>> guest: the second nixon administration. nixon-ford administration. i have done a volume on u.s. elations with western europe during the nixon-ford effort. i cut my teeth on henry kissinger and nixon and gerald ford. that was an interesting place to start. >> host: are you seeing a trend toward more and more white house influence as opposed to -- >> guest: during the '70s for sure you see the influence of the white house and in particular the national security counsel. this is, you know, it's a trend that has been ramping up for some time. obviously. it reaches the apex and well known with nixon and kissinger. it's the department of state plays a larger role in my volumes. the carter administration than it does in my nixon-ford vom yum. i anticipate hearing from reagan that other agencies are going to play a larger role than the national security counsel. in the '70s you have, of course, two -- fundamentally three very strong national security advisers. you have henry kissinger -- [inaudible] kissinger in particular are very keen to leave their very well-thought out mark on u.s. f

we're going to look at today is the revival of the republican party after the debacle of the nixon administrationrecall from previous

>> guest: i started with the nixon ford administrations of two volumes on foreign economic policy and u.s. relations with western europe during the nixon ford era as well. i cut my teeth on henry kissinger as it weren't also richard nixon and gerald ford and that was a very interesting place to start my career. >> host: kathleen rasmussen are you seeing a trend towards more and more white house influence as a post to other departments? >> guest: during the 1970s for sure in particular the national security council. it's a time that have been ramping up for some time with richard nixon and henry kissinger. the department of state plays a larger role in my volume in the carter administration than it does in the nixon ford volume and i fully anticipate that in fact other agencies are going to play a larger role than the national security council. in the 1970s of course you have fundamentally three strong national security pfizer's with henry kissinger followed by brent scowcroft and kissinger and brzezinski in particular are very key to make their well-thought-out marked on foreign polic

soviet union is gone and tax rates are now lower than they were during the eisenhower and nixon administration when the marginal rate was 91%. and i do think that many of the issues can be dealt with like economic growth and free trade and peace through strength are still with us today and that his policies can be a guide. and i know we have a bipartisan audience here. so i want to lead with a the take away of kennedy principles on leadership. in the first is to get a wide spectrum of advice. this was true with kennedy on two of the key issues, cuba and taxes. there were kennedy advisers who said, do nothing, after all, americans would be just as dead if nuclear missiles were launched from cuba as if they were launched from russia. and adelaide stephenson made exactly that argument as well. and so did other less stereotypical liberal kennedy advisers, like george bundy. in other advisers, like the air force general basically advised him back to the stone age and so kennedy got this full range of advice from do-nothing to launching an attack on cuba. and on the tax cut, kennedy was careful to g

>> the nixon add administration made a big deal of hiring more people into public service. it was a real initiative on the part of the nixon administration. did this come from pat nixon? we don't know. we know that julie played a role working with barbara franklin. there is no doubt that pat nixon was supportive. you found evidence that she was pushing it. we do know she was very disappointed in october of 1971, president nixon had two open seats on the supreme court. she really hoped that one of them would go to a woman. when that didn't happen she let president nixon know in a private family dinner, she really let him know that she was not happy. >> didn't speak to him for a while, which was kind of her way of letting him stew on things and getting back at him because she thought she had a promise that he was going to appoint a woman. she was upset. >> if you're watching the series, you saw a discussion on lady bird johnson. you have signs of her watching her husband giving a speech and critiquing it and telling him how to do a better job. that's not what pat nixon did. s

nixon really was haunted by the glamour, the eloquence, the beauty of the kennedy administration. s speechwriters and say why can't you write like those guys did? >> that's right. of course, in your book on kennedy and nixon, i think you showed people just how good friends they were when they came into congress and early in the 1950s. they had no idea they were going to be adversaries in 1960s. but what i found that complements what you found, chris, is that during the nixon administration, nixon was publicly and privately obsessed with ted kennedy. he worried about him running against him in '62, even after chappaquiddick, but he was also obsessed with john f kennedy. he kept comparing his record to john f. kennedy and complaining to staffers how kennedy didn't have a quarter of the record he had, and if he had had john f. kennedy's record, he would be excoriated. >> its all true. let me ask you about the current president. what do you see in president obama besides the oratory loftiness, what do you see him trying to do? going for the record, obviously, gotten more time than kenn

