bush he is not another and freelanced in north korea as jimmy carter did to the chagrin of the clintonbut carter has set the template and model and been an inspiration to many people. as i mentioned kennedy went on to a great vegetative career and to take them another decade until he met vicki. they were married in the early '90s and there's a pretty jaw-dropping piece published in gq by michael kelly the deceased journalist and a 91, i believe, called ted kennedy on the rocks and many a story of very bad misbehavior by kennedy and chris dodd in french restaurants across the sea so he was in a state of -- and in the caribbe caribbean. >> yet, and in palm beach with his nephews. while he was in just not in a good place for yet another decade. in the last few decades' personal life stabilized and the accumulation of everything he accomplished in the senate career -- to me he is a model senator. in a day where we have some people who go to congress more to posture than anything and i just interviewed joseph kennedy orthe third who is now in congrs andki it was talking to talk to joe kenne

well i think it's interesting and fascinating and i do know that i was in congress when jimmy carter was president he was not that popular but he's known now even with many libertarians that he's the best former president we've ever had so since he's left he's done in the extremely good job at diplomacy and when you look back you know things weren't quite so bad and he suffered from some consequences but as far as character goes and his move toward peace he's he's been a great person and i think that if you look at what his statements have been whether it's in the middle east or with russia or wherever he does stand for a peaceful approach so i found it really fascinating and interesting that trump called him trump hasn't called him since he's been president and wanting to know what your opinion and this whole idea is that his message was well why are you spending so much money on weaponry and here i thought he was pretty shrewd and he acknowledged to the president president romney says you know you're right you ought to be worried about china because they're getting way ahead becaus

jimmy carter knew it would take beastly heights in rakes to do it.ith the tax cuts when ronald reagan became president, you know how history sorted out. stuart is here with us, author of "president carter, the wait house years." thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> we forget the great risk that jimmy carter took at the time knowing full well the medicine that a paul volcker would describe would lead to a lot of bumps along the way. >> yes. jimmy carter started the tradition that presidents should keep their hand-off of the fed. what happened in july of 79, when we had embedded inflation that we inherited from presidents nixon and ford and had gotten worse. he said, i have a choice. i can take the most tough medicine that the economy can take to break the back of this embedded inflation and appoint paul volcker to head the fed or bump along and win re-election without it. he said even if it means my re-election, i'm going to do the right thing. volcker told him, i don't want to take this job, mr. president, unless you're going to let me

we followed watergate soaked richard nixon with i'll never lie to you jimmy carter. when the job seemed too big for carter we repleased him with breezily confident ronald reagan. later the buttoned down george h.w. bush before being beaten by saxophone baby boomer bill clinton, led to george w. bush shoes shoot from the hip style led to obama succeeded by blow the place up, donald trump. which is positioned to be best polar opposite of president trump. there have been 14 all viewing

we need more of this reflection if we can ever hope to see more growth again you see jimmy carter recently dropped a bombshell while discussing the differences between the united states and china when he tragically and rightfully observed that the united states is quote the most warlike nation in the history of the world wow and tragically the numbers don't lie especially when you compare the greedy trillions we've spent on our weapons of war to the paltry sums we've spent on our own infrastructure and it's this failure and priority along with the greed and avarice that chokes our political systems from the city halls the capitol hill that has led to infrastructure crisis after infrastructure crisis like the dangerous. led in the water crisis of flint michigan back in two thousand and fourteen but where our politicians fail maybe our courts and an army of lawyers can succeed you see in response to a lawsuit that approximately three thousand residents piled two years ago against the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency for its failure to use the safe drinking water act to protect them

we need more of this reflection if we can ever hope to see more growth again you see jimmy carter recently dropped a bombshell while discussing the differences between the unite.

