i'm running for president. >> jimmy carter. >> jimmy who? >> i don't know who he is. >> i picture him like one of us. >> jimmy carter grew up in a very small town in the south. plains, georgia. he had grown into a family of farmers. became a peanut farmer himself. from georgia he basically started his political ascent. >> the idea that some one from the region could aspire to national office. i mean, people didn't even try. >> yesterday, about 50,000 democrats in iowa met in caucus to choose delegates for their state party convention. former georgia governor jimmy carter did extremely well. >> the iowa caucus was something no one ever paid attention to. but carter and his team said, hey, if we go and we win, the media is going to treat us look a serious political front-runner. >> mr. carter is also deeply religious. he praise in public and speaks openly about his religious beliefs. >> carter was a person who you thought would lead america to some kind of spiritual redemption. which at the time we really needed. >> nothing has happened to nig

there are more than 30 that have been in place since jimmy carter was president. one that he declared had to do russianctions against interference in the u.s. election. host: that was september of last year. guest: and that was criticized by a number of democrats for not going far enough. to get a sense that these emergencies and how they are deployed, they are also filtered through a partisan lens. now, and this was not technically an emergency, but i think the most prominent, one of the most prominent executive orders that trump issued was the travel ban early on in his administration. he had to revive that and he essentially said we are under imminent threat of having terrorists come in from these particular countries and we've got to ban people from these countries from coming in. and was not declared so far as under the national emergencies act but it gives you a sense of the reach of presidential power he has deployed. host: we should point out that the first one was back in 1979. , jimmy carter's using uranium property after the hostages were taken in that

dating back to jimmy carter. what happens is, under the 76 act, president have to renew the emergency every year. in a sense, when for instance, george w. bush declared a national emergency after 9/11, it can to nude to them -- continued to a new it -- renew it. obama renewed it. trump renewed it. year after year, it gets renewed. congress could step and theoretically, but they have never done it. look at experts who this say that the 76 act, it's a sense was designed as post-watergate reforms to reign in presidential power. that act has failed. it is failed to hold presidents to account. congress has seated, under -- ceded 130 plus provisions weather -- that the president can activate, and have also provided effective oversight for what constitutes a national emergency. steve: walk us through the process. if tomorrow, the president declares a national emergency to begin construction of a border wall, where would he get the money from? what with the courts do? what could congress do? in unchartedre waters. this s

my opponent represented the district for 40 years locally and federally that since jimmy carter was still president. when i looked around it was depressing. people were not dreaming anymore there is something fundamentally un-american about that statement and i am not okay just watching the status quo. running for congress, i truly learned how much of bubble i was living in in washington d.c. i didn't realize that having helicopters fly over my house with searchlights twice a week was not normal and nothing is changed i still believe we can do better. i didn't understand the power of my voice until he decided to speak up we need new ideas to shape our country and i believe women will lead the future that 20 percent of the country is republican women , it boggles my mind we only have those 13 women representing us in congress. i believe we are at this crisis there is a site saying if you're not at the table tenure on the menu. i am not interested in being an option for other people to pick and choose my future or any of yours. this election motivated me more than ever and i will do whateve

he was so moved by this that he called jimmy carter from beijing , can i agree to this and carter saidd that became the foundation for our own government sharing a great deal of science and technology with china. it's the scale of what they have tried to do that is important. it's not just nickel and dime grab a little here. it's a comprehensive approach that to become number one in the world you've got to get ahold of what they call the innovation technology based, find out the most dramatic profit-making technologies in the world and get it by one means or another. as they say we mostly help them come our government did through the front door in our companies did as well under the illusion that someday the chinese market would open up and these companies would enjoy massive profits. only a few companies have succeeded in most have not. mark: what happens to these companies to go to china like apple and they are forced to give up significant proprietary information are they not? >> barer variety of techniques. sometimes they will insist on a joint venture with a chinese partner and de

