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during jimmy carter's last year. en carter finally realized that he had to have an effective chief. jack watson said, it's almost everything you need to know you learn in kindergarten. it's not complicated. it requires an ability to work with people. you have to be -- you can't just be holderman perfect son of a [ bleep ] as he was described by richard nixon. you have to be able to work together. you have to be able to inspire a team and you have to be able to reach across the aisle and get things done for the good of the country. that's the simplest way i can put it. host: picture there on the book president carter and mr. watson during the final year of carter's presidency. as caption of that piece book called "gatekeepers" our guest is chris whipple. myron is on the line from little rock arizona. independent caller. caller: hello. yes, sir. this is a great topic. mr. whipple, chris whipple. is that right? have you ever heard of this book, i found it in my private library here. "shadow presidents" guest: i know it v

in fact, that was why jimmy carter was elected. in the post-watergate period, he was able to say i am not of washington. i am from georgia. i was the governor of georgia. i'm never going to lie to you. i'm a born again christian. and so he was able to separate himself out of the muck and mire of washington and watergate. much as donald trump presented himself to the american people to say i'm not even a politician. i've never served in government before. so what jimmy carter told us in his oral history is he thought he would be fine in terms of his experience as a chief executive of a state. he had been in atlanta as the governor of georgia. but he said when i got to washington, it was very different from what i expected. >> i didn't have any obligations to the people of washington from my election. very few of the members of congress or the members of the major lobbying groups or the distinguished former democratic leaders has played much of a role in my election. so there wasn't that tie of campaign in a relationship that ordinar

it happened multiple times with jimmy carter. we didn't have the furloughs, but we had shut downs and all of that. so there's something maybe intrinsically wrong with our system or maybe someone was telling me earlier on fox business, this is a transparent way of doing this. what do you think? >> oh, i don't think it's anyway to do business. look, there's two ways to divide this up. under ford and carter and reagan, the shut downs were very short. a week or a few days and they didn't have furloughs. they didn't have major consequences for the most part. it changed under bill clinton dealing with the republican congress. that's when it became sometimes a month long with massive furloughs and terrible political division and that continued really to the present day. there's been four like that. have we learned one thing from this, neil, and these shut downs since bill clinton? we learned that it doesn't work. it doesn't do anything for the party instigating the shut down both republicans and democrats have done this. it never helps

host: as you know, this is a department formed in 1977 by president jimmy carter, a democrat, during the height of the energy crisis. is its mission still relevant today? secretary perry: the mission is still relevant because agencies transform. times.ansform with the if someone told jimmy carter 40 years, the united a energy going to be we'rendent country that, going to be the largest oil and gas producer, that we're going the largest gas exporter, he would have not believed that, as most people wouldn't have. could look into the future and see that. created ingency was the mid 1970's, yes, we moved the nuclear weapons and the oversight of that is still here. that's still a very relevant of what we do, two-thirds the departmentf of energy is over on the n.s.a. side where our nuclear weapons, program, thetion making sure that they're safe that is stilll of very relevant. but we've changed from the you think about renewables. we made this big circle. up in a home that didn't have running water. had a up in a home that carbide plant still next door. r.e.a. by then, come.electric had so

that's not the case and three times with jimmy carter. you might make the distinction that there were no fers and the fact of the matter that it did happen before. what i find in a sense of the media i don't care whether you're right or left or rapport democrat but at least be accurate. this has happened before. and i think that when everyone says, oh, this is the first time, it's not. >> it's not. you know, they think the government shut down happened once in my time as leader, 12 years as leader. it happened over nine times. it was pretty much divided government. president and one party, congress in another. but the point is that these happen all the time. usually, you come out with something when the government has shut down. but in this particular case, they so miscalculated the democrats so miscalculated that this was not an issue. amnesty against the american people. that just can't be sustained, and i know -- i know for a fact that schumer was losing his army by leaps and bounds because you had so many democrat senators up for reel

