. >> it was my pleasure to have mixer nixon -- mr. nixon here as our speaker when i came into office. it's been a wonderful meeting. we have to really promote our sled dogging and winter events around here. narrator: jim was pleased to have nixon as his guest at the world championship dogsled races. >> did it in about an hour and 10 minutes. >> terrific. >> now i've seen it in alaska, and i've seen it in laconia. >> it was a pleasure to have you here. >> thank you. >> you have my vote. narrator: jim had promised nixon his vote and he went to work to fulfill that promise by working for the nixon campaign in laconia. >> don't we have any other choice, jim? >> there are quite a few choices. >> are you a true johnson democrat? >> all the way. i think he is handling things as well as they can be handled. narrator: the democrats supporting the president had organized an intense campaign urging voters to endorse the administration by writing president johnson's name on the democratic ballot, in effect asking him to run again. >> i would say there

the strategy or the air force. >> and that this is a failure, and if you dig into this, the night mr. nixon had done an interview with dan rather on cbs and rather asks -- there's an escalation of the bombing now. nixon said, it's very effective. and then the next day in his own handwriting, he tells kissinger, that they've achieved nothing. not only his time as president. but lyndon johnson's time. we've had ten years of failure, and achieved zilch. and he had -- it takes some of vietnam and it turns it on its head. because here he is, i mean, you're -- this is the johnson library. that -- to bomb, to the extent nixon did, 2.9 million tons of bombs dropped in southeast asia, the first three years of his presidency. he wrote this note to kissinger, the beginning of 1972 when he's running for re-election and i read that, and alex and i went over that, it's mind bobbling that the president would think this but worse is in '72 he continued and escalated the bombing, dropping another -- ordering the dropping of another 1.1 million stones of bombs in southeast asia. >> because the polls said the

minutes. [ applause ] ♪ >>> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america and mrs. nixonmr. and mrs. david eisenhower, mr. and mrs. edward cox. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] >> hi. [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] [ applause ] >> thank you. well members of the cabinet, members of the white house staff, all of our friends here, i think the record should show that this is one of those spontaneous things that we always arrange whenever the president comes in to speak. [ laughter ] and it will be so reported in the press and we don't mind, because they've got to call it as they see it. but in our part, believe it, it is spontaneous. you are here to say good-bye to us. and we don't have a good word for it in english. the best is awe revoir. we'll see you again. [ applause ] >> i just met with the members of the white house staff, you know, those who serve here in the white house day in and day out, and i asked them to do what i ask all of you do-to-to do to extent that you can and are requested to do so, to serve our next president as y

mrs. kirby at nixon headquarters. we wanted to be sure to remind you to vote today. >> at nixon headquarters voters were offered rides to the polls. a common practice in both political parties. it began to snow in laconia. but that did not stop the voters from going to the polls. it looked so easy. a mark on a piece of paper. it was simple as picking out a new hat or selecting fresh vegetables for dinner. and it was done as casually. but in each voter's 3450i7bd there was the feeling that his vote, his personal choice of a presidential candidate could make a difference. >> i declare the polls closed. while ron went to mccarthy headquarters in manchester, dottie stayed in laconia. and she was finding it hard to wait for the final vote count. >> 316. over 50% of the vote. >> it was an upset. mccarthy made a surprisingly strong showing, and the young people who had worked for him suddenly had proof they could influence the national election by working for change within the framework of the democratic process. ron was ama

church: so you were making a very serious recommendation to mr. nixon. you were recommending that he authorize opening even though those openings were a violation of law? mr. huston: well, i think what we were recommending was that they be employed despite the fact that there was a federal law that prohibited it, it was not a relationship to have surreptitious entry. there was of course electronic surveillance and the whole question as to we would exercise this power and i think that is i think this is where the question arose. this is something i had told had been done for 25 years, had been done with the intelligence of the intelligence community. that they would be here long after we left town. the question was, whether inherent in the executive power the matters involving internal security or the security of the state, the president could act country to the statute. -- act contrary to the statute. mr. church: you were recommending that the president, in this case, authorize mail opening, even though such action was contrary to federal statute. mr. hus

