isolated gerald from the family. >> it wasn't long after their vows, gerald's health started failing >> he had severe liver cirrhosis. >> three years after they wed, at age 78, he shocked the family when he decided to leave most everything to meadow. >> i believe that she manipulated him to change his trust and his will. >> then gerald's health worsened. >> how he looked was alarming to me. >> my father was left alone for ten 12 hours a day by himself, couldn't get up to go to the bathroom. >> meadow claims she was gerald's primary caretaker, but the kesslers say she wasn't around much when gerald was in the hospital. >> she didn't come to the hospital when he passed away. she skipped weeks at a time. >> after months in the hospital, gerald kessler passed away. >> meadow pretended to be the grieving widow. >> the children and grandchildren say they want their inheritance back, and their attorney uncovered a secret landmine that could blow everything sky high. >> she committed bigamy by pretending that she wasn't married and married my grandfather. >> there was no divorce decree. >> a

and so the nixons are walking out and they're gerald and betty ford, arm in arm. and i was talking to again, one of our audience members before, this panel, and he referred to the english muffin presidency. and by that meant does everybody remember in the newspaper that when ford became president, there was a picture of him making his own breakfast the next day because they hadn't moved to the white house yet and they were still in their northern virginia suburban home where they had to raise their three boys and daughter, susan. and so from that time on, it seems to me that in a way very much like tim walz, this middle american is coming the white house and so different in the marriage so different the first lady although pat was a very active first lady and i'm so glad that there are now revisionist histories of her being written. but betty was a first lady in many ways. and like other even eleanor, because when i mean like other she was speaking about the current issues of her time. so she had no problem speaking about the era, the equal rights amendment, and s

. >> i, gerald r.ord, president of the united states, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by article ii, section two of the constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all crimes he, richard nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from july 20, 1969 to august 9, 1974. peter: steve ford, what was your reaction to the pardon? steven: i think my reaction was much like the rest of the country. it was shock. i knew at that moment dad had probably ended his political career, but that was not on his radar. he always felt he was a public servant and his job was not to get reelected but to serve the public and he felt very strongly that the pardon was the best way he could serve the public, but i told him. i said, dad, the country is going to kill you on this, and i was right. it did not take a rocket scientist to know the pardon was going to land in the lap of america and they were going to be

let's bring in the fitz-gerald group principal, keith fitz-gerald.just portfolios as we move into december 31st. >> let's tackle those two questions in reverse order. there's a couple trading days left. there's money on the table. the computers are active. that's what you're seeing this morning. there's plenty of fuel in the marketplace. we're going to go to 7,000 problem by by q2 of next year before pulling back a bit. cheryl: let's talk about the sectors we're looking at for 2025. one of the big pieces of news that's crossing right now and it's still really not resolved is what's going on with the banks. so banks and business groups are suing the federal reserve over the annual bank stress test. we've seen these in place since 20 -- well, excuse me, since 2007, 2008, the financial crisis. we created stress tests. it was supposed to protect the american consumer. maybe they've seen their day though, the bank policy institute, they represent citigroup, jp morgan, goldman, the american bankers association, u.s. chamber, they're claiming the current pr

later that year he went on to defeat republican incumbent president gerald ford in a closed -- close general election. the film makes -- it is about 15 minutes. >> december of 1974 there was a major headline to the land to constitutions and jimmy carter is running for what? [laughter] [applause] >> i'm running for president. >> jimmy carter enter the democratic presidential race a political unknown outside of georgia hardly anyone even recognized his name but that would change. >> jimmy carter? >> i don't know who he is. >> looks to me all right. he's a democrat right? >> i heard he was a peanut farmer. >> there's nothing wrong with peanuts. >> i picture him like one of us. one of the common people. >> ladies and jomini gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you the next president of the united states, jimmy carter. [laughter] -- [applause] >> sometimes introductions are hard to follow. i remember about five years ago when i was running for governor and the young man who introduced me had done a great deal of work on my background and he got up and said we have with us tonig

its pride mortgage under merchandise last year the farmer vice chairman of target toys are a ceo geraldrch, good to see you. thank you so much for being here give us his reaction to the rollback and eei and target what is it facing, your thoughts. >> you're dealing with two things that are close what is dei policies instead of companies in the other what goes on inside of the store and what's happening there, both cases what they have in common is not the role of the companies get embroiled, politics and controversy inside they want to do the right thing after george floyd this is what everyone else was doing and everyone else and they went too far and got involved in areas that are not appropriate for a company and they should be focused on what does it take to run a business and give customers what they want every day. inside of the store she saw customers saying i did not come here for a lecture i don't want to come here to talk politics i don't want to come here to talk about things that are controversial i came here to buy my laundry detergent. why is this going on but i'm trying t

