later your member that ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter in the primaries. 30 years later it was clear none of the animosity had washed away. there was still resentment from carter about senator kennedy challenging him. the one thing he did know was when kennedy challenged carter in the primaries it allowed the culturally conservative voters, especially catholics, to think twice about supporting the president's. indeed, they in the fall election voted for ronald reagan. but he thinks because kennedy's challenge allowed them to be pulled away that it opened up the opportunity for reagan to move in after kennedy had conceded in august 1980.

jimmy carter moved one over. i think they watched the game together. girl: my name is emily and in 7 years... i'll be an alcoholic. all: hi, emily. announcer: kids who drink before age 15 are 5 times more likely to have alcohol problems when they're adu >> steve: american airlines arena. the wiz are find themselves in south florida looking for a measure of revenge as they take on dwyane wade and the miami heat. hi, folks, glad you are with us tonight for wizards basketball. steve buckhantz with phil chenier. emotional win last night by the wizards. >> it was leak he was the sixth man sitting up on top of the back board willig his team to win and making the contribution, also making sure that the players close to him got off to a terrific start, having a heck of a game, talking about jamison and nick young. javale mcgee contributed six blocks. and how about boy kins. you see lou williams trying to position himself. jamison and the rest of the big three are very elated with that win, did not let that go down and washington comes away with a win. but you

as an example, we have a policy in the united states that started with jimmy carter that you use it once and after that did not let it be recycled. the trouble with that is you are extracting less than 1%, which means also that you are making a lot of waste. some technologies are coming forward where it is conceivable that we could have them in a cost-effective way where you could start taking them and striking more than the energy context. a number of other things could reduce, attract more energy and the amounts of waste. and to reduce lifetime. all good things. it would also require different categorization, because you could cycle back. with the energy content of this fuel, you do not ever want to have access to it again. that becomes difference and temporary, and it would open up a different the mob better geological site. so we want this panel to step back and make reasonable assumptions about what we know today that we did not know 25 years ago, and look at different types of geological sites for what you might think. just different class's, whether they are yucca mountain, soap o

there is a drop to come, but we could be looking at jimmy carter. this is a president with very wrong-track policy. >> did you want to talk about this? >> it is nice to be with people who can see beyond the moment, and look forward to the trajectory and where this may be going. i think that right now, the president, this is very consistent. what he is benefiting from is a feeling that he is in a difficult set of circumstances. he took over at a difficult time. he has done a commendable job, calling this like he sees this. he thinks hard about things and he tries to do the right thing. he has a lot of fast balls that are coming his way, including the strikes. at the moment, this is sufficient. there will be a moment where people begin to change the criteria, and they will say, what is all of this yielding? at this moment, the voters are patient because they are looking across the landscape, and they do not see many alternatives. they are not ready to cast their lot with the leadership of congress, or some alternative leader of that is out there. this

it is october 1980 with jimmy carter. my apologies that it was not ready to go. out your book. you spoke to carter before this book. guest: it was fascinating. i was surprised to greed it to an interview. i sent him a letter and expected a perfunctory no. within a matter of days and got a call from his office asking if i would like to meet the president. i said i would love to. i thought about arrangements to fly to georgia. and they said no, 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning by phone. i e-mailed a series of questions to his secretary. at my office the next morning, very early -- impressed me that he got up that early -- we went through and ended up talking for about 45 minutes. he was very frank about 1976 about his appeal. he described himself as an odd duck because he was conservative on some issues, liberal on others. conservative about a middle- class tax cut, cleaning up corruption, but liberal on human rights. that was an odd appeal in 1976. it was clear that even 30 years later your member that ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter in the primaries. 30 years later