we had a clip of jimmy carter's shutdown. how many are focused on jimmy carter's shutdown? >> another jimmy carter failure, that shutdown. >> what's going on here is kind of what everybody is saying. there's a difference between a short-term shutdown and a long-term. short term, if something's figure the out before the stock market kicks in on monday, the democrats will look good. they're standing up for the d.r.e.a.m.ers, and they were able to old the president's feet to the fire. but if it drags on for weeks, it will be donald trump's melt down. the deal maker couldn't make a 2k5e8, and what's sticking in everybody's craw is haiti, africa, the language, the s-hole moment, which is big in american history, on the racism that surrounded all of that. it gives the democrats, i think, right now a chance to say, i'm with the d.r.e.a.m.ers. the republicans are for deporting 800,000 people. >> we've got to take a quick break. we'll come back to this. coming up next, another late development. donald trump on government shutdowns and who's to blame. then in the past, what he said i

jimmy carter was arguably the most intelligent president of the 20th century. he thought he could run the reaganouse himself intuited something that carter never understood and that donald trump did not understand during his first term. that is that an outsider president needs a consummate insider to get things done on capitol hill. and that is the reality of modern history of the presidency since nixon host: robert fingering green bay, texas. >> as far as the gatekeepers, i feel jim kelly. it is hard to imagine of fellow with a wonderful career getting involved with in organizations 's. im anrump the biggest thing we need to be careful of is the inequality of the united states. and trump exacerbates that with his rhetoric and the leaps that he surrounds himself with. he is a fellow that has got to go out and try to play that up and it will be the downfall of america we need to be careful. host: thank you, robert. guest: to that point, i think it is a real dilemma for anyone serves this president. it is hard not to be damaged, excessesy some of the of this pres

told before we passed the tax cuts and jobs act that couldn't happen, it wasn't -- we went to the jimmy carter days. we reached the pinnacle of growth. we are not growing at 1.6%. we are growing at 3.3% and growing at 4%. that's what this is about, getting median wages back up where they should be. $1,000 bonus is not a crumb and in minnesota two the average family will get a tax relief cut of $3,800. what is that, 3 1/2 crumbs? i don't think so. that's a vacation. that's retirement. that's a college education. you know what, the minority leader just said was plain offensive. this is working. and you know later this week, we are going to continue the job. we are not going to shut the government down. we are going to keep it open. we will re-authorize chip and we are going to repeal a medical device tax that's hurting minnesota big time. then we will send it over to the senate and the senate will have to decide -- the senate democrats will decide whether they will shut the government down. i don't think they will. they certainly shouldn't. i thank this team behind me for remaining firm on this.

and that historical presidents where jimmy carter ended up losing the presidency in 1988 is not a goodrecedent. the trump administration has put several departments and agencies on notice advising them to reviews their contingency plans for a shutdown. reporting live in washington kenneth moton channel6 "action news." >> thank you kenneth. >> turning to health check a government shutdown would affect some federal health services and that could mean suspending the cdc blew flu program in the middle of an outbreak. >> hi ali. >> information from the cdc is vital to track the virus. it's how we first found out where the virus started this season, where it's peaking and what that means for our area. a government shutdown could affect how healthcare providers handle the epidemic. shortly after the holiday season, after lots of travel and snow and frigid temperatures kept people inside close together, that's when we started to see a spike in flu activity in our area. but judging from data from the cdc, we could tell the virus was coming. hospitals in other states saw spikes earlier with emer

gates has written about this, former head of the cia has written about this being head of cia, jimmy carter'stional security adviser said in an interview in 1998 with a french magazine the cia meaning the united states, jimmy carter's administration began to fund secretly, to live 1979 the mujahedin in order to, these are the words, these are not my words, lure the soviet union into afghanistan to pay it back for backing the vietcong and north vietnamese when we were in vietnam. the chinese became our allies during this time. the idea was, the head of the isi which is the military intelligence arm of the pakistani army said in his memoir of his time, he was in charge of the money that came in, distributing it among the mujahedin the principal reason in his view, born out by carter and gates, the reason we went in was revenge. so together we created and began to nurture what we call the mujahedin. at the same time, the 9/11 commission deals with some of this, they talk about numbers. with our allies from algeria, egypt, saudi arabia, yemen, throughout the muslim world and they came according t

