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. >> next hour, the late robert f. kennedy's daughter, kerry kennedy will weigh in on the debate over gun control. as you remember it was back in 1968 robert kennedy died shortly after being shot by sirhan sirhan at the hotel in los angeles. >>> we all might get a tax increase. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. >>> nobody ought to read anything into this. we've got differences, but the country's got big spending problems and we've got to get serious about addressing them. >> house speaker john boehner there speaking out after his plan to avoid the massive tax increases and spending cuts was rejected and boehner withdrew his plan b because lack of support among his own party and it doesn't me

the grandson of robert f. kennedy tied the not saturday in california. >>> things may be tense between senator mccain and john kerry but they were able to liten the mood as mccain joked by kerry's nomination to an obama cabinet. >> thank you very much, mr. secretary. >> you didn't hear the joke. he called him mr. secretary. it didn't take long for kerry to give as good as he got. >> tnk you very much mr. president. this is what happens when you get too losers. >> you don't see that very often. that's your morning ditch of "scrambled politics." >> along with continuing worry about the fiscal cliff, stocks fell monday after disappointing manufacturing numbers which sh rufr shrunk to the lowest levels in three years. shopaholics drop an average of $263 a month in washington, d.c. that's more than anywhere else in the country. >>> andrew zimmer, the host of bizarre foods on the travel channel is blasting yelp.com. he says reviews of restaurants and other businesses should be left to the pros. he claims too many people abu

f. kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's careers in business and politics, which included ventures on wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you all. as i tell my history students -- [inaudible] as i tell my histories of it until i went to choke me, the past is a foreign country. we can visit there, try to learn the customs, translate the language, feel the air, the fragrance, but where foreigners in a strange way. this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america. writing about the recent past is not easy to tailor this time around. first, there were people got to talk to. i was blessed from beginning to end by having fascinating views. i much prefer working for but documents than listening to people, tried to figure out what's real, what's imagined, what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they think they know, but they don't know at all. the o

f. kennedy and senators robert f. kennedy and edward kennedy. the author examines joseph kennedy's career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. [applause] >> thank you, all. delighted to be here. as i tell my history students at the city university of new york in the ph.d. program -- thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they want to choke me the past is a foreign country. we can visit, try to learn the customs and the white smith the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors but we are foreigners in a strange land. this is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. first there are people you have to talk to. and while i was blessed from beginning to end by having some fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy including large numbers of committees, i much prefer working from writ

martin luther king junior and robert f. kennedyiots engulfing our city the war in vietnam claiming lbj's presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop they resumed the flights aimed to test in space. the craft that had hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plan turned apollo 8 into another make or break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. it was going to be an earth orbitable flight to test a module to make sure everything was stirring from two vehicles before we convinced them to go to the moon. >> apollo 8 was a big step forward. even success of america would still be veiling the ru-- traile russians. >> they used animals to test whether they can send cauosmonas to not beat us for a landing but to go around the moon. they were fairly successful. in the soviet hierarchy should we send the cosmonauts they began to get cia signals maybe the soviets were going to try a circumstance come lunar flight a big figure 8 around the moon which would have massiv

martin luther king junior and robert f. kennedyiots engulfing our city the war in vietnam claiming lbj's presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop they resumed the flights aimed to test in space. the craft that had hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plan turned apollo 8 into another make or break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. it was going to be an earth orbitable flight to test a module to make sure everything was stirring from two vehicles before we convinced them to go to the moon. >> apollo 8 was a big step forward. even success of america would still be veiling the ru-- traile russians. >> they used animals to test whether they canend cauosmonauts to not beat us for a landing but to go around the moon. they were fairly successful. in the soviet hierarchy should we send the cosmonauts they began to get cia signals maybe the soviets were going tory a circumstance come lunar flight a big figure 8 around the moon which would have massivel

martin luther king junior and robert f. kennedyur city the war in vietnam claiming lbj's presidency and alienating millions of americans. against this turbulent backdrop they resumed the flights aimed to test in space. the craft that had hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plan turned apollo 8 into another make or break mission. >> apollo 8 was not going to be a lunar flight. it was going to be an earth orbitable flight to test a module to make sure everything was stirring from two vehicles before we convinced them to go to the moon. >> apollo 8 was a big step forward. even success of america would still be veiling the ru-- traile russians. >> they used animals to test whether they can send cauosmonas to not beat us for a landing but to go around the moon. they were fairly successful. in the soviet hierarchy should we send the cosmonauts they began to get cia signals maybe the soviets were going to try a circumstance come lunar flight a big figure 8 around the moon which would have massively under cut th

