and lbj did follow through on that promise. within three days, there were reports from across the country about hundreds of people being laid off at the reactors and the uranium production plants. the beltway press was also very excited at the time that president johnson was proposing an overall federal budget for the country that was smaller than what president kennedy had asked for. >> robert, in a manner of speaking, you were home on the range for about ten days down to johnson city, texas, shuttling back and forth between austin and the lbj ranch. how much of an indication did all of you get down there that the budget would be this much under $100 billion? >> well, frankly, it came as a surprise to me to find out that it would be less than the last fiscal year. >> this means that the johnson spending plan is $500 billion smaller than the latest estimate of spending under the kennedy budget. and this, i submit is quite a feat. republicans praise the president and like the budget cutting part, anyway. >> here we are at the 50

when lbj launched that bar on poverty, unconditional, he didn't say we needed to do one thing. he said we needed to do several things. he created a number of programs that could actually do thatp about and one by one, republicans in the congress are whittling away at that. >> let's talk about the gap programs we're talking about. let's talk about the programs that actually lift people out of poverty, strengthen the middle class, close the income gap. the president has proposed several things. removing the financial deterrence to marriage for low-income couples which has been shown to lift people out of poverty. investing heavily in community colleges. and then opening up the doors to college so that people can lift themselves up and build a better lives for themselves. republicans have fought us every step of the way. marco rubio laid out an almost identical agenda today. i want to know is this an indication that we can finally start working together on these programs? >> if the measurement of then we're the most compassionate country on the face of the nation. if the measureme

. >> reporter: lbj, of course, was a democrat. these are republicans. the milestone to argue lbj's big government battle plan which created medicare, medicaid, and food stamps has not fully worked. >> we have to focus on policies that help our economy create those jobs and policies that help people overcome the obstacles between them and those jobs. the war on poverty accomplished neither of these two things. >> reporter: senator marco rubio chose a rule named for lbj to criticize him. the potential 2016 gop presidential candidate unveiled his own initiative, which he called the most fundamental change in 50 years, one steeped in conservative credo. >> i am proposing that we turn over washington's anti-poverty programs and the trillions that are spent on them to the states. >> reporter: a new white house report concedes a staggering 49.7 million americans still live below the poverty line but also notes the poverty rate during lbj's time five decades ago was 26% and dropped to 16% in 2012. >> for many families livering in poverty, that poverty spans gen

wednesday is the 50th anniversary of a landmark speech by lyndon baines johnson. ,lbj.e look at the speech and it'sing. >> this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. >> reporter: the speech came less than two months after the assassination of president kennedy. >> our aim is not only to relief the symptom of poverty, but to cure it, and above all to prevent it. >> reporter: poverty had been a major concern of president kennedy and with the country still grieving and one in five americans living in poverty johnson declared war on poverty. university of texas dallas professor wrote a book about how poverty undermined the united states. he said that johnson's war on poverty was one of his best. >> he knew he was not going to be a loved president. therefore it's much easier to continue the line of a presidency that was more than admired. he was loved and whatever, and take his agenda and make it yours. all the time making sure you give enough credit to the person. >> let us carry forward the plans and programs of john fitzgerald

the biggest comparison is to lbj. lbj between the assassination of kennedy pushes through a raft of domestic achievement the likes of which we have not seen in a century. and he pushes up again. it is not about schmoozing. it is not about relationships. the difficulty that he has with congress is that there is a powerful and numerous far right that is even dominating at times the rest of the republican caucus and is hard to get legislation through. >> here is what is interesting. it is like he loves the godfather. they make him an offer he can't refuse. they say they can refuse. >> they will refuse every offer. >> in reality, he knows two things. one, as william daley said, after 2014, no one cares what he does. this is a slight exaggeration. it means the midterms are coming. after the midterm elections, all the media there goes to the succession process. the next election. it is very difficult. he is not going to win the house. he may even lose the senate. what legislation can he get through in 2014? may be. maybe. i

