job approval rating is about the same as george bush's was but that says nothing about their political coattails or the likely success of their presidency. george h.w. bush had the highest job approval rating and bill clinton the lowest 200 days into their presidency. wendell goler, fox news. chris: in other political news, florida republican senator mel martinez is resigning. he made the announcement in orlando, citing a desire to return to his family in florida. he had earlier said he would not run for re-election next year. republican governor charlie crist will name his replace many. crist was already running to replace martinez but says he will not appoint himself. and new york democratic congresswoman caroline maloney says she will not run for the senate next year. maloney had considered challenging incumbent kirsten gillibrand who was appointed when hillary clinton became secretary of state. democratic leaders, including president obama, have tried to discourage potential challengers to gillibrand. a powerful democrat who resisted efforts to make public records about sweetheart loan deals for colleagues apparently got one himself. and what's

remember george h.w. bush, read my lips.y caused him to say we have to make this kind of move. the payback, though, they'll replay every single clip when then senator obama stood up there and said nobody under this threshold will see their taxes raised. >> he set a trap for himself. he can't do it now. >> first of all, he can do it. that's called simply going back on a promise. it doesn't mean you can't do it. again, what we'll likely hear is just when president bill clinton got in, he promised all these things, well, i came in, looked under the hood, it's a lot tougher than i thought it was. politicians do it all the time. >> the guy is doing something right because i'm hearing from angie, the market is up -- what's the -- the market's up 112 points. susan liscovicz is going to be joining me here in just a little bit. you know, is it the bounce, is it the bubble, are we there, have we hit bottom? i don't know. but there are some signs that are good. and we're going to talk about this on the aftershow coming up in just a lit

read my lips moment, george h.w. bush raised taxes because he was trying to be a fiscal hawk. what is going around here they are raising taxes to pay for their spending programs. >> i lied. last word. >> biggest problem is obama has raised spending to 45% of the economy. when we had bull markets and a strong economy, with clinton and bush and reagan it was between 30 and 33%. it doesn't have to happen because right now the fed and the treasury are basically one arm and obama has the printing presses going. >> imagine a simple health care fix, one word and show and tell you weren't always my favorite day. with all the pet hair in the air, i'd spend class preoccupied, bothered by itchy eyes. but now i have new zyrtec® itchy eye drops. it works fast, with just one drop, to relieve my itchy eyes from allergies for up to 12 hours. no other allergy itchy eye drop works faster or longer. which is good, 'cause there's a lotta paws to shake. with new zyrtec® itchy eye drops i can love the air™. (announcer) find it in the allergy aisle next to other zyrtec® products. (voice 2) how bad i

president george h.w. bushn 1992 nominated sonia sotomayor to the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york, this senate approved her nomination by unanimous consent. when president clinton in 1998 nominated her to the second circuit court of appeals, this senate voted 67-29 to confirm her on an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. her now familiar personal story is no less impressive. the confirmation of judge sonia sotomayor to the highest court of our country will inspire girls and young women everywhere to work hard and to set their dreams high. americans look to lawmakers to work together to make the country stronger. they expect us to put partisanship aside, to advance the interests of the american people. if there is one issue we should be able to come together on, to put aside our differences on, it is the confirmation of judge sonia sotomayor to the united states supreme court. i look forward to having the opportunity to vote in support of her confirmation with the majority of my colleagues.

and it was a republican president, george h.w. bush, who nominated her to be a district court judge. after president obama nominated her for the high court, she endured three days of gruelling confirmation hearings. >> did you fail to show the courage? >> no, sir. i didn't show a lack of courage. >> reporter: but with a solid majority of democrats in the senate, her confirmation was never in doubt. >> unless you have a complete meltdown, you are going to get confirmed. >> reporter: sotomayor will hit the ground running. the court returns early next month to hear arguments in a major campaign finance case. it also will take up cases on religious expression, congressional power, and whether juveniles can get life in prison for their crimes. now the hard work begins. but justice sotomayor is not expected to change the balance of the court, she's replacing david soute. >> january, you have carried the court, a little window into the culture the junior justice now faces. >> the work is overwhelming at first. it starts to don on them, cases