martin luther king and robert f. kennedyted and riots engulfing the city and the war in vietnam claiming the presidency for johnson and alienating millions of americans. against this backdrop, nasa resumed their manned flights and aimed to test in space the craft they hoped to land on the moon. a sudden change in plans turned apollo 8 into another make-or-break mission. >> it would not supposed to be a line far flight but it was to make sure everything was correct between two vehicles before we commit them to go to the moon. >> it was a big step forward, apollo eight but america could still be trailing the russians to the moon. >> it would send a spacecraft around the moon with animals to test whether they could test cosmonauts and tried to beat us not on a landing but to go around the moon and they were fairly successful but then in the soviet hierarchy they had a controversy, do we send the cosmonauts and they said send one more time to make sure the c.i.a. would get signals that maybe the soviets were going to try and big

joseph key kennedy iii, grandson of robert f kennedy will be sworn into the house of representatives a third generation of the kennedy family to serve in washington. he is the namesake of the family's patriarch, the first joseph p kennedy who served at the sec and kennedy's son followed him into public service that and that started 64 straight jeers in which at least one kennedy was on capitol hill or in the white house. young john f kennedy led to a successful bid in 1960. younger brother teddy won his old seat skpld serve for nearly five decades. brother bobby was elected to serve as new york's carpet bagging senator at the time. so he was accused of. the second generation served in the house of representative with bobby's son, joe spending a dozen years and patrick serving ai eight terms before retiring. with teddy's death in 2009 and patrick's decision not to run again, congress has been without a member of the kennedy family for about two years. it seems fitting that there is a look out about his namesake called the patriarch, the remarkable and tush lept times of joseph p kenne

has robert f. kennedy, jr. ever red time or news week or the "new york times" or the l.a. times or watched npr or nbc or the other networks? except for fox and talk radio, we live in an overwhelmingly liberal media culture, and brit hume's point just a few minutes ago about how the media is covering this economic crisis is a good example. i mean, they're covering it as if taxes is the big issue where spending is overwhelmingly the big issue. i wonder. does robert kennedy, jr., i mean, does he and other liberals, do they really want all of the media, not just 90 or 95% of the media, do they really want all of the media to reflect their views? >> here's what i think is going on. i think that rfk, jr. and people in his set, all right, they believe that npr, pbs, cnn, msnbc, they're mainstream. >> yes, exactly. >> bill: they're not left. they're just like the "new york times". how can you say they're left? that's mainstream paper. that's not left, all right. >> that's absolutely correct. >> bill: therefore, they don't have any baseline to say this is the left wing media becaus

the president of the robert f. kennedy center for human rights.d evening to you. >> great to be here. >> nice to finally meet you. human rights issues are exploding all over the world. regardless of anything else. it's a huge human rights and humanitarian issue. what do you think america should be doing with this, do you think? >> i think hillary clinton made a very strong statement today. of course, you see with the -- with what happened in congress yesterday, the lack of support in the united states senate for the u.n. but the u.n. process really has to go forward and has to be the leader on syria. >> i just don't think it's helpful to americans when so many senior politicians trash the u.n. you know? it's the united nations. and actually, it's better for america. >> absolutely. >> the united nations takes a lot of the work on the ground in these places. >> you're absolutely right. but there's human rights abuses that are exploding all over the world. and one that we're working very hard on right now is in uganda. there's anti-homosexuality bill

i didn't know his condition until robert kennedy spoke at a rally that i was having to organize and said that dr. king had been assassinated. that clip. robert f. kennedy: i have some very sad news for all of you, and i think sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world. and that is that martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. martin luther king dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. he died in the cause of that effort. in this difficult day, in this difficult time for the united states, it is best well for us to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. for those of you who are black, considering the evidence, evidently that there were white people responsible, you can be filled with bitterness and with hatred, and a desire for revenge. we can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization, black people amongst blacks, white amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another, or we can make an effort, as martin luther king did, to understand and to comprehend and replace that violence, that st

departure emt nent who will fill that void in i'm joined now by carrie kennedy, founder of the robert f. kennedy senator, daughter of the late robert kennedy. good to see you. thanks for coming in. >> thanks. >> hillary clinton has championed women's rights. she has been in many ways a very tireless fighter for this. and i'm wondering, how much impact do you see as someone who does this day in and day out that she has had? >> oh, she's been incredible. you know, she was the first person to say in beijing that women's rights are human rights. and before that, that seemed so normal now but that was a revolutionary thing to say. before that, women's rights really wasn't on the international agenda. and now it is. at the forefront. since then 183 countries have passed the women's rights convention. since she became secretary of state there are now 40% of the parliamentarians in afghanistan are women. >> let me ask you about afghanistan because i haven't been there and i think it's been at least two years now but when i was there and was talking to a lot of women, one of the things that they worried