marco rubio, he is going to give a big speech in the lbj room.ore he was president, he was a powerful senate majority leader and the room that democrats regularly meet in -- that republicans regularly meet in is named after him. he is going to say, he doesn't feel that lbj's policies work because his progressive, liberal, mind-set and philosophy to addressing it. we are going to see democrats commemorating the event. in the regular, democratic meeting, among house members, they watched excerpts of lbj's speech and his granddaughter is going to be here at one of the events. >> dana bash, reporting live. when jetblue canceled hundreds of flights affecting as many as 150,000 passengers. they didn't just blame the bad weather but pointed to new faa regulations that went into effect on saturday. they require pilots to get at least ten hours of rest before their flight duty. those changes were announced two years ago in december of 2011. jetblue requested a delay but the faa turned it down. joining me is captain don wycock and supports the new pilot re

. >>> still ahead tonight, tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary on lbj's war on poverty, we have a heated debate on whether the government is the answer or the problem. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> new york's new mayor bill de blasio raised a lot of eyebrows, someone referred to new york city as a plantation. we'll come back for the first time on tv. this is a hannity exclusive coming up ♪ [ male announcer ] to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeable truck, good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year. ♪ and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram. i cthis year aloneore places offi hit new york...ist. see, hotwire checks the competition's rates every day... so they can guarantee their low hotel prices. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com so, i'm working on a cistern intake valve, and the guy hands me a locknut wrench. no way! i'm like, what is this, a drainpipe slipknot? wherever your business takes you, you can se

lbj's war on poverty. and why it's still being fought 50 years later. >> americans are moving one step closer to reclaiming their benefits. senate passed the bill for the unemployed. it came on the 50th anniversary of president linden b johnson's first state of the union address. in it, he declared war. >> this administration declares unconditional war on the war on poverty. >> it was less than two months after president kennedy's assassination. against that backdrop, a poverty rate of over 22%. >> our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it, and above all, to prevent it. >> soon after, johnson set out to meet the americans whose lives he was determined to change. >> we will launch a special effort in the chronically distressed areas of appalachia. we must expand our small but our successful area redevelopment program. we must enact youth employment legislation for the jobless, aimless, hopeless youngsters to work on useful projects. >> leading the way on what he called the povert

. >>> still ahead tonight, tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary on lbj's war on poverty, we have a heated debate on whether the government is the answer or the problem. >> we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> new york's new mayor bill de blasio raised a lot of eyebrows, someone referred to new york city as a plantation. we'll come back for the first time on tv. this is a hannity exclusive coming up straight ahead. >>> put an end to economic and social inequality that threaten to unravel the city we love. and so today we commit to a new progressive direction in new york. we will ask the very wealthy to pay a little more in taxes so that we can offer full day universal prek for every child in this city. we will require developers to build more affordable housing. so new yorkers see our city not as the exclusive domain as the 1%, social and economic justice will start here and start now. >> to each, just a small glimpse of new york city mayor, bill de blasio in his widely controversial address. he took progressivism now

lbj grew up poor and often hungry.amily in constant fear that the bank would take away their home. he knew that poverty is not always the fault of the poor, but poverty can be addressed by government programs and by structural changes. and so, 50 years ago, empathy fueled public policy. medicare, medicaid, head start, the department of housing and urban development, the legal services cooperation. all of these were created under johnson's presidency. since then, the poverty rate has declined by about a third, although 15 million americans still live below the poverty line. now, congress debates whether to extend emergency long-term unemployment insurance for another three months. republicans are opposed to extending the benefits, saying it would be simply too expensive and that unemployment benefits serve as a disincentive to work. in many americans' eyes, there is an empathy gap between the parties. a december nbc news poll found that there was a 28-point gap. 45% say the democratic party does a better job of showing