decisions to decide whether to publish the papers and if so what was going to happen with the nixon administration and so i went into doing that and was in all of the closed door hearings with the judges in all we do know is the supreme court i was one of the few lawyers that was deeply involved in that all the way to the end. from there i went to bally's office and i was there when he was retained to represent james mccord in the watergate burglary so i ended up finding out about what was exactly going on what caused the watergate burglary what was behind the watergate burglary and because of that i laughed and went back to harvard to go to divinity school. after having finished harvard college in sixty seven harvard law school and seventy in one hundred seventy three i went back to harvard divinity school. studied the the origins of natural law and the relationship of natural law to the constitution of united states and so that's how i ended up in this particular specialized area of the law that's remarkable i mean you've been at the pivot point of so many major american historical it's the thin

decisions to decide whether to publish the papers and if so what was going to happen with the nixon administration and so i went into doing that and was in all of the closed door hearings with the judges and all we do know is the supreme court i was one of the few the lawyers that was deeply involved in that all the way to the end. from there i went to bally's office and i was there when he was retained to represent james mccord in the watergate burglary so i ended up finding out about what was exactly going on what caused the watergate burglary what was behind the watergate burglary and because of that i laughed and went back to harvard to go to divinity school after having finished harvard college in sixty seven harvard law school in seventy in one hundred seventy three i went back to harvard divinity school and studied the the origins of natural law and the relationship of natural law to the constitution of united states and so that's how i ended up in this particular specialized area of the law that's remarkable i mean you. you've been at the pivot point of so many major american historical it

perhaps this audience does know, the pentagon papers did not cover the nixon administration. he was protecting the democratic administrations of lbj and kennedy. their conduct of the vietnam war. he was protecting the executive branch and the existence of classified materials. so, yeah, they broke into daniel elsburg's psychiatrist's office, and it was some of the same guys who broke into the watergate -- the democratic that headquarters. liberals are utter obsessives. every weekend you can find them going into the library of congress to listen to the nixon watergate tapes, they are so obsessed with richard nixon. you would think they'd hear richard nixon pacing around his office saying what makes me so angry is that they think i would be stupid enough to break in to the watergate hotel democratic office. so he didn't know about it beforehand. he thought it was stupid. he did not think his people had anything to do with it. that was considered an impeachable offense when it was richard nixon. now we have a who told a lie he knew was a lie, and he lied in order to get a heinou

by 1962 when the nixon administration was mired in watergate. we saw the first spike. 20 years later during the administration of president bill clinton. but the dramaticics increase occurred in the administration of george w. bush. interestingly upped president obama closure votes declined as some of his initiatives stalls. it took 3/5 of the senate 60 votes to stop filibusters. harry reid, a democrat threatened to lower the vote to 51. he took a step towards that goal by challenging the votes needed to stop phil busters, but only of presidential nominations. >> turning to afghanistan where thousands of tribal leaders gathered to discuss a security pact with the u.s. if approved it could keep 15,000 american troops in afghanistan through 2024. hamid karzai says he does not trust the united states and will not sign a deal until after the presidential elections. >> the president obama demonstration breathed a sigh of relief that the loya jirga in kaboom were getting a look at the security agreement. any reassurance that it was under review was fro

there was a time and he attributes it first to the nixon administration and the reagan administration that there was much more than us and them and we wanted it to be as far away from possible as us as if there is a clear line somehow. but he talks about the post 9/11 qaeda of criminal justice environment as those folks alleged terrorists as the new people we should be afraid of and they are going to put us as far away as possible on the island can't lock them up forever with no end in sight. most haven't even really been before ending sort of meaningful tribunal. but he tells a very personal story about the client that was made and i think that he tells it well because it is easy to relate to this particular client that you move to australia and get married and have children and like many people when they start to have children he became more religious and i thought that is a great way to describe it because that is when suddenly we are back in our church or synagogue and kids have to go to high school. he said they became more religious and wanted to explore perhaps moving back to a