president george h.w. bushn 1992 nominated sonia sotomayor to the u.s. district court for the southern district of new york, this senate approved her nomination by unanimous consent. when president clinton in 1998 nominated her to the second circuit court of appeals, this senate voted 67-29 to confirm her on an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. her now familiar personal story is no less impressive. the confirmation of judge sonia sotomayor to the highest court of our country will inspire girls and young women everywhere to work hard and to set their dreams high. americans look to lawmakers to work together to make the country stronger. they expect us to put partisanship aside, to advance the interests of the american people. if there is one issue we should be able to come together on, to put aside our differences on, it is the confirmation of judge sonia sotomayor to the united states supreme court. i look forward to having the opportunity to vote in support of her confirmation with the majority of my colleagues.

and it was a republican president, george h.w. bush who nominated her to be a district court judge.he unprecedented weekend swearing in at the supreme court means sotomayor can hit the ground running. the court returns early next month to hear arguments in a major campaign-finance case. tell take up cases on religious expression, and whether juveniles can get life in prison for their crimes. sotomayor's appointment has been a great source of pride for many hispanic americans who view her as a role model for young people. >> in the salon, we been waiting for that to happen, now is the day and feel proud about what she's been doing. >> that's why you need justice. she looks at one who is qualified to be judged. we don't want someone because of his color or -- >> it's going to make a difference for the people. >> president barack obama scheduled a white house reception for sotomayor on wednesday. new at 11:00, tonight, local students who were quarantined in china are back home. they were quarantined for more than a week because some members of the group tested positive for the swine fl

and george h.w. bush faced this with respect to a promise that he had made with respect to taxes and how he was going to be able to produce a balanced budget through what he called a flexible freeze. and when that did not work because congress would not go along with it and deficits were rising and mounting, he was now faced with a campaign promise that proved to be very difficult to keep. likewise, most presidents have come into office with one or more commitments to the steel industry which tends to be enormously successful in using section 201 of the trade act to present presidents with an escape clause case in their first six months in office that they're going to have to deal with, and i know this caused an enormous amount of consternation in the most recent president bush's administration is how are we going to deal with this campaign promise we had when internally large numbers of administration officials thought this is, this is not the direction that we really want to take policy. so i would be i

whether it was ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, george w. bush, or with fellow democrats.e argued publicly and passionately and then looked for the best deal. he believed, as though he did business with. ronald reagan, i covered debates late in that administration into the bush administration. and teddy kennedy believed, tried to get 100%, but knew the time when to cut your losses and get the best you can, if it was 50% good, if it was 50% better. that's what he did so effectively. and because of his standing in the democratic party, he was able to bring republicans over to some deals they didn't really like it. >> candy, what was he like to cover? >> he was a lot of fun to cover, in so many ways. simply because he was an effective legislator, so you knew things were happening around him. but there are also sort of personal sides of senator kennedy that you would get glimpses of when you were on capitol hill or from his aides. one of them, very early on, when he started what really was his redemptive last 30 years of his senate career and became the lawmaker that john and

district court by president george h.w. bush, and promoted by democrat president clinton. she has made history, completing her history from the projects to the supreme court. a real life jenny from the block. shepard: thank you. the president was scheduled to speak. it is not unusual that he is a couple minutes late. in the meantime, joining us is senator jeff sessions, a ranking member of the senate judiciary committee who voted against judge sonia sotomayor. it is good to see you. i just spoke with senator mel martinez, the republican from the state of florida who voted yes on judge sonia sotomayor. he said he did not do it to pander to those who would vote for him, instead, he was voting his convictions based on her record. he said that he wished more republicans had done the same. why did you not? >> their reluctance stearns. first, i want to congratulate her. mobil she will be a good judge. -- there were a lot of concerns. i want her to be a good judge. nothing would make me happier than to see her do a great job on the court. i salute her and her family. i think ther