they had had it up to here with lbj. they were excited that he was gone. in fact carol reports that he tried to come to the first lunch after he became vice president and was going to act as the sort of de facto majority leader, even though he was now vice president. that was shall i say i'm enthusiastically received and he was almost literally thrown out of the lunch never to return. mansfield was as i said, enthusiastically chosen to replace him. now the chronicles of lbj's life and legacy usually leave out what i just told you. by the time he left the senate as i indicated, the colleagues had had enough of him right up to here. they may have been -- been to his will but by the time they had a chance to be delivered from his iron fisted rule they took it. with their support mike mansfield would spend the next 16 years restoring the senate to a place of greater cooperation and freedom and as we look at what the senate could he, not what it is now but what it could the, mansfield's period gives us a clue. there are many well-known stories about mansfield's

[applause] >> looking back at five decades of notable state of the union addresses from lbj to george w. bush later today at 3:00 p.m. eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on c- span3. that is all leading up to president barack obama's 2014 state of the union address, live tuesday on c-span www.c-span.org on c-span,io, and -- c-span radio, and www.c-span.org . do see myself as a person trying to understand my place and trying to situate myself. i think the idea came to me when i was giving some lectures at the u.s. air force academy in a very rodrings, and mina, liberal young air force officer had lots of chats with me, looked i find very interesting. , andld me he was a liberal i did not want to grant to my mind any oppression i might adopt of the u.s. air force academy, right-wing and full of strange, radical, biblical fundamentals. so he tells me he is a liberal, and he tells me he was in favor of immigration, which i thought was very seraphim. when people come to this country, they should learn the native language. i don't think he was speaking about commancho. and i

house democrats even watched portions of lbj's famous speech inside their caucus meeting. >> and we'reg, and i assume we'll hear and see more of this in the president's state of the union address at the end of this month before a joint session of congress, dana. we're already seeing the president talk more about these issues. poverty, unemployment benefits, raising minimum wage, the disparity between the rich and the poor. i assume that's going to be a major theme this year. >> reporter: oh, absolutely. income inequality is the major theme that democrats want to push. it is why democrats in the senate came out of the gate and pushed this -- the legislation to extend long-term unemployment or emergency unemployment benefits. that's why you saw the president speak about that yesterday. he's going to have another initiative he's going to unveil tomorrow. democrats in the white house, they believe this is something that can add to the president's legacy. and, of course, it is still a problem. one thing that i should note, though, what the senate did yesterday, and the president applauded,

guest: the lbj foundation, yes. host: it is the 50th anniversary of president johnson's war on poverty, a speech he delivered in the state of the union address in 1964. our first call, good morning to you. caller: good morning. we have lots of snow here and ice underneath it. oh, well. i wanted to talk about -- i am 85 years old, and i am a military widow. i have lived through poverty. but wea large family, always had something to eat. roosevelt came down to get my he went to a then work,in nebraska to but he had a little land of our grandfather's, and we always had something to eat fro. runningre no deer around in those days. here in chillicothe, ohio, i married, and i live in ohio, i have been married for 40 years, and so the deer are running rampant in ohio. we cannot have a garden here because of the deer. poverty could be erased if the deer were eradicated or sold to the farmers. take half of what they cost to charity. backed when i will -- back when i moved to macarthur, the farmers got a great big sum of mone

on this date 50 years ago lbj declared war on poverty. but some call it a failure. >>> chris christie taking revenge on a local mayor and now christie responds to the mess. is. >> white house course upo correr us. what did the white house had a have say about all this? >> reporter: there are very few who escape the scorn of robert gates. overseaing thover seeing the scq and afghanistan, but the criticism of president obama, but it was vice president biden who was scorned. saying joe biden has been wrong for four decades and he goes on to accuse biden as poisoning the well both here at the white house and elsewhere and among the broader american public. today the white house is going out of its way a show of support for vice president biden allowing cameras into a photo op, no reporters, just cameras capturing the image. this happens once a week. the first time in five years they've allowed cameras in. also jay carney, the white house spokesman said the president values the experience of joe biden and a lot of other things to say in defens

