some of them go up to gerald ford, in particular, robert griffin of michigan, and charles goodell of new york, the father of commissioner of the nfl, they go to ford and say, you should challenge halleck. this is an important thing that we also talk about in the book, the role of recruitment. it is important. it is not just somebody decides they want to run or not. sometimes you need other leaders to encourage you to run. ford decides to do it and start -- starts and assertive campaign to oust halleck. election.revolt some things to say about the race -- ford was younge. -- younger. he was actually conference chair and defeated the incumbent conference chair of the previous congress. the person he beat told halleck and others, you got to watch out for ford. he got rid of me, he can replace you. ford emphasized spreading power more widely in the party, reforming the system. he talked about being a team player. he was a former all-american football player. and a very organized campaign. one of the things they did was look to outsiders who might endorse halleck, either interest groups or

by a congressman named gerald ford from michigan. things to say about these candidates, and what was happening in the run-up to the election. was an halleck aggressive partisan, he believed in pushing democrats, he was very assertive. he also rubbed people the wrong way perhaps in part because of his style of leadership, and in 19 54, elections were particularly bad for republicans. they lose a lot of seats in the house and the presidential election. saw a lot of them are demoralized and are looking for some change of some sort. this is a common theme you see in leadership elections when your party does poorly, you are often if not always in trouble as a leader because your fellow partisans say, we have to find someone to blame. we have to change the leadership. so what happens is some reformers in the house demand a meeting of the party to talk about ways to change things, may be distribute power more widely in the party. halleck is not a reformist and is pretty lukewarm about these reforms. so that reformers, younger members in par

the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans before the north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson was carrying for them, -- caring for them, his c5 crashed. 78 children perished that day, 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan. the attitudes that i described in the 1970's began to change about a decade later, but

he looked nothing like gerald ford, but some people say he got the mannerisms just about right.hat is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us. brian will be back on monday. have a happy mother's day weekend, and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. >>> here's this woman smiling, about to take a hike for her anniversary.a there's nothing you can see from those photos that they took tha would ever begin to suggest howo it would all end.ev it's chilling. >> she was a beloved doctor, amazing mom, sunday school r, teacher. >> she'd given so much love to others. finally, she'd found it for herself. a handsome widower touched by tragedy.ha >> his first wife died in a car accident. >> my heart went out for him. >> now he and the doctor were or bound for adventure. a surprise weekend away. >> i was excited for her. >> a romantic hike to a remote mountain spot. the scenery was breath-taking.

he looked nothing like gerald ford, but some people say he got the mannerisms just about right. is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us. brian will be back on monday. have a happy mother's day weekend, and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. big show for you tonight. we have a big interview tonight that i am both stressed about and excited about. because the news gods no longer celebrate tgif, there's a lot going on tonight just as we are getting close to air time tonight. lots of news breaking, including this, that slipped into our inboxes just before the close of business tonight. you'll see the all-important headline there, subpoena. by authority of the house of representatives of the congress of the united states of america. subpoena to

president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in a $974.00 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive 50 population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. while women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like 19 year olds the jena. and because of the law may be said on a lot of. today's list with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished shamsul sold everything travelled 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the

he gave him a pardon and gerald ford had to live with the consequences of it because the american peopleustice and they want transparency. >> mueller didn't say would jim comey or you said. he said something else. obviously we all want to hear from mr. mueller and want him to explain it. he could have said what you just said. he didn't. he said can't say he did it and can't say that i can exonerate him which is a weird word. you guys aren't in the miss of finding me innocent. you're in the business of deciding whether or not you can charge me and find me beyond a reasonable doubt. why do you think he said it the way he did? >> that's what i want to know from mueller himself rather than speculate on what went through his mind and i want to hear it from his team. i want to hear it from do don mcgahn and a variety of others that would have knowledge and were interviewed or taken before the grand jury by bob mueller and the full evidence but here's what i know for sure. he also said in that report if he could have exonerated the president he would have and that's very telling. and we may see