>> i just had a question about the relationship between gerald ford and jimmy carter, and whether that carried over in terms of a relationship between the two couples or the two women, roslyn carter, having been a very strong -- >> do you want to talk or me talk about that. >> why don't you start. it's in the book. i can add to that. >> i actually interviewed roslyn carter for the book in georgia, and she and betty formed this wonderful friendship and partnership later in the '80s because rosalynn carter's causes were mental health issues and as betty was championing for more insurance to cover treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, the two of them got together and actually lobbyied congress together, two former first ladies whose husbands had been rivals and what an example that set. really was fabulous. >> time passed after the election of '76, the relationship between my father and mother and the carters really warmed up and strengthened, this example around policy of meantal health also my father and president ford -- president carter did a number of speaking in forums together

jimmy carter pursued his interest in the jimmy carter library. >> i am going back out on the mashed potato circuit to try to arouse the public. the line-item veto, the balanced budget amendment that most of the states have that the federal have, thomasesn't jefferson called attention to that. that, forthings example, the 22nd amendment was passed by my own party here as revenge for roosevelt, setting a two-term limit for the president. this is the only office elected by all the people. i think that's an infringement on the people. i think i am going to mobilize the people to demand a repeal to that amendment. infringement on their rights. they should be able to vote for whoever they want to vote for. so, we will see a lot of ronald reagan speaking around the country. >> yes, if you look. >> mr. president, you look back on this extraordinary life you have had. what is the one thing that really sticks out in your mind ?hat made it possible >> the teaching i had, the faith i had an prayer. incidentally, we are leaving out a lot of hometowns. you mentioned my father's drinking. togethery staye

jimmy carter is in what we now know is his final year of his presidency. and he was going to run for reelection, so this was a difficult, arguably catastrophic event for his presidential administration. i think when it first happened, when he was first alerted, he was alerted quickly, he probably saw it as an opportunity. so carter was being criticized from several directions, for economic reasons, political reasons, cultural reasons, for policy reasons, as a weak leader. he was going to have to convince people that he was strong and could take care of america's business. at the very beginning with this took off, he thought perhaps this was a chance to show leadership. here are the thugs trying to take over the u.s. embassy and he would negotiate his way out of this and there would be a happy ending. ok, it could not have gone worse. that iner did something retrospect probably was not wise. he took it upon himself, the leadership for solving what he thought was probably a talkederm crisis and he to the american people about it. he instructed his staff he w

president jimmy carter in 1977. we have moved to engage the soviet union. our goal is stability, parity, and security. president ronald reagan speaking in december 1981 about the crackdown on solidarity of the polish trade union. i think there must be an awful lot of people in the iron curtain countries who feel the same way as the people of poland. we may never get another chance like this in our lifetime. if this were sesame street, you would say, two of these quotations sound like each other. but one does not fit. how did ronald reagan do that? stand up to the mindset, richard nixon and jimmy carter. then along comes reagan. where did it come from, paula? >> ronald reagan was a leader. ronald reagan came into the white house with a vision. this did not happen suddenly. he had purpose, he had vision, and it was a platform he also definitively campaigned on won then not just only election, but executed it. what is remarkable when you think about it is the consistency of purpose and the way in which it was detailed in the doctor's book, the integrated diplo

the record he has held since jimmy carter worked in the oval office. nick saban has not always been on top. he spent 2 seasons as head coach of the dolphins. i asked jim mora about whether he thinks nick saban can be lured back to the nfl. >> i do not believe that nick has the type of ego that demands he go win a super bowl to feel satisfied. i think 7 national championships says a lot about nick saban. i would be highly surprised if he went back to the nfl. knowing nick the way i do, which is pretty well. i do not think that would be happening. >> i hope none of the kickers have the same fate as the bears kicker yesterday in chicago. that is cody parkey. de bales the bears were trailing by one point and cody parkey was brought onto hit a game-winning field. he hit the upright and the cross part crossbar and it did not go in. today they change the ruling from ms to a block because apparently somebody got their finger on the ball. despite all of that cody parkey face the music. >> you cannot make this up. i feel terrible. i let the team down. that is on

jimmy carter says it wasn't him. the nation's oldest living former president tweeting i have not discussed the border wall with president trump and do not support him on the issue. was it george w. bush? his spokesman says, quote, they have not discussed this. bill clinton? no. his spokes man says he, quote, never said that and adds mr. clinton has not spoken to president trump since the inauguration. that leaves barack obama who has not responded dwreirectly to th claim but has publicly denounced the notion of a border wall. >>> came nil la kamala harris s begin a book tour. and beto o'rourke is planning a solo road trip to meet voters outside of texas. the "journal" says that he will pop into places such as community college campuses as he considers whether to enter the 2020 race. o'rourke does not plan to make a final decision on a bid until at least february julian castro plans to announce his decision on saturday. >>> and former arizona congresswoman gaby gby giffords will return to capitol hill next week. she p