. >>> in the state of the union speech on this day 1964, lbj called for actions top end poverty. >> ourask is to help replace their despair with opportunity. and this administration today here and now declares unconditional war on poverty in america. >> i'm page hopkins. thanks for watching "early today." have a great wednesday. >>> was the bay area woman the victim of a vicious and possibly deadly prank known nationwide as the knockout game? the neighborhood on alert after a random attack. >>> could be a break in the case. new information oakland police are expected to release today. they hope will catch the suspects who gunned down a man seven months ago. >>> and caught on camera, the crystal clear surveillance video that has homeowners on the peninsula on high alert. >> a live looking looking out from oakland towards the bridge. overcast, warmer this morning than it has been for weeks, i think. we'll check in with christina loren about that. it's wednesday, january 8th. it's "today in the bay."

guest: the lbj foundation, yes. it is the 50th anniversary of president johnson's war on poverty, a speech he delivered in the state of the union address in 1964. our first call, good morning to you. caller: good morning. we have lots of snow here and ice underneath it. oh, well. i wanted to talk about -- i am 85 years old, and i am a military widow. i have lived through poverty. but wea large family, always had something to eat. roosevelt came down to get my he went to a then work,in nebraska to but he had a little land of our grandfather's, and we always had something to eat fro. runningre no deer around in those days. here in chillicothe, ohio, i married, and i live in ohio, i have been married for 40 years, and so the deer are running rampant in ohio. we cannot have a garden here because of the deer. poverty could be erased if the deer were eradicated or sold to the farmers. take half of what they cost to charity. backed when i will -- back when i moved to macarthur, the farmers got a great big sum of money to k

lbj's war on poverty. and why it's still being fought 50 years later. the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >> unemployed americans move one step closer to reclaiming their benefits. congress passed the resolution for the unemployed. it came on the 50th anniversary of president lyndon b. johnson's state of the union address. in it, he declared war. >> this administration then to now declares war on poverty in america. >> it was january of 1964, less than two months after president kennedy's assassination. against that backdrop, poverty over 22%. >> our aim is not only to r

if you're lbj and you say, i want your vote on the civil rights bill. and if you don't give it to me i'll close the bridge in your town. that's understandable. this is more illegal. >> it's more overt than what you think might happen or did happen in lbj's time. >> isn't this done on capitol hill all the time? it's sort of deal making. >> that's what a supporter of christie's who doesn't believe -- >> the allegations here are way beyond deal making, it is a threat. it's a threat of, if you want this project back in your state, you're going to support my initiative here, this is, we're not going to give the residents of your town, which you know, you were there. 80% of their water during sandy, we're not going to give them help unless you support our development project because the governor supports it because he has friends in a law firm. it is almost -- >> it's not a museum named after a mayor. >> but something that people can understand. >> what i saw here with you is a mayor, who's concerned about the city of hoboken, she's saying chris christie is a

if you believe the liberals, we are where lbj said we were. exact place, and you steam to agree. but, if i could finish, unemployment insurance was not meant to be a pension. it's a band-aid. if you put able-bodied people on the dole, they'll stay there. if you require people are going to go on unemployment insurance, after 99 weeks, they would have to do community service, they would have to volunteer, be teacher's aids, help build houses for returning vets, what would you say to that? >> that's a pretty good idea. >> it's not mine. it's fdr's idea. >> all the war on poverty was not successful, and all of it -- some of it was quite successful. it includes medicare and medica medicaid. it includes head start, which most people will agree is a good program. the fact of the matter is right now, we're spending less as a percentage since the welfare reform act of the '90s, but here's the thing that's the real problem. those of us who supported this, housing and other things, we did it with the best intentions and we made some mistakes, and we did

