kennedy: slap!eah, you put a hook in my mouth, you're going to dredge me in flour, fry me in canola oil. you know what i'm going to do? i'm going to hit you upside the head, boy! how you like me now? flop. >>> topic number two, presidential politics can be very emotional, and we got secret footage from a distraught vice president joe biden reacting to hillary's official announcement when she finally declared candidacy. how did joe take it? watch? >> i want him to vote for president. >> instead of hillary? >> you think maybe you can do that when you're a little older. >> no. >> no? [ laughter ]. kennedy: he still has a binky. no, that's actually an adorable toddler named zeke, he wanted to run for president so he could play with toys, obviously! and coincidentally, that's why bill clinton chose to run for president. the more you know. topic number three, sometimes animals attack and sometimes warm your cockles. here is a sheba inu puppy trying to bark for the first time. and it's quite a conversation

kennedy: i know. i know. i know.ked about this before and all that nonsense. >> i did not a chia's him to make a nonsensical argument. kennedy: but that is rework going. more people in this country country, it is not another definition. we have one minute left. i will talk of for you. more people in this country think gay couples should have the right to marry. >> then do it through the ballot box. kennedy: is a matter of equal protection. >> we're all in favor of equal protection. >> would you go to a gay wedding? finigan no. i don't think it is a wedding. kennedy: would you join the gay party? >> i know there is such a thing. [laughter] kennedy: there isn't. i enjoyed to have you on. please come back. >> we will be right back o flo? nah, i'll just let the results do the talking. [crowd booing] well, he can do that. we show our progressive direct rate and the rates of our competitors even if progressive isn't the lowest. it looks like progressive is not the lowest! ohhhh! when we return, we'll find out whether doug

kennedy: does it weaken it. you have three first time senators, they are all tea party backed, and claimed to be limited government, for that i appreciate their freedom, yearning. but do they cancel each other out at some point. >> luke at u.s. senate there are a hundred people who think they can be president. you know, it a very tough perch from which to run for presidency, you see few senators make the run then succeed. jfk he was an exceptional character, and barack obama. i think, you know with these now in a have seen that obama did it. but we have seen the results of this, the question is not whether they were first term senators but what is their ideology and their instincts, these guys, i think they actually said, wait a minute, barack obama paveed a different path we're taking the country in a different direct but still to the white house. kennedy: i don't want to see it. i want to see good ideas, someone with logic, i want to see someone who can take the country, i don't care necessarily hugh how he ge

kennedy: welcome back.ver seeing students open this week, and 16 of the 19 physical soldiers past the physical fitness test. here to discuss that, we have amber smith from concerned veterans for america and a former u.s. army helicopter pilot that served in iraq and afghanistan. welcome. >> thank you, it's great to be here. kennedy: let's talk about this. because i know that people are worried that if you allow women into special forces you will have to somehow lowered standards. is that what is happening in army ranger school to . >> today was a historic day. the first day that women were allowed to attempt to try out for ranger school. and it takes a lot of guts for anyone to basically go and start ranger school. a man or woman. but the most important thing to remember in terms of the ground military operations, the whole controversy is to ensure that the integrity of that standard remains. it cannot be lowered,. >> maybe your standards evolve, and another that's not a popular question for people who are

i am kennedy. kennedy: hey there. rand paul katchis seats to call for a defense budget increase during the big campaign announcement libertarians and conservatives in regards to defense. >> wise enough to avoid unnecessary intervention. kennedy: should embrace and on interventionism to have a a defense budget? "you're crazy, kennedy" per john bolton former ambassador to the wind welcome back. you have said i hope he comes all the way over. i don't think he read a play date but your own special form policy -- policy? >> i believe in redemption whether he is prepared or not remains to be seen because i do think the philosophy is in competition with his ambition and prepare end that remains to be seen. >> there is a difference between redemption and selling out of the true believers those liberty lovers and they hold their believed to be very dear and they hope that senator paul does not have to compromise. is there a way to maintain credibility but makes the party happy. >> jihadist to read it though. he could get throu

