ted kennedy. jackie kennedy. some of kennedy's entourage. ted sorenson, arthur shoes injury, arthur goldberg the labor secretary and then later a supreme court judge. on the eisenhower side you had eisenhower, his brother, milton, maim my, a cultural figure, you had eisenhower's cabinet that it not particularly well known now but interesting people. and the senators. illinois had two important senators part of this mix, paul douglas and everett dirkson, george mcgovern, congressman, and william fulbright. jut an amazing cast of characters, and as i was reading one account, very vivid account of washington on the eve of the inaugural about the trains pull interesting town and it was written by fairly junior reporter for "the new york times" called david halberstam who has six or seven major books out there. the "washington post" had a young beat reporter who was assigned outside of kennedy's house in georgetown. it was cold and bitter and he was -- every article was grump belling and vardonic, his name was tom wolfe. and he has about six or s

kennedy elected, and robert kennedy knew that. david margolick, the author of "the promise and the dream," you can read his work regularly in vanity fair, thank you so much. >> keep an eye out for interviews from the national press club's book fair to air in the near future. you can also watch them and any of our programs in their entirety at booktv.org. type the authors name in the search bar at the top of the page. >> c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> next on after words, economist stephen moore discussing the economic policies of the trump administration. he's interviewed by veronique derugy senior research fellow at university murdata center. interviewing top non-fiction authors about their latest work.

justice kennedy: yes.id: any second thoughts about retiring? [laughter] justice kennedy: none at all. [laughter] justice kennedy: i spent 43 years reading briefs and never yet found one i couldn't put down in the middle. [laughter] justice kennedy: were it still my term on the court as an active judge, by this time in september, i would have spent already 200 hours reading briefs, and mary and i wanted to enjoy life in a different way, so it's important. [laughter] david: why do you think lawyers like to call these things briefs, because they are not brief, really. why don't they call them something else? do you get great writing in those briefs? justice kennedy: occasionally. [laughter] justice kennedy: the english house of lords, the briefs are very skimpy, but that's because their hearings go for two or three days. and the judges are learning from the lawyers during the argument and they'll actually get books off the wall and so forth. ours, with the briefs, it is more efficient. maybe not as much, but

the race for the white house is on. ♪ kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy, kennedy for me ♪ >nd money. >> it was called the jingle ad. every product was sold with a jingle, so why not a candidate? ♪ it's up to you, it's up to you, it's strictly up to you ♪ >> that ad aired during the daytime. it's somewhat sexist to say, it was aimed at housewives watching soap operas. ♪ ♪ >> what is the most important issue confronting the american people in this election campaign? >> nixon was selling security, stability, you know what you get with me, you know what you had with eisenhower. let's stick with what works. >> i'm going to win this in the saint patrick's day parade in boston. >> the press loved kennedy, and kennedy loved the appreciation. they thought he was charming. they thought he was fun. they went on sing alongs on the campaign plan. >> nixon was exactly the opposite. they thought he was awkward, weird, uncomfortable. >> the press liked jack, and they did not like dick. >> nixon's staff had urged him to develop a better relationship with the press. and finally nixon agreed t

kennedy: oh, shut the chuck up. what happens if sense at -- senate passes a bill it moves to house, if he signs it crisis averted. the president is in a tough spot, the wall was his biggest campaign promise, if he does not deliver, he risks alienating his most ardent supporters. and so will we avoid a shut down. and how much political damage could it cause this white house. kennedy: we talk with panel off the bat. right off the bat, lawrence jones. senior fellow at national tax mayor union mattie and star of fox, work women and money. deirdre bolton. welcome. >> thank you. >> thank you. kennedy: let's talk about the dollars and cents, president has really made a more modest ask of congress, in terms of the wall. >> this is a different tone for him, first time i have seen an attempt at compromise. he said 800 thousand workers at risk of being furloughed that 25% of agencies that could be shut down if cr does not go into effect, nobody realliments to do that. even mitch mcconnell said there no education in the second

