joining us from washington patrick kennedy former k congressman from rhode island and kennedy lauffordthor of the book. both were cub stance abusers at one time. mr. kennedy, i understand you are against the legalization of marijuana why? >> i had a mood disorder and i'm also in recovery because i'm also an addict. and with another drug being commercialized, one that actually has the for-profit motive of hooking new consumers, they are going it target teenagers. they are going it make their money off of people like myself who are addicts. and i just don't think this is the kind of thing that makes my stronger family stronger. >> pro-pot people say it's not addictive harmless, less harmful than alcohol and unfair to have alcohol legal and pot not. and you say? >> i say two wrongs don't make a right. and the marijuana today is in beverage form. it's in candy form. can you eat it now, i was asthmatic so i didn't go down the route of marijuana. but if it were available to me today i could have eaten it like they can out in colorado, it would have been a totally different game. this is a sc

. >> reporter: patrick kennedy with his deep political connections and famous name is pushing the fedsght to get at it quickly. the federal government, they ought to just get it done. >> we just need a greater urgency to this issue overall. >> it's a bold statement for kennedy, a recovering addict who's been outspoken that making medical marijuana legal in any way is dangerous. that more children will be able to access it and more smokers will be addicted to it. he thinks the only way to remove that risk is to have all medicinal marijuana products regulated rveg r regulated rig lousily studied and controlled. >> making it a medicine instead of forcing people to go to the street and they can't determine what it is. >> he understands why extremely sick patients want marijuana now. remember his father died of brain cancer and his brother lost his leg to cancer. >> i wouldn't have begrudged any family member with cancer, and they have all had cancer anything that would have mitigated the chemotherapy. >> that's why he is trying to speed things up but it takes "time" the wilsons don't have.

about the millions of americans whose health care may be in jeopardy is former representative patrick kennedy. welcome, sir. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thanks for being here. i appreciate it. your father senator edward kennedy, wrote a letter about the passage of the health care law. he wrote in part quote, today the nation takes another major step toward reaching the goals to which they my brothers dedicated their careers and for which they gave their lives. they strived, as i have tried to do for a fair and more just america, a nation where every american could share fully in the promise of quality health care. what would your father think of the battle raging over obamacare today? >> well it's basic. it's a very simple thing, treat others as you would want to be treated. do you want to live in a country where the vagaries of the system leave you helpless and without any health care that could jeopardize your life the life of your children? i don't think that's not only something that's undesirable for a family it's undesirable for us as a nation. we've come too far as a count

last child of a president to die while a president was in office was in 1963 august 9th when patrick kennedyt his wife and his young daughter in a car crash that injured beau and his younger brother. and to think to have to have been at the bedside of your child for so long and now all of a sudden to have been at his bedside again, this time he fought a losing battle against cancer. you watch joe biden, the vice president there, you can't imagine the grief, really. i don't think any of us can unless we've experienced it. >> we were talking these pictures together. you talked about how the obvious painful loss of a child. can change the course of your life. i mean and not just for joe, obviously, for the children and his wife. but how it could impact the future of his career. >> that's true. i should add that three months after the kennedy child was lost her husband was assassinated in dallas. so it was not the end of tragedy for that family and pain. but that's true. for calvin coolidge calvin coolidge jr. was a son of the president who died in the 20th century. and he played tennis on the w

kennedy's son patrick passed away two days after his birth in 1963. beau biden was 46 years old. major garrett has more from the white house. >> reporter: beau biden shared his father's name. the third generation of joseph robinette bidens, a son who followed his father into politics. >> i'm beau biden, and joe biden is my dad. >> reporter: at the democratic national convention in 2008 beau was already delaware's attorney general. and that year deployed to iraq with the national guard. in that speech, beau biden recalled the tragedy that defined his father's life and gave poignant urgency to their relationship. >> one of my earliest memories was being in that hospital. >> reporter: in 1972 biden's wife and daughter were killed in a traffic accident in delaware. beau and his brother hunter were seriously injured. joe biden, age 30, had just been elected to the senate. >> he was sworn in at the hospital at my bedside. as a single parent, he decided to be there, to put us to bed, to be there when we woke up from a bad dream, to make us breakfast. >> truth be told, the real reason i

president's family to die while they were in office was in 1963 when caroline kennedy's 2-day-old premature brother patrickgs, arkansas, for that funeral and helped produce that funeral as part of the advance staff. it's a really complicated thing to pull together. you've got cabinet members and celebrities and other people who show up. so they're really tricky things. for the american public we're not used to seeing that. it's been 50 years since a child of the president or the vice president has passed away while they were in office. i think before that it was calvin coolidge and before that, it was abraham lincoln. so this is not something we are very used to in america seeing on television for sure. >> that's right. it was also vice president biden's mother. if you think back to that 2008 campaign, she had a bit of a star moment at the democratic convention in 2008. she was so proud of her son. barack obama in his speech saluted mama biden. she's passed away since then. the vice president losing his mother since becoming vice president and now his son. >> one of the things that strikes me about this is

kennedy back in august of 1963. when they lost patrick. patrick was only born for two days was born premature, weighed five pounds and died. so we really haven't had since '63, a signature president or vice president that lost a family member like this. >> you know you mentioned how he used to take the train back and forth in his yale university commencement address this past year i want to read you something that joe said. joe biden said. he said looking back on it the truth be told the reason i went home every night was that i needed my children more than they needed me. and he was saying this about pundit who is suggested his absence from washington would wreck his political career. he went on to say i realized i didn't miss a thing. i never lacked having ambition but ambition without perspective can be a killer. they're such profound words that come from joe biden. i want to go to sunlen serfaty. we're looking here at what's happening inside the church. she's got a perspective outside the church. sun sunlen we had heard at one point th

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