we need more of this reflection if we can ever hope to see more growth again you see jimmy carter recently dropped a bombshell while discussing the differences between the united states and china when he tragically and rightfully observe that the united states is quote the most warlike nation in the history of the world wow and tragically the numbers don't lie especially when you compare the greedy trillions we've spent on our weapons of war to the paltry sums we've spent on our own infrastructure and it's this failure in priority along with the greed and avarice that chokes our political systems from the city halls of the capitol hill that has led to infrastructure crisis after infrastructure crisis like the dangerous lead in the water crisis of flint michigan back in two thousand and fourteen but where our politicians fail maybe our courts and an army of lawyers can succeed you see in response to a lawsuit that approximately three thousand flint residents filed two years ago against the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency for its failure to use the save drinking water act to prote

doug: jimmy carter refuses to sit on corporate boards. there are examples of presidents not wanting to cash in, so to speak, on the presidency. the amount of money you get for a memoir now, you are talking over $10 million just on your way out for your memoir contract. brian: in your research, have you found why gerry ford start getting money for speeches? richard: when he left office he was broke. brian: why did harry truman go home and stay home? richard: that is a fair question. there is a myth that the presidency changes people. you knew that richard nixon would leave office and would spend every breath trying to rebuild his reputation, particularly through foreign affairs. everything he did. you knew when gerry ford left office, he would play as much golf as he could, and he would sit on boards because he happened to believe in the private sector. what people do not pay much attention to, he also did 200 college campuses free of charge. he enjoyed that. there is no doubt, the first week he was president, he asked someone, he said, wh

you can ask jimmy carter. you can ask george h.w. bush. we're going to ask bill weld about it tonight. he may be as a figure in presidential history the one who did the initial damage that stopped the trump presidency in the re-election campaign. >> that is -- that is spot on analysis. all the -- and it's more powerful by the fact that bill weld is so able. they're already trying to dismiss him in the president's re-election campaign, in the white house as being this sort of figure of fun and nobody needs to be taken seriously. bill weld knows what he's doing and he's capable, especially in terms when it comes to articulating stuff that is wrong with the other guy. i think you're right. go, lawrence, go. >> oh, by the way, he is currently polling higher than donald trump was polling at this point four years ago at the beginning of the presidential campaign. so bill weld is a factor. that's why we're going to start off with him tonight. >> well done. >> and every time i say what you're going to hear, you'll know where to put in except pete

photos another of your you did of president jimmy carter, the camp david accords. do you remember that experience? >> the day that happened, my wife's birthday is the 12th of september, and i'm pretty sure this was the 17th of september. john was a upthat i photo editor and photographer who worked on the weekends. this was a sunday. he called and said, they are coming down from the mountain and they're going to have a press conference in the east room, which can only have one photographer, so go. i grabbed my gear and headed to the white house. finally, they took us into the east room. person per, one organization. ap had two. time magazine had two. newsweek magazine had two. the israelis, the egyptians, they all had two or three. i was the loan person for -- lone person for upi. i decided i did not want to stand straight in the middle. when they signed the accords and they got together, they were going to be too far apart. i did what i usually did and i moved way down to the end. riser so i could look back. when they signed it, they were compressed a little bit. ,

my name is jimmy carter's weren't a d.w.i. . this is state of the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes so dat one week off to omar al bashir is our stock price has just lost it on the streets and they have vowed to keep demonstrating it in a transfer of power from the military is complaints. from people wanting to fall out of a sheer well you felt they got.

as jimmy carter did it to the chagrin of bill clinton. but carter has set the template and model and been an inspiration to many people. as i mentioned kennedy went on to a great legislative career. did tech -- take him another decade another decade until they were married. it was pretty jaw-dropping piece the deceased journalists. in 91 i believe and it was called ted kennedy on the rocks. many a story a very bad misbehavior by kennedy and chris dodd. and fresh -- french restaurants across dc. he was in the state of not being a good place for yet another decade but in those last few decades has the accumulation of everything accomplished in the senate career. to me he is a model legislator. in a day now where we have some new people who go to congress really more to posture than anything and i just actually interviewed joseph kennedy the third he is now in congress and it was striking to talk to joe kennedy about his approach to being a member of congress. he is now in a majority for the first time in the house. he was very clear eyed in

