why is paul wellstone on this list?d ten years ago and during the time he was in the senate, he really aked like an organizer and activist. he was the ally in the senate of the progressive moment, the unions, the environmental organizations, folks fighting for better mental health and physical health. he was a fighter. he came out of a background as a community organizer. and he ran for the senate, he continued inside the senate to be an organizer as well as a politician. and there are lots of people in our history who were elected as mayors, city council members, congress members, even presidents of the united states who saw themselves as allies of progressives to fight the fight for a more just and equal and humane society. paul wellstone was clearly in that tradition. >> i think it's an excellent list. i'm happy to see thurgood marshall on the list. he does not get enough credit for what he did as a lawyer and supreme court justice. malcolm x, he becomes a post-racial humanitarian later in his life. he's a person who

. >> the paul wellstone death was so devastating when it happened.tics and to organizing and everything that i think is great about politics and can be great about politics was represented by paul wellstone. >> michael brennan doherty? >> i didn't know about an incident that happened in 1995 where norwegian scientists wanted to study the aurora bore alice. they warned the kremlin they would lawn launch a rocket into speights to do this. still it looked like a u.s. trident missile sent in the direction of muss sill as an emp. boris yeltsin was awakened in the middle of the night and discussed whether to launch hundreds of icms at the united states. i would like to bring this up to bring up a retro issue which is the abolition of nuclear weapons which is something that even ronald reagan imposed -- >> and president obama is in support of abolition of nuclear weapons. >> this for me was the mourdock issue regarding that god intended the pregnancy. this caused me to go back into my undecided vortex of what am i going to do in this election? >> you'll hav

i think paul wellstone in the senate was a worthy heir to that tradition, and i think the senate is aferent and in many ways a worse place without him. ten years ago today we acknowledge the loss. we talk about senate races in the guest spot, so stay with us. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. busy in here. yeah. progressive mobile is... [ "everybody have fun tonight" plays ] really catching on! people can do it all! get a quote, buy and manage your policy! -[ music stops ] -it's great! well, what's with the... -[ music resumes ] -music? ♪ have fun tonight dude. getting a car insurance quote. i'll let it go to voicemail. [ clears throat ] ♪ everybody wang chung tonight ♪ putting it on vibrate. [ cell phone vibrates ] -[ loud vibrating ] -it'll pass. [ vibrating continues ] our giant store and your little phone. that's progressive mobile. number of u.s. senate races are nothing short of plital smackdowns. to see what's at stake start with where things stand right now. currently the democra

c-span: paul wellstone also gives you a nod in the back of the book. 'molly ivins insists on integrity and honestly in politics.' does that compromise you that he now has said nice things about you in front of everyone? >> guest: ah, that--that does. i've--i've often wondered--in fact, i'm--i'm glad my publisher called him and asked him for the blurb and that i didn't. i think it's bad policy for a journalist to owe a politician. i really do. c-span: jim hightower's on here, too. >> guest: yeah, but he's not a populist. c-span: 'thank you, jesus,' he says, 'here comes molly with another power-packed volume to cure what ails us.' you friends? >> guest: yeah. oh, yeah. favorite... c-span: same kind of politics? >> guest: ...fella--oh, yeah. jim is one of the great texas populists. you know, the populism started in texas. i mean, that's where the movement first came out of that thin, stoney soil in the central hill country of texas. and for years we had wonderful populist representatives: wright pattman in congress and sam rayburn, ralph yarborough in the