they do fake science. >> coming up on you talk to al jazeera, we will ask robert kennedy, jr., about me of the unique experiences of being a kennedy. >> a conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended... revealing... untold stories of the valor... >> they opened fire on the english officers... >> sacrifice... >> i order you to die... >> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes continues episode three: the new middle east on al jazeera america there's more to finical news than the ups and downs of the dow. for instance, could striking workers in greece delay your retirement? i'm here to make the connections to your money real. ♪ welcome back. our guest this week, robert kennedy, jr. >> i want to ask you a littles about your life story. the early 1980s, you were busted for heroin use? >> i started taking drugs when i was young, soon after my dad died. it was a struggle for me that i dealt with sufblings and when i was 29 years old. >> a lot of people may not draw the c

they do fake science. >> coming up on you talk to al jazeera, we will ask robert kennedy, jr., about me of the unique experiences of being a kennedy. ♪ welcome back. our guest this week, robert kennedy, jr. >> i want to ask you a littles about your life story. the early 1980s, you were busted for heroin use? >> i started taking drugs when i was young, soon after my dad died. it was a struggle for me that i dealt with sufblings and when i was 29 years old. >> a lot of people may not draw the connection between the unbelievable things you had to witness and go through as a child, the death of your uncle, the death of your father and, perhaps, the connection with drug use? >> i don't think it had much to do with it. there are many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than i went through. i lost my dad when i was 14. and to violence, but there are millions of people living in the worst parts of our country, in harlem and watts and apalachia and the migrant worker fields in the southern states or in southern california who lose their parents to disease or to violence. >> t

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

as a young man i became very enamored of robert kennedy. as many of you know in his journey, his resurrection, he went to cape town, south africa and spoke at the university there. i urge you young men and women in the audience, and frankly anyone who has not taken the opportunity -- the glory of the internet is you can go on and hear the speeches and that is one of the best speeches you will ever hear. on the walls of his grave are etched words that still speak to me. every time a person stands up against injustice or fights for what is right, they send forth a small ripple of hope and daring and from all those energy sources, those ripples can create waves that will wash down the mightiest walls of oppression. to this day, that still reminds me of why i do what i did. i came from southern california here -- really, all i wanted to do was open a nightclub. i have told this story too many times. [laughter] i want to be real clear here. many of us were inspired by those men and women in the day, who really risks things -- you -- who really r

but what inspires me about robert kennedy's grave ask what todaygoing to talk about is after his brotheras kennedyated, robert went into a deep depression, can't get out of bed kind of depression, dark, dark place. and he slowly reinvented himself. many ofrt kennedy that us remember was a very different man than the robert kennedy who helped run his brother's campaign and climbed up the ladder in washington d.c. a many he was somewhat of ruthless man, he was definitely the man would you have to deal with hisou messed brother. john kennedy like many c.e.o.s in the room got to be the nice leader, while the development director and the c.o.o. had to heavy lifting every day. but i watched as a young man and very enamored of robert kennedy, but as many much you journey, in his resurrect shun he went to cape town, samp ka and spoke at the university there. i urge you younger men and women in the audience and frankly anybody, the glory of the to soet is you can listen many amazing speeches, and that is one the best speeches you hear.ver but it's at that speech and the walls of his graves that a

>> guest: i think that that's in some printed sources on stevenson and also on robert kennedy. i think there's a biography of kennedy by arthur schlesinger that includes that. c-span: who are the people that liked governor stevenson the most? >> guest: well... c-span: people around him. >> guest: people around him, yeah. c-span: i mean, you mention arthur schlesinger. did he start with him? >> guest: yeah, this is his famous campaign in '52 when stevenson had the best speech writers we've ever--probably ever had--three pulitzer prize winners; arthur schlesinger, john kenneth galbraith, john bartlow martin--i mean, an all-star cast. c-span: where'd archibald macleish come in? >> guest: he wrote for stevenson, too. he wrote one of the best of stevenson's speeches, but there's always a difficulty because stevenson stood by those speeches and he liked to call these wonderful writers his researchers. and there was a little bit of element of pride there in--on the issues that--stevenson wanted to write these speeches. they--he was a messenger of this vision that he had of the united s

