>>> the man known as the evil genius of the nixon administration has died. charles colson has served time in jail for his role in the nixon administration. he died from complications of a brain hemmorage. >>> robin gibb has been out of a coma in a hospital overseas. >>> a japan explosion at a chemical plant. it is not known what caused the explosions. >>> imagine a 20 pound ball of sticks moving toward you. two men are under arrest for rigging these booby traps off the big springs trail. they were found saturday by an

it was -- it did that in the nixon administration. violated the law back then and violated the law when first created. for 30 years it eavesdropped illegally on u.s. communications until discovered in 1975. so it has a history of eavesdropping illegally on u.s. citizens, and then lying about

in '63, deputy undersecretary of treasury in the nixon administration. she's undersecretary of international -- treasury for international monetary affairs. 1975 the president of the new york -- the chair of the new york fed in 1979. chairman of the u.s. fed until 1987. five presidents in a row, reagan, kennedy, l.b.j., nixon, carter, reagan. a 20-year hiatus of largely some teaching and finance work and then the return to the national spotlight in 2008 with his endorsement of barack obama and subsequently his role in the economic recovery across the last four years. there's a volcker rule but there's also for this moment in time a bradley rule, which is it is always a really good thing when you get to introduce paul volcker at a podium. here's paul volcker and steve clemons who is my colleague at atlantic media. >> thank you, david.

one of the nice things about these nixon administration was how many young people there were. here we are 40 years later and we're doing these panels with veterans of the nixon white house and nixon administration who can tell you about what it was like to be there. and, you know, we have almost the full original staff of speech writers. we're going to be talking about a lot of on other substantive areas as we go forth, but it is because there was a very, very young staff and we have matured quite nicely. you saw the colored hair in the beginning of it and you look across and we don't have that anymore. thank you all for coming. >>> a generation before president john f. kennedy acting on behalf of a grateful nation designated him an honorary american citizen, winston churchill paid his own heartfelt tribute to his transatlantic origins. appearing before a joint session of congress on the day after christmas, 1941, he puckishly observed, i cannot help reflecting that if my fathered had american and my mother british instead of the other way around i might have got here on my own

as you recall, he was so well respected by nixon and the administration he was actually put in charge the oil import task force. we were -- most of the appointees were pretty liberal in terms of pro-regulation. as i said, i was the most conservative, and nevertheless we were active and wanted to solve problems, and that's very dangerous. the process of developing many of these initiatives have made me considerably more conservative. i've seen the cost on society. for instance, on occupational safety and health, i was just given instruction by george, we have to come up with an initiative there. there was no discussion at all except the arguments that i kept making for a cost benefit in the legislation. >> i'll circle back, if i may, to affirmative action. i know you wrote about it, and people interested in this interview should go and look at what you describe as your mia cul culpa. can we just unpack for the view er how you think goals and timetables became inflexible quotas, numerical quotas? how did that objective that you had and described as such at the time become quote as? how

you talk with him about the days that you were chasing him as a reporter and he was in the nixon administratione joked about it that night over dinner. he famously said during the nixon re-election campaign that he would walk over his grandmother to get nixon re-elected. i worked for jack anderson, a bunch of us are sitting around the office. we called in the white house, and we said reporter for some organization, we had, there was a woman in milwaukee we claimed to be a grandmother. furious with him and what did he have to say? she said -- never got him on the phone. another person did the same thing. so i picked up the phone and called and a woman answered saying this is natty hattie and you tell my grandson he can't walk all over me. i asked him about it and he said he never heard of it. >> bret: i didn't think we were going to get the voice. i like that. good addition. thank you, sir. african-american congressman gets dissed by the naacp. where on earth was everybody on earth day? grapevine is next. i'm freaking out man. why? i thought jill was your soul mate. no, no it's her dad. the gene

that period of the reagan administration and the ford administration and the nixon administration, we had this pressure for talk with the soviet union, and it was a theory that there were ways to find accommodations with the soviet union and richard nixon and actually lyndon johnson began and richard nixon and gerald ford continued with secretary of state kissinger as the leader of that movement. the theory was not unrealistic. it was that you ought to be able to find some areas of accommodation and if you are steely eyed and careful, you ought not to compromise on something you shouldn't compromise on but by the same token, you might try to reach out and see if you can achieve a relaxation of tension, which the word detante suggests. the problem with it was that the soviet union at the time was increasing its capabilities and was on an up trend. the united states was decreasing its capabilities on a relative basis and we were moving into a roughly a band of rough equivalents where they were superior in some areas, we were superior in some areas. i don't know any american military per

