not hubert humphrey. ♪ hubert humphrey ♪ the president for you and me >> humphrey recognized what he himself the corner drugstore compared to a chain. the kennedys were a chain, powerful, big. >> how do you do, ma'am? >> and he was passing out palm cards on the streets. >> i'm senator humphrey. this doesn't work too good either. >> it just didn't work. >> a desperate humphrey lunges for kennedy's achilles heel. jfk is a catholic and no catholic has ever been elected president. >> there was a very strong anti-catholic feeling. ♪ >> jfk's team fight back. it's bare-knuckle time as kennedy aide paul corbin comes out swinging. >> paul corbin was a political hack. he was also a dirty trickster. he would stop at nothing. corbin arranged to have a lot of anti-catholic literature shipped into wisconsin. so right away, a lot of voters are offended. and they think that the awful bigoted stuff was coming from hubert humphrey. >> corbin's dirty trick works. thousands of incensed catholics get up and vote for kennedy. >> we won. it was tough but we won. >> after victory in wisconsin and a landsli

so that was the convention that hubert humphrey won but there was the opposition of eugene mccarthy and robert kennedy delegates. they felt they had been shortchanged in their ability to get their support at the convention. there was flooding on the lower -- fighting on the floor so they were going to develop a commission to look for the rules for the delegate selection. >> guest: republicans didn't do much with the rules. they were going to leave it up to the states and they needed. or they could have caucuses or a state convention. but generally, the process kind of came to life. >> host: when were the first primaries ever held in the system? >> guest: in the early 19 hundreds, so the presidential primary was 1912 that conducted the disaster. they were getting the support from the traditional players in the party and roosevelt won most of the primaries but it wasn't enough to get him the nomination so he stopped out and created the party that resulted in the republicans losing the presidential race. it's kind oit kind of put a holr a while. the presidential primaries were not until af

their convention -- it is not clear whether the establishment is now led by a personified by hubert humphrey, johnson's vice president who is now running for the nation had not been in any primaries. he is running for the nomination. we will talk about how the nomination system has changed so much since then. but chicago also becomes a destination for the antiwar left . here we have a group in new york that is sponsoring buses to go to the convention. it is talking about how tens of thousands will be there to demand an end to the war in vietnam and black america. racial justice at home and end of the war abroad are twins. they are being linked together by the leftists protesters. chicago becomes, as the democratic establishment goes down to chicago, so did these many protesters. violence ensues. why is this such a meaningful and important event? television. no more television. you cannot to give a place with more television cameras inside and outside the hall that at a national political convention. everyone is descendent on chicago. when all of these protesters who are camped out across the

democrats come into their , it is not clear whether the establishment is led by an personified by hubert humphrey, johnson's vice president running for the nomination, had not ran in any primaries, but he is running for the nomination. we will talk later about it has changed so much. but chicago becomes the destination for the antiwar left. here we have a group in new york that is sponsoring buses to go to the convention and is talking about how the tens of thousands will demand an immediate war to the -- end to the war in vietnam . the causes of racial injustice and the end of the war abroad are twinned emma being linked twinned, being linked together. chicago, many on protesters. violence ensues. why is this such a meaningful and important event? television. you can't think of a place with more television cameras both inside and outside the hall that at a national political convention. everyone has dissented on chicago. when all of these protesters camped out across the city of chicago protesting that democrats, the conduct of the injusticesting the of the social order, when they are set upon b

with help of hubert humphrey, he gets it done. protests at selma, i was at the end of the march in with thendon johnson, help of midwestern republicans, passes the voting rights act to end segregation forever. he has this thing going on in vietnam. he also had the great society he wanted to build up. so in early 1965, hanoi escalate s again. hanoi begins to send out north vietnamese, nva regiments. not viet cong village guerrillas but north vietnamese regiments to attack south vietnamese forces and destroy them. by may and june of the south 1965, vietnamese army is losing a battalion a week and there are no young men coming into recruiting centers. this is a function primarily of chaos, as to which faction will is knownnd run the government. as the 44 battalion request. he basically says, that i have been sent out here with the mission to defend selfie at mama -- vietnam. with south vietnamese losses, they will take over vietnam and to be a four months. if you want to save this country i need for our combat maneuver battalions. an