. >> robert kennedy, jr., a lifelong advocate of the environmental movement thanks in part to memoriesf his dad prior to his father's assassination in 1968. >> my father considered this part of our heritage and our purple mountains' majesty. kennedy says those who sponsor

the archvillain in reagan's life was robert kennedy, his supreme nemesis. in 1961 upon becoming his brother's attorney general he pursued corruption with a vengeance. he also targeted political opponents. kennedy hold reagan before a grand jury two weeks later. the justice department subpoenaed. the matter never resulted in an indictment, he lost his job. they got the news over lunch on sunday. i just lost my job. his daughter confirmed that same daughter confirmed that same bobby kennedy had a hand in this cancellation. this may not be accurate. others pointed out that they were losing ratings. liens leaned on general electric and caused the cancellation. he sought retribution during a debate. television in europe, but he went all out when kennedy entered the presidential campaign sweepstakes with reagan really got actively involved in campaigning for the presidential population. kennedy in and then relented if a religious man. his minister was one of a half-dozen people present at the kickoff meeting in reagan's home. my insight comes from the conversation

the the most iconic pictures and portraits, but force the hand of the attorney general, robert kennedy, to send in federal marshals. 1961 is also the year of raging protest in terms of counterdemonstration for civil rights protest and integration. james meredith becomes the first black student to integrate the university of mississippi. 1963 is the centennial of the emancipation proclamation. the city of birmingham, birmingham, alabama is on fire. connected with a local movement to try to desegregate. he is incarcerated and writes letters and defends the movement against critics one of the best lines is arguing that in the future young men and women will be remembered as heroes. they will be be remembered as heroes for bringing the nation back to those great wells of democracy. 1963 is the year of german shepherds and fire hoses that were powerful enough to take park off of trees. children being incarcerated. also also the year out what i call his finest moment where he delivers a forceful and robust and eloquent speech about race relations, american democracy, and citizenship where he

interstate travels, very infamously on may 4, 1961 and it will also force to hand the attorney general robert kennedy to send in federal marshals into the south. and that is also great in protests across the united states in terms of counterdemonstrations for civil rights protest and that is 1962 that is the year of james meredith, the first black student to integrate. there are three days of riding the wee one person dead. 1963 is the centennial of the emancipation proclamation. the city of birmingham, alabama, is literally and figuratively on fire. martin luther king jr. connected with a local movement to try to desegregate city of birmingham, alabama. very famously cane is incarcerated in birmingham and he writes on a scrap of paper a letter from birmingham jail. and he really defends the movement against critics who say the movement should move slower. the movement should wait on freedom and justice and democracy. so one of the best lines from his letter is king arguing that in the future the young men and women being incarcerated and brutalized and arrested in birmingham are going to be remember

. >> the first thing robert kennedy did when he heard that his brother was killed, is call the whiteouse and secure his files. >> oh, you bet. they didn't want -- you don't want johnson or hoover getting those files. huh-uh. kennedy, rfk did not trust lindh on johnson. hated him. and we make that pretty clear in the book. and hoover, huh-uh. so they went in and they got everything out of jfk's office in the white house, everything and spirited it away. what was in there? i don't know. that probably destroyed any kind of stuff that would be embarrassing. but, boy, rk did not want hoover or johnson to see those files. >> someone may look at that and say, that's the first phone call you make? >> protect the family, protect the family. they had been taught that by their father, it was always protect the family. >> in your research, did you find that month unusual? >> not knowing, knowing the kennedys the way i know them, they were a very public family. and they were used to tragedies happening. and bobby was a very practical man, he was a very tough, tough guy. this is what he thought he

