. >> now nearly 20 years after his death, an intimate look at the life and legacy of john f kennedy junior. rarely seen footage of his battles with the paparazzi and new details about the day and night of that flight. >> and now the young man who we remember playing under john kennedy's desk is here to introduce his uncle. >> the kennedy family has begun to arrive. >> he reentered the national political spot at the 19 8 democratic convention. >> i'm not a political leader. but i can speak for those of my age who have been inspired by teddy to give their energy and their ideas to their community and not just to themselves. >> he was eloquent, articulate. it was finely crafted as a speech. he wrote that speech and he obviously suddenly saw the possibility of another candidate in the white house. >> no longer the little boy etched the nation's memory at his father's funeral. >> as t coffin passed by, jackie leaned down and said now say good-bye to your father, and john delivered what would be the world's most famous salute. >> good-bye, daddy, he said. president kennedy's son saying farewell

old and i watched it again when i was writing this book and it brings tears to your eyes to see john f. kennedy getting on television, finally calling for the enactment of the civil rights bill. slow in coming and really robert kennedy's insistent that john kennedy made that speech and that was part of robert kennedy's power. that is why arguably robert kennedy was a more important figure in the history of civil rights in john kennedy was. i went to the 50th anniversary there were 4000 or 5000 people there. it was just the most extraordinary thing. i don't think there's another figure in american history in the last several decades who could have attract a crowd like that. 5000 people commemorating robert kennedy. even john kennedy could have attracted a crowd like that. gamers arguably than his older brother. >> talk about a surreptitious meeting. they had one meeting where they had asked martin luther king to bring other members of the civil rights movement luminaries together to speak with him and he was shocked at how they spoke to him. >> you know, that's a very interesting story. king was

11 and i watched it again when i was writing this book and it brings tears to your eyes to see john f. kennedy getting on television finally calling for the enactment of the civil rights bill. it was slow in, and it was really an robert kennedy's insistence that john kennedy made that speech. and that's part of robert kennedy's power, and that's what argument robert kennedy was a more important figure in history of civil rights than john kennedy was. i went to the memorial service robert kennedy on the 50th anniversary. the family center morning at arlington and there were 5000 people there. it's just the most extraordinary thing. i don't think think there's another figure in american history and the last several decades who could've attracted a crowd like that. 5000 people commemorating robert kennedy. even john kennedy could not have attracted a crowd like that now. and that since robert kennedy has really emerged as arguably the more important figure than his older brother. >> host: talk about surreptitious meetings that mlk and rfk had. believe they had one meeting especially where robert

the abc news special later tonight, "the last days of john f. kennedy jr." and right now, rare footage and new reporting on the fateful decisions made that night. here's abc's deborah roberts. >> reporter: john f. kennedy jr. and his love, carolyn, felt the glare of the spotlight from the very start. >> clearly, if you look back on it now with the benefit of all these years, they were under stress even before they got married. >> there was one particularly revealing moment when they were dating and on the beach, and suddenly, they encountered the paparazzi. >> come on, john. >> don't [ bleep ] do that. don't come up to my girlfriend when she's on the beach alone and start taking [ bleep ] photographs of her. >> you have a partner who's not used to this, and she didn't ask for this. >> that made john angry. >> reporter: one of their only escapes, the sky. even though flying with john initially made carolyn nervous. >> she was very reluctant to fly with john in the beginning. she complained constantly about it. >> but toward the end, she started to like it. tha

when the biggest tax cutters and i will quote john f. kennedyise revenue is to cut taxes. that is john f. kennedy. wonder if she knows that background of his? >> i totally agree. here is my point. she is very much like jfk. jfk was a very young residents. i don't recall what might be the youngest ever been photogenic, had energy, good looking, this is all the thing in the package here and the problem is i go back to my point the republican party does not have - the counter to that argument is when she said we want wealthy to pay more fair share of taxes these encounter is the top 1% pay 40% of the federal income tax. there's your counterargument. it's simple but no one is saying that with her energy on the right. >> gary, you talked about loopholes. we about to get a tax code that over 74,000 pages printed by the irs. the rich won't pay that. it's a matter of fact. either they find loopholes or do what she said and leave the country. as people climb letter they will stop climbing the ladder. david: the one thing we did not publish with the tax c

