kennedy: indeed. in just a bit, you'll meet a poker player who lost millions when the government stopped his game. coming up next, what's the one place we all go and physically feel the government up in our business? the more you fight, the harder you push. here's a hint, blue glove. it's "the independents." up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. . kennedy: there is no better example of the inefficiency and intrusion of government than the tsa. going to the airport, tries your patience and tests the limits of physical and emotional boundaries, we felt the prying fingers and the arbitrary searches, is there any sight in the tsa's overreach. we're joined by chris edwards with the cato

kennedy: indeed. in just a bit, you'll meet a poker player who lost millions when the government stopped his game. coming up next, what's the one place we all go and physically feel the government up in our business? the more you fight, the harder you push. here's a hint, blue glove. it's "the independents." . kennedy: there is no better example of the inefficiency and intrusion of government than the tsa. going to the airport, tries your patience and tests the limits of physical and emotional boundaries, we felt the prying fingers and the arbitrary searches, is there any sight in the tsa's overreach. we're joined by chris edwards with the cato institute. is there any branch of government up in your business more than the tsa? >> no, the tsa is extremely annoying, the aviation system is getting more and more congested, more and more americans are wasting more time in airports. it's a lot for the economy. and our individual freedom and frankly, the tsa does a mediocre job in terms of security performan

kennedy, and i do not know that kennedy himself would have said that, but it is true he did a lot to that bill going, and he and bobby kennedy deserve credit for that, but johnson was able to bring it together in that speech. if anyone wants to understand what is the brilliance of rhetoric in the moment of crisis, go back and look at footage. you can see it on youtube, the footage of that speech, and johnson knocked it out of the park. he went back and said, regardless of where you are, regardless of where you're part of standing is, regardless of where you are in the country, you need to understand that we are in a moment where we need to act on this, and that did an enormous amount in moving the bill forward. people often assume that johnson's greatest achievement was behind closed doors, and what he was doing, pushing senators, congressmen one way or another. i do not think there is a lot of evidence to show that he did that. i think he understood that the ball was in good hands with the guys in the justice department, with hubert humphrey. what johnson did, and what his real geni

he reaches out to kennedy. this is a moment, as he says that, evil can bring some good, because what kennedy and khrushchev both understood from the cuban missile crisis was that despite all of their efforts to prevent a nuclear war, when a crisis like this occurs, they actually lose control. we came very close to nuclear war despite the fact that both of them were doing everything they could to avert it at that point. so khrushchev says, let's get rid of anything that could cause another conflict. and what happens over the next year, until kennedy's assassination, is they do begin to cooperate on a number of issues. as oliver was saying before i'm a kennedy had a lot of enemies. and the reason why he had so many enemies is because he stood up to the generals, to the joint chiefs, to the intelligence community, to the establishment, time after time after time. and then in this period, we reach out and conclude the atmospheric test ban treaty. the joint chiefs were furious. cubatempts to reach out to at the end

kennedy. it also seems fitting that you begin a conference about tackling a very big problem in our country here in this monument to a president who, along with his brothers, believed deeply in our government as an essential force for good who had such extraordinary optimism and confidence in america and who believed that working together americans could do big things. we could go to the moon. we could launch the peace corps, which they did by the way within six months of the new administration. and we could even achieve a nuclear test ban treaty. it's worth noting that in 1962 70% of americans said that they trusted washington most or all of the time. today after decades of anti-government rhetoric and gridlock, that number is at 20%. and i should add that americans still give john f. kennedy the highest approval rating of any president since world war ii. it's at 90%, even though only 20% of americans today have any living memory of president kennedy. both president kennedy and edward m. ken