with help of hubert humphrey, he gets it done. in 1965, the protests at selma, i was at the end of the march in selma, lyndon johnson, with the help of midwestern republicans, they pass the voting rights act to end segregation forever. and then he has this thing going on in vietnam. he also had the great society he wants to build up. so in early 1965, hanoi escalate -- escalates again. hanoi begins to send out north vietnamese, nva regiments. the main forces. not viet cong village guerrillas but north vietnamese regiments coming down to attack south vietnamese forces and destroy them. by may in june of 1965, the south vietnamese army is losing a battalion only. there are no young men coming into the recruiting centers. met -- westeral moreland says to president johnson what is known as the 44 battalion request. he basically says, that i have been sent out here with the mission to defend south vietnam. with south vietnamese losses, they will take over vietnam and -- within three are four months. if you want to save this country i n

as he was fighting for the nomination he and other competitors, hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, who were both senators, but were much more ambivalent, smart, you know, sort of confused about whether their primary responsibility was in washington or on the campaign trail. kennedy did not have that confusion. he knew where he needed to be. he was on the campaign trail pushing very hard. there is a great moment in the 1960 campaign as kennedy is about to win the democratic nomination in los angeles. and lyndon johnson has entered the race at the last minute. he was then majority leader. johnson still thinks he has a chance to derail kennedy's nomination. he has his joint appearance before the texas delegation, johnson's delegation. and so johnson, you know, he starts citing all of his legislative achievements and just says come day pass a civil rights bill in 1957. they're working and another in 1960, and he is talking about all the work he was doing. he said i had to fight filibuster's and quorum call after quorum call after quorum call. some people or not your answering quorum call,

. >> reporter: as the inheriter of the tradition of hubert humphrey and mondale, he is eager to go intoon policy. >> we must protect net neutrality. >> reporter: whether searching for the right words for equal access to the internet. >> unrestricted, is that the right word? >> it embraces our most basic constitutional freedoms. >> reporter: or serving his constituents a breakfast of warm porridge and global warming. >> i have three grandchildren. i don't want them in 50 years saying, "grandpa, you were an is that right -- senator, you knew climate change was happening, and why didn't you do anything about it." >> reporter: franken has been a dogged critic of the trump administration and was out front in calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the administration's ties to russia. >> he should come back and explain himself, mr. chairman. >> reporter: typical headline these days. republicans near total exasperation. >> that's today. tomorrow will be republicans at total exasperation. >> reporter: so if the republicans are near total exasperation, where are the democrats? >> oh, we

when the hubert humphrey campaign was offered to -- kevin: should it be illegal to take certain place it is illegal. but i take the position that the entire russian area was invented to distract from the fact of him and tony had made millions through his association with the russian oligarchs around putin. what better way to accuse donald trump. this is a scandal without any evidence. not and iota, not a shred. show us the beef. the new york times said, the intelligence services say they have emails, financial records, and they have transcripts of phone intercepts. let's see them, where are they? they produced nothing. kevin: there have been a lot of -- there has been a lot of talk on twitter from president trump himself about you earlier, not today, several days ago. how often do you communicate with the president? roger: from time to time. kevin: when was the last time? roger: since he has been president and through the campaign, i have never ofracterized the frequency my conversatns talk to them eve, because i know, if i do, these conversations will end. he has a reasonable expecta

kennedy, who took the nomination in los angeles he beat out hubert humphrey. he beat out lyndon johnson. he had be out stevenson. he ran for years trying to get the nomination. the term new frontiers stuck and it still has a lot of credence to it because it captures there is something different going on in the early 1960's. it is time the new generation was coming in, replacing people like general eisenhower. susan: i was looking if i could find it. in your introduction, you talk about john kennedy's skillful use of narrative and politics. explain what that concept is. stephen: i think every president does try to capture the zeitgeist of the nation and also tries to direct that in a direction they feel they want to go. i think in kennedy's case you have the largest generation of americans ever born after world ii. they were coming onto the scene. he obviously had served in combat himself. you have really the rise of globalization. you have the rise of mass technology. he and his advisers or reading books like "the lonely crowd" and other books. how do we organ

brzezinski: i also directed the foreign policy task forces for hubert humphrey. i sensed that the crisis in the soviet union was getting the, that the united states had to have an effective response. i endorsed bush when he was 17 points behind. i emphasize that. it was not a political opportunistic step. dukakis would not be able to handle these complex realities and bush would. and i think retrospectively i was right. he handled the disintegration of the soviet union extremely well, even though on some other issues, and my judgment, he didn't quite seize the moment or opportunity. brian: back to your family. is aave a son that democrat, one is a republican, and a daughter that is a journalist. how did that happen, do you think? mr. brzezinski: i didn't have a lot to do with the fact that we are an engaged family that is interested in issues, talks about the issues. we traveled a lot with our kids. we went abroad a lot. we engaged in a lot of discussions. i hope that my wife and maybe i helped to simulate -- to stimulate their interests, but helped to stimulate