as an example, we have a policy in the united states that started with jimmy carter that you take the fuel, you use it once recycled and after that, it's no longer to be recycled. the trouble with that means that you are extracting less than one -- 1% of the energy content. which means also you're making a lot of waste. and there's a lot of depleted uranium. some technologies are coming forward where it's highly conceivable in a very cost effective way, where you can start taking the completed uranium and striking much more of the energy content. also that we could be using knew trons, a number of other things to reduce, to attract more of the energy and to reduce the amount of waste. not by a factor two but maybe a factor five or 10. that means what we should consider is waste that has been preowned, preused and could be cycled. it also would require different characterization. because that would mean you couldn't use storage that you could recycle back. but once you do this you don't haven't -- want to have access to it again. one repository would be for 100 years and the other woul

the most extraordinary person whom i have ever known in my life -- >> larry: that was president jimmy carter maddy citypanic. hard to believe it's been five years since maddy left us. he suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, the same disease that claimed his three siblings. maddy was 13 when he died. but boy, did he make the most of those years. a poet, a peace advocate, a philosoph philosopher. he inspired millions with his message of hope and peace, and finding your heart song. and now there's an incredible new book out about his life. messenger, the legacy of mattie j.t. stepanek and heart songs. the author is mattie's mom, jenny, and she joins us now from washington. celebrating heroes month here at cnn. and i can paraphrase the president when i say of all the heroes i've known, mattie was the greatest.

either jimmy carter or ronald reagan actually have the political cover to appoint him. so e eventually, it was not an issue. >> host: so where do the catholic boats go? >> guest: overwhelmingly john kennedy burma he received a historic roach. interestingly enough, the st. exactly the same protestant vote it was a catholic migration that provided the 10 days blubber of united states to seven another book out on the elections come a what is the fascination with the collections. >> is the characters they're the most beautiful plug zero mines and they put them together base to face with vivid to taking over it. of our problems for both candidates and it was such april finished and kennedy barely whiz by 800,000 votes. people go back to that and if they say but it is interesting to see these titans going toe to toe with such a quick election and i argue it helped kennedy win and a nixon lose the election. had he done a better job handling religion he could have won the race. >> host: you were involved in the 2008 campaign. in what capacity? >> i serve as an adviser for one-y

they are all kinds of great exhibits, including papers of jimmy carter. there is no mention of the only treaty that has eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, which was the inf treaty. there is no picture of ronald reagan signing the inf treaty. we have the only single tree in arms control the has accomplished something real, besides the non-proliferation treaty, which i think was wonderful. it is not even mentioned. >> you have to start somewhere. you cannot destroy with where you wanted to come out. the purpose of salt i and salt ii was to try to stop the momentum. admittedly, the limits were high. that is where they started, and then when they moved on to start, i think the assault had to come first. >> can use the word "illusion." from a philosophical point of view, you have been at this for a long time. is there an element of illusion in the pursuit of the control of nuclear weapons, when we look around and people are still trying to get them? >> let me just mention a couple of things in context with this period of time. you all recall the li

only twice since 1970 and that was jimmy carter in 1976 and obama in 2008. not bill clinton not harry truman not john off kennedy. if we go back further on fdr, lbj, carter, and obama have received the 50% mark. i think the real majority that unyoung, unpoor, unblack it works well for the republican party. it worked well because democrats succeeded. think about for a moment. the new deal was geared towards a nation that was one third joe clark, ill housed, ill marist as roosevelt told us in 1937. in short, there was work to do and that work was successful. so that by 1980, we had a relatively prosperous middle-class suburban country that wasn't worried about what government ought to be doing for them, but saw themselves as the proprietors of government that taxed too much, spent too much, put on the green eye shades of government. and of course ronald reagan is such a good example of that journey, if you will, from new deal democrats as he was to expounding a reagan revolution. well, the real majority is over. it's over. three big revolutions are happening i

