for presidential candidate richard nixon, lbj's peace proposal advocacy political nightmare. nixon needed the democratic party to own the horror show of the vietnam war, not to solve it. and the steel butterfly, anna chennault saw lbj's proposed bombing halt as a military blunder. >> every time we stop the bombing, we only give the other side the opportunity to rebuild the military installation. the sooner we win this war, the better off we will be. >> richard nixon, and anna chennault, their views were closely aligned. there's definitely no crime in that. what if they went beyond words to deeds. what if they were to join hands in an effort to derail the quest for peace in vietnam. george woke up in pain. but he has plans today. hey dad. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. when the guy inown front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you've got a good record and liberty mutua

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you can see the toll that the war is having on lbj. physically, psychologically. >> the president was under fire from all sides. politicians as well as protesters. >> when the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four years in a war against a fourth-rate military power in vietnam with no end in sight, then i say it's time for new leadership in the united states of america. >> and yes, at the apex of the war, the u.s. was holding a presidential election. so now let's back up. to march 31st, 1968, the day that vietnam ended the presidency of lyndon b. johnson. >> gosh, this is hard to read, jim, you have no idea. >> on that last evening in march, tv cameras rolled into the oval office. even the president's staff had no idea how their world was about to change as johnson spoke live to an anxious nation. >> tonight i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. there is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war. >> johnson was desperately trying to end the war on his w

johnson is at the lbj ranch.ll that the bureau chief of the kris chance science monitor has in his hands a story saying republican interference is responsible for saigon's decision to boycott the paris peace talks. sp he's asking johnson for comment. johnson can make what he knows public. and let the voters decide. or he can keep this information classified. as then is. he is torn. everything is at stake. >> this is it. the day before the election. the christian science monitor is on the brink of breaking the news. johnson has a chance to blow nixons cover. would he do it? >>> he asks the wise men of his administration. people he trusts. and asks them what to do. all of his adviser are unanimous. they say you can't make this public. this is information we have picked up through classified sensitive sources. through the nsa through the cia and the fbi. if we start putting this kind of information into elections, that will change what kind of country rewe are. johnson doesn't do anything about it. he concludes they

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which i write about from madison to lbj. one thing is that every single one of them becomes more religious. abraham lincoln was an agnostic, andom was visited in the white house by someone who knew him and found him reading the bible and lincoln says i don't know how a president could get through the trauma of being through a war president without finding comfort of the bible. lbj said before the 1960s went to church, heavily photographed, no signs of deep spiritual involvement. by the late 60s he was so distraught over the vietnam war his daughter lucy, who converted to catholicism took him to her catholic church usually in private, and johnson got such comfort from this that ladesy bird johnson told me later on during those days i wouldn't have been a bit surprised if lyndon had converted to catholicism. >> host: how insightful was it to talk to lady bird johnson about lbj? >> michael: she gave her last tv interview to c-span, i think that was around 1999. she loved the interview but felt she was not quite what she had bee

lbj was taken in.e lived in fear as he told his aides, if mixes is elected-- if nixon is elected he will indict us all. in short, he was afraid of nixon and yet he thought the only way not to be afraid or escape his wrath was somehow to appease him throughout and have blocked humphrey from taking any risks for peace. when he-- johnson made his call to the candidates to talk about the prospect of a bombing halt they said he put all three people on the line. late in the campaign and began to have rumors, word creeping out that the nixon campaign was cooperating with an national who was a very well-known republican donor, the wife of general claire who was a hero of world war ii because he commanded the so-called flying tigers that defended china against japan. she was working with the ambassador, south vietnamese ambassador in the united states to get the south vietnamese, not to come to any negotiations in order to prolong the war pass the date of the election. johnson's began to get word of this when h