of 1977, the congress introduced, with the democratic party jimmy carter nine office, the bill. the labor reform act and it quickly passed the house. the past the house by october 1977. what was the bill being pushed through congress for? by 1977 it was becoming increasingly clear to people who supported the union's, that the wagner act and the national labor reunion act -- national labor union act no longer existed. they found no penalty in engaging in unfair labor practices. the number of charges that employers -- that were brought against employers for engaging in those practices were skyrocketing, of 400% between 1960 and 1980. the number of workers who were fired trying to form unions, up 300%. those who had to be reinstated and given back pay because it was proven the company illegally paid them, up 500%. the whole industry emerged of labor consultants who advised companies on how to pursue these policies, went to fire people. how to appeal it in the courts. how to get around the law. the bill was supposed to fix all that. it got to the house and ran into a brick wall in t

steve: what surprised you as you looked back at the presidency of jimmy carter, ronald reagan, georgew. bush? prof. kruse: the reagan revolution comes in and really sweeps everything aside. what we discovered instead was that there is a real stickiness to ideas and institutions that survived the reagan revolution , and there is a real preservation of some of those old values and old policies, so rather than a conservative ascendancy, it's a conservative versus liberal type of war. steve: you're on social media with more than 220,000 followers on twitter. how did that come about? prof. kruse: i have no idea. because i came about had a willingness, and i'm not alone in this, but a willingness not just to provide anodyne historical antidotes but rather to take on people who were propagating falsehoods, whether knowingly or unknowingly spreading mistruths about american history. steve: so give us the history of social media. when did it really begin and where are we today? prof. kruse: that's something we talk about in this book, "fault lines." it really begins with the rise of the intern

clinton, obama, john kennedy, jimmy carter. 45, 50 years old. they combine both being young, forward looking, new frontier, all that kind of thing, with being pretty moderate. and it seems to me, who noefs, maybe biden -- i like joe biden personally, respect him, but it feels to be more of a younger, forward-looking democrat who could also reach out, though, to independents and republicans, and might be a better shot against the era of trump. it just doesn't feel like people would want to go back to someone who -- >> certainly seems to be -- >> joe biden came to the senate in 1973. >> yeah, that's a long time. as someone pointed out this week, a career in public life longer than john kennedy was on the earth for. i want to ask you about this letter, rod rosenstein, his farewell. it ends with two words, i've just circled, america first. thankfully, but we've read enough history books to know that when lindbergh and his pals used that phrase, it put fear in the hearts of at least one american generation, the phrase is tossed around now regularly.

you did a book on jimmy carter, and on this list he is gone doubt a couple but he is 26. fair? >> there, middling president. great american, won the nobel prize, ex-president, habitat for humanity. but when he passes, he's in his 90s and he's confronting brain cancer right now, people will look at the fact of the importance of the camp david peace accord, human rights, recognizing people's republic of china, panama canal. he's the president officially recognized china. there's a group of thinks that carter did that are quite significant, but alas, one-term president and there was a reagan revolution in 1980, and it went for generations so there's no such thing as will a carter democrat so it doesn't have political legs of even somebody like bill clinton did with his wife hillary and projecting decades down the line. >> richard, , you did a book on herbert hoover and your chapterr senior, he is 36. fair? >> yeah, hoover is, i would say hoover and william howard taft unique in the history of the presidency. men who are financially successful at everything else they did except the

he looked like a shoe-in early on when jimmy carter, unknown, who was suddenly replacing him. so being the frontrunner obviously doesn't guarantee you end up in front. more on that in a moment. first, peter doocy in wilmington that caught up with joe biden earlier today. peter? >> neil, today joe biden enjoys an advantage previously enjoyed by hillary clinton and rudy guliani and jeb bush. he has to figure out a way forward without the ex-president, who he is very good friends with. if you're the best choice nor the democrats in 2020, why didn't president obama endorse you? >> i asked president obama not to endorse. he doesn't want to -- we should -- whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits. welcome to delaware. >> welcome to the race. that's what president trump seas, welcome to the race, sleepy joe. i hope you have the intelligence to wage a successful campaign. you will be dealing with people with sick and demented idea. if you make it, i'll see you at the starting gate. progressive groups are not satisfied with joe biden. a group called justice democr