>> the problem there for gerald ford is that he was never elected.the house minority leader to the president of the united states and being nixon second vice president all within 11 months that was a knock against him. look at the 1976 election and look at how close that was we talk about letter presidential elections are rather close. they look like they are a landslide or one president was favored over the other they are close and 76 depending upon the metric you use several tens of thousands of bouts in ohio certainly hawaii you probably would've had gerald ford elected this would have been a very different. but again people were coming off of 1974. so-called babies on the democratic side of the aisle the republican brand certainly because of president nixon was tatoxic fight at that point. that was the break from the republican party. in earlier comments we were talking about some of the global issues how america seemed weak on the national stage with what was going on with ironic. very controversial thing in december of 1979 you had the soviets

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one other person has received a presidential pardon that was so sweeping that was richard nixon by gerald ford in '746789 explain the differences. >> ifra i could step back for a second, people need to understand that the president's authority to pardon people for committed a federal crime is very browed. it applies to any offense that's been committed. any offense in 2024-2024. >> if you've got a question about the hunter biden pardon or presidential pardon in general, you can give us a call, our lines are by party. republicans on (202)478-8001. democrats can call us on (202)748-8000 and independents (202)748-8002 and text us at (202)748-8003. >> political pow of the president and thet remedy and e o possiblies of the pardon power and what if they raisedis >> my own view is that he s can pardon himself all though it's like the pardon of i hunter. it would be unprecedents and probably is a bad idea and shouldn't do it but could. >> talking to anthony first in staten island. >> before i ask my question, it's funny that if they had evidence about president trump, he'd have been in jail alre

in the general election, carter narrowly defeated gerald ford becoming the first president from the deep south in almost a century. in the first sign that this would be a down-to-earth presidency, jimmy carter walked the entire away from the capital to the white house during the inauguration. austerity was in the air. >> there's no way that i or anybody else in the government can solve the energy problem if you're not willing to help. >> once in the white house, his lack in experience in politics became a severe handicap, the independent-minded congress failed to approve his most important legislative initiatives, and for many, he dealt with matters of foreign policy much more skillfully than he did domestic, he was firm in his commitment to human rights. >> no member of the united nations can play on the mistreatment of its citizens as solely his own business. >> from the soviet union, sending troops into afghanistan mccarter responded with punitive measures against the soviets including the trade embargo but one of his actions seemed to anger americans as much as it did the russians. >

. >> reporter: in 1976, carter beat republican incumbent gerald ford to become the nation's 39th president>> i do jimmy carter do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: perhaps the greatest achievement of his presidency, the camp david accords that resulted in piece between egypt and israel. stormed the embassy in tehran. as the siege dragged on, carter's popularity plummeted. his bid for a second term ended with a landslide defeat to ronald reagan in 1980. >> i promised you four years ago that i would never lie to you. so i can't stand here tonight and say it doesn't hurt. >> reporter: carter didn't slow down after leaving the white house. he built homes with habitat for humanity, wrote more than 20 books and established a center for human rights. in 2002, carter was awarded the nobel peace prize for his work in the middle east and third world nations. >> there are a lot of exciting things to be done now in this wonderful phase of my life. >> reporter: mr. carter also taught sunday school in his hometown, where he openly discussed his own mortality. >> i didn't ask god to let me live. i just aske

when gerald ford was running -- >> bret, dr.iegel amazing package only thing you didn't mention in the package in the post presidency was his fight against ginny worm with three and a half million cases in 1986 and 2022 down to 13 cases because of his work and the work of the center and, of course, his fight against melanoma which you did mention. convince the world that it was okay to take immune though therapy for melanoma what do you have to say about these things? >> yeah. listen you nailed some of those things and they -- are part of his past. the bliewnt that blueprint that makes up jimmy carter and a lot of his successes. a lot of times politically they talk about in the history books a lot of his failures. and some of the challenges that he, obviously, faced in reelection, but he did do a number of different things those are two big ones when it came to health. glis bret baier we appreciate it. now let's bring in buddy carter first we're also -- okay, just we'll start off saying no relationship congressman to the late pr