the son of former attorney general robert f. kennedy with us and contributor michael smerkonish. talk about the silence of the nra here. you have a couple of article that is described this as the duck and cover noting that when we have seen past tragedies like this of mass killings that the nra will lay low and then fight legislation proposed. will that work this time around or will they be forced to come out and make a statement that goes beyond saying we are sorry for the loss of life in. >> you know, tamron, as i have expressed to you in the past i feel like i answer the telephone for a living. that's what i do 15 hours a week and i have therefore covered any number of these sort of instances in the last decade plus. this one is different than any i have talked to my audience about in the past. the depth of the feelings, the fact there were 20 first graders puts it on a new level. i might be proven incorrect but i think this time the memories longer than the nra hopes and coming february, march, people will be demanding changes. >> john, you were on with us yesterday. you're c

to which we refer you to the words of robert f. kennedy a man stands foup are an ideal or act to improve the lives of others or strikes out against in justijuse sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. clear, huh? i'm not juice or fancy water. i've got nine grams of protein. that's three times more than me! [ female announcer ] ensure clear. nine grams protein. zero fat. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. without freshly-made pasta. you could also cut corners by making it without 100% real cheddar cheese. but then...it wouldn't be stouffer's mac & cheese. just one of over 70 satisfying recipes for one from stouffer's. >>> our concerns are that an increasingly desperate assad regime might turn to chemical weapons. we have sent an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line. we believe, as you know, that their fall is inevitable. it's a question of how many people will die until that date occurs. >> that was hillary clintons this morning in brussels detailing the latest human rights abuses being carried out by the syrian government. the

that since martin luther king and robert f. kennedy968, more than 1 million americans have been shot to death. more than 1 million americans have been shot to death. part of the problem might be in the way we have addressed this issue over the decades, the phrase employed is always "gun control." and maybe it's time to reinforce the idea, the thought, the reality, no one is coming for your gun. but maybe we should talk about gun sense. it makes no sense for someone of any age to be able to walk out of a store no matter what kind of a gun shop it is with an assault weapon, 160 rounds per second, 10 rounds per second as in the case of the bushmaster that was used over the weekend in connecticut. that makes no sense. it makes no sense for people to be allowed to have those kinds of weapons. and then you get into the other aspects that you just mentioned. it appears from the reporting thus far that the shooter in this case had some sort of support system in the schools that he attended sparsely, the support systems where clearly he didn't

the 23-year-old is also the youngest person to receive the ripple of hope award from the robert f. kennedyr efforts. fantastic job. >> never, ever, ever ask questions that aren't answered with taylor swift. >>> here we are at the "gma" campfire. we're going to turn to the latest celebrity breakup, between former "real housewives of new york" star bethenny frankel and her hubby, jason hoppy. was there a prenup signed? and with those details, paula? >> it could be a cold, hard reality for the reality star. bethenny frankel is worth millions. but with her marriage to her second husband seemingly every, splitting up may be splitting up her net worth. >> i think it's fantastic. >> reporter: from real housewife, to mogul. bethenny frankel has played out much of her life on tv. even tying the knot with jason hoppy, on "bethenny getting married" in 2010, when she was pregnant with their daughter, brynn. but less than three years later, bethenny's ever after is crumbling. releasing a statement saying, we have love and respect for one another and will continue to amicably co-parent our daughter, who

but massachusetts may not buy a book on robert byrd, but they would on robert kennedy. -- john f. kennedy. people in california may not buy a book on robert byrd, but they may buy a book on presidents. there is written on the back, i hope this book is a must read about robert byrd and the u.s. senate and the american presidency. baker caught what i was trying to convey. another factor the approach i took. the eisenhower chapter. another objective is important insights into each presidential administration. west virginia was suffering terribly. west virginia had extreme poverty. a number of other things. there has been talk about the industrial complex. it took me eight years to realize there was an industrial complex. but anyway, the kennedy administration talked about how they worked together. not one book mentions this. a johnson-nixon administrations, think about this. just summarize these. you have a liberal democrat, johnson, and the other was a conservative republican, nixon. byrd is friends with both of them and helps them to get legislation enacted. each of them crossed the