church: so you were making a very serious recommendation to mr. nixon. you were recommending that he authorize opening even though those openings were a violation of law? mr. huston: well, i think what we were recommending was that they be employed despite the fact that there was a federal law that prohibited it, it was not a relationship to have surreptitious entry. there was of course electronic surveillance and the whole question as to we would exercise this power and i think that is where you asked me about this and i think this was a question that rose in my mind, what we were talking about was a something that had been done for 25 years. the question was if the president could act contrary to the dictates of the statute. >> you are recommending the president in this case --horized mail open to opening, even though such action was contrary to the federal , and you have suggested there might be some inherent rights to circumvent the fourth amendment to the concert edition statesunited guaranteeing citizens against unreasonable search and seizure, barr

mr. huston: well, i am not going to big what their position is. i'm sure other persons here would question you on that issue. through mr.t nixon halderman approve recommendations for changes you made on behalf of the entire intelligence community? mr. huston: yes. mr. schwarz: what happened after that? mr. huston: the question that rose was how should the agency changes be of limited? i have recommended to mr. halderman that the director office -- director's office should be contacted and that was the proper course to take, in particularly in the view of the decisions relative to mr. hoover . however, the president and mr. halderman didn't think that was necessary. so then the question became, how should the decision memorandum go out? mr. halderman seemed to think it was not necessary for either the he or the president to do that so i was nominated. mr. schwarz: so you -- mr. huston: i provided signatures. mr. church: this documented represented your proposal for the president in relaxing restraints on the intelligence community on what you call the revolutionary climate, i suppose that is in reference to the antiwar protests

>> well mr. nixone a lot of number of speeches, he was never paid one penny for a speech after he left office, by the way, in comparison with the clintons for example or even with mr. bush 41. he wrote a number of books which were quite well thought of about the foreign policy era. >> as did jimmy carter. >> coy see mr. obama doing some useful things, but i think it's mainly narcissism. >> no one has written more books than you. you can't even keep count. >> i've given that up doing that. now my entire intent is just to appreciate my daily life day by day. >> it's a good goal that will do it intelligent safety shield technologies. whoa! like forward emergency braking that could stop your car for you. save even more with holiday bonus cash this memorial day, during nissan's safety today event. for a limited time, save up to $1,500 on the 2016 nissan rogue with $500 memorial day bonus cash. where can i buy it? sign me up! shop your local nissan store and choosenissan.com today. ♪ i've got a nice long lif

. >> so you were making a serious recommendation to mr. nixon. you were recommending that he authorized mail openings even though such openings were a violation of the law. >> well, i think what was being recommended is that they be employed in spite of the fact that there was a federal law that prohibited. in relationship to both the mail and interest there was electronic surveillance and the whole question as to whether the fourth amendment applied to the president in this internal security power. that's why i earlier said when you asked me about our thinking, i think this is where the question arose. in my mind what we were talking about is something i had been told was done for 25 years. they authorize mail openness even though it was contrary to the stature. >> you have suggested that there might be some adherent right that circumvents the fourth amendment guaranteeing citizens against unusual searches and seizures without a warrant bearing upon the national security responsibilities. >> senator, i think this goes to the heart of the matter

mr. updegrove: nixon is a very enigmatic person. you write often that he would say one thing and mean another. you had to judge when he was saying -- dr. kissinger: he didn't mean another. i had a very clear idea of what he wanted. you have to understand it, you cannot survive security advisor, you have only one constituent, and that the president of the united states. and you must be absolutely straight with him. and the most important thing is security advisor can do, and must do, is to tell the president the options he has. sometimes he has to save the president from ill considered first moves. and if you abuse that, utility, [indiscernible] and nixon, it's not generally known, hated personal confrontations. and so, therefore, in face-to-face confrontations, it was like it was possible that he expressed himself ambiguously. but, if you in any written excerpts, you can absolutely rely on what he was saying. if you look at his record, he knew he was a very strong president. and sticking to his basic convictions. and he took in or m