. >>> jimmy carter, during his it is simply exercising freedom of speech. i live in a deep fear of violent campaign finance laws. theresa amato is the author of the "grand illusion," our next book. "grand illusion: the myth of voter choice in a two-party tyranny." she was the national presidential campaign manager and in-house counsel for ralph nader in 2,002,004. ms. amato graduated from harvard university and new york university law school. she founded advocacy center in urban chicago with many nonprofit organizations. she has been a fellow also at harvard institute of politics at the jfk school and on public interest laws at the harvard law school, a very fine speaker on this topic, theresa amato. [applause] >> good afternoon and thank you, john singles and thank you cato institute for hosting this. thank you all of you for coming because this is quite a turnout to hear about systemic barriers to entry for third parties and independents in the political process. it's not the kind of thing mimics the front page of the major newspapers every day and it's v

if you can pray for jimmy carter -- [laughter] i won't finish the sentence. howard talk about ronald reagan and tip o'neill. i reminded of the great jimmy breslin story, a tough writer. after tip got out of office, working all the way back to truman, he asked tip, who was your favorite president to work with? he said, that is easy. it was ronnie reagan. he would call me up after we were kicking each other and punching each other all day, and he would call me down to the white house. and there, the two irish politicians would do what irish politicians do. drink whiskey, tells stories, and lie. [laughter] and you know, because of that, it never got personal. they were able to do what nobody thought they could do. they tackle social security. it was rough for both of them. but they did it because they did n't hate. when i was in congress, i would walk people through and give them a twour. i told the story a thousand times. i always had to stop from tearing up when i told it. in the rotunda, what happened on that remarkable day in 1776. thomas jefferson, standing

. >> larry: that was president jimmy carter at the funeral of mattie stepanek. left us. he suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, the same disease that claimed his three siblings. mattie was 13 when he died. but boy, did he make the most of those years. a poet. a peace advocate. a philosopher. he inspired millions with his message of hope and peace and finding your hearsong. and now there's an incredible new book out about his life. "messenger: the legacy of mattie j.t. stepanek and heartsongs." its author is mattie's mom, jenny, and she joins us now from washington. we're kind of celebrating heroes month here at cnn. and i can paraphrase the president when i say of all the heroes i've known mattie was the greatest. why the book, jenny? >> well, larry, people have been asking me for years and years, even before mattie died, when are you going to share the story of mattie's life? when are you going to share what it was like at home, in the hospital, on the road with this child that we have his poetry and we have his peace essays? and i decided after he

>> guest: first you have the community reinvestment act passed in 1977 by jimmy carter and activist groups like a cord were in support of it. it was a new sense. the boss said if you were a bank and he wanted to merge with another bank or open a new bank branch or open a new atm machine come you had to prove you were lending to the broad community. in other words,, lending to everyone. the activists use of this as a vehicle to compel plagues to push the agenda which you might call affirmative action lending. the agenda was to get banks to make individuals to those who would not normally get them and it was a goal to encourage home ownership. >> host: you say they lack creditworthiness? are you saying in the book, and you have the substantiation to back it up, that when you do objective studies and remove the four other variables, that's what is there truly evidence of discrimination? >> guest: no. you can see that on a couple of levels. first, black owned banks have a worse record of rejection of minority applicants. shows we're not talking about a racial component. >> host: i don't unders

as i point out a chapter meets the globalist brzezinski, adviser to jimmy carter, that turned out well for hundred 40 days in the hostage crisis that ended the presidency has been one of the mentors to get barack obama ready for the presidency and persians the has been riding and i document for years seeing the united nations should control u.s. foreign policy. here comes president obama of the united nations speaks to the general assembly. noss part of american exceptional as some and he's the first president to cherish a security council meeting. what does this mean? security council going to dictate u.s. foreign policy? or more khaddafi and mahmoud ahmadinejad have equal vote? so i think these are the issues and raising in fighting "america for sale." thank you. good question. next question? don't be shy. yes? >> i heard one of the senators read that actually said that the federal government has the right to enforce such things as the health care, virtually anything if they say is for the general welfare and i am sure it is by no means the only one that feels that way. how do we get

it is october 1980 with jimmy carter. my apologies that it was not ready to go. let's keep talking about your book. you spoke to carter before this book. guest: it was fascinating. i was surprised to greed it to an interview. i sent him a letter and expected a perfunctory no. within a matter of days and got a call from his office asking if i would like to meet the president. i said i would love to. i thought about arrangements to fly to georgia. and they said no, 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning by phone. i e-mailed a series of questions to his secretary. at my office the next morning, very early -- impressed me that he got up that early -- we went he got up that early -- we went he was very frank about 1976. he described himself as an odd duck, conservative on some issues, liberal on others. he was conservative about tax cuts, cleaning up corruption, but liberal on human-rights. that was an odd appeal in 1976. he was clear that he even 30 years later -- you remember, ted kennedy challenge carter in the primaries. none of the animosity had rushed away. there was still r