but by 1972, when the nixon administration was mired in water gait, you can see the first spike in votes, and then another jump during the administration of president bill clinton. but the dramatic increase occurred in the last two years of the administration of president george w bush. interestingly, under president obama they have decline until today it took p/5th of the senate, to stop all of them, with so much grid lock, senator majority leader have been threatening to lure the vote to 51. today reid took a first controversial step towards that get by changing the votes needed to stop filibusters but only filibusters of presidential nominations. the u.n. security council are talking about a deal to scale back the country's nuclear program. in exchange, relieving economic seances that have damaged iran's economy. 14 u.s. senators have said they want more sanctions. what is israel strategy when it comes to this debate. >> it is unclear. but we are talking we are looking at negotiations right now, and at this point in time, israel probably recognizes and concedes that an intern agreemen

we're going to look at today is the revival of the republican party after the debacle of the nixon administration and watergate. you'll recall from previous lectures that republicans were down. many thought the republican party was going the way of the whig party. only 20% of the electorate considered themselves republicans. within the next five years the republican party was going to revive, and ronald reagan was going to be elected. so we'll begin today's class with a video clip. unfortunately we're not going to have the music that we usually have and the dancing that we do [ laughter ] >> before class. there was a problem with copyright and we didn't want congress being bankrupted. congress is already bankrupt. anyway the couldn't afford the lawyers perhaps. the do have a lot of lawyers. anyway, let's get on with the clip. what we're going to see today is a debate by phyllis schlafley who headed the stop e.r.a. movement and a congresswoman from the state of colorado, a feminist and a proe.r.a. supporter. we could turn down the lights and we'll start the clip. >> abc news correspondent virginia

there is a time and he attributes it first i think to the nixon administration and that there was much more of us in them and we wanted it to be as far away as possible as if there was a clear line somehow. but he talks about a post-9/11 kind of criminal justice environment as those folks alleged they are the people we should be the most afraid of and so we put them as far away as possible on this island. it's just peculiar to and lock them up forever with no end in sight prior to any proceeding. most haven't even been before any meaningful tribunal. but he tells a very personal story about the client that he meets who he is supposed to represent and i think that he tells it well because it is so easy to relate to this particular client that he moved to australia and got married and raised children and like many people when they start to have children, he became more religious. that is a kind of a great way to describe it because that is when suddenly we are back in the church and our kids have to go to sunday school or wherever and he said he became muslim and became more religious an

that's all possible and if they do, it will be the first time since the nixon administration. then this stat. since 1976, the party that wins the white house lost the virginia governor's race the following year. democrats about to break that curse? looks like it. that brings us to the issue that is going to be of the chattering classes conversation after on wednesday. the thing that held the republican back in the obama era. the tea party that appears to have republicans headed for defeat. the party was taken over by the conservative wing on the swing state. the president on sunday have painted the general cuccinelli as an extremist and do their best to link him to the tea party in washington. you have seen an extreme faction of the republican party that has shown again and again and again that they are willing to hijack the entire party and the country and the economy and grind progress to an absolute halt if they don't get 100% of what they want. >> it was ken couch nell whoa brought ted to richmond two weeks ago. can you imagine if they ran the virginia government? >> cucci

for the next 50 years filibusters were relatively rare, but by 1972, when the nixon administration was mired in watergate, we see the fist spike in votes. 20 years later another spike, here in the politically con ten, administration of bill clinton. and then there was an increase as democrats tried to block president george w bush, but then as the partisan divide escalated votes sky rocketed under president barack obama. one of the reason as lot of legislation and presidential appointments have been stalled. until today, it took 3/5th of the senate 60 votes to stop all filibusters, with so much grid lock, senator majority leader. and today reid took a first controversy step towards that goal. by changing the votes needed to stop filibusters for presidential nominations. that's a lot going on there, but it is a big decision. >> appreciate it sir, thank you. >> he doesn't trust the united states. but he is willing to let american troops stay in his country. today he urged tribal leaders to allow latin american soldiers to remain for another decade. but even if they do, he says he wants t