mr. updegrove: a domestic policy matter, the war on drugs. audience member: it was under nixon. dr. kissinger: i don't think any statement i can make on the war of drugs -- mr. updegrove: fair enough. [applause] dr. kissinger: i want to make one other point. my observations are directed as an american, for the american audience. i have great sympathy for the vietnamese who are in this audience. and of course, their perspective has to be, have to be different. i am sorry, but not because of any action the administration admits i was involved in. it is a historic tragedy that america found itself so divided and could not solve its domestic debates, so that it could come out of the war with a result that was more compatible on a bipartisan basis. that is the lesson we should learn. mr. updegrove: you have made your mark on history, what will history say about henry kissinger? [laughter] dr. kissinger: i have no obsession about this. i have the good fortune of being able to come to the united states when most, many of the people with whom i grew up, were killed in germany. so i have alwa

mrs. kirby at nixon headquarters. we wanted to be sure to remind you to vote today. >> at nixon headquarters voters were offered rides to the polls. a common practice in both political parties. it began to snow in laconia. but that did not stop the voters from going to the polls. it looked so easy. a mark on a piece of paper. it was simple as picking out a new hat or selecting fresh vegetables for dinner. and it was done as casually. but in each voter's 3450i7bd there was the feeling that his vote, his personal choice of a presidential candidate could make a difference. >> i declare the polls closed. while ron went to mccarthy headquarters in manchester, dottie stayed in laconia. and she was finding it hard to wait for the final vote count. >> 316. over 50% of the vote. >> it was an upset. mccarthy made a surprisingly strong showing, and the young people who had worked for him suddenly had proof they could influence the national election by working for change within the framework of the democratic process. ron was ama

nixon white house taping system. in june, 1973, during testimony before the senate watergate committee, mr. dean implicated president nixon and administration officials, including himself, in the watergate cover-up. mr. dean later pleaded guilty of obstruction of justice for his role in watergate and served four months in prison. this class is about an hour and ten minutes. >>> discovering the taping system, was it lucky or inevitable is what we're looking at in this lecture. the nixon taping, the whole story of the nixon tapes has been only partially told. it has taken me years to gather and find out what happened. and since it is one of the most important factors in the watergate story, i think it is important to get that history straight. and we're going to try to do that in a summary fashion today. before i start, i would like to remind you that other presidents did tape, starting with franklin roosevelt, who used a -- when they first went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a system put in the oval office that recorded. i'm going to try a very, very quick sample -- oops,

mr. . i'm glad that allen brought up nixon. it was a nixon gimmick.under pressure during the checker speech that he challenged his opponents to do to deflect from the scandals nixon was under. i guess allen is for nixon gimmicks. >> the point is he did it -- >> obamas have released 12 years of their tax returns. we know america has never seen any more better prosperity and the world is at peace said no one ever. this is -- it's a red herring, a chinese squirrel, whatever you want to call it. what we do know is whatever their tax returns sayi it's not about how they're going to govern. >> you're missing the point. he's lied. three different answers. that's the issue here and he said he would do it he's not going to do it. >> i'm not sure how you made it through the clinton administration when it came to everything they said. i did not have sex with that woman. >> this is the argument you always use, not you, i mean those on the other side the other side is worse. the other side does it too. >> here's what the american people are tired of these kinds of

mr. trump's anti-establishment stance that most threatens international security as even nixon recognizedhly-trained corps of diplomats, worldly financiers and academics to steer it straight. get rid of them and mr. trump seems intent on doing and chaos will follow. >> it's simply true that the united states has created a world that's fostered stability, kept us out of world war. we're all here. a huge, giant global economy. they've by and large gotten it right for a long time. it takes skill and expertise to do that. amateurs can't do that. to deal with countries that nuclear weapons and complicated trade deals, every president, including people who railed against the elite, like richard nixon. >> richard nixon -- >> understood that. >> he had harvard types in his cabinet. so what do you think a donald trump cabinet will look like? as you said, he railed against that, but he had them in his cabinet. >> what you're talking about is the glue that keeps everything together. and while it is not optimal, and they do make a lot of mistakes. it is what keeps everything together. donald trump, i