i am kennedy. kennedy: being ruled guilty on all 30 counts of the boston farming some of the victims' reacted. >> i was surprised how angry i was i was happy to see i'd want to feel they anchor that drives people to do hateful thing is the one to put it behind me. kennedy: they should have them have their way with him but the jury has not ruled it is the death penalty or life in prison. we have a criminal defense attorney. with the former counter state department you said this verdict would not have any effect on future terrorism plans? should dzhokhar tsarnaev be put to death? in mecca as a former agent it is hard to have sympathy. i would said venture to guess i with the end for the death penalty but having said that i will not be surprised face upon his sage that the jury comes down to sentence him to life in prison purses' the death penalty. kennedy: we can only speculate because the first phase is over. the jury found him guilty on all 30 counts. we know where they're at with a criminal act. i

i'm kennedy. ♪ kennedy: hello. exact words in the obituary, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for hillary clinton in 2016. the granddaddy of all comics he joins me tonight. comedy special contextually inaccurate appearing this friday at 10:00 p.m. i no what i'm going to be doing. >> that's exactly right. going to your watches in the tub. so, what so, what do you think of a guy who uses his obituary as a platform. killing all the relatives. >> obviously, you know, once someone is dead i don't want to hear what they have to say about politics, but i would give the wrong recommendation. once i die i want everyone miserable. so i would probably cannot whatever the recommendation i leave will be the wrong one. kennedy: people say, when i go, don't mourn don't mourn my passing. sing a song, dance a jig. you really just want people to be -- >> really, flying at half mast, record number of suicides. it's okay. he would want you to do this they they want as many people coming as possible because i'm selfish.

kennedy and, yes, thank you, vicki, but also the kennedy family.ry to steal that blanket a little bit later from you. [laughter] chancellor motley: for entrusting this precious legacy to this institution and to his people. we now regard this as a sacred responsibility to keep this standard high, and to cast the seeds of his good work broadly. we joyfully celebrate the launch of a grand civic mission here today, and we welcome you all to the first of what we hope will be the first of many visits your campus and this institute. looking out to the world, as a great monument to a great man and great people who have served in the senate whose lives will impact us all for generations. thank you for stopping by today. see you again soon. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome emk institute board member, former senate majority leader tom daschle. senator daschle: as someone with the opportunity to serve on the edward m. kennedy board, let me join in welcoming you this morning. there have only been 1963 men and women who have had the opportunity to serve i

kennedy: how are you. well, friday night, like you, i was watching little plumes of smoke, and flames shootout of my phone as social media blue up during the bruce jenner interview. stand gender community was worried that it would be a tbloy to grab headlines. it was a touching and honest discussion on what it means to be transgender, he could be transjenner. no one was surprised when bruce told diane sawyer this. >> are you a woman? >> um, yes, for all intense and purposes, i am a woman. kennedy: what made sparks shootout of my phone, and caused a audible gasp was this. >> i just never big a fan, i was am on the conservative side. >> are you a republican? >> well, yeah. is that a bad thing? kennedy: it reminded my this of scene from airplane. >> the bumps are feel are asteroids smashing into the hull of the ship, also we're flying without a navigational system, and can't seem to change course. >> are you tells us absolutely everything? >> not exactly, we're all out of curvey. >> [screaming] kennedy: bruce

kennedy: circus? >> no. kennedy: bicycle gallery? >> zigust.ted to do with it, marvel said do whatever you want. kennedy: and they made an oscar winning movie. and you also, which i didn't know, there is a marvel s.h.i.e.l.d. agent named out of you. >> it is made into a ryan reynolds film right now. and one of the characters from issue one they were writing was agent adsit, a s.h.i.e.l.d. agent, based on my look and based on anxieties and eventually they started calling him agent scott adsit, now i'm a comic book character. i'm in the marvel universe as myself if i'm not grown up to be an actor. kennedy: amazing, will you ever be a tv or movie marvel agent of s.h.i.e.l.d. >> they have not contacted me. my manager's husband is one of the writers, married to my -- kennedy: he is one of the comedians of comedy, and he is one of the finest comices of our day. >> thank you. kennedy: and incredibly fertile mind as you have as well. tell me about the connection you had to other chicago notables. >> second city is the nonprofit theater in chicago that

