that carries through lbj. lbj becomes president on the death of john f. kennedy-based on a precedent set in 1841. we never had a situation where a president has died in office and the 25th amendment has formally made them president. that only happens with nick can and ford entering the q&a session someone will ask me why i didn't include nixon and ford as a separate chapter and at some point i will beat you to the punch and answer the question. the reason the vacancy in the vice presidency is important is john tyler is a disaster for the whig party because he is basically a democrat. like most of the accidental presidents that came after him he has a different set of policies use and take the country in a different direction. he was completely ostracized, had no relationship with the predecessor and didn't have a good sense of what was happening in the administration he was part of. the administration was only 30 days. as he subverts the way agenda with vetoing of two national banks and the getting formally excommunicated from the whig party so he plays l

bush went to the lbj ranch for advice from lbj, who he had known back to his .enate days said, "mr. president, do you think i should run for the senate or stay in the house?" i cannot quite tell the story given where we are sitting. difference between running for the senate or the house is the difference between blank. salad and chicken " is terrible.ccent >> i agree with you. >> barbara bush really liked lady bird. they had a good relationship. she credited lady bird with giving her advice about how to approach being first lady. you should have a platform and use it. lady bird influenced her in another way. i forget in what year lady bird died -- she lived a long time. barbara bush goes to lady bird's funeral. she says, "i loved it lady bird and it was a nice funeral, but it was way too long. we need to plan this now." it was only at that point that she really focused on defining her own funeral, which she very much designed. she -- id -- interviewed jeb bush as he was working on her eulogy. this was before she had passed away, but when it was clear that she was in her final days.

so, you have john tyler as the first accidental president and that now carries all the way through lbj. he becomes president upon the death of john f. kennedy based on the precedent set by john tyler in 1841. so, we've never had a situation where a president has died in office and the 25th amendment has made him president. that only happens with nixon and ford and i'm sure during the session someone will ask me why i didn't include mixing in a separatmix them in aseparate che point i will beat them to the punch and answer the question. the reason is very important. john tyler is a disaster for the party because again, he's basically a democrat. he doesn't subscribe to the agenda at all. like most of the accidental presidents that came after him, he had a completely different set of policy views than his predecessor and takes the country in a different direction. like all of the eight accidental presidency was ostracized and had no relationship with the predecessor and it didn't have a good sense of what was happening in the administration that he was part of. it means for him the admin

when lbj sees that he says, "if i have lost cronkite, i have lost america." it was a critical moment in his presidency. he knows that statement was very strong. susan: we have one of the famous lyndon johnson phone calls in 1968 to serve as an example of that relationship you talked about, about not being afraid to express his anger about things. let's listen. >> i wanted to tell you about hanging my head in this hand. cronkite and what i would say, very unfair, personal lies they are reporting of these fellows. i think you ought to know that opinion because you would be disappointed with me if i didn't tell you that. i am just telling you, frankly that i think the industry is -- wrecking all of us. susan: reaction? patty: pretty heavy-handed. i can imagine what it was like for the generalist the next day. -- for the journalists the next day. i am sure he would not call the journalist in the next day. the fact that he says, "wrecking the country," very disturbing. we hear that today with president trump. the press is not the enemy of the american people. the

you talked about the credibility gap lbj had with the american people and the press.hat phrase would really come to haunt him. again, we see the things happening in society, changes with the counterculture. people no longer trusting the government. they lied to us about the vietnam war. 55,000 people are dead in this country because of that, and they have lied to us about this. television news showing images of the war, there were images, the korean war was on television a bit, but each week, the drumbeat of these numbers of casualties in vietnam, it takes a toll on the american public. the images that they see and the fact that it is not going well, they did understand where you are there in the first place leads to lbj deciding he will not run for reelection. susan: let's move to more current times. earlier, you made reference to the public in the wartime the willing to give up their rights, especially to the freedom of speech. talk about 9/11 and what happen in this country with the american public, and the willingness to trade some of their right for security, esp