mr. schwarz: if you start with franklin roosevelt and run nixon, that is what we covered. there was crisis almost time -- all the time and there has been. you have to be vigilant to protect the country and you don't want to use the need to protect the country as a device to let you do things that everybody would say are improper . i would like to make teedo other elliot' in response to s excellent summary of how it vacillates. after the snowden revelations -- and the snowden revelations happen when we have dysfunction in the congress because both parties are unable or unwilling to cooperate with each other -- but the legislation that was was completely bipartisan . the senators were senator mike lee, ht part he senator from -- a tea party senator from utah and patrick leahy, a democratic senator from vermont. the leader of the house was a very young tea party person and the other sponsor of reform in the house was john conyers, a long-time african-american, democratic liberal from detroit. these issues can bring people together. the other point i would like to , in terms o

mr., dr. henry kissinger. foreign policy guru to a lot of presidents. nixon and ford among them.rently nine days shy of his 93rd birthday. he and donald trump are due to meet sometime this afternoon here at the offices of kissinger associates in new york and that is just about all i can tell you. because there's no other information coming out about it. the news crews are right there. that's a live picture you're looking at. they're waiting on the sidewalk to see the walk-in, at least. we do know this week alone, the republican presidential nominee to be has predicted, quote, not a very good relationship with britain if he's elected president and declared that he would have, quote, no problem speaking personally with north korean dictator kim jong-un. here's what trump said about that to reuters. >> i would speak to him. i would have no problem speaking to him. at the same time, i would put a lot of pressure on china because economically, we have tremendous power over china, china can solve that problem with one meeting or one phone call. >> the landslide i mentioned in yesterday

mr. stine, just looking at you and thinking of president nixon.ident nixon that kicked off the tradition of releasing his tax forms. he released his when under audit back in 1973. do you think trump's refusal to release them is significant or is this, you know, this is a different president -- different race, the rules are out the window? >> well, it's interesting you ask me this question, because i was assigned the task as a nixon speech writer and lawyer of going through president nixon's income tax returns and found he had done a lot of extremely questionable things. >> there you go. >> they were gigantic bomb shells in the media over his taking a tax deduction for deducting his presidential papers that were found to be the property of the taxpayers not him. we definitely want these tax returns released for all candidates. why? it's not a law, it's not required. and people are allowed to pay as little taxes as they can get away with. it says about a person if he brags about having $10 billion and paying very little in the way of tax. it tells u

mrs. truman cannot control his light which, i'm not going to try. [laughter] >> then nixon started answering, a pious answer about his sacred heart being broken. how the mothers of america are just in terror because of this terrible language. throughout this whole speech from nixon they kept showing kennedy with a careful smile, and i thought to myself afterwards as well as on the spot, that he lost by 120,000 votes. that smile in that moment was probably worth more then 100,000 votes. i have two or three other moments of smiles, but i think you may smile at me -- if you get back to me, i will give you my sort of revolutionary position. it is not the tangible artifacts that we can see and touch, but something as intangible as a real and a good smile. >> senator, you are with president kennedy at the founding of the peace corps. could you tell us how that was inspired? >> kennedy was a very late at the university of michigan where he was going to spend the night after a television debate with nixon. it was approaching 2:00 a.m. they got there for a talk, and he looked at the

nixon and ford. we have more with john. >> reporter: good afternoon to you. mr. trump met with james baker haft week when he was in washington and happened after secretary baker was critical of don altd trump's foreign policy. they are not giving out details. secretary kissinger isrning 93 a week from friday. with all of the secret service consideration, they may be meeting here at trump tower. he was secretary of state to president nixon and ford and met with candidates for president the and vice-president. in 2008, he had a meeting with sarah palin. donald trump looking to foster foreign policy credentials. and same time as all of this is happening, donald trump facing barage of attacks. priority usa launching a 6 million adin virginia, ohio and florida and nevada. having people mount trump's own words. >> fat [bleep]. girls come up to you five foot one. >> and of course, donald trump didn't take kindly to that. amazing that crocked hillary does a crooked adon when her husband was the worst in abuse per of woman in u.s. political history. donald trump making a