president kennedy went his way, but his brother, attorney general robert kennedy watched over a program called operation mongoose which was essentially what we would call state sponsored terrorism. torching sugar fields, arming assassins, blowing up power stations. that slowly petered out. it did not work very well because we don't know how to destroy an economy without bombing it will stop using sabotage was very hard because the cubans are pretty good at intelligence and they were able to protect themselves. so what happened is lyndon johnson inherited the white house in 1963. he was very inexperienced in foreign affairs. he was a domestic president until he got caught up in vietnam. 10 days before he picked up the telephone and called j william for bright -- j william fulbright, the widely respected chair of this committee of foreign relations come a foreign so -- a southern gentleman and rhodes scholar. lyndon johnson says what should i do about cuba? we have been trying to blow them cheap we have this invasion. what do you think i got to do? senator fulbright began to reply and say

. >> robert kennedy, jr., a lifelong advocate of the environmental movement thanks in part to memoriesf his dad prior to his father's assassination in 1968. >> my father considered this part of our heritage and our purple mountains' majesty. kennedy says those who sponsor climate lies should be

but his brother, attorney general robert kennedy, watched over a program called operation mongoose which was essentially what we would call today state-sponsored terrorism. it was torching sugar fields arming assassins, blowing up power stations. and it didn't work very well because we don't know how to destroy an economy without bombing it. using sabotage was hard because the cubans are good at their intelligence and were able to protect themselves. so what happened? what happened is lyndon johnson inherited the white house in 1963, and he was inexperienced in foreign affairs. he was a domestic president until he got caught up in vietnam so it took him ten days before he picked up the telephone and called jay william fulbright, a widely respected chair of the senate committee on foreign relations, a fellow southerner from arkansas, and a brilliant man, a rhodes scholar. and lyndon johnson says, what should i do about cuba? we have tried to blow them up. we have tried this cheap invasion and so forth. what do you think i ought to do? senator fulbright began to reply to say let's not get

president kennedy went his way, but his brother, attorney general robert kennedy watched , over a program called operation mongoose which was essentially what we would call today state-sponsored terrorism . torching sugar fields, arming assassins, blowing up power stations, and it didn't work very well because we don't know how to destroy an economy without bombing it. using sabotage was hard because the cubans are good at their intelligence and were able to protect themselves. so what happened? what happened is lyndon johnson inherited the white house in 1963 and he was inexperienced in foreign affairs. he was a domestic president and until he got caught up in took him ten days before he picked up the telephone and called jay william fulbright a widely respected chair of the senate committee on foreign relations a fellow southerner from arkansas and a billion men, a rose scholar. and lyndon johnson says marshall i do about cuba? we have tried to blow them up. we have tried this cheap invasion and so forth. what do you think i ought to do? senator fulbright began to reply to say let's not

kennedy had appointed brother robert kennedy who had many virtues. but also use the department of brother's protect his personal reputation and partisan interest. john mitchell had done as well. the d levy was quite opposite. he and president -- president delegated him substantial autonomy, but not complete independence. nor did the attorney general want independence. at that time, there were many of osed bills independent the president, for example, the way the fbi director is now to ave a ten-year term that will survive the president to appoint im to take away from the justice department the authority investigate high level officials and prosecutors. edward levy's view was the president, the attorney general the president to for policies, what are the department of he justice going to be? drug enforcement, civil rights, antitrust, for example? and also when the law was guidance from the president was appropriate. and interestingly, edward levy had been ent ford graduate students at yale law school at the same time. self-de dent in a self-deprecatin

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

ethal kennedy's life is a story of perseverance and generosity, a tireless advocate for the causes she holds dear, she founded the robert. kennedy center 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 pub