the rise in the street in lbj's response to that to agree society. helping blacks get out of poverty and overcome based on race. what i remember about society and the lbj was abandoned by people in the vietnam war. the only people who stuck with him was naacp in terms of civil rights agenda. >> the question. >> my question what about the revolution how can that not be in your book and how can we explain the great society without talking about racial issues. >> it is in my book and very extensively, this was just one chapter. the book looks at civil rights law so we have the civil rights act which came before the voting rights act and basically the early rights are great and important and revolutionary. the later laws following the howard university speech of president johnson were more about benefits, what people get and i argue there's plenty of evidence for that those benefits did not help poor people white or black. they kept them poor and for example we have the hillbilly eligible that is so important, appalachia, what can we do what kind of stru

lbj and the race revolution in america. the civil rights revolution, the riots in the streets. lbj's response to that was the great society, helping blacks get out of poverty, helping blacks overcome societal discrimination and what i remember about the great society is was that lbj was abandoned by people who opposed the vietnam war and the only people stuck with him were the naacp civil rights agenda. class my question is for you, what about the civil rights revolution in america? how can you not touch on that in your book and how can we explain the great society without talking about race relations. >> it is my book and very extensively. this was justone chapter . the book looks at civil , so we have the civil civil rights act which came before as you know the voting rights act and basically the voearly rights are great and important and revolutionary and without them, we wouldn't be where we are. the later laws, particularly following thehoward university speech of president johnson were more about benefits . that is, positive rights, what people get and when i argue is tha

you had kennedy sass nature, lbj elected to one term but dropped out of the next election. nixon elected twice but forced out of office through the impeachment president. gerald ford unable to get elected to if full term. jimmy carter survived one term. there was a wide sense among scholars of the presidency at this time that the office has just become too big for any individual to fulfill it. and then as chester pointed out, 1981 turned out to be an extraordinary year of presidential leadership. and since then we have only had one president who didn't serve a full two terms, at least so far. and so reagan, i think, managed to confound the pessimists of all kinds with the presidency that followed. >> i find this one haunting. in a good way. like charles dickens a christmas carol. subtle and pfuhl. i think it was hard for cartoonists to caricature of ronald reagan. but it was a simple view of the world breck are broken down to good guys and bad guys. and in his central american, latin american policies this was something manifested in support for a lot of unsavory characters

and what i remember about the great society is at lbj was abandoned opposed to the vietnam war was theaacp. so what about the civil rights revolution? how could that not be in your book how do we great the great - - explain the great society. >> it is in my book and very extensively. this is just one chapter. looking at civil rights law the act which came before the voting rights act and revolutionary. following the howard university speech that is positive and i argue there's plenty of evidence that those benefits didn't help people they kept them poor for example we talk about hillbilly appellation and what can we do with the struggling group in addition to poverty? in the 19 sixties we have appellation law it just made life harder to getting benefits. so that johnson's howard university speech i think johnson got ahead of. and along treatment of the delegation that was not seated and then to turn away with the mississippi party. >> i'm very excited to read your book there are two schools of thought about the great society to be bad and counterproductive in the second the basically i

the great society is that lbj was abandoned from those from the vietnam war. and the naacp. my question to you where's the civil rights revolution in america? how do we explain the great society without. >> it is in my book very extensively. this is just one chapter. the book looks at civil rights law and the civil rights act which comes before the voting rights act. and the early rights and important and revolutionary and without them we would not be where we are. particularly following the howard university speech for what people get to argue that those benefits didn't help poor people but they kept them for for example today we have a book that is so important appellation oh my gosh what can we do that kind of struggling group and its pathologies in addition to poverty. in the 19 sixties we have an appellation law but it didn't have one - - helping appellation just made life harder there and i do have a long treatment that the mississippi delegation was not seated and that decision was a betrayal by organized labor to turn away those people because they had

lbj was elected for one term and then had to drop out at the next election.nixon was elected twice but forced out of office during impeachment process. gerald ford wasn't able to get elected to a full term. jimmy carter survived one term. there was a lot of sense among scholars of the presidency of the time that the office had become too big for any individual to fulfill it. and as chester pointed out, 1981 turned out to be an extraordinary year of presidential leadership. since then, we have only had one president who did not serve a full two terms. so reagan managed to confound the pessimists with the presidency that followed. i find this one haunting. in a good way. like a charles dixon charles dickens christmas carol. it was hard for cartoonist to caricature ronald reagan but one trait this brings out was what many viewed as a simple >> cinematic view of the world broken down into good guys and bad guys. his latin american policies, this is something that was manifested in support for a lot of unsavory characters engaged in human rights abuses against >>