kennedy: i don't know.eer company. >> it never should have gotten there is a ridiculous ad campaign because at the same time how to reconcile the two? it is interesting how quickly they folded because it is stupid. >> that is monkeys on the typewriter i am down for it is whenever. >> what are they saying no to? >> i cannot believe somebody actually allowed this to go out without anticipating this. but the entire internet existed out to give a voice too stupid people to get upset. but what is amazing is intended it does not end up -- just a matter any more [bleep] we are so scared of the liberal bob how could this be interpreted? >> maybe they should anticipate that before they put that out there. >> we're not policing ourselves. >> but as a apparent the oldest is 18 and has two years to 40 stores to drink. be responsible. but how you do your ad campaign. but it doesn't matter. i was talking to somebody today on twitter and he said if you see a you can be offended by it we take people's intentions that it is

kennedy. >> caroline kennedy: people in japan very much admire him.he ways that many people learned english. almost every day, somebody comes up to me and wants to quote the inaugural address. and including senior figures in the military or, you know people on the street. >> john kennedy: ask not what your country can do for you... >> o'donnell: president kennedy is still seen by many japanese as a reflection of the america they idealize, young and dynamic. last month at japan's national archives, a jfk exhibit drew visitors such as japan's prime minister. at tokyo's waseda university students lined up two hours in advance for a symposium on jfk. there's so much rich history between your family and japan. >> kennedy: that's been a very powerful part of this experience for me. he hoped to be the first american president to visit japan. and so i think, for me, coming here, that's an extra layer of meaning that... that this posting has for me. >> o'donnell: john kennedy was nearlyilled by the japanese during the pacific war. only 18 years later, he enter

kennedy: hello.d evening an american born cleric who is reportedly the most popular online preacher is a the world for those who joined isis. and the profiler from charlie's. >> what we have here is the trash talk gain twitter truly caught up with him after federal court. i was out front he tried to sneak out the back. >> what do you go buy it today? retrying to get people to join isis' against your country? although he has served prison time for fraud and tax evasion he is free and spouting questionable rhetoric on line and charlie welcome back. he has then to a super maximum prison and spent six years in the muslim jesse jackson. >> the reason he went to prison is he and his father they buy a house, a date for cit and tear it up to put on the insurance claim transfer to the alias and do would again and again and again. he gets out he has to pay restitution does not do it. who pays for his underpants if he pays his sister read he claims the fifth now he is preaching death to the system the system he

i am kennedy. starting at drone conversation the white house has revealed to hostages rand accidentally killed earlier this year. to americans working with a terror group were also killed and at least one of them was in the same strike. let's talk to the coast of red dye and co-writer of "national review" also a writer of the contributory manifesto. this doesn't smell right and raises questions the white house tries to appear transparent about drones strake said in january but may first question is they said they didn't know they were in those locations then who did they think was there? >> apparently but they are saying is they thought it was an al qaeda headquarters but they did not know specifically who was there. are we wrong to be suspicious -- suspicious that we accidently killed them? said all the questions that raises? settled think we are wrong to ask that but they may be telling the truth but i don't think they have earned the right for us to automatically believe them. kennedy: and that

i am kennedy. ♪ kennedy: hello. here we are.he media is desperate to to cover clinton's every move and cameras caught a mob of reporters chasing her face and -- heard a man as she arrived at any event in iowa yesterday's. >> they are chasing the of scooby doo van. >> the guy in the orange pants is pretty quick. kennedy: they like to chase her tail but anymore scandal since her big announcement? once and for all we have from "national review" and a fellow from the franklin center of and michael malice in my favorite ghostwriter a comedian and a friend of animals around the globe. who has donated a lot of money to keep that alive. so what do you make of this field they? it was almost like the olympic event. >> i think if they ran fast enough they could look at the cardboard cutout. they're eager to report to on her stick nobody actually saw her. >> is like the o.j. with the bronco. it is unfortunate they just want to catch a glimpse when the rest of us do not want to see her at all. >> you are supposed to say she is beautiful and