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kennedy's legacy.son and kennedy led the effort from the white house spurred by the singular leadership of martin luther king jr. but it was much more a bipartisan effort than history recognized. a story behind the story of the political players on both sides of the aisle who successfully pushed the civil rights act forward. tell me about the fact that there was first of all bipartisanship. >> a novel idea in today's america. >> the southerners were aposed to change and the final bill passioned the senate 73-27 with 27 out of 23 republican votes. unheard of. there's unsung heroes especially. one member of the house from western ohio, district now represented by john boehner, he was the ranking member of the judiciary committee. he made a deal with the kennedy administration that if they would give the republicans equal credit and no water down the bill in the senate, he would back him and he did. >> in your book you note a letter from jacqueline kennedy onassis, she wrote, i want you to know how much y

kennedy the highest rating. even though 20% of americans today have living memory of president kennedy. --h president kennedy launchedeven before he his historic presidential campaign, jfk told an audience in baltimore, let us not despair, but act. let us not seek the republican answer or the democratic answer, but the right answer. let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. let us accept our own responsibility for the future. no politician knew better the importance of bipartisanship. we are honored to have with us today the light of senator kennedy's light and the guiding light of the edward m kennedy institute. she is a brilliant attorney and writer and a vision for senator kennedy's incredible c. it is my great pleasure to friend.e my good >> thank you, heather. that you so much for gracious introduction and congratulations on being named the new ceo of the jfk library foundation. all of us are so excited about your leadership your. those of -- here. those of us for the edward m the u.s.ociety for senate

kennedy's and that made all the difference. >> john kennedy taking the stance to define a in on national tv civil rights as a moral issue, we won't do it just because it is good strategy or because we are forced to do it but because it is right. that night they shot medgar evers in the back because they understood the climate, the whole issue had changed. when it became a moral issue for the president of the united states who was dragged kicking and screaming into civil rights it is like slavery becoming a moral issue. not just an issue of policy but they recognized this ultimately meant war. >> this reminded me that early on, thurgood marshall had no sense of who dr. king was. who is this preacher down south? as late as the 1960s the naacp is worried about him and lax collection of money, taking money out of their coffers etcetera but the strategic difference is such that thurgood marshall is of the opinion that dr. king is a great speaker. he is a wonderful speaker. he can change hearts and do this and do that. you walk away from a king speech and are so enthused you go back to segrega

kennedy was not crazy about it. he understood it was necessary and he wanted to try to limit them. >> i was reading some stuff recently. he said, look, it's crazy that we can deal with part of the world. we have to recognize limits on american power. >> kennedy did not act that way in every respect. >> he would say that occasionally. >> he was very nervous about what american power might do, what kinds of risks it might create, particularly in a nuclear age at a time when soviet policy was becoming more activist. that desire to limit risk was a check on his maximalist him but his overall outlook was that the united states represents forces for the future. we can reach out to almost everybody in the third world, europe, asia. there was a kind of confidence in that outlook. >> young and vigorous america. >> that was the way he presents himself to the american people and how they got a lack it. >> barack obama, what is his foreign-policy legacy. >> retrenchment presidents are hired from the american people, as i have s

bpc, i want toe thank again vicki kennedy and the kennedy institute. i want to think heather campion and the kennedy library. trey grayson, and our great moderator, susan page who has been responsible for all the stories. i served in the house for 18 years. there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. it said the following, let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, institutions, carve out all of this great institutions to see if we also in our day and in our generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. and, you know, i thought to myself, that is the point of government. that is the point for us here, to perform something worthy to be remembered. even in disagreement in a vibrant democracy, the goal is always to engage the issues in a way that our descendents would be proud and get the job done for our people, and also, bear fruit to the ancestors of our past, like daniel webster, that we are in this thing for the right reasons and recognizing these ar

senator ted kennedy of massachusetts will make the offical announcement. kennedy is 52 years old. he works as a health-care lawyer right now. he is running for the seat of democrat edward meyer who was going to retire. >> this video and just into kron4 of the forest fire that is born in new jersey. so far, the fire has burned about two square miles. people in new york city, 90 mi. away can smell the smoke. crusaded they had about 50% of this fire contained. >> it just a few minutes ago, the u.s. supreme court turned down the appeal of a new mexico photographer who objects to taking pictures of same sex weddings. the justices let a supreme court

