kennedy. but when she put in place that is still the legacy of her influence of historic preservation at the white house, acquisitions for the collection and actually education, that's a key part of our mission. and we are mrs. kennedy's living legacy at the white house today. well, it was those 61 years ago that we were founded by her. and today we continue to undertake that work. my colleague, colleen at that david rubenstein is two for history, which is the educational part of our work. we publish books, we published a quarterly magazine, we have conferences, symposia, book events like this. so, publishing and storytelling are a vital part of what we do. encouraging friends who can unpack these stories, i asked mark earlier, another book on john kennedy, do we really need another book on john kennedy? but then i read it, i read the book myself and it reads like a novel. it is insightful and inspiring and i'm finding myself reorientate in a really special way to the kennedy presidency, and i

kennedy was beyond the camelot myth and that got me very intrigued about john f kennedy. he and i worked on a joint project together called time in the presidency and he started that project in talking about john f kennedy and and who he was and what he meant to this country, but while there have been many books that have been written. the well, there's an old expression write the you want to read. and this is the book that i wanted to read about john f kennedy. it's i tried to make it a very brisk narrative that makes you feel as though you're going through these very tumultuous. very triumphant in many ways, very tragic and others days of the kennedy presidency. and that you're here there with them day in and day out as he wrestles with one issue or another and so it's episodic in a way that i didn't see the other kennedy treatments, and i also wanted to wrestle with the camelot myth which overshadows kennedy and so many respects it. it deprives him in so many ways of his humanity so that was important to me too. and there's there's so many books with an agenda. my only

kennedy. did we really need another book about him? i read the book myself. it reads like a novel. it is insightful. it is inspiring. i thought to myself, reorient id in a really special way to the kennedy presidency. i think we can thank mark for that. i know you will all enjoy reading the book. well, in 1792, the cornerstone for the white house was laid just about 200 yards from where we are sitting tonight. a whole lot of white house history has taken place in those years since 1792. tonight, we are going to focus on three years on that history, a very important three years. interviewing mark this evening is i'm not nawaz, who serves as the pbs news hours chief correspondent and primary substitute anchor. she has been honored with an emmy award for her and messy new special inside the obama white house. society for features renal-ism award and a recipient of the national reporting fellowship. in 2019, she received p body award for her news our series on the global -- tonight, she is going t

kennedy: what logic? in light of those comments, the desantis team declined the interview request and is it time to ditch the mainstream mia or is -- media or he is walk away from potential voters? i think he could have a big win if he goes in and is patient and listens to takes the ladies to school. that could be phenomenal for him in terms of independent and democratic voters sick of this high inflation and the flagging economy. >> i think you're right. i think -- so first of all, ron desantis has a higher iq than 99% of american politicians and 99.9% of american journalists, and he was just masterful at owning the liberal media. remember when he got them to attack him for prioritizing the elderly with his vaccine. like that was just amazing. kennedy: how dare you. >> protect the elderly from the virus and they attacked him for it. i'm biased. i'm biased like you, we believe in the media and believe people should talk to us even if they don't agree. i think ron desantis could on camera on the view own t

kennedy: welcome to it. a russian judge brought the hammer down on brittney griner, the basketball star sentenced to nine years, nine years. nine years in a russian prison today after pleading guilty to charges of drug smuggling and possession. she's been detained since february when she was caught at a moscow airport with cannabis oil vape cartridges in her luggage. today in court, she apologized again before the verdict was read. >> i hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here. that's why i pled guilty to my charges. i understand everything that they said against me, the charges that are against me, so that's why i pled guilty. but i had no intent to break any russian law. kennedy: president biden blasted the sentence today calling griner wrongfully detained and urging for her release. the administration said it's working on a deal to bring griner home along with former u.s. marine, paul waylon detain there had in exchange for a russian arms dealer and the kremlin rejected all proposals beca

