environmental loyal robert f. kennedy, jr. and celebrated conductor. but first a woman well known for her work with chimpanzees. >> what's the most interesting thing that oven learned about chimpanzees over the years? >> how like us they are, or how like them we are. and i think the most shocking, but very fascinating thing is when i realized that like us, they have a dark side. and that made them sadly seem more like us than i had thought before. but they are capable of violence, brutality and, a kind of primitive war. >> can you take me back to the beginning. you were secretary an those pollses lewis eek i leaky, thats where your got your start right? >> that's where it started. >> how did that happen? >> when i was a tiny little girl i wanted to study animals in africa because i fell in love with tarzan, and sill iman fell in lover with the wrong jane and i was jealous with her, but i decided i want to go to africa and write books about them and everybody laughed except my amazing mother who said if you want something you have to work hard and take

perseverance and generosity, a tireless advocate for the causes she holds dear, she founded the robert f. kennedyenter for justice and human rights where she advances her husband's vision and challenges to managing the world as it should be. whether on gun control, environmental protection, human rights or public health, she tackles difficult issue with a relentless drive and inspires those around her to do the same. in ethel kennedy we find the strength, resilience and passion at the heart of the american spirit. [applause] > the honorable abner mikva. one of the greatest jurists of his time, he built his career on reverence for the law, commitment to public service and love for chicago. as a congressman, federal judge, and counsel to president clinton, he helped shape the national debate on some of the most challenging issues of the day, always insisting government live up to its responsibilities to citizens. he has imparted his sense of civic duty to a new generation from shaping legal minds as a law professor to challenging young people to give back to their communities through public service

the robert f kennedy has been called that for 20 years. we still call it by its old name. when you pass a law, it takes a while before, even though it is illegal, it takes 20 years or 30 years to people really get acclimated. i got bused to school. i got called nigger. they would protest. my first day of school, just in new york. in 1973. i know it. i have really known it. ♪ >> the moments that have been transformative, one of the martin lawrence thing. the others when you went to broadway. that was transformative. >> it really was. that was the most fun i have ever had in show business. >> why? >> it was fun being the rookie. i literally did not know anything. i had never done a play before. i didn't do a play in high school. just that experience -- not just doing a play. doing an original play. you could almost rehearse for a revival in your house. but an original, it changes all the time. to work with a play from the bottom up. form a character. work with great actors. elizabeth rodriguez. yeah, it was just -- >> did you learn things you could add to the total sort of e

joining us now, political analyst and president of the robert f kennedy center for justice and human rights. good to have both of you with us tonight. carrie, poverty plays a big role in this social injustice and income inequality in america. how do we remedy that in the midst of this conversation? >> well you know, poverty is a big part of us and we, especially for african-americans, their chance of living in poverty is multiple times that of white americans, but it is both in poverty and also in law enforcement and social justice across the board. for instance, right now, ten times as many white-americans as blacks use drugs, and yet, rather five times as many whites as blacks use drugs and yet a black american is ten times more likely to be in prison for drugs than a while-american. we see this across the board. >> michael, how does the president's response to these protests measure up in your opinion? >> very poorly. look, i love the president. i'm sorry a huge supporter of his but he's got to step up. he sounds like the opposition to martin luther king, jr. in berming ham when t

asked why robert f kennedy never appeared on his program, he said, why does baloney rejected grinder? we cannot all come up with those kind of arresting formulations that he did, but that is the task for the recruiter. make it look fun. >> we have time for two more questions. we will go with william and and up with victor. thank you for being here. i heard a quote the other day that said a corrupt or evil government will hide behind the guise of incompetence. as members of the news media, what are your thoughts on this? >> ainslie? [laughter] msnbc. explains gosh, that is a tough one. why don't you handle that? >> if that is how they hide, this one is not doing a good job of it because they have not projected much in the field of competence. people are cynical about government. this is a country that was founded on cynicism. it was founded by people who did not trust people with power. that is what the constitution is about. it is not about empowering governments, it is about restraining governments. they did not trust human beings. asked newtreporter gingrich whether he really believ