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kennedy institute and john f. kennedy library and our great audience here in boston and online. thank you for being with us. [applause] we hope you won't stand up yet. we up to see you on june 21st for the release of the final recommendations and asked the panel to stay seated. i welcome former secretary, co-chair of the commission to the stage for closing daunts. >> thank you. it was terrific. outstanding. i wish you had some strong views it really disturbs me. i want to think again on behalf of the bp see, the kennedy institute, heather and the kennedy library in much ray grayson and our great moderator who has been responsible for all of the stories. [applause] i served in the house for 18 years, and there are words inscribed above the speaker's chair by daniel webster. i used to look at this periodically. they said the following. let us develop the resources of our land, called forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its interests to see whether we also in our day and our generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered. and i thought to myself,

when he met with president kennedy the previous summer, all president kennedy talked about was how thegar hoover said and not be tainted with being subversive. kennedy was afraid of this, afraid of losing the south. no democratic president had ever been elected without the support of the solid south that was democrat in those days and all segregationists. so president kennedy was not making up these political handicaps, they were real. >> mr. califano, i want to go to this -- go ahead. and then i've got a question for you. >> i think it's interesting to note you think about selma and king's march in selma, which was critical to the voting rights act. that came out of conversations between president johnson and martin luther king when he said to king, you know, you find the worst place in the south, you find where people can't vote without reciting the constitution and you get down there. get all the leaders down there so that a guy that's on a tractor in the midwest will say it's just not fair, everybody ought to be able to vote. you do that job down there, get radio and television dow

kennedy was a maximalist? >> oh, absolutely. maximalist in the sense that he convinced the american people that eisenhower wasn't doing enough, that he wasn't vigorous enough, he wasn't an activist. kennedy said of eisenhower's tenure as president, he said it had been eight years of drugged and fitful sleep. you don't get nastier than that. there was a kind of commitment on the part of the new frontiersmen to get out there and position the united states in a different way. >> charlie: we can go anywhere, do anything we want because we are america. >> absolutely. now, kennedy was not crazy about that. he understood the risks. he thought it was necessary to take those risks. he also wanted to try to limit them. >> charlie: well, interesting about him, and i was reading some stuff recently, is he said, look, it's crazy that we can, in a sense, be in what part of the world we are can control the rest of the world and we have to recognize there are limits on american power. >> yeah, kennedy didn't act that way in every respect. >> ch

kennedy wrote. that the stories of past courage can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration, but they cannot supply carriage itself. courage itself. each man, each person must look into his own soul. it will take plenty of courage to make change. i hope we will find it to strengthen democracy and ensure can continue to do things to be remembered. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> tonight on c-span, a political discussion with anna navaro. and david bender. they were at the university of colorado at boulder to discuss congress and potential presidential candidates. here is a little bit of that. >> people who tell you that they think they know what is going to areen in 2016 really smoking something that is not legal here in colorado. [laughter] legal here in colorado. [laughter] there are some clues. i will debit the sheldon adelson primary. [laughter

justice kennedy: no, the consumer makes the choice. you can have it with the ads or without the ads. push button one or button two. >> right. i understand -- justice kennedy: i don't understand why he is the performer in one case and not in the other case. >> because the the action of who is a performer turns under the statute on who is making who is acting to make the sequence of sounds and images perceivable. where you're talking about taking out advertising, what you're doing is you're altering the copy, and you are abridging, infringing, the reproduction right. that is not something that you can do in the aereo technology. i have no brief to defend that. that would be a very difficult reproduction right question. but it doesn't matter in terms of who is exercising a private performance, because that is being done in the home with the user-nitiated, user-specific copy. justice scalia: mr. frederick, your client is just using this for local signals -- >> yes. justice scalia: right now. but if we approve that, is there any reason it c

when you sit down with a kennedy, you can't help but talk a little bit of politics.got into a couple of things, if this has wetted her appetite to get back in to pursuing elected office herself, she dabbled a bit in 2009 and we talked a little bit about hillary clinton. >> would you ever consider running again after this experience? >> first of all, i wouldn't consider running in japan, no. i doubt i would ever run in the united states either. >> you pretty much don't want to do that? >> i don't know what i want to do. i just got here. but i doubt it. >> did the experience in new york turn you off? >> no. i think the issues are really important, the question is what's the best way to work on them and advance the goals? i'm committed to education. this is a big world. when i finish here and this is over, then i'll look and see. this is not something i ever expected to be doing but i'm learning a tremendous amount and in our lives each thing we do leads us to think about what to do next and i'm very fortunate that i'm here right now and my kids are grown so this is a j