kennedy: here we go. alex, question number one, which of these rich and shameless never own add pet tiger. mike tyson, chad ocho cinco johnson, or flav-a-flav. >> flav. kennedy: yeah, boi. you got that right. never inned a tiger. owned a tiger. kevin, your question, which of these rich and shameless once bought a $1,000lv teddy bear for her 1 month old baby. kyler ginner, jada pinkett-smith or hillary clinton. >> i want to say hillary but it's kylie, hopefully. kennedy: yeah, it's kylie. >> always going to be a jenner. kennedy: i can feel it being a smash and grab. dave, here you go, question one, and of these rh and shameless once owned a $10,000 pair of shoe, mila kunis, celine dion, or ginger spice? >> celine dion. kennedy: yes, my heart will go on. that was a horrible accent. okay. here we go, alex, which of these rich and shameless once paid $55 million for a kentucky derby winning racehorse. microsoft cofounder paul allen, jay-z, or rosie o'donnel. look at rosie's face. >> going rosie. kennedy: that

kennedy's policies.nds to press for early enactment of the late presidents civil rights bill. president johnson has traveled widely in asia, europe, africa, the americas, and knows the aspirations of their peoples he has assured the world that while defending the interest of free nations, he'll continue the quest for peace. well today we have a fascinating book. i think you'll enjoy jeffrey frank. is a former senior editor at the new yorker and jeopardy editor of the washington post's outlook section. currentl

kennedy: there he .s >> exactly. kennedy: you got it right. you got it right. >> wrong. >> wrong. >> yeah. kennedy: kat and katie are in the lead. >> yeah, but it's not a team sport. you're going down, katie. kennedy: next quote. giving more people a voice gives power to the powerless and pushes a society to get better over time. jack dorsey, mark zuckerberg, or elon musk. >> this is tough. kennedy: elon musk, show me, show me. show me, everyone says a. let's see it. >> giving more people a voice gives power to the pourless and pushes society to get better over time. jimmy graham almost pick that had and i could have kennedy: to points said i got hairy legs that turned blond in the sand and the kids came up and reached out in the pool and rubbed by leg hair down so it was straight and watch the hair come back again and look at it so they learned about roa roaches and ks jumping on my lap and i love kids jumping on my lap. a, joe biden, b a homeless man interviewed on cnn, or c chet hanks. show us your answer. >> everyone knows this one. kenned

kennedy's policies. he tends to press for early enactment of the late presidents civil rights bill. president johnson has traveled widely in asia, europe, africa, the americas, and knows the aspirations of their peoples he has assured the world that while defending the interest of free nations, he'lwell today weg book. ink

kennedy: that's amazing. >> pretty sick. kennedy: she has her own bard too; right?oesn't just go with you. she had a custom-made board. >> yeah, she surfs -- the dog contest you push them in on their own board and they surf so we do tandem dog human is normally our thing and we started toking the dog contest and i started pushing her in on her own board and she was dolling really good at that. so hence to the point where we are now where she's the world dog surfing champion. kennedy: that's amazing. she's incredit cardsable. her board has to be a bit -- incredible. her board has to be thinner so when she drops in, does she like to turn? >> yeah, we surf so much tandem together and we bottom turn in unison. i push her in solo and she has her custom hand shaped boards and they're thin so when she leans, she'll lift one paw to go one way and the other paw to go the other. she's surfing and not just riding straight in white waters. she's steering the board and cruising down the line, which is pretty awesome. kennedy: that's why she won. now that she's won the world cham