actually began with jimmy carter. that is, the adversity against the government as a result of the racial disturbances, as a result of vietnam, as a result of watergate, required a leader to take charge and say, hey, we haven't had the backs of our citizens. we need to go back to our basic government. as abraham lincoln said, we government must do the things that individuals cannot do for themselves or cannot do well for themselves. so it's as old as our democracy, and yet, beginning with jimmy carter, accelerating with ronald reagan, bill clinton, and george h.w. bush, bill clinton, and george w. bush, and barack obama, government has not returned to its activist state, and here you see the results. you see in the '50s and '60s, inequality was increasing slightly but it really dropped during the reagan administration and never really recovered. progressive tacks. during the eisenhower administration the highest tax bracket was 90%. now the corporate rate is 35%, and the new tax proposal knocks it down to 20%, and you

a look at federal government shut down since 1956, five of them have under jimmy carter, eight under ronald reagan, but not lasting more than a day or two. 100 george w. bush, two under bill clinton, but one that lasted 21 days. 2013, barack obama left 17 days. an overview of what we have seen in terms of government shutdown the past 30 years or so. matt is calling, independent line. what are your thoughts? >> hi, how are you? it is clear the democrats want daca. according to the congressional budget office, it would cost $26 billion. president trump is trying to take it on the chin. he wants a trillion dollar wall. hopefully that is a deterrent for illegal immigration. i think it will be a great message for the republicans in the that they can state democrats are for illegal immigrants over americans. heardwe haard -- we from the office of the white house press secretary saying we will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats heard from the office of the white house hold lawful citizens hostage." that is from the white house, issued earlier this evening. the g

president jimmy carter had appointed daddy to be his assistant surgeon general with responsibility for running the health services administration and the department of health education and welfare. it was 1977. on a school field trip to our nations capital with my fifth-grade classmates i felt a swell of admiration for america and a surge off pride to be american as i stared up at the white washington monument, heard my voice echo as i walked around lincoln and his chair, traced my fingers over the bronze plaques. we walked back to our bus and a gagglele of them and for a few moments were caught in the jumble of people in their great trenchcoats trying to hurry down sidewalks to and from the jobeds.. i steps to the side so they could pass. important people worked in the city. i knew my daddy was once them. back at home in reston, i had black friends, indian friends, and jewish friends as well as white friends. there was even another black family on myla street for the very first time in my life with a daughter named amanda. amanda was a few years under the me but we can both sunset was

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president jimmy carter to have the best electoral system in the world at this week's prime minister's questions all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first five years ago today nicolas maduro was named vice president of venezuela by one of the most electorally successful politicians in the world who go chavez but during who would succeed chavez as president of the nation with the world's largest known oil reserves elected in a landslide in twenty five team but could threats from nato nations change all that regional elections. in venezuela tomorrow the u.s. response to stay improvements in everything from literacy to health since the dark days of us back to take this has been clear under obama and trump many options for that as well and by the way i'm not going to rule out a military option and here in britain venezuela is used by dres amaze ministers to attack police supporter of progressive movements around the world jeremy corbyn he said he still had mas bolivarian revolutionary so should. i say he's caracas and i well joining me now is boris johnson's venezu

five i've covered political events by every president since jimmy carter so i'm all. so why have you ever experienced something like that no but it didn't make it go really bother me i think it would depend on the climate and the crowd but frankly because having covered politics for so long i knew half the people sitting out there. and it didn't bother me i mean i don't i'm not sure if it's healthy for democracy for that sort of thing but it's politics. later i meet with some journalism students they work on the newspaper at their school. i'm impressed with their analysis of the current state of journalism and the conclusion states draw in the fall it's. when you make us the press outcasts who are making the public outcasts because we are the instruments of truth. and not dismay and in our country we've seen a shift in that direction and it's it worries me as a journalist and it worries me as a citizen because i believe that that in any country of the freedom of the press is the freedom of the people if you're not big news according to what he says a lot of the time t

president jimmy carter to have the best electoral system in the world at this week's prime minister's questions gold and some more coming up in today's going underground but first five years ago today nicolas maduro was named vice president of venezuela by one of the most electorally successful politicians in the world who go chavez but during the would succeed chavez as president of the nation with the world's largest known oil reserves elected in a landslide in twenty five team but could threats from nato nations change all that regional elections in venezuela tomorrow the u.s. response to stay improvements in everything from literacy to health since the dark days of us back to take this has been clear under obama and trump many options for that as well and by the way i'm not going to rule out a military option and here. in britain venezuela is used by dres amaze ministers to attack police supporter of progressive movements around the world jeremy corbyn he said he still had mas bolivarian revolution recession as i say he's caracas and i well joining me now is boris johnson's venezu