the epa didn't start until the nixon administration. >> doug, it is interesting how people of all politicalersuasions can see something in kennedy that rest nates within. we just heard from the tea party congressman who was so influenced by that handshake as a young man with kennedy, though, his -- though, much of his politics are very different. >> for the reason i said, anderson, he wasn't a liberal or conservative. he was down the middle. that's where most of the american people are. i mean, kennedy, the problem that people of then talk about the kennedys and yes, compared to ted kennedy who was a hyper liberal, john f. kennedy does look conservative, and bobby kennedy was quite conservative in '62. he changes and by '68 he's fighting the war on poverty and meeting cesar chavez. it comes from ted and bob kennedy. john f. kennedy was pragmatic, cold warrior. but somebody who had liberal instincts when he needed to. >> john, what do you make of this debate? >> it's a debate you have because our times changed so much and when bill clinton was the democratic president after walter monodell l

what if it happened in the nixon administration, pat? did. >> well, we had problems of our own, as you recall. >> that was my point. all right. thank you both. up next tonight on "hannity" straight ahead -- >> you have seen an extreme faction of the republican party that has shown again and again and again that they are willing to hijack the entire party and the country. >> once again the president who pledged to restore civility is openly accusing republicans of hijacking the u.s. up next, reince priebus responds to the despicable rhetoric. quick programming note. tomorrow night "hannity" live feisty studio audience edition. you won't see it anywhere else on cable. fireworks like you have never experienced. liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. impact wool exports from new zealand, tex

governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general for the first time by the way, since the nixon administration. meantime, in new jersey, chris christie is seeking to take a page from george w. bush's playbook and emerge as an even stronger 2016 presidential candidate. governor christie aiming for the widest republican margin of victory since tom keen won 69% of the vote back in 1985. and another long-term trend could be broken tomorrow. since virginia and new jersey vote together, it would be the first time, that the two states have elected governors from different parties since 1985. a lot of history there. joining me now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray and also senior washington correspondent for politico. i'll start with you mark. let's first talk about virginia. as i said, a 30-year trend seems to be on its way to being broken. >> well, right, of course the marquis contest is the gubernatorial race where terry mccalliffe is in the driver's seat. may be the closest contest will be the state attorney general's race between mark herring and mark o ben shane, the polling we've se

prosecuting mobsters at the rate of two or three times what had gone on under the eisenhower or nixon administrationit was a massive war on organized crime. the mob no longer had cuba to flee to, so their backs were against the wall. the kennedyss were getting ready to run the mob out of las vegas. you might wonder why not kill robert kennedy? someone asked -- an earlier fbi informant asked marcelo that and he said, if you kill robert kennedy, jfk would simply send the army or the national guard in to get you. >> well, lamar, what about we look at the evidence as you mentioned, as you know, when you're looking in court, generally if you have a jailhouse confession, right, that's considered one of the least credible types of confessions. what do you say to that? >> this is not your typical jailhouse confession. what happened in 1985, the fbi mounted a huge undercover sting operation against marcelo. they approached this individual in prison, jack van lamming ham, who was not a criminal except for one night he robbed a bank. he was friendly with marcelo because he didn't know who he was. the fbi arran

i was part of the reagan administration p and the nixon administration. with dealing with enemies and add ve saers but only if it makes sense for us. the supreme leader of iran three days ago referred to israel as a stinking dog, a country that needs to be eliminated from the face of the earth. i'm not sure that anybody in jerusalem ors looking at this agreement. >> i know we're not looking at the white house but we have the advantage of you who has worked with administrations before. does the president call israel and its leadership and say, hey, look, i'm about to go on television and tell the world that i've made a deal with iran. are you guys cool with this? >> he should have gotten in touch with the allies that we have in the region, not just israel but saudi arabia, the golf countries, the other sunni arab states in the region to let them know this is happening. his aides should have gotten on the phone with some of the key members, republicans and democrats in congress to say this is the deal that's going down. it's the president's right to announc