the last time a president submitted a written address was jimmy carter, upon leaving office in 1981. and that written address was, in the modern era, significant, 33,000 words. his final, orally-delivered was about 3400. president trump's was not the greatest, not the smallest. >> what is the difference between the written and the oral addresses? can a president still submit a written address? prof. ubertaccio: the answer between what is the difference is only relieved that they are longer, but that is just by style. there is nothing constitutionally ordained in the idea that a written state of the union would be longer than an orally-delivered state of the union. when you don't have the pressure to speak publicly, you can write as much as you want because then it is some poor clerk's work, responsibility than it is for you to deliver it. the second part of the questi president if they so choose deliver their state of the union address in a written fashion? what do we think? can a president if they so desire send their state of the union in a written form? >> yes. prof. ubertaccio: y

jimmy carter's demonstrated inability to dpomgovern our nat. this country has everything that it always had before, except the leadership in washington that this country requires. [ applause ] >> reagan put a lot of energy and effort into 1980. the economy had been through a recession, and in addition to that, the united states had been embarrassed by the iran hostage crisis. the country wanted to turn a corner and ronald reagan held the promise to all of that. >> america is turning to a new political direction, at least for the next four years, to the right, republican. ronald reagan rode an electoral landslide to the white house. ♪ >> reagan conveyed a sense of optimism and hope. the secret to his success was that he made people feel good. >> even though reagan had been a fairly successful governor of the largest state of the union, he was still doubted for his background as having been a hollywood actor, and he was very controversial. he took a lot of outrageous positions. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our prob

president jimmy carter and chinese needed pain brought about decades of peace stability and prosperity and while she's paying a donald trump of acknowledge the historic milestone relations between the two nations aren't what they were a decade ago katrina you has more now from beijing. today china and the u.s. are celebrating forty years of diplomatic relations at beijing's great wall of the people but when you look at the relationship and the state of it today there is not much to celebrate it's actually reached a low point according to chinese state media today they blame the u.s. squarely for this saying that the u.s. has persisted in a cold war mentality and is refusing to accept china's rise but for the u.s. it's much more complicated than that since trump came to power he's complained of unfair trade practices such as resulted in this long running trade war we saw a group of washington negotiators come to beijing this week to try to sort out a solution the talks were reportedly constructive but no result was seen there has also been a long running conflict over the south china se

media that compared this shutdown to the one happening during the jimmy carter presidency or during the clinton presidency or the three that happened during the reagan presidency or the bush presidencies. this is a bad habited this congress is in. there were 16 of us that met last year from april to december. 8 republicans, 8 democrats, half from the house, half from the senate, and many of us spoke up over and over and said this is a broken budgeting process, saying we've got to end the government shutdowns. to the time we get to the middle of december, that group of 16 could not come to a r he is lucien to address this problem-- to a resolution to address this problem now. are we willing to admit now there's a problem with budgeting? here was one of the solutions i brought to that committee. i thought it was very straightforward. the simple solution, if you get to the end of the budget year and we don't have things resolved at that point, go into a continuing resolution that it will continue to fund the government, old the agencies and employees harmless, but members of senate and hou

jimmy carter, bill clinton and george w. bush said they had not discussed the wall with trump. barack obama's office reiterated his opposition to the wall.pence told nbc's "today" show on tuesday, "i know the president has impression from previous presidents."pence says he's seen "clips of previous presidents talking about the border security and the importance of addressing illegal immigration."trump is scheduled to address the nation tuesday his case for the wall, which democrats oppose. the government is in its third week of a partial shutdown over wall funding. leaders of the bipartisan national governors association are urging president donald trump and congressional leaders to end the partial government shutdown, telling them "a federal government shutdown should not be a negotiating tactic as disagreements are resolved." the group's chairman, montana democrat steve bullock, and vice chairman, maryland republican larry hogan, sent the letter on monday.the message was made public tuesday, the 18th day of the shutdown, as trump prepared to make his case in a prime-time spee