the last three successful presidential democrats were barack obama, bill clinton and jimmy carter. they were all outsiders, first-time candidates. the last three nominees to lose were hillary clinton, john kerry and al gore. resumÉ heavy. i look at this and ask you, joe biden looks like the ones that didn't get there while there are a lot of other candidates in the field that look more like the jimmy carter model. what say you? what's the better place to be? >> first of all, it's a lifetime between now and next year. and i don't have a candidate. i have 20 friends running for president. let's be real about it. >> 22 running. so i'll figure out which two you are not friends with. i'm kidding. go ahead. >> i know. the fact is he may benefit a little from the trump factor. we were just talking about it. his base is strong. when you have that many candidates you divide it up. the other fallacy i hear people say is he's too old. bernie did well in the last election. young kids like joe biden. we are a democratic society age. he'll appeal to the college campus -- some of the kids really

clinton, obama, john kenly, jimmy carter, 45, 50 years old.combine both being young, forward looking, time for a change, new frontier, that kind of thing with being pretty moderate. it seems to me, who knows? maybe biden -- i like joe biden personally and respect him but it feels to me maybe a younger forward looking democrat who can also reach out to independents, might be a better shot against the era of trump. joe biden entered the senate in 1973. >> yeah, that's a long time as someone pointed out this week, a career in public lifelonger than john kennedy was on the earth for. >>> i want to ask you about this letter. rod rosenstein, his farewell, it ends with two words, i've just circled, "america first." when lindbergh and his pals used that phrase it put fear in the hearts of at least one american generation, the phrase is tossed around now regularly. but this, does it not, is this not an example of what this era has done to people? >> yeah, it's really shocking. i mean, rod rosenstein, a career justice department attorney, i mean, fine,

>> there have always been presidents in american history, look at jimmy carter who comes in with the so-called georgia mafia who feel like outsiders in washington. i've only been a reporter for 10 years so i don't want to speak to the history. but you talk to people in the trump administration they say they feel like the outsiders still. they loathe democrats. there's no willingness to engage. they believe they are in the trenches, they were from day one, will be until at least january 2021. at this point they feel like the system is set up through the constitution and the way power works in this country to protect them. even if the house democrats do move on impeachment, senate republicans controlling the majority there in the view of the white house will never pursue a trial that would actually remove the president from office. so when they see that is the scenario, they say why cooperate? and the president, with his roy cohn mentality, he's instoking that feeling inside the white house. don't testify, don't share documents. if we're going to have anything pulled out of our hands i

the oldest of the democrats that was elected during that time was jimmy carter in '76 and i think he0 or 51. so that's been the norm more than the exception. >> i think part of the way it dovetails for me and the reason i put that right up top is because of your experience as an unconventional path. you've been a cabinet secretary, the only cabinet secretary in the running for the democrats. before that, being a big city mayor. i think people sometimes conflate your brother's experience as a congressman and thinks that you've been a congressman, too. >> he shaved his beard. he had a beard for a few weeks. >> it was such a good trick for differentiating yourselves. is being a big city mayor better preparation for president than being in the legislature or being a senate. >> people ask me all the time, they say, we have a crowded field, what distinguishes you? and i tell them, i'm the only former cabinet member, basically a federal executive. if you're president, you're a federal executive. you're in charge of the federal government, right? and that being mayor is all about getting thi

. >> poor jimmy carter. you know, his grandfather worked so hard for that peanut farm. >> i'm not criticizing jimmy carter. >> this is going back to a larger conversation about morals, decency and respect. we had a president who didn't want to seem improper. even nixon didn't want to seem improper. we had presidents whoa backed away from personal businesses. we now have a president who is making more money every time dignitaries and secret service members and press have to stay at mar-a-lago, either in florida or new jersey or in new york or washington, d.c. the president and his family are pocketing that money, and so this is a larger conversation i think with the tax returns and also with the mueller report. >> let me bring in, as you mention the mueller report, natasha who has been standing by. my thanks to hakeem jeffries, congressman from new york, who had to depart to go back to work. obviously a busy night on the hill. natasha, take a listen to one of congressman jeffries' colleagues, congresswoman al