>> yes. >> i give the credit to lbj. there's planning all the time.f he had not shut that down, that kind of planning would not have shut down and could have gotten out of control and what this is based on is interviews that i did and also david sanger of the new york times with tom johnson who was l bj's very close assistant to took the notes was in the room and saw johnson's display of temper when he thought there was this pressure coming on him for vietnam to go nuclear. thanks very much for the question, yes, ma'am. >> tom johnson-- >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> rob, please, let's give some other people-- >> so i'm curious because we've talked a lot about modern wars, but how did our first president who had to wage the first-- the first major war of our country, how did he stack up and where did-- >> i open the book with james madison. >> right. >> and madison, the scene i open it with is that madison is running through the northern-- the dark forest of northern virginia in the rain fleeing washington because the british wanted to hang him. >> r

lbj concurred. noting she seemed lonely and bewildered. as the war separation of war and separation were cruel intrusions into her young life. obviously distraught after leaving her husband, linda looked at about and as, quote, why was her husband going away to five? and maybe die for people who did not even want to be protected, end quote? speeches lbj said you want to confront her or comforter i could not. her question deeply wounded her father. lady bird found in afterward and observe his face was saggy and there was such a pain in his eyes as i do seen since his mother died. and it is vietnam that will ultimately be the achilles heel as one person described, the arsenic that will bring down the johnson presidency. that bitch of the one of the set of the world of the present sometimes refer to the quagmire consumed him. it consumed the country with daily reminders on television and newspapers of the dead and others became probably disabled, johnson really went anywhere without someone protesting u.s. involvement in southeast asia. it wo

lbj had unbounded energy. most of it is that they take what talents they have and they work hard, all of them do. they are in the office before anybody. they are staying there after everybody goes home. there is a sense it will take more work than their opponents gets up to that. ms. edney: based on your observations, does our current president share any character traits with these four leaders that you focused on? [laughter] ms. goodwin: ok, let's start with humility. [laughter] one of the favorite comments president trump made, that pope -- that the reason he loved pope francis was because pope francis was so humble, like trump was. it is learning from mistakes that so far we have not seen that. the interesting thing about the -- empathy is that one must have to concede that he must have had some sense of feeling for what people were thinking and who they were upset with and what they wanted and what their and -- fears and hopes were, because he has bound them to his side, but you would hope that once he got

lbj couldn't do it very well. he had a swimming pool at his white house, i mean at the ranch where he would think you would be swimming with were floating rafts and floating telephones all over the place. you couldn't move. the fact the press club was formed to provide that camaraderie, the fact we're here now and only for a few months we're not think about the anxious bombs outside, it's a really good thing. >> thank you. i have so many more questions but i would like to set up for the audience. we have mics here and here. you can line up behind the mics. anyone who is a question can come up the lineup behind the mics. we will take questions alternating so the first person who gets to this mic is this lovely woman in the chartreuse jacket. we will start with you and then we will go to you. please introduce yourself and may i ask you to please keep your questions sustained. >> i love your books. i love history and fascinated to hear how you gathered it but i'm really worried about that 200 years ahead when everyth

lbj had unbounded energy. most of it is that they take what talents they have and they work hard, all of them do. they are in the office before anybody. they are staying there after everybody goes home. there is a sense it will take more work than their opponents gets up to that. ms. edney: based on your observations, does our current president share any character traits with these four leaders that you focused on? [laughter] ms. goodwin: ok, let's start with utility -- humility. commentse favorite thatdent trump made, pope francis was so humble like dump truck. it is learning from mistakes that so far we have not seen that. interesting thing about the is he must've had some what peopleling for were thinking and who they were upset with and what they wanted and what there'kirir and hopes were and bound them to his side, but you would hope that once he got into office that would expanded he knows how to communicate. all of the people i read about learn the technology of their time. lincoln was lucky to communic

my new book called "lbj's 1968 power politics and the year of upheaval."- of this picture alone represents, i think to a large degree, what we see in the year. and i wish we would have done a little better job with this because at the bottom is a tape recorder. and what president johnson is doing in this picture is listening to his son-in-law chuck robb tell him about what is going on in vietnam. his son-in-law is a lieutenant in the marine corps leading a group of men. and he's talking about some of the men that he's lost. so you can see from the devastation this is causing the president. but i think there's another interesting element to the picture itself. and that is in the background is john kennedy. the bust of john kennedy. i think there's a certain irony there. the man that always was seen as sort of overlooking lbj and also who, as we've done in our studies and learned, was a precursor and really left johnson few -- very little room to operate as a result of his involvement in vietnam. but let's start with the lead-in. we're going to talk about 1

