and i want to welcome you to this event at the jimmy carter presidential library and museum, just as we, the people of the united states, welcomed and resettled more refugees under president carter's leadership than under any president in american history. it's not that the american people were more receptive to refugees in those days. the history of this country is the history of a struggle between those who want to welcome immigrants and refugees and those who fear newcomers as a threat to our security and to our culture. that struggle long predates america. there is a reason that the torah, the old testament, the first five books of the old testament commands us 36 times to welcome and love the stranger as ourselves. this is repeated more often than any other commandment not because it's the most important, but because it is the easiest to forget or ignore. president carter did not forget or ignore this commandment. he made it law. he was confronted with no less than four major refugee cry cea crises in his four years in office. throughout each one of these, he kept human rights as

obviously, there are many people who deserve credit for the first of courses president jimmy carter forsupporting the act and signing it into law. and also the administration's extraordinary work for the chinese refugee problem. the backdrop of the bill, president carter, i'm sorry you couldn't be here today, so you could be thanked in person. i know that everyone here wishes a speedy recovery. the former first lady rosalyn carter played an important role, traveling to southeast asia and publicizing the plight of the refugees, a congresswoman had a special mission it was carter in thailand and we met with her visiting refugee camp, we were as well and when we came back to the u.s. we also met at the white house to consider how we would pursue the issue of help refugees. this was a commitment that mrs. carter felt deep the about and we were committed to meet with her about that. >> senator ted kennedy, the bill was his idea, and his commitment, perseverance and legislative skills were indispensable. ted kennedy understood the moral dimension of except refugees and the enhance stature tha

party and they were reminiscent about the 1980 convention talking about how a national television jimmy carter just accepted the nomination for a second term chasing teddy kennedy around the stage and was drunk on the stage in front of the entire country and carter was humiliated for quite a know much about that but i can't believe that happened and then i ran upstairs to another political operative so i just heard this story and said yes i worked for carter and broke the democrats and broke us over a decade because they didn't win the night house until 1992. that was the beginning of her h journey deciding to write this book because over everybody thinks of 1980 and ronald reagan and as i got into writing this book what came as a surprise was the psychological profiles of each of the men the way they interacted with each other and this is what i enjoy about the book there's lots of historical weight by learning about these men and their differences was the most fun and for attendee - - teddy kennedy i wast fascinated that he had so much weight on his back driving him forward with the family h

and out of the shadow we get jimmy carter. but we also get nixon and ford and it changes a lot of how we view laws these days. that's another reason i got answers. >> as susan said emma journalist the heart so i only write on deadline and two assignments. the first biographies i wrote were assignments for the american president series. i did not know either of them before giving the assignment. i really designated with the writing history because when i was a kid reading biographies was the most inspiring thing. i had read a lot but i remember going to the library of congress and the first time in the adams building and being so full of wonder to think all of the books of the world were in the billing. in learning more about adams and jefferson and reading biographies, and about the kid with the glasses who read and learn leadership to leading, the amazing fdr biographies and about how another boy found his books that i was ignited so much to the stories and that's why find biographies to be an inspiring experience. >> i want

president jimmy carter signed the refugee act. held that the jimmy carter presidential museum in atlanta. >>> let's get started. we will start with our first panel. i will introduce the moderator and she will introduce the panelist. i will introduce to you monica, monica is currently with a nationally known expert on immigration law and policy. i know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee. she focused on immigration and refugee issues. also, i know monica for another reason. her father was a refugee from uganda, resettled to new orleans by my organization. without, monica:>> thank you so much for being here. thank you for putting on this wonderful event. as you said my father was resettled in 1972 so i have a personal connection. i worked very closely on refugee policy and i have been an immigrant space for a while it is wonderful to be here. today we want to acknowledge our standup panel and get more into this conversation about the lead up to the refugee act. i really want to take a look