remember george h.w. bush would hold onto the hostages and would get reelected. we found out he was where he belonged, at the country club having lunch with potter stewart. >> that's where you kept him in the reagan administration. the chevy chase country club. if we find you're up in bethesda -- let's go to carlos gutierrez. "the wall street journal" writes -- mr. secretary, will the president have to raise taxes if he wants nationalized health care? >> i can't see any other way, joe. as you mentioned, by the way, in your book -- how is that for a plug? -- >> thank you, sir. >> you can't suspend math. this isn't a matter of ideology anymore, it's an idea of arithmetic. traditionally our tax revenue has been 18 to 20% of gdp, maybe it goes up to 21. but you're really hitting the maximum levels there. we've got a 13% deficit, how do you cover that? >> mr. secretary, you just tax the rich, right? >> there's not enough money there? >> there's a limit to how much you can ring out of people who make over $250,000 a

george h.w. bush, his office says that he is unable to attend and the former president, george h.w. kennedy to explain he will be unable to attend. former clinton, former carter and former president george w. bush will be in attendance, not george h.w. bush, who knew senator kennedy quite well. as we look at these remarkable pictures inside, there are 12 hours scheduled for the public to be able to wonder in and pay their last respects. the family has said if there are more people waiting, they will do everything they can to keep the library open a bit longer. >> president obama will deliver a eulogy saturday morning at the church service as well. we are going to continue to watch this crowd move past, pay their respects to senator kennedy. we are also watching some other news, including some breaking news in california. a kidnapped victim resurfaces. an 11-year-old girl kidnapped 18 years ago has just resurfaced. this is a shocking story to police as it is to the victim's family. we are going to go to the scene. police press conference has just occurred. we will get the latest on wh

president obama will deliver the eulogy and there are reports that former president george h.w. bush and george w. bush will be there as well. he'll be buried at arlington national cemetery in virginia. he's eligible because his service in congress and his two years in the united states army. he'll be laid to rest near his slain brothers john and robert at the famous hillside that includes jacqueline kennedy onassis. joining me now is neil. he's a staffer wrilgt for the boston globe magazine and an nbc news contributor. we appreciate you joining us. we have michael standing by as well. we want to get your thoughts of what we've seen, that casket coming out of the home draped in the flag and that amazing picture of the kennedy family. all of those generations watching this moment. >> it's an incredibly poignant moment, and i think it's part of the connection that ted kennedy has to this family. in addition to being patriarch he was the chief you'll gist. he was the one that guided the family and nation, and now it's his death and they're no clear sense of who will guide the family and

kennedy, tip o'neill were from a generation where you did battle with the wrong reagans or the george h.w. bushesing the day and then at night you would have a drink and see if you could get what you wanted. i covered my first days in washington a debate about whether to raise the minimum wage. he would pull you aside, ask this senator if he was ready to give or take. and he always shuffled around the halls. he had that horrific back pain from the plane crash, couldn't lift his feet all the time. but he always had laughter. despite the pain and tragedy in his life, he had that big trademark, big tooth kennedy smile and laughter all the time. >> larry: we'll be back with ted sorenson and john king right after this. >> larry: ted sorenson, how do you think he was able to overcome so many early deficits in his life? >> you said one word was growth, i would say one word was survivor. all of his older brothers were violently killed when they were still young. he must have wondered, as a national figure who was often subject to words of scorn and hate, he must have been wondered about the hate mail pou

replaced retiring justice david souter who was viewed as a liberal even though he was elected by george h.w. bush. >>> cash for clunkers may gea green light. the bill would pump an additional 2 billion in to cash for clunkers. the toyota corolla is the top selling vehicle on the list followed by the ford focus, honda civic toyota prius us and camry. the senate vote is expected later today. >>> congressional committee is looking into what can be done to make flying safer for americans. this follows a crash of a regional airlines in buffalo in february. the flight data recorders reveals mistakes made by the pilots and possible fatigue may have been involved in the crash. they are pressing airlines on stress. >>> a security scare in fairfax county. has mad crews were called out. part of the building was evacuated as a precaution. it wasn't anything serious. investigators later gave the all clear around noon. >>> capitol police reopened washington avenue and c street a short time ago after a scare earlier today. some of the search dogs appeared to detect something suspicious on a work van parked near

