so we figured this means george mcgovern, now age 88, holds the new record for the most senior man among those who have run for president to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. george h.w. bush, 41, was only 85 at the time of his last jump. >>> now to our "making a difference" report tonight, we aired portions of this story this past saturday night and it's really a story everyone ought to see. in fact, since we first aired it, and you'll see why, there's been an overwhelming response from our viewers. it's about some innocent victims of this awful oil spill and people who are forced to leave their lives to make a living and have to leave their pets behind. others are now making a difference by stepping up and providing a loving home. the story from nbc's michelle kosinski in violet, louisiana. >> reporter: if only they could get the words out. alex and majerle, big benny -- >> that's okay, benny. there's somebody out there that wants you. >> reporter: would tell a story of human pain behind those eyes of masters who had to make an excruciating choice. to give up soulful friends and p

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. >>> former senator george mcgovern has just shortened his bucket list. for his 88th birthday, mcgovern went skydiving. he said his jump was dedicated to raising awareness of starving people around the world. >>> and a rare primate feared extinct for more than 60 years has been spotted in sri lanka. researchers were able to photograph the horton plains slender loris, a wide-eyed animal threaten by deforestation >>> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,154 after gaining 56 points yesterday. the s&p added 6. the nasdaq went up 19. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei lost 107 points, but in hong kong the hang seng went up 173. >>> hopeful investors gave markets a modest boost yesterday, but after the bell earnings from big blue could set a dismal tone for today. ibm beat profit forecasts with solid software sales last quarter, but thanks to slumping service contracts and a weak euro, the tech giant's revenue came up short. ibm fell 4% after hours. however, business is boomi

. >> in 1972, george mcgovern was nominated as the presidential nominee, and he chose as his nominee a relatively unknown senator named tom eagleton. i was a junior reporter covering the convention, and a thin jr. most person on the team, -- as the junior most person on the team, it was a different world then -- things sort of stopped in the fall. i was assigned to go to missouri and write a profile on a tom eagleton. while i was in the airplane on the way to st. louis, and known to me, an anonymous caller telephoned and asked to speak to john knight, the founding patriarch of our company. the operator put him through to the grandson, and young jack night heard this caller say eagleton had a history of severe depression that had been treated with electroshock therapy on more than one occasion and the republicans knew about this and were going to use this as a dirty trick late in the campaign and that it needed to get out because something needed to be done. he urged the caller to call back with more detail. he had the presence of mind to realize there was not enough to do something w

. >> in 1972, george mcgovern was nominated as the democratic presidential nominee in miami beach. he chose as his running mate a relatively unknown senator from missouri. i was a junior reporter covering the convention. as the junior-most person on the team, i was assigned -- everyone else was going on vacation after the convention. it was a different world. it was not nonstop campaigning. i was assigned to go to missouri and write a profile tom eagleton. i was on the airplane to the way to st. louis. an anonymous caller telephoned "the detroit free press" and asked to speak to the founding patriarch of our company. the operator put the collar through to his grandson, who was an editorial writing in turn. young jack knight heard the caller say that eagleton had a history of severe depression that was treated with electroshock therapy on more than one occasion, and the republicans knew about this and would use it as a dirty trick late in the campaign, and it needed to get out now. something needed to be done. he urged the caller to call back with more detail. he had the presence of

"george mcgovern marks his 82nd birthday by skydiving on monday." we are talking about the consumer protection agency and of elizabeth warren should run the agency, jim. caller: i think that she would be a perfect candidate for it. i have not heard such bipartisan support for any person on any issue for quite some time. if president obama was truly going to keep his promise of trying to do things in a bipartisan way, this would be one great step in that direction, picking someone that republicans, democrats, and independence all support. a great candidate actually enforce the regulations that we saw during the hearings. people at the top of the regulatory body were the ones who were stonewalling the regulators from doing their job. which is a part of what led to the crisis. thank you. host: albany, ga., democratic line. caller: there are other candidates who have thrown their name in the hat. for c-span to be pushing this question and pushing this person out front is unfair. host: let me disagree with you. the papers this morning are putting it out

[applause] pact cad the former democratic pollster for george mcgovern and mick carter and jerry browne poll he looks that shows the country is in a pre-revolutionary mentality. and let me tell you the single most exciting thing i've seen in american politics the last 18 months. you, the american people, looking at both political parties and not having been disappointed by both decided to take things into your own hands. to paraphrase a famous expression politics is not important to be left just the politicians. you have to get involved. >> and through the power of the new media that right on line represents especially the internet you have been able to organize yourself, come together and establish the political force that is astonished the entire political community. you now have more power than any previous generation of americans have influence your government and make your voice heard. [cheers and applause] you have so much power. you have scred your adversaries into a panic. and they are lashing out using all of the old tried and true is near tactics that they've always used in t

effectiveness is now impossible to determine cia analyst rating mcgovern believes their problems can be tracked traced back to president george w. bush's time in office. well there basically two cia's ok one is the cia the president truman set up one nine hundred forty seven i think give him analysis give him judgments on what's going on in the world without fear or favor without bias telling him like it is ok then there's another cia that's the operational arm which is really been sort of loosened from from many restrictions starting with president george w. bush and he's taking advantage of the one clause in that national security act one nine hundred forty seven that said the director of central intelligence now is the director of national intelligence shall perform such other functions and duties as the president show from time to time direct that gives the president and i do not exaggerate here and use that word advisedly it gives the president the ability to have his own personal gestapo. do not play and before the word the only restraint is on the so-called oversight committees of the congress used to do oversight now

mcgovern: my colleagues can pull out all the charts they want to, but one fact sun deniable. when this president came to office, he inherited from george w. bush the worst economy since the great depression. that's undeniable. this economy was in a tailspain. -- tailspin. if it wasn't for the stimulus package, the economy would have further gone down the tubes. when they talk about deficits they conveniently leave out the fact that hundreds of billions of dollars in deficit spending went to pay for their tax cuts for their rich friends. that's what they did when they were in power, tax breaks, tax loopholes, all kinds of special interest breaks for oil companies, for the wealthiest people in this country and we went deeper and deeper into debt and they didn't care. . two wars, none of it paid for. and it should be paid for. the only people sacrificing in these wars are our soldiers and families. the rest of us are asked to do nothing. and the only possible solution to that that we heard from the other side of the aisle came from the minority leader who said we should raise the retirement age for those receiving social security and take