appreciate it. >> thank you, kennedy. kennedy: talk to you again.t is game night and we're rewinding the clock to find out how old sleepy joe really is. is he older than mickey mouse? the electric guitar? the answers will amaze you. play along next. kennedy: some of president biden's critics say he's too hold to be president like when he accidently announces he has cancer or struggles to put on a jacket. we decided to find out with one of our very favorite games, biden time. i'm going to ask the panel, what's older: joe biden or a particular product, invention, or historical event. whoever gets the most correct answers get an extra bowl of jell-o tonight during bingo. big deal. are you ready? >> i want some jell-o. kennedy: okay, which came first: joe biden or baby farm la? formula? they're writing their answers, it can be quick and there we have formula, joe, formula. the answer is baby formula. invented by a german chemist in 1865, which was only four months before joe biden was born. tom and larry, you're on the board. inez plenty of time to catc

kennedy, the ears of the fbi and its demon were sticking out.urder of senator robert kennedy, the new leader of john edgar hoover, is connected, among other things, with the murder of his brother john fitzgerald kennedy, they are connected by the fact that when kennedy was elected president of the united states of america in the sixtieth year, he appointed his brother robert as secretary of justice, and the two of them began to direct american order. in the legal field, robert was engaged in a very tough cleansing policy the remaining criminal elements, and including came into conflict with the powerful chief of the federal bureau of investigation, the governor , robert's activities as president of the united states could lead to a revision of the existing course of the government. the reactionaries, which included games, did not want this. as a result, the murder that stirred up everything in america was blamed on a simple arab, who was simply used, and then almost sent to the electric chair. let's look at the first decree that was cancelled. v

kennedy: absolutely true. people who don't necessarily like donald trump but who have a great distrust of the federal government, this is not helping them with their trust issues, is it? >> no, it's the opposite and doesn't matter how you feel about donald trump. we broke a 246 year tradition of not prosecuting former presidents. it was nobody is above the law and it's true, if donald trump goes and shoots someone on fifth avenue, he should be held accountable like every other american citizen. if you come after a former president and break that tradition and give the impression this may be politically motivated and you better have ironclad evidence of serious crime. but we're not seeing that. we're seeing stuff trickling into the media about records request that could have been put through the president's cooperating legal team. they broke one of the fundamental traditions of the republic that i don't know if we'll recover from over the president's records act. i think that this is one of the darkest elements

kennedy's advisors and pro kennedy historians ever since have placed all the blame on cia for its mistake and assumptions and planning for deceiving the president about his chances for success. and on the other hand cia people at the time and cia's defenders ever since but not me have admitted that there were planning errors. but insist the invasion could have been successful. if it had been allowed to work as planned, you know, it's failure. they say is kennedy's fault for canceling that second airstrike for refusing us military support he's blamed for moving the landing site and even for liking covert action too much. the chief cia planner again was richard bissell he was a brilliant man. who also was the project manager for the u2 aircraft and also the follow on the a12. um, he and director alan dulles had to resign in his memoirs bissell says i sincerely believe that even with the plans false as long as we were able to move ahead with the airstrikes and destroy castro's air force the brigade brigade would still win the day. at least to the extent of establishing a beachhead. and then

kennedy: there he is. ♪ ♪ kennedy: that was last night's mouth trumpet monday song. winner was mindy. the duchess of santa bash barbaa releasing the first episode and hopefully the last of her new podcast series and spoke about the pressures of royal life and how she's been discriminated against for being a woman with a vagina. >> you heard in my chat with my dear friend, the notion of ambition comes with many judgments and nuances, especially for women. the misconception that if you're ambitious woman you have an agenda, must be calculating or selfish or aggressive or a climber. kennedy: or a climber. she is a horrible actress. after hearing that gem, aren't you dying to hear episode two or take a handful of pips to die so you -- pills so you can die and not hear episode two. here with me now is big jim. now, this is it. the tens of millions of dollars they got from netflix, this is it? >> i love meghan markle because she's a tone deaf idiot and 60% of the country living paycheck to paycheck and it's so hard being a member of the royal family. the string quartet tha