caller: thank you for taking my call. -- i thinkomment on theis the jimmy carter of national election. she is only good on two things -- staying true to syria and getting her economic agenda in place. warren, youbeth have got to remember who the governor is -- charlie baker. charlie baker is probably the governor in the country right now. there is no talk about him coming in as president. but for elizabeth warren, last year, a ship showed up. what was on that tanker? washington natural gas. that is very much something warren tries to discourage in her discussion on foreign policy. there is talk that there is more gas coming by ship in massachusetts. host: peter, let's go there. thatere even a hint governor charlie baker would challenge president trump in 2020? no reporting on back, and i have no reporting that baker is considering a bid. republicanhistory of governors in massachusetts, which is perceived to be a heavily democratic state. there are a lot of independents in massachusetts as well. governor's such as charlie baker, if you go back to the last decade, mitt romney. there was

even jimmy carter said, "i have not discussed the border wall with president trump and do not support him on the issue." ( cheers and applause ) so even carter doesn't want a wall and jimmy carter builds walls. ( laughter ) but trump is convinced that democrats are pro-wall. >> president obama recently built a wall around his compound. there's a reason for it. and i don't blame him. >> stephen: i don't blame him either. and i don't have to, because there is no such wall. ( laughter ) (as trump) "okay, there may not be walls around obama's house, but his house does have walls. ( laughter ) if obama were not such a hypocrite, he'd be living in a gazebo!" ( laughter ) trump reached back into history -- ( cheers and applause ) sounds like a slur. coming out of his mouth, that sounds like a slur. trump reached back into history to prove why walls work, tweeting, "throughout the ages some things never get better and never change." (as trump) "look at me for instance. i'm horrible, and i'm only getting worse." ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) he went on, "you have walls and you have wheels. it wa

there was an op-ed, lloyd cutler, white house counsel for jimmy carter wrote a piece in "the washington post" saying the presidency was now too complicated for any one person and then along came ronald reagan. you can disagree with him, but he certainly proved that the office itself in the right hands could be a force for good. the speech that night remarkably 30 years ago, we're now as separated as far from that speech as he was eisenhower leaving washington, which makes us all feel old, i think. that night it was seen as a grace note. the old boy was having one more turn on stage and that -- in the paper, though, in "the new york times" that day, bill sapphire, a conservative, had a column saying reagan had had a good first term but we wish he hadn't had a second term. so he was not a rushmore-like figure. what's so remarkable to me about this speech, written by our friend and colleague peggy noonan is you realize it should be with eisenhower and washington's, that his argument for openness, for big heartedness, for all the pilgrims, all the lost places, hurdling through the dark plac

only franklinera roosevelt, john kennedy, lyndon johnson and jimmy carter have had one-party control of congress during their entire presidency. and you know from your reading of history that even they faced significant obstacles. the four years of the carter presidency, one might wonder if in fact the republicans did control congress, because he faced so many obstacles in getting his agenda through that institution. so even one-party control does not guarantee that presidents are going to be successful in congress. the third dilemma here isthat popular leadership almost always predicated on the popularity of the incumbent president. becomee presidencies extraordinarily unpopular. when you think of the last two years of the presidency of woodrow wilson for example, or the last two years of the presidency of george w. bush, presidents became really unpopular during that time in office. and if that second constitutional presidency is predicated on popular leadership, what happens when the president becomes extraordinarily unpopular? and even when they are popular, when they remained re

. >> reporter: and then that wasre lated further under jimmy carter, or at least the airlines were. >> yes, it started with jimmy carter in trucking and it ended, was finished up by ronald reagan. >> reporter: but of course that means it's cheaper for the consumer right? >>t was a great consumer benefit. freight rates fell almost overnight. and this is the question-- thi is the question that everybody needs to ask as a citizen of any place. which is: how much money do you want to save at the expense of good jobs, community character. you know we all have our nine dollar sneakers from walmartow and that's great. hat in order to get those nine dollars sneakers wto export all of our manufacturing. ow we don't have good jo but we have nine dollar sneakers. is that a good tradeoff? in my opinion, no. >> reporter: well a loemof americans o agree with you, and that is a lot of the impetus behind donald trump's make america great again, right? >> it is. and you know i certainly wouldn't want to be cast into the trump camp and i don't care who knows it. but, you know, 250 million people have b