administration of their conducting our foreign policy and domestic policy, i would think it is jimmy carter. that will come back to haunt him in 2010 wheand 2012. in some other folks have been furious -- i and th some other folks have been curious. why did our administration not do like they did in world war ii? they sold war bonds, keeping it within the capitalistic investment system. i would rather prefer to see as helping out through the capitalist model instead of moving towards a socialist model, where we take it under the guise of assistance, purchasing it by the government. instituting taxes to generate revenue to pump into other government systems, those are questions i have myself. i do think that we are soaking the rich. i would prefer to see them off for some kind of a war bond through these banks. if we are going to finance this war, give us a 2% return on our money or something like that. god bless our troops. host: another editorial this morning, the afghan war surtax. "domestic politicians beg to differ. this is a quote from david obi4ee, "there ain't going to be no money for

happened to have something called community reinvestment act, cra, which was passed in 1977 by jimmy carter. and activist groups like acorn were in support of the. this law was a nuisance that what the law basically said was if you are a bank and you wanted to merge with another bank or you wanted to open a new bank branch or even wanted to open up a new atm and sheen, you have to prove that you were linking to the broad community. you were lending to everyone that the activists use this as a vehicle to compel banks to push this agenda that they had what you might call -- >> what is that a to? >> the agenda is to get banks to make loans to individuals who ordinarily would not get loans. the ostensible goal was to encourage homeownership in america. >> by not getting loaned you were saying that they last creditworthiness? >> exactly. >> do you have substantiation to back that up that when you do actual studies, objective studies, and you remove other variables, was there to evidence of discrimination? >> there was not. you can see that on a couple of levels. first is as i mentioned earlier,

jimmy carter helped billy carter at bay. >> yes. >> he kind of let the country laugh at him, never went after him. bill clinton had roger clinton, you go along with it don't get into it. >> embarrass the relatives. >> if you provoke a fight this is what happens. this is making her into, you know, look, i think ships sailed with her presidential ambitions a long time. if there was anything still alive it's dying fast. >> i was talking in the previous segment, 70% of americans think she's not qualified to be president. who are the 30% that think she is? >> she's the classic 25/75, 30/70 candidate. the core that loves you. i would like her in a way in terms of politics to pat robertson when he ran for president, 70% of the country. >> ralph nader. >> probably more. were scared of this guy. >> more raffle of nader. >> there is the core problem and i think primarily she's a cultural figure not a political figure. >> i heard we have a "playgirl" pick posted on "the daily news" website. oh it's just from the head up? >> oh, come on. i could do that. >> what's this, what is he doing, this? this

jimmy carter helped billy carter at bay. >> yes. >> he kind of let the country laugh at him, never went after him. bill clinton had roger clinton, you go along with it don't get into it. >> embarrass the relatives. >> if you provoke a fight this is what happens. this is making her into, you know, look, i think ships sailed with her presidential ambitions a long time. if there was anything still alive it's dying fast. >> i was talking in the previous segment, 70% of americans think she's not qualified to be president. who are the 30% that think she is? >> she's the classic 25/75, 30/70 candidate. the core that loves you. i would like her in a way in terms of politics to pat robertson when he ran for president, 70% of the country. >> ralph nader. >> probably more. were scared of this guy. >> more raffle of nader. >> there is the core problem and i think primarily she's a cultural figure not a political figure. >> i heard we have a "playgirl" pick posted on "the daily news" website. oh it's just from the head up? >> oh, come on. i could do that. >> what's this, what is he doing, this? this