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

. >> when you look on the title sign it says rose kennedy, john fitzgerald kennedy, robert kennedy.r thought i would get this far. ♪ ♪ the minister >> reporter: the son of an arkansas share cropper, al green grew up in grand rapids, michigan. one of ten children, he performed with his brothers in the family gospel group. you pretty much always knew you wanted to be a singer. >> oh, yeah, from my heart. >> reporter: you were very determined. >> yeah. >> reporter: where did that determination come from? >> i had a hard head. >> reporter: you did? >> yeah. my dad says, it's a hard head. it's the hard head of the family. yeah, he'll make it because he's got a hard head. and a determination he just won't quit. >> reporter: after his father kicked him out of the house for playing jackie wilson records, he formed a group. ♪ pack up the train snchltd back up the train ♪ >> reporter: al green and the soul mates had a modest hit with "backup train" in 1968. ♪ i've got to take my baby >> reporter: then green's voice caught the ear of producer willie mitchy. >> willie said, i wonder if you coul

that villain is the arch villain in reagan's life, robert kennedy. he became reagan's supreme nemesis foreign usual reasons. in 1961 con -- upon becoming his brothers attorney general bobby kennedy perceived corruption with a vengeance. the sidebar he also targeted political opponents. in february of 62 kennedy paul reagan before a grand jury two weeks later after that but the justice department subpoenaed reagan's tax returns. it never resulted in an indictment that reagan lost his job as host of the general electric -- reagan's kids got that news over lunch one sunday. i just lost my job the future president told his son michael. the kennedys threatened a general audit. his daughter maureen confirmed that conversation in her memoirs saying quote bobby kennedy had a hand in this cancellation. this may not be accurate but other reporters have pointed out the general election was losing ratings but that is not what counts. what counts is in reagan's mind bobby kennedy leaned on general electric and caused the cancellation of the general electric theat

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

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it must be remembered that nixon got nixon. >> beam me up. i say it's time for congress to shove these illegal tactics right up the assets of the irs. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the mayor took a second puff. then fbi agents and police came bursting through an entrance from the room next door. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for real peace, we are ready to make compromises. >> we will be back with "sunday today" and "meet the press." >> remembering those who lost this year including an important member of the family here. after the break, we will see how closely the panel was paying attention over the last year. we will close the year with a trivia test from 20 [ male announcer ] we know they're out there. you can't always see them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better. something more amazing. a safer, cleaner brighter future. at boeing, that's what building something better is all about. ♪ ♪ some cool things to pass onto your kids:

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

kennedy got the middle of freedom. #3 is her husband, said to be more timid and family oriented. 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 res

whether president kennedy is directly involved with it, whether his brother, the attorney general robert kennedy never quite clear how this exactly happens. curtis lemay, who's the air force chief of staff, tells chuck yeager that bobby kennedy wanted an african-american candidate, that he was given this by the attorney general. so by 1962 a black candidate, ed dwight who was an air force officer, jet pilot, starts the full training to qualify for consideration into the astronaut corps. in the black press, he is front page. his picture is everywhere with, headlines everywhere. he is every bit the astronaut that any of the mercury seven were. white newspapers in the south wish him well and call him a credit to his race which is an unusual thing for a white paper in the south to say about any african-american. but he was a rock star. he was the guy. he was going to be the first african-american astronaut. and then he he wasn't. it's never quite sure what happened. he finished the training programs and was nominated to nasa, but so were 130 other people. they took, i think, less than 20 out of that

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

and then robert kennedy jumped into the race against johnson to say he is appealing to the darker impulses of the american spirit than was just brutal. and then called him a complete opportunists. it was a brutal attack. so then we expected rockefeller to go after us because romney was gone. so he holds of press conference and did not watch television in then to tell me about our impressions. it was a smart thing to do because those viewpoints he knows what he thinks. so rockefeller announced he would not run. so we went in and told nixon i didn't tell him that nixon said its the girl. at that time there were reports that rockefeller had a girlfriend. after his initial marriage broke up this would have just killed him so that rumor was floating all over the place. it did not turn out to be true that the last day of march we had to cancel it because johnson announced he would speak on the 31st so he said go to the airport and get in the limousine and get on the runway. when the plane comes get on the plane and tell me what johnson says. sosa the there the limousine here comes johnson talkin