this discussion was cohosted by the gerald r. ford presidential foundation and the carter center.t over an hour. >> it is interesting to me that here we have a hot august night and we weren'qu

ford that november. >> i, gerald r. ford, do solemnly swear -- judy: mr. ford had been appointed vice president during watergate and became president when richard nixon resigned in august 1974. years later, former president carter spoke to jim lehrer on what it was like as a challenger, debating a sitting president. >> i had been quite successful in the primary season, but it was a very disturbing concept for me to be on the stage with the president of the united states. i saw it as a good opportunity to let the people know that i could indeed deal on an equal basis, hopefully, with an incumbent president. judy: the two men faced each other three times that fall. >> he says he's learned how to match unemployment with inflation. that's right. we've got the highest inflation we have had in 25 years right now. judy: but the third debate, just two weeks before the election, saw mr. carter on the defensive. he had given a candid in-depth interview to playboy magazine, and on his religious beliefs was quoted as saying, "i've

largely an unknown, but he managed to win his party's nomination and edge out incumbent president gerald ford by just 2% of the popular vote, one of the closest margins in recent history. president carter's greatest triumph came in 1978, when he brokered marathon diplomatic talks between israel's menachem begin and anwar sadat of egypt. the resulting camp david accords ended years of fighting between the two countries. >> we've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking. stop cursing and start praying. >> the late 70s were a time of oil shortages, high unemployment, and double digit inflation. carter worked diligently to solve these problems, but the economy slipped into a recession. then, an event that would dominate the remainder of carter's presidency, iranian militants captured and held 52 american embassy employees hostage in tehran. unable to negotiate their release, carter ordered a rescue mission which ended in disaster. eight american servicemen died when their helicopters collided in the iranian desert. >> americans in iran were mistreated. >> in 1980

he was elected president in 1976 after defeating incumbent republican gerald ford. carter's deterrent was marred by domestic and foreign issues. he faced several economic challenges including rising inflation and gas shortages. he also struggled with problems overseas most notably the eye ron hostage crisis. carter lost his 1980 bid for reelection to republican ronald reagan after leaving the white house, carter devoted his retirement to humanitarian efforts. he founded the carter presidential center to promote human rights across the globe. in 18 nobel peace prize in 2002. he also wanted to work extensively with habitat for humanity to build houses well into his 90s. in february 2023 the carter center announced he was getting hospice care in plains, georgia. special report anchor bret baier takes it deeper look back at jimmy carter's life, presidency, and legacy. >> i jimmy carter could solemnly swear proactively potable time of watergate jimmy carter squeaky clean baptist background appeal to many americans on a frigid january day in 1977 not walking instead of wr

and in 1976 he beat gerald ford, the inextent president. that led to tensions in his presidency. he was someone who came to the capitol without the relationships in congress, but he was always his own man and he kept that outsider presence throughout his four years in washington. >> and while he had a complicated presidency, as we just heard in norah's package, he'll likely be revered and really remembered for how he lived his life after leaving the white house. >> reporter: his time after winning the presidency in 1976 was dominated by foreign policy and domestic policy, but you see in president carter someone who after he lost in 1980 to ronald reagan was determined to not just retreat to plains, georgia but to set the pace for what a post-presidency could be. he's someone who could really set a tone for peace in this country, and be able to try to make sure that when it comes to peacemaking and working abroad on human rights and on health issues he could be at the forefront of that global conversation. >> and i think bob, really quickly, just commenting too on what he represen

ti 3 is the interesting thing is that obviously gerald ford completed richard nixon's term as it wereed after watergate, and gerald ford was the first president to really sorta begin to move away from the top, move away from that frilly nest that nixon builds up with the soviet union to cool the tensions of the cold war and start to emphasise human rights. jimmy carter picks it up human rights. jimmy carter picks it up and takes it to a whole new level, really prioritising human rights and foreign policy to varied success, but what it does is it really highlights the contradiction in american foreign policy of the time. this idea that america was supporting autocrats and dictators as long as they were not communists at the height of the cold war, very controversial places like latin america for example. so this push in that sort of deterioration that it led to with relations between the us and russia, it leads to reagan and his emphasis in of course famous quote of calling rush of the evil empire in his first term, very heightened rhetoric. so obviously there is still massive debate a