kennedy: welcome back.he global french television network locking out 11 channels and hijacking the networks website, social media counts at the same time, the message on the website renin part. we have a founder of high-tech crime solutions and a former hacker who spent time in prison when he got in trouble for hacking into the phone system, yapping on the phone. gregory, welcome. >> thank you for reminding me of that. [laughter] >> i'm glad you're so good with computers. you are hacker, can i trust you? >> yes, you can trust me now, if you had more people like me, there would be less governments being hacked. kennedy: okay, they block out 11 channels and took over the website. what does all of that tell you about this two. >> what this tells me is that transit is getting more powerful and that the tv networks, they have weak security. the people who are getting paid to protect their network, to keep them online, they are amateurs. they took down tv stations and the websites. what does that tell you? and t

kennedy. senator lott, yeah, i am a republican governor from massachusetts. [laughter] governor baker: many years ago i was with a group of health care professionals, and we went down to washington to meet with senator kennedy to talk about health care. when we got down there we were told when we got to his office in the rayburn building that the senate was in session, but he could meet with us in a little anteroom off the senate chamber if we hustled over there quickly. so we all hustled over there and gathered in this little room off the senate chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. for the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him about health care while literally a dozen members of the u.s. senate at one point or another poked their head in. and in those kinds of conversations you have with people that you really know, abbreviated little, did you look after -- yeah, i am on that -- and did you take, yeah, i got that. back and forth, back and forth between him and his co

kennedy. and here's how i know how. back when i was a law professor i studied the early signs that america's once strong middle-class was in serious trouble. i studied people in bankruptcy. people who went to college, who got married, too many kids, who ended up pushed over a financial cliff. solidly middle-class folks and more than 90% in bankruptcy because of a medical problem, a job loss, or a family breakup. the squeeze on the middle class was getting tighter, and more and more families were deep in debt. bankruptcy was their last option to scratch their way back to dead flat broke and tried to build some kind of future. credit card companies saw this and they figured out that they could boost the profits if the squeeze these people a little harder. so they wanted to change the bankruptcy laws so that hundreds of thousands more people every year would be locked out of bankruptcy and left mired in debt. their profits by squeezing people, drowning in medical debt and deal with job losses. i

kennedy: the panel is back.. >> we are going to win and get to the issues right here and right now. should he be taken off the board at a prestigious university reign. >> they don't like the fact that he promotes diet and drugs and i can see that, but he has had a great career as a doctor. >> of somebody offered me millions to promote a diet drug, i would, but there is no money in exercise and eating less. >> so tried to frame it as a free speech issue. >> the other thing is that these doctors are colombia are accusing him of being against gmi was and so this is fine. >> this whole idea that he is getting paid to push supplements or whatever, the idea being new, there are doctors that pay their big drug companies all the time. not only to tell people about it but to prescribe prescription drugs to their patients. >> i think if they all have the had the same opportunity they would absolutely take it. i don't fault doctor oz for going out and making money, being an entrepreneur. because it doesn't take away from m

a lot of people in the media interested in kennedy. he played upon the contrast and kennedy had been a hero in the pacific. pt 109 the celebrated in the media. his hair was in that situation. he brought glamour to the white house. formal events. he had a beautiful wife. he had matinee idol good looks themselves and so did his wife, jacqueline. his lovely children in the white house laid upon that. they used the glamour of the canadians to tailor his appeal into the idea that he was a new kind of president, a vigorous energetic young leader. the torch hasn't passed as hasn't passed its kennedy sent sent from one generation to another and the white house is very clever in many ways and using the media television, which was emerging at the time and is a burst of other wonderful photographs that the kennedys and you've seen some of them now. the wonderful events at the white house, pictures of the children in the family and young john junior hiding under the president's desk while the president was working. an opening under the desk a litt

do you think justice kennedy is still a safe vote for gay marriage? greg: i think he is highly likely vote for same-sex marriage based on what he has done in the past. he has written in the three big gay rights decisions in the last 20 years. he was on the court over the last several months. it would be a real shift for him to go back and say, no, i changed my mind. mark: let's move on to socrates, also known as the chief justice john roberts. he had some questions which is often the case for both sides. mark: we heard the chief justice questioning both sides somewhat skeptically. if you look at his history, his temperament and his desire for the court to be less politicized. what is it to say that he votes for more liberal laws? greg: unlike justice kennedy chief justice roberts devoted the vast majority of his question towards being skeptical of same-sex marriage. i don't think he is a likely vote. that said, he does care about the institution very deeply. if he is in the majority, it gives them a chance to write the opinion, perhaps keep it narrow.