david: it was incredible and the one thing about him, lbj i believe his photographer told me this, lbjting to be documented. it was a different motivation were president ford wanted to have me around. i became friends with the whole family. he never one-time said don't run that picture. i don't think he cared about the pictures. could to pictures of him and his jam is or in the swimming pool. he never said don't use that. or i want to see it before you put it out. jon: you made him laugh also. david: yes. not always. he got mad at me one time. jon: the shooting story. david: no i asked him two days later after the pardon of nixon when the avalanche of negative publicity came out i said we were in an elevator i said i can't believe i said this i said you think by pardoning nixon on a sunday morning that nobody would notice? he got really mad at me. anyway, moving along. >> your training, subtlety intact, was not entirely in washington. you were at the front. >> i was at the front indeed. photos, we said they go to the heart of the story. i left for vietnam in 1971. it was a rare case. i

in fact, lbj helped create nasty in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was in response to sputnik.erything became nik. that he put dog out and called it pooch nik. sputnik kind of motivated jack kennedy. so by 1960 and the debates with richard nixon, kennedy charged nixon that if you're president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. >> doug, this calls for a judgment, but you're a historian after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day, if we want to get our astronauts up to the international space station, our ride is the russians. we don't have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the way? our jets still fly at the same speed they carried john f. kennedy and we can't build a high-speed train in this country. >> what a great question. you know, i think when john f. kennedy f. kennedy became president he was part of the world war ii generation where we did big things. after all, you know, industrial mobilization or the willow run plants on joining up airplanes. we creat

rosa who switched on the president but he feels he can accomplish what the country wanted to do and lbj wanted to do 6 million people have gone off food stamps lbj gave them food stamps and subsidized housing the police would go to look and see if there is a man in the apartment than they could lose their welfare because they were claiming to be a single mom. the father had to be chased out you have a whole generation of young people wiraised and an increase of crime he's very proud of what has happened it doesn't matter if he gets credit at least he says that. >> one night jared kushner came home and his daughter greeted him at the door and she stayed up late and the other kids were in their pajamas and she said speaking to her computer, how many people has jared kushner gotten out of prison today? of course siri did not know. i will tell you. 20000 up until today he got out to but today 20000. not bad daddy. most of those prisoners that were released inad paroled for african-american it was nonviolent drug offenses. the trump family takes great pride in that no matter what people want

as a result, two weeks later, lbj said he would accept the nomination. he would not pursue or accept the nomination. there are only 14 states to hold primaries in 1968. they would trudge through and humphrey got in the race, but the idea is that the candidates who ran in these was with the electorate wanted. they said they could never happen again. the party insiders still decided that president humphrey was going to take over. they changed it again. in 1972, even into 1976, we are going to create iowa and new hampshire and that the people decide and now we have more state. again, as opposed to what? party insiders who were not represented at all? the creation of jimmy carter. the one person who has created this mythology that you can be a random person from georgia and the elected president. and now we are here today. new hampshire is still first, i was still first. their clout has significantly diminished. they may remain first, we are now witnessing the most nationalized presidential primary season we've ever seen in the modern creation of the last 40

stonewall, this area of texas, it was called the texas white house because of lbj at the time. lbj perspective. talk about that. >> yes. it's just such a neat experience to go. it's really the entire life legacy of the president there and his family. so everything from his birth place to his final resting place is there in stonewall, 15 minutes from downtown fredericksburg. it's a beautiful drive. the state and national parks are both there. you can have a full experience and see all the beautiful grounds. cheryl: also, the national museum of the pacific war, which correct me if i'm wrong, is the only true museum dedicated to the pacific side of world war ii. >> yes, the entire pacific theater. admiral nemitz is a hometown hero from fredericksburg. it's dedicated to all those who served in the pacific. it's a smithsonian quality museum, fantastic in down fredericksburg. tickets are good for 48 hours. you can experience some, walk over and have lunch at one of the great restaurants downtown, do some shopping at all the boutiques and then go back for more. cheryl: its is a really

