so nativists are concerned about catholics infiltrating the democratic party. the democrats were viewed as the toties of the catholics. meanwhile, the know nothings saw themselves as the people's party as opposed to the corrupt political parties that had been perverted by the catholic interests as they called it. the formal name of the party was the american party, and they were very successful, especially at the state level, in the mid-1850s. 1853, '54, '55 they were quite successful in -- well, even in states like massachusetts. the know nothings won several key state elections because there was a general feeling among the voters they wanted to throw off the old party organization. in other words, in some respects the american party was a kind of no party or anti-party party, right, in that it was really saying, hey, we're different from the other two conventional traditional parties. they wanted to destroy, they said, the power of hack politicians and party wire pullers and bag men. they pushed for party nominees being named by votes in local lodges rather th

ozawa repeatedly pleaded not guilty. >> a democratic party representative says the trial's outcome was expected. >> translator: the acquittal is a matter of course. >> dpj secretary general azuma koshiishi says party leaders will soon begin the process of restoring ozawa's membership, but a top ranking official from the opposition liberal democratic party says it doesn't matter if ozawa get his membership back, he's still tainted by scandal. >> translator: ozawa bears heavy political and ethical responsibility, considering that three of his former aides were arrested. >> ldp secretary-general nobuteru ishihara says his party will ask ozawa to testify about his alleged role in this funding scandal. ozawa refused similar requests while his trial was under way. nhk's political commentator masayo nakajima has followed the ozawa case from the start. and he spoke earlier with shery ahn about what we can expect following this decision. >> what verdict will this have on japanese politics? >> well, in a nutshell, i suspect ozawa will try to regain political power, and use it to push out his pol

ozawa joined the democratic party in 2003. it was the largest opposition party at the time. he played a key role in shaping a force capable of challenging the government. that work finally paid off in 2009. the dpj scored a landslide victory in the lower house election ending 55 years of almost unbroken rule by the liberal democratic party. but tokyo prosecutors slowed ozawa's momentum, targeting his political funding. they charged his former aides in 2010 for falseifying an accounting report in connection with a $5 million land deal. prosecutors said the money came from a construction company hoping to win public works contracts. >> translator: i am innocent. i received no illegal donations. >> reporter: tokyo prosecutors later dropped the case against ozawa saying they didn't have enough evidence. but an inquest panel challenged that decision. the panel was made up of members of the public. their finding led to an indictment in january last year. soon after, the dpj decided to suspend ozawa's party membership. court-appointed lawyers serving as prosecutors summed up the ca

- the democratic party institutes as much in nearby sha on the progressive movement as the conservative movement does on the republican party. there's a reason when i say liberal movement and progressive movement, i trip over it because it doesn't even particularly sound like a familiar concept in pundit tri, punditry, right? democrats and liberals work together but there isn't a sense it's being dragged by a position movement more powerful and organized than the party itself the way there is on the right. that dynamic of the conservative movement being able to move the republicans over to their way of thinking, it is not the same on the left as it is on the right. that is one of the most frequent misunderstandings in the pundit area. the conservative has a lot more power and wherewithal, it can be confusing why republicans do some of the things they do. republicans are clearly not dancing to their own tune in terms of the republican party's electoral interests when they take on contraception. the hard core anti-abortion movement, part of the conservative movement which is in fact anti-

what those parties are republican and democrat. won one party is conservative and one party is liberal. i want to talk to you about henry clay. henry clay is perhaps the greatest american ever to become president lose some say benjamin franklin or alexander hamilton or george marshall. i will vote for henry clay. henry clay was the greatest legislator in american history. phenomenally important vote in the house of representatives and the u.s. senate. he was elected speaker of the house as freshmen on the first ballot to take the oath of office. and how much leadership qualities were recognized by his peers in the house. then it was previously ceremonial and transformed -- the second most powerful person. and open and close the legislature and committee. when we debate the whole bill. he was very effective and passionate. he started out in life as a jeffersonian republican. that which governs best govern least. you may recall the founding fathers something about political parties and something p1 o from a rivalry. hamilton we were l