largely an unknown, but he managed to win his party's nomination and edge out incumbent president gerald ford by just 2% of the popular vote, one of the closest margins in recent history. president carter's greatest triumph came in 1978, when he brokered marathon diplomatic talks between israel's menachem begin and anwar sadat of egypt. the resulting camp david accords ended years of fighting between the two countries. >> we've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking. stop cursing and start praying. >> the late 70s were a time of oil shortages, high unemployment and double digit inflation. carter worked diligently to solve these problems, but the economy slipped into a recession. then, an event that would dominate the remainder of carter's presidency, iranian militants captured and held 52 american embassy employees hostage in tehran. unable to negotiate their release, carter ordered a rescue mission which ended in disaster. eight american servicemen died when their helicopters collided in the iranian desert. >> americans in iran were mistreated. >> in 1980,

that the only person who received a presidential pardon so sweeping was richard nixon in 74 from gerald ford. explain the similarities and differences. guest: stepping back for a second, people need to understand that the presidential authority to pardon over committing a federal crime is broad, it applies to any offense that has been committed. it doesn't have to be reduced to a charge or a conviction. so, any time the president wants to pardon someone for an uncharged offense, there will always be the problem of that grant so that we know the charge you are talking about. in the ford pardon of nixon, he did it in terms of a date range. he didn't say any offense related to watergate. he said any offense from 69 to 74. the purpose was to get watergate behind the country. he wanted to get past that. but on its face, that would have pardoned any crime, even crimes we didn't know about within that date range. that is what president biden did with his son. he said that hunter was pardoned not only for the two convictions that we know about, but for any offense that occurred from a date in 2

buti left office by his successor gerald ford.d we know that adam schiff, among others is said he doesn't want to see it happen. liz cheney, who has been targeted by donald trump for retribution. it is a tough call when you know you have an incoming president who said that his will be in the administration of retribution but the controversy over pardoning people who've never been charged with anything, that's pretty tough stuff. [30 that's pretty tough stuff. do ou that's pretty tough stuff. do you think — that's pretty tough stuff. do you think a presidential pardon power should be reformed? it is in the power should be reformed? it 3 in the constitution flatly as an unlimited power. but obviously, there has to be some limits. what do you do if a president takes a bribe to pardon an individual? what do you do if for president self pardons. now, none the supreme court in the united states is said that presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts taken, they can use the power of immunity to also tell their subordinates,

squeaky fromme was the member of the manson family who tried to assassinate gerald ford. this is ivory, illinois. good morning. caller: good morning. as historically black college student in georgia who primarily works around criminal justice reform, it is a two party situation. i know in the case of marsalis williams, there was conversation amongst the black community and the surrounding community in regards to why this black man was being still killed, even though it was proven that he did not murder the victim, and it was a slap in the face within our community because we saw first handedly that there is not any type of criminal justice reform or any motive to try to exonerate this black man, although he spent most of his time in this jail and then ultimately being killed. as a person, a student, as one who is going into the legal force, i think it is important to be able to realize how people are being killed and held in jail and things like that, and there really isn't any information that is going towards having them released, and there is not even enough evidence t

to his christianity and forgiveness, which i think he deeply believed in, is his friendship with gerald. um, of course, the two of them were not close at the beginning. they were rivals, and it was actually during a 1981 trip to anwar sadat's funeral. um, really interesting plane ride that ford, nixon and carter took. and it was on the way back, actually, that ford and carter started talking and getting to know one another, and they formed a lifelong bond. in fact, jimmy carter gave the eulogy at gerald ford's funeral, and i don't think anyone could have seen that coming. um, but there they they went beyond politics. and it is this idea that it's about decency, friendship, common goals that bound them together. and i think it's an important thing to remember about jimmy carter. >> very, very important indeed. and in your book, team of five, you took a close look at how each of the surviving former presidents went on in public life after leaving the white house. how did president carter distinguish himself? and he really did in his post-white house career. >> you know, he was, as you kno

at that moment when gerald ford was was running. >> bret. doctor siegel, great, amazing package. the only thing you didn't mention in that package in the post-presidency was his fight against guinea worm, where they had 3.5 million cases in 1986 and 2022, was down to 13 cases because of his work and the work of the center and of course, his fight against melanoma, which you did mention, convinced the world that it was okay to take immunotherapy for melanoma. what do you have to say about these things? >> well, yeah, i mean, listen, doc, you nailed some of those those things and they are part of his his past, the blueprint that makes up jimmy carter. and it's some of his successes. a lot of times politically, they talk about, you know, in the history books, a lot of his failures and some of the challenges that he obviously faced in, in reelection. but but he did do a number of different things. and those are two big ones. when it came to health. >> bret baier, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. now let's bring in georgia congressman buddy carter. first, we're also okay. ju