front of the fisa court to spy on the trump campaign, and despite these abuses of power of fdr, and lbj and jfk and obama, they were not impeached, why? because they wanted the president to work tout differences. and when i asked professor turley if any president could avoid impeachment with such a low standard he said no. i yield back. >> the gentleman from new york. >> i remind the gentleman, that president obama provided thousands of pages of requests that attorney general holder and others testified unlike now. i now yield one minute to the gentle, to the gentle lady from illinois ms. kelly. >> gentle lady is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, today is a solemn day in america. a day that none of us hoped for when we came to congress. but the events of today are something that each of us swore that we were prepared to execute and defend of the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic. this is the oath that binds the men and women of the 116th congress as our democracy implores, we defend her. a clear and present threat to american democracy

. >> lbj! >> reporter: lbj. the official mvp of the last ten years.james named male athlete of the decade by the associated press. the superstar has won more games and earned more mvp awards over the last ten years than any other player in the nba, which is only a few of the highlights from his legendary basketball career. james leaving cleveland for miami, leaving the heat with two championships, returning home to cleveland and picking up one for the cavs. and now king james reigns over the court in los angeles playing for the lakers. >> james is trailing! the king with the steal! >> reporter: the 6'9" phenom blocking some serious competition. to swipe the athlete of the decade title. the ap saying he easily outpaced runner-up tom brady, followed by sprinter usain bolt, soccer star lionel messi, and olympic gold medalist michael phelps. on saturday, the ap announced serena williams as the female athlete of the decade. the tennis champion has won 23 grand slam titles, 12 of them in the last decade. and off the court she's become a champion of women's

[laughter] >> because i'm so curious i keep going back to that personal relationship of lbj almost like they were best friends those evenings there were lots and lots. >> i don't think johnson watched gunsmoke. [laughter] politics was their socialization. and that's what they enjoy talking about they would go through and see which things they would suggest. >> and thinking each other for their support and johnson famously said that he was afrai afraid. >> did they ever clash or disagree? >> they did. is the opinion of the federal judge in the fifties. >> somebody appointed and then the tif was over. >> how did they get along with ford as president quex. >> he liked ford because he could have his way. [laughter] and ford was a decent man and represented a lot of what he disliked personally about nixon and worked with ford for a long time but he also fought him tooth and nail over runaway inflation and all these defense projects running amok and he wanted to do interesting things and have support but maybe were not the best idea and then they said no were not going to do this might be pop

but just think, she has been queen in the time that eisenhower, kennedy, lbj, nixon, ford, jimmy carterclinton 43, barack obama and donald trump have been president of the united states. and she really -- she -- she has, unlike her reckless uncle who i think shaped her view of not only the crown, but life itself, she has remained the rock of great britain for decade after decade and after bumpy year after bumpy year. often brought on some of those bumpy years brought on by her own children. >> yeah. she's been on the throne longer than victoria, her great, great grandmother, i guess. and the remarkable resilience. walter badgette, the economic withi economist who wrote a book talked about how they had a dignified element and an efficient element and in america we combine the two and britain they separate the two, the monarch and the sovereign and the efficient being parliament. her first prime minister was winston churchill which tells you something. she served in the war. she was a mechanic, i think. and one of my favorite moments, one of the great lines of all time is during the blitz

on them, 39 the percentage of white voters that democratic presidential candidates have gotten since lbj , there is no point in going after these mythical white swing voters, they do not exist. if you read "brown is the new white" he points out that there is already a progressive majority, 23% of people of color who are progressives and 28% .rogressive whites, that is 51% the voter suppression in michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania was the reason those states flipped, it had nothing to do with white voters flipping. you have massive suppression of african-american and latino voters with restrictive voter id laws. the electoral college is broken and stupid that we are stuck with it. host: you bring up a lot of points. the bottom 25% of all wage earners in this country had the largest increase in wage gain, i was the was 4.5% largest gain they had in the last 20 years. i understand that there are pockets of people and exceptions for everything. the national statistics are what they are. thereot at liberty to sit and talk about voter suppression, i have no idea what that is. in florida in