he heard president john f. kennedy ask americans what they could do for their country. as soon as he got out of college, he signed up to do his part. he suffers from a heart ailment that requires treatment over christmas -- required treatment over christmas and he missed a paycheck and does not know have he is going to be able to afford the medical bills on top of all the other bills. i want president trump to see his face in the face of all these others. i want president trump to look into these faces and see what he is doing by using these men and women as ponds. -- as pawns. using them in an extortion game saying, i will hurt these people unless i get my way. mr. president, president trump, look at the pain and suffering your cousin. -- you are causing. we have one simple message today, three words, open the government. two senate republicans, open the government. two leader mcconnell, open the government. two president trump, open the government. -- to president trump, open the government and start paying folks for their work. senator mary -- murray? this trap26 day

i will quote john f. kennedywill love this, the soundest way to raise revenue is to cut tax rates. that is john f. kennedy. i wonder if she knows that background of him. >> liz: no. >> gary: i totally agree, but your is my point. she is very much like jfk. jfk was a very young president. i don't recall, he might be the youngest ever. he was photogenic. he had energy. he was good-looking. this has all the things in the package here. the problem is, i go back to my point. the republican party does not have an easy counter to that argument is when she said, we want the wealthy to pay more if their fair share of taxes. the easy counter of the outcome of the top 1% pay 40% of the federal income taxes. they were is your counter argument. it is simple, no one is saying that energy on the right. >> you were talking about loopholes but a complicated tax, 74,000 pages printed by the irs. there will be loopholes. the rich won't pay that. it is a matter of fact. either they will find loopholes or to what liz said and leave t

our time for john f. kennedy international airport... and landed in s-f-o a little after 11 last night. we're still looking to find out how that person died. we'll update you as soon as we get more information. thanks sara. ( darya )(ááá2 shotááá) our big story this morning ... thousands of federal emplyees are missing their second paycheck today ... as the government shutdown enters day 35.( james ) the senate failed to pass to two bills to reopen the government. john lorince has the latest from washington, d.c. another missed pay cycle for hundreds of thousands of government employees.alex naffa/tsa officer"no money for the mortgage, for the cars, for the insurance, for the bills that we have. it's been very tough on all of us."the partial government shutdown is about to enter its sixth week, making things tight for roughly 800-thousand federal workers.joshua christie/union steward/tsa worker"i've had to delay some of my medical doctor's appointments because of copayments and have to push them off to a later date until we get paid. even

our time for john f. kennedy international airport... and landed in s-f-o a little after 11 last night. we're still looking to find out how that person died. we'll update you as soon as we get more information. ( robin ) now to the south bay... san jose police are searching for a driver who was involved in deadly hit and run accident. here's kron four's rob fladeboe with the details. (surveillance video)san jose police are looking for this white van in connection with what is now a felony fatal hit and run investigation. surveillance video from a nearby business shows what police believe is a white, full-size, gmc or chevy van with dark rims. the van has no markings but is very liklely showing some damage says sergeant enrique garcia. sgt. enrique garcia/san jose police "....we know there is going to be damage to the right front quarter panel based on the impact with the victim but we have no idea who the suspect is, whether it's a man or woman or if there was anyone else in the van...." (early video) police say the victim, described so f

our time for john f. kennedy international airport... and landed in s-f-o a little after 11 last night. we're still looking to find out how that person died. we'll update you as soon as we get more information. ( robin ) today thousands of federal workers will be without a paycheck again... after president trump refuses to back down from a border wall proposal and the senate failed to pass bills to reopen the government. now a bi- ipartisan group of senators is considering alternative plans to re-open the government, at least temporarily. one proposal: approve a three-week continuing resolution to temporarily fund the government... then sort out the wall and border security issues. but again, president trump saying he would support that, but only if it included a "large down payment for the border wall." house speaker nancy pelosi was quick to respond to trump's proposal, calling it "not reasonable"... and saying this second missed paycheck is also prompting concerns about worker morale. ( robin ) back here at home, the shutdown is not on