isn't it a fact that in 1968 the kremlin actually service a tried to subsidize the campaign of hubert humphrey? >> i don't know the specifics of that. that certainly comports with what the russian tactics would be. >> isn't it a fact that in 19814, the kremlin tried to stop ronald reagan from being re-elected? >> again, i'd have to do some research to verify that. it comports with what -- if they chose a candidate for whatever they had an aversion too, they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information classified or unclassified to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or knowingly. >> classified or unclassified. >> unclassified is not leaking unclassified, that's -- >> have you -- >> somewhat of a non sequitur. >> have you ever given information to a reporter that you didn't want to have your name connected with but you wanted to see it in the paper? >> i have not. i've had many encounters with media over my career. >> i'm sorry about that. how about you, mrs. yates? >> other than situations where the department of justice would arrange for me to talk on backgrou

i didn't want to go, but there were a number of people from the majority leader and hubert humphrey and some republicans who pulled me in and came to see me and said come just be sworn in. there's only 1702 people ever been sworn in. you owe it to your family, and then leave after six months. so every tuesday i would get an assignment. but i'm the first senator to not know any better. what he was doing, it took me a few months, he was just taking my pulse to see how i was doing. was i going to be okay. he saved my sanity. one day i was walking in, it was the end of may for my three o'clock appointment. as i walked in, jesse helms, remember him he was one of the guys that got elected the same year as i. he introduced the precursor for the american with disability act and he was saying there's no obligation of the american government and went on and on. i thought it was heartless that i had my meeting at 3:00 p.m. so i went into the office, thank god because as. [inaudible] i sat in front of the senator and he said what's the matter joe and i told him, i went on to say that jesse had no s

fact that in 1968, the kremlin actually, part of the agb, attempted to subsidize the campaign of hubert humphrey? >> i don't know the specifics of that. i want to research that. again, that certainly comports with what russian tactics would be. >> okay. isn't it a fact that in 1984, the kremlin tried to stop ronald reagan from being re-elected? >> again, i'd have to do some research toify that, but, again, it certaly comports with what -- if they chose a candidate for whatever reason they had an aversion to, they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information, classified or unclassified, to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or knowingly, as i said in my statement. >> classified or unclassified? >> well, unclassified is not leaking. unclassified -- that's -- that's somewhat of a non -- >> have you ever given information to a reporter you didn't want to have your name connected with but you wanted to see it in the paper? >> i have not. i've had many encounters with media over my career. >> i'm sorry about that. how about you, miss yates? >> there have been situatio

taking from the poor, not giving health care the traditions in my mind of lyndon johnson and hubert humphreyrichard nixon who was for national health care are still good values and we ought to finally get in tune with the rest of the world. we're the last industrialized country in the world without health care. if it weren't for the patient protection act, the republicans wouldn't be taking it up now. they know it's popular. they know they have to do something. they've not been for national health care even though this plan we passed, the affordable care act was mitt romney's plan in massachusetts drawn up by the heritage group. it's a conservative plan that takes democratic values of giving people health cend republican ways of doing it by subsidizing insurance companies and keeping the private sector in. personally, i'd like to have a single option. medicare for all. that would take care of it. >> but you have senators who are saying they're going to rework the plan once it hits them. >> they have to rework the plan. it's just awful. >> what do you want to see? >> well, what i'd like to se

university and a land grant college and having the community come into this room which honors hubert humphrey. steve, i predict that the sales and the rentals of the deer hunter, apocalypse now, and platoon will probably go up exponentially in urban minneapolis within the next amount of time. we couldn't possibly say much more except, again, thank you, steve, for this presentation. i think we will -- there are moments that we understand that history cracks, that we can look at those moments, they can be, in march of 1967. they can be march 28 of 2017 that our opinion changes. that's a cracking of history as well. so, i think we can all just continue with this cracking. thank you very much. bye. >>> it resulted in a naval victory for the u.s. over japan just six months after the attack on pearl harbor, and friday, american history tv will be live all day from the mcarthur memorial visitors center in norfolk, virginia, for the 75th anniversary of the battle of midway. featured speakers include walter bornman. elliot carlson with his book. anthony tully, co-author of "shattered sword." and timot