now, could this be, however, george h.w. bushyou know, no new taxes, read my lips came back to burn him. is he putting himself in a box here? what are the political implications if he cannot deliver on that pledge to have to raise taxes? >> i think the message hasn't changed, clearly. the white house signaled very, very strongly today that his commitment to not raising taxes on the middle class is as firm as it ever has been. and, you know, in the first month of his administration he gave 95% of the american people a tax cut. so, he's delivering on that promise. i do think, though, he's been incredibly dill dent jent looking for cost-saving measu measures, looking to stave american people money through health care reform and other reforms, military spending, as well. that will offset some of these clangs. look, the congress has a lot on their plate and they have to find a way to balance the books on this. but he can do it, i think. >>> trent, is the president putting himself in a box here, backing himself in a corner? no politici

sotomayor will take the place of retiring justice david souter who though nominated by president george h.w. bush, became a reliable liberal vote. her seating is not expected to change the court's ideological divide. she will be sworn in saturday, allowing her to take part in a special re-argument of a campaign finance case the court will hear next month. now for some perspective on what today's confirmation means to the hispanic community and beyond, we turn to: ramona romero, president of the hispanic national bar association; danny vargas, chairman of the republican national hispanic assembly; and andrew kohut, president of the pew research center for the people and the press. ramona romero: what does the confirmation mean to you? >> to me it's a dream come true. it's a reaffirmation that we latinos can be recognized as contributing members of our society and there are no limits to what we can achieve. >> reporter: danny vary gas, what does it mean to you? >> it's a great american story. a woman who worked hard, two educated, did the right things and was able to succeed in her professional and

she was norm nated by george h.w. bushto the district court and i submit to you that were this the george w. bush administration and if he had nominated her the way his father had, you would not have -- you would have had the democrats crying that she was going to be an activist and she is going to infringe on abortion rights. it has boiled down to politics. the court. bill: i got 90 seconds. bill: i got to get to lou dobbs. >> bush v. gore was the most activist judicial decision in the history of our republican. bill: i disagree. >> except for maybe dred scott. bill: you have a beef with me for sticking up for lou dobbs? >> lou dobbs has done more to slander latin people in this country than any other single human being. he has made the image of a young latino man climbing the border wall into this profoundly negative icon that has totally perverted the discussion over immigration reform. bill: listen, i have never -- i have never endorsed mr. dobbs' views, ever. >> and his -- the thing about the birther -- bill: please.

george h.w. bush, the 41st president of the united states was invited.y he will be unable to make it. he did call vicki kennedy, the senator's widow and caroline kennedy to pass on his condolences and thoughts at the passing of senator kennedy. barbara bush is. but he will not be attending. the other ones will. let me describe the scene for you here. there are thousands waiting in line. the line goes on as far as i can see this way into the dark. and one of the most remarkable things tonight is the kennedy family has been coming out to thank the people for turning out. you showed us sound from vicki earlier in the program. she came out to say thank you to all of these people. bobby kennedy spent two hours, we lost track of him. shaking hands, saying thank you to people for coming. he talked about his final conversation with senator kennedy. he talked about his role in keeping the family together and talked about what he hoped the american people would think of senator kennedy's legacy. >> he thought his mission was to help america live up to its ideals,

george w. bush will be there today. george h.w. bush will not. he will remain, i believe, in houston. he's obviously not as healthy and mobile as he once was. actually, i believe he is up in maine. but george w. bush will be there. a man who struck an unlikely political alliance with ted kennedy in the early months. early year of george w. bush's administration. >> looking now at live pictures inside the church. just looking at walter mondale among many. so much history, so many different facets of history inside that church now. which is officially called -- if i can reset the scene for you, our lady of perpetual help basilica. also known as the mission church. cardinal o'malley of boston will be presiding over the funeral of senator ted kennedy which will be starting at 10:30 eastern time. let me give you a sense of what we are going to see in our live coverage throughout the day. dan quayle walking into the church now. there will be prayers read by kennedy's four grandchildren and the youngest grandchild of each of the siblings will read quotes from his quotes from his speeches, an