john f. kennedy. youngest man ever elected. >> we stand today on the edge of a new frontier, the frontier of the 1960s, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils. >> we begin with the kennedy administration. >> kennedy represented youthful optimism. >> we were not going to be a rural country anymore, we were an urban country. >> and kennedy was cool and sophisticated and cosmopolitan, and so was jackie. >> they represented something that was young and as spiration. and that was strikingly different than the last few presidential couples, and so different from the eisi eisen howers. >> okay, there was something that actually represents us. there was a reason john kennedy took his hat off for his inauguration. >> he chose to signal to, you know, the millions of people who were watching that this was a new generation, and it was a new time. >> all of a sudden men thought that hats are old-fashioned. >> john kennedy had the style of a kind of wealthy upper class new england person, so it was more c

she met john f. kennedy.nded by her grandchildren as she is about to take the oath of speaker. >> stand up tall. >> 63rd speaker of the house when she takes the oath. she was also the 60th speaker of the house. the last time that happened was more than 60 years ago when sam rayburn came back to be house speaker for the second time. >> everybody be quiet. if the gentle woman from california would please raise your right hand, what you are doing, do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without mental reservation and that you will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which you are about to enter so help you god. >> i do. >> congratulations. >> nancy pelosi now the 63rd speaker of the house. >> let us thank dean young. dean of the house of representatives. thank you. >> want to call the house to order. >> i now cal

john f. kennedy, the youngest man ever elected. >> we stand today on the edge of a new frontier.960s. the frontier of unknown opportunities and peril. >> we begin the '60s with the kennedy ♪ ♪ >> kennedy represented youthful optimism. >> jack kennedy was becoming president and we were not going to be a world country anymore. we were now an urban country. >> jack kennedy was cool, sophisticated and cosmopolitan and so was jackie. >> you see with jack and jackie this idea that they represented something that was young and aspirational and that seemed to people strikingly different from the last few presidential couples. so different than the eisenhowers, for example. >> to have this new outlet in the white house was definitely helpful to the youth culture because they finally said, okay, there's someone that actually represents us. >> there was a reason that john kennedy took his hat off for his inauguration. he chose to signal to, you know, the millions of people who were watching that this was a new generation. it was a new time. >> and all of a sudden men thought that hats were

martin luther king was not political because he saw the ,hortcomings of john f. kennedy who was not always with him during that time because it was not expedient. you take a southerner like lyndon baines johnson what he did for civil rights. dr. king realized there are shortcomings in all of us, we all have something to strive for. to ask a question about how white people feel about martin luther king, to me, is a sad, it is sad for me. i'm out on the street and i in aa been -- i have been situation like this and somebody is attacking my brother, i'm going to hell because he is a human being. that is what dr. king spoke to. many movements today, the women's movement, all of them are built on dr. king's message, nonviolence. democrats are getting pushback is because in the women's march it has to be about nonviolence. you cannot reduce yourself to a , profanedisrespect language. dr. king was a moral leader and that is what people adhere to and that is not black or white. guest 1: let me say this. you are right. very few people enslaved to people. it was not just the activ