so for kennedy and let's stick with kennedy johnson nixon for now for kennedy. he had a switch in the knee well of his desk that he could flick if he was there. he also had a dictaphone that he would use so it was quite consciously pressing the buttons and kennedy would record memoirs in fact of of his reflections on a day. there was also a switch at kennedy's place in the cabinet room that he could flick and it would turn on those microphones which themselves were placed behind the the curtains behind him. so it was a manually operated system for kennedy. for johnson, he would largely signal to his secretaries oftentimes the door was open between johnson and an outer office and he would kind of turn his fingers around swirl his fingers like that and that meant to take it to tape it or he would yell at the secretaries and you know tape this one there were times when johnson when we would get some off oval office conversations that were taped via johnson speakerphone. which were fascinating so largely for lbj2 they were manually operated of the sorts of a sort ni

kennedy: that's shocking. even the last four years the fact we haven't made a concerted effort to beef up our national cyber security. you know, just for china, not to mention russia, north korea. i would even put turkey on that list. >> $1.2 trillion in infrastructure. i would have been okay if i knew it would secure our digital footprint. kennedy: infrastructure is people like soil and green. thank you, joey. >> thank you. kennedy: thank you for your service. >> yes, ma'am. i appreciate. kennedy: the democrats speeding faster than paul pelosi and a school zone. is anyone buying biden's no new taxes malarkey? streaming live tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. eastern. maria bartiromo hosts the border crisis live from the front line in texas. watch it all. stay with us. every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watching you. the internet doesn't have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clear

for kennedy, lets kennedy and then we'll do johnson.for kennedy, he had a switch in the knee well of his death that he could flick if he was there. he also had a dictaphone that he would use, he was quite conscious of pressing the button so kennedy would record memoirs of his reflections on the day. there was also a switch at kennedy's place in the cabinet room that he could flick and he could turn on those microphones. those were placed behind curtains behind him. it was a manually operated system for kennedy. for johnston, he would largely signal to his secretaries, often time the door was open between johnston and an outer office, he would kind of swirl his fingers and that meant, tape it! or he would yell at the secretary, tape this one! there were times when johnson, he would have oval conversation via johnson speakerphone, which were fascinating. largely for lbj, too, they were manually operated at the source. nixon was entirely voice-activated. that was largely because the people who set it up, nixon and the others recognize that

kennedy: welcome back. turns out the kids aren't all going green according to a new study that shows legalizing marijuana for adults does not increase usage amongst teenagers. so don't believe all the reefer madness of propaganda. on the other hand the number of adults 21 and over trying cannabis for the first time found a double or triple after legalization. what are the chances. is this another reason to support widespread marijuana legalization? joining me now internist and host of the ask dr. drew podcast. my friend dr. drew. >> here we are, kennedy, once again kennedy: this is funny. i met you 31 years ago. >> wow. yes, k rock. kennedy: neither of us to my knowledge were smoking reefer at that time and the worry was more states added recreational marijuana that kids, middle schoolers and high schoolers would start using pretty regularly. what does this study show? >> it was an outlier and it was different. it suggested that -- it was from michigan and it was a good study and well done. it looked -- bas

kennedy: me neither. >> nope. kennedy: i wish he would.ant to see everything. >> in the middle of an investigation, they're never going to give you everything that lays out the investigation and identifies the informants. they're just not. kennedy: i'd still like to see it. they have really create add very dangerous vacuum here, and so much of this appears now to be unnecessary, and then they're floating this whole, well, there's nuclear secrets in there. they take out a warhead from melania's closet. andy mccarthy, great to talk to you. >> great to see you, dear. kennedy: and the topical storm is next. hello. kennedy: a california mansion that once belonged to dr. seuss now on the market for $19 million. that's a bargain. in other words you would not could not buy that house. that's a home for the whos, the who's who of whoville. topic cal storm. the russian military claims to have a robotic dog that can fire a rocket launcher. red rocket. red rocket. which is why he gets as many belly rubs as it wants. this was a combat dog unveiled at r