. >> neil: so i remember on -- we both remember when jimmy carter was running for president.me and emerged as this guy that knocked on every door. before they knew it, he put up a lot of signs, been to a lot of homes. people are giving him money. whatever they can afford. boom, next thing you know, he didn't win iowa. he was behind. but that victory greased the skids for his presidential run. >> yeah, you might remember jimmy carter better than i do. >> neil: don't get me started on leonard fillmore. >> this is going to be a crowded primary. voters and donors and party officials, everybody wants to know who are democrats most excited about. who will generate the energy needed to beat donald trump. so i think, as i said, these small-dollar donations will be a very important measure of excitement the next several months. >> neil: kaitlyn, beto o'rourke challenged ted cruz. came within two points. did that start out small? then outside money flooded in and he got the attention of big groups. but did it start out with small donations or what? >> i believe so, yeah. think about it

with jimmy carter, he said he would promise campaign help. he says i express concern about my reelection next year. the secretary of state just checked to call if i had come to jesus yet. it is interesting what his personal notes were about what people were calling him about. here, we brought up some stuff oftalk about brown's record norton air force base. downtown san bernardino. part of this was in brown's district. in 1988, the air force decided to close five bases as part of their defense realignment and base closure. it was something they had been doing periodically to save costs . they thought they were spending too much money on bases. norton air force base and george air force base, that was a smaller base. there were both on that list of five. both were in san bernardino county. that really affected the residence of the county and constituents of george brown. that was something that he fought very hard against to stop the base from closing. once the base closure was realigng, to try and the base so that people would not lose their j

could be your duties and jimmy carter police commissioner i'm here today on behalf of my police to present. eligibility of the appointments and police officer who stand here before you is a diverse not proud of the chiefs actions i think the chief was a coward nowhere in this entire nation and certainly not in the city at any officer ever been fired for something called coach considerations. i have been pleading that our officers need to work in town should we any have band with another officer maybe it would have never happened because individuals saw that there's two of them there's only one of me i'm not going to fight this situation. probably any other officer would have had an individual none of bulky coat maybe the hands are in and out of pockets and the actions of that individual caused the situation become what it became. chief when terminated our brother officer. the firing was cowardice and unsupported by fact what about you can be. called in sick. the membership is voted their voice shall be heard the old. ninety nine point three percent ninety nine point three percent voted no

jon, there were democrats that election night when jimmy carter lost in tears because they thought thating to be the laughing stock of the world. then came ronald reagan, and in a country where unless you're a scallywag, we tend to look affectionately back on our former presidents. the question is to you, did people in real-time look at this guy, his farewell address and say, you know what, that's just a shining example of what we want our president and our presidency to be? or has it been fuzzed up in history along the way? >> well, there's a difference between something being fuzzed up and our seeing it more clearly, and i think that a lot of times with presidents, we had this with truman, we had this with george w. bush, mountains tend to get a little larger and we judge them more effectively the farther we are away from them. president reagan left office pretty popular. we tend to forget iran-contra. we tend to forget that, as you say, there was this quite compelling or at least widespread view that he was, as he put it, somehow a combination of the mad bomber and ebenezer scrooge.

and today, well, jimmy carter says it's not him, puts out a statement. says, i haven't discussed the border wall with president trump. i don't support him. which follows george w. bush whose spokesman told reporters, bush did not discuss the wall with president trump. and bill clinton, his spokesman says he did not discuss a wall with president trump. in fact, quote, they have not spoken since the inauguration. as for president obama, well, here's the former vice president, joe biden. >> the president also said today that former presidents have said to him that they wish that they had built a wall. do you recall president obama ever saying that? >> i can't think of a single one who said that. >> certainly not president obama? >> jimmy carter, george -- i mean, ronald reagan, how you doing? george w. bush, george h.w. bush. >> president obama? >> president obama, come on! >> so you don't buy it? >> we need border security, but that's not the border security we need. >> well, it certainly explains why the president's new acting chief of staff simply could

jimmy carter actually didn't send our athletes to the 1980 olympics in moscow because of that invasionand everyone, including the soviets, said at the time that this was in defense of the breshnev document. this was to stop a communist country from going out of the soviet sphere. you have donald trump parroting a rewrite of history that vladimir putin is now trying to push on the russian people. my gosh, this at least should be a footnote. in any robert mueller report on collusion because it is sheer insanity. >> joe, there is no doubt that donald trump is parroting the putin line here. and to keep it in house, the breshnev doctrine was counteracted by the brzezinski national security adviser to president jimmy carter outlining what was taking place at the time and america's reaction to it. and america's reaction to it in part, the world's reaction to the russian invasion of afghanistan resulted in what happened. >> yeah. well, obviously, the soviet union's isolation. i think kremlin's -- applies here, which is indictment enough that this is less malice and more ignorance. the presiden