and robert f. kennedy assassinated. riots engulfed our cities. escalating war in vietnam, alienating millions of americans. against a turbulent back drop, nasa resumed its manned flights and aimed to test in space the craft that had hoped to land on the moon before year's end. a sudden change of plans turned apollo viii into another make or break mission. >> apollo viii was not going to be a lunar flight. it was going to be an orbital flight to make sure that everything was correct from two vehicles before we would go to the moon. >> reporter: apollo viii was a big step forward. america would still be trailing the russians in the race to the moon. >> they sent spacecraft around the moon with animals to test them for cosmonauts. and they were fairly successful. but then in the soviet hierarchy, they had a been controversy, should we send the cosmo mauts, and people said, no we should send them one more time before the cia began getting signals that maybe the soviets were going to try a sir com lunar flight. which would have massively undercut the

it is a shame that robert f kennedy joined a long list of unfaithful men. you suggest that he had an affair with jackie kennedy. >> that was done outside of my research. >> do you believe it? >> i reported on it, so i do believe it aced on the history of the kennedy family. it was aly believe possibility and it has been reported multiple times by significant sources, put forward by people who were close to the kennedy family. it has been reported in multiple outlets. there is plenty of evidence to show that that was a possibility. overu thank your editor the issue of the kennedys. was a difficult of his standpoint to include all this? >> i don't think so. i don't think it was necessarily difficult. i think we had some disagreements about what is fair game and what isn't. but my editor was very excited about the book and thought it was a good idea. he thought it was important to get out there. --creit #4 is ted kennedy kennedy. is ted >> i was doing research for this book and decided that if i'm going to do research, i need to do a lot of reporting. to attend

. >> robert f. kennedy kind of didn't actually like that sash, that tiara bestowed upon him. >> it was a no-win situation for him. there are only two or three things you can do to create jobs in upstate new york in some of these places. he is just xed off and one of those things who said we can't do it so it was a risky thing for him to do and it was a hard choice and that's why he wants distance to it, he cares who the losers were going to be on both sides of this debate. >> jane, as far as the ripple effects of this, what do you potentially see here? i think maryland is the next state that needs to make a decision about fracing, do you think, cuomo's decision is likely to have a republican is going to be in his seat next year. what do you think happens next? >> i mean, i think the ripple effect is that citizens have strong movements on the ground and there's no way the decision in new york would have happened without a strong, not only grassroots movement, but them linking arms with environmentalists and

the bridge has been the robert f. kennedybridge for about 20 years. >> rose: yes. >> we still call it the triborough bridge. so when you pass a law, it takes like 20 years before, even though it's illegal to do certain things, it takes like 20 years or 30 years for people to like really get acclimated to things. so yeah, i got bused to school. i was called nigger all the time by students, teachers, janitors, there were protests in new york, in brooklyn, new york, go home darkie-- whatever. you know, my first day of school, like just in new york. just like anyplace, you know, like you saw every place else. in '73. so i know it. i like, i really, really, really know it. >> rose: the moments that have been for you transform difficult, one is the martin lawrence thing. the second thing is when you went to broadway. that was a transform difficult moment for you. >> it really was. going to broadway was, first of all, the most fun i have ever had in show business. >> rose: why? >> it was fun being the rookieie. it was-- rookie, i li

in every instance, progress was made possible by our shared determination to overcome what robert f kennedyled the tragic irony of oppression. i am pleased to note that over the past six years, together with president obama and our colleagues in the administration, we've expanded on the ground raking effort to launch a new era of empowerment and opportunity. to cooperation between tribal justice leaders and the attorneys offices, including new attorneys who prosecute those cases, we have strengthened. we've transformed a dysfunctional process that allowed domestic violence cases to languish and disappear. office,s. attorney's indian country jurisdiction, is required to engage and develop operational plans to improve public safety and prevent and reduce violence against women and girls. 2013 fiscal year showed a 34% increase from 2008 numbers. bipartisan passage of the landmark violence against women reauthorization act, the justice department has announced three pilot projects to implement. [applause] as a result, more than 20 non-indians have been charged right tribal prosecutors and more