kennedy: thank you. meanwhile a former clinton campaign lawyer may have spilled the beans on what last night's raid was really all about, preventing trump from ever running for president again. he wrote on twitter that this is likely related to the presidential records act. anyone found guilty of violating, is disqualified from holding public office and from the video of trump power, folks very much divided. is this all a plot to keep former president trump from running and becoming future president trump again? joining me now, fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news at night, shannon bream. the guy who's been at the middle of the russia-gate scandal, the lawyer who is hired by hillary clinton's presidential campaign, he's now saying that if the president is in fact guilty of this sort of administer kai value malfeasance, he may be disqualified from running again. is he onto something or just trying to create a political fire storm with his friends in the doj and the white house? shanno

kennedy: all right. so how has intelligence been working with some of the people we left behind in afghanistan? do you think there are people who were either assets and translators who helped americans during the two decades war who are now left behind who are helping out? how did this whole thing transpire? >> a lot of them trying to get to the remnants of the northern alliance and if they have a means to get out, they've gotten out. there's some private efforts being very successful in getting people out. funneling money to them and then all they have to do is bribe the right taliban guy. in many cases they're not getting out through pakistan but iran and others but for the most part, most of the people were sadly chased down, hunted down, revenge was taken upon them by the taliban. their families have been imprisoned. it's an underreported disaster here in the united states. the secondary and tertiary effects of that disaster pullout. then another monkey wrench, there was rumor that the iowa iranensga

kennedy. >> karol, juan and spike. beautiful. one year after president biden's catastrophic withdraw from afghanistan, is the war more or less safe? bryan suits has all the intel and great facial hair, next. kennedy: well, it's now been a year since president biden screwed the afghanistany pooch. our withdraw from afghanistan -- sorry, i'm choking on his failure. it was horrible. while i believe we should have left and probably never have been there, the way they left made everything worse for one taliban quickly turning the country into a humanitarian nightmare. 97% of the population now facing poverty, like real poverty. they get less than one meal a day. there's so much malnutrition in the country, it is difficult to see. girls can no longer go to school and women have lost most of their rights and they have to cover their faces in public and cannot leave the house without a man. here with me now is bryan suits. welcome back, suits. >> hey, how do you like my new basement? kennedy: it's rea

kennedy: thank you.ow, marie, you are from the great state of ohio, and as goes ohio, so goes the country surely when you were at the ohio state university, you would have commingled with republicans even though you were leaning left. >> well, i didn't actually go to ohio state, which is a fun fact about me. kennedy: i thought you did because you love the buckeyes so much. >> i know, i just grew up there. look, as someone who is a democrat and is often on television with people who are not. i am routinely called horrific things on social media. i've been called un-american, i've been told that democrats hate god so if we want to talk about tolerance here, many of the right wing and trump supporters, not all, are not particularly tolerant of over opinions either. i agree completely that college should be a place where you meet people from different backgrounds and test your ideas and figure out who you are, if we're talking about intolerance here, from my experience, the things i have been called, as some

the family led by caroline kennedy made a video. she kicked it off and then the three grandchildren of president kennedy made a comment and tax was jack schlossberg's comment was that he he's he just loves the rice speech of of his grandfather because he thinks for his generation the schlossberg's that this will be a moonshot for climate change the climate crisis. so it that goes down in history as as when you reach for the stars when you reach for the moon and another phrase that you used was this new frontier of space. so in some ways it's a little bit ironic that kennedy didn't jump in with both feet sooner given the his new frontier speech the democratic con. mentioned all the crises around the world and you made mention of here at home. the freedom rides are beginning obviously civil rights is bubbling up. we have all sorts of domestic issues that the president needs to face, but do you think the timing of just after the fiasco of bay of pigs is also part of this more positive approach to fighting the soviets well, it's interes