and what you see is that 2008 shows no real difference from 2004 and going all the way back to jimmy carter and beyond. the way in which the partisans are evaluating barack obama is similar to the way in which partisans had been evaluating presidents over the last several presidencies. the one potential piece of troubles and news for the republicans is that the younger cohorts are more democratic. that is not tied to barack obama. it was more an anti-george bush a fact. -- in effect. let's jump to this particular slide in the interest of time for the groups that you see on the left are you need to groups. nobody is in two places at once. it is a segmentation analysis that identifies the party coalitions. there is continuity over the five elections that you see there. the significant losses are losses among non-religious whites but they are the kind of losses that republicans incurred. that is the most unstable part of the electorate. when republicans do incur them, they allow all -- they lose elections. looking across the table as a whole, more continuity than not. the last point is the que

. >> then when we got elected, we had a fundamental agreement about how we would proceed, and jimmy carter signed off on it. that document, although it is not a law, is probably the best single document that describes the executivization of the vice-president see. -- vice presidency. the vice-president sees the same information as the president, has unrestricted access to the president', is a general adviser to the president. >> i did not agree with the carter administration on much of anything, but i think the way that he and vice president mondale worked out that relationship was a success. >> frankly, i was surprised when ronald reagan chose me to be his running mate. i was kind of the last man standing. i did not know him well. but i was impressed with him. i like to the man, so i was very flattered -- i liked the man, so i was very flattered and pleased that he chose me to be on the ticket with him. i was the resume candidate, and ridiculed for it, but i think it in the final analysis it help them with a variety of experiences. -- it helped him with a variety of experiences. the rest

look at the administration conducting their foreign policy and domestic policy, i think we have jimmy carter up there. i think i'm not the only one. that will come out on them on the 2010 and 2012. i and some other folks have been curious. our government has been nationalizing purchasing large portions of our economy. i have often wondered, why didn't our administration to like it did in world war ii, when they sold more bonds, which kept it as a capitalistic investment system, instead of purchasing interest in these companies? i would much rather see us financing health care and helping other parts of our economy through selling war bonds and keeping it as a capitalist model instead of moving it towards a socialist model where we take it over under the guise of assistance, but purchasing it by the government' and then instituting tax is to generate revenue to pump back into other government systems. but that is just questions that i have myself. but i do think we are soaking the rich, and i would prefer to see them offer some type of war bonds through the particular banks so that if we are

but it could be a positive, a consequential presidency as well as i think we can be looking at jimmy carter ineffectual presidency combined with wrong track policies. i think that is a one in four chance. >> i feel as though i am on the stage with some freaks of nature. it's nice to be with pollsters who can see beyond the moment and looked toward where the trajectory of things might be going. i think right now, what the president's is consistent with, what he is benefiting from is the sense that he is in a very tough set of circumstances. he took over at a tough time and is doing a commendable job of calling it like he sees it. he makes reasoned choices, he thinks hard about things, and he tries to do the right thing. he is not ideology-bound or partisanship bound so much as he has a bunch of fastball coming his way and he's doing his best to call balls and strikes accurately. at the moment, i think that is sufficient for people. i think it will come a moment when people began to change the criteria and start saying what is this all yielding? voters at this moment are somewhat patient beca

the '76 campaign, about democrat wars in that debate, about his service as vice president under jimmy carter and about the way that both parties have evolved over these last several decades. >> host: and in conducting these interviews, did you find he was candid and open? >> yeah, well, you know bob dole is noted for being candid and open. from tim to time he said things he probably wished he hadn't said. we've known each other for 30 years so these are really much more of a nature of conversations than they are formal interviews. but i think you will find he is very frank and you heard him talk about '88. i remember asking him about, as you look back, do you have regrets? he said, i used to have dreams about the '96 campaign and what i could have done differently, but then i realized, you know, i'm 83 years old, let me enjoy the time i have left rather than dwelling on what might have been. >> host: he's often told the story in conversation with former senator george mcgovern, the democratic nominee in 1982, they served in the senate together and saesht dole, if i'm paraphrasing correctly s