ronald reagan didn't endorse george h.w. bush until '92, i think, it was. but i think it's just much too early to tell. i don't know if all three of those are going to run or not. >> if you come back in the break and he wants to do immigration reform, and he picks up the phone and says, john, i know you're mad at me about stimulus, health care, this, that and the other thing, but i need you to help me with immigration reform, would you stay with the president and try to do something along the same lines you tried to do with president bush and dick cheney. >> i tried to play the role of loyal opposition on iraq and other things. one, i would come guaforward wi an immigration reform policy, and an essential part of it would be a legal working program. that is what we're going to have to do, otherwise we'll experience failure again. >> i'll close with this one. the john mccain twitter account has more than 1.1 million follow l ers. the twitter account has only 1 million followers. is it time to replace the twitter act? >> it is a phenomenal way to follow the p

we have one there george h.w. bush.hile we didn't see i always respected his steadfast public services. i invited him in high lifebury to seef the bush award for excellent in a leader who answered the call to some 47 years. close as remarkable chapter in that b we'll be right back with more coverage. >> you're looking at a live picture in hyannisport, massachusetts and the kennedy compound. >> you can see authorities gathered there, certainly the media is starting to gather there as the coverage of this story continues. this is huge news this morning in boston and our abc affiliate wcvb is up all night covering the story just as we are. we want to take a look at some of their coverage already in progress. >> sisters were on the train and they decided to have a limmerick contest. at each stop, ted kennedy versus john kerry, at each stop they had to write a new limmerick, get out of the train and recite it. based on how the crowd reacted, that sister would be deemed the winner. the three sisters that were there treated hi

i hope it does a moment where we do something with saudi arabia, we called on president george h.w. bushhis input. >> to stephanie's point, roland, about the secretary of state doing so much of the work behind the scenes to bring this moment about. do you think he eclipsed her a bit or was this just a perfect moment of team clinton working in sync? >> no. first of all, without the involvement of president barack obama, without the involvement of secretary of state hillary clinton, none of this is even possible. again, the point for an administration's standpoint is you want those two young women home. so it does not matter. look, president ronald reagan didn't necessarily like the fact that reverend jesse jackson went to syria. but when that officer came home, there was a celebration at the white house. that's what's most important. not egos. the actual success rate of bringing those two women home. that's the most important. >> bill clinton, jeff, though did tarnish his reputation somewhat during the campaign. certainly his relationship with barack obama paid a price. has everything bee

it is interesting, he worked with george h.w. bush and with george w. bush on nclb.hese pictures that you are seeing now, so instrumental after the primary. of course, it was marked by these shark attacks by clinton and of the month. now we have the liberal line of the party endorsed and barack obama. that was a big deal. the clintons realized it. it may have been the last great political act of him in his career. john, i am sure ted kennedy will occupy a portion of your show this weekend. thank you. former president bush room during ted kennedy today, saying -- for more on our extensive coverage on the extraordinary career of ed kennedy, log onto foxnews.com. jane: we want to bring you some breaking news. there will be a news conference in south carolina for the lieutenant governor there. we are told the bill be calling for the governor of south carolina mark sanford to step down. if he does, he would be the most prominent official to call for the resignation. there have also been questions raised about how legal his travel had been. the lieutenant governor said it

. >> in 1988, kennedy offered some of the more memorable lines about the republican nominee george h.w. bush. >> some people say don't count your chickens before they're hatched. well, the republicans have already hatched their chicken in this campaign and george bush is a dead duck. >> in 1992, ted kennedy invoked the memories of his brothers in urging the nation to support bill clinton. >> my brothers had every gift but length of years. the years have been left to us. >> that was 17 years ago. ted kennedy, of course, went on to deliver rousing speeches at for more conventions again for bill clinton and al gore, john kerry and, of course, barack obama last year. politics though is not on the mind right now of kennedy's colleagues and friends. they've been focused today on his human an and the. >> that's right and the tributes have been coming in all day long. many people waking up hearing this very sad news but we have for you vice president joe biden and senator chris dodd. >> so many of his -- so many of his foes embrace him because they know he made them bigger. he made them more gracefu