he was widely called the evil genius of president nixon's administration. he helped run nixon's re-election committee when it burglarized the national democratic committee offices. but his prison time was for obstruction of justice in connection to the pentagon papers. he became a christian evangelical who helped prison inmates. he was 80 years old. >>> up next, chuck's back to tell us about a dramatic change in the forecast. >>> and coming up tonight at 11:00, miley cyrus has slimmed down noticeably. the controversy over her new >>> a cash jacking turned into a kidnapping with two people locked in the trunk. it all started this morning in columbia heights and ended just across the border in maryland. news4's derrick ward reports that the kidnappers were thwarted because they didn't know how to drive the car. >> the police dogs and search teams were gone, but the saturday morning quiet had been broken. >> my dogs are an alarm system for us. and when they bark, we know that something is going on. >> actually, an ordeal was ending for two people whom police sa

. >> chuck colson, the man once described as the evil genius of the nixon administration has died fromomplications of brain surgery. he served as for the nixon's special counsel and spent a year in prison for watergate related crimes. he became a born-again christian and a leading voice in the evangelical movement and an advocate for prison reform some leading republicans are reacting to his death. mitt romney said -- indiana congressman, my pants said -- -- mike pence said -- >> the capitals are bringing the series back home with quite a bit of momentum after a back- and-forth game five. washington took the lead with less than two minutes left to play in the third. >> the caps have won the last two straight. greg joins us now with a look at the highlights. >> i go back to when they fired at bouguereau. here they are now, a series of great highs and lows. they win another one-goal game. bacon wrapped up this first round series on sunday afternoon. tied at two against the bruins. this will make it 3-to washington. the bruins tied it again and it looked like we would go to overtime. with

and it's -- it goes to some things that happen in the nixon administration. and it's a tendency in the white house, on the most sensitive issues, the more sensitive the issue, the smaller the circle of people the president likes to consult. because of leaks. and so an issue in which really should require a lot of different voices tends to have just one or two or three voices. and in this case, jerry ford just made up his mind. he can be a very stubborn man when he doesn't -- and jerry ford, i to this day do not believe there was any deal with al hague. i think he did it to preserve his capacity of governing as president. i think just for what he said. that he couldn't -- it was taking up all his time. i believe to this day that jerry ford is one of the most honest people we've ever had in the white house. and i think one of the least appreciated presidents. al simpson when i introduced him once at the kennedy school, al simpson came back and said, you know, if -- if you have integrity as president, nothing else matters. if you don't have integrity as presiden

. >>> the man known as the evil genius of the nixon administration has died. charles colson has served time in jail for his role in the nixon administration. he died from complications of a brain hemmorage. >>> robin gibb has been out of a coma in a hospital overseas. >>> a japan explosion at a chemical plant. it is not known what caused the explosions. >>> imagine a 20 pound ball of sticks moving toward you. two men are under arrest for rigging these booby traps off the big springs trail. they were found saturday by an officer who had been in the military and trained to find devices like this. >>> the winner of the london marathon received a royal reception to prince harry. he handed out the medals for the winners. >>> pitcher phil humber has had a remarkable turn around. after bouncing around for for years for breaking into the big leagues, he will be remembered forever. he pitched a perfect game in seattle on saturday. it was the first perfect game in two years and the 21st in major league history. all right. that's the news. janice is back with us. good da

bush's administration had negotiated but was then sort of dormant in the early months of the nixon administration and i want you to take a message to president clinton about nafta. he said he's coming out very strongly for it, and i know he doesn't have the vote, but tell him that there are things worse than losing, and it's really important that he stand up for this, and then he added, if he wants to understand why it is so important to embrace nafta, tell him to read up on the repeal of the laws and i thought to myself, only nixon, of all of the presidents i've known would reach back into history that way and find this illuminating example and it was telling because i went back and double checked myself and i knew what i was talking myself. in the court laws in the mid-19th century against the protests of many farmers know it was a move away from protectionism toward free trade and it's often regarded as one of those turning points that unleashed the british economy and even though there were people who got hurt in the interim because they were no longer protected, and they did a great deal for

