the senator from minnesota and then-vice president walter mondale, and senator gary hart of colorado. finally, the brennan center chief counsel, rich schwartz -- who was chief counsel of the church committee -- has written a new book called "democracy in the dark: the seduction of government secrecy." the purpose of today's symposium is to examine how the intelligence reforms studented as a result of the church committee investigation 40 years ago have fared and how they might be improved. when the church committee issued its report, it warned that its recommendations for reform would be tested over time and that new national security threats would arise that could be used to justify new departures from american values in the rule of law. and so we have it that chaos and co-intel pro and shamrock and minaret were replaced by stellar wind and x key score, by talon and the fusion centers, by black sites and enhanced interrogation techniques. we're hoping that a new generation of intelligence overseers can benefit from the wisdom generated from the church committee investigation and be i

mondale has suggested, in the crucible of fear, the constitution can take on malleable proportions. but then we're a resilient nation and i think we begin to bounce back. i think the times are changing. i think we're experiencing we're in the middle right now of something of a sea change back toward the liberty side in this balance between security and liberty. and, again the house vote is good evidence of this. and i would imagine i certainly can't prove it, but i imagine the comments made publicly by ron wyden and udall of the senate intelligence committee very critical of the metadata program has helped feed into that change that we're now seeing. so i'm a little more optimistic. >> could i reply to that, please? [laughter] >> sure. >> get a dialogue going here. good for you to hear different points of view. i guess i'll take on the brennan institute -- >> sure. >> -- on this. i believe the usa freedom act is a red herring. and it is pretty much crafted by the administration to distract attention from everything else that they are doing. they're giving up what admittedly is, in e

. >> walter mondale. >> i think i lost count.his is an important window. -- an important one though. >> we have been here before during the clinton administration. >> will you be tweeting through the dinner? >> after. not during. a stop the politest thing to do. -- it is not the politest. did you follow the supreme court arguments today? >> what happened? we could not keep up. is there anything that we should know? >> how are your chopstick skills. >> i grew up with them. >> i don't use them correctly. i don't usually have trouble getting food to my mouth. >> i don't use them correctly is our. i managed to use them though. the honorable ron wyden and mrs. wyden. >> it will be challenging in that department. i always play it safe. i will try to move between chopsticks and regular silverware. i've got a long way to go. the fact that we had such a strong vote in the senate finance community including the majority of finance democrats is great. thanks, everybody. >> she a junior at georgetown. >> i'm 21. >> have you been to the white

john: great line though mondale still lost.dn't keep the promise. >> read my lips, no new taxes. john: today we've got politicians who bore us by using the same poll tested words again and again. >> everybody get their fair shot, everybody does their fair share. >> everyone gets their fair shot and everyone gets their fair share. john: reminds me of the movie princess bride. >> i do not think it means what you think it means. john: politicians do know the meaning of words like investment free, fair share and so on they just twist the meaning. i wish we had subtitles when politicians spoke. a guide to what they really mean. for example in the woman most likely to be our next president speaks, you'd see something like this. >> i know in a time when we're afflicted by short-termism we're not looking over the horizon for the investments that we need to make in our fellow citizens, in our children. we will have to overcome deep divisions and try to begin to replenish our depleted reservoirs of trust. we need to making middle class m

always leaks anyway. >> overtime think vice president mondale's. [applause] >> i have so many of them. [inaudible conversations] >> paint the picture for us of what happened to the former speaker and wife. >> sure. some people are something this up as an apparent blackmail plot that to put it plainly. what what is going on is that the federal grand jury alleged yesterday that he agreed to pay somebody from his hometown of yorkville three and a half million dollars to keep quiet but what is called past misconduct against this person. and from june 2010 to april 2012 the former speaker began committee made 15 withdrawals from banks the $50,000 and began providing this money to this individual every six weeks. the feds -- apparently that triggered questions from the bank employees. the transactions involving more than $10,000's. these reports they got the financial crimes enforcement network. they asked they asked him about the money. he began making withdrawals of less than 10,000. he ultimately paid $1.7 million in cash to this unknown person. what

as church committee member walter mondale said, there is disappointed and anger that we are back where we started from. that is not in conclusion to downplay the very considerable achievements of the church committee. in this conference about taboos it is appropriate to focus on the church committee because it exposed so many surveillance abuses and pierced the veil of secrecy that hung over the national security establishment. i admire harris, johnson, fao schwarz jr and other committee veterans who cite post-9/11 surveillance abuses as reasons for a 21st century church committee. but what if congress stirred itself to create one? history does not repeat itself but as mark twain may or may not have said, history does often rhyme. the church committee may have provided just enough exposure of past abuses, just enough comfort that they were history to allow the continuation of business as usual. thank you. [applause] ethan: i think i am the parochial person on the planet-- the panel in the sense that i will speak not as an fdr historian but someone who is appointed one of those jerks th

