jesse helms. and what was the one big government program that jesse helm s would always promote and always support? tobacco subsidies. probably the most pernicious, the worst government program you could possibly imagine, but of kourks the tobacco farmers are in north carolina so he is for -- that's one of the reasons you can't cut agricultural subsidies. you have all these senators, many of them conservative from all these states, the last thing they want to see cut is agricultural subsidies. you have not only new responsibilities on the part of the government for general economy, you have new responsibilities on the part of the government for individual and family well-being and welfare. how else does the new deal change politics, policy and the presidency? you've got two big areas. what are some of the other things that the new deal instituted in the way of changes? >> like what social groups made up the support centers for the political parties. >> very important. you have an utter transformat

in massachusetts after he stopped working for jesse helms.o there's something -- there's a real sort of pathological disconnect. and they've really got to be called on it and they've got to be called on it by democrats as well as people like us. >> i think that ken mehlman though has sort of -- i think ken mehlman has done the right thing to the extent that you can't do back in time. you can indict what he did in the past, but then once you come out, if you were complicit in politics that were not only hypocritical but you decided were very bad for the country the right thing to do is work to change those politics. he's certainly doing that in his public life. >> he's doing things like the proposition 8 fight but what is going on with the republican party? how is it every candidate, every single candidate with the arguable exception of jon huntsman who's long gone, has taken such anti-gay views in terms of policy and rhetoric? how have they remained silent? when you have a gay soldier who's serving in iraq ask a perfectly innocuous, pleasant

i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part

, one of the homophobic senators, he was in a gay marriage after he stopped working for jesse helmsical disconnect. they have to be called on it. >>> i think ken melman has done the right thing to the extent you can't go back in time. you can indict what he did in the past once you come out if you were complicit you have to work to change the politics, he's doing that. >> in things like the proposition 8 fight but what is going on within the republican party? >> that is the question. >> how is it every candidate. every candidate with the arguable example of jon huntsman, long gone, has taken such anti-gay views in terms of policy and rhetoric, have they remained sigh len a gay soldier serving in eye iraq, asked a perfectly pleasant question through youtube in a republican debate and no one including the then nine candidates on stage speaks up against it? it's great that ken melman is involved with raising money for afer and to fight proposition # appeared so on but what about within the party? i am i don't mean to sickle him out, paul singer, the hedge fund guys, the big bucks peopl

jesse helms even supported the package at that point. so, yes, the government working and working together, means something to the country. >> and people's respect for the institution at that point was much higher. >> i think it was higher. look, some people would say, you know, congress bashing is a uniquely american habit. right? goes back to will rogers and mark twain so people are always complaining about congress. but when they saw this senate, the civil right act of 1964, the arena in which the vietnam war was most opposed, and ultimately brought to a close, holding richard nixon accountable in watergate, coming up with an energy policy, however difficult it was. they saw it working. >> ira, we are rapidly running out of time. i want to thank you very much for discussing your book. it's "the last great senate: courage and statesmanship in times of crisis." thank you very much for being if us. >> thank you, no. really appreciate it. >> up next, on a recent trip to georgetown university in washington, dc, book tv talked to chandra ma

you're talking about him, he went on to go to law school and ended up being an aide to senator jesse helms of north carolina. >> that's right. that's right. >> so, go back to the time -- what was the attitude on the part of the administration, the kennedy administration, about getting involved in mississippi early in their term? >> the attitude of the kennedy administration was that james meredith was going to go to the university of mississippi that fall, that there wasn't going to be any waffling about that whatsoever. and it was -- it was clear to me six months before september, 1972, that the administration was determined to do everything that it could do to see that james meredith entered the university. >> did you have conversation in mississippi or in other places in the south with white people about why they felt so strongly about keeping the blacks down? >> well, not really. because i can honestly say, no, i don't think i ever have, because i don't think anybody thought that they would make any head way with me if they gave me that garbage. >> so, a fella who was born in minneapol

found jesse helms. found it in north carolina. everything happened. almost won the thing in the 11th hour. your basing conclusion there. this point in early fevenlt bru. it's gone for newt. >> i think the difference, chris between 1976 and today is that primaries took place in a localized manner back in 1976. now everything that happens locally is national. you can't hide anything. everybody sees everything on the national news. on the internet. can't go to one state, say another. the issue to the extent that it exists, i don't think there is a newish to that will propel newt gingrich forward. so i think that his chance was to follow up on south carolina with victory in florida. i suspect that florida will be what it was four years ago which was the state that broke the momentum of the other candidates. they stayed in the race for a while. it will, ultimately it was the determinative state. >> steve, in the last couple days we have seen newt's press shot, come up with an attack message against romney that actually harkened become to what tim pawlenty