navy who served as the director of central intelligence under jimmy carter who just died three days ago why do or who worked for him. go to needed it wasn't afraid even as you try to play it on the president's team and if you had enough noses out of joint it did it was an effort capulets but it made the community work that's what you need religious community that's what was missed since i mean sure well thank you as always waver coming on and giving us your perspective on these issues facing us today it's a truly a great pleasure thank you are most welcome. nearly four hundred fifty two or seventy five percent of the world's active volcanoes are found in the ring of fire a twenty five thousand square foot area in the basin of the pacific ocean and one of those is about to erupt the militia in the middle of philippines mountain may own the centerpiece of a unesco biosphere reserve has been raised to a threat level for just one spot below the highest warning a veil of all for eruption detection eruptions of steam and rock began in december of twenty seventeen causing the danger zone surro

bill: i will go to jimmy carter. he said he's never seen anybody treated as badly by the press. but again this phenomenon. i still think, i will forgive the press this much. they are still trying to understand this guy. a friend of mine said to me last week can the mind of man go back to a time that was pre-trump? what did we do? what did we talk about? there is no shortage of things to talk about. howie: is that -- it's a good thing, i guess, that everybody is plugged into democracy and politics. but does it add to the polarization? bill: yes. the polarization has been there because of the media and in large part because of the media, it drives this opposition. we have always had differences in american politics. with the 24-hour media you are getting it in your face at all times. howie: was the comment by the president overplayed. bill: i was with an uber driver yesterday, he said the president is right about nigeria. this is the way men talk especially in private meetings. for the charge to come out. the point this uber driver was making, because of the mismanagement of gover

pressure on the olympic committee and we had to withdraw. >> and no response from president carter? >> jimmyand on my shoulder, okay, okay. >> president carter put his hand on your shoulder there. julian, let me come back to you quickly. there is this unpredictability in connection north korea. there could be a missile launch, there could be a nuclear test. the commitment of the president to allow u.s. olympic team to go, he mentioned it yesterday. julian? >> oh, i thought you were going to play it. yes, i still don't think this is going to happen. we have to remember in 1980, the soviets had just invaded afghanistan and what carter was responded to. it was an act of aggression. right now we have the north koreans making all kinds of threats and it's not clear president trump would be behind this and it's not as if that is the host country. so i still think the odds of this happening are very low and the context is extraordinarily different from what was going on in 1980 at that key moment. >> we will see if senator graham, who mab playing a lhas more golf with the president tr tries to infl

but i'm sure ronald reagan and jimmy carter did not have a lot of constructsive conversations. i'm sure clinton didn't have a lot of the constructs ill conversations with george h.w. bush. but in this case trump can be an mitted by malice in attacking obama's career and his accomplishments. but also it can be the things he and the people around him believe are better for the country. we have no reason to believe trump is acting in a way he thinks will harm the country in order to spite obama. kennedy: he was running essentially against his legacy. president trump saw hillary clinton as the natural success scissor who preserved that legacy. and he spoke about that. you know he's annoyed that president trump takes a chills and dismantling it every chance he gets. not only is he doing that for personal spite and gain. but he's making good on the campaign promises and servicinged the base at the same time. >> i don't know what's in the minds of the former president. but there is much contentment in the minds of the democrats. trump has gone the lucky breaks and has had successful e

as a practical matter, jimmy carter probably did not need to sell his peanut farm. it is nice you did. maybe sad, i never asked. but i do not know that we need to force people to do that. i think that there is some truth, as you noted, of not wanting -- i'm roll my eyes a little bit at the not wanted to dissuade qualified people from running. if it is really that big a drag to become leader of the free world, fine, do not do it. [laughter] but if it generally does not impact the public interest, or if there is a less burdensome way to solve the problem, then i think it is worth exploring that option. i understand that president trump has built a business that he is very proud of and there are parts of the business that probably could be solved by recusal instead of divestment, and there is no reason not to let him do that if it will let him solve the problem. kimberly: kathleen? kathleen: i want to get into some of the nitty-gritty of the financial conflict of interest statute. and walter and dan may shine some light here that would help us understand how it would a