president jimmy carter for the first time over the weekend to discuss relations between the u.s. and china is to cut to reportedly criticized america's current foreign policy is warmongering and encourage trump to follow the chinese example by spending the military budget differently china has not wasted a single penny on war and that's why they're ahead of us in almost every way and i think the difference is if you take three trillion dollars and put it in american infrastructure you'd probably have two trillion left over. i would have high speed rail road we have bridges that aren't collapsing we have roots there are maintained properly. with bearing in mind the u.s. spends three times more than china on defense and twenty eighteen much of the budget goes on military operations conducted many pubs the world china on the other hand spends money on bolstering national security in countering terrorism since one thousand nine hundred nine beijing's conducted almost no military offensives over the us because it is china a potential major threat to international security. issues ther

after ronald reagan won the nomination and selected george bush as his vice president and beach jimmy carter in november and shows you as his white house chief of staff, over the next four years we know many times in the white house there are turf battles so was there ever a time when you had to stay true to your boss who was the president but also having to stay true to your best friend who is the vice president.>> know and the reason was because my best friends the vice president understood the job of the vice president and he understood that his job was to give the president his best advice but not to do it in a big meeting. everything is leaked and he was smart enough to give the president that advice in private. i should add that reagan did not want to pick heffy to be his vice president in fact if you study with the convention in 1980 you will know that she went to great lengths to come back to be vice president, i saw president ford after the blowup and i had been his campaign chairman and 76 i said you know mr. president it never would have worked we would have never known what to ca

the second problem with the prime minister's cutting plan is it jimmy carter may be wise to the tactic and to cling to right to the government's rescue he may say why should i believe you i here today i'd go into mortal prime minister about to be the place by breaks a tear by the fall why don't hold an election no rather than after you've gone in the autumn. so let me ask you had she been the leader of the opposition and invited to the drug trial going this year would she have been fortunate to accept. so as to be her duty to resign or just back to the usual mabel it however whatever else may be said about me is latest move at least as a change in the script we've broken out at long last of the grind talked a process of never ending thoughts on this theme deal now she wants the votes of the labor party to pass or withdraw all agreements as opposed to the votes of the big cities and the d p this may even be a relief to the m.p.'s who this week of being fixed to their benches for the same super glue as a climate change protesters themselves to the glass in the visitors gallery. or here a

this is a precedent that, as sean rightly said, i think we can go all the way back to jimmy carter, everyople his tax returns. and so it's not a fishing expedition, martha. it's the american people taking a look at what kind of potential conflicts of interest exists for their top leader, the man in the white house, the commander-in-chief. and in the case of president trump, the so-called fishing expedition comes down to things like the existing suit about whether or not under the clause of the constitution whether or not he is benefiting from foreign assets and interests in terms of his hotels and properties. that's no fishing expedition. given what he has done, given his past as a businessman, the american people have every right to say what is this about, mr. president? he could relieve all of that pressure and i don't think it's political, i just think it's a clear standard. >> can i make a quick point? i'm. >> martha: real quick. >> i'm not a cpa. i would tell you i would assume all that stuff juan just talked would be corporate tax returns not personal tax returns. even the stuff dem

that's been done for decades the first politician that really took notice of this was president jimmy carter when i was gay regular leave office had exhausted by effort to get congress to pass it but we had all the material to show that we were doing stuff and it was basically unscrupulous or illegal or international law codes but the manufacturers of these dangerous materials and i don't wish for so paul. that they obstructed what i did so they were they i could do with issued an executive order as a last resort and it precluded the distribution or sale of any material basically overseas that we couldn't safely present to consumers in america i wanted the brand made in america to be to mean something. that i left office they descended over when president reagan ronald reagan and he agreed. to protect their right to continue selling. pesticides and clothing and on prove or disprove drugs. to people overseas to serve the manufacturers to get rid of it and not to have a big loss. for the thirty years after i left the white house the issue is still unresolved and i would say that at this point