19 76, former governor jimmy carter won 290 seven electoral votes, defeating incumbent president geraldd. carter was sworn into become the 39th president. in his inauguration speech, he talked about his hopes for america and urged for democracy in other nations. [applause] >> governor carter, are you prepared to take the constitutional oath? when you place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand and repeat after me. i, jimmy carter do solemnly swear, that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. so help me god. congratulations. [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] >> for myself and for our nation, i want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land. [applause] in this ceremony, we are test once again the -- the spiritual strength of our nation. as my high school teacher used to say, we must adjust to changing times, and still hold to unchanging principles. . report rate i

shermichael gerald ford did it for richard nixon.ple within the white house, i should say. apparently having discussions about pardoning individuals they fear might be targeted in the incoming trump administration. what would the impact of that be? sure, michael yeah. >> gerald ford, george h.w. bush, i believe during the iran-contra scandal. paul, you know more about that. i wasn't even born yet. so that was unnecessary. i get it, because these are these are examples, john, though, of people that have been alleged of doing something wrong, the belief at the time was in the case of nixon that maybe charges would potentially come. so the president decided, look, this is in the best interest of the country. i think the differentiator here, however, is these folks haven't even been alleged of having done anything illegal. and so i just really question if we sort of open this pandora's box, do we just say, well, any president at any time in history can say, well, hey, my buddy, i'm just going to go ahead and pardon them because once i le

two and a half years of gerald ford in office. jimmy carter was not a big national figure, but he was part of a very unusual sweep across the south of some very moderate governors, republican and democrat, who believed in civil rights. they came from mississippi and georgia, north carolina, virginia. and jimmy carter was the one time magazine chose to put on its cover talking about this new sweep, the new south. and from there on, he launched into a presidential campaign, and he won. >> and his unexpected victory, of course, attributed to his campaign. why was his campaigning style so successful at that time? >> well, the nation was going through some hard times. you mentioned the vietnam war, which was they were trying to wind it down, but it was still just a terrible, terrible angst for the country. and inflation was just awful. and there were long gas lines. people were worried and they were anxious. and he seemed to bring, um, a new voice and a kind of a new optimism. and that was appealing. and so, so his election really turn

in carter's case he was a decent man who defeated a decent man, gerald ford who simply could not get watergate and that era off of him. so this new, young crowd from georgia of all places emerged on the national stage i think -- another thing i'm seeing creep into the coverage and he is the best ex-president and i have to credit jonathan arthur, a bonified scholar and biographer who appeared on this network yesterday in the minutes following word of president carter's dead who said that that appalachian, the best ex-president, carter found hurtful. he had no personal vanity, but he was vain about his reputation, his accomplishments and his presidency. he was proud of the fact that he put solar panels on the roof of the white house before such a thing was even discuss in the public do main. >> yes, he had the best ex-presidency of the men who had led our nation, but your points, the accomplish ams of his presidency and crowning campaign just would not have happened in there not been a man named jimmy carter on earth. that was a calling, let's not forget, his own sentence of religion c

a lot more about in the next couple of days is the pth of the friendship between jimmy carter and geraldthey had the closest relationship among any farmer president's, a real deep, genuine friendship and gerald ford's eulogy for his friend jimmy carter is going to be read by his son, stephen ford. it will be a real highlight. >> steve schmidt, it is great to see you, great to have your insights. thank you for joining us today. we will post the transcript and as many of the clips as we can. >>> when we come back, something very much in short supply since the carter era, truthfulness in our politics. we will have that conversation, next. conversation, next. your parents have given you some amazing gifts, celebrate the ones you inherited with ancestrydna. explore the detailed family roots, cultures and traits that shaped who you are today for only $39. at betmgm, everyone gets a welcome offer. so whether you're courtside trying to hit the over... that shaped who you are today or up here trying to hit the under. whew! or, hitting that win with your crew. ohhh! yes, see defense! or way up her