a democratic party under jefferson was a party that did not like big government. they've been that way the entire 19th century. then in one election, almost overnight, they changed because of a man named william jennings bryan. this is how politics can be extremely unpredictable. brian served two terms in congress from nebraska. only 36 years old. but he was already known as a brilliant orator so he was traveling the united states all the time, giving speeches and at this point we are talking about the pop you list movement. and they wanted government to provide relief to the terrible depression hitting the country, and bryan knew this and he said i'm going to at the democratic convention and going to be the nominee. they said, you're crazy. nobody knows who you are. just amazing thinking. out brilliant speaker and he went to the national convention and still considered the most thrilling moment in the political convention history. having a debate over whether there should be a more open money supply because there was a tremendous inflation in the country. no mone

coming up the democratic party has always prided itself on inclusion and letting people of all sorts of political stripes what portion of the party needs to be booted out so that harry truman's vision for the party could again be realized i'll tell you and i still take. it we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until the truth. i make sense and i am a total get it that i love rap and hip hop music and. he was kind of the jester. i'm very proud of the role without you see it's place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry for the big picture. it's thursday so let's get geeky in the past scientists have shown that humans are hardwired to react to music and of discover that music stimulates more parts of the brain in pretty much any other human function for example a report published back in two thousand and nine showed that aboriginal african people who had never before listened to radio were

the republican party for 80% for and in the senate, the democratic party voted 69% for it than 31% againstd the republican party voted 82% in favor and 18% against it. so it is so much different than it is today as far as the breakup of the party. and why was it a civil rights bill so important to your documentary? >> is one of the most important pieces of legislation. besides humphreys that it was the biggest accomplishment. c-span: in his life? >> guest: in his career. in his career it was. it's very much like the health care bill. the same kind of struggle in the same maneuvering that had to be done to get it done. the republican party at that point had a fairly good record on civil rights. it was really the dixiecrat with the real problem in the coalition formed to get it passed was really what the republicans do tend to get it passed. so wasn't so much the democratic party was against it. it was just the ones i've met. the other problem is they'll have the 51% to get the bill passed, but they need 67 votes to stop a filibuster. now of course they think it is 60. but a 67 in those days

serious internal divisions within the democratic party in new york. i may have talked about this before. a lot of factionalism among the democrats in new york. factionalism. different elements. the so-called hunker group and so-called barn burner group. we won't get into that. but suffice to say, the whigs, again, end up with a successful candidate with electing a president in the form of zachary taylor, but ironically again, someone who's not really a committed whig. someone who is less than a diehard whig, you know, in the clay or webster mold. taylor had often portrayed himself not as a whig candidate but as a no-party candidate, as someone who's kind of above party, and he incorrectly assumed that a broad coalition had made him president and that he owed little to the whigs per se. political historians know that's nonsense, that in fact it was the whig party machine that got him elected, but that was his perception. and the way that zachary taylor would attempt to deal with the mexican session, remember the mexican session? that's that territory ce

to sds, the problem of the democratic party t permitted to have the southern racist white democrats in the party. and johnson and humphrey and kennedy were not moving quick enough to deal with the white south. at the same time, white working class people, you know, they supported anti-communism, interventionist foreign policy. labor unions were not open to admitting many blacks. labor unions were hawkish, anti-communist. that was the critique from the left. the new right had a similar critique, though they pretended to be quiet about events in the south at the civil rights movement, the new right did not like labor unions this interviews with the right of businessmen to do their own thing. the libertarian right did not believe that government had any business regulating the boardroom or the bedroom. and this creates an interesting kind of synergy where there's some issues in which the libertarian right and the far left actually agree. the radical libertarian right and the new left support the decriminalization of marijuana. the libertarian right is opposed to the draft and compulse sar