. >> the election of john f. kennedy changed the trajectory of catholicism. it is spreading again.e is catholic and pro-life. >> i do not feel assure that you will be able to put aside your personal feelings. >> i will absolutely enforce and apply roe v. wade. >> he is one of 1.9 million members of the knights of columbus. they peppered him over whether he will end his membership. the grilling proved too much for her. she called out democrats who weaponized religion for their own gain. she said it is unfortunate that she based her misguided opinion on the far right wing manipulation. they are not alone. dianne feinstein grilled her about her pro-life catholicism. next week confirmation hearings get underway. he is too is a member of the knights of columbus and a catholic. in washington, fox news. >>> sports wrap is next. see you later. >> good night. ibeen building them fora 115 years,hat's get a ford. if you want a car with driver-assist technology, get a ford. if you want waze and amazon alexa compatibility, get a ford. if you want a car that doesn't have any of that, get anythin

look at the boom under john f. kennedy. and joe kennedy, iii, who is in congress right now.ope he goes back to his roots. his grandfather and uncle were great presidential contenders. liz: it's about the open fire hydrant of spending that's the problem. you know what's interesting? the shutdown showed how precarious american finances are. do you think that's why the tax the rich push is part of the debate? it got walter mondale a big loss. >> that was a close race, 49-1. and he barely won minnesota. he was a phenomenal politician and great politician, but you can't run against reagan. he wins. growth and economics is the issue. you will never win an election by trying to tax the economy and prosperity. it doesn't work. i want your reaction to fox's dana perino asking schultz why he's not running as a democrat. >> if i ran as a democrat which would i not do, i would have to be disingenuous running on a platform they are moving toward, government takeover of healthcare, free college for everyone, a job for everyone. it tallies $20 trillion on a $1 trillion level of debt. it's

here is deborah roberts. >> reporter: john f. kennedy jr.ine, felt the glare of the spotlight from the very start. >> clearly if you look back on it now through all these years, they were under stress even before they got married. >> there was one particularly revealing moment when they were dating and on the beach and suddenly they encountered the paparazzi. >> come on, john. >> d't [ ble dth whshhe beach alone e and start taking [ bleep ] >> you have a partner who is not used to this and she didn't ask for this. that made john angry. >> reporter: one of their only escapes, the sky. even though flying with john initially de caroline nervous. >> she was very reluctant to fly with john in the beginning. she complained constantly about it. >> but toward the end she started to like it. that was the only time they were ever alone. >> reporter: in july of 1999, jfk jr. left new jersey in his small plane with his wife and her sister lauren heading to a family wedding. >> he was pushing the envelope in the sense to reach the point he could fly at n

and john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill c. really. for the mother because. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they had hooks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine how weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of what was right stick these arms around me on my own body more all the more doesn't have any are artificial or not so why why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to use them for years i tol may start doing me any good. and i was like shut off. i was a blunt it w

almost 20 years after the death of john f. kennedyres rare footage and new interviews. deborah roberts is here with a closer look. >> good morning. it's hard to believe that this summer marks 20 years since the nation fell into grief with the loss of yet another promising kennedy. yet, so many of us still are endlessly fascinated by this young man who made headlines, stole hearts and captivated nearly everyone during his short 38 years. he was as close as america would ever come to royalty. jfk jr., son of the late president john f. kennedy, with his good looks he was linked to model cindy crawford and celebrities like madonna and sarah jessica parker. he finally found love with carolyn bissette but being in the spotlight would take its toll on the marriage and then also problems with his second love, his magazine "george." >> is that going to be the final? >> he was having trouble with his magazines and having troubles with his marriage and the two most important things in his life. >> they were having issues. i mean, there was a lot

luther king jr but also in the reopen the investigations into the assassinations of president john f. kennedy malcolm x. and senator robert f. kennedy as well for great leaders tragically cut down in their prime whose killers many believe were purposely never really brought to justice or to cover up the true reasons and possibly the institutions behind their deaths so today let's truly honor the legacy of dr king and those other great men by not being afraid to ask the hard questions challenge the unjust and always be watching the hawks. the. real thing would. be the part of. the day like you that i got. with that we. welcome everyone to watch from the ark so i am tired rover and i'm tapped wallace and today and ok i'm ok. yes it's interesting you know the seeing this group the you know the the committee to basically say the truth and reconciliation committee basically come out a couple of years prior to this and say look we need you know we need new investigations and not just because we are luther king's death but these i don't know why greg no leaders in history that's incredible these are