and they would expose exactly what was done, in a way that hasn't been done since lbj was around.f the things that really struck me about her interview here was, there is so much woe is me and why did the fbi protect me, why didn't they issue a statement. she looks at this as, the fbi was part of a team and even if across america, why didn't they rally behind me? it's that kind of loyalist attitude and then she says they sold out their principles. it's her department of justice. >> they were doing this on their work devices. >> they are not victims, they were being very reckless on devices that were essentially scrubbed. after the beginning of the mueller report. so we don't really know the full picture. i don't need to see the lurid aspects of the exchanges but i do think there was a lot that was questionable here. the problem is, these are all people who claim to be boy scouts and girl scouts in her case, and they said that they were the people who were going to save us. they were the captain america's, they were given so much power and so many tools that were so easily compromi

it's out of bounds off of lbj. and that's it. clippers win 111-106. >>> earlier, bucks, 76ers.cond quarter. picks the pocket of joel embiid. and get out of the greek freak's way. i wish i could do that. he had 18 points, 14 rebounds. seven assists. philly up big at the half, 21- points. fourth quarter, tobias harris had 22. the sixers franchise record 21 three-point three-points. >>> celtic, raptors. holiday spirit north of the border. third quarter, jaylen brown, shakes his man. and knocks down the j. he had 30. sets up big. 84-67. fourth quarter, jasontate, drives, dunks. did he miss the dink? that thing came out. boucher knocked his paw through the hop and knock today back. they reviewed it, kept the basket. >>> we are building slowly to the nfl's game of the year. sunday in seattle. niners, seahawks. enormous ramifications for the entire nfc playoff picture. you know the deal by now. if the niners win, they're the number one seed in the conference. which means the road to super bowl 54 goes to santa clara. if they lose, they're the five- seed and have to play a road wildcar

kennedy and the irs and his opponents are not just democrats, i'm giving examples, lbj irs, fbi, ciaped the phones of his opponents. we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors can come up with that that's not impeachable, nothings impeachable, under their theory every one of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open-ended criteria which there is no relationship to the words of the constitution itself. if president trump is impeached it will set a terrible precedent that will weaponize impeachment and the next democrat who gets elected will be impeached because they will find an abuse of power. it's hard to find any modern president or old president that can't be accused of abuse of power. eleanor roosevelt instructs his attorney general when they arrest german saboteurs, i don't want these guys and i want them electrocuted, trying to tell the attorney general how to try the case. lincoln much the same, opponents of a political leader, particularly during times of crisis can alway

lbj, for example. i once saw the president of uruguay make fun of george h.w. bush. u.s.nts get -- >> you see what happened to him. >> but this president is uniquely and potentially catastrophically thin-skinned. i mean donald trump does react to that sort of thing in a weird and dangerous way and in a way that most of us don't. >> i don't know how cool i was. >> that's what you would say. >> i didn't know. i was prom queen but i didn't know -- >> you were a cool kid. >> mike murphy last time i think i asked you some form of this question i know you play on the other team but as you look at the democrats what thing do you see them not doing that if you wanted to win if you were them you would do? >> more kitchen table economics, and we talked about this a little earlier. what counts in campaigns and elections is what people perceive to be true, not statistics. and when they're singing that music and talking about the cost of health care, not having retirement savings, excuse me, things like that, they've got to remember this election -- the fulcrum of this election, the b

and not just democrats, lbj tapped the phones of his political opponent. tapped the phones as vice president. and we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors and others could come up with? if that's not impeachable nothings impeachable. under that theory everyone of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open ended criteria which does not go along with the constitution itself. and if president trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent which role weaponize impeachment and the next democrat gets elected will be impeached. because they will find it abuse of power. it's hard to find any president whether a modern president or an old president that can't be accused of abuse of power. it may give you another example franklin wrote written roosevelt, he instructed his generals saying i don't want them tried civil and i want them electrocuted. telling the attorney general how to try the case. lincoln much the same with suspension of the habeas corpus.