but not this year. >> kennedy: with a handful of geritol and milk of magnesia. >> kennedy: i am partingith you. a million people are going to be concentrated in a couple blocks. like neptune and athena, -- poseidon and athena. you can be poseidon. you can have the trident. i will have athleticism, i guess. will be lording over the hordes of people through right in times square. i am shocked they are letting u us. >> pete: they did a lot of background checks. she put us through a boot camp, new year's eve hosting boot camp. >> greg: i know. you used part of my staff. it was hard on me. >> dana: everything is about greg. do you stay up and or go to bed? >> greg: i don't party but that doesn't mean i go to bed. i think it is stupid to celebrate new year's eve, much how you feel -- >> kennedy: it's why you should watch on tv, absolutely. >> greg: it's an artificial construct which is a problem for me because my wife loves new year's eve and i hate new year's eve. were trying to find a combination that works but it never does. we end up going somewhere and i and of leaving at 11:30 and she s

kennedy: you don't understand?has to bea political stun, don't tell that to burn out who write, i neglected myself in the process before the campaign, i used to practice yoga 3 to 4 times a week, eat nutriciously, and i went from doing yoga and making wild rice and salmon dinners to eating fast-food for dinner and falling asleep in my jeans and make up. oh, my god, that is so hard. try having kids, and all your energy is toward a tiny person whose needs are more important than your own. congress. by the way dear yoga is not just laying on the mat. i know it is impossible for someone who wants government to fully control everyone else's life. but sometimes we have to take responsibility for our own act and decisions this is part of functional individualism, maybe aoc is not cut out for the new job, she is already toast. that is the memo. kennedy: aoc will become a congresswoman in just two weeks, should she considerric tokinrica have a --vacation until 2020. she gets facts wrong, that drives me crazy, but this whole

justice kennedy: three. david: grandchildren? justice kennedy: nine.avid: obviously a very successful family and a successful life. your father was a reasonably prominent lawyer in sacramento. did he say to you, go to law school? did he not say that? justice kennedy: he was a fellow practitioner. we were very close. i didn't enjoy school much. i learned to read at a very early age and let a lot of things in his library so i didn't spend a lot of time in school. i would go to his office with him. i was reading things. i probably saw 10 trials before i was out of high school. i would go with him. sacramento was a center for people from agriculture, less populated counties to come to seek advise. we would go to the counties around sacramento, the court houses. david: you went to stanford. you must have done reasonably well because you got into harvard law school. you did not stay in the east. you went back to pick up your father's practice. did you kind of take over his practice? justice kennedy: it took over me. he died. in those days, the law profession

kennedy: so sad.nts to be person no one likes, today president hit back at allegation that having congress fund the wall would break his campaign promise in having mexico pay for it. i stated one way or the other mexico will pay for the wall, this has not has not changed, nl with mexico and canada is better than old nafta deal, just by the money we save, mexico is paying for the wall. we can't afford not to to with that that logic. thigh postponed a vote t vote ol to fund a wall, at a time whether everyonwheneveryone is y for the wall, perhaps could bigger question is, will there be a wall, with me now, florida congressman matt gaetz, you were at white house. >> i had a discussion about trade with peter navarro, an exciting opportunity for president to take trade lessons we learned in renegotiating nafta and apply them globally. i am grateful for chance to go to white house chat policy. kennedy: was anyone talking about the wall today? did you overhear any good conversations. >> i have not heard any o

kennedy: u.s.stations in syria are not expected to leave for another month, but russians are alreadyplexing their military --ple flexing their military muscle. russia has backed al-assad for years, they stan to gain most from your exiting, they are telling other countries, including turkey to say out, yesterday compute putin over a y of a hypersonic missile. he has sent nuclear bombers to our backyard. military base, on island off coast of venezuela, is president's withdrawal making putin boulder, joining me now. mike baker is back, you are back baker. >> hello, happy christmas. kennedy: why is christmas kick-starting another arms rice. >> well, it is putin, doing what putin does best, trying to reclaim some semblance of former soviet union. we have known, and monitoring, tracking, observing this development of what termed hyper sonic missile capability. kennedy: do you believe all of the claims they are making? >> you know, full disclosure, i have not seen intelligence on it yet, that would be spe