kennedy a series of developments early in 68 now kennedy's thinking about it because he worried about the cities not just the war but a series of developments early in 68 persuaded him to run and that he could run and actually have a chance of winning. one was the tet offensive which exposed a total bankruptcy of johnson's policy in vietnam and really shifted public opinion coming out against america's involvement in the war. and that doesn't mean you're anti-but, you know the way it was against the policy. it was that and then there was the current commission report which was done and really documented. i mean, it's findings echo the conclusions that king and kennedy had come to several years earlier and which were defined the river club committee the report documented the consequences of segregation and discrimination that long permeated american life and was a stinging indictment of white america called for nothing less than a complete reordering of national priorities, unless drastic and costly remedies are undertaken at once report said they would be a continuing polarization of

kennedy at the kayla.ion. >> it's hard to believe that my mother was only 31 with a three year old, in newborn baby, and a very busy husband, when she became first lady. and it's hard to believe too how much she treated moving into the white house. the most terrible thing has happened, she wrote to her friend, bunny melon, the day after the election, jack has won. [laughter] we have to move into the white house. so dreary with all those curtains. [laughter] she was displayed that there was no way that visitors or visiting heads of state could learn about american history and thought the public rooms looked like a department store. bunny melon, who eventually redesigned the rose garden, along with jim right summon, douglas dylan, and jim angle heart, all important benefactor's of this museum, would be among her greatest helpers and most generous donors to the white house restoration. she said about making a but making a home for a husband and family and for the american people. she wanted the white house to

kennedy. which elaine will talk about in the course of our discussion. we're going to start with susan. susan, you work at mount vernon. of course, mount vernon is a home to one of the most amazing and interesting preservation stories in the united states. one of the early preservation studies in the united states. can you tell us a little bit about that story? and can you tell us why women saved mount vernon, and not man? >> because there are there. it stepped up to the plate. thank you so much. thank you so much colleen, and to our sponsors today. it's wonderful to be here. if i could have the first slide. all of you being here today, we are all invested in preservation, i'm sure you've heard the story of the mount vernon ladies association of the union. but i will recap it again briefly, in case you're not totally immersed in it, as i was not before i got to mount vernon in 2010. the mount vernon ladies association was founded in in 1853 by pamela cunningham of south carolina. as a grassroo

>> kennedy, good use of taxpayers funds here?f they know they have to spend it to get more money and that's what they have done and like we need pet tests for $1,000. yeah, that's it. >> work on securing our schools before giving money. >> the hamster had covid or from being a hamster. >> there you go. someone said on twitter next up, unicorns. i mean, i think that makes sense. and then questions about how you q-tip an animal, i have that question as well. and then having the comments turned off, cheryl, what does that tell you? >> that tells you their feelings got hurt. their program was not real popular on twitter. grow up, everybody. >> i'm pretty sure the comments were turned off before the criticism is what i read, they knew there would be blow back, but did it anyway. >> we are making fun of them now. >> i would love to have the kind of time to bring in a hamster for a covid test. or an you could test milo. >> thanks, everywup. now here is "america reports." >> sandra: seizures of rainbow fentanyl, sound the alarm the epide

even your shoes. >> kennedy: is it to bridge too far?ople -- know a lot of people with consignment, but it's mostly dresses and bags like you are talking about, i have family members, i'm kind of with you. i get a little worried about somebody else's funk in my soul. >> kennedy: they have to spend a lot of money on the market. we clean everything. >> kayleigh: no, in the era of covid and monkeypox and a new china virus i was reading about. so no two swimsuits and bras. >> kennedy: you can buy those things on amazon's. it >> raymond: i am afraid of hotel sheets at this point. >> kennedy: never take a black like into a hotel. are you wondering what next season's fashion trend might be, balenciaga calling the most expensive trash bag in the world, the trash pouch being sold for nearly $1800. balenciaga recently debuted during winter in the 22 fashion show, so how does it hold up compared to hefty or glad? >> kat: we talked about this already it's the greatest flex in the world, oh, you have a regular trash bag, that's what this is for. ther