been made fun of at european summits, you know, and like all of them probably, a whole lot of them, lbj, for example. i once saw the president of uruguay make fun of george h.w. bush, u.s. presidents get made fun of. >> you see what happened to him. >> but this president is uniquely and potentially catastrophically thin skinned. you know, donald trump does react to that sort of thing in a weird and dangerous way and in a way that more self-assured people don't. >> first of all, assure me that one of us were the kcool kids i high school. claire, were you? >> i don't know how cool i was. i don't know. >> i didn't know, i was prom queen, but i don't know. >> you were a cool kid. >> wow. >> mike murphy, last time -- >> do i even though you. >> you sat in the studio, i think i asked you some form of the question, i know you play on the other team but as you look at the democrats, what thing do crow see them not doing that if you wanted to win, if you were them, you would do? >> more kitchen table economics. we talked about this a little bit earlier but what counts in campaigns and elections

whether or not you believed lbj dropped us into vietnam, we would have been there one way or another.hanistan was different. afghanistan could have been a punch of vio 2.0. just kill bin laden, tell the child and nazi nazi, and leave. but instead we did this thing were girls need to go to school. we need to rebuild a country that's never been a country. and all we did was inject directly into their corruption vein, nearly a trillion dollars. we literally shot ourselves in the foot by sending money. kennedy: and what do we have to show for? it's a sad unanswerable question brian thank you so much. >> any time. >> any time. kennedy: to the outside world, you look good, but you don't feel good. with polycythemia vera, pv, symptoms can change so slowly over time you might not notice. but new or changing symptoms can mean your pv is changing. let's change the way we see pv. you track and discuss blood counts with your doctor. but it's just as vital to discuss changing symptoms as well. take notice and take action. discuss counts and symptoms with your doctor. visit takeactionpv.com 't easy

. >> i think part of the problem is the weapon that used to hold presidents to account of shame, lbj loses the primary or underperforms, he drops out. nixon. doesn't work with trump. therest the there's no shame. >> our friend eugene is too modest to admit this. he is the third pulitzer prize recipient we've had just in this hour, just in "the washington post" so when gene says more customers are out there, more people are reading. this is a banner time for the business of journalism and great writing. >> and there's a value to find the truth if people decide to find the truth, but we're so tribal now that in the digital world you can go find the truth you think is true. >> the truth that already agrees with you when you wake up in the morning. >>> it's a quick time-out, we're going to sneak in a break. these gentlemen aren't going anywhere. coming up, pushback from the biden camp about a report that's out there that he'll only run for a single term. attention! the enrollment deadline is this sunday. healthmarkets compares your current plan with thousands of options nationwide from n

whether or not you believed lbj dropped us into vietnam, we would have been there one way or another.could have been a punch of vio 2.0. just kill bin laden, tell the child and nazi nazi, and leave. but instead we did this thing were girls need to go to school. we need to rebuild a country that's never been a country. and all we did was inject directly into their corruption vein, nearly a trillion dollars. we literally shot ourselves in the foot by sending money. kennedy: and what do we have to show for? it's a sad unanswerable question brian thank you so much. >> any time. kennedy: coming up next. sixteen let's be honest, quitting smoking is freaking hard. like quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so, try making it smaller. and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small... ...can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette male anchor: ...an update on the cat who captured our hearts. female anchor: how often should you clean your fridge? stay tuned to find out. male anchor: beats the odds at the box office to become a rare non-franchise hit. you can give

thanks to lbj and barack obama and other democrats we're 85% up the way of the mountain, and we havehe summit in view. we have disagreements how to get from 80% to 100%, but we have no disagreement on the imperative to get to the sum lt. republicans on the other hand, they want to take us to the bottom of the mountain. if you have a pre-existing condition, the democrats are fighting for you, the republicans are fighting to hurt you. >> you've got -- we're in the part of the primary where the elbows get sharpened a bit, the attacks get sharper. aza natural part of the process. i mean, elections are about contrast, they're about conflict. i think the people who get upset by this are a little weird because that's what it is. from someone trying to maintain an even handed approach to this, like do you worry the more intense that conflict and attacks get in this field? >> chris, i agree that there's a lot of nervousness now and you're exactly right. back in 1981 i think his approval ratings were 70, 75% after the iraq war and hang wringing all over the place. we don't have candidates, wha