kennedy: we'll see.ecause you can't have special counsel for every instance and every issue. >> exactly. my belief is special counsels corrupt independent counsels salute islycounselsabsolutely. kennedy: coming up, violent riots and protests all over france. wait until you hear why. a full report after the break. >>> president trump says he's one step closer to cutting a giant trade deal with china. how long will that peace last and how will we benefit. the panel joins me to discuss the panel joins me to discuss next. [speaking in italian] the panel joins me to discuss ne...i just got my ancestrydna results: 74% italian. and i found out that i'm from the big toe of that sexy italian boot! calabria. it even shows the migration path from south italia all the way to exotico new jersey! so this holiday season it's ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com ♪ there's no place likargh!e ♪ i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ kennedy: the city of light has been set on fire. violent demonstrators

kennedy: holy cow. so let's talk a little bit about thing well legality of the payments and what it takes to reach threshold of violating campaign finance laws, if president says, i paid someone, but it came out of my own personal kitty is he is less legal jeopardy. >> yes, particularly if he can say i had another intent for this contribution that was protecting my, and my family. that would observe him of report -- absolve him of respecting reg requirement. this is not a campaign contribution. kennedy: i was thinking of other things that you might do to head off embarrassment, if you are a great big fat person or very unattractive, and you are amber assed -- embarrassed and hide it, some physical qualities maybe you would spend thousands on plastic surgery, and your plastic surgeon loyal to you would help you through that is, that a violation. >> is elizabeth warren dna test, a campaign e expenditure. the answer is no. we were to be talking about collusion in russia. talking about a quid pro quo betwee

kennedy isief feels squishy, he can assign it to kennedy and kennedy will write a -- an opinion he will agree with. scalia has a certain ability to choose with the rule is, it is constrained by the constraint that kennedy should not defect from, but it gives kennedy a lot of maneuvering room. there are a lot of different kinds of power that different justices have. it is not just a single one median oneed by the mean it would have all the power but because of institutional features and dynamics of the supreme court we have a lot of centers of power in a lot of different cases. >> i will make you happy and say a verystice and the was powerful justice in some very important cases. how is that? and everyone knew it. understood they were living in justice kennedy's world. the only thing i would add is, and i guess we will find out soon enough, is the effect justice kennedy had on the docket. the law that both sides of the court avoided, because they were uncertain on how justice kennedy would vote in those cases the median justice model, in my report, it is a voting model. it doesn't say an

kennedy: okay.she is talking about is a system of government and the means of production concentrated within the hands of the government that is responsible for killing 100 million people. socialism is actually a very deadly venue. it's not something that's coarse, it's not something that is impulsive. it is something that culls people. and -- kills people. and that is the absolute, out end, and -- ultimate end, and that is why there are a few freedom-loving voices that speak out against this. not because we don't like her style, but because we know the ultimate conclusion is so wrong, and the premises are so flawed that we will not allow anyone like her to engage in that syllogism. jim? [laughter] >> i was going to say all of that, so it's kind of like what do i do next? [laughter] no, to that point, exactly. it's destructive. and it's pure emotionalism. >> that's politics now though. >> but it's disgusting in how it's corrupting her side because this goes back to -- she did the same thing with une

kennedy begins right now. kennedy: thank you, trish. the battle over the border wall gets heated at the white house. top democrats have claiming victory of course, but will president trump get the last laugh? earlier today senate minority leader schumer and house minority leader pelosi visited the president in the oval office. they were trying to hammer out a deal to fund the border wall and avoid a government shutdown next friday. and with cameras rolling, surprised cameras, president trump and chuck schumer, went toe-to-toe. watch. >> the one thing i think we can agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute. and you want to shut it down. >> no, no, no. the last time, chuck, you shut it down. >> no, no. >> and then you opened it very quickly. >> 20 times. >> i don't want to do what you did. >> 20 times yuled for i will shut -- you called for i will shut down the government if i don't get my wall. you said it. >> i will take it. okay? >> good. >> if we don't get what we want, one way or another, i will shut down the

