you are talking about two great man as you tell that story. i remember it well or two he was not afraid to go in and do what was right to try to bring people together, to find the common ground and to find the peace to try to save people's lives. unfortunately for him he worked so hard to bring iran hostages home and was unable to do it before he left office. but it was his work that helped get them home. talking about colin powell, that is another great man who believed in public service which of the two of them are respected each other and worked with each other. >> sandra: thank you very much, congresswoman for your thoughts. i want to bring martha maccallum back into the coverage as well as we say goodbye to the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter. martha. >> sandra, w

>> jimmy carter. >> jimmy who? >> i don't know who he is. >> jimmy carter. >> nothing against him, look to me he's all right. see what i mean? he's a democrat, right? >> he's a people's man. >> he's sexy. >> what do you mean by that? >> i've never thought of jimmy carter as sexy, i think if it comes down to it, people would say gerald ford is sexy, he was a football player. carter sexy? i think he's a nice man. >> i think he has a nice smile. [laughter] >> bushy hair flying around? i heard he was a peanut farmer. >> i don't think it makes any difference, you know, whether he's a peanut farmer or not. there's nothing wrong with peanuts as far as i'm concerned. >> i picture him as like one of us, one of the working people, the common people. >> and now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you the next president. united states, jimmy carter. [applause] >> sometimes introductions are hard to follow. i remember about five years ago when i was running for governor and a young man who

governor carter, um, the world leader carter and the carter center. just they packed so many things into their 77.5 years of marriage. and president carter's 100 year life. >> i'm sure you had dozens of conversations with president carter over the years about his thoughts on world events and world leaders and today's politics. um, did he ever say anything to you about how he hoped his legacy would be remembered? >> you know, one time i asked him about that, somebody was doing some some fact checking, and he just looked at me. he said, you know more about me than i do. just handle it. you know, that didn't concern him. what concerned him was the president helping people just as much as he could. he really didn't waste any time thinking about after he was gone. he he lived for the moment. >> president carter, of course, was known to have a fairly simple life at his home in plains, georgia. um, and, you know, we had some people on the panel a couple of days ago who served in his white in his white house with him in his administration with him, and talked

jack carter, chip carter, and jeff carter. and then 13 years later they had amy carter, who i think is probably the best remembered of them. she teaches art in atlanta now. >> well, she grew up in the white house. she had a lot of focus on her. >> she did. >> as a young girl. >> so all of them are there and very much part of these commemorations of his life. and be there in washington as well as many other relatives in this extraordinary georgia family. >> absolutely. it would seem some of these dignitaries, the georgia governor brian kemp, lupt governor burt jones, mayor andre dickens and the georgia state legislators, you saw some of them getting into what looked like a large limousine as well. they are probably joining this particular procession now as they make their way to the carter presidential center where we do expect to have an arrival ceremony sometime this hour. we've been watching this very closely. i did want you to continue watching with us but i did want to bring everyone in as we see the motorcade leaving the

carter.ing only 45 minutes orso we were talking only 45 minutes or so ago. we are seeing the beginnings of the ceremonials at the carter centre. on thursday for the state funeral, the great and the good will be assembled. the carter family have invited you to that funeral, how much of an honour and privilege does that feel? i never expected that. never at all. my wife and i are still in shock, so we leave for washington tomorrow night. it is one of the greatest honours that we have ever received outside of family. i still can't believe that the president put us on his invitation list, very moving for us. ~ . ~ ., for us. we were talking about his legacy _ for us. we were talking about his legacy as _ for us. we were talking about his legacy as a _ for us. we were talking about his legacy as a president, - for us. we were talking about his legacy as a president, butj his legacy as a president, but probably unlikejust his legacy as a president, but probably unlike just about every american pres

carter did all those.rved a new path for what was possible for former presidents to consider with their time, influence and power. host: his grandson in his eulogy marking, noting the presidential carter center has 3500 employees, 100 and america and the rest across the world. guest: incredible. carter was clearly focused on global affairs. that was true during his presidency. some of his biggest contributions are with foreign policy. i attribute that to his time in the navy. he lived all over. he got to see different types of people. i attribute it to his christian faith. there's an element of wanting to lift up those struggling the most and he found spaces like the guinea worm or river blindness where he could make a tangible impact on millions of lives. host: jimmy carter the late president on his way home to plains, georgia right now, the motorcade on your screen, still inside washington, under the kennedy center right now, making its way to the beltway, then to joint base andrews. from there, there wi

>> that's jeff carter. that's jimmy carter's third son. he had three sons and amy who came along 13 years after jeff, and the other two sons are jack carter and chip carter. the entire family, the grandchildren, a close family, took family vacations together where jimmy carter would insist that everybody be prompt and when the bus left, it left. if you didn't catch it, you were left behind. there was only one person who got an exemption from that and that was rosalyn carter, and he was a woodworker and made her a plaque that entitled her to be late. she said it was the best present she ever received. but you also have -- you can see in the -- in the crowd there, in addition to family members, there's some people from the carter center, the chair of the board of the carter center is jason carter, jimmy's grandson, who is a peace corps veteran and former candidate for governor of georgia. very impressive heir to carter's responsibilities at the carter center. and i think the other thing to keep in mind about the carter's circle, when jimmy a

, one of the many grandsons of president carter and joshua carter as well and jason carter. so jason, joshua and james all grandchildren of president carter will have a chance to pay tribute to their late grandfather who they loved very much. >> bill: andrew young is also there today. i was watching him the other day in an interview and talking about his memories of jimmy carter not just as a president but also as a governor before he went to washington, d.c. and the years that he spent in his post presidency. remember, he left the presidency and he was 45 years young, which he had a long runway after that. went into hospice almost two years ago and had survived a long time on hospice, rather, under great care as well. and andrew young will deliver the homily today. his message will certainly be poignant. the choir is so stunning and sounds so beautiful and we'll hear the song "imagine" sung as a duet by garth brooks and tricia yearwood, quite a pair. >> dana: the carter family, that's who that is paying tribute there and saying hello to president biden and first lady jill b