president of the united states, gerald ford, order the orphanse to rescue 2000 -- the north vietnameseter sergeant johnson is caring for them. his c5 crash in a rice paddy outside of the airport. dayhildren perished that and 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend who is lost but his life was a testament to the spirit of america that we see today. i was honored to visit that wall wasears after the event sergeant johnson's daughter. the america was asleep in 1970's something stirred in the thesands of people here, shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man that was looking down on us today in his second inaugural address when he paid to end the scourge of four. us strive to finish the work whore in to care for him has borne the battle and his widow and orphan. in the 1970's it began to change. most american veterans still thought not enough attention was being paid to the sacrifices they had made. youears ago thousands of roared through the nation's capital to remind america of the charge given by the

remember gerald ford became vice-president in 1974. >> after vice-president agnew resigned and ford's seat was captured by a democrat. that area of grand rapids, at hillsdale college in michigan, grand rapids is to the west and grand rapids is a solid republican area. they haven't had a democrat in that seat other than the one that replaced gerald ford, for 100 years. so that was a dramatic change right there and the democrats could see the momentum because of a bad economy and because of president nixon's lying about the-- his involvement in the watergate dispute. they could see the momentum going in their favor and indeed, they won that contest. neil: little interesting going back in history, burt. thank you very, very much. >> thank you, neil. neil: all right. burt, a very good historian on all things that combine politics with the economy. speaking of which, who is the richest person on the planet? by now of course that's jeff bezos, even with the marital settlement and all of that. if you're talking about who has gotten to be the

. >> others who have been honored with the award former presidents brock [and gerald ford, john lou wis and the late senator john mccain. >>> ellen tau sher will be remembered in a public ceremony in washington today. she was a democrat, represented house of representatives for 12 years. she was an early supporter of same-sex marriage. she also worked for the u.s. state department and helped negotiate an arms treaty with russia. she survived es soffe goal cancer in 2010. she always said her greatest accomplishment was her daughter. she died last month from comeplications from pneumonia. she was 67. >>> i don't know if you have seen this talking about arnold schwarzenegger, the former governor of california and action movie star. he will not press charges against a man who attacked him in south africa. he said his attacker is mentally disturbed and needs help, not prison time. look what happens next. now, right there he was drop kicked. it happened saturday. this has gone viral. arnold is 71. he was on the sidelines called the arnold classic africa when the man suddenly drop kicked him i

gerald ford when they talked about impeach ago supreme court justice said and impeachable offense is whatever the house of representatives decides it is in a given moment in history. a broad thing. >> harris: and the situation can change in a minute. if you impeach and that person doesn't leave the office, what we learned in the bill clinton case, they will continue to do what they do, which can help them in terms of a public and political recovery if you let that person sit in the white house. >> the big difference between the political and the legal. if i have a good legal case against a popular person, i have no fear of going in and prosecuting because if i can convince 12 people that are objective at the start, i can convict that person. impeachment is a political process. if the country doesn't want it and the democrats push for it anyway, it's got the potential of blowing back on them politically. they start in a kind of an uphill battle to begin with because the 2/3s super majority needed in the senate, in the absence of egregious conduct that there's a consensus that cuts acr

if you going back and chevy chase doing gerald ford, it was so great.baldwin hates the president so much. that comes through. makes it so it's not as much fun and predictable. it's a failure on their part. they can do so much better. so many incredible and talented writers. so they have to be a little better -- >> if you were writing for snl, what would your trump joke be? >> it's an interesting argument. i don't think people pay enough attention to "saturday night live." there was a time as you mentioned where what "saturday night live" did drove conversation for a section of america. that time is decades in the rear view mirror. if he -- if that played him on the last section of "game of thrones," yeah, it would be an impact. but yeah, doesn't matter. >> it's interesting that political article is a slam. it says he humanizes president trump. president trump is not human. that is in itself not funny. i was struck by -- i don't watch the show in general. if there's a good clip, people pass it around. i'm shocked how his impressions is so much worse. i t

i went to the gerald ford, which is under construction now for a long time, they are having a problemic catapult. i was talking to the catapult people and they said stephen. in the meantime, we are spending all the money on electric and the body knows what it's going to be like in bad conditions, you understand. i think will put in order. when we build a new aircraft carrier, we are going to use steam. i'm going to put out an order. we are going to use steam. we don't need the extra power. they know the folks, the electric works faster. folks, we can only get the plane in a couple of minutes but what they did is wrong but we make mistakes, but generally speaking we get it right. but when we make them come we have to correct them for it so we'll put out an order, will use steam. the military doctors, from the u.s. naval hospitals, and many more, so many people, so many great, great people, every marine and sailor standing on uss wasp is the face of american strength and power in the pacific. the seventh fleet is america's largest forward deployed naval fleet. together, you are 70 ships