former president george h.w. bush just this morning.we're joined now by david stuffen, a former senate judiciary committee member and worked with the council until 2002. >> yes. >> david, talk to us about the importance of period of time well after the presidential ambitions had gone away. the period of time where he embraced his life exclusively and entirely in public service as being that of a u.s. senator and how important that in really defining his legacy because there was so much controversy or presidential ambition that came into play in the earlier portions of his political career. >> well, there's no doubt, dylan, that when i joined the senator's office in 1999 it just happened to be the first week of the impeachment trial. he had been in that phase of his senate career for quite some time. you know, for a young lawyer on the committee and doing senator kennedy's civil rights work when he was at the peak of his influence was, you know, a life-changing experience and you couldn't expect anything more as a young lawyer. listening

ronald reagan didn't endorse george h.w. bush until '92, i think, it was. but i think it's just much too early to tell. i don't know if all three of those are going to run or not. >> you don't know that, that's a fact. when the presidential campaign didn't go your way, you promised to work hard and promised to help your party to rebuild after two tough cycles. it's a simple question, how's the republican party doing? >> could i say -- there's two things. one is fiscal discipline being conservative fiscally. we lost a lot of our base because they thought we had become big spenders and basically they were right. on the issue of the hispanic voter, we have to do a lot more. we republicans have to recruit and elect hispanics to office. and i don't mean just because they're hispanics, but they represent a big part of the growing population in america. and we have a lot of work to do there. and i am -- i am of the belief that unless we reverse the trend of hispanic voter registration, we have a very, very deep hole that we've got to come out of. >> on that point.

contributor and democratic strategist, keith, editor of "the daily voice," and an aide to president george h.w. bushjoe, let's start with you, what do you think? obama, tax on the middle class, increases, going to happen or not? >> can you spell flip-flop, dennis? this is going to be a huge flip-flop. he's going to have to raise taxes on the middle class, there's no way to spend $1 trillion on health care, $1 trillion on recovery and stimulus and then raise federal spending by 12% without taxing the middle class.s. >> i think julie that has the answer. you just tax people more than $250,000, right? >> hey, den, i know you showed footage of robert gibbs at the briefing to, i know you watched carefully when the president's spokesperson said very clearly that obama was not going to raise taxes on the middle class despite what you may have heard over the week. >> that's because the two lieutenants on the sunday -- he will say -- >> come on, unlike george bush who was controlled by other people in his administration, he does not answer to timothy geithner, doesn't answer to larry summers e he's the presi

president george h.w. bush spoke about the then lieutenant commander during his 1992 state of the union. >> a few days after the war began, i received a telegram in joanne s pchpeicher, the wife oe first lieutenant killed in the gulf. even in her grief she wanted me to know that some day, when her children were old enough. she would tell them that their father went away to war because it was the right thing to do. and she said it all. it was the right thing to do. >> julie: the pilot was promoted to captain during his disappearance and even awarded the purple heart. laura ingle with the news here in the studio with us, hi, laura. >> hi, when the captain's fighter jet was shot down his two children back at home in the u.s. were toddlers. now they're college age, they alon with his wife and family members finally have an answer to the nearly two decade old question about his fate. they recovered bones and schedu skeletal fragments that positively identified the missing navy captain by matching a jaw bone and navy

the other possibility was former president george h.w. bush, but clinton was deemed to be closer to the obama administration, a more appropriate figure. >> rose: there's also... go ahead, glenn. >> my understanding is that gore was kind of the choice the administration offered. north korea didn't want gore, they wanted someone else like clinton and it's not that it's any kind of disrespect of gore will, but becauseore was so closely associated with these two journalists, they worked for a ty program that he co-founded that perhaps the north koreans viewed him less as a representative of the united states and more of a representative of a company and therefore they preferred someone like president clinton. >> rose: it clearly--... from what you have said, kim jong il was looking for a way out of this. this had become bigger and more of a problem than it had anything else, correct? >> i think that's true. and... go ahead, glenn. >> i agree. i would agree with that. that... >> but i also think he's looking for something... a way out of more than