lbj from the time he was to wanted to go into politics. pursued power through college et cetera and then eventually his power was used for the greater good. the journey that i wanted to let people follow is how they grew and how they made mistakes, backward and forward. >> you touch on this earlier. to what extent do you think is leadership born or made? >> obviously it is both. there are certain gifts that you might be bournemouth and lincoln was born with a gift for language and i'm not sure that however you tried one could write the gettysburg address. roosevelt road where he said there's two successful world. one is if you talent that will matter far you try to develop it like a poem or six replay you might not emulated but most success he says comes from people who have ordinary talent that developed into a next ordinary degree through hard sustained work. it's probably true from all of us. except for that gift of language he was born with empathy and teddy was lucky to be born with a photographic memory that helped him in his politic

in the 1960s lbj's great ansociety programs waged a war n poverty. the office of economic opportunity directed this war, and the community action programs -- the c. a.p.s -- became the primary weapons. federal officials used c.a.p.s to bypass washington and funnel dollars directly to community groups. these in turn established and administered anti-poverty programs designed locally to fit the particular needs of the e community. native americans could form c.a.p.s and apply for funds without involvement or interference from the bureau of indian affairs. consequently, and perhaps accidentally, lbj and great society officials decentralized indian decision making and funding by weakening bia authority and strengthening the power of tribal governments. in 1964 the cherokee tribal council founded its own community action program. funds came with guidelines for how they could be used, but recipients had control over specific plans and implementation. in 1966 cherokee prompts received -- projects received a total of $484,000. the next year, $586,000. the ch

. >> if you go to the lbj presidential library and i hope you do, we remodeled that several years agod michael was enormous help in that endeavor, one of the things you will see in there is just a small cake depicting lbj spiritual life because michael said it wasif so important, spiritualty was so important for lyndon johnson during the turbulent time as it was for his predecessor who had f been commanders in chief during times of war. michael, let me read a passage from the introduction which really lays the premise for this book. you write to risk the abuses of power by an american president, the framers in 1787 created constitution that gave congress the sole power to declare war and you point out that the last time the president asked congress to approve a war was 1942 and you -- >> good thing we haven't had any wars since 1942. [laughter] >> and you continue as this volume demonstrates during the past two centuries presidents step by step have come to disrupt the founders' design, where the founders to come back there would be astonished to discover that in spite a life or death

from that point forward he considered lbj to be the enemy. >> bobby wouldn't let him get away with itind of war room that campaigns salivate over, he responds almost immediately. >> bobby rallies the doctors to lie, to say that jack is healthy as can be. >> will bobby's damage control pay off? >> climactic moments of the democratic convention. before the first ballot is completed, wyoming clinches the kennedy triumph with the deciding votes. >> john f. kennedy fights off strong opposition to win the nomination. he is now the democratic party's presidential candidate. >> we will carry the fight to the people in the fall, and we shall win. >> jack faces a tough decision. he must pick a running mate. >> when it comes to picking a vice president, the obvious candidate, in a way, is lbj. >> what did you and senator johnson talk about? >> well, i thanked him for his very generous message he sent me. >> johnson is a southern democrat. jack kennedy needs the southern vote. >> did you talk to him about the vice presidency? >> in a general way, that's right. >> jack kennedy never liked lyndon j

he thought lbj believed quote he had no alternative. more and more draftees into the vietnam meatgrinder. that's your final thought to ponder, what does this say about presidential leadership, what does it tell us about the turmoil of america and the role of vietnam? thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> were watching american history tv only on c-span3. tonight on "q&a," california democratic congresswoman jackie fear talks about her memoir, undaunted. in thes on airstrip remote jungles of guyana, having just concluded a congressional delegation trip within congressman leo ryan and we were ambushed on that airstrip. and shot. 45 times and shot died on that airstrip, they were members of the president died in a defector of the people's temple who died and i was shot five times, the bone jutting out of my right arm, a wound in my leg the sizable foot. and it was oh my go

weather was because of other native american groups, lbj, jfk or the rights movement, the minimum for tribal termination slowed in the 1960s and the federal policy of termination is held was terminated. at the same time, the national economy, which has enjoyed steady growth after world war ii stagnated. american prosperity was disappearing in the 1970s underwriting inflation, escalating energy costs and increasing unemployment. energy cost of the devastating impact on tourist economy. two of the three plants in cherokees ceased operations in the 1970s and the third was also hurting. the political atmosphere in washington changed yet again. politicians play and federal deficits the nation's economic problems and significant budget cuts appeared likely. constant threatening the future of the great society programs. that takes us to the final. my final chapter. the 1980 election illustrated the changing electorate in the united states. republican presidential candidate ronald reagan benefited from the conservative resurgence we need an easy victory over incumbent jimmy carter. reagan mig