kennedy: i know that. that is a little bit of fear mongering, most people did not get here through tunnels. >> no they came by over staying their visas. but the mexican government has turned a blind eye to it. kennedy: we need to have -- i'll talk about that. there is one substance in particular who is crossing his dropped 78 hers i% in 5 years, t right now economy, you agree the economy is great. >> yeah, growing over 3%, hottest economy in world. what we're doing to china is putting them under a box because of this trade situation. kennedy: you are right, you agree we have more immigrants than ever? >> there no question. kennedy: do you think there is a correlation between able bodies and people eig ar eager to parte in american dream. >> i can tell you, i know our grandparents or great grandparents they trieds to assimilate, they did it legally, that is what immigration system is about, opening our arms, making sure we're welcoming right people in, they are contributing members of our society, we can't

kennedy: the u.s. that trying to face off over trade is going full force but president trump tweeted friday that the talks are going very well and his economic adviser larry kudlow was extremely positive yesterday. larry? >> i could just tell you right now, we are on track. china has finally -- i mean wednesday and thursday china's commerce department issued some very positive promising statements. we're making more progress now on more specific issues than ever before. kennedy: that's couple's therapy that's working. president trump sought tariffs on $250 billion wort o worth ofs goods. the president is threatening to raise tariffs on another $200 billion worth of stuff if they can't work out this deal. so is anyone going to win this trade war? joining me you. now, peter suderman. welcome back, sir. >> thank you for having me. kennedy: let's talk a little bit about this. you've heard two sides coming out of the three-hour dinner about what china wants and what the u.s. is getting. larry kudlow is he j

kennedy: what happened.should not be there you know you look at complexity and odd fed fellows and strange alion its impossible to see a positive outcome for united states what does resignation of james mattis do to the deputy of defense -- department of defense and those in uniform. >> he was an inspirrational figure, a guy, a warrior. a guy who wores uniform, that is ub usual in that position -- bureaucrats do great, robert gates of a great secretary of defense, but, his don't understanding of the region that we're talking about,iesque --icd his president, don't be mattis. don't speak in one liners, mattis is a different cat, never been married, a warrior monk. >> brien thank you. >> merry christmas. >> to do you. kennedy: as. he is following through on what he promised. will the help him with his base ear coulor could it backfire. our panel is here. jimmy phalen is back. and welcome back. >> hello. kennedy: so, katy. i have a family member who is conservative. and disappointed in this move with syria. >>

justice kennedy: i wish it did. [laughter] justice kennedy: sometimes you will have a 5-4 opinion and circulate it. you say you are the majority. and one of your colleagues will say, you know, i'm not so sure about this, i am waiting for the dissent. then the dissent comes around and they can be convinced or it can be the other way. it's very exciting to see what the judges do. we give reasons for what we do. we give reasons, david, as you know, in order to command allegiance, to persuade. sometimes the people say the court is anti-majoritarian. and that may be true in the short term. we make decisions that are surprising to people, and unpopular. we think, david, that that over time, that we are majoritarian. over time, most of the decisions of the supreme court have been acknowledged to be correct. or, if not the result you would like, at least they understand the constitution requires the result. david: do the justices lobby each other? does that ever happen? justice kennedy: we never talk about -- i will vote fo

kennedy: marc lotter, thank you so much. >> thanks kennedy. kennedy: michael flynn will be sentenced tomorrow flying to the fbi by his contact with russia. many legal experts say he was railroaded by then fbi director, james comey whose team told michael flynn there was no need to bring a lawyer to his interview. james comey testified in capitol hill for a second time. he says we should be more concerned with the presidents actions and with his. >> another day of hillary clinton emails and the steele dossier.this calm while the president of the united states is lying about the fbi, attacking the fbi and attacking the rule of law in this country. how does that make any sense at all? >> it does make sense because you're employing strawmen and fallacies and of course, just last week james comey told msnbc his range interview is something i quote - probably never would have done or maybe got away with in a more organized administration. well, it takes a special kind of sanctimonious sleaze ball to admit he played dirty pool and then get mad when s