. >> i will go to jimmy carter i don't of an adequate him said he has never seen anybody so badly treated by press as donald trump he was he tweeted balanced i think quayle held record in terms of bad treatment press condescension this is new the phenomena i say forgive the press this much trying tendons how it works can mind of man go back to a time what was pre-trump. >> what did we do? >> before last year what did we talk about. >> what my show was about? >> there is no shortage of things to talk about. >> is that -- you know a good thing i guess that everybody is you know plugged into democracy and politics. but is that does it add to polarization. >> yes, of course, but polarization is there, the polarization has been there, from the polarization has been there because of media, and large part because of media drives the opposition we have always had differences in american politicize now with 24-hour media all fronts, you are getting it in your face getting in it your face all the time. >> was president's s-hole comments about countries and comraptsdz was it overplayed by press. >>

her father was jimmy carter's national security adviser. they thought they were going to be trump's great friends because they said nice things about him during the course of the campaign. now they do nothing but criticize him and they basically think that -- lou: what about the very idea that they seem to think as elitists of the left that a citizen -- by the way, i also am responsible for that in my day-to-day work, to look at the facts and report my opinion, my analysises and my view. to suggest that you cannot criticize the fbi and doj when they're out of control is nuts. >> equally important what you're reporting is what the united states senators are basically looking deeply into. lou: i mean we've got five congressional committees and a four-page memo that we're told will demonstrate that this. >> just remember -- lou: we're supposed to whisper it. >> "morning joe" is a entertainment show that competes with the other entertainment shows. i think you're a news show and you're reporting on what's going on. lou: we're an opinion show. >

i had the opportunity to play in front of president jimmy carter. when the president is in attendance it's a different type of game. to see so many people celebrate this great flag, this great country of ours -- and the nfl has taken a hit for it. the viewership is down, there are a lot of people who have served this country a lot of people who have sacrificed and had family members sacrifice for the freedoms that we had. the flag stands for something very special, people who have sacrificed to allow us to be who we are and have the freedoms that we have. i never agreed with some of the things that the players have done yet we do have the right to do that because that's what freedom for the flag was all about. to see the president out there at that football can, he's a huge fan -- he's a fan of sports, he's a fan of football. to see him at that game was i think very special. >> laura: i was lucky enough to get tickets to the game and that was around some amazing people. all the players and family members, a former coach at west point -- amazing peop

bob dole was the republican nominee for vice president against jimmy carter and walter mondale in 1976. he ran as a republican nominee for president in 1996, two other teams ran unsuccessfully for the republican nomination. he wanted to be president. the country for what its own reasons didn't either nominate him or didn't elect him. he certainly blazed a true remarkable path of honor in congress and i think like john mccain, despite his efforts to get to the white house will be seen as a man and a leader of congress. >> shepard: let's bring in former mississippi governor, hailey barber. governor barber was a republican national committee chairman when bob dole was the gop nominee for president. >> great to see you, shep. chris is very right. there's no better exemplar of the greatest generation than bob dole. his life speaks for itself. he was a young kid in the late part of the war, 1944, 45, wounded, never recovered fully. yet he came back and he continued to serve his country. he's a great example for americans today of all ages. he's part of the old breed of people that got things

as a practical matter, jimmy carter probably did not need to sell his peanut farm. it's nice that he did, maybe sad, i don't know, i never asked. i don't know that we need to force people to do that. i think there's some truth as you noted of not wanting, -- like if it's that big of a drag to become leader of the free world, then fine, don't do it, you know? [laughing] but if it doesn't impact the public interest or if there's a less burdensome way to solve the problem, i think that it's worth exploring the option. i understand president trump is built a business that he is very proud of, and the are part of that business that probably could be solved by recusal instead of divestment. there's a reason not to let them do that if it will solve the problem. >> kathleen? >> i want to get into some of the nitty-gritty of the financial conflict of interest statutes, and walt and dan may shine some light that will help us understand how it would apply to the president. there are some matters that are so broad in scope that they don't, they are not even reached by the finan