but you still do it doesn't this car kind of remind you of the vehicle in which john f. kennedy was assassinated open top to go. crowded causeway lot of positions right there as a grassy knolls everywhere i remember nine hundred sixty to me it was three years old and i remember everything went black everything went dark everything when though kind of like whispering corridors and great great shadow fell over the country. confusing the sixty's progressed in that way and then we had watergate the seventy's so politically i went there this messy period water gave you no more a lot of people say that this is some sort of uniquely scary period in u.s. history but i only know the sixty's mostly from. the images and the documentaries and the footage but it seems like it must have been way scarier back than because you had the assassination of a president yet the assassination of the civil rights movement martin luther king jr malcolm x. you had all the race riots it seems like that was a genuinely more melt down sort of period it was then you know the news business had to be more respo

she was the recipient of john f. kennedy new frontier award in 2012. and as a governing magazine public official of the year in 2014. and she's a lifetime member of the council on foreign relations. and she's a d.c. favorite. current member on the board of directors for the center of american progress. she's founded multiple organizations. she inspires people to get to work, and she shepherds that work. she's now the founder and chair of fair fight, an effort to advocate for election reform and ensure that all voters have access to the polls. as we know, her home state had a little trouble with that this year. she's also launching an organization to get a fair count in the census. those of us who care about health care know how important this census count is. i am really grateful that she's engaged in that fight. one more thing that i want to say, when we were in savannah on the bus, we met a mom and two young kids. the mom said to me, i have never been political. that's stacey abrams, she just made me get up and get involved. and here the mom was goin

. >>> on this day in 1961, president john f. kennedyrst presidential news conference to be carried live on radio and television. in 1971, charles manson and three female followers were convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people including actress sharon tate. >> let's check in with willie geist to see what's coming up on sunday today. >> good to see you. this week on sunday today my guest is william h. macy. we got together to talk about his long career highlighted by the oscar nominated role in the iconic film fargo. also the crazy story of how he landed that part. we also get into boogie nights, his show time series shameless and his two decade marriage to felicity huffman. plus the latest news and politics this weekend on sunday today. you can catch us in the morning or set the dvr and watch us any time. back to you and we'll see you on sunday morning. >> we'll see you then. >>> it's time to take a look ahead. it's all star weekend for the national hockey league. the all-star game takes place tomorrow nigh

john f. kennedy made the perfect comment. it's not what my country can do for me but what i can do for my country and we have to get back to that. >> green bay, wisconsin, betty, zblpd good morni . >> good morning, betty. >> good morning, mr. gosar, appreciate you being there today. i used to work for a republican congressman during the watergate so i'm just telling you that there does not need a wall because there's a part wall already and with the technology going on, there should be other ways but the other thing is, say with the tariff, it's applying our farmers in wisconsin. there's two that leave twice a day. it's like -- it's just bad, okay? it's just bad. >> on tariffs? >> well, i'll go back to your wall comment. i think most people need to take a view point and come down and walk a mile in my moccasins along our border in arizona. there are areas like the sioux, they have a barrier that doesn't facility any deterrent. they have people backpacking with bails of marijuana and d g drugs on a daily basis throughout their

sick and he lost that debate big time and he never recovered from that against the young make up john f. kennedy jr and i think the same thing is if. i think people instinctively just like if you're. coughing through your political debate speech i think people get turned off by it i know you can always got a bright future showing cough drops you know and then she can have you know side effects could include vomiting diarrhea headaches nausea political campaigns as a starkey husband etc etc the other bumper sticker index that signal sent to us driving across the country was medicare for all so i think that's going to be. more prominent in the political debate across the united states as we head into two thousand and twenty because let's face it. people are desperate on the democratic side they are motivated to get rid of donald trump bruce springsteen things that donald trump will win in twenty twenty because he doesn't see anybody in the democratic party he often campaigns for democratic candidates including hillary clinton but he doesn't see any on the horizon at the moment but it could be some