we did not have bono, we didn't have nelson mandela, we didn't have jimmy carter. over ten years the global health agenda has become a major agenda for countries around the world than we see our lives are intertwined in real insubstantial ways. what made the case for global health? you know as physicians we think it was held. we think it was humanitarian gestures but really what moved the case was the linkage to security, the linkage that helped diplomacy, the linkage to development, the linkage to competitive ambitions in business. the linkage to science, so i think this is a way that the global health agenda has moved and i see this thing happening with the climate change agenda. you know the value of this lancet piece has to do i would say with the word coe benefit that with by introducing a cookstove we may have a more effective way to burn fuel or to heat food but we are also having a co-benefits of health. when i take my bicycle to work in the morning i am having the benefit for my own health but also having a benefit for the environment. of these things are

early in his administration, and jimmy carter invited his 8-year- old daughter amy to come to a state bennett -- dinner. she spent the evening reading a book while the other guest were talking around a table. in 1976, to honor the bicentennial, there was a big dinner for queen elizabeth ii in the rose gone -- rose garden. that afternoon, most of the resident staff including myself rushed outside to try to hold the tent down during an afternoon thunderstorm that might have taken off the whole thing. it might have disappeared in a big summer storm in washington. back in 1927, at a dinner that president and mrs. calvin coolidge gave for the president of cuba, podcast managed to break a seat and not unlike the one that you were sitting on today. when he stood up, the chair came up attached to his posterior. something's happened. all part of tradition and history and a granddaughter of state dinners and every other event that takes place at the white house. welcome, everybody, and i hope that you have a nice afternoon. [applause] >> good afternoon. it is an honor and privilege for me to be

publicly provide information on programs that are similar in scope to recovery.gov .. 1976 before jimmy carter was a lack it. who decided what question were going to be included in the survey? >> who decided what questions? that would be omb. >> why in the world what a congressional seat be included in a report of this type lacks >> i actually believe, sir, if my memory serves they write up better than the act in the large self, that the recipients were supposed to report that. so omb put up the guidance of the act. spivak said the act was actually engineered to specifically identify lyrical subdivisions within the government rather than using the traditional what we abuse or 30, 40 years and that is using zip codes. >> zip codes are included as well. the congressional districts will be reporting. >> said the act we passed literally had this political element mandated into it. >> it did. >> and it sort of indicates author intent when you see that kind of thing. in your experience, do you remember any identifications like this before rather than just using the zip codes and extrapolating that i

and columbia university professor gary sitt, author of the blog on iran and president of jimmy carter'sy council, and joining me again, ibrahim asgharzdeh, one of the mastermind of the hostagetaking. you saw one of the spokesmen for the students there. what was your reaction when you heard her now just personal? >> i never had the pleasure of meeting her until the end. i understand that her name is milufah and not masumeh. after the revolution people did make some changes. now whatever it is, what i -- what i'm hearing, christiane, is an awful lot of rationalization for an act that people know was -- was an ugly act. and a very -- and an act with very negative consequences for iran, for iranians. and as much as they rationi izl it, as much as they say we were young, we were this, we were that -- >> you wrote "negotiating with iran and the ghosts of the past." >> right. >> these are the ghosts of the past. can you get over them? >> of course. you need to call in the ghostbusters. and bring the ghostbusters in. you know, they put -- they put the ghost in the can and put the can and can aw

. >> i ran get-out-the-vote for jimmy carter in illinois. very poorly, i might add. i actually got notices of how bad it was. >> i wanted to welcome you, professor cox, and for being very active in a number of important consumer issues. you have helped me on some of the work we're doing what cellphone issues that have emerged again this week with the early termination fees from verizon and other things, so thank you for that. i know that you were working with the attorney general, and did you file a suit and similar things like this before? >> senator, yes. i fought against the predecessor against u.s. bancorp, against about five suits, including fleet mortgage company. we tried to do the same thing, go up the chain and hold people responsibilite at the financial institution level. we had some success, but then it just died away. i am deedee that you are looking at this problem. -- i am giddy that you are looking at this problem. >> are there things that you would suggest to curb the abuses online? >> thank you, senator. again, this has an actual easy solution, which