>> guest: yes, democrats had their own counterrevolution as my book "delirium" has in the subtitle. lost by a landslide, party leaders blamed women and feminists and gay and college students for the last and said that they had gone too far left. it into progressive. and what happens after that every time democrats lost an election, they would revert to that theory. the problem is we've alienated mainstream america by being too liberal and progressive on social issues. if that were true, there would be fine. but all the facts point to that mapping the case of the democrats lost. so what the democrats do anything that is their problem, dave gone off to recruit more centrist and conservative candidates who then getting to office like we had after 2006 in 2008 and make it very difficult for the democrats to pass legislation because it is sad is that the two-party system is all inside of the democratic party. >> host: next is a call from dance, kentucky. we have four minutes left. >> caller: hi, i would like to respond to those of us like me who don't question a women's right to an abortion or birth control, but r

the day was the democratic party. -- they was the democratic party. jindal is a republican. here are folks in both political parties who use race when they feel like it as a political instrument. there are democrats who are as happy as republicans. there are some republicans who have a history of doing it too. it is not a partisan thing. >> i am a freshman here at the college. i would like to ask this question on behalf of the jfk forum. i am aiming this at mr. christie. could you describe what role your race played during a time in the white house? do you feel you were treated differently, is the positive or negative, as a result? >> it is great to see you again. jacob was a but this event in my study group. -- a participant in my study group. it is great to see a friendly face. i will tell you a story. it is in the book. it upset me. it related to the ways we could have been more sensitive. i was ecstatic to be in the east room of the let us when coretta scott king presented president bush with a portrait of her husband. he was very fired up. he said, i can hardly wait to h

after 1888 the democratic party in arkansas and throughout the south in the democratic party mccain, and the governing without question challenge from the reconstruction until the 1970s and 1980s that the democratic party was unchallenged in the south. and so, a lot of the fraud occurred within the democratic party. they didn't have the strength to challenge it. so it was just kind of in excess will party on the political power. it was always important that she stay in powder, there were god-given right to govern and all of your friends and supporters hope the same way. so whatever was required to stay in power, you did it in your friends accepted that anything your enemies. the assumption is they would do it if they were in power. so they were elected that so to prosecute. arkansas is kind of off the beaten path with peninsular state. a rural state and never had much power from its inception. this kind of backward state and never the center of attention at the country. the only time park was the national attention and i was in 57 where she try to protect the integration of the centr

the democratic party is doing nothing to solve. here is the thing. this election is not about the gimmicks. this is all the democratic party will talk about all these things are gimmicks. this country has serious problems. we are $16 trillion in desperate we have a $2 trillion budget deficit and these guys want to operate with very little revenue and this will not stop progress. one party and one person have voted against, got $500 billion of medicare. not to save the program, but to create new government program which nobody likes. where more than happy to talk and we have a couple of big issues, the direction of the country and want to talk about that makes but we feel great about where we are. >> i think it is important to note the fact of what happened during that vote. the reason scott brown botha for-- voted for the consumer protection bureau is because he pushed a part of that bill which required that taxpayers pay the $17 billion price tag, not the hedge fund managers, the bankers or the people responsible for putting us into this mess. it is

requires tens of thousands of signatures which are then scrutinized by the democrats and republicans to exclude any independent parties even once you get ballot access as you noted the media generally excludes any oppositional voices so i think that the question of a broadening of a democratic. electoral process is bound up with a political awakening in the political struggle of the working class you can't have genuine democracy when one percent of the population control such vast wealth and carries out policies which is so antithetical to the interests of society as a whole they can't do it democratically they have to use more and more authoritarian methods of repression there is opposition to the war in this country in afghanistan and iraq yet they're preparing for another war are there nations whose leaders in your opinion truly represents the people's agenda or represent what you see. now is that now one nation no not at all in this war none of them at all so you're saying there's no democracy there's no genuine jailers see anywhere because genuine democracy is bound up with social equality it means that the most

how is the democratic party, not the republican party, but the democratic party going to try to prevent it means dealing with the largest jail system in the world. they have been plagued with trouble. the sheriff announced a commitment to shutting down the that's part of why new jersey governor had to al but beat reporters off with a stick in not onlying say she is not going to be picked as mitt romney's vice president and if she is picked as the vice president, she will say no. nevada governor bryan sandoval is saying the same thing. not just i don't want it, but i will say no if i'm asked. also, florida senator marco rubio saying i will say no if i'm asked to do the job. they are now constantly being badgered after if they would like to be vice president because the republican party has a huge problem with latino voters and everybody wants to see how republicans are going to try to fix that. i have a different question. how is the democratic party, not the republican party, but the democratic party going to try to prevent the republican party from fixing this problem that it has with