revisited the project again in the '80s and '90s but the late north carolina republican senator jesse helmslocked the bill. finally after helms left office, president bush signed the authorization for this museum in 2003. $100 million in private funds have already been raised. the 374,000 square foot building will house about 20,000 artifacts and is expected -- get this -- to draw 3 million to 3.5 million visitors annually n. museum is expected -- annually. this mao seem why is expected to be -- museum is expected to be the largest of its kind anywhere in the united states. i'll have more on the growing concerns coming up in my next live report in a half-hour. >> thank you. >>> we have a look at some bargains coming up. daily deals time very soon. >>> three actors at a local museum show and tell the stories of black men and women during the civil war. we'll be back. >>> it is 5:38 out on the weather terrace this morning. jackets needed. we're if the 40s with a light breeze out here. some spots out to the west and southwest down in the 30s. your day planner, get ready for a spring like day.

well as representatives do where you can also work in the senate earlier than that for senator jesse helme. please join me in welcoming my colleague commented nina poacher ringo. [applause] >> thank you two of you for being better than today. tuesday in a president obama. he mentioned his landmark legislative victory, the patient protection and affordable care and there's no wonder the americans continue to dislike a health care a lot more like it. it seems every day there's a new glitch or contradiction that services raising work out the elaborate plan can actually work. further complicating matters for the administration is the decision by the supreme court to consider the law's constitutionality. but with a toothpick if b-bravo, it is still critically important that americans are reminded unless the supreme court strikes down the block in its entirety, there's still plenty to be concerned about. today we are going to hear from a distinguished panel of health care experts who will discuss why full repeal must remain a top priority and to help provide an alternative vision for what a resp

capital hill for jim demeant and the worked in the senate earlier than that, working for senator jesse helms, please join me in welcoming my colleague. [applause] >> well, thank you, john, and thanks to you for being at our event today. tuesday night, president obama barely mentioned his landmark legislative victory, the patient protection and affordable care act, and there's no wonder. americans continue to dislike the healthcare law more than they like it. it seems every day they're a new flip or contradiction that surfaces raising more doubt this plan can work. further click -- complicating matters is the decision of the supreme court considering the constitutionality of the law. it is still critically important that americans are reminded unless the supreme court strikes down the law in its entirety, there's still plenty to be concerned about. today we're going to hear from a distinguished panel of healthcare experts who will discuss why full repeal remains other top priority and to provide a vision for what a responsible healthcare reform proposal would look like. let me introduce them

helm of god to handle that mystery. but today, we pause, we preach, we praise, we celebrate. >> and reverend jesse jackson, you're knownll over the world. reverend, you're known here. >> all over the neighborhood. >> you're known all over the united states. but we know that you are a reverend here and you're a very good friend of the family's. explain to our viewers your relationship to the family and this community. >> whit knew's dad helped usher in the era of black politics in newark. that's how i met her father and her mother was a choir director in the church behind us. so i've known them for over 40 years. when she was 14 years old, she was the lead singer at a choir rehearsal we put together. >> nippy. >> nippy. she sang tremain's part. so i've known her since she was wearing plaid skirts and going to catholic schools. we've prayed with her, celebrated with her. so i feel like i've lost a family member. >> dr. king frequented this church, as well. she comes out of a tremendous sense of social justice background. many of us thought the parallels, we heard aretha at 12 years old, "i'll never grow old" out of her f

as a b-movie director after the war, he was an unlikely choice to helm the studio's big picture of that year. studio boss jesseaskey asked we willman what qualified him for the job. >> my father said my war record does. i'll make it the best damned picture this studio has ever made. >> reporter: and, did he? >> i think he did. >> reporter: it was more than dives and dog fights. clara bow was the studio's top box office star of the day. before "wings" she starred in the film "it." giving rise to the term "it girl." shapely and sensual, she hated her role as small town girl and battlefield ambulance driver with that modest military costume that came with it. >> she was constantly trying to tighten the belt on the uniform to accentuate her curves and costume designer would try to get her to loosen the belt which she would refuse to do. in the film you can see she won. >> reporter: producer david sten wrote a book on bow who proved that sex sells. >> there's a famous moment in the film where she actually appears briefly topless. that brought many more people into the theater than perhaps may have gone without that