they didn't get benefits and other than the earned income tax credit that came along with the nixon administration back in the seventy's and what this did was a said you know if you're if you're poor and you're not working you've got to get to work within four years or months to get the work of the pay is really bad you can still get some of these benefits and the. you could argue and we've got a graphic here that shows the rise of the use of just food stamps as one of the metrics on that it's just one full screen that you know it to to the right of this is that you see this bump in the ninety's that a lot of employers drop down because i think because of the tech bubble there and in two thousand but that what happened in the mid ninety's was that wal-mart mcdonalds and all these what we call low wage employers now they said oh gee you know our employees used to have to live on what we paid them so we had we step to pay them decently now they don't have to live on what we pay them because the government subsidized that the taxpayers will subsidize that this is where we get these numbers like it co

and i'm reminded of another white house press secretary in a very tough area was in the nixon administrationook. all my previous answers were, quote, inoperative, unquote. it was an answer for that day. >> the things you read off are not mutually exclusive. people can get better policies sometimes for the same money and there are -- it is an insurance company problem. what obama should have said initially was that you can keep it as long as the insurance companies continue to offer the policies. gregg: jim, let me ask you about this. the "new york times" referred to the 36 occasions the president said you can keep your plan, they said he misspoke. not withstanding the fact that the "new york times" said that the administration knew three years ago that millions of americans would lose their insurance. misspoke or a lie? >> well, i think the "new york times" editorial page is sort of a torch barrier for the president. they love him and supported him all along. however, the "new york post" wrote the other day, actually this has hurt the president. the "new york times" is giving the illusion th

i mean, when we were there, i was in the white house during the nixon administration and the one thingr questioned was the validity, the value, the concreteness of the numbers that came out from bls, from census, from these. they were rock solid, done with, without bias, without prejudice and done correctly. when you start questioning these organizations you've got the very foundation shaken, to my way of looking at it. stuart: well said, art laffer. thank you for coming on board, we appreciate it. >> thank you very much, stuart. stuart: let's get to obamacare. according to documents released by the house, energy and commerce committee, the obama administration was warned as early as march of this year about potential risks with the rollout of healthcare.gov. two hearings on this next hour. one about the security of the website itself and your information, and two, the effort to fix the website by november 30th. congressman leonard lance, republican from new jersey joins us now. congressman, i'm saying there is a 30% chance that obamacare will be just fully repealed because it seems to

in the nixon and ministration, -- in the nixon administration, he led a memorable battle for school integration. he faced down a government intent on trying to stop busing despite a unanimous supreme court decision that schools must be integrated. decision a gut level and chose to stand up for what he thought was right. in spite of the risks to his own career. that story did not end well for him. he was forced to resign. secretary panetta led the pentagon's repeal of don't ask don't tell policy, which had barred gays and lesbians from serving openly. he made history by extending military benefits to same-sex couples. one of his final acts before leaving the pentagon was to rescind the ban on women serving in combat. last vestige of rules barring servicewomen from serving in combat and it paves the way for the largest expansion of their role on the front lines. panetta, who served president nixon, president clinton, and president obama. he does not be old orient to -- bend or yield to cynicism. he is faithful to his job and to sound governance. thend his wife have created panetta institute at st

nixon in china analogies being brought up in the media. and i tend to agree with pepe this could be the only positive thing we've seen in the obama administration to foreign policy wise in a while i'm not sure a business store manager of the nixon in china analogy holds but we just don't know and certainly it's a modest risk for a big gain so i think it's i think people are going to give the benefit of doubt here for a while well i think what's happening is that the the media and certainly congress is overselling this. do you think humanity as a whole would fade from living. parts of the wall of g.m. all week just to play on the safe side view through biotechnology research through genetic modification we can give those small holder farmers the opportunity to be able to deal with and survive all of those challenges and i believe they should have all the tools. we need is one thing that i still come to understand that i don't want to good mood but i have this one question who do this. you had everything. that you gave them all no. way but. it was a late term for him he tried to restrain himself but look first out anyway. it really puts me off th