the second problem with the prime minister's cunning plan is it jimmy carter may be wise to the tactic and to cling to right to the government's rescue he may say why should i believe you i here today i'd go into mortal prime minister about to be the place by breaks a tear by the fall why don't hold an election no rather than after you've gone in the autumn so let me ask you had she been the leader of the opposition uninvited and drug trial point this year would she have been foolish enough to accept. so as to be her duty to resign or just back to the usual mable it however whatever else may be said about me is latest move at least as a change in the script we've broken out at long last of the talk to a process of never ending thoughts on this team deal now she was on the d p this may even be a relief to the m.p.'s who this week of being fixed to their benches were the same superglue as a climate change protesters themselves to the glass in the visitors gallery. on the route. the prime minister clearly intends to be the last woman standing on bricks it before she finally keeps her prom

he actually likes them when the plans were being w drawn up in terms of jimmy carter and people who didn'tze and then second he wanted new journalis journalists. then a unfortunately. he started out as a white house correspondent in thehe ford president said he was one of the speakers at the cathedral. he was a great reporter from the chicago daily news who said that it is akin to that of a man who writes down the middle of the street breaking an equal amount of windows on both sides. >> someone asked was a sense of humor one of the important attributes and where did calvin coolidge rang? >> true story grover cleveland in the middle of the night this is a great one -- hairy truman said without a sense of humor -- >> on the notes of ronald reagan he would have them all in order and put these jokes in the speech and it went over very well. he was all about humor and i think that it is the quality to being a successful presidents like he said there are exceptions but overall they have to show a robust sense of humor because if you take yourself too seriously you become a bore in the end. his

you know my book really begins with zbigniew brzezinski the national security advisor to jimmy carter's idea of an arc of crisis throughout the third world that the soviet union was seeking to fill in a centrally stabilize and that stability was a real fear of brzezinski and so in afghanistan for instance the cia began to arm figures like global dean hekmatyar who is a warlord and a drug dealer to the tune of over one billion dollars through the largest covert operation in cia history and what resulted all timidly by the time of the removal of the soviet backed government in kabul was the destruction of half of kabul under the watch of hekmatyar and another cia proxy ahmed shah masood and then the cia and then the u.s. proceeds to support the taliban to replace them to protect the unocal pipeline obviously the this leads straight to the nine eleven attacks the creation of al qaeda. taking the internet you know the the specter of international jihadism to another level and you even have a actual al qaeda cell operating under the watch of the f.b.i. and cia during the one nine hundred nin

lou: i go back to thinking about jimmy carter, when he turned over the panama canal. >> that was 40 years. lou: and i happen tong that we have not come close to putting that much money into panama in our total investment over that time. >> i think we gave up a lot of influence in panama, problem as you know, you have been sounding the alarm, chinese belt and road initiative and other loans they put out are based on the idea that money talks, if we don't counter that with our own warnings they will have panama as their friend they made a lot of progress in last week with italy. and prime minister signing up. french president, merkel in germany, all endorsing what italians are doing. i am getting worried, our old theory, i call this a major intelligence failure. the theory that's china is weak, they are collapsed, they are run by a bunch of has beens who are athiest. now we're seeing china closing in on us. president trump said it is not going to happen to his watch that they surpass us, but he is right, they are on the move. lou: right. anyway a competition to the chinese. and for crying o

to get through very aggressive in colorado all four cosponsors are women. >> this would be the jimmy carter, ethics government, people coming after a president or the disruptor, donald trump and you see that moment after watergate with a flood of making government more ethical and carter made a number of promises for bigger government and healthcare, energy. do you see anything in your data on general trends and demands for those kinds of reforms? >> we got a dead mike somehow. there we go. i think all of these kinds of reforms get broad support off of the political spectrum. they are symbolic things that people can campaign on, there is value to that. your mention of ethics, we can't have this conversation without acknowledging that government is linked to politics and people have good views of politics. not the people have loved politicians before but that is where you ask people about whether elected officials - very low numbers on that and so some of it against the backdrop of skepticism about the actors and to some extent people have a cynical view of republican and democratic politici