. >> eager to be sworn in, lbj calls attorney general bobby kennedy for the precise wording of the oathce. >> and he wants to seize the reins of power and show the world that he's in charge. to bobby this is hasty to the point of obscene. >> and bobby kennedy, as the blood is still cooling in his brother's veins, begins to recite those words that he had heard last on january 20, 1961. >> i john fitzgerald kennedy do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> bobby's voice breaks down. and it's too much for him. >> here is a picture of the swearing in of the 36th president of the united states, lyndon baines johnson. >> president johnson wants jackie to stand next to him for his inauguration. she insists on wearing her blood-stained clothes. >> by putting jackie kennedy in that photo lbj is showing the continuation of power, and that jfk's widow is standing there. but i think ultimately the image conveyed utter shock and grief. >> meanwhile, bobby goes into some emotional netherworld because he realizes that everybody else may be fallin

one of the great landslides of all time, 1972, lbj and nixon. seen to almost have ultimate unfettered power. what happened over the next two years for both of those gentlemen? >> well, certainly in 1964, huge landslide, as you're auto right. in 1966 the economy still doing well, 6.6% growth and yet there were feelings against lbj about what he was doing in vietnam, there were worries about the riots, probably worries about civil rights and voting rights which had passed and he goes way down in that 1966 mid election. then he resigns in 1968. the interesting thing about then versus now, when you didn't tell the truth as he wasn't in the war in vietnam, the credibility gap developed, you paid. there was a consequence. that's what worries me about our situation today. truth is not being told and so far no direct consequences. >> i agree with that. >> and yet, though -- >> and yet. >> and yet democrats now have the ability to investigate the truth. >> that's right. >> to subpoena. to get the truth. i mean, the american people, again, in a way more d

. >> nixon leads in the polls yet his white house dreams are handed you by lbj's progress towards endingworries about the prospect of an october surprise, that peace is being negotiated, that it's in hand, and that it boosts the prospects of hubert humphrey. >> mid-october, linden johnson fuels nixon's worst fear. >> who is that speaking? dick, is that you? >> i'm on. >> in a conference call lbj updates the presidential candidates confidentially on a big breakthrough in the negotiations. north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. >> this is in absolute confidence because any speeches or any comments referring to the substance of these matters will be injurious to your country. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called

>> in a conference call lbj updates the presidential candidates confidentially on a big break throughegotiations. north vietnam at last is willing to talk with south vietnam. >> this is in absolute confidence because any speeches or any comments referring to the substance of these matters will be injureious to your country. >> after all this work all year johnson finally had a package that the north vietnamese would accept, and he was selling it to the south vietnamese. >> nixon gets a top secret briefing from the commander in chief on his progress towards peace. and what does nixon do? he betrays the president and the nation. >> what nixon did with that information, how he got away with what president johnson called treason and what his actions cost, thousands of americans and vietnamese, are the subjects of a special report called betrayal. you can catch it this friday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for the "last word" with ali velshi. hi, ali, how are you? >> this is kind of weird this is the only place we meet these

that is my bunny, and lbj, what are you doing with my money? what happens when you have all of these competing interests, and the government starts spending a lot more than they taking? in 1967, the inflation rate is 3% and by 1969, it is 6% and growing. in 1969, we will go into a slight recession. in the 1970s, it will give way to stagnant inflation. what does it sound like? >> your economy needs to be growing and not necessarily plateauing. >> the economy is stagnant and wages are staying the same and inflation is going up. what happens if wages are staying the same and inflation is going up? my buying power, what i can do with my money starts to erode and the more that happens, what do the people in peoria start to think? >> we need an administration change and somebody for the people. >> we need somebody to offer some solutions, and that is why you are going for all of these different candidates. but the nation is starting to split and in 1969, the antiwar movement that was small in 1966, it is starting to grow. you will get the moratorium