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for lbj, this was both an economic challenge and a profound moral challenge. it was about doing justice. in his seep to congress -- in his speech to congress, he said: very often a lack of jobs and money is not the cause of poverty, but the symptom. the cause may lie deeper, in our failure to give our them citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities and a lack of education and training. and a lack of medical care and housing. and a lack of decent communities in which to live and bring up their children. president johnson continued. our chief weapons will be better schools and better health and better homes and better training and better job opportunities to help her americans, especially young americans, to escape from squalor and misery and unemployment rolls where other citizens help to carry them. mr. president, in the months that followed this state of the union address, president johnson proposed specific rams to attack -- programs to attack poverty and inequality, and he articulated his broader vision for what he called a great society. there'

if you're lbj and say i want your vote on a civil rights bill and you don't give it to me, i'm not goinggive you that bridge that you want in your state or district, that's kind of understan of understandable. this is more -- >> it's allegedly more overt than you think might have and probably did happen back in lbj's time or in politics. very overt. >> isn't it deal making? isn't that what a supporter of christie who doesn't believe -- >> no. the allegations here are way beyond deal making. it's a threat. it is a threat. and it is a threat, again, not just of, if you want this project back in your state, you're going to support my initiative here. this is, we're not going to give the residents of your town which you were there anderson, 80% underwater during sandy, we're not going to give them help unless you support our development project because the governor has friends in a law firm. it is something that is almost -- >> it's not a museum named after the mayor or a political purpose. >> but something that the people can understand. >> but what i saw here who is concerned about the cit

lyndon johnson at the lbj library. i worked as her social secretary from 1976 to 1990. a typical day would be her coming in in the morning probably around 9:00. she would have each hand filled with some of these things on her desk. some of these things on speechwriting, event planning, whatever she was working on. she said she felt like a little burro. and she would come in and get to work and her desk was always very orderly. she kept files on her desk, file s she was working on. trips she was taking. she would keep a large envelope with the title or the dates on them so she could pick them back up and put every thing back in them. and she worked on her desk with letters that she was processing. when she completed things, she would put them on the floor. she stayed at the office most of the day. making phone calls and working on projects that she loved so much. she loved this office again she could look out on her alma mater. and then a corridor through to the capital in this city that she loved so much. she would stay here all day, and that was pretty much monday thro

if you're lbj and you say, i want your vote on the civil rights bill. and if you don't give it to me i'm not going to give you that bridge you want in your state. that is more understandable. this is more threatening to a degree and there are more legal implications. >> it's more overt than what you think might happen or did happen in lbj's time. or in politics anywhere else. very overt. >> isn't this done on capitol hill all the time? it's sort of deal making. isn't it? that's what a supporter of christie's who doesn't believe -- >> the allegations here are way beyond deal making, it is a threat. it is a threat, again not just of if you want this project back in your state you're going to support my initiative here. this is we're not going to give the residents of your town which as you know, you there were, 80% of their water during sandy, we're not going to give them help unless you support our development project because the governor supports it because he has friends in a law firm. it is almost -- >> it's not a museum named after a mayor. >> exactl

. >>> on the day after the 50th anniversary of lbj's declared war on poverty, president obama announced a new initiative in that battle today. the president named five so-called promise zones around this country, areas that will receive tax breaks and other assistance aimed at creating jobs and improving education and housing. the first of them will be in philadelphia, l.a., san antonio, southeastern kentucky and the choctaw nation in oklahoma. >>> we have more tonight on the crisis currently playing out in africa. there has been new violence playing out in the last 24 hours in the central african republic, it's been happening since a coup took place last march. some foreign troops are there, mostly french and other african forces but not enough to keep order. a million people have fled the fighting, triggering a humanitarian disaster. ann curry is in the capital city of bangui with the remarkable story of two women who came to help. >> reporter: the scene is almost surreal, people take shelter under the wings of an abandoned plane. this is bangui airport, now the country's biggest camp