kennedy in 1963.tion for the united states help in saving the portion of egypt that was going to be submerged by the construction of the s1 high dam. so this and several other items were saved now. this could have ended up on the banks of the potomac in washington as some wanted it could have ended up on the banks of the charles in boston as others. wanted but it was president johnson who decided it would come here to new york and it would be in this extraordinary sackler wing where would be protected inside from the elements of outside now it had been outside for quite some time. but president johnson wanted to make sure was protected while i was in american hands. this is 2036 years old and by comparison. we are 60 years as a very small measure of time, but we are honored and grateful to have had those 60 years. thanks to the generosity of mrs. kennedy and her founding of our organization and to celebrate it here tonight in this place connected with presidential history. it was truly remarkable to e

kennedy. that's a perfect transition in elaine into a question for you you of course are the co-author of the book designing camelot which talks about the efforts of jacqueline kennedy and the restoration of the white house. can you tell us? how for our audience so everybody understands some people may know the story but others may not tell us what were some of the institutions that mrs. kennedy put in place that are that are still operational today. and also tell us why was she so interested in restoration in the white house? it wasn't necessarily just to like pretty things or make things look nice. there was a larger purpose that really supported the kennedy administration if you can tell us a little bit about that, i think that would be very illuminating for our audience. thank you colleen. i'm so happy to be here and i'm so happy to get to follow melissa because so much of what i do in starting to talk about mrs. kennedy. it's as if she walked into the white house and out spraying historic

kennedy: indeed. there is a bit of proliferation in low-earth orbit, medium earth orbit, in addition to upward. a lot of people are concerned that we may run out of space to launch those rockets out of canaveral or kennedy space center, or out at vandenberg. how concerned are you that with the proliferation of satellites, particularly lower orbit, that will lose -- that we will lose our opportunities to find lunch capabilities? gen. raymond: i'm not very concerned on that. space is a big place. there are opportunities to do launches. i told you that the launch rate here has gone up considerably. in fact, i highlighted just this past month that we did two launches out of cape canaveral in 13 hours. that is the first time we have done that since 1967. we launched a space force missile warning satellite, then a commercial company launched a communications satellite that early evening. two other places around the world, one in texas, a commercial company launched commercial astronauts into space and then

kennedy library foundation, of course the kennedy library one of the presidential libraries so he's an old friend of ours as well in even prior to that. he was this after of the us senate foreign relations committee and chief of staff to senator kerry's personal office from 99 to 2008 so he knows about what he writes as a in terms of american diplomatic history. he is the author not only of this book but also partners of first resort america europe and the future of the west as well as friends in high places with douglas, france, tommy the court the great decision with cliff sloan and suspected of independence the life of thomas mccain. okay. thank you. america's first power broker. he graduated a magnet kumar laity from harvard in 1980, and he also holds degrees from both the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at duke university. so and he's been on the board of directors of the foundation for the national archives, which we're a of course, so i would like to welcome mr. mccain today. let's get this set here. thanks, bill. thanks for that kind introduction. i'm very honored to be ba

>> kennedy: and randi weingarten.s randi weingarten, its light, wow, your political instincts have failed you completely. [laughter] these are people in close races trying to keep their campaigns, but why would you have the president? his poll numbers are awful, and i know they have legislative successes, but the rest of it is garbage. especially local races, they have to appeal to people who are really hurting right now and feeling the effects of inflation and wage growth that has not matched price increases by any measure. you know, a recession looming on the horizon. see you can't go, "i'm going to raise everyone's taxes, it's going to be great," and you're always can holding your breath. leslie and did a study, biden mentioned negatively more than obama or trump. only 3% mention positively. we have some democrats running actively against him, including a 20-year incumbent. when more than 20 years. >> lisa: you've got these candidates are like, "i've got to deep condition my hair, i'm busy, i've got plans, sorry."