we hear as much about kennedy and very little about the other two. this may be off topic. it may not be your area of expertise. do you have any idea, would that consider cataclysmic in their time and why did he hear so little about those? >> garfield in 1881 rand m mckinley in 1901, the first reason that scholars give is that lincoln and kennedy died immediately or almost immediately. i follow this couple up through reconstruction till the end of their lives. i'm not sure i can explain this. she's devastated, ulttterly devastated. i followed her through the whole story. she wrote so much about lincoln. there's a sense of at the immediate moment i think garfield and mckinley were devastating events but they didn't have the legacies that lincoln and kennedy had partly because they were not, i guess although garfield was a very good president, they were understood to be the kind of great statesmen that lincoln and kennedy were understood to be. thank you. yes. >> i wonder if you can tell it to be more 150 years ago about lincoln's assassination 100 years later then how people

do you think justice kennedy is still a safe boatvote for gay marriage? i think he is highly likely vote for same-sex marriage based on what he has done in the past. he has written in the three big gay rights decisions in the last 20 years. he was on the court over the last several months. it would be a real shift for him to go back and say no, i changed my mind i willd. mark: let's move on to socrates also known as the chief justice john roberts. he had some questions which is often the case for both sides. chief justice roberts: the argument on the other side is the are seeking to redefine the institution. every definition that i looked up prior to about one dozen years ago defines marriage as a unity between a man and a woman, as husband and wife. if you succeed, that core definition will not be operable. >> i'm not sure it is necessary to get into sexual orientation to resolve the case. chief justice roberts: the difference is based upon their different sex. why is that not a straightforward question of sexual discrimination? mark: we heard the chief

it seems that justice kennedy is very comfortable. >> interesting. first amendment jurisprudence, the strongest supporter of categorical thinking in those cases. different than commercial scrutiny and restrictions. cases were watered down. it is a curiosity. >> all right. thank you and join me in a round of applause. [applause] >> next, conservative religious leaders preview this tuesday's supreme court case on same-sex marriage and how the decision might impact religious freedom. this was hosted by america action. it is just over an hour. >> i want to start right on time. we are grateful for the folks at c-span coming in and filling -- and filming of the discussion today. we want to be conscious of their presence and we appreciate the audience. my name is rick scarborough. myself and several others here are the originators of the marriage pledge. these two lawyers wrote the pledge. there are copies available for everyone -- they were stacked outside. they have a website defendmarriage.org. you can read the pledge come to see the key signers. as of y

that mentor of kennedy testified at kennedy's confirmation hearing in december of '87.e he is. >> i think he will have compassion and empathy for all those who present themselves. he'll do that without personal predilection, without a specific philosophical inclination, with an aim at consensus building. i urge a vote of confirmation. >> the supreme court decision on that same-sex matter is expected some time in june. mark sherman is the associated press press reporter who wrote this story and he joins us now. also joining us is paul henderson, a veteran prosecutor. let me start with mark and give us a sense of this. i've always had a sense about the court decisions of justice kennedy, about the idea of the individual, and the individual as a whole person. and yes, sex is part of that, sexual attraction is part of that, sexual behavior is part of that, but they're all part of being a whole person, a person who can love other people, and a person who will act on that love physically. and the question that's always been a portion of who an individual is, not all they are.

that is one of the points justice kennedy was making. this is an institution important for children. marriage equality is important for two people involved in the marriage, but also important for the children being raised. that is one of the things justice kennedy had mentioned two years ago in the windsor arguments. he came back to it again in the second half of the first argument to date. it is very important point grid against those benefits, you don't have anything to balance. the state doesn't have any interest in preventing marriage equality. it is not going to harm heterosexual marriages. that is a silly argument at this point. if there is no harm in it, how can the state have an interest in preventing something that increases happiness and security? charlie: the solicitor general said, it is a decision based on equal protection which would have more practical muscle in other areas of the law, but it would be a symbolic blow to gay couples. david: what he is saying is, if you have an equal protection argument, that means you have