president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in a $974.00 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive 50 population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. while women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are on the present in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like 19 year olds the jena. and because of the law maybe said don't know a lot of. today's lives with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished shamsul sold everything travelled 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappeara

i mean, gerald ford was football. he had nothing to do with the nfl, per se.is making business off of golf and the most famous golfer over the last 20 years. >> three years ago someone visiting the white house, an athlete, a victorious athlete visiting the white house wouldn't have raised eyebrows. now it's always a question of will >>> ending in dramatic and then highly controversial fashion. how did that unfold? >> well, you had the winner at the time maximum security who actually cut off up to three horses as he came across, and when you look at the replays, it's -- i was not at the derby. looking at the news like okay, you've got one winner. now you have countryhost declared the winner. someone said the kentucky derby is known as the best two minutes in sports. now it's the best 22 minutes in sports. it look 22 minutes to determine the victor. they made the right call, i think, even though it's -- of course, the first time ever the horse has crossed the finish line and been declared not the winner. i think it was the right call because of impeding the othe

offenses writing the words in all caps as they relate to injuries done to the society itself or as gerald fordt in 1970, an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the house of representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history. that speaks more to the way impeachment has been misused as a partisan weapon rather than a clear, high bar the founders intended. put on your history nerd goggles as we go on a deep dive into notes from the constitutional convention to get a sense of the real vision of impeachment. madison argued that a broad standard for impeachment was indispensable to defend the community against the incapacity, negligence of the president. incapacity was addressed in 1967. take a look at madison's examples of negligence or perfidy saying it might be corruption, self-enrichment and abuse of power. then the danger the president might betray his trust to foreign powers. this was a particular obsession of the founding fathers. they studied examples bringing down ancient greek republics and said british king was bribed with money and a mistress to back a war with the

you made it a close battle, certainly as ronald reagan did in 1976 with gerald ford, you could be well way. of the group that you see, who looks promising for the future? they might not get the brass ring now, but can put in play their names for the next time and the time after that. >> almost all of them have that opportunity. i don't think mike grevelle, for example, or mr. yang are going to have great opportunities in the future. but a lot of the others do have potential. how big a potential matters on how they handle themselves both during the campaign and then afterwar afterwards. howard dean crashed and burned in the 2004 primary. even today when i'm out giving speeches, i'll be doing joint appearances with howard dean. why? after he was a presidential candidate, he turned into being an entertaining speaker and somebody who liked doing that kind of thing. as a result, got better at it. we really don't know what their next chapter will be. it depends partly on how they perform during the campaign. a large part of it does. part of it also depends on how they adjust to the life they

he represents the grand rapids western michigan district once represented by gerald ford, is the epitomethe son of a palestinian father and syrian father. mag gnaw cum laude graduate in economics from the university of michigan and michigan law school. student of the austrian school of economics. he's a real libertarian limited government conservative. when he was in his first term in the michigan legislature on something like 70 bills he was the only no vote, the only one to vote against them because he thought government had no warrant to be doing what the government was doing. he got to the house of representatives and he said he would not vote for any legislation that was submitted to the house before people had a chance to read it. talk about eccentric. now, if someone who believes as he does and this is a government of limited delegate and enumerated powers is immune to the normal controlling structure of incentives in washington. by which someone says if you support my expansion of government, i'll support your expansion of government he's not interested in that which means he's i

he gave him a pardon and gerald ford had to live with the consequences of it because the american peoplece and they want transparency. >> mueller didn't say would jim comey or you said. he said something else. obviously we all want to hear from mr. mueller and want him to explain it. he could have said what you just said. he didn't. he said can't say he did it and can't say that i can exonerate him which is a weird word. for a prosecutor to use. you guys aren't in the miss of finding me innocent. you're in the business of deciding whether or not you can charge me and find me beyond a reasonable doubt. why do you think he said it the way he did? >> that's what i want to know from mueller himself rather than speculate on what went through his mind and i want to hear it from his team. i want to hear it from don mcgahn and a variety of others that would have knowledge and were interviewed or taken before the grand jury by bob mueller and the full evidence but here's what i know for sure. he also said in that report if he could have exonerated the president he would have and that's very telli