kennedy. my two favorite people in history is robert byrd and john f. kennedy. i have always had an affection for kennedy. it showed the country that a catholic could carry west virginia and could carry the nation. kennedy blanketed the state. he went all over the state campaigning. i remember leaving my bike against a parking meter. after the speech, i went to get my bike. my bike was parked in the limousine where he was parked. i started asking questions. he looks at me and ask, where is nitro? he goes, nitro? i point, that way. anyway, i have always had an affection for kennedy. byrd opposed kennedy in the 1960s primary. that is not where they established a relationship. when byrd was serving as a senator, there was a reference to the partnership. it was not until i wrote this chapter that i realized how close they were together. you will see it in the chapter, hopefully. >> i was struck by this quote by senator baker on the back on your book of how senator byrd and he made an agreement to work together to make the senate operate efficiently. it was an agreem

but massachusetts may not buy a book on robert byrd, but they would on robert kennedy. -- to read about john fy. in the meantime they would learn a lot about robert byrd and how they work together. people in california may not buy a book on robert byrd, but they may buy a book on presidents. that is the reason i was so happy when senator howard baker -- his endorsements -- there is written on the back, i hope this book is a must read about robert byrd and the american presidency. baker caught what i was trying to convey. i was trying to make byrd appealed to the people outside of west virginia. another objective is important insights into each presidential administration. the eisenhower chapter. historians portray the happy days and everybody liked ike. the country enjoyed eight years of what president nixon called republican prosperity. when you read my chapter, you read when robert byrd is trying to help west virginia. which was suffering terribly this time. west virginia had extreme poverty. miners were out of work and byrd was trying to help the state. eisenhower kept vetoing. since the fa

while at stanford, he worked in senator robert f. kennedy's campaign for president. at the age of 35, he was elected new mexico attorney general in 1978. and four years later at the age of 39, elected to the united states senate. during his three decades in this body, jeff bingaman has been a classic workhorse senator as opposed to being a show horse senator. he is truly remarkable and distinctive among senators for his willingness to shun the limelight and share the credit in order to get important things done for his state and for this country. senator bingaman has been a much valued colleague of mine on the health, education, labor and pensions committee, but he has really made his mark in the senate a lasting mark in his role as chair of the energy and natural resources committee. as chair and also at times ranking member of that committee, he has played a leading role in shaping energy policy for our nation, authoring bipartisan legislation promoting a balanced energy portfolio encompassing all energy sources. senator bingaman worked closely with his new mexico

f. kennedy and robert kennedy and king martin luther king. and there was support in the leadership in the nra for gun control. and charlton heston even subdescribed to statement read by another hollywood tough guy, calling for some kind of regulation that prevents the repetition of these crimes, these assassinations. i think it's like with a lot of gun control measures, you support them in california, ronald reagan supported a gun control measure, and because black panthers were running around with guns in the state legislator in sacramento. >> host: carrying guns. >> guest: exactly. the law made it impossible to do that and imposed a waiting period on the time you needed between applying for a handgun and actually being able to buy it. and people say, oh, well, that law will certainly stop the black panthers. but that law doesn't apply just to black panthers. eventually you get a backlash, and there was a social and political backlash in general to a lot of the things that happened in the '60s, and i think gun control was one of them. so, --

kennedy. my two favorite people in history is robert byrd and john f. kennedy. i have always had an affection for kennedy. during the west virginia primary. it showed the country that a catholic could carry west virginia and could carry the nation. kennedy blanketed the state. he went all over the state campaigning. i remember leaving my bike against a parking meter. after the speech, i went to get my bike. my bike was parked in the limousine where he was parked. i started asking questions. he looks at me and ask, where is nitro? he goes, nitro? i point, that way. anyway, i have always had an affection for kennedy. byrd opposed kennedy in the 1960s primary. that is not where they established a relationship. when byrd was serving as a senator, there was a reference to the partnership. it was not until i wrote this chapter that i realized how close they were together. you will see it in the chapter, hopefully. >> i was struck by this quote by senator baker on the back on your book of how senator byrd and he made an agreement to work together to make the senate ope

robert kennedy was killed and said we have ten days before the nra gets mobilized. ten days to accomplish -- the bill was sitting in the judiciary committee, the gun bans. from the time when john fy was killed. now martin luther king joour, robert kennedy was killed. he said you have to get this done. they did what they could and came up with a much smaller bill which was signed, regretfully, by lbj in october. >> i don't have the historical perspective that andrea has, but -- >> you didn't cover that? >> no, sorry, i missed it. i have covered the four incidents of gun violence under obama. the scariest thing for newtown was when i g-chatted my fellow editor in new york to plot out coverage and we knew exactly what to do because we'd done it three times before. it had gone so routine and so disturbing. i'm worried i'm going to be writing the same stories that i did after every single -- >> we can't desensitize ourselves to this. >> we're not going to. and i -- i have heard about '68 as far as what califano said and how quickly we have to move. this is different. the horrors of martin luther king, the horrors of bobby kennedy, the horrors of all the violence, the gun violence thr