along with president george h.w. bush. aside, he'll only continue to do better things and play a bigger role. >> do you get the sense from anyone in the former clinton campaign they're worried about any of this imagery around her? >> no, they're not. here the president was doing a specific job. you can say it's ironic a nation that's frozen in time is the one that's treating bill clinton as the acting head of state. but the way that this came about shows that it's no bad reflection on anyone. we're told that the government of north korea told the family -- >> we're going to have to hold it there. that's it for "the ed show." i'm lawrence o'donnell. see you back here tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. "hardball with chris matthews" starts right now. >>> the roar of the crowd. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, health menace. those angry, noisy, shout them down protests at congressional town halls are beginning to be a lot more about things than health care. t

ted kennedy is from the generation where if you were having a disagreement be ronald reagan of george h.w. bush or a republican before that, they would fight in public during the day but retire and have a cocktail in the evening and work out differences. try to find, is there 80% we can agree on and set aside 20% we can agree on that? that era is missing in washington now. ted kennedy and ronald reagan in public agreed on very little but were two men who respected each other. ted kennedy very much respected the sway, the connection that ronald reagan had with the american people. they were able to set aside their ideological differences and work on things when they thought it was in the common good of the american people. >> john, hold that thought there for ha moment. i'm going to come back to you in a moment. i want to get your thoughts an where the health care reform debate is going to go from this point with without one of barack obama's closest alis. i'll come back to you for your thoughts on that in a moment. we received a statement from the senate

he did that with the george h.w. bush. he reached across the aisle was so many things. on domestic issues for george w. bush in 2001, but no child left behind act on education. also with bush in 2004, the medical prescription drug act. health aninsurance for children. i have a whole list. you could go on and on in the areas of health care, civil- rights, and education. you can agree or disagree with the direction he wanted to take the country, but one of the important legislatures of our lifetime. martha: when you talk about the future of the kennedy family, uthe children of bobby and jfk have said that he became sort of a surrogate father. and he was a huge supporter of caroline in her run for the senate. who does that leave to take over? >> i do not know that anybody is going to take over in that way. there were those nine extraordinary kennedys who were the children of joe and rose kennedy. there are nine of them. there's only one left. that is jane kennedy smith. with nine parents, there are an awful lot of the next generation of kennedy kids. i'm not sure there's an

his successor, george h.w. bush came in on an empty tank, reagan had pretty much drained the tank, the iran-contra scandal, democrats had held the majority during bush's presidency so he went back to fordya practice of vetoing republicans -- tried to keep his vetoes from being overridden and they were successful in doing that but essentially you had legislative gridlock during the four years of bush's administration. the very astute political scientist james sundquist, however, pointed out that the problem was not congress blocking bush's programs because there really wasn't much of one -- bush ran a very passive presidency in terms of legislation and he lacked what he said was the vision thing. the defining moment in bush's administration took place in the summer of 1990 when leaders of the administration and leaders of the congress met at andrews air force base to come up with a budget plan and they did and the democrat supported it and the republicans in the house led by newt gingrich opposed it -- defeat -- defe

. >>> from the 41st president, george h.w. bushara and i were deeply saddened to learn senator kennedy lost his battle with cancer. while we didn't see eye to eye on many political issues, i always respected his political service. he was a leader who answered the call to duty for some 47 years and whose death closes a remarkable chapter in that body's history. joining us now is bob schieffer, cbs news correspondent. good morning, bob. >> good morning. >> and presidential historian and cbs news consultant doug brinkley. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> bob, let me start with you. what are your reflections and thoughts this morning? >> well, ted kennedy was from a different age. he was from a different senate. that's why we'll never see anybody quite like him again. he came from the age when the senate floor was filled with giants. when people got elected to the senate for more than just their ability to be able to raise large sums of money. he knew the other senators. they respected him. he had this great ability to rea