he slammed mondale. the hope and the change. >> they like it.>> or how about if holly was the campaign manager. i'm bleeding right now, what are you going to do? >> ignore it. >> ignore it. >> don't give it energy. it's a ridiculous topic. >> the voters will make their own corrections. they have a way to sift through this. the people determine determining the outcome of presidential elections are women. >> they are the largest group of swing voters and independents. that's who the candidates are speaking to in the end, that's who they speak. to they're important. >> yes, they are. i don't understand when other women throw shade on women sometimes. i want to show this ceo clip. i think you talked about this on a morning show. >> i am a strong women. i run my own company like you said. but that is not the same as running the best country in the world and being commander in chief and head of state. the president of the united states. to me should be a man. not a female. >> okay. obviously -- >> was she transgender. >> no. don't go down that road su

who beat expectations and finished second in iowa to then go on to new hampshire and stun walter mondaleg him by ten points. >> boy, did new hampshire come up with a surprising finish tonight. >> hart's candidacy collapsed, but his victory exposed weakness in mondale. in november, ronald reagan carried 49 of 50 states. in 2012 mitt romney beat rick santorum, but never recovered from santorum's bruising. a populist insurgent is poised to become the latest protest vehicle, pushing hillary clinton to the left and potentially exposing vulnerability that could help republicans in the fall. and the democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders joins me now. welcome back to "meet the press." let me start with an issue you are going to be dealing with in a few hours. i know you'll be flying back from minneapolis to washington for this special senate session, nsa, patriot act session 215. i assume you are a supporter of the usa freedom act. is that where you are going to be voting? >> i may well be voting for it. it doesn't go as far as i want it to go. i voted against the patriot rack

walter mondale, who was vice president, told me on the first day of office, carter said we're going to try and bring peace. and the universal advice from his advisors was let'sai our second >> thelassicd goal. >> let's not try that right now. so to start with -- ittarted with carter, he had the determination and persistence and maybe the delusion he could do this. and he is working with two very eccentric men, sadat, longed for peace. >> yeah. >> israel had captured the sinai in 196 and sadat tried to recapture it in '73 and scared the israelis, you know, just was a -- took them out of their sense of smugness, and that they had -- the sinai, they were at that point, you know, they were setting up dive shops on the red sea and so on, pretty much annexed sinai and suddenly the egyptian army comes pooring across and reshapes the thinking but not necessarily toward peace. you know, in the thinking of a lot of israelis, we can't afford to give up sinai. >> yep. >> that's our 100-miles of sand between us and the main egyptian forces where would we be in the egyptians had started at the edge

first puerto rican to earn a law degree from temple, work as a special assistant to vice-president mondale and president clinton for general council for housing and urban development but his passion was for philadelphia where he served a dozen years as a common pleas court judge. >> i believe that the police and a the community should know each other. >> reporter: unlike his rival an atone i williams diaz is open to keeping charles ramsey as police commissioner. >> if he decided to work with me on community policing i would welcome the opportunity to keep him on. >> reporter: he also wants reforms, reducing philadelphia's wage and business taxes which he calls regress i have by shifting tax burden on to commercial real estate and he wants new sources of revenue like allowing center city bars to stay opened up at night. new money lead to new jobs and better philadelphia it business is what best for the city and what is best for the educational opportunities of our kids. that is why i'm doing it. >> reporter: he is also doing to it make history, to blaze a trail to city hall. you have got a

walter mondale. [applause] and howard baker.u so very very much for sending us such shining champions of democracy. [applause] the ambassador also embodies the tradition of american democracy. thank you. you have done for all of us. [applause] prime minister abe: we all miss senator daniel who symbolized the honor and achievements of japanese americans. [applause] prime minister abe: ladies and gentlemen, my first encounter with america goes back to my days as a student. when i spent time in california. a lady named catherine let me live in her house. she was a widow and always spoke of her late husband saying, you know he was much more handsome than gary cooper. [laughter] prime minister abe: she meant it, she really did. my wife is here. [applause] prime minister abe: i don't dare ask what she says about me. [laughter] prime minister abe: she was cheerful and so kind, and lots and lots of people stopped by at her house. they were so diverse, i was amazed and said to myself "american is an awesome country." later i took a job a

and gary hart beat walter mono mondale in the new hampshire primary.s do better than expected and win early. >> and you don't have to win, right? >> that's right. >> in '68, mccarthy did so well that ultimately president johnson opted not to run again, right? >> you see my material. i have nothing left to say. but that's absolutely right. but what i stressed last time the electorate the universe that votes in primary and caucuses, in the -- last time we had more than one ballot in a convention. it was in 1952 both parties, eisenhower and stevenson got nominated on the third ballot. the people that participate on the caucuses and primaries want to see a contest. it becomes a platform for their liberal views and they want a candidate to champion it. already o'malley who endorsed clinton four years ago is taking after her for not coming out against the trade bill for not -- >> real quick, is a fought-far nomination where you have multiple ballots dangerous for the party that has to go through that? >> no look at 1948 two people in both parties -- >> but b