say that is not particularly surprising, but to say i just quoted from a message from the nixon administrationin 1969, maybe you would put it in a different dave. new to have ups and downs in terms of questions of the united states in the region. there is something that separates the past from the resident in terms of some of the questioning that has existed about america's sense of purpose, are we credible from the standpoint of some of our friends in the region. different today is not so much that the messages have been conveyed in the past. we are more exposed publicly. part of the reason for the difference is in the past there may have been questions about american purpose and credibility. often some of the countries prefer we might not be asking things of them. today there is something a little bit different. there is an increasing question as to whether or not our interests and their interest's exactly the same. let's take the saudi's of the way of trying to frame the it. n and how you look at the saudi's look at it, and on not innd iran, we are the same place. they support the egyptian

the pentagon papers did not cover the nixon administration. he was protecting the democratic administrations of lbj and kennedy. their conduct of the vietnam war. he was protecting the executive branch and the existence of classified materials. so, yeah, they broke into daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, and service some of the same guys who broke into the watergate -- the democratic headquarters. liberals are utter obsess es. every weekend you can find them going into the library of congress to listen to the the nixon watergate tapes, they are so obsessed with richard nixon. you would think they'd hear richard nixon pacing around his office saying what makes me so angry is that they think i would be stupid enough to break in to the watergate hotel democratic office. so he didn't know about it beforehand. he thought it was stupid. he did not think his people had anything to do with it. that was considered an impeachable offense when it was richard nixon. now we have a president who told a lie he knew was a lie, and he lied in order to ge

the time, obviously jackie kennedy didn't come back because she didn't come back until the nixon administration but did she have any of the former first ladies back at the white house and was she the oldest and longest living former first lady? >> host: thank you very much. >> guest: the longest living we just discussed this was bess truman. bess truman made it to 95 and lady bird johnson and betty ford were both 94 so it's very close. the other question. >> host: did other first ladies come back? >> guest: i don't remember who else was around to come back to mamie eisenhower and bess truman lou hoover was dead but i know the johnsons went to the trumans and independence because that is where they signed the medicare act and certainly there's a picture of them all there. but i don't remember anything about -- oh they did confer with the eisenhower's about how to give the ranch to the nation which is what the eisenhower's head done with the gettysburg farm. i don't remember having any luncheons with the former first ladies. >> host: early in their marriage lyndon johnson gave her a movie camera

it would be tant at that mouth being the mouthpiece for the nixon administration for watergate.ot saying there is anything illegal but there is no doubt what practices michael schlein were wrong and bad for small investors and bad for average guys, the same average guys bill deblasio purports to support. that is where we are. his wall street advisor a flak, rose higher than a flak. from what i understand before he left head of government relations at city group. he was a major player at citigroup. citigroup was populated by a lot of democrats. michael is long-time new york democrat. i think he has family ties to the democratic party. bob ruben worked at citigroup for a long time. jack lew worked there for a while and larry summers. citigroup is most left-leaning wall street firms. lori: spoon feed us. so what does this mean for average investors. >> i think it is this. if you're looking to make money off of this story, don't, it has nothing to do with average investors. what i think we need to do in the media point out conflicts of interest. lori: okay, bingo. >> bill deblasio c

if we had tapes under the jfk and lbj and nixon administration, e-mails will be the real treasure trovefuture researchers. >> why? >> well, i think bush insulted us and the males, but you get a much more real time look at what they were talking about with each other. people are very -- less circumspect e-mails. they ought to be kept her history. so hopefully we will get better sense of who makes what decision when, how they will be, the factors will be going into it, the debates going on. and i think that the research will be a fascinating opportunity. >> when president bush made the executive order decision, then the other former presidents support him? >> my memory of this is sketchy, so i want to be careful. it is not quite as sweeping as we describe it and we still do the papers. think it provides a longer lead time and more discretion for the president to keep them out of the public view. i just don't know that. ♪ you are on with peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. >> can you hear me? can you hear me? >> we are listening. >> you know what, we are go