rodino was on the short list to be jimmy carter's running mate until mondale in the last analysis, he was riding high after watergate and impeachment. carter was very good at that period of time. >> jim, do you have any thoughts? >> well, events of that time, i think events were propelling us as society to do a better job on refugees. not only was it indochina, december of '79, looked at cable traffic. low and behold the soviet union had invaded afghanistan. three and a half to five million more refugees going to iran and pakistan. about a week later i knew africa chief comes in, he said the somalis invaded eat ee opthiopi. we have a million somalis in the desert. castro starts to empty his institutions and we have mariel. now i am on the new bureau with very little capability and staff, we have the indochina, cambodian holocaust, we've got afghanistan, horn of africa. that was just the first of many, many african crises that would occur. we had to do something. we needed a better way to say who is a refugee. we were bringing all these people in through parole. then they would have de

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

jimmy carter signed the refugee act which raised the ceiling for the number of refugees to be allowed. this is an hour and a half. >> let's get started again. we will start with the first panel, and i will introduce the moderator and then she going to introduce the panelists. honored to introduce to you monica stanky who is with the raven group. she is a nationally known expert on immigration law and policy. i know monica from her time on the judiciary committee, the house judiciary committee, where she focused on immigration and refugee issue, but i also know monica for another reason. her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hius, my organization. monica. >> thank you very much, and thank you for being here, and thank you to mark, and for putting on this wonderful event. as mark said, my father was resettled by hius in 1972 and so i have a personal connection and as counsel on the judiciary committee, it is wonderful to be here. today we want to diverge from the standup panel, and we want to have two wonderful speakers today and look at how the refugee act ca

jimmy carter had an engineering background, which he used to design a treehouse for 10-year-old amy in 1977. the national park service built it to present cartons -- president carter's specifications on the southwest long. it was freestanding so there was no impact on the cedar. later in the carter administration, the park service had determined a maintenance structure near the tennis court had to be demolished. it was originally a pony shed for the kennedy children's pony macaroni. it was no longer usable. the replacement rolling would require the removal of a tree that was not historically significant. president carter asked if the new building could be reoriented to save the tree. we took a second look at the design but decided it was more efficient to remove the tree because the foundation would impact the root system even if we shifted the building a little. so the surveyor stakes relate out and excavation was set to begin. on the morning the construction crew arrived, they found the stakes have been moved during the night. when i questioned the chief usher about this, he did some

ted kennedy in 1980 softened jimmy carter, ronald reagan softened gerald ford. you look back historically and say, hey, if a president gets primaried, it can weaken him. you don't see that? >> i don't see that. so viewers know, there's no road to redeching. what i have heard from joe walsh, how did he come to terms with vitriol? what process did he come through? his actions. watching donald trump illuminate to him the ugliness in him? i don't buy it. >> why isn't that possible. >> he stood with that same hatefulness, in fact, some argued gave birth to it. he preceded it. >> he argues that himself. >> now i want to see him doing the work. doing the work doesn't mean running for president of the united states. i want him to have courageous conversations illuminate there's been a growth period rather than what i am concluding to be a very self-motivated act. i consider the same to be true for scaramucci. >> we're going to have this discussion on religion later but i will quote james. faith without works is dead. before you come up here and want me to have faith you

i said, a lot of people ask me, what is jimmy carter like and tell me about things he's done.r, a governor of georgia, naval officer, president of the united states, prolific author, a maker of peace accords and recipient of the nobel peace prize, sunday school teacher. did i throw that? and a builder of homes for the poor. they've both done that together. it's a partnership. it's not just jimmy carter. >> you smiled when you said that. >> they had big wide smiles beaming. they appreciated the fact we're celebrating both of their lives together. >> it looks like they're doing quite well. >> they are doing quite well at 95 and 92. if i could be that good at 75. which is just three years away. [ laughter ] honor. >> i love them. they are amazing people and i love the fact that they have included me in their lives. >> that's excellent. >> wonderful. thanks, spencer. >> well, just ahead, celebrating women's rights. dozens of womenn the south bay today. why this event was as much about the future as it was about the past. >> plus, an unusual exhibition today at san francisco's ferr