speaking of gerald, when was the last time you talked with him? about last month?alled every now and then. sometimes i don't bother him. and and when he calls, he doesn't bother me personally. if we're traveling or something, i talk to his staff members who give a report on his physical condition and. i the last reports i've got have been very good. next call, belgrade, montana. i president carter. my first off, my dad, like a nuclear engineer under admiral too. i just want to say that right. but i want to thank you for that book our endangered values. what changed my life and how i at things. but my question is in regards to cuba and our future relations with because you know i was watching the united nations general assembly and it seems like only three countries support the embargo the united states israel and sweden or something that. and i just wanted to know your thoughts on the matter would be i think ridiculous. i think it's an adverse reflection on our country to have sustained an embargo against the people of cuba. it doesn't hurt castro. it hurts the 13

in 1977 jimmy carter was elected the 39th president, defeating president gerald ford. term was marked by high inflation and rising oil prices which led to long lines and the pump. he faced the iranian hostage crisis, which saw american diplomats and students held hostage. carter was defeated by reagan in the 1980 general election. upon leaving the white house he published the carter center with the goal of establishing human rights and alleviating human suffering. carter was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2002. former president carter is survived by his children. c-span interviewed former president carter in 1999, discussing his experiences in the whiteou

so much so that when gerald ford died, he asked jimmy carter to deliver a eulogy at his services which carter did graciously. ford too left behind for his son to read a eulogy for jimmy carter. it will be an evocative moment for those sons to read those words on thursday. >> i will be curious to read their thoughts and how they saw the man and the political atmosphere and environment, what they can offer to us today as far as that goes. and the presidents themselves take part in planning their own funerals, partly because they are huge logistical efforts which may sound grim but ex-presidents often make light of it. carter objected to initial plans that called for him to be transported back to georgia by train. he told a staffer, quote, if you take my cold dead body across the u.s. by train, i'll haunt you until the day you die. peter, what do you think the plans for carter's funeral say about how he wants to be remembered? >> yeah, it's interesting. one of the things that is fascinating about this is that it is a very pomp filled, very elaborate set of services and remembrances for a

, and let's not forget, as well, in carter's case, he was a decent man who defeated a decent man, geraldho just simply could not get the film of watergate and that era off of him. so this new, young crowd from georgia, of all places, emerged on the national stage. i think another thing i'm seeing in the coverage is that he was our best ex-president, and i have two credit jonathan alter, a bona fide carter scholar and biographer, who appeared on this network yesterday in the minutes following word of president carter's death, who said that that up elevation, the best ex- president, carter found hurtful. he had no personal vanity but he was meaning about his reputation, his accomplishments, his presidency. the fact that he put solar panels on the roof of the white house before such a thing was even discussed in the public domain. so i think, yes, he had the best ex-president see in the history of all the men who have led our nation. but to your point, the accomplishments of his presidency, his personal crowning achievement, the camp david accords just would not have happened had there not

in the general election, carter narrowly defeated president gerald ford, becoming the first presidentouth in almost a century. >> i, jimmy, carter do, solemnly swear -- >> jimmy carter walked the entire way from the capitol to the white house during the inauguration. austerity was in the air. >> there's no way that i or anyone else in the government can solve our energy problems if you are not willing to help. >> once in the white house, however, carter's lack of experience in washington politics became a severe handicap. the independent minded congress failed to approve some of his most important legislative initiatives. for many, he dealt with matters of foreign policy much more skillfully than he did domestic. he was firm in his commitment to human rights. >> no member of the united nations can claim the mistreatment of its citizens is solely its own business. >> when the soviet union sent troops into afghanistan in 1979, carter responded with punitive measures against the soviets, including a trade embargo. but one of his actions seemed to anger americans as much as it did the rus

. >> tonight, on "the reedout" -- >> i, gerald r. ford, president of the united states, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by article ii, section two of the constitution, have granted, and by these presence, do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto richard nixon. >> it was a pree.tive pardon that sparked a lot of controversy, because president nixon had likely committed crimes but hadn't been charged. 350 50 years later, joe biden considers s preemmtive pardon. >>> and trump considers a plan to deport people to countries that aren't their own, and some of the countries he has in mind are telling him no. >>> we begin tonight with the trouble with donald trump's national security picks. among his many controversial and unqualified selections thus far, tulsi gabbard, his choice for director of national intelligence, looms as perhaps the most concerning of all. that's the message from nearly 100 farmer national security officials who say they're alarmed at the prospect of her leading the nation's intelligence community