neither barack obama nor jimmy carter have ever endorsed the idea of a border wall. who exactly was he talking about? >> my guess is this boils down to some of the semantic difficulties we had with leader schumer just yesterday. he kept saying you don't have money for a wall now, you don't have money for a wall now, and we're showing pictures of what we're building on the border with the money that we received last year. it's a very similar style to what the president wants to build in the future, a steel, what they call a bollard fence, a 30-foot-high, steel barrier. and our understanding is that's not a wall in the law. right now the wall limits our use of concrete, for example, on the border. and we're like, that's fine. that's completely fine. so i'm not really sure -- >> you don't know what president it was? >> no, i don't know what the presidents mean when they say they weren't supporting a wall. george bush was president in 2006 during the security fence act, which is what we're using right now to build the wall, build the border -- >> which presidents told hi

entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing presidential campaigns when jimmy carter you know his in office i mean we turn on the news at six thirty at night and we'd watch three networks at once and that was the way america. essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because what's happening is the legitimate media is being supplanted by you know this fake news where people get information which sounds like it's real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just made up and delivered.

in 1978, there was a 17-day shutdown under president jimmy carter. and in 2013, there was a 16-day government shutdown, under president barack obama. >>> well, we just received new video of the developing story in ok police officer killed in the line of duty. this is a police procession, bo davis police officer, natalie corona, from the uc davis medical center in sacramento to the yolo county coroner's office, in the city of woodland. officer corona was responding to a three-ghcat, when she was the shooting, but police tracked the suspect to a home in the downtown area. they found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. the davis police chief said the loss of officer natalie corona has devastated the department. he called her a rising star, when was full of energy and an absolute pleasure to be around. we have a news crew heading to the area. we'll have a full report coming up in our next hour. >>> time is now 4:35, happening today, religious groups in san francisco will hold a vigil to remember the migrants who died, trying to seek a

anniversary of diplomatic relations being normalized between china and the united states president jimmy carter in china's communist leaders being signed the agreement to begin decades of peace and prosperity that relations have recently treaty you has more now from beijing. officials in beijing today marked forty years of diplomatic relations between china and the u.s. at a ceremony at beijing's great who of the people it was a quiet one and there was norman sion of it in chinese state media which isn't surprising given that bilateral relations between these two countries are at a low point this week the u.s. sailed alou ship into the south china sea irritating the chinese government and late last year there was the arrest of chinese tech executive long one joe in canada at the request of washington now added to all of this of course is the trade war chinese china's commerce ministry did sound a lot more positive on this today at a press conference describing a meeting between chinese and u.s. negotiators in beijing this week as extensive and saying that progress was made on issues such as for

. >> the ebenezer baptist church in atlanta, georgia, welcomed 39th president, jimmy carter, his wifeand 43 family members at their sunday service this weekend. mr. carter took a moment to speak to the congregation, praising the church and its mission, ending the year off in at y. still strong and out there. >> yeah, 43 members of his family. wow. ut> well, christmas in the rearview mirror b we'vean got her gift for you. the unbelievable story of two strangers who by a stroke of luck found each other and something precious this holiday season. nbc's kristen welker has more on the christmas miracle in washington ate. >> reporter: on christmas day, joanne johnson overjoyed, picking up a precious gift from a total stranger, the wedding ring she lost shopping in ocasber. >> i convinced after the first couple days that i would never see it again. >> that stranger, shiloa avery had posted on facebook she had found a ring in her brand-new insta p that morning. the emotional moment caught on cell phone. >> you are such anonest person. thank you. >> reporter: for johnson, this christmas was al

jimmy carter, and after watergate, there were 17.ong a field of 18 candidates and he won the presidency. the more candidates isn't the problem. i think they have to figure out -- they have to pick a lane and there are three or four lanes that will be opened in this, and your goal is to finish in the top four or five in iowa or in new hampshire, and the field quickly goes down to that many candidates in the aftermath of iowa and new hampshire. i think they have to have a l lane, and one of the things elizabeth warren was smart about is getting out early and getting a lane and she has the ideological lane which is the left lane, and she has the lane that are two-thirds of the votes cast there in the caucus are women. that's a very important part of the constituency, but they have to find the lane, and as i agree with rahm and john, they have to be authentic in this process. i think it's much better if they are from a new generation. >> do you think she is authentic though? >> i think elizabeth warren is definitely authentic. >> i inter