appointed by republican gerald ford, he quickly found himself in the minority on many landmark decisionsourt's rightward drift. >> do you think about the fact that in some ways your dissents may have had more impact or you might be better known for your dissents than your decisions? >> well, apparently that's true, but i wish it weren't. i'd much rather thigh dissents had spoken for the majority. >> he feels that most strongly on issues surrounding guns. in the 2008 heller decision which recognized an individual's right to bear arms. >> it is really as a matter of history and as a matter of what the courts should do with the law, it was just a really atrocious decision. >> and also the case that decided an election, bush v. gore. >> ever since then i think the court has been adversely affected by that case. >> how exactly? >> people thinking of the court of more a political institution than it really is. >> that has been a theme for stephens in his retirement. he sparked controversy last year when he spoke out against then supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh whom he felt was too politi

the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans before north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson was caring for them, his c5 crashed in a rice paddy outside the airport. 78 children perished that day, 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan. the attitudes that i described in the 1970's began to change about a decade

who is gerald ford is what we were looking for. >> all right, all right, the next one. >> okay. >> numberwo, category is, we will rock you. answer, in 2018 this band didn't have a dime but i always had a vision, always had high, high hopes. >> who is queen latifah -- >> incorrect. >> who is queen? >> incorrect. >> who is madonna? >> 2018. ♪ always had high high hopes >> oh! >> we were looking for who is panic at the disco. >> you only get one. >> "jeopardy!" james understands me. >> all right, moving along. third question. category is, the first winner. answer, in 1903, maurice guerin was its first winner in 94 hours 33 minutes 14 seconds. it's a daily double. >> what is iron man? >> incorrect. >> 1903? what? i don't know. >> what if i say maurice. >> tour de france. >> that is correct, maggie rulli is coming for you, "jeopardy!" james. >> watch out, watch out! i got no hints or anything. >> moving right along. reminder to those of you playing with us at home, these are questions even "jeopardy!" james himself got wrong so don't feel too bad. question four, category is holidays and observ

ousting incumbent president gerald ford. so 1976 thus far, before now, was the largest democratic field running for president. this year, that record is not only beaten, it is destroyed. i mean, today, we have -- i can now do this like it's a memorized poem from grade school. beto bernie booker biden bennett. just the alphabetical sorting of male candidates with "b" names. but in addition to them, you can flesh out the whole rest of the alphabet, right? klobuchar, warren, williamson, yang? i mean, we've got seven 1234 senators, four members of the house, six women, a self-help author, a former tech executive, three mayors, two governors, one former governor, three war veterans, a former vice president and that's not even everyone. it seems like we might not even be done. might be more getting in. starting in the very beginning of this new year, i started to get the opportunity to sit down with some of these many, many democratic candidates. not all of them, to be sure, but a lot of them. and what i have been having are these

. >> others honored are barack obama and gerald ford, john lewis and the late senator john mccain. >>he biggest shows in television history has ended. we will take a look back and avoid all spoilers as we reflect on game of florence, game of thrones. >>> why new technology could have major impacts on weather forecasts. >>> we are looking ahead of what's to come in the 8:00 our. >> coming up at the top of the hour, we are talking about google helping the government and police tracked down criminals. some say the way they're getting information is privacy overreach. also muni fares are going up this summer. some suggest they should reverse course. why they should all be free to ride. we will be back after the break. ♪ i've slain your dreaded dragon. for saving the kingdom what doth thou desire? my lord? hey good knight. where are you going? ♪ ♪ climbing up on solsbury hill ♪ grab your things, salutations. coffee that is a cup above is always worth the quest. nespresso. tis all i desire. did thou bring enough for the whole kingdom? george: nespresso, what else? struck him out stall of fl

and is currently in living in grand rapids michigan working on definitive biography of gerald r. fordnd here in washington, d.c. at howard university currently the dean of the humanity department and she is a specialist in reconstruction era. of american history, we went to them at the end of our year long project and spent all of this time amassing these really kind of story about the president that would be nice to put a capper on all of this with something a little more scientific. and we devise ideas of doing a survey of presidential historians and then the question was well how would we measure them? lots of really interesting intellectual debate ensued and weea decided on ten qualities of presidential leadership that would be the metric for the presidents and here they are. first is public persuasion. the next one crisis leadership. the fourth authority and next international administration and administrative skills to include the selection of your -- your cabinet y running of the department, et cetera. r the next is relations with congress. george h.w. bush talking about about