as we know, jimmy carter won the presidency in 1976. in january of 1976, carter was polling at 4%. while hubert humphrey was at 29%. george wallace at 20. in 1988 -- also in january, democrats nominated michael dukakis. but in january that year, dukakis was polling at 10% behind gary hart who was at 25%. jesse jackson was at 19%. in 2004, john kelly won the nomination, but in january of that year, he was only polling at 9% while howard dean was at 26%. in december, by the way, of 2007, right before 2008, hillary clinton was beating barack obama by 18 points. clinton was at 45%. obama just 27. we know how that turned out. in the current race, joe biden himself is rejecting the idea that he is the only one that can win this time because he is an old white guy as he put it. let's watch. assertion is made that well, the reason, the only person that can beat trump is, quote, an old white guy, i just think that -- i mean, i think there is other people in the race who can beat trump. >> who? >> well, i think almost anybody. they'd all make a be

join the phone from 4 former fed chairman paul full care he actually was of the fed chair under jimmy carter and one of the dragon then old soul alan greenspan byrne bernanke and janet yellen they don't and they did not directly name us president donald trump but they said overall that it's not a good idea either to really. give react on politics from washington that this actually could worsen the situation so even if they did not name donald trump directly it was quite obvious where this letter was addressed to in the posture of u.s. president donald trump has again and again criticized his fed chairman general powell even after he and the federal reserve cut interest rates last week for the 1st time since the financial crisis that still was not good enough for u.s. president on from the fed chairs from the past weighing in on the present and carter there and wall street for us thank you. monetary policy of course is just one front in the fight between the 2 countries that chinese companies are no longer buying agricultural products from the united states after a recent promise to buy more

and this is her second visit speaking here at the presidential library of jimmy carter. >> good morning, i used to teach so i always do that. first of all, thank you to mark for remembering me. we had never met, but he read my work. and to jasmine for organizing this and making it possible for my sister to be here. she's a teacher so she's able to be here because of her vacation. and for inviting me into the carter library and museum. this is my second time here. i conducted part of my research for my book here in the library. so thank you for allowing me to do that. and thank you to ambassador peters for being the first person i have ever heard geting the numbers right when it comes to the maria boat lift and the number of criminals who came in the boat lift. you helped her with that, thank you. often people say that castro opened the jails and leave it at that. and while that is technically true, one would have to go a little deeper and find out who were kept in the jails and insane asylums. and people know not everyone behind bars deserved to be th e there. so out of the people that

it was great for harry truman, not so good for jimmy carter. jimmy carter was the incumbent. harry truman, having benefited. his role in getting the country out of the great depression. i think it's a risky strategy going into 2020. if you look at china, they have their national celebration coming up, october 1st. this is really the last stand where president trump can really push this issue i think, before that period. you are not going to see that much track action with this before october 1st. it's kind of like when we lead up to our july 4th, there's a lot of patriotism. >> neil: you can help me with this. the market is sort of like the abusive spouse who refuses to leave. sunday, you get the president talking about how optimistic he is. then they start buying. then, all of a sudden, he slaps added tariffs on the chinese. it's an unhealthy relationship, carrie, isn't it? >> oh, absolutely, neil. maybe you could use another analogy. it's like somebody pulling petals off a daisy, saying there will be a resolution, there won't be, there will be, there won't be. it makes it v

. >> in 1980, president jimmy carter signed the refugee act, raising the annual ceiling for refugees allowed in america. the act also created a process for addressing refugee emergencies and established the state department's office of efugee resettlement. next, on american history tv, former government officials who helped to implement the act discuss challenges they faced with refugee admissions. the impact of public opinion, and lessons learned in light of current refugee policy. the jimmy carter presidential library and museum and the refugee assistance organization, hias, hosted this event. indistinct conversation] >> welcome. welcome back, everyone. i want to introduce the next panel, which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. and moderating that panel is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population refugees and migration under the obama dministration. he was senior advisor for humanitarian affairs during the clinton administration on the national security council and most importantly, he is