victoria who gets to be a professor at a great place, the lbj school of public affairs out of the universitys, austin. we are duty bound to say at this point -- doctor, i'm happy to have you as part of our coverage. how did you view tonight through the prism of your lives work and what you teach to young students at ut? >> thank you. first of all, thank you for the hook em horns. >> you know, i love austin. >> texas a&m, sorry about it. in terms of the immigration discussion i thought it was a good discussion. however, i was taken aback by the beginning of that discussion where the question started off dreked towards andrew yang, the only person there with a more direct connection to immigration. he is the son of immigrants, and he tried to dodge the question. he didn't even want to answer the question of immigration, and this concerns me, brian, not because he's a second generation immigrant but because as the president of the united states immigration is major issue that you have to have a response for, that you have to have a vision for. so that took me aback. but then i was heartened by

i mentioned 800 hours for lbj. 200 for j.f.k. roughly 3700 hours of nixon tapes from february of 1971 to july of 1973 when mr. butterfield's public admission results in the white house shutting down the taping system. now that you've got a sense of how enormous the system is, if you're trying to figure out watergate you realize, oh, my goodness, this covers the period. the plumbers, it covers the dirty tricks operations, the watergate break-in and the cover-up. this is going to tell us what actually happened. let's go back to the timeline. so you know you have this huge bit of information and the question is how to get it. now president nixon -- let me put it this way. if we were having this conversation in january of 1973 just imagine cable existed then. in fact, imagine a different world. it's january 1973. you wouldn't know that kennedy had a taping system. kennedy had sadly been dead almost 10 years. you wouldn't know that lyndon johnson, who was out of office for years had a taping system. you wouldn't know fdr had a taping

lbj signing an immigration law. we are having a big immigration debate right now.ow does this 1965 immigration bill figure into the history of silicon valley? professor o'mara: it is incredibly important. i think the 1965 immigration reform act is possibly one of the most consequential economic policies of the latter half of the 20th century. the funny thing is it was not intended to be that at all. in fact, as lyndon johnson is signing it on liberty island in october, 1965, he said in his remarks that this is not a revolutionary bill. it was seen as crossing the t's and dotting the eyes on the civil rights act in some ways. -- dotting the i's on the civil rights act in some ways. it had been a racially discriminatory quota system for immigrants the 1920's at a time established of fierce anti-immigrant sentiment. that was very much driven by prejudice against southern and eastern europeans, catholics and jews. people who were seen as other at the time. that was holding fast until the mid-1960's. so johnson and liberal democrats pushed through this immigration refor

as innovative social programs, many of which had job retraining would actually make their wayinto lbj's great society . in the end, new haven got more dollars per capita from the federal government and any other city and was widely viewed as ground zero for urban renewal. lee and logue had successes but this first phase of federal urban renewal turned out to be deeply problematic. in new haven and in many other american cities, for many reasons that i go into in the book. most egregiously, urban regulars here and elsewhere tore down the poor low income neighborhood to put a apartments that were aimed at keeping the middle-class and the city and highway that would connect downtown to i-95 and they introduced a power oriented suburban shopping center into downtown . i also probe the way that urban regulars consulted with community residents and i discovered that they felt that they were being democratically minded experts who were protecting thepublic good , but their approach sought input mostly from representatives of established interest groups and community organizations and i call th

she has solidified her place with sam rayburn and obama and lbj.ght this fractured caucus. but to your point it is rare. when she was done, she was done, she left the room. i think a little bit it's on the twitter sphere today that her baltimore came out. she came back, and being a marylander myself, she could have corrected him. hate is a strong word, and when you have it on the other side with the president who leads with hate, i think she took umbrage to that and it was out of character for her. but the way she explained it was perfect. >> sometimes we fwahear about h being prayerful. she says democrats should be prayerful about this. what does she mean, because she would leave it there a lot of times. it seemed to have the effect of maybe language where she was trying to soften it. i've never heard her expand on it so much as we heard her in this moment. >> you can speak more to this than i can, probably, but you can look at it on its surface as the southern version of bless your heart. >> yes. >> but it's not. she went to catholic school growi