justice kennedy: yes. mr. bursch: i think it would be an unconstitutional invasion of privacy to ask the question. justice kagan: to ask if you want children is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy? mr. bursch: i think that would be the case, yes, just like it would be unconstitutional -- justice ginsburg: suppose a couple, a 70-year-old couple comes in and they want to get married. justice ginsburg: you don't have to ask them any questions. you know they are not going to have any children. mr. bursch: well, a 70-year-old man, obviously, is still capable of having children and you'd like keep that within the marriage. but leaving that aside, what you're talking about, justice ginsburg, is a tailoring issue under rational basis, which we submit applies here. vance and heller both say that overinclusiveness is not something you need to worry about. but even if you applied some kind of heightened scrutiny, you know, again, many people get married thinking that they can't have kids or won't have kids, and they

after kennedy was killed and i should say that talks between kennedy and castro kind of did progress to the day that the assassination took place. but just after kennedy was killed, fidel castro sent a private note back to lyndon johnson saying did you know we were in talks with president kennedy, this is how secret these things were. he didn't know if johnson knew and wanted to say to him, we were in talks. if you know about them, do you want to continue them. and this note was kept secret and nobody knew about it for 35 years, but it was given to a reporter on february 12, 1964. johnson had been president for less than three months. castro was reaching out to see what might be possible. he reached out to richard nixon 10 days after nixon's inauguration. and here you have a situation in which the new president of the united states was somebody that fidel was familiar with. he had met with him for a couple of hours in april of 1959. the meeting, as bill has written so colorfuly in the book, went badly. fidel did not emerge keen on richard nixon and richard nixon emerged not very keen

and also kennedy did the same thing. in the cuban missile crisis he drew a red line over offensive missiles being introduced in cuba, and when they work he had to do something. antidote bobby if he hadn't done something he would have been impeached. so that's one of my rules about crisis management is don't draw a red line. you may want to but it will botch it in, and other presidents have chosen not to just for that reason. and so a lot of people have criticized obama for his committee, and the fact it doesn't have that doctrine. you can't have a one size fits all solution in the world today like he did during the cold war but it's us against them, the west versus the east. now you have to think about pragmatically looking at each crisis as it comes up and decide what's more important here humanitarian idealism, national interest, and to make decisions on a case-by-case basis. which appears to be what he has done, but all we know is what his people tell us. and so it will be a generation before we really understand his

rightly focused on anthony kennedy and his use of the word dignity.e have seen him word in the past to describe gays, gay rights gay relationships and if you look back at his opinion in windsor talked about the humiliation of kids who are being raised by parents. he identifies, he has been a strong support are of gay rights on the court. but at the same time, kennedy has also been a strong proponent of state autonomy. in a sense what we could be looking at is this fight between two of the things that anthony kennedy has been the most outspoken about in the past decade. >> a.b.? >> yeah, i think he is a swing vote and everyone is watching him. but i think roberts is potentially as well. i was surprised even justice breyer had a similar comment about his hesitance to redefine the institution of marriage to redefine marriage. they are all uncomfortable with this. this t. is not a question for this court whether or not gay marriage is a right or fair. it's a question of whether it's a constitutional right. and whether they are going to overturn the rights

the best was kennedy. i will get to that. so very briefly from each crisis stop me if you have a question. just to give you a highlight with a key finding. to start the career of more to give trim and a lot of credit he made some serious mistakes. he had the term groupthink where people got together with no devil's advocates and then look for consensus among themselves then pretty soon they are doing things they might not have done before because there is no devil's advocate in the room. and that is because everybody in washington became intoxicated with the success. letting him change his mission. not just pushing the north koreans back to the 38th parallel but punishing them to invade north korea ago to the chinese border and with approval put them into a trap. with that counter-attack fed rate ended up with the stalemate. so with the galloping consensus you would think intuitively competitive is one end of the to edge sword. but at the end after the counterattacked truman writes in a press conference got mad at the reporte

they left minutes and god bless john kennedy, he taped his conversations so we know what he said which was very helpful so i was able to develop an analytic model and a gain interviews in order to pull the information i need to recreate a crisis and i did it in a way that reads like a narrative. i use a lot of dialogue which i didn't make out. was all a can from the meeting itself so it is fun to read, takes you through the suspense of the crisis. i got started on this in 2011 on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack. i got to meet an interview the people in this situation room that way, the head of the situation room traveling with president bush she explained to me what george bush did that day, all the places he went, all his conversations and all the stuff. gave me an insight into a profound presidential crisis and then the following year i did the same thing for the 50th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis, a group of newspapers from miami herald, kansas city star a fort worth, anchorage, sacramento and wire services mcclatchy tribune news service and had the good fortune o