gerald ford pardoned richard nixon. gerald polis wrote this, as a father i understand joe biden's desire to help his son. i'm disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. a deem democrat from arizona sai respect biden but it. lhe got itwrong. hunter committed felonies and was convicted by a jury of his peers. those charges, any average american that would have committed the gun charges, the tax charges which were actually more serious than the gun charges because of the lying on the forms, any other american would have been prosecuted even worse. hunter still got the sweetheart deal in the beginning that was reversed. he finally goes in front of a jury, convicted and joe biden says no, not happening. maria: i think liz makes the right point because this puts an underlining under what trump has been saying for so long that this government is so weaponized. i mean, for god's sake. donald trump was indicted 89 times, this is so much bs it's unbelievable. this is all politically note motivated. kash patel is replaci

he and gerald ford became long-lasting and respectful friends in the post-presidency.wrote 30 books, 20 of which were new york times bestsellers. and he grew up with blacks in his childhood, which formed his character. and he hired a woman who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter to work in the white house. he invited bob dylan to the white house. i just admire him as a christian. and he embodied what a christian should be, what a great leader we have lost. god bless you, president jimmy carter. host: that was gail. josh and they reno, nevada. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for having me on c-span. here at tweed street, we think about jimmy carter really being -- host: we will go to cliff in new york. caller: thanks. host: go ahead, cliff. caller: good morning. host: apologies, cliff. i think we lost you. go ahead and give us a call back. we will go to frank in new york. good morning. caller: good morning. i was eligible -- 1876, and i did not know much about politics or economics but i had a gut feeling about jimmy. i was not, at that age, a tree

this discussion was cohosted by the gerald r. ford presidential foundation and the carter center. it is just over an hour. >> it is interesting to me that here we have a hot august night and we weren't quite sure what kind of attendance we were going to get tonight. but i'm quite impressed by this turnout and a little curious as to why it is, but i suspect part of the reason why there's a turnout such as this is the two people who are being represented on the stage here tonight by the executive directors of their centers. centers. and that's president carter. and for who demonstrated that you could be a decent, honorable person and still hold the highest office in the land. and i think there is not just simply a nostalgia for the idea of decent, honorable people being president, but a recognition that in some sense our republic requires it. and secondly, they demonstrated a real ability for civic friendship and for personal friendship, even though they were bitter political rivals in the 1976 presidential election after their presidencies, they became very close friends. i was tel

i would say this as far as personal relationships are concerned, mine with gerald ford has been maybe even unprecedented in american history. >> this museum reflects a lot of your public life. is there a memorable personal moment that the two of you shared during your white house years? mrs. carter: i think if you are talking about if we think about something that happened that we did, the jimmy did as president or that i did i think the evening he came back from camp david was probably the most emotional one that we spent. i had come in for an event and jimmy called me and told me not to come to camp david because they had a settlement. so we were standing in the door facing the south lawn when the helicopter landed in the men came. when the prime minister came walking in he said mama, we will go down in history for this as she looked at me and said look at that cold fish diet. it was a wonderful exciting time. >> on the way back from camp david by the way we had a telephone and i called former president ford and i told him we had success at camp david and both -- i think that was ob

gerald ford and i shared the money in that pot.e didn't ask a single contributor to give us money. now we have what i would call legal bribery in this country. [applause] every candidate for congress, governor, u.s. senate, president, has to go out to people and ask for money. you cannot get elected, not even considered to be nominated for president unless you can raise a thousand dollars or even more. that has deteriorated our election system in this country, far below the standards that the carter center requires when we monitor elections. we wouldn't dream of monitoring and election in a country that had the same rules the united states has. [laughter] we have done over 100 federal elections and there is an election commission so that there is the same building all over the country. the united states lets every county basically decide how people vote with punchcards, that sort of thing. in other countries, we require all of the qualified candidates have equal access to radio and television advertisement. whereas in our country y

gerald storch joins me now. what does that report tell you about the state of the consumer, gerald?rs are betting that the ghost of christmas future will be better for them than the ghost of christmas past. while nothing has changed on consumer balance sheets, they're sill in debt, inflation's still been a problem, since trump was elected their confident -- they're confident he's going to do something about it. even people who didn't vote for him believe he can make a difference. so they're spending money they don't have betting it'll be better in the future. stuart: we saw a record number of shoppers using buy now, pay later option. that suggests that lower income consumers are truly strapped. would that be accurate? >> yeah, absolutely. although, you know, even hiring -- higher income consumers use buy now, pay later. basically, that's another example of debt. for some people reason people like maybe it's not real debt the way credit card debt is, but it is, and they're still going to have to pay it back. that's just another example of rising debt load that consumers are enduring.