so he went to do the investigation of - - then with jfk and lbj.that incredible, we shall overcome speech. the howard university speech. bobby kennedy's ripples of hope, al gore's concession speech. he devoted his life to public service. he was 86 years old when he died and he was watching he said what was going on right now. he realized that his long life, he had seen the turns and was in american history. like me, he said the end of america has moved many times before.america is not as fragile as we think. so he wanted to write a book that showed people politics and public service can be an honorable vocation. want to make young people believe once again that they could enter public life and have a fulfilling time. he hadn't quite finished the book. the book kept going. it was so incredible to watch that he wanted to live not just for the book but because he was happy. there was nothing i could care about more that this man that i've been married to for 49 years. he went through surgery and they thought they got the cancer. he went to radiation,

i went through the lbj tapes. he taped himself. he agonized about it. he was pushed by his own staff and some of it against his own wishes. a lot of it was for the protocol strategy of the democrats to have the bombing halt help humphrey. harryman who was the negotiator in paris hated nixon who was working with clark clifford to push the bombing halt to get humphrey over the line. that is one aspect. another thing we had to look at was teddy white's book was much overlooked. and mentioned in tom wicker's book as well and also mentioned in clark clifford's book about harryman. the russians were very much involved in trying to get humphrey elected. there is a russian collusion story that scholars ought to start looking at. the russians very much wanted to get hubert humphrey elected. >> forgive me, about the advanced manual and the development of the advanced manual. could you recall that for us? >> does it take for my two minutes? >> i made the point the billy graham had said to richard nixon vice president of the united states in 1960, have one of your

lbj, what are you doing with my money? buying all those busts, right? what happens when you have all these competing interests is the government starts spending a lot more than it takes in. 1967, the inflation rate is 3%. by 1969, it's 6% and growing. 1969, we'll go into a slight recession. ultimately, in the 1970s, that will give way to stagflation. what is stagflation? anybody know? what does it sound like? >> you're not shifting either way. >> it's not going up or down. >> you want the economy to be growing, not just plateauing. >> so the unemployment rate is going up, the economy is stagnant, wages are staying the same, inflation is going up. what happens if wages are staying the same and inflation is going up? >> poverty goes up. >> cost of living. >> my buying power, how much i can make do with my sweet, sweet ducats, starts to erode and the more that happens, what are the people in peoria thinking? >> we need an administration change. >> for the people. >> we need something. we need somebody to offer some solutions. and that's why you're going fo

if democrats are going to control palm beach and broward county, it remind me of when lbj ran.yed how many votes do we need to win? we'll fill them out so he can win. judge jeanine: next weekend i am going to talk about the voter rolls themselves. there are -- there is talk that when none citizens were declared invalid as voters, the democrats said, no, they are valid. how could this be so penetratable. how is it not something that's protected. where does the federal government come in on that. >> the secretary of state needs to do a better job obviously. the federal government has to have oversight. maybe we should be monitoring for the stealing of the elections from internal. from those individuals working at the board of elections. that's where it seems all the problems are. the fact that we them moving ballots in private individual's cars. i wanter ballot counted. judge jeanine: where do you get that from? there has been reference by another guest tonight. what's with this private vehicles and ballots. where are you getting that from? >> there are a number of videos shown o

now that was certainly true for the period of truman to kennedy and even arguably through lbj. it doesn't seem to have been to me at least it central for the period after 1968. when along with other institutions as the democratic party fell under the square and the same development happened in europe. so at the end of the cold war, people were claiming credit for victory for the freedom of liberty which many of them had been at the very least members of the peace movement, for example. and didn't that agreement in a sense, not to be honest about how the war had been one and by whom, doesn't that disable some of the peace now? isn't that partly responsible for the disappointing developments that have occurred in europe since then? mr. edwards: you know, john, i'm an optimist. i'm a reagan optimist. i worked at the memorial for 20 years. [applause] mr. edwards: thank you very much. they said for 20 years it cannot be done. i said it can be done and it will be done. with the bipartisan approach, i am happy to remind you scoop jackson and jackson-vanik made a tremendous difference.