in 196186-year-old robert frost became the first pilot to ever be invited to speak in a presidential inauguration. in the days leading up to john f. kennedy's inauguration frost wrote a special poll for the occasion called dedication. there was a major snowstorm on the night before the ceremony on the day of the inauguration the sun was shining brightly in the sky was blue. frost was about to begin to read his poem, but the very bright glare of the snow prevented him from the will to see his minister clearly. here was one of the world's most famous poets, but he could not read his own words. new vice president lyndon johnson stood up and made an effort to create some schaefer frost with the top at, but it did not help. you can actually see that in the picture -- picture, johnson is standing next to frostily top that. frost can be heard to say to my not having a good light, and i can't see in the sun. so instead, frost and delivered an older palm, the gift outright, one which he had memorized. even then his problems did not end. he concluded his presentation by informing the assembled throng at his poetry have been dedicated to the president

in 1961, 86-year-old robert frost became the first poet to ever be invited to speak at a presidential inauguration. in the days leading up to john f. kennedy's and a division, he wrote a special pullen for the occasion called dedication. there was a major storm on the night before the ceremony on the day of the inauguration however the sun was shining brightly and the sky was blue. he was about to begin to read his poem the the bright glare of the snow prevented him from being able to c-span is clearly. here was one of the world's most famous poets but he couldn't read his own words. new fais president lyndon johnson stood up and made an effort to create shade with a top hat but it didn't help. you can actually see that in the picture johnson is standing next to him holding a top hat. he could be heard to say i'm not having a good light and i can't see in the sun so instead, he delivered and older poem one which he had memorized but even then problems did not end. he concluded his presentation by informing them that his pachauri had been dedicated to the president-elect. [laughter] crossed state of the name of a scholar from harvard. finley

f. kennedy, for instance, he used the martyrdom to get the civil rights act of 1964 through. and after the assassination of his brother robertgot some gun control bill. not as big a bill as he wanted, but he compromised and got something through congress in 1968. >> i'm endlily fascinated with lbj. i love the robert carroll books. i'm a little bit frustrated not directed at you but in general. i hear so many people use the example of lbj in domestic policy in his presidency as a point of measure for obama. they say only if he had the skill, the savvy how to work congress that lbj had. and he was the master of the senate. but there's a huge difference between the mid-1960s and where we are today. if you can think back and you had these moderate liberal republicans who were eager, happy to reach across party lines and work with the democratic president if he could accommodate them on something. we have such partisan polarization. democrats all vote together on everything. though there are a few more defections on that side. i wonder even if somebody had lbj's skill, would it be worth much on domestic policy? >> well, there's n

the assassination of robert kennedy was find a way to get gun control through that wouldn't have been able to pass otherwise. he did the same thing with the assassination of john f. kennedy by using it to pass the civil rights act of 1964 and used the assassination of martin luther king to pass the civil rights act of 1968 better known as the fair housing act. >> so it seems like today, if you're looking at the assassination of bobby kennedy as being a tipping point for lbj, it seems like we have something similar on an emotional level here in the u.s. with regard to newtown and what's happened there. so if president obama wanted to take a lesson from 1968, what do you think he could learn from how lbj got the votes for the bill? >> well, again, lbj used the emotional tipping point, as you suggested, alex, to get this through. one of the things he did very effectively is he worked with great speed, with great swiftness in order to get things done. before the mood of the country turned to something else. it's interesting. if you look at 1968, mrs. johnson, lady bird johnson, wrote in her diary, there are so many people across this country who are asking what is h

robert kennedy. when i was 10, i made a big decision and broke with the democratic party and went to work for john lindsay who was running f mayor of new york. i went down to the liberal party headquarters and was handing out leaflets on the street corner in new york'. some women thought this was really cute, this little boy and leaflets. and she asked me why. and i made the case and got i early start in my political career. she said this is for you and she hands this box of pastries. i took a back to the liberal headquarters and we opened it up and the were all of these doughnuts and a lot of $10 bills. one of my early lessons in politics -- the district leader grabbed the money and said you can keep the doughnuts. [laughter] >> you and the friend sold bumper stickers for robert kennedy. >> yes. >> and buttons and other things. >> for those of us who lived through it and remember, that was a time of great turmoil, but also of the idealism. when senator obama was thinking of running for president, we had a long talk about it. i said to him, you'reoo young to remember that, but we really have not had a campaign that really