i want to thank tony and the jimmy carter presidential library for having us here, are brick selling partner a cappella books. in first and foremost thank you all for being here. on a monday night. to talk about this book and i know your eager to get started so i thought i would ask the question that is on everybody's mind, what did you think of the final episode of "game of thrones". [laughter] >> when you go as an author on book tours you're competing against something, usually at sports. i have been on this for confederates in the attic which was in march in north carolina and i think there were five teams in sweet 16 that year and i was the first few nights, two people which show up and i thought this is what it is like and i had that against the golden state warriors on the barrier where i started. and last night and never imagined being up against "game of thrones". which i also love, and i would not go see my brother talking about -- because he was up against that. remarkably we did discuss "game of thrones" but we worked in some other subjects. >> we will see if we can do bot

then, of course, there's msnbc's chris matthews, he worked for tip o'neill and jimmy carter.'s chris cuomo, hisis brother is governor andrew cuomo of new york. cnn's jake tapper work for democratic congress woman marjorie marcos. abc's cokie roberts, shoot her father was the house her father was the nsa divisor to jimmy carter. you have msnbc's lawrence o'donnell, he worked for the democrats. i could go on and on and on. you wonder why, when these horrific murders occur, the first thing that occurs to our media, the mass media that is not a free press, it doesn't seek objective truth. it doesn't mourn for the victims! doesn't give them 2 minutes or their families. they are off to the races, eaccusing the president of racism. let me ask you this, under obama, sandy hook occurred, pulse night club occurred, was obama responsible for any of that? why not? if trump is to blame, why isn't obama to blame? all the murders taking place in chicago, why isn't the democrat there to blame? and if trump is to blame and his rhetoric is to blame, then why all the talk about gun control? i t

jimmy carter did it. the interesting thing in the say thats, i would jimmy carter pulled it too far the other direction, and was not tough-minded or hardheaded enough. democracy andg human rights. the problem with his policy toward human rights was that we took a very tough line on it, but the only people we could punish were our friends. sanctions ormpose other actions against south , where weothers cannot do anything with respect to iran or the soviet union or china. in terms of far greater and far worse abuses. it is a balancing act. an mitchell: robin, you're expert on iran, among other things. how do you balance our expectations for iran to prevent some of the more egregious timeiors, and at the same not excessively punish civil populations and hope for response from them a better directions at some point? ms. wright: a great problem is that even as we deal with the tough guys and try to negotiate arms deals with them, in the past there has been more consistency and less deviations. a sense america a

her father was the nsa divisor to jimmy carter. have embassies lawrence o'donnell that he worked for the democrats. i could go on and on and on. you wonder why when he is these horrific murders occur the first thing that occurs to our media, the mass media that is not a free press, it doesn't seek objective truth. it doesn't mourn for the victims. doesn't give them 2 minutes or their families. they are off to the races, accusing the president of racism, let me ask you this, under obama, sandy hook occurred, pulse night a club occurred, was obama responsible for any of that? why not? why isn't obama to blame? all the murders taking place in chicago, why isn't the democrat they are to blame? and if trump is to blame and his rhetoric is to blame, then why all the talk about gun control? i thought it was trump and his rhetoric that is to blame? so we don't need any gun control they let me try this. if you don't support the progressive agenda, that's what this is all about. eviscerating the second amendment, eviscerating civil liberties

i mean, that's, like, jimmy carter re-elect levels of bad.the fact it's not just for joe biden but it's also for bernie sanders, that's a big problem. because it does show that his actual support in head-to-heads is probably lower than his job approval right now. >> of course, it's early days. the election is not today, but if the economy is something that he's banking on, then there could be trouble ahead. and what he did last night was really interesting. so on this very bumpy week of all sorts of nerve-racking financial news between the bonds, between the markets, he somehow suggested that only he has a good economy. i mean, he -- this is not the week, necessarily, to make this argument, but he did last night. listen to this. >> you have no choice but to vote for me. because your 401(k)s, down the tubes, everything's going to be down the tubes. so whether you love me or hate me, you got to vote for me. >> everything's down the tubes if what? he didn't finish that. >> i think the president is fully aware of the fact of the people who do apr