. >> lawrence sill berman served as the undersecretary of labor during the nixon administration. mr. silberman discusses that era and osha. up next are excerpts from his interview. >> it's july 31, 2009 in washington, d.c. and i have the honor and privilege to interview judge laurence silberman. tell me how derek bach got you to hawaii. >> i was going to clerk for a federal district judge in newark and come to a law firm in washington the following year. derek had recommended me to this federal judge. i was particularly interested in practicing labor law, and this federal judge had been roosevelt's labor counsel and it was well-known. his name is minden laurel, two weeks before i was to arrive as a law clerk, he died, which left me with a wife, two children, and no job for a year because my arrangement with the washington firm was the following year, and they had no opening immediately. derek found me in the library, i believe, at the business school where i was writing a paper, and asked whether i'd be willing to go to hawaii. the only other alternative at the time, which sort o

was the first report of the watergate story in the media, the so-called dirty tricks in the nixon administration and his process while working in the white house. this is one hour 20 minutes. >> people in the high-tech, media-saturated world get stereotyped pictures of the people, and they then conclude that is all there is to that person. nixon was a very complicated personality. he characterized the history as the evil emperor who punished his enemies and was a vindictive and mean and vicious. he was actually a very kind, decent man. there were many, many times when we would have discussions, even though i was a guy with a political portfolio, i was a guy with the task of mobilizing outside groups, he would just talk about, "we have to do this because this is the right thing." in 1964, in the back of his limousine, up to his apartment on the upper east side, he had said, "you know, we have to do this, because the kind of world our children and grandchildren live in depends on it." he could be an incredible idealist, and people do not see him that way. unfortunately, they will not, because ther

. >> from the tapes, you worked on the nixon administration's reaction to vietnam veterans against the war. >> it was a current issue in twoufrmt i am not sure i recruited them. somebody in the white house told me about them. i can't tell you how i heard about it, but invited him to my office, was hugely impressed. navel academy grad watd, very military, handle himself well, spoke articulatly. and was a democrat that voted against nixon, but believed nixon was right, that this war issue was being politicized, and as a patriot, he wanted to contradict what the veterans against the war stood for. he started at that point an organization. i think his organization had a name at that point. we helped them get television appearances already. i think he organized vietnam veterans in support of the war. my staff watched for these things, bud evans, that probably was the one that told me about it. and about o'neal. i remember being very impressed with him, wanting nixon to meet him. i took him in to the oval office, had another man with him, and only thing struck me was the suit, he looked prep

. >> anyone who lived through the nixon administration has deep impressions of your father. what is the most popular misconception about your father? >> i haven't thought about that. i tend to think of the positive. i've kind of retired from that whole thing. what i mean is, his -- i'm so proud of his record. that's what that has te be focused on. not just the foreign policy. but the environmental protection agency. the desegregation of southern schools. that was really -- tom of "the new york times" columnist said that was his greatest achievement. when he took office 68% of black children in the south were in all black schools. when he left office, 8%. and the way he did it, and it showed his leadership is that he quietly engaged southern officials. instead of saying this is a shame and scandal and the south is bad and we have to change this, he got the southern officials to be on advisory committees. they were doing all kinds of things to make sure this happened. and there was a partnership. this made the south the great region of the country it is today. how could they b

that is when suddenly, suddenly, the nixon administration, john mitchum, sparrowing agneu foolishly established of calling people less than patriotic. >> reporter: wallace was also known for his ambush interviews. >> everybody is scuttling like cockroaches i don't understand. >> reporter: his legacy includes an interview with malcolm x. >> are you not afraid what might happen to you as a result of making these revolutions. >> oh, yes, i probably am a dead man already. >> reporter: dr. martin ruther king junior. former palestinian leader i can't sayer arafat. >>> maybe they are opposing me but not to kill me. >> reporter: a ground breaking interview with dr. death. >> something almost ghoulish in your desire to see the deed done >> appears that way to you i can't kit tuesday size you for that. >> reporter: and -- criticize you for that. >> reporter: and one on one with the chinese president. >> reporter: his other interviews, read like a whose who of news makers. >> you must be good to me. >> why would i be otherwise. >> you would love to control this piece. >> absolutely of course i don't trust

. >> "the washington post" had gone public right at that point, and the nixon administration had decided on a strategy of going after the tv licenses of "the washington post," to gut the basic economic health of the company. this is you know, a huge undertaking of courage on the part of "the washington post." >> you look at the stock had just gone public and it was in the toilet because of the challenge. >> the daily attacks. >> could i ask you to do something for me just an exercise. you were 29 years old when this happened, you stayed in the news business, you got lots more experience, you are certainly aware of the climate, of the existing political climate, the existing news climate. you have a long distinguished journalistic career. it's a beautiful day out there and marcus has the staff of "the washington post" home, they are gone, the phone call has come in that says there has been a break-in. and you two are the only people on earth who can cover it. what do you do today? tell me today, given everything you know, what are you going to do, what's your first thing you're going to d