president, former senator hubert humphrey once said, and i quote here, the moral task -- moral test ofovernment is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children, those who are in the twilight of life, the aged, and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. when senator humphrey spoke those words, he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. he died a few months later, and his words are just as meaningful today. mr. president, trumpcare fails senator humphrey's moral test. it doesn't cover more people or more services or provide health care or improve health care. it raises costs and reduces quality. compared to the a.c.a. or obamacare, trumpcare would be a disaster for families in my home state. in new mexico, tens of thousands of people have health care, thanks to obamacare and the medicaid expansion. before the affordable care act, new mexico had one of the highest rates of uninsured in the country. it was almost 20% at 19.6%. that rate has been cut in half at 8.9%. approximately 300,000 more new mexicans now have health care, and each one

. >> is it a fact that in 1968 the a attempted toe subsidize the campaign of hubert humphrey? >> i don't know the specifics of that. i would want to research that. that certainly comports with what the russian tactics would be. >> is the fact that in 1984 the kremlin tried to stop ronald reagan from being reelected? >> again, i would have to do research to verify that, but again it comports with if they chose a candidate that they had an aversion to, they would do that. , have your clapper ever leaked information classified or unclassified to the press? >> not willingly, as i said in my statement? >> unclassified is not legally. that is somewhat of a non-sacred or. have you ever given information to a reporter that you did not let your name be connected with? >> i have not. encounters with the media over my career. >> i'm sorry about that. how about you ms. yates? >> i have never provided classified information. that would be the only kind of background information. >> i have done the same thing, doesn't include sharing classified information. else atu know anybody justice tha

. >> isn't a fact that in 1968 the kremlin actually served -- tempt to subdies ocampaign of hubert humphrey. >> i don't know the specifics of that. again, that certainly comport its with what the russian tactics would be. >> isn't in a fact nat in 1984 the kremlin tried to stop ronald reagan from being reelected? >> again, i'd have to do some research to verify that but again, it's certainly comported with what they chose a candidate for whatever reason they had an aversion to they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information, classified or unclassified, to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or nothingly, as i said in hi statement. >> classified or unclassified?dy >> well, unclassified is not leaking. unclassified, that's -- somewhat of a nonsecond we for. >> ever -- nonsector. >> diyou give information to a report you didn't want your name connected to but want told see it paper. >> i have not. i've had men encounters with the media -- >> i'm sorry about that. how about you, miss yates? >> other than situations where the department of justice would arrange

kremlin actually service aide which is part of the hbtt attended to subsidize the campaign of hubert humphrey? >> idol of the specifics of that. i would want want to research that, but again that certainly comports with what the russiansi tactics would be. >> isn't it a fact in 1984 the kremlin tried to stop ronald f reagan from being reelected? >> again, i'd have to do some research to verify that, but again it certainly comports with what, if they chose a candidate, for whatever reason they had an aversion to, they would do that. >> okay. general clapper, have you ever leaked information, classified or unclassified to come to a member of the press? >> not wittingly or knowingly, as i sent them a statement. >> classified or unclassified. >> well, unclassified is not leaking. [laughing] unclassified, that's -- >> have you ever given information to a reporter that you didn't want, have your name connected with what you want to see it in the paper? >> i have not. i had many encounters with mediate over my career. >> i'm sorry about that. how about you, initiate? >> i had been a situation with t

1968 the kremlin actually service a was part of the agb attempted to subsidize the campaign of hubert humphrey? >> i don't know the specifics of that. that comports with russian tactics. >> didn't they try to stop ronald reagan from being re-elected? >> again, i'd have to do some research to verify. that but again, it certainly co comports if they chose a candidate, they would do that. >> okay. >> general clapper, you have ever leaked information, classified or unclassified to a member of the press? >> not knowingly as i said in my statement. >> classified or unclassified? >> well, unclassified is not leaking. unclassified -- that's -- that's a -- >> you have ever given information to a reporter that you didn't want -- want to have your name connected with but you wanted to see it in the paper? >> i have not. i've had many encounters with media over my career. >> i'm sorry about that. how you about, ms. yates? >> other than situations where the department of justice would arrange for example for me to talk on background with reporters about a particular issue, to educate them about that, no. i