senator kennedy.udible] [inaudible] in anxious team of lawyers, speech writers and advisors descended upon the compound. behind expenses they began to strategize. >> senator kennedy didn't seem to have a grasp on it when he gave his first statement that morning, but it became clear very quickly that this was a potential career ender. so when senator kennedy gets back to the family compound, he doesn't have local lawyer waiting for him, no, he has former secretary of defense whose head of the world bank, at the tanning. two of the key speechwriters, masters of manipulating the media. ted kennedy, plus a group of other attorneys and political experts who have all gathered. >> a staff member who was actually vacationing on the neighboring island of nantucket was assigned a job that they of getting the body off the island. >> don gifford is at the funeral home that morning. >> by 3:00 p.m., despite the absence of a formal autopsy, mary jo's death certificate was signed. reporters swarmed the area looking

kennedy: we'll see.ecause you can't have special counsel for every instance and every issue. >> exactly. my belief is special counsels corrupt independent counsels salute islycounselsabsolutely. kennedy: coming up, violent riots and protests all over france. wait until you hear why. a full report after the break. >>> president trump says he's one step closer to cutting a giant trade deal with china. how long will that peace last and how will we benefit. the panel joins me to discuss next. so a tree falls on your brand-new car and totals it. and as if that wasn't bad enough, now your insurance won't replace it outright because of depreciation. if your insurance won't replace your car, what good is it? you'd be better off just taking your money and throwing it right into the harbor. i'm regret that. with new car replacement, if your brand-new car gets totaled, liberty mutual will pay the entire value plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ back pain can't win. n

kennedy: they do.ad of looking at this is compromising the integrity of these organizations is not the only way to enter into this necessary market. and you know, also you have the president standing up with the prime minister and president of japan and india. so that is pretty great. trade wars are bad, no one wins them, they're not easy, they're not easy to win, we're all losing because of this. kennedy: let's have real free trade and not the stealing kind of stuff trade. >> we should be supportive of the administration. we should hope they get through this. hope that larry kudlow is right. kennedy: i hope he's right. i'm glad you're here because you're always right. thank you so much. great beard. >>> heisman trophy winner kyler murray was barely able to celebrate when social media. howie kurtz weighs in on the controversy next. ♪ ♪ ♪ this holiday season, families near you need your help. visit redcross.org now to donate. baseball was considered to be or national past time but it's been replaced by

the kennedy needs that magic.bareknuckle politics that it required for him to survive chappaquiddick, he used up all the magic. there was no magic left. before chappaquiddick, the kennedys were part of the story that americans told and after that they were just another political family that used political power for self-preservation. they could never go back. >> nearly 50 years had passed but for some the truth about what actually happened remains as murky. [inaudible] the bridge has been rebuilt and life for residents of this claimant destination has long since returned to normal, but the story lives on. the story that, in large part due to only one main eyewitness has become one of the most scrutinized in the history of the american public. he may have ascended to the white house without chappaquiddick with mary jo watching the events unfold but those hypotheticals are quickly forgotten when discussing what did it, the death of young woman tied to the actions of a powerful united states senator. calls of injusti

for justices o'connor and kennedy come up a for justice kennedy. what that meant is there are supposed to be distinct lines of communication, of accountability, of sovereignty, between the federal government and the people, distinct from the lines between the state government and the people. neither of those two governments should interfere with the relationship, direct relationship, between the citizen and the state government if it is the federal government doing the interfering. or between the citizen and the federal government if it is the state government doing the interfering. what justice kennedy says in case after case across the whole range of doctrinal categories laid out, justice kennedy tries to apply this theory. he brings it up and everyone one of the cases. he says the problem with what -- usually it is the federal government -- the problem with what the federal government has done, it interferes with the relationship between the state government and its citizens in a way that renders accountability problematic. backately, his theory