mrs. clinton back in the '70s on the nixon impeachment.d i was generally supportive of him as president as well. >> when is the last time you've spoken with the clintons. >> i don't think i've spoken with her in two years. i would see them in new york. >> you ran for new york governor. do you have any relationship with donald trump. >> i knew donald socially in new york, that's all. but we did see him and melania around town a little bit. >> what's your opinion of him. >> there's the donald trump that you meet socially and he's a generous person. some of the stuff he's running on i think is absolutely chaotic. i'm going do this to mexico. that's a violation of the north american free trade agreement which is the supreme law of the land i'm going to do this to china, that's a violation of the world trade organization rules exposing the united states to sanctions there. so we would be the roeg nation. >> donald trump is no stranger to name calling. hillary clinton has said she's not going to get into the gutter with him. during the february

mrs. clinton back in the 70s. we were still in our 20s. that was on the nixon impeachment. fascinating time. bill clinton and i got along very well as fellow governors. >> when is the last time you spoke with the clintons, secretary clinton? >> i don't think i've spoken to her in two years. i've seen her in new york. i lived in new york and i'd see both of them there. >> do you have any relationship with donald trump? >> i knew donald socially in new york, that's all. yeah, we did see him and melania around town a little bit. >> what's your opinion around him? >> well, there's the donald trump that you meet socially, he's a warm person, not an ungenerous person. some of the stuff that he's running on i think is absolutely chaotic. i'm going to do this to mexico. that's a violation of the north american free trade agreement, which is the supreme law of the land. it's a treaty. we signed it. that's a violation of the world trade organization rules, exposing us, the united states, to sanctions there. so we would be the rogue nation. i don't think we want to be the rogue nation. let's let north

mrs. clinton back in the '70s. we were still in our 20s. that was on the nixon impeachment. fascinating time.g with very well as fellow governors and i was generally supportive of him as president, as well. >> you ran for new york governor. do you have any relationship with donald trump? >> i knew donald socially in new york. that's all. but yeah. we did see him and melania around town a little bit. >> what is your opinion of him? >> well, you know, that's the donald trump you meet socially and he is a warm person. not an ungenerous person. some of the stuff that he's running on i think is absolutely chaotic. i'm going to do this to mexico. okay. that's a violation of the north american free trade agreement which is the supreme law of the land. it is a treaty. we signed it. i'll do this to china. no questions asked. okay. that's a violation of the world trade organization laws and we would be the rogue nation. i don't think we want to be the rogue nation. you know? let's let north korea be the rogue nation. not us. >> governor johnson, donald trump is no stranger to name calling. hillary clin

nixon won the presidency that year in a tight race over hubert humphrey. this half hour film is courtesy over the alabama department of archives and history. mr. wallace: i am pleased to announce this morning that more than 100,000 telephone ends have registered as members of the american independent party to give us assistance in getting a place in the california ballot in next year's general election. i want to thank the countless californians who have done so much to assist us. i point out these people are representative of millions of americans who are generally concerned about the current direction being followed by our national leadership. ♪ >> ♪ walking in the sunshine sing a little sunshine song put a smile upon your face because there's nothing wrong think about, forget about your worries ♪ announcer: the wallace victory in california did not come easy. when george wallace brought his southern style camping to california's, it did not come easily. southern traditions and national issues have in the past appeared too much at opposite poles. apparently, wallace wasn't bothered that his down-home campaign, complete with gospel singing, b

nixon wrote this book "six crises." it was a very big book in the 1960's. mr. hassett: there are about five hands up. there were six, we would have one for each crises. he talks about: how arthur burns, who had been the chair of economic advisers to eisenhower, called nixon and said you need to get the eisenhower administration to push the fed toward easier policies, otherwise the election is going to go to the democrats. there are two remarkable about the story -- one that it happened, we need the administration to aggressively push the martin said, something the eisenhower administration had been steadfast about not doing, and that number two, nixon and burns felt so comfortable about this that they wrote it down in a national bestseller. there was nothing to hide about this kind of collusion. it really set the stage for the burns-nixon relationship. some of this is a new window. there is a book after that is -- innuendo. there is a book afterward that is self-serving, but arthur burns comes off as the messenger boy, holding up our decisions in her to keep the nixon administration politically itself