politics yeah movement politics at the ballot box then we will end up being at the mercy of democratic party operators in a political party that is essentially bankrolled by wall street as well and yet you know lyndon johnson didn't run as a civil rights pres and f.d.r. i didn't run as the new deal press both of them ran on very very different forms and the people were demanding something that's right and people got what they wanted that's right so you see all the rather sick and up and demand as it almost doesn't matter the party that's right and that's what that's really what has to have it's progressives of all stripes need to continue to stand up and speak in our vote in our own voice you know whether we're greens or democrats or independents who are socialists whatever our people identify we have to be united and not allow the political system to trap us in to sort of silence us because we have seen what silence gets us sort of turn us against each other. ben thanks for having to have you with us thank you good luck to get involved this season to take back your country. crazy alert no i

how involved will the democratic party and obama for america be in the recall effort in wisconsin, ify there asks for help, will you guys assist them, considering it's a swing state in the fall? >> well it's possible. obviously there's a stake in that election, and we believe that the governor has penalized working families across that state. so it's possible. we certainly want to see a good outcome there. >> and so the president or the vice president could campaign for the democrats there? >> i'm not going to get ahead of anybody's schedule, but we are of course paying attention to wisconsin. we have a stake in the outcome of that election, and we're watching it closely. >> stephanie cutter, deputy campaign manager, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, chuck. >>> up next, the picture that grabbed my attention this morning, and the surprise retirement on capitol hill from a guy who already had won his primary. what's really going on? first today's trivia question, who are the only mother and son to serve simultaneously in congress? tweet me the answer. the first correct answ

a lot of sexiest stuff about hillary came out and a lot of it was coming, all the democratic party staff itself. fast-forward a couple months and you have the whole affair appealing phenomenon. the love-hate relationship, dhea from the republican party that they could take up one of those at the very, very conservative woman, which has really never been the case. and i realized there was some need subterranean and american politics about our questions about gender and about women's rights that people thought were settled and really seem not to be settled. so they started investigating and someone found some very surprising things such as women were the ones who started in many ways the antifeminist men's and in the democratic party that is most liberal democratic man who did the most to that it hath been. >> host: who is lonnie potts? >> guest: and middle-aged single woman who taught in the churches of christ. when he found out about the era coming changed her life and she became politically act did to defeat the era. and she lived a pamphlet that went viral before we knew it bhairon buy

and then as a result, buchanan basically tried to purge the democratic party of douglas supporters. so, in a sense what he does, he paints himself into a corner. and in a sense has very few of those he's really in contact with. as a result, he's not -- while he's calling for compromise, he's not reaching out to part of the democratic party, followers of douglas and not reaching out to republicans to try to come up with a compromise that would, i think, be acceptable to all parties. now, he may have -- very well may have failed in this. i don't think he was a traitor. i don't think that he could have prevented the war. i don't think that -- i think, though, that he could have acted differently. and i think that if he had attempted to reach out to all of the factions, both democrats and republicans, i think, though he may have failed, i think at least he could have tried. and i think history would have -- he would have been thought differently in terms of the historical record that he is now, which is he's considered one of the worst presidents if not the worst president that we've ev

and democratic party in all started to come together. and it was twice as large as our party in those days. so humphrey gained and gained and gained right up until election day when richard nixon won narrowly, 43-43. so he took office and came to town, and let me complete on this thought. the town he came to was utterly hostile to nixon. it had loved john f. kennedy, it had cherished bobby kennedy. both had been assassinated. richard nixon was located by the press. the bureaucracy was against him, built up during the new saturday, great deal, fair deal and predominantly democratic. for the first time since zachary taylor, both houses of the congress were against the united states. and as i said, the media loatheed richard nixon. a lot of them did. and others did not like richard nixon. here was the final problem. you go down the east coast, go to the boston globe, providence journal, hartford current, new york times, baltimore sun, philadelphia inquirer, washington post, anti nixon all of them. three networks. two-thirds of the american