leonard garman, and ray price, i think you put your hand to one of the great state papers of the nixon administration in march of 1970 in a message to congress on school desegregation this very complicated and controversial subject, which as i remember you asked the congress to appropriate sums of money to help the southern districts go through this terribly difficult process. but there were people on the staff, i think, pat, you were one, there was another, so there was controversy on the staff. now, in the eisenhower's time i was there to give you an example, you would have a cabinet meeting. my understanding is in general president nixon didn't like to have meetings with people face to face with controversies face to face in front of him in a cabinet or any other time. but i think he took this message to his thinking room over in the executive office building and made his own decisions. but -- so my query is, how is that or other controversies, how were they handled in the nixon white house? >> well, i think, brad, i recall being in that. it was a very tough series of meetings. secretary -- excuse

and it's -- it goes to some things that happen in the nixon administration. and it's a tendency in the white house, on the most sensitive issues, the more sensitive the issue, the smaller the circle of people the president likes to consult. because of leaks. and so an issue in which really should require a lot of different voices tends to have just one or two or three voices. and in this case, jerry ford just made up his mind. he can be a very stubborn man when he doesn't -- and jerry ford, i to this day

as the nixon administration did. >> gracie on twitter. what would happen if we got rid of the nsa, defund them? fire them? what would happen? >> i don't know. it would be an interesting question. i'm not a supporter of doing away with the nsa but i am in favor of putting the nsa on a leash so they can't get away with doing what they did during the bush administration or operate in absolute secrecy in a democracy. i would like to see some compromise where nsa gets the funding it needs but doesn't get the funding that is so excessive that it's getting now. and with no questions asked. the congress asks no questions of nsa. at the end of this article, but the next article i wrote about nsa. i said about, who's listening to the listeners, that's the problem. nobody's paying attention to the people that are doing the eavesdropping. >> do the intelligence committees on the hill have oversight of nsa? >> they did but the problem with the house intelligence committee do but the role has shifted. when these committees were created around mid-70s u

it was -- it did that in the nixon administration. violated the law back then and violated the law when first created. for 30 years it eavesdropped illegally on u.s. communications until discovered in 1975. so it has a history of eavesdropping illegally on u.s. citizens, and then lying about it. saying that we aren't doing it when in reality they are doing it. >> are you saying, according to your sources, this utah data center they're building, won't be ready until 2013, what they're going to be doing, getting people's google searches, e-mails, telephone calls, et cetera, that that's illegal? >> well, there's a law called the foreign intelligence surveillance amendments act, determining what's legal and illegal, but nsa has its own internal guidelines on what it can do, which is top secret. so the definite of words. such as intercept. it's not the webster's dictionary definition. their definition of intercept, pull all of this information in, but it's not technically intercepted until you actually live to it. so there's a problem of d

now, the nixon administration at this point decides also to take the war to cambodia and hit the vc base areas here, which is very effective. and messes up a lot of the north vietnamese plans and delays some of their operations for a year. but for the north, the real war for north vietnam is still in south vietnam. and the communists during this period in the early '70s will intensify their guerrilla activity, particularly in rural areas, the southern part of the country that's heavily populated. and again, they're still looking to build their forces, to destroy south vietnam. and so, again, build forces. defeat their pacification efforts, defeat the pacification efforts of the americans, expand their base areas. here's what they're trying to do. but the communists have their problems here as well. this war has gone on a very long time. the protracted nature has an effect on us, but it also has an effect on the communists as well. and their cadres are getting tired. people are beginning to lose support particularly in the south, the communists fighting there. and it's increasingly diffic

one badge of distinction we had as speech writers, especially those of us who came from the nixon administration, we were the only group in the white house staff over the last 40 years who had never been indicted. that was our main claim to fame. >> what did you do -- what innovation did you bring into the state of the union when you took charge of the speech writing group in '73? >> you know t honest answer is i can't remember bringing much innovation to the state of the union. to retrace the story, after the 1972 election i had agreed to stay -- i came in for one year and then ray said why don't you stay through the elections. i said fine. and i wasn't quite sure, but by the time i had become sort of quite loyal to the program and to him and i liked the people i was working with. i decided to stay through '72, still as ray's assistant and still a terrible administrator. but at the end of -- after the election was over, ray went to bob haldeman and said, bob, i'd like to move into more of a counselor role. i'd like not to run this large staff, but i'd like to continue working with the president