. >> this will in all likelihood come down to justice kennedy. >> jon: kennedy kennedy kennedy! the only justice anyone cares about is kennedy. he's the mash on to the supreme court's jan. it was for gay marriage opponents to air their best and final arguments which we look at in tonight's segment "they got nothing so-called because opponents of gay marriage got nothing. and they tried everything, starting with the good, old, classic slippery slope. >> if we rule in your favor in this case and after that, a group consifght of two men and two women afor a marriage license. would there be any ground for denying them a license? >> jon: why should gay people have to account for anyone who is ever going to want to get married after they get the right to? when women fought for suffrage no was one like what if one day a dog wants to vote. what about that ladies? because next thing you know the state of our union is... ( bark ) that was one dumb argument. but hard let's only one. >> if you prevail here, there will be no more debate. i mean, closing the debate can close minds, and it wil

it seems that justice kennedy is very comfortable. >> interesting. first amendment jurisprudence the strongest supporter of categorical thinking in those cases. different than commercial scrutiny and restrictions. cases were watered down. so it is a curiosity. >> please join me in a round of a this is an administrative enforcement proceeding brought by the department of agriculture against my clients commending the relinquishment of funds connected to specific pieces of property namely reserve raises. my clients appear in the capacity of handlers but under the particular facts of this case the economic circumstances are somewhat different than are ordinarily through in this industry because as handlers, the joshua horowitz ands assumed financial responsibility for the reasons that were not turned over to the department of agriculture. the producers in this case were fully paid for their reasons. this is a factual finding to be found in the officers's opinion 66 a.m. the appendix to the petition. they paid the producers for their reasons according to

remember justice kennedy just two years ago wrote the windsor decision. you can't read that reasoning, i believe, and come to the conclusion that you are not going to have a recognition of equal marriage equality today. i just don't see how you can reconcile those. justice scalia, whom i don't always agree with but who is always perceptive and almost always right to the point, i think in his dissent, and windsor likely laid it out is the principles are the principles that compel a favor of marriage equality. >> rose: adam, speak to thanks i think david is quite right. before the argument in the morning when all we knew was justice kennedy's reasoning in his windsor decision, there was a lot of reason to think he was prepared to go all the way and would say so today. he stopped short of saying so today. will he say so in june? i agree with david very likely yes. but his questioning suggested that he knows he's on the brink of a major transformation of american society and one that would largely be accomplished by court rulings and not democracy and that se

kennedy, a new crusade came to washington led by ronald reagan.im to try and tap that great american spirit that opened up this completely undeveloped continent from coast to coast and made it a great nation. schoumacher: john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson had called on the government to help those in need. ronald reagan called on the government to get out of the way so people could help themselves. reagan administration budget director, david stockman, told congress that the job corps had flunked the cost/benefit test. too much cost, not enough benefit. the cost? $15,000 a slot, he said. more than a harvard education. it made me laugh to see david stockman resurrecting that old canard this year as a justification for closing up the job corps. that was all discussed back in the '60s. the fact is it's not true. the actual costs of the entire job corps operation per enrollee is about 6,000 bucks. now, that's a lot of money. i'm not trying to minimize it. but the question is, is it better to spend $6,000 to transform that young man or woman and turn

kennedy and apple kennedy. c-span: rory kennedy can you remember when your you were first to where there was a vietnam war? >> guest: well i was seven when the events took place that we document in the sound the last days of the war which was 1975. you know there's not a moment where i remember vietnam but i feel like it was kind of in the ethos of my childhood. it was in my consciousness. i have always felt it's a event in our nations history and i was happy to have the opportunity to revisit yet mom and to this particular story of the final days of the war. c-span: did you go there at all? >> guest: i never went to vietnam. my tent -- intention was to go there but you know the story that i wanted to tell from the vietnamese perspective is about the vietnamese who were left behind and what happened to them. but we were told that and i did extensive research that nobody in vietnam would talk to us about this time in history particularly who had been imprisoned or tortured where you know they kind of struggled i