nixon wrote this book "six crises." has anyone read that book? it was a very big book in the 1960's. mr. hassett: there are about five hands up. if there were six, we would have one for each crises. mr. conti-brown: he talks about how arthur burns, who had been the chair of economic advisers to eisenhower, called nixon and said you need to get the eisenhower administration to push the fed toward easier policies, otherwise the election is going to go to the democrats. there are two things remarkable about this story one thing that happened we need the administration to aggressively push the martin fed, something that the eisenhower administration had been steadfast about not doing, and m that number two, nixon and burns wrote it down in a national bestseller. there was nothing to hide about this kind of collusion. it really set the stage for the burns-nixon relationship. ome of this is innuendo. we have none ehrlichman writing a book which is a lot of it is self-serving. but arthur burns comes off as just the message boy for the nixon administration, holding off hard decisions in order to

50 years ago when we both worked in effect for bryce harlow who was president nixon's chief of congressional relations. mr. harlow who was revered in washington still would have saturday morning meetings of all of us who have the job of being congressional liaison with members of congress, and bob bennett was in the transportation department and i was mr. harlow's assistant and telephone answerer in the white house at the time. we got to know each other then. we've known each other ever since. he and his wife joyce have visited with our home in tennessee. we have traveled with them. we have worked together on a variety of issues. they have become -- they have become very special friends. he was the chairman of the subcommittee, the energy and water subcommittee to which senator hatch referred that had so much to do with his home state of utah. he handled that with great diligence and great effectiveness for a number of years. that's the bill we're working on today in the senate. i will be at his service tomorrow as will other -- other senators, but i simply wanted to add my voice to those of the majority

mr. arnett: i think it's clear from the panel discussions at this conference of an important policy of president kennedy, johnson and next in involving vietnam -- nixon involving vietnam were carefully concealed from the american public to maintain but i called. the media policies of all three president attended heavy-handed news manipulation and intimidation of reporters in the field and their superiors back home. the objective was to proceed with actions in vietnam that have publicly debated would meet resistance at home and concern abroad. compelders endeavored to a powerful news industry with a long tradition of bold, moral reporting to bend to the whims of policymakers making questionable judgments on issues important to the american public. judgments often made far from the battlefields. in earlier significant american wars, the government, with official censorship, took upon itself the burden of deciding what news was fit to print. what information gathered by reporters in the field might harm the security of military operations or what might not. in terms ofessage achieving the overall objectives and keeping the support of the public at large

the vietnam peace negotiations when nixon -- it was called the mad man theory -- wanted to convince them he was a little bit cracked and they may want to negotiate. mrtrump said we should abide by our agreements except the trade agreements which he promises, i think, to repudiate. >> and the iran deal. >> and the iran deal. he also referred to our problems with russia as a cycle of hostility which is a way of postulating moral equivalence. they do something, we do something, everyone is to blame. finally he said obama has made iran a great power. that seems to me an example of what's called narcissistic policy disorder. the belief that everything that happens in the world is because of something we did or didn't do. again, it inflates the american role at a time when mr. trump was trying, i think, to withdraw america's role and shrink it a bit. >> kimberly, do you see a coherent trump policy or is it mostly just assurances, trust me, i will make it work. >> you can see the trump doctrine he was trying to develop saying he wants to build up the military because there was significant military cuts. we need to do that. we need to modify the rules of en