but you know, gerald ford, when he was the minority leader in the house and they were trying to impeach back in 1970 said an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the house of representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history. so there aren't really any legal limitations on what they can do. this is strictly political, which is why i think as you pointed out, the senate is trying to emphatically say there will be no removal of the president. that's i think meant to discourage the house. so it depends on do they really want this as a serious impeachment or as i've thought all along, is this really political to set them up to run in 2020 against trump as an impeached president? >> sandra: senator cramer joined us and he made that very point. here he is. >> it's about time for her to just cut off the nonsense. if she doesn't and they actually go and proceed it will be interesting to see if those 30 or 40 democrats, moderate democrats actually go along with it. if they do and they get an impeachment done it has to come to the senate where it will simply be dropped. >>

scareer and is currently living in grand rapids, michigan, working on the definitive biography of gerald r. ford. and edna green meldford who is here in -- medford who is currently the dean of the humanities department, and she is a potentialist in reconstruction era of american history. we wentt to them at the tend of our yearlong project and said we've spent all of this time amazing these anecdotal stories about the presidents, it would bepr nice to put a capper on all of this with something a little more scientific. and we devised the idea of doing a survey of presidential historians x. then the question was, well, how would we measure them. lots of really interesting intellectual debate ensued, and we decided on ten qualities of presidential leadership that would be thehe metrics for the presidents. and here they are. first is public persuasion. the next one, crisis leadership. third, economic management. the fourth, moral authority. the next, international relations. the next, administrative skills, which would include the selection of your candidate -- excuse me, your cabinet, the running

caller: back in the 1970's when beingnds of war were generated by the democrats , gerald ford, who wasn the house, was asked the question of what constitutes impeachment. his reply was whatever a majority of the members of congress at the time deem it to .e that is where we are today. host: meaning what? caller: history host: does repeat itself. host:what should be? done in light of history? left toit should be congress to fulfill its constitutional responsibility and if the majority of the bebers deem impeachment to the appropriate process to begin the removal of the president, they should do the articles of impeachment. under the present circumstances, say no because it has not moved to that area yet. the democrats would do themselves great damage, i think, at this time if they proceeded to formerly -- articlesbegin to draft of impeachment against the president for what we have heard so far. host: that is john in georgia giving his thoughts. a section of the mueller report. we will read you sections throughout the morning. robert mueller concluding the president's efforts to influenc

if you recall, gerald ford really took a stance and didn't worry about what was happening politically but removed any investigation on president nixon. we don't want to go down the impeachment road. the reality is he was voted in, whether you liked him or not. in 2020, we can make a change. we'll see if that happens. >> kevin, do you feel like these hearings, you're learning more about the report or there's more noise than clarity on what happened? >> caller: i appreciate that. if you just take the time to sit back and listen -- >> sorry about that. i think you're breaking up a little bit. we welcome you weighing in. thanks for calling in from oklahoma. here on c-span3 and c-span radio, waiting for the return of the attorney general. the senate judiciary committee took a break so they could attend to votes on the senate floor. they will gavel back in here in 45 minutes or so, 35 minutes, at about 12:50 eastern. let's take a listen to -- i believe we have senator grassley, member of the committee, former chair of the committee, and his thoughts just outside the hearing room. here's a l

the president of the united states, gerald ford, had ordered the air force to rescue 2000 orphans beforehe north vietnamese approached the capital of the republic of vietnam. while master sergeant johnson caringrying for them, -- for them, his c5 crashed. day,ildren perished that 50 members of the united states air force perished with them. a father and a friend was lost, but his life was a testament to the spirit of america we see here today. i was honored to visit that wall 44 years after the event with sergeant johnson's daughter. when america was asleep in the 1970's, something stirred in the thousands of people here. the shameful treatment of our warriors went against everything that was taught by the man who is looking down on us today. in his second inaugural address when he prayed to end the scourge of war, he said with malice toward none and charity for all, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan. describeddes that i in the 1970's began to change about a decade later, but most veterans still though