largely on the recommendations of robert f kennedy junior and yoko ono who have been his energy advisors. [laughter] >> ono enomics. >> people with long-held experience in the energy field. what is going to happen when obama finds a way to knock out the keystone pipeline and what can the republicans do about it? >> energy is the biggest story of the american economy. i want to back up for a minute and get to your point about -- how did we get back on that 4% growth path? we had that throughout most of the 1980's and 1990's. one of the contributions of barack obama is that he has set up an interesting experiment. government activism as a stimulus and the reagan model of unleashing the supply side of the economy in private business is an important point that we have to hammer home because this lesson has to be learned -- it will never be learned by academics but the american people are starting to understand where it let me give you an amazing statistic. ronald reagan came in with a period of economic crisis. barack obama came into office during great economic crisis, no question. the amaz

a tireless advocate for the causes she holds dear, she founded the robert f kennedy center for justice and human rights were she advances her husband's vision for the world as it should be. whether on gun control, environmental protection, human rights, or public health, she tackles difficult issues with a relentless drive and inspires others to do the same. in ethel kennedy, we find the strength and passion that are at the heart of the american spirit. [applause] the honorable abner mikva. [applause] one of the greatest jurists of his time, he built his career on reverence for the law, commitment to public service, and love for chicago. as a congressman, federal judge, and counsel to president clinton, he helped shape the national debate on some of the most challenging issues of the always insisting government led up to its responsibility is to citizens. he has imparted his sense of civic duty to a new generation from shaping legal minds as a law professor to challenging and people to give back through public service. our laws abner mikva, and nation are more fair and equal. [applause

the bridge has been the robert f. kennedy bridge for 20 years.en you pass a law it takes like 20 years -- even though it's illegal to do certain things it takes 20, 30 years for people to get acclimated to things. i got bussed to school. i was called nigger all the time, you know, by students, teachers, janitors, so i know it. like i really, really, really, really know it. >> there ain't a white man in this room that would changes with me. none of you. none of you would change places with me, and i'm rich. >> what's interesting, louie c.k. told me once it takes about 15 years to get really, really good. you were really, really good pretty early, weren't you? >> i was -- >> not really, really, but good. >> i was good, you know, a club level of good pretty early. but, yeah, it did taken 15 years for me to become, you know, a guy good enough to get on a charlie rose show, you know. i made money. >> or to get to be in your movie for god's sakes. >> or to get charlie rose in my movie. you know how good i had to be to get that? it does taken 15 years.

it establishes that he is robert kennedy, after all. not john f. > i think what will happen now, mccarthy gets a new life. he's still a long shot. but he has a chance now. i think that, however, you don't write off robert kennedy, because he can come off the floor and win big in california. that's what he has to do. if he didn't win big in california, he's had it. f my esi hob nob with the glitterati and play equestrian sports. out on the veranda, we enjoy finger sandwiches and other assorted dainties. i wear nothing less than the finest designer footwear. wherever i go, the paparazzi capture my every move. yes, i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers. you that straight from the only florigrove taste...an bring because florida's natural is the only major orange juice brand that's owned by growers and never imported. we bring that "straight from the grove" taste from us, the orange juice growers... mornin' ma'am. ...to you, the orange juice lovers. and you can taste it in every glass. florida's natural. great taste. naturally! [ crowd ch