and by the way, too i want to point out in 1976, the plains baptist church, which jimmy carter was aow african-americans to become members of that church. carter did not resign in protest. he continued as a member. in 1976 stretch of time was far nearer to us today than 1971. so if reagan is going to be judged by this and is going to earn a black mark for this, then so to should jimmy carter and every other president from franklin roosevelt, to john kennedy. >> you're losing me. up until now you were making a decent argument, but to now cast dispersion elsewhere, you were better served when you adopted the patty reagan line which is there's just no defense. there's just no defense. >> i agree with that. there is no defense except to say that he would apologize for it and look as i said the totality of his life and all the good things that he did. >> craig shirley, thank you so much. >> you bet, michael. >>> still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments and the final results, i can't wait to see the answer to this survey question. did the detroit debates improve or w

he has published best-selling books on the presidencies of theodore roosevelt, jimmy carter, and ronaldeagan and has covered subjects including american foreign policy, the louisiana purchase, d-day, the vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and hurricane katrina. the chicago tribune dubbed him america's new past master, and the new york historical society named him their official united states presidential historian. his recent book, "cronkite" won the spurbur prize, while "the great deluge" received the robert f. kennedy book award. he has received a grammy award for presidential suite and seven honorary doctorates in american studies. his two volume annotated work "the nixon tapes" recently won the arthur s. link warren prize. he's a contributing editor for "vanity fair," the los angeles times book review," and "american heritage." he's also a frequent contributor to "the new york times," "the new yorker," and "the atlantic monthly." please welcome douglas brinkley. [ applause ] and of course moderating our discussion is the man who created this lecture series, the former congressm

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he has published best selling books on the presidencies of roosevelt, jimmy carter and ronald reagan and has covered subjects including american foreign policy, the louisiana purchase, d-day, the vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and hurricane katrina. the chicago tribune dubbed him america's new past master. the new york historical society named him the official united states presidential historian. his recent books book, cronkite, won a prize while his book the great deluge, hurricane katrina, new orleans and the mississippi gulf coast, received the robert f kennedy book award. he has received a grammy award or presidential suite and 7 honorary doctorates in american studies. his 2 volume annotative works, the nixon tapes, recently won the arthur s link warren fq prize. he is a contributing editor four vanity fair , the los angeles times review, and american heritage. he is also a frequent contributor to the new york times, the new yorker, and the atlantic monthly. please welcome douglas frankly. >> please welcome douglas brinkley. >> [ applause ] >> and, of course, moderatin

a lot of it began under jimmy carter. his administration was extraordinarily hostile. organized labor and publicly so. one of his top officials said look at what the ua to feel pain. uaw makes too much money. it needs to be paid los. that was not kinda gassed that was not out of the ordinary the carter administration. so then comes ragan bringing in what we now call ragan democratic. connor had for stuff organized labor to such an extent that ragan comes in and not only does ragan not an see the sitting president but democrats lose 12 seats in the senate. that's an extraordinary number considering that only a third of the senate 33 seats are every. we lost some of the biggest names. of the 20th century. frank church, these are the kind of people they represented the liberals the epitome of the achievements of the 20th century. they felt like they had saved the world from fascism. they had ever seen three years of economic expansion probably the longest economic expansion in world history. they believed that this was the kind of post deal that they had ushered in and th

