david lawrence in front of lawrence's own audience. my question to you is, can you see barack obama having the strength to do that today? >> he better learn. the best part of my book in terms of research was getting 64 audiotapes that nobody's ever had before of kenny o'donnell describing such scenes at each stage of his political life. jack kennedy played "hardball." he sent bobby in the back room to do it, to beat up these governors who were giving him a hard time. it's amazing how he did it with mike desal and david lawrence and people like pat brown. governor taas. they came out of that room endorsing him. he had a strong brother who was willing to do the tough work, the ruthless work. and jack kept his hands clean. but he got the job done. in that case, here was lawrence. jack kennedy had won the democratic primary in pennsylvania that spring, 70 plus percent. he had walked away in a write-in campaign. pennsylvania wanted him, the democrats -- and here's old david lawrence, the first catholic governor, nervous about a fellow catho

padron, i'm also from miami, my boss is david lawrence, he's a person who really pushed to establisht referendum. but i want to tell children need a lot of adults supporting them. starting with their families. education starts at home, and we as parents, have to do as much as possible to help to learn the things that we're supposed to do or need to do. in miami dade county, we have done great programs, we have implemented great programs so that the family can participate and can have the resources. we have education for the teachers and the daycares too and we try to create a quality environment. and they're using a curriculum, they're trained, it's not somebody just to baby-sit a kid or take care of a kid, it's a as do you have to change this early childhood education? you have scholarships and grants for students, so what can we do to start earlier? >> above all, it's important for parents to speak to ng to college. that's the key that opens up the future to them. a campaign, secretary duncan was with us when we began hispanic scholarship fund, it's called “tus palabras de hoy” "yo

and up next is lawrence o'donnell with "the last word." >> after he told david gregory and others it was a joke. >> he's changed his mind again. >> electrifed with a sign on the other side that says it can kill you. that's a joke. >> it didn't sound like a joke. >> i don't apologize for using a combination of a fence and it might be electrified. >> are you serious? >> it sounded serious at first then it was a joke. >> he's taking both sides of the fence. >> 20 feet how with barbed wire. >> that's a joke. that's not a serious -- >> i think we're splitting hairs here. i apologize if it offended anyone. >> it's dehumanizing. >> with staunch anti-immigration sheriff joe arpaio. >> self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in the world. >> i have an electric fence. it doesn't kill people. >> this is no laughing matter, the border fence. >> some people don't think it was a good joke. >> it is not a joke. >> america needs to get a sense of humor. >> the front-runner right now -- >> herman cain is great. >> does he know what a neocon is? >> the day after i get elected i'm going to take a nap. >> he's

david. >> for the 22 nd time a faculty member at uc berkeley won the nobel prize. he got a standing ovation before the packed house at the lawrence berkeley national labs. he was awarded the prize in physics and learned about it in an unorthodox way. >> i will say that it's interesting to wake up at quarter to 3:00 in the morning by someone on the phone saying they're a reporter and want to know how you feel. and you know i felt fine. but i didn't know i said why? he said why do you ask? >> it turns out the committee had an old phone number and hadn't been able to reach him. the discovery that expanding universe was accelerating overturned an assumption gravity was slowing it down. he'll share the prize with two others. and perhaps just importantly we get -- he gets a free parking space for life at cal. >> that is big. >> and much more still to come on the news at 4:00. a helicopter plunges into east river survivors get plucked from water autos your dirty desk could be making you sick a head who is likely to have mold under their finger autos and today, meg whitman made a big announcement about the future of hp. emily chang will