the trump model following the lbj model is not inconceivable. >> no, and i would say, you know, if i were a house republican i would really ask myself is donald trump helpful to my prospects if i'm not just in the most rural part of this country or is he helpful? and is it helpful to have him on the ticket for us to get to the top of the majority or harmful? and the reality is republicans made their bed with the devil over the last two years. mitch mcconnell and former speaker ryan made a deal with they basically looked away, were no check on trump. basically said yes to every single thing he did. and the country rose up in opposition. i'm definitely not an advisor to the republican party, but i have to say they have to ask themselves who is actually going to help them in the long-term be a majority party? they are not a majority party today. they are just not a majority party today. they are in the senate because of basically the structural problems of the senate, but the house is much more representative. even with gerrymandering the democrats did so well. so i think if i were a po

republican for president in 13 out of fort presidential elections, all except 96 the four with the lbjlamp died. democratic for the last three election. welcome to new jersey these changes really started in the 196 these we had our own cultural resolution. i remember that then-president visited washington from china. i pointed out when i was covering his zip from washington that in the 1960s, china experience one of the greatest tragedies of human history tiered what is interesting is they got over it. i've been to beijing. they have restaurants in beijing where they have reenact errors. for them, they reenact it like we do the civil war. something that happened a long time ago. here in the united states, the differences we had a cultural revolution as well. but we cannot get over it. bill clinton said about 15 years ago now, if you look back on the 1960s and you think they did more good than harm, you are a democrat. if you look on the 1960s and you think they did more harm than good, you are republican. that would be george w. bush. more harm than good for him. american voters today

jfk had affairs constantly with a german spy and a 17-year-old intern and he was out done by ridlb lbjgning against var values and against the constitution. you have a rare opportunity to show yourself. stand up and say we are not putting up with this anymore. we will protect our country. we will protect our values and our institutions and our president and ourselves. sick of being called nazi and racists, you need to vote now and vote tuesday and bring out 6 people and make sure you vote. if more of us vote, we win. if less of them vote, they lose. >> sean: mark levin. our condolens. i knew your dad. he passed away. a great man. thanks for joining us. big show this weekend. life, liberty and levin sunday night on fox news channel. when we come back, 2 important senate candidates. in indiana. and in montana. they can both win. we will explain. they will join us. since you're heading off to school, i got you this brita. dad... i just got a zerowater. but we've always used brita. it's two stage-filter... doesn't compare to zerowater's 5-stage. this meter shows how much stuff, or dissolve

lbj also because he was born in poverty circumstances but the other two privileged guys had to developto politics he went in for adventure, not to make other people's lives better but then he saw what it was like in the tenements, he saw child labor, saw things when he was a police commissioner and he decided if i'm in politics maybe i can feel what they're feel iing. >> he said it changed his heart. >> i want to talk about president roosevelt's fireside chats. that was a direct connection to the people. do you see any comparison at all between donald trump's twitter account. can we make a compare with son? >> well, it's certainly a direct connection, but the difference is the fireside chats took place over 345 minutes or an hour. they explained problems to the people. they said saul bellow could walk down a chicago street and he could see everybody looking at their radio hear his voice coming out, and keep walking and not miss a word. everybody was listening. he was able to make a direct connection to a person in the living room. a construction worker ran home one night. his co-worker

they had any of this technology around the time that abraham lincoln or franklin roosevelt or even lbj. we have more on how that would have made a difference. certainly what is at stake after this. one third of our classic crust is made with cauliflower but that's not stopping anyone o, that's good! but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sell. fisher calls regularly so you stay informed. and while some advisors are happy to earn commissions whether you do well or not. fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. >> neil: all right. this is the final weekend before the big vote. anything can happen and history proves has. who doesn't know that better than presidential historian, "new york times" best seller author, doris kerns. good to have you here. >> thank you. glad to be with you. >> the most glaring example i can

lbj was shameless about it. but my point is -- donald trump did not. and has not.nt is -- trish: but this woman here. >> let me tell you one quick story because it's not public. my wife and i were helping two young ladies from africa with their visas and it was very complicated and they were treated unfairly. the president heard about it. the story has never been made public. i brought us into the oval office. he sat us down. he was deeply troubled by what was lapping. he brought in ivanka and he said let's take care of this and they did. but that's not a racist. that's someone who cares about people. trish: he's very -- he has a connection with people that is rare in politics. and you can sort of tick him off on wind hand the politics that had that. barack obama was not one of them. he was a gifted os ortore. -- orator. but back to this woman, the cnn political analyst, she says it's because i'm a woman, it's because i'm african-american. that's why he told me to sit down. the elephant in the room is the president revoked the press credentials of and white man. >>