. >> right, i started with kennedy. i had a great story with president nixon that really shed light on watergate. in fact a lot of these staffers said it was harder to watch president nixon decay day by day than it even was after president kennedy was killed. they really have such a protective feeling towards the first family and a lot of them don't crave the spotlight at all. in fact it was very hard photo get some of them to open up. if there's a camera they duck over and around it. >> i assume you ran into people that said no. i've got plenty of stories but i'm not telling. i knew this was part of the deal. >> absolutely. and it's a shame. there are some people i couldn't get to but most of the people eventually i earned their trust because i would talk with one of them and they would put in a good word for me with another one. i've kept up with a lot of them and sadly been to a funerals lately. for instance the painter named clete cletus clark who worked for the clintons. and laura bush gave someone a you'll eulogy

[applause] justice kennedy: thank you again for coming. my remarks will not trespass on those of our distinguished speaker, saying to make two different points. one is to introduce professor michael rose. the flash ross -- ross. but first, to note that we should all feel privileged to be here this evening. this is the first in a series of lectures that have been renamed. these are now called the leon silverman supreme court lectures. leon was simply wonderful. he was the president of the supreme court historical society in the early 1990's. i think in 1991 until 2002. he was a fascinating man. he is to say at these events people don't want to talk to me. , they want to talk to the justices. if you knew leon, i think there is considerable doubt about that. he said despite my wit and charm, they want to talk to the justices. i think they wanted to talk to leon. he was a dynamo of energy. he is one of these dynamos who had great professionalism and dignity and great admiration for the law. he broadened the base of the society by searching for

>> well, in formal terms, jackie kennedy. the others had kind of function in that capacity. >> they knew they needed help. >> like mrs. hoover had four or five secretaries. one was very good with interfacing with the reporters so that's how -- >> another clip for you. this is too much fun. you know the white house correspondents' dinner is another one of these big precedents. it's coming up this weekend and it has become hollywood on the east. it's become quite a thing. there have been times when first ladies and husbands have used that to help enhance the image. let's watch laura bush at one of these just a few years ago. >> i said to george the other day, george, if you really want to end tyranny in the world you have to stay up later last. [laughter] [applause] i am married to the president of the united states, and here's our typical evening. 9:00 mr. excitement here is sound asleep. [laughter] and i'm watching desperate housewives. [laughter] with lynne cheney. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, i am a desperate housewife.

we got a very eloquent decision by justice kennedy. while talking about states rights, ultimately ended up ruling the 14th amendment doesn't allow the federal government to distinguish between two classes of married couples. that kind of disrespect that it showed for one group of those couples was simply intolerable under the 14th amendment obviously there is a great deal of language, but it proved very useful in the litigation that came since. the sears people had about the case -- fears people have and the hopes, none of those came to be. it was somewhat of a fizzle in the outcome. there was never a pellet jurisdiction in the case -- ap pellate jurisdiction in the case. the reason being is because the california attorney general and california governor refused to amend proposition eight. while we had a great deal of discussion and a side trip to california supreme court ultimately the decision of the supreme court was that people didn't appeal to say private individuals who had campaigned to put proposition eight on the ballot did no

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ caroline kennedy may work half a world away but she still maintains ties close to the white down for an interview with norah o'donnell of "60 minutes." >> do you have a special relationship with the president? >> well yes. depends on what you mean by special relationship but if i need to talk to him, i can. >> reporter: there's plenty to talk about. what's going on in east asia kennedy believes the story. >> the story is in the middle east. >> you guys are missing the story, okay? >> how? >> what's going on in asia there's so much opportunity for america. there's so much good will toward america. there's economic opportunity. >> reporter: ambassador kennedy is keen on a massive trade deal the biggest since nafta that is now being negotiated between u.s. japan, and ten other countries. but another issue is looming over east asia the asenn dance of china. relations between china and japan are tense. a booming china doesn't like japan and has designs on islands japanese consider theirs. what many americans may not know is the united states is obligated to come to japan's aid in