and jimmy carter is working on a book about his religious faith. it will tell how religion has sustained and what role it plays in society. president carter is 93 years old. book is scheduled to come out in march. i am courtney done who, this is bloomberg. mark: thank you very much. still ahead, eye on the pie. coming up, we talk to the nomad food chief executive about his deal for pizza. this is bloomberg. senate >> this is the european close on bloomberg market. it is time for our stock of the hour. or our eric shattenkirk down with the president and c.e.o., hans bishop last week at the health care conference. take a listen. >> we are focused on building an independent company. is our most important strategic partnership. the idea behind it was to work with what i think is the world's leading hematology company. vonnie: abigail joins us now. he doesn't sound too interested in selling. what do you make of it is this? abigail: i would agree with you. t sounds like he is focused on celgene is a great company. most biotech companies want to sell for

because if ronald reagan wants, if donald trump wants to be jimmy carter.f he wants to be a one-term president. she continue to do what he's doing. if he wants to be a two-term president, he needs to learn to govern. >> my friend, donald trump is no vague reagan. >> i think every one will agree on that point. let me ask to you give a quick word that you think describes the state of the union word. >> okay. >> struggling to be heard. >> chris? >> tragic. >> okay. i've heard a lot of chaos today. so those were four unique takes. i appreciate it. you were great. terrific. and as you probably would assume, msnbc provides all day coverage of the state of the union starting with morning joe. it will stretch late into the early morning hours wi. america first, not alone. assessing the speech in davos. >> america first does not mean america alone. when the united states grows, so does the world. one thing in common. they read more. how do they find the time? ... with audible. audible has the world's largest selection of audiobooks. for just $14.95 a month... you ge

i'm a yellow dog democrat, and i've voted straight democrat since jimmy carter, and when donald trump came down the elevator -- the escalator -- i'm sorry -- i knew he was going to win. he touched something in me i never voted for him, would never vote for him. i despise the man. but he touch a nerve. i knew he was going to win. i predicted it. used to have a show on the spanish radio. even told people, i'm hispanic, immigrant, but he -- so i'm quite disagree with the author. i don't think it's so much the smear, is that people did not realize that donald trump represented -- he was touching a nerve -- the immigration issue was organic. knew somebody who would touch the immigration issue will win, and -- >> host: all right. guillermo, thank you very much. does the smear cover the 2016 campaign and whether or not there were forces working for either hillary clinton or donald trump? >> guest: that's a big part of the book in the end. we planned to just sort of wrap it up after the election with the results, and then that happened and the fake news trend happened and i dug into the origi

. >> jimmy carter was for certain a man of the people. peanut farmer from plains, georgia. >> their brand image is the party of the people, the party of working people specifically. >> it started even earlier, actually, with franklin delano roosevelt. it was mostly the white working class that put him in the oval office four times. the author and scholar thomas frank. >> this is who they were as a party. >> note frank's use of the word "were." all that changed, he says, with a democrat who actually had a unique appeal to the white working class. >> in the name of the hard-working americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> bill clinton is the sort of emblematic figure in the transition of the democratic party from the party that cares about working-class middle-class people to a party that is very much concerned with the innovation, economy, and wall street and all that. >> frank's right. the democratic party did change during bill clinton's presidency. bill cli

jimmy carter won a nobel prize working in africa doing crop yield increases or fighting guinea worm diseasesclinton foundation doing enormous work. donald trump has a heart of stone, and he doesn't like these people. and i think we need to have religious leaders now speak out, people from the catholic church, mormon church. tonight, to me it's some kind of tipping point. i know it's just another trumpism, but there's no sane person who can say this isn't just blatant racism we heard uttered out of the american president's mouth. and where is lindsey graham and tom cotton. where's their tweet? they're always running to go do interviews on television, denounce the president on this loud and clear. it's a loser in history that hits your kite with trump on this one. >> doug, i've got to point out president trump was recording a statement for martin luther king, jr. just as this story was breaking about his remarks. he said trump gets away with so many gas in part because he is white, critics say. they describe him as the incarnation of the white backlash against the nation's first black presiden