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.must be remembered that nixon got nixon. >> beam me up. i say it's time for congress to shove these illegal tactics right up the assets of the irs. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the mayor took a second puff. then fbi agents and police came bursting through an entrance from the room next door. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for real peace, we are ready to make compromises. >> we will be back with "sunday today" and "meet the press." >> remembering those who lost this year including an important member of the family here. after the break, we will see how closely the panel was paying attention over the last year. we will close the year with a trivia test from 2014. [ male announcer ] we know they're out there. you can't always see them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better. something more amazing. a safer, cleaner brighter future. at boeing, that's what building something better is all about. ♪ ♪ as parents we hold our kids' hands when crossing th

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.t nixon got nixon. >> beam me up. i say it's time for congress to shove these illegal tactics right up the assets of the irs. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the mayor took a second puff. then fbi agents and police came bursting through an entrance from the room next door. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for real peace, we are ready to make compromises. >> we will be back with "sunday today" and "meet the press." >> remembering those who lost this year including an important member of the family here. after the break, we will see how closely the panel was paying attention over the last year. we will close the year with a trivia test from 20 >>> welcome back. it has been a year in politics. was the panel paying attention? we boiled down 2014 to three numbers and a word. here they are. 86 1928, 30 and mark. amy, i will let you start. 86 and 1928 are related. let me show you here. this is the first time since 1928 that democrats have experienced this depression of election. >> it is true. >> lowest number of house seats. >> right. th

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.st be remembered that nixon got nixon. >> beam me up. i say it's time for congress to shove these illegal tactics right up the assets of the irs. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the mayor took a second puff. then fbi agents and police came bursting through an entrance from the room next door. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> for real peace, we are ready to make compromises. >> we will be back with "sunday today" and "meet the press." >> remembering those who lost this year including an important member of the family here. after the break, we will see how closely the panel was paying attention over the last year. we will close the year with a trivia test from 20 i like it when my hygienist lets me know i'm doing a good job. i like it when my toothpaste lets me know too. that's why i went pro. go pro with crest pro-health. for an intensive clean. i can really feel it deep cleaning my mouth. for a 4x better clean try these products together. that was a great check up. [ high-pitched ] nailed it! [ normal voice ] you're right, that was

. >> 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

. ♪ ♪ >> senator robert francis kennedy died at 1:44 a.m.ay. ♪ >> it must be remembered that nixon got nixon. the post didn't get nixon. >> beam me up. i say it's time for congress to shove these illegal tactics right up the assets of the irs. ♪ >> the mayor took a second puff. then fbi agents and police came bursting through an entrance from the room next door. ♪ >> for real peace, we are ready to make compromises. >> i'm garrick utley. we will be back next week with "sunday today" and "meet the press." >> remembering those who lost this year, including an important member of the family here. after the break, we will see how closely the panel was paying attention over the last year. we will close the year with a trivia test from 2014. standpoint a . my name's louis, and i quit smoking with chantix. i had tried to do it in the past. i hadn't been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. along with support chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. the fact that it reduce

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

what probably would be more revealing had he lived and others such as robert kennedy, our nation would probably would not be addressing these kind of issues. there may be new issues to address but certainly not these. i also think he would have to raise the issue not just of police that brutality, misconduct, but brutality and misconduct within our own communities. i think he would raise that issue because he always talked about loving each other, sharing, caring, lifting each other up. all of that, i think, must be discussed while the nation's attention is galvanized. >> i want to pick up on this policy must come after these marches, after the action. do you think that this can be legislated away, that this is something that is not a heart and mind issue but that congress can pass and the president can sign something that will solve this problem? >> that's a very good question. the short answer is, yes, but it also entails constant strainint not just training once a year or once every two or three years. if you're in combat 24/7, police officers are and we are certainly sensitive to t