governor andrew cuomo has now come out against tracking, largely on the recommendations of robert f kennedy junior and your kono , his energy advisors. and -- [laughter] >> zero, right. so what is going to happen when obama signs away? what will the republicans do? >> energy is the biggest story of the american economy. i want to back up for a minute and get to your.that you made. how do we get that 4% 4 percent growth? we had that throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s. one of the contributions of barack obama as he has set up this interesting experiment about these two competing models, the keynesian model of government spending and activism as a stimulus and the reagan model of unleashing the supply side of the economy. this this is an important.that we have to hammer home because this lesson must be learned. the american people are starting to understand. let me give you one amazing statistic. reagan came in during an incredible economic crisis, but barack obama came in during one also. here is the amazing thing. they use diametrically opposite approaches to dealing with the crisis. as

sheer determination to overcome the effects of what my predecessor, former attorney general robert f. kennedyce called the tragic irony of american indian oppression. .. to languish and disappear. the sad result of the system in which the federal government and tribal officials collaborate. every u.s. attorney's office, indian country jurisdiction is now required to engage to develop operational plans to include public safety and prevent and reduce violence against women and girls. the review of the fiscal cases filed show 34% increase from 2008 members. the year before the initiative began. since the bipartisan passage of the violence against women reauthorization act of 2013 the justice department announced three pilot projects to begin early implementation of the criminal jurisdiction which extends the tribal prosecution authority over the non-indian perpetrators of domestic violence for the first time in more than 35 years. [applause] as a result more than 20 on indians have been charged by tribal prosecutors and more than 200 defendants have been charged by the end hands statutes that in

robert f. kennedy was killed, was assassinated. the senator from new york at that time, in june of 1968. the governor of new york, nelson rockefeller, jay rockefeller's uncle, offered that appointment to the united states senate. the governor ats points senators in most states. the governor offered that to jay rockefeller and his answer to his uncle was, "no, thank you, i want to earn a seat someday in the united states senate." and that's what jay set out to do. he reminded us a few weeks ago that important undertakings can't be half-hearted. you have to commit with your whole self, almost like pushing a heavy rock uphill. with both of your hand, you push, because if you let up a split second, you and the rock are thrown backward into the abyss. jay had chance to approve that in this body over 20 years ago. he pushed that rock uphill to fight to protect retired coal miners promised health care benefits. it is easy for members of this senate who have good titles, who are well-dressed, who don't have to go out and listen to the publ

. >> condemning the tactics in a speech at the robert f. kennedynew information about one of the worst terrorist attacks that's happened in the country's history. terrorists stamp ago school and killing more than 14 people, most of those young school children. leaders across the globe condemning the brutal attacks. but the white house not mentioning the taliban at all. president obama's statement reads this, quote, by targeting students and teachers in this heinous attack, terrorists have once again shown their depravity >>> kurt busch's ex-girlfriend painting an ugly picture of him in court. she's trying to file a no contact order against him saying he's unstable, depressed and struggling with alcoholism. in her six-hour testimony she works describes the moment that he allegedly slammed her head into a wall. his lawyers claim she is simply a mercenary just trying to destroy his career. >>> and a sneaky valet did not realize his joy ride was caught on camera. take a look. he takes off at this california parking garage, all seems normal so far. but

last week we saw hillary clinton making strong appeals to liberals in honor of a memory of robert f. kennedyshe said about that. >> our values are what set us apart from our adversaries. i am proud to have been a part of the obama administration that banned illegal renditions and brutal interrogation practices, including torture. >> okay. so lynn, what do potential democratic contenders need to shore up for support here in the party's base? >> well, there's a big difference between hillary clinton and everyone else and now that it's clear that there's no one of her stature running, there are people who may run to -- because they think she's too center or right of center, it doesn't matter when bernie sanders decides or not. it doesn't matter if elizabeth warren gets in or not in terms of timing because i think the thinking is now that hillary clinton can just take her time. maybe a few months ago you people might have thought she needs to get in and let people know what she is doing. well, no. she's here. everyone else is below her. so i would think, actually, that senator sanders, if he wan