kennedy. his father had all the money in the world. he said, my father said he would buy me the presidency, but he was not going to buy a landslide. can you get money out of politics? the answer is no. if you cannot. it's like trying to stop water from running down the hill. you can build a dam that can store a little bit of it for a while and i've heard where it comes, but it is going to run down the hill one way or the other. done withve heard -- campaign-finance reform -- i realize i'm very much alone in this, but here we go -- in the name of campaign-finance final is weakened the parties in taking control of campaigns away from the candidates. it is improper to give that much money to the party. it is improper to give that much money to the candidates. since we have something pesky in the constitution called the expressendment, you can yourself in a political campaign. if you can't give the money to is party, you can't give much as you want. you can't give to the candidate is much as you want, then you become sheldon adelson and yo

finally the kennedy family doctor who treated kennedy for his back tries to help and she watches him walk and sees right away he is kirk did a and tells him i am so relieved because now it is a simple solution to even out your shoe also because his second toe is long dirty and we know this because he taped it. the fact that here is the be an aha -- a man flat on his back to preserve history to turn on a tape recorder that four years later i listen to that tape that some double what about the man and the book. >> did you researched the role played in the united farm workers movement? >> i did and then there is some information about him with the degree to which independent organizations formed to trying to function and chavez undercuts to make sure they did not get funding so there is a turf battle because he wanted to be the sole voice for the farmworkers so the idea is it was say national union but they could not effectively run california you neff -- enough to expand the. >> the texas farm workers back in 1978 also a march 2 washington. speaking to antonio at the time they've wante

the cofounder of the edward m kennedy institute for the united icky kennedy.ormer utah senator bob bennett. maine senator a lot of so -- olympia snowe. maine contingent here, i am gathering. former texas congas and charlie gonzalez. -- congressman charlie gonzalez. and former texas congressman hnerenry bania. n youre fuller bios i program and online. we invite everyone in the audience are watching on the webcast to join our conversation. if you are physically here, you can fill out one of these cards with a question or comment that will be brought up to me. and i will use some of them to this conversation. if you're digitally here, send us an e-mail or a tweet. our twitter handle is bpc_ bipartisan. #engagedusa. and we will read your comments. in fact, we want to start with two contrasting comments we have already gotten from twitter. "givenrna smith, gridlock in congress, is a time to think about term limits, some other means to kick them out for poor performance?" but a contrasting view from doug who said, "why is division that? i am happy when congress is i

the seals came about in the early 1960s through kennedy. kennedy of course, jfk had been a skipper on a pt 109 and understood the ability for a small boat and a small crew of navy personnel what a big difference they could make in combat especially so he pushed for a naval commando force that could go and to the sea, the arundel and all terrains environments. not just operating from ships that operating far from land. in vietnam they went out of the blue waters of the navy into the brown waters of counterinsurgency and even the jungles in cambodia and vietnam and other areas. in the current war in iraq and afghanistan in the war in terror the seals are operating thousands of miles from the sea. some of them said the only water we have is in our canteens. .. a al qaeda rally in martyrs' square in downtown benghazi. some 300 al qaeda activists waving their guns in the air and publicly calling for the deaths of the u.s. ambassador. the very same time mean they also manhattan the private life of a messieurs these into the stephens was known. a

. >> no memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor president kennedy's memory.ble passage of t pass rhts bill for which he fought so long. >> rep0 s or ther by battin the streets over racial equality, passing president kennedy's civil rights bill seemed out of the question for the new president. he brought up the civil rights bill and said pass this as a testament of john f. kennedy. >> one of the things about lbj, he was in the best sense of the world brilliantly opportunistic. >> reporter: joseph califano was part of johnson's domestic policy team. >> the assassination of kennedy, he used other things to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed. >> reporter: getting civil rights bill through the congress controlled in part by southern segregationists took all of lyndon johnson's guile. here he is using his persuasive powers on congressman russell. >> i think may have been one of the moments when johnson in talking with russell who had been his mentor for years saying, dick, if you don't come with us on this, i'm going to have to run over you. >> i'm about to si

kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth president (clapping.) okay. all right. so i want to bring up unknown but before i do i want to announce there's great people in the house to thank. we do have let see commissioners from the oc ii the director of the public housing and c l and we have community partners such as a mr. walton and ed williams and dr. honey cut and dwayne jones and then we have department heads mohammed the man of the hour for me he made this happen and barbara smith the head of the housing authority and ann is here (clapping) so we're going to have supervisor cowen come up because - oh, another supervisor in front. we're so proud to have her in our district and she said he did i was her master of thesis and every time we need something she's right there like sophie we appreciate her and glad to have her with us >> good morning. i'm glad the speaker put the breaks open kathy that is what happened when our the baby on the stage and keep me to two minutes. it's going to be more than two minutes ate an amazing day to celebrate. you know, i really

it was a term developed in the kennedy years. before that they were the frogmen of the underwater demolition team. they snuck into enemy or harbors and put bombs on the bottom of the boats and cleared obstacles for submarines during world war ii. seals came about in the early 1960s through kennedy. kennedy, of course,jfk had been a skipper, and he understood the ability of a small boat, a small crew of navy personnel what a big difference they could make in combat, especially in the pacific. so he pushed for a naval commando force that could go in the sea, the air and the land, all terrains, all environments. not just operating from ships, but operating very far from land. and now, you know, so in vietnam they went out of the blue waters of the navy into the brown waters of counterinsurgency and deep into the jungles, laos, cambodia, vietnam and hmong areas. and in the current war, the war on terror, the seals are operating thousands of miles from the sea. some of them say the only water we have is in our canteens. >> richard min

president kennedy had been killed.recall president kennedy earlier that summer in june made a pretty powerful speech the night edgar was killed about civil rights. it was his early idea. you heard that in the conversation. it was martin luther king saying i hope you're going to do what kennedy -- >> jeopardized his re-election. >> exactly. johnson wants to take this up. there's a moment and despite all of the factions that you're describing, people recognize that this was the moment and it was important that you had a president who was willing to take advantage of the moment. johnson right after the assassination of president k kennedy and after the funeral, continued to talk about finishing the work of kennedy and used that as the frame for talking about the civil rights act of 1954. urgency was on the table and they had to come together because they had to take advantage of that moment. >> we'll take a quick break. coming up, more from the civil rights summit in austin texas and our guests here, we're moments from he

kennedy went on to meet with pope iv. kennedy said the clear message shaking hands with the pope instead of kissing his ring. >> i think he felt that was a symbol that would be misinterpreted. >> because people would have said is he more loyal to the pope or to the united states. >> exactly. >> that nod toward diplomacy would loom large over popes and presidents for more than a decade. but all that changed with the papal election of a young polish cardinal ready to take on the world. yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. huh? i'm looking at it right now. oh, yeah? yeah. what's the... guest room situation? the "name your price" tool, making the world a little more progressive. you're an emailing, texting, master of the digital universe. but do you protect yourself? ♪ apparently not. when you access everything, you give everyone access to everything about you. but that's ok. while you do your thing... [

so it also comes about a week before kennedy announces that he was running for president.so that it also ties this is their first political campaign and they go out and do door-to-door campaigning in particular in los angeles and help kennedy win the primary. they are there in the ambassador hotel when he gets shot. so it was important for those political reasons and so i see this as a real turning point in the history of the movement. and i always quote the reverend drake who is one of the top advisers and he says in later years that after the fast caesar was too saintly to make mistakes. so i think it is an important concept in this was thrust on him to some degree. so he certainly embrace the image of the suffrage and opinions and that was part of the marching as well and believe that when he sacrificed that it is a powerful force that it forces other people to want to help you. and i think you did. >> was he a very religious man? or was it the fact that they appropriated a lot of religious iconography? >> i think that it was both. i think it was a tactic, certainly. ob

the twin engine jet was diverted to the longer runways at kennedy and was sulanded successfully, it was taxiing, rolled onto the grassy area. no one was injured and the passengers were bussed to the terminal. >>> lawmakers questioning gm's ceo mary barra pulled no punches during her second day of testimony on capitol hill. prosecutors accused gm of a possible criminal coverup of its defective switches and as jeff glor reports, they were astounded that no one connected with the recall has not been fired. >> so he has not been fired. >> no, he has not. >> reporter: many questions for general motors apz ceo mary berra on why no one has been dismissed. senator claire mccaskill. >> reporter: mccaskill is talking about engineer ray degiorgio who's still at the company today. this memo showed degiorgio signed offer on a new ignition switch to replace a faulty one in 2006, but the part number was never changed, so there was no way to differentiate between old switches and new ones. barra had few answers. >> i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. i became aware of the defect an