after 1888 the democratic party in arkansas and elsewhere throughout the south, the democratic party ecame the governing party without question. it was really unchallenged from the, from reconstruction until the 1970s and 1980s. the democratic party was unchallenged in the south. and so a lot of the fraud occurred within the democratic party ranks because the republicans couldn't challenge. they didn't have the strength to challenge. so it was just kind of an acceptable part of the political regime. motive is to just simply stay in power. if you're a politician, you always thought it was important that you stay in power, that you had almost god-given rights to govern, and all of your friends and supporters felt the same way. so whatever was required to stay in power, you did it. and your friends accepted that, and even your enemies. the assumption is they would do it if they were in power. so they were reluctant as well to prosecute election fraud. arkansas is kind of off the beaten path. we're an insular state, a rural state, and we've never had much power. and from its inception it

and then you end up essentially becoming part of a major political party-- the democratic party.people look at you. you know it's been said, we might as well just put out there. they're saying, "look, julian castro could end up as the first latino in the white house." so put those things together. you know, your mom's doing radical stuff-- you know, third party politics-- and you're like, right in with the big democratic party with... they have high hopes for you. >> well, i think it's a measure of how far the country has come in those 30 to 40 years, and she was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. and when you look at... look back at that experience, it's not surprising that there would have been a third party, because neither party truly was serving, i think, the interests of hispanics at that time in the united states. you had a drop-out rate of 70% or something like that. just astronomical. and the institutions of significance in the country truly did not afford the american dream to certain folks, and it's a measure of how far we've come that you have more significant

i really want the american people to look at the fact that the democratic party refuses to put their fingerprints on any kind of plan to solve our fiscal situation, and that's incredibly unfortunate. thank you. >> this has just been an absolute failure of lead sherp, and -- leadership and it starts at the top wit president of the united states. we know when the president was asked about the failure of the senate to pass a budget for over three years he said he had no opinion on it. can you imagine the president of the united states has no opinion on whether the united states senate, his party, the democratic party in charge of the united states senate, should have a budget for this country. well, i ran for the united states senate to get our fiscal house in order. i have two children, and i know if we don't address this debt crisis now, that it's not just about us. it's about the legacy of debt that we are burdening our children with, and so i would say, mr. president, where is your leadership? you have no opinion that the united states senate budget committee won't do a budget? your

back their party are conservatives need to take back the republican party it used to be the democratic party that was the party of limited government now they're the party of big government and i agree with you conservatives need to change how they behave and change how they govern but they need to do that by being smaller not by being more and more progressive so you want to shrink the size of government so that the koch brothers will have more power and more influence so that big industry in america will have more power over our lives so the big. big guy is he's can snoop on us so the big phone companies can charge us more and you want to you want to just turn the whole thing over to big corporations i never thought you'd like only the koch brothers are. conservative people say you know you guys say you want the government to regulate your health care i don't want united health care regularly here those are the choices first was not a choice free market is about competition and options if you think that you can provide health insurance at a lower cost then someone else you are free to star

participant generated in other words there was no proselytizing from move on to the democratic party or any other group this is mostly a sort of skill sharing and movement building activity that allows people to plan local actions and to coordinate with one another so how do you think actually plays out will be interesting to watch i mean i suspect that it will amplify the number of people who are prepared to take leading roles organizing may day protests perhaps tax day protests things like that but it's not as though this is a training camp that will then go out and make some big national action it's mostly a skill building initiative and terms of targeting corporations you know that occupy has come to stand alive taking a stance against corporate greed and corporate corruption can you talk about maybe some of the organizations that they plan on occupying or targeting that sprang. yeah i can tell you that there's going to be a big effort to publicize the imminent downfall of bank of america which looks like it could go insolvent any day in this as a tate a new round of bailouts and

the day was the democratic party. -- they was the democratic party. jindal is a republican. se race when they feel like it as a political instrument. there are democrats who are as happy as republicans. there are some republicans who have a history of doing it too. it is not a partisan thing. >> i am a freshman here at the college. i would like to ask this question on behalf of the jfk forum. i am aiming this at mr. christie. could you describe what role your race played during a time in the white house? do you feel you were treated differently, is the positive or negative, as a result? >> it is great to see you again. jacob was a but this event in my study group. -- a participant in my study group. it is great to see a friendly face. i will tell you a story. it is in the book. it upset me. it related to the ways we could have been more sensitive. i was ecstatic to be in the east room of the let us when coretta scott king presented president bush with a portrait of her husband. he was very fired up. he said, i can hardly wait to hang it. i waited a couple of weeks and there w

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