the pentagon papers did not cover the nixon administration. he was protecting the democratic it ministers to the about kennedy. their conduct of the vietnam war he was protecting the executive branch and the existence of classified materials so yeah they broken to daniel ellsberg's psychiatry office and it was some of the same guys that broken the watergate -- liberals utter excesses every weekend and the library of congress to listen to the nixon watergate tapes. they are so obsessed with richard nixon. you would think in listening to these tapes they would hear richard nixon pacing around his office saying what thanks me so angry is they think i would be stupid enough to break-in to the watergate hotel democratic office. so he didn't know about it beforehand. he thought it was stupid. he did not think his people had anything to do with it. that was considered an impeachable offense when it was richard nixon and now we have a president who told a lie but knew it was a lie and lied in order to get a heinous policy, heinous law through that's g

but if i were to say i just quoted from a message from the saudis to the nixon administration in the fall of 1969 maybe you would put some of what you are hearing in a somewhat different perspective. it's not particularly new to have ups and downs in terms of questions about the united states in the region. i could actually try but i won't right now. from almost every administration after the current one. there is something that separates the past from the present in terms of some of the questioning that has existed about america's sense of purpose, are we credible from the standpoint of some of our friends in the region and particularly what's different about it today is not so much that the messages have been conveyed in the past. what's different today is that it has been more exposed publicly and that is not the norm. part of the reason for the difference is that in the past there may well have been questions about the sense of american purpose result in the credibility, and often times that is promoted when some of the countries particularly the saudis might pay for that we not

living at the time, obviously jackie kennedy didn't come back, she didn't come back till the nixon administration, but did she have any of the former first ladies back at the white house and was she the oldest, longest-living former first lady? >> thank you very much. >> the longest-living, we just discussed this, was bess truman, right? but it's a very close tie. i think bess truman made it to 95 and lady bird johnson and betty ford were both 94. so it's very close. the other question about -- >> did other first ladies come back? >> i don't remember who else was around to come back. mamie eisenhower and bess truman. >> and lou hoover? >> no. lou hoover was dead in '44. but i know that the johnsons went to the trumans in independence because that's where they signed the medicare act. and certainly there's a picture of them all there. but i don't remember anything about -- they did confer with the eisenhowers about how to give the ranch to the nation, which is what the eisenhowers had done with the gettysburg farm. but i don't remember having any luncheons for former first ladies. >> early in thei

if they could hold all five, first time since the nixon administration. >> cuccinelli is the most moderate are looking at it and you say, geez. if i'm planning the republican party, this guy reached out to the middle. this guy didn't. >> you have been asking for years. steve has, too. do we let hillary clinton appoint bureaucrats for the next eight years after barack obama leaves while we are hunting h ergs retic srs. look at what joe ricke the tts is doing. a conservative guy, god bless him. going to alabama one, right across the state line from my old district. putting in the $100,000. the chamber of commerce, god bless them. i don't always agree. but here they are going down, finding bradley byrne, a conservative republican, whose belief in the bible was questioned by his tea party opponent. does the fever break tonight in mobile, alabama, in the district? >> i don't think the fever breaks yet. i think we are shaping up for the titanic fight we have to have in the republican party. when it comes to being able to nominate candidates. you have the ability to communicate to. >> that's what

than 50 years filibusters and culture votes were relatively rare, but by 1972, during the administration of nixonyou see the first spike in the use of the vote. 20 years later, another leap during the political contention administration of president bill clinton, and then there was a dramatic increase in the last two years of the administration of president george w bush. interestingly, votes have actually declined even as some of his initiatives have been stalled. until today, as libby mentioned it took 3/5th of the senate, to stop all filibusters. be uh with so much grid lock, they have been threatening to loiter vote to 51, and he took the first step. towards that goal, by changing the votes needed to stop filibusters for presidential nominations. >> terrific. that is a terrific walk through history. >> randall, thank you. >> well done. >> afghan president says he doesn't trust the united states, but he is willing to let american troops -- urged tribal leaders to approve a deal that will allow forces to stay for another decade, but even if the leaders say yes, sir, karzai says he won't sign th