justice kennedy: yes.id: when you carry the constitution, and you obviously know it very well, what do you think about the theory that you should look at the intent of the drafters of the constitution on what you should decide in the case? justice kennedy: this is one of the hardest questions in constitutional law that we have to wrestle with. look at this. this is a written document the framers wanted handed down. you can't just ignore what the words are. on the other hand, i don't think jefferson -- and you're a great jeffersonian scholar -- and madison spent a lot of time writing dictionaries. and they used spacious language, and life, liberty, property. if they had known all the specifics of justice they would've written that. they didn't do that. these words have to have meaning over time. jefferson, people sometimes, the declaration of independence's life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. that's the definition of -- that is the declaration of independence. life, liberty, property is what madison put in

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kennedy: true.nk that kamala harris will resonate in certain parts of country away that president trump dway that will be necessary in 2020, but you are right about amy, she is very smart. she tends to be more moderate. but great thing about it, it shows anyone's game. and for those of us who follow politics, we want to keep it interesting. thank you so much christian. >> of course. kennedy: coming up, ride share company like uber provide cheap safe rides for customers, they make money for drivers, one u.s. city wants to ruin whole thing artificially raising rates, why, where and who? the panel, they return next. with tough food, your dentures may slip and fall. new fixodent ultra-max hold gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. so now you can eat tough food without worry. fixodent and forget it. but when i started seeing i knew aboutthings,emors. i didn't know what was happening... so i kept it in. he started believing things that weren't true. i knew something was wrong... but i d

kennedy, january, 1961 to november, 1963. kennedy was a former naval of his or her. he thought he knew something about intelligence. he was also a big fan of the james bond novels. i have pictured him with his brother robert kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u.s. intelligence. there's a lot to say about u.s. intelligence under kennedy. he served less than a full term because he was assassinated of course, by a pro-cuban american leftist, a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald. at the end, i will have some reflections about the assassination. i want to mention a couple other developments that are not as spectacular, but they deserve to be remembered. they are important milestones in u.s. intelligence history and they leave a legacy to this day. one of them is the president's daily brief, which was created for kennedy as the intelligence checklist. when i first came to the cia in 1990, i learned one of the nicknames insiders used was the pickle factory. they never used the company, but they used the pickle factory. i could never f

kennedy kennedy arrived with his wife joan, his neck visibly seen. >> the message of that neck braceear. there was two victims, mary jo and me. >> it was a stage prop is what it was. >> this is all part of an elaborate effort to basically erase the victim. >> for most people, remember the back story, this is the kennedys, there were two brothers assassinated, the story that there's some sort of kennedy curse had now entered the mythology. >> indeed this had the air of public speculative him. the celebrity politician was at the center of the growing scandal. after the funeral the media was kept waiting. >> a lot of cameras and shouting, kennedy in the neck brace mark ching out with joan looking very grim. nbc confronted him and repeatedly asked questions, when are you going to tell us what happened. >> he uses the funeral as the occasion of the funeral justify his silence. >> i didn't think it was some great moment that there would be a full-blown news conference. >> when you think you might have a statement is there anyway you can give us an indication of when that i might be. >> whe

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kennedy: true.nk that kamala harris will resonate in certain parts of country away that president trump dway that will be necessary in 2020, but you are right about amy, she is very smart. she tends to be more moderate. but great thing about it, it shows anyone's game. and for those of us who follow politics, we want to keep it interesting. thank you so much christian. >> of course. kennedy: coming up, ride share company like uber provide cheap safe rides for customers, they make money for drivers, one u.s. city wants to ruin whole thing artificially raising rates, why, where and who? the panel, they return next. kennedy: new york city, state us, worse kind, they are at it again, just time before they get to you, this time, mandated a new minimum wage $17.22 an hour after expenses for uber and lyft price, ride share cust -- say it will increase cost and less efficient. after the vote, i believe all new yorkers are willing to pay more, and wait longer so people transporting fetransporting theo provid

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