kennedy pardoned 472 people.n lyndon johnson became president he more than doubled the pardons, in 1974, president gerald ford commuted the sentences of everyone who had dodged the vietnam war draft. carter did one better and issued a blanket pardon for anyone who had dodged the draft. so it was not just making the sentences disappear. it made dodging the draft disappear as a crime, as well. the presidential power to spring people from prison and to essentially annul convictions is kind of a peculiar thing in our criminal justice system. right? it is kind of a kingly power. the guy in the top comes in like a lightning bolt and declares somebody innocent. feels weird, but it is in the constitution that the president can pardon people and commute their sentences. the way it is done sort of seems like a black box. like it is the antithesis of the due process that at least is in theory at the heart of our criminal justice system. it seems like there is no process. but there is actually a process for these things. the

kennedy. >> one of the things about l.b.j.the word, brilliantly opportunistic. >> reporter: joseph califano was president johnson domestic policy chief. >> the assassination of kennedy, he used brilliantly among other things, to get the civil rights act of 1964 passed. >> reporter: getting the civil rights bill through a congress controlled in part by southern segregationists took all of lyndon johnson's geill. here he is using his persuasive powers on georgia senator richard russell. >> i think this may have been one of the moments when president johnson, in talking to senator russell who had been his if you don't come with us on mentor for years, saying dick, if you don't come with us on this, i'm going to have to run over you. >> i'm about to sign into law a civil rights act of 1964. >> reporter: and president johnson got what he wanted. >> america is different today. because of the work of lyndon johnson. >> reporter: at the time congressman john lewis was a 24- year-old civil rights campaigner. >> the signs that we saw in

the other thing that is fascinating is the idea of bobby kennedy.ere is a guy with all that he president ande diminished. >> lyndon johnson hated being vice president. it was compared to the senate majority leader. why did he take it? he got trounced by kennedy in the primary and he saw the handwriting on the wall. he thought, my opportunity to get into become president is limited by age. this, you know, king arthur just came in. oh, my god. he is going to be president. he is going to be president for eight years. whoever his vice president is will have the inside track to be the next president for eight years. so up i am going to get in, i am looking 16 years down the road and i missed my window of opportunity. i think it was a catalytic move on his part. i have to bite the bullet, except as vice presidency, bring the south with me, and bide my time. hopefully, in eight years, get the nod. >> that is why i want you to be the floor manager of this bill. >> i assume the senate majority leader -- >> i need someone more personable. people like you, hub

is that the beginning of the kennedy administration he share ised with with president kennedy a caution towards racial controversial. but marchers kept marching. four little girls were killed in a church. bloody sunday happened. the winds of change blew. i picture him standing there taking up the entire doorframe. looking out over the south lawn. he asked what the true purpose of his office was for, what was the end point of his ambitions. he would reach back in his own memory. and he would remember his own experience with want. and he knew that he had a unique capacity as the most powerful write politician from the south to not merely challenge the convention, that had crushed the dreams of so many, but to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation. he is the only guy who could do it. aven avenue -- he knew there could be a cost. famously saying the democratic party may have lost the south for a generation. that's what his presidency was for. that's where he meets his moment. and possessed with an iron will, poes

>> we snow who shot kennedy. >> stephen: wake up! come on, george!buy that single bullet theory? >> i do. >> stephen: we just got from wrigley field to the kennedy assassination. atthat's a "the colbert report" promise. >> the cubs won the cold war. >> stephen: if you can prove the cubs won the cold war, i'll personally endorse this book. right now. it could happen. >> in 1919 william wrigley bought catalina off southern california. the cubs began to train there. in '37 a des moines, iowa broadcaster known as dutch reagan decided he would cover spring training for his radio station. took a movie test with warner brothers, became an actor, became president of the united states and won the cold war. therefore, the cubs get credit for winning the cold war. (cheering) >> stephen: by that same logic, did not the chicago cubs also sell arms to iran? (laughter) george will, i personally endorse a nice little place on the north side, that's the ♪ stuck in a contract? switch to t-mobile we'll pay your early termination fees. so you can get the new galaxy s5 f