mr. trump further takes the step of releasing his taxes that's up to him. he has said he will do it when the audit is over. let's wait until the audit is over. >> even richard nixon released his tax returns when he was being audited. isn't this part of becoming the nominee. >> he has said he will release his taxes. i will take him at his word and we will go from there. >> i want to talk about this "washington post" today unear unearthed this audio from years ago, i'm sure you're very familiar with it, donald trump posing as his publicist. he knocked that down and said that is not me. what is your reaction to that and does that somehow affect his argument he will be a fair ethical candidate moving forward. >> i don't understand that. he said, no. why would that undermine anything? >> you take him at his word? >> if you look into the "washington post" on a daily basis, there's a list of corrections they make. let's be honest. when it comes to corrections i'm not exactly thinking the media has clean hands when it comes to these discussions and accuracy on a daily basis the mainstream media makes. let's be fair. number two, he said it wasn't him. number two, the idea

nixon and ford administrations, secretary of state henry kissinger. it's likely because kissinger is 92 years old, will celebrate his 93rd birthday a week from friday, that donald trump will meet with mrkissinger. you might remember, last week, he had a hastily arranged meeting with former secretary of state james baker after baker said at a senate hearing earlier in the day, this is back when trump was visiting washington and meeting with the congressional leadership, that baker said during that congressional hearing, that he was opposed to what trump was saying about nato and reducing america's participation in nato or at least the funding of it and allow japan and south korea to have their own nuclear arsenal, so we hope to find out tomorrow what he says in this meeting with kissinger. really more of a ticket punch than anything. >> john roberts live outside trump tower. thank you. as you look at the race board from kentucky. 1,869 votes separate hillary clinton and bernie sanders. some 40 precincts out in kentucky of about 3,700 precincts in kentucky and that is the number separating the two, 1,869. we were not making a call as of yet. we'll wait for more total to come in. let's b

mr. donald trump, he's going to be meeting today with former secretary of state kissinger who was top adviser to richard nixone is willing to talk to north korean leader kim. >> i will speak to him, i would have no problems speaking to him at the same time i would put a lot of pressure on china because economically we have tremendous power over china, people don't realize this. they are extracting vast billions of dollars out of our country. billions. sandra: your take on the meeting what happened you expect out of it. >> i know that mr. trump is a smart man and surrounds himself with smart people, people who are in that arena and this is a great meeting, we are very much -- sandra: you do hear criticism and obviously there is some of that out there of his foreign policy and that he's going to surround himself with strong people and smart people but those that are challenging him are saying, is he willing to listen to these people. >> absolutely, yes, absolutely. i know that firsthand. i've known mr. trump for 11 years. he absolutely listens to people who have more experience in that arena. mr. trump is not a

nixon, even carter, reagan, clinton, real strong growth there, the obama administration has been clearly by any measure a lost decade of economic growth. a lost decade of economic growth. and unfortunately, mr. president, you don't hear the administration talking about it at all. now, you can understand why. it's an abysmal record. but the truth of the matter is if you look back in history and we had.5g.d.p. growth, we weren't growing and that news came out, whether it was a democrat or a republican administration, almost every time something like that, the secretary of the treasury would have come out and said, don't worry, america, we know you're hurting. we have a plan. the secretary of commerce, we have ideas on growing the economy. we know that.5% g.d.p. growth, essentially flat growth, no growth, is not the historical tradition of america. cabinet members in any administration historically, all of these would have come out and told us, we know it's a problem and here's how we're going to fix it. two weeks ago when this news came out, we heard nothing from this administration, nothing. now, when they do talk about the economy, it's typically three type of responses. one is my colleague

mr. thornberry's amendment and or what he talks about micromanagement. micro management goes back to the founding of the national security council. you think richard nixon's secretary of state and secretary of defense didn't think henry kissinger micro managed when he was the national security advisor? he sarpetishesly altered the u.s. policy to china on his own with his staff at n.s.c. there's a long tradition of micro management and interference and i have no doubt that mr. thornberry is right. every secretary of defense and every secretary of state would have a similar complaint. of course they would. and they might be right. to elevate this job over 100 people to senate confirmation actually aggravates the problem. now you've got to codify the micro management. you are going to make this a policymaking apparatus in direct competition with the very department you're trying to help, the department of defense and the department of state. it's the wrong answer to the growing size of an n.s.c. i don't remember republican complaints about the growth of the n.s.c. under the previous administration, and maybe we can work together in the future to try to make