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. >>> 50 years to the day after lbj launched his war on poverty, mr. obama takes that on.e will announce so-called, promise zones where the government will provide tax incentives and assistance for some of america's poorest communities. we're past efforts to eradicate the worst pockets of poverty have failed. chris tire walt, host of "power play." good morning to you. you say two topics merge here. in what sense? >> this sense. the president would very much like to change the discussion to what he says is a republican cruelty or resistance to helping those in need, whether it is extending unemployment, emergency unemployment benefits into a fifth year, or whether it is his call for these promise zones or anything else and democrats are heartened. they say he has the bully pulpit. he can push hard on the issues and change the narrative for the 2014 election. think about this, brother hemmer, a president who is now the author of the most famous unkept, probably not meant to be kept promise in presidential history, the if you like it, you can keep it promise, is that a guy th

in 1960 and lbj in 1964. >> stephen: that's one of the things why i didn't want to hear a critic talk about it. >> stephen: you should also know he painted the defying image of the civil rights movement, the problem we all live with, the the people who want to turn him into a cartoon version of an all white boring america don't hold much credence. >> stephen: he did paint a lot of white people. >> he did. he did. >> stephen: let's go to the next one. one that's this called? >> "saying grace." >> stephen: this just sold on sothebys for $46 million. >> that is correct. >> stephen: the highest price ever paid. >> stephen: we don't know who -- for what, for that painting? >> for an american painting. >> stephen: well, for an american painting of that period meaning we're looking at artists like rockwell, edward hopper and georgia o'keefe. yes, it's representational, correct. >> stephen: so isn't it the best reputation if it costs the most? hasn't the market spokeen? >> no, no! i want to tell you --. >> stephen: do you believe in the free market? >> that i believe the market is a critic bu

. >> is that a fair comparison, he's no lbj, willing to get in the muck and mir americans. >> i think it's unfair to blame the president. they shut down the government for very little reason. when you look at the track record which you mentioned earlier in the show of this congress i think the fault is with the folks in congress, and i think harry reid has tried to move forward bipartisan legislation and in some places successful in immigration reform. but it's really on congress that congress is not moving forward with more legislative efforts. and i think it's absolutely appropriate for the president, he has an obligation to the american people to try to solve their problems and to support them. to look for levers at his disposal that are beyond congressional action is the right thing to do. he has the legal authority to do so in many instances. in many instances congress has given him that authority to act beyond what the statutory text requires. >> you're rejecting lori's suggestion. if he had used his personal pervasive power, twisted more arms, hosted members of congress at the

if you're lbj and you say i want your vote on a civil rights bill and if you don't give it to me, i'm not going to give you that bridge you wanted in your state or district, that's kind of understandable. this is more threatening, to a degree, and there are real legal implications here. >> but isn't it the same thing? >> and it's allegedly more overt than what you think might happen probably, and did happen back in lbj's time or in politics anywhere else, very overt. >> but isn't this done on capitol hill all the time, of sort of deal-making, isn't it? >> no. >> that's what a supporter who doesn't believe -- >> no, this is not -- the allegations here are way beyond deal-making. it's a threat. i mean, it is a threat. and it is a threat, again, not just of, you know, if you want this project back in your state, you're going to support my initiative here. this is, we're not going to give the residents of your town, which you know, you were there, anderson, 80% under water during sandy, we're not going to give them help unless you support our development project, because the governor supp

both books for me this one, the lbj one which is fascinating. you connected those two things in an interesting way. a duality of that narrative. i think i told you but it was very helpful to me. >> i remember that great lunch we had, we talked about it. >> you are mentioned in there for that. >> thanks. >> you are very well-timed. it came along at a time i needed somebody to talk to. >> i don't want to monopolize you here but congratulations on the book. we have a lot to catch up on. it's good to see you. >> thank you. >> i will let you mingle. >> how are you? >> you kicked it off with greta. >> it was great. i was driving when i heard it. it's a copy. it's staying then it's written on. >> i actually want to read it. >> all right. i don't care, whichever you buy. i just want them to think it works. [laughter] >> we are excited for you. is susan here to max? >> yeah. >> bears your little guy, not too little. you were saying in the interview interview -- i guess he just did his thing. >> yeah. he did his thing and he said what he wanted to say. hi