group that broke off is a large, several dozen members escaping persecution in their home countries, lbje you folks in central america have a hard time because police are often gang members, the gangs are very anti-lgbt queue. thousands of people have been granted asylum in the united states. this is legitimate. these folks come to the border they don't know what to do in many cases but they are making themselves known and we should appreciate that. they are not crawling across and hiding, they are making themselves known and trying to effectuate a process that this president and this administration has made very difficult by saying you have to go to very specific places, migrants don't know where to go. a very confusing thing. when you add putting thousands of troops on the border, militarizing the southern border it is a very dangerous thing. shannon: they cannot take on law enforcement activity at all. they work in support capacity. part of the lawsuit you are supporting from hunter and migrants representing their children on the way here, you say this but the lawsuit says this, trump

there was the box 13 scandal with 1948 when lbj was accused of stepping 202 additional ballots into a box which miraculously swung the texas election in his favor at the last minute. and of course, nixon's saturday night massacre in 1973 where he fired both his attorney general and deputy attorney general when they refused to fire archibald cops, the special prosecutor charged with investigating the watergate scandal. expand executive power and undermine the constitution. none attacked the rule of law and the constitution on so many fronts at the same time. and we haven't even gotten to the latest allegations of campaign finance violations like trump. here's the deal. as americans, we have the distinct privilege of having inherited a republican system of government which conspicuously features systems of checks and balances, separations of power. also enshrined in the public, the rights of the free press in part making sure those entrusted with the power will be held accountable. our system of democracy can be clunky, it can be slow. it sometimes can be arcane but it's served us prett

he was outdone by lbj. we don't talk about that stuff. how come? because it is to trash the president of the united states states. the media in this country america is campaigning against you. campaigning against your values campaigning against her virtue, againstng the declaration again the constitution and you have a rare opportunity every now and then to show yourself to stand up and say were not putting up with this anymore we're going t protect our country, we're goin to protect our values, institutions, authority, and ou president. mustivar ourselves. sick of being called racist? sick of being called white supremacist? then you need to vote and you need to vote now if you have early voting and you need to vote tuesday and you need to be in your own precinct to bring out five or six people to make sure they vote. if more of us vote, we win, if west of them vote, they lose. >> i want to say publicly our condolences i knew your dad he recently>> passed away. thank you my friend for being with us. a big show this weekend life liberty and within y

i mean, let's go all the way back to president johnson, lbj, vietnam unpopular to say the least, at yethnson went to vietnam back in 1966. president bush, 41, he went to iraq in 1993. mr. clinton went to koe sa voe. president bush made a surprise trip to iraq in 2003 when there were already a will the oflot o questions about that war. and president obama went to afghanistan in 2014. a long history of all of this. >> yeah. and an equally dangerous time in those war zones. >> and unpopular, many of them unpopular wars as well. >> barbara star, always good to have you in the pentagon. >> thanks. >>> coming up, tables turned. it is now moscow accusing the u.s. of meddling in the election. we'll explain what's behind this. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ the whole world's coming together now ♪ amazo

the leafs haven't raised a banner since lbj was in the oval office. they were ahead 1-0.e tied on the power play goal. toronto a nice boost from the 21-year-old star matthews, who had been out a month with an injury. got one past aaron dell to make it 2-1 toronto. it was cammed off by an old friend, patrick marleau, his first-ever goal against san jose. leafs win 5-3, sharks' third straight loss. >>> nfl jon gruden's brother jay peppered with questions by the d.c. media yesterday about why the redskins claimed the former 49er reuben foster. foster might not play. they say he is worth the backlash. >> we'll deal with the outcry so to speak but for the most part this is a young athlete, young person, who got himself into trouble. we want to find out what happened. >> stanford women's basketball team landed the nation's top high school recruit yesterday. haley jones selected stanford over a the top schools in the country including uconn. she went to tara vanderveer's youth camp and now she is the highest rated recruit since 2010. this picture was taken when haley was in the