. >> but as you know, presidents who face a serious primary challenge, jimmy carter, george h.w. bush from pat buchanan, it tends to weaken them, they tend to lose. are you prepared to take responsibility if you do well in this to help elect a democrat? >> it doesn't matter. absolutely. i'm going to do whatever i can. i don't want him to win. the country can't afford to have him win. if i'm not successful, i'm not voting for him. i'd rather get back to place where i'm sitting down next to a democrat and we're arguing about capitalism and socialism and we're arguing about ideas. instead, we're talking about a child in the white house who tweets ugly insults at average americans every day. we're tired of that. i want to get away from that. >> william weld has been out there for months not making much of an impact. how can you run a real campaign? where is your money going to come? where are you going to focus? >> we're going to focus on iowa and new hampshire. "be brave" is our campaign slogan. i believe there are people out there dying to come out, stick their necks out and say pu

jimmy carter spoke alongside his former u.n.or and civil rights icon andrew young during the former president's weekly sunday school class >> most of the experiences that i've had with president carter, between the two of us, it always ended up spiritual that means it wasn't political >> the two discussed their political relationship as well as peace and spirituality. >> just ahead, a bear takes a page from the kool-aid man page from the kool-aid man and check this out cool off this ♪ kids just want to play. so, this is what we say. ♪ so, this is what we say. ♪ bring back the tigers. ♪ your mighty, mighty tigers. [cheering sounds] ♪ bring back the tigers. across the country, schools are having to cut sports. i'm tony the tiger and i'm on a mission to fix that. buy a box and help all kids be tigers. ♪ work so hard ♪ give it everything you got ♪ strength of a lioness ♪ tough as a knot ♪ rocking the stage ♪ and we never gonna stop ♪ all strength, no sweat. ♪ just in case you forgot ♪ all strength. ♪ no sweat secret. all strength. n

presidents forgetting things like when jimmy carter praised yes praised hugo chavez but no you didn't really praise him but just to close we came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit is specially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized and once again the free media and patriots had to remind mr carter that chavez is bad and venezuela together with china and russia iran maybe turkey a little north korea definitely geez bernie better grab a pen them and more than a baddies and even if they do what america does you can't compare the 2 because you actually can't compare them it's entirely possible and even reasonable but because . just don't as trump found out when asked by a journalist about president vladimir putin being a killer do a lot of killers go out and kill those where you think our country so innocent rather than well it's technically right but it's not what america wants to hear one patriotic american put it and no i don't think there's any equivalently but i do think america is exceptional america is different i

he came close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. while she and fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially with the potential economic downturn loom looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really does the president trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the chair of the u.s. federal reserve and enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china. but the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challenge him and when. castro al-jazeera washington the u.s. is marking the arrival of the 1st enslaved afr

immunotherapy -- the thing thate ha jimmy carter alive. >> but that's resear-- >> and that is with the profits from pharmaceutical cos. >> but -- okay. most of those technologies were actually funded by governmt research, and there's lots of -- there is lots -- >> over 0 billion a year into research and development -- that is a hugemount of money. and if the price is drugs... >> yeah. >> ...theni mean, how -- you hear the saying that today's medicines pay for tomorrow's research. >> wel we should talk about pharmaceutical drugs and research as a whole separate topic. >> i know. we need another 30 minutes. >> but i will tell you that a lot -- and i've spent a lot ofoo timeng at this -- there are lots of research and innovation opportunities, including the federal government continuing to provid of that key funding, even more, perhaps, for pharmaceutical drugs, but that's a differt -- that has nothing to do with medicare for all. healthcare is a basic human right. that is what i fundamentallye. beli and these basic human rights should be provided by theve ment. >> i'd like to talk about

challenge president gerald ford in 1976 ted kennedy came close to winning the nomination against jimmy carter in 1980 and pat buchanan challenged the 1st president bush in 1992 each incumbent went on to lose the general election. while she and fellow republican presidential challenger william weld a former governor are both considered long shots against trump to call it suicide would be pretty close to accurate at this point but a lot can happen in 6 months especially with the potential economic downturn learned looming we know that the president's approval rating is very closely tied to the health of the economy and any continued problems with trade and such could really doubt the president. trump has weathered a rough week escalating the u.s. china trade war labeling the chair of the u.s. federal reserve an enemy and ordering private businesses to not do business with china get the republican national committee is right behind the president and he's raised a small fortune for his campaign which make it difficult for anyone to challenge him and when. castro al-jazeera washington a judge in t