jimmy carter used it to freeze iranian assets in this country. president obama used it with the , michigan crisis. ablee were demonstrate crises. whether you might do it or might not do it. i find myself wishing he would do it because we need to open the government. secondly, i believe it would be challenged in the courts. i trust our institutions. if it goes to the supreme court, i think she's just -- chief justice roberts would not defer presidential power to that extent. to future presidents would be that you do not declare a national emergency unless people can agree that there is a national emergency. the president seems to be backing off. iankly, other than what started out saying, attrition, just the wearing down of his republican support. that is going to take a while. >> now that the election is over, it used to be that elections would end and that both parties, the losing party -- they expanded their senate majority. the republicans lost the house. jim moran, you think that there are areas where this divided isernment, speaker pelosi ba

. >> and jimmy carter taught all future leaders, if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. there and it didn't go as expected and president carter sent dr. brzezinski and things did seem to go so much better. doesn't jimmy carter get short shifted time and time again historically, when you look within a six month time period, you have the camp david accords, and the middle east peace agreement in our time. then, you have this. then, you have the opening of china. it was an extraordinary year for the carter administration. >> i think it was. it had really begun because president carter had a view what he wanted to do, the issue of human rights being central to american foreign policy. then, if i may say so, having people around him who prepared the work and who really spent time thinking about the steps that had to be taken, and the fact that people walked into the oval office in order to have conversations with president carter who asked endless questions and was fascinated by information. i always loved to -- i happened to have the opportunity to sit in on every meeting pre

presidents jimmy carter and bill clinton and the organization doctors without borders. and joining me now at the big table is our very own france a golf it's great to have you here you were actually you were at that ceremony first of all just just talking about the significance of this award and you know when you talk about the world you have to talk about the name fullbright and it's a name that's known around the world we're talking about a u.s. senator fulbright who after world war two. looked at europe and he said you know it's harder to destroy attack others if we know them personally and so he started this exchange program the u.s. government started funding the fulbright program and it's now one of the war just as one of the most successful exchange programs in the world when you talk about the fulbright prize of the fulbright program you're talking about building bridges and you're not talking about which i heard a lot tonight from people you're not talking about building walls. now uncle americal she we heard a bit of that list a very impressive list of former

entirely different ways that we used to you know when i started doing presidential campaigns when jimmy carter you know has an office i mean we turn on the news at six thirty at night and we'd watch three networks at once and that was the way america essentially consume news now there is a constant flood of information both on television in the cable environment and particularly online you know that that online consumption of information is having a real effect on things because what's happening is.

richard nixon studies international affairs, president and sits on a commission plays a lot of golf, jimmy carter sits on the board of his library, focuses on the middle east and problems in the inner cities. president reagan: i want to go bow down on the mashed potato tell the public things they should demand. the line item veto for the president, the balanced that most states had but the federal government doesn't have, thomas jefferson called attention to that. and there are things, for example the 22nd amendment that was passed by our own party is revenge for roosevelt, that says to terms that says -- that says two terms is a limit for the president. that is an infringement on the rights of the democratic people. now that i am out of office so they can't accuse me of doing it for myself, i'm going to see if the people can't demand the repeal of that amendment. the rightnvasion of to vote for whoever they want to vote for, and for how long. tom: will we see a lot of ronald reagan, speaking around the country? president reagan: yes. thisas you look back on extraordinary life you have had, cover

cue go back to 1976 and the andcrat that was big field jimmy carter came out of that who iss was candidate not established person, so one very bign the democratic field, if this race may throw out a curve ball and someone may emerge that we dop expect. >> host: does it indicate getting a name out first? how does that work? the 2016 i feel like ofle started in mid-december 2014. veer then cycle. mid-december so elizabeth warren getting in a couple of days ago and that is standard now. the presidential campaign if you get the nomination, see eventually, a two-year proposition. look. we had democratic candidates eventually running for president like kamala harris and others sort of making it kind of clear they are going to run cory booker so one sort of formalized it. in.reason maybe she got only she knows why she decided to announce when she did. of a may be something scramble for staff at this point and maybe by getting in a little earlier you may have a better pick of staff because otheratic consultants and ks involved in these campaign and only so many good people to get and that is part