. >>> charles cal colson the man once known as the evil genius of president nixon's administration has died a. former marine captain and hard driving lawyer, calson was brought to the white house has nixon's special counsel during the watergate era. he once said he would walk over his grandmother to get the president elected to a second term. it was his effort to discredit ellsberg and the break-in into ellsberg psychiatrist that led to him spending seven months in prison. >> it was the worst blow to be indicted because he was so proud as a marine officer and proud to serve my country and flag-waving patriot and i end up in a courtroom and it's the united states of america versus charles w. colson and that was like a hot knife stabbing me. >> before his prison time he became a born again christian. he founded the prison fellowship ministries. colson died from complications from a brain hemorrhage. he was 80 years old. >>> the secret service scandal may be far from done. >>> what could bring two rival soccer teams with one goal in mind? i had introduce you to one special girl coming up.

the nixon administration had decided on a strategy of going up to the tv licenses of the "washington post," two got the basic economic health of the company. a huge undertaking of courage on the part. >> and if you look, the stock has just gone public because of the challenge. >> but i ask you to do some thing for me, to exercise due. you were 29 years old when this happened. you sit in the business, gotten what works is. are certainly aware of the climate, the existing political climate, news climate. he's got a long distinguished career. it's a beautiful day out there and marcus have spent the entire staff home, the phone call has just come in. he says there's been a break-in and u2 are the only people on earth who can cover it. what do you do today? tell me today given everything you know. what are you going to do? was the first thing you're going to do and the next thing you're going to do. >> hopefully we be larger and more organized and quite frankly work harder and more focused on it. maybe it wouldn't leave anyway. maybe it is not the sort of story like watergate. just point

he worked for the nixon administration. then he switched. >> i am from seattle. someone from the white house came and said "those who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones that do." while everyone here has a radically different are similar views, one thing we all have in common is ambition and passion. that is where it really lies in changing the world. >> where did you get your ambition? >> from experiences like this comment from hearing from other people that have dived in wholeheartedly. >> your name in your town? >> i am firmly in nebraska. if you call us now naive for believing that we can compromise, you also have to call the founders of our nation i either. it is that this government so we can compromise. we can balance and feed off of each other. it is very important that we hold that belief and do that and did not exist a linear view of our political spectrum and make our government great again. [applause] >> to the say we're not naive, i think that whole rhetoric and idea is a self-fulfilling prophecy. the reason why we have this

. >> does anyone understand back in the nixon administrationing. .en with theç measures. >> the whole system has gotten out of whack in the last few decad decades. >> we know. it's frustrating. when i was in college, i had a lot of friends that had to stop going halfway through or. and they conned afford it. maybe they'll just go back in a couple of years, but it's real disheartening to see them because they can't afford it. it was 1968 when it was possible to do that, and now i think you have a very small percentage of students able to do that successfully. >> just briefly, congressman welsh, former senator running again, bob kerry, a man who i think is a terrific politician. here's what he thinks is driving costs up. get a listen. >> the system is rigd against innovation. the federal law creates a regulatory environment provides a bar dwroer. whaet en. >> so congressman, obviously we don't have time -- dylan will come back to these issues, i'm sure, what. oh, itç makes it hard for lowe course providers to break in? >> well, he does have a point a

the nixon administration decided on the strategy of going after the tv licenses of the washington post to get the basic economic health of the company. this was a huge undertaking of courage on the part of the "washington post." >> the stock had just gone public and it was in the toilet. >> could i ask you to do something for me? you were 29 years old when this happened, he stayed in the news business and have got lots more experience. you are aware of the existing political climate and news climate. you have had a long, distinguished career since that moment. it's a beautiful day out there and markets has sent the entire staff home. the phone call has just come in that says there's a break in and your the only people on earth who can cover it. what do you do today? what is the first thing you are going to do today and what's the next thing? >> hopefully we would be smarter and more organized and quite frankly work harder and more focused on that. maybe it's not the sort of story like watergate. not everyone is. some of the really great investigations are explanations of who people are

he said they will cut down on housing and urban development that his father ran under the nixon administrationhey will shrink with the department of education or put it together if necessary. not eliminated completely. in terms of taxes, one of the things they ask is how does he pay for this across the board cut? among other things, one of the things he is likely to do is cut mortgage deductions for second homes for the wealthy. also potentially to limit or cut state income taxes. >> he was asked about possibly going on snl? jason does a great imitation of him. what did he say about appearing? >> he would be interested in him being on the show. romney said specifically i will be on it and i love the show. i want to make sure the skit is funny. romney has an interview with entertainment tonight. hads wife is meeting and donald trump. the family is going hollywood. >> five more days of freedom. getting married on saturday. >> nice to see you, my friend. if it's tuesday, someone is voting somewhere. you are are watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. ♪ na, na... ♪ na, na-na, na [ men ] ♪ hey,