. >> you know, i hate to keep going back to this this is not tutorial on lbj but there was battle going on between northern and southern democrats -- >> that was year ago. are you saying today president could pull off -- >> that was even before that. >> you saw the great movie on lincoln f. a president did what he haddon, lincoln, the pass that i would assume as i said etch peachment would be the least of his experience. >> the president did worse. keep the house then fought off -- >> he fought off that -- >> all i'm saying to go back to the lyndon johnston analogy you'll due respect to him and type of congress and system we had there then, and say you could do -- that's the model, just not reality. >> obama is capable of doing this. >> the thing he probably did to get those votes that never probably with reported are are things that got it passed. today you can't do those things. it's not just giving a speech it's -- >> without a single republican vote -- the drama you need them coowning this bill with you. you need them moderating this. can i ask a question, i'm so sorry, bob. >> schi

for all those that have been lifted up since lbj took poverty head on, the fact is inequality has comeo record levels. affordability is slipping away. seniors are working longer hours for less money. contrary to the basic american values that we have reported work in this country, the real value of workers' wages is on the decline. families are having a tough time as a result. all along the american dream has not changed. we still all as americans dream of getting an education, providing for our families, raising our kids, paying for college, and making sure we have money for retirement. the rules of earning the american dream have changed. the skills and tools that all but guaranteed our parents and our grandparents were placed in the middle class will not cut it today. the world has changed and our economy has changed. most importantly, the american family and the face of the american workforce has changed. that is where i see the greatest potential for reviving a middle- class, and opportunity for all those fighting to make it there. the new faces of our workforce over the last deca

something like goldwater losing to lbj after kennedy was killed where the country made up its mind monthsre the election. >> well, i think anointing someone a front-runner, even predicting what is going to happen two years from now is a mug's game. rand paul has some obvious assets. and the scenario you just described could possibly happen. i still think, you know, the chris christie case shows us that any of these politician who hasn't been vetted nationally can go up in flames or down in flames at a moment's notice. so anyone who you pick as a possible front-runner can -- >> especially when it gives mother jones afoot. >> videos out there, who knows what is out there on rand paul and everybody else. but the thing is, rand paul may be looking good now because of ted cruz. i mean, rand paul would have been the far, far right. >> you're right. you're so smart. >> of the disrupters and the crusaders were it not for ted cruz. david corn, thank you, jonathan capehart. whatever happened to the tea party republican running for senate down in texas? he is going m.i.a. the sideshow is next. this

lbj would tell you with convincing fervor and detail there's an element of that in christie.presenter, if you will. his difficulty is that the story he's giving out to the public right now doesn't quite jive with what people know about how he operates and how he attacks politics. he has to persuade not just america, he has to persuade first new jersey that six of his people knew about this stuff, but he didn't know a thing. i don't find it plausible. i doubt the people of new jersey will find it plausible. folks nationally looking at this right now are just seeing soundbites. they're not seeing the whole sto story. it's early. i think when the whole message comes out, i believe we'll know exactly what the governor was telling the truth or whether he was lying to us. >> jamelle, from the national sta standpoint, the national press, this is their biggest story this we week, do you think the national press is going to follow up on this now and follow the granular at the tails that comes out or is this a story the national press steps away from and it's dependent on whether the l