expecting president obama to deliver the eulogy and former presidents jimmy carter bill clinton, george h.w. bushwell as george w. bush are all expected to attend. the church they've chosen for the funeral is a church that made a lot to ted kennedy. when his daughter was diagnosed with cancer, that is where he would go and pray. it remained over the years a place that he would frequently visit to seek refuge and comfort, a very fitting place for his funeral on saturday here in boston. >> exactly. very tough times when kara was diagnosed with cancer. maggie, we'll check back with you in just a couple of minutes. >>> police found key evidence in the case of murdered model jasmine fiore, believed killed by her reality tv ex-husband. hattie kauffman reports. >> reporter: one piece of the puzzle has been found. jasmine fiore's missing mercedes was found in this los angeles parking lot, more than a week after her mutilated body was pulled from a dumpster. meanwhile in canada canadian authorities have identified the mystery woman who held ryan jenkins escape. according to the canadian broadcasting compa

is the only way we can win is by reaching out to the middle, and i would ask them to look at george h.w. bush's campaign when he broke the no new taxes pledge, and as a result, conservatives did not vote for him and we got bill clinton. there are ways in which we need to be more effective -- conservatives need to be effective in reaching out to moderates because there are some intensely liberal areas. and we still want to win. we want to win everywhere. conservatives want to win everywhere. i think that's fine in certain areas, but across the board, as conservatives, we need to continually articulate a conservative message. because if we don't, then the republican party, which is aside from conservativism, the republican party will be controlled by moderates, and we will lose the pillars, the pillars on which the republican party has been founded, and it will fall apart. when there is no difference between republicans and democrats, people are going to vote for democrats. they are just more cozy, they have mastered that language that we haven't always mastered. >> thank you. god bless you. >> h

brad blaken and brad gop strategist and a former member of george h.w. bush's staff.clinton. welcome to you both. you argue this is democracy at work? >> you bet it is. look. anybody being arrested? are people being other than loud and boisterous on an issue that touches them daily? health care, the ability to get a job, these are people, average americans, not orchestrated by the republican party. these are people taking to the streets from every segment of society, every class. these are people just voicing their first amendment right. >> i want to get a comment on this from the white house press secretary robert gibbs. take a listen. >> i also have no doubt that there are groups that are -- have spread out people across the country together these things to go to these things and to specifically generate videos that can be posted on internet sites so that people can watch what's happening in america. >> is this cheap propaganda? >> what's wrong with that? >> i guess what's wrong with that -- i'll let keith speak to it, but what is wrong with that? >> it's being orch

then being selected by president george h.w. bush to serve on the federal judiciary and being promoted to a higher judicial office by president bill clint clinton. it's a rare occurrence for a federal judge to receive appointments by presidents of different political parties. sonia sotomayor received those and that reflects so well on her skill as a judge. she served for more years al th >> former giants receiver plaxico burress's arraignment on felony gun charges has been rescheduled. initially set for september 23rd, burress will now appear in manhattan's supreme criminal court on august 20 at 9:30 a.m. >> vikings quarterback tarvaris jackson said his left knee felt fine after practice wednesday morning. jackson's competing with sage rosenfels for the starting rosenfels for the starting q.b. job. he sprained his knee on saturday when a lineman rolled over his leg. >> you hold your breath, chris, when somebody's rolling around on the ground, but yeah, he came back, he's treated it well, got out there and moved around yesterday after

i remember george h.w. bush92 campaign trying to say you are in trouble. he said if you're so gd smart, why aren't you president of the united states? ted concern sen, i was watching that great kennedy documentary they rerun on pbs on 13. ted sorensen who's going to be with us said that the kennedys early on felt bullet-proof. they had the positive proof and he said we didn't think we could make any mistakes. we believed the stories saying we were working so hard and dangerous and happens to every white house and it seems to be happening to this white house. they are now at 50%. and i guess the qupolls are goi down and there's a sense of arrogance in some quarters in the white house like the bush white house. we won. we're smarter. why do we have to correct the course. that's dangerous. do you agree, michael? >> it is the sense of however bad things got in the campaign, we fought through it and see around the corners this people in washington don't see. the press is caught up in the blogs and daily chitchat. we