>> please thank vice president mondale and senator hart. [applause] >> that was a lot of fun. >> in a little more than one hour, the senate will gavilan to consider a way forward on expiring provisions of the patriot act, including authorization for the nsa's they do commission program. senators could vote to extend the freedom act that extends the means by which the nsa read -- acquires phone data. it expires tonight at midnight. on the sunday talk shows, we heard from senators mike lee of utah and bernie sanders of vermont. here is what they had to say about the approaching deadline. senator lee: the question isn't whether we will get this passed but when. it will happen on wednesday or some time in between them. we are going to pass the freedom act which passed with a bipartisan super majority of 338 votes. this is a good day for the american people whose rights will be protected and whose privacy interests -- interests will be protected. >> 72 hours, that would provide a window where their powers are extended, even a short window, consi

while, we'd been doing this three or four weeks, and i sat between chip and vice president walter mondale. walter mondale was the son of a methodist minister but he had a very irreverent sense of humor and sometimes he would nudge me and say, jim i gave him a b minus, i gave him a b plus but on this particular occasion, chip was marveling because he had grown up in the catholic church as a devout catholic, and those were the days before pope john xxiii when the public had very little to do with the mass. it was voter clergy almost exclusively. and he said to chip as we left that morning, he said, chip said to president carter, he said, mr. president, i can't quit marveling at you protestants sure do know how to pray. and the president said with some confusion, to chip, i haven't the faintest idea who's a profit stent, who's catholic, who's jewish. chip said for your information these guys who come every tuesday except for danny and me, except when the senate brings traman along, i think traman is jewish but danny and i are catholics and then when he left, it hit him. chip's like, i realiz

after a while, we had been doing this three or four weeks and i sent between tip and my friend walter mondale. some of you may know he was the son of a methodist minister but sometimes asked someone to pray. he would nudge me and say, jim, i do not know. i gave you a b minus. but on this particular occasion, tip was marveling because he had grown up in the catholic church as a devout catholic, and those were the days before pope john the 23rd when the public had very little to do with mass. it was for the clergy exclusively. he said to tip as we left -- tip says to president carter, mr. president, i cannot quit marveling, you protestants know how to pray. the president said, some confusion, i have not -- i haven't the faintest idea who is a protestant, who is catholic, jewish. that said, for your information, these guys who come every tuesday, except for danny in me, are protestants except when the senate brings up somebody jewish , but we are the only catholics. then when he left, it hit. tip said i realized what i had done to the president. next tuesday he would -- he is going to call on da

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it was the movie "the lincoln conspiracy of quote got then-vice president walter mondale very excited the department of interior, which oversees the national park service, requested ford's theater to look at the diary and missing pages and they reviewed the diary and said that there was no hidden message in ink and then there was another piece of evidence i forgot to mention, and that is a journal that lafayette baker own in which dots had been placed under the letters. the journal was dated 1866 by lafayette baker and it said stanton did it. wow. turns out that was a 20th century fraud. people think it is great sport to dr. and come up with new evidence. they created evidence to back there believes. ultimately, civil war times which published this, recanted and apologized and said this is a fraud. after all of this, where do we come down? i'm sorry to say, it's boring, john wilkes booth did it. he had a band of terrorist conspirators who tried to kill seward and may have tried to kill johnson as well and they changed the course of american history, but there was no one behind it that

after democrats lost a series of presidential elections by landslides with mcgovern mondale, dukakis they stopped talking about spending programs and began thinking about investment and as chuck says resources etc. some of them i think come out just kind of spontaneously and naturally just like other internet memes these days where one person says it, and it kind of gets followed along. but a lot of these elected officials are counseled by their press staff to be very careful what they say. the most prominent figures now barely even answer off-the-cuff questions. elizabeth warren, she's a favorite of liberals and progressives, reporters can barely get a word in edgewise with her in the senate be hallways, and among the reasons she doesn't want to go off message. >> right. and i was just going to add that another source is popular culture. a lot of these come from reporters that are again, seeing things in the music and entertainment worlds and thinking, oh, i'll try to be hip, and so they adapted to politics. an example of that would be throwing shade which has become kind of the hip