. >> 50 years after lbj launched the war on poverty, where are we and why is there disagreement over the government's role to solve the problem? anxiety succeed. >> "downtown abbey" is a hit, but does it accurately portray the relationship between the masters and their many servants. >> we begin with the fall of fallujah, the battle for the city in 2004 was the biggest urban operation for u.s. troops since the vietnam war. fighters were defeated in a fight that killed thousands of them, but left 100 americans da. was the battle in vein. since american troops left the security situation deteriorated rapidly. according to the u.n., 7,870 were killed last year, the highest number in many years. al qaeda returned to fallujah and ramadi with a vengeance. >> joining us from watertown massachusetts, is a former marine private who fought in the battle of fallujah, and is the director of justice for fallujah, an advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness about the problems with fallujah weem. >> and douglas ollivant, a retired army officer who served in fallujah, and on the security counci

if we had tapes under the jfk and lbj and nixon administration, e-mails will be the real treasure trovefuture researchers. >> why? >> well, i think bush insulted us and the males, but you get a much more real time look at what they were talking about with each other. people are very -- less circumspect e-mails. they ought to be kept her history. so hopefully we will get better sense of who makes what decision when, how they will be, the factors will be going into it, the debates going on. and i think that the research will be a fascinating opportunity. >> when president bush made the executive order decision, then the other former presidents support him? >> my memory of this is sketchy, so i want to be careful. it is not quite as sweeping as we describe it and we still do the papers. think it provides a longer lead time and more discretion for the president to keep them out of the public view. i just don't know that. ♪ you are on with peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. >> can you hear me? can you hear me? >> we are listening. >> you know what, we are go

, at robert carroll the historian who wrote about lind lindhlyndon baynesoht say it is a book about lbj, it was not an insu insult to you, t you could uerstand this is a do-something presdent vsus a guy who i don't want to say is do-nothing but you get the idea. >> and a terrific historian, as you note, had a subject who also came to the presidency through tragic circumstances, but from the senateo the vice presidency. and then succeeding john f. kennedy, but he was a deal maker, he loved the give and take of politics, he was a deal maker, a broker. he was a man who wanted to do and got much don inuding civil rights act. he launched the war on povty, he was , of course, a man with great flaws and faiing. >> yes, but he got something done, he twisted arms, you put it in-fligh polite terms but hee a real son of a gun. but that is about politics as opposed to saying, gee, woe is me, i don't know -- that is the first time i saw this in obama, and i was surprised at it. lou: juan, as always, thank you, we appreciate your insight. >> my pleasure, and i must tell people if they are interested

many of them were collected and kept in stored under the jfk and lbj and nixon administration.o be a treasure trove for future researchers and i think that we will get a much more interesting look and people are very less circumspect than i ought to be. so hopefully the e-mails will get a better sense of things. what are the factors that go into it. what are the debates going on. and i think that the researchers will show it's a fast-moving opportunity. >> host: when president bush made that executive order decision, to the other former presidents supported? >> guest: my memory of this is sketchy. i want to be careful. it is provided with a longer lead time with certain documents out of the public view. >> host: call in new york city, you are on the web peter baker. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: yes, we can. you know, we are going to move onto leonard in boca raton, florida. >> caller: [inaudible] jesse helms was the head of the -- and he will never get a hearing. and it's part of the process of the constitution. iit's part of the process of the constitution. i can't bel

and some look at lbj with a kind of mastery and that is the way that some look at it. personally i have believed that the leader that replaced him was a better fit for this place and evidently so did johnson's colleagues who elected mansfield upon his department which was given with overwhelming enthusiasm and they had had it up to here with lbj and they were excited that he was gone and this includes the reports that he was going to ask as a de facto majority leader even though he was now the vice president. that was unenthusiastically received and he was almost thrown out never to return. mansfield was enthusiastically chosen to replace him. so now the chronicles of the life and legacy usually leave out what i just told you. but by the time he left the senate as i indicated they had had enough writer to hear. in the moment they had a chance to be delivered they took it. mike mansfield would see that the senate greater cooperation and freedom this includes someone who gives us a clue. there are many well-known stories about the fairness and equanimity as leader. and t