sometimes people have said well, he was not going to run because robert kennedy had gotten into the race and he didn't relish a fight with kennedy. both depp the structure in march march 1968 and had a good chance of winning. mccarthy and kennedy were going to split their vote. the system at the time was basically a rule were basically it was all superdelegates with only a few respect in their primary results. johnson's polling numbers are actually fairly high -- they had numbers against everyone and he won including nixon by a substantial margin. only nelson rockefeller got close to johnson in his 1968 polls. so i think that sms take that johnson would run away from a fight i must racially if bobby kennedy, who you despise and robert kennedy's competition up there with hamilton and burr and very few i can match as far as american history and it must've been on facebook who compares. great summer over the dominican republic but there weren't many. well, he did have some support, including governor john calmly. johnson or connolly had called for george christian, his press secretary and s

at the democratic national convention in los angeles, robert kennedy, john kennedy's campaign manager knew that they were still short of a majority. they are going into the convention and they still don't have it nailed down. finally, pennsylvania and illinois, to states controlled by old-fashioned political bosses, broke for kennedy and the candidate went over the top. it took those states to do that, barely. even with those states, it was close. bobby kept tight control, demanding hourly reports from each coordinator on every delegate status. laborers were hunted down and bribed or threatened. delegates were flattered, given free rides around los angeles, offered liquor or women, free tickets to disneyland after the convention adjourned. kennedy won at the end of the first ballot when the voting reached wyoming. to understand how johnson ended up on the ticket as vice president is helpful to know robert kennedy's strategy for inning the election. if one talleyed up the electoral votes nationally, it was easy to see that each candidate would get about half the electorate's from the s

this is the ideal of robert kennedy announcing the death of martin luther king jr. at an impromptu speech in indianapolis. here is what he had to say. [video clip] ay,in this difficult d and this difficult time for the united states, people 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 is 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 and greater polarization, black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, 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 stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an compassionnderstand and love. for those of you who are black, and are tempted to be filled of thetred and mistrust injustice of such an act, against all white people, i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart this and .ind of fe

now we welcome robert f. kennedy jr author activist and attorney who joins us from san francisco and just so our viewers are aware you're not strictly anti vaccination i'm told you've had all sorts of your children vaccinated what is the most important thing you would like to change about the way we minister of vaccines to children in america. the problem is the vaccinations that are currently on the schedule are not safety tested oh the f.d.a. has given an exemption to vaccine manufacturers that manufacturers allow them to bring vaccines to market without doing placebo testing our safety testing really almost any safety testing for example that to have a tight as b. vaccinations or say if you tested for only four days i means of the baby died on the fifth day it didn't happen if the baby gets a seizure on day six it never happened if he gets autism three years later or. or food allergies or. other or disease stuff that doesn't show up for two or three years there is no way of the thing that after the vaccine is lice

marian wright convinced robert kennedy to go to the mississippi delta the next day and see the poverty firstde hand. so there are pictures of what he found and they are very compelling pictures of that visit. also there are some other images of around jackson, mississippi, including the bombing of the synagogue. there are essays for each chapter. i have wonderful contributors that are scholars in their field that introduce each chapter and gives historical and artistic context to the pictures. they provide the verbal stories to jim'sl visual ones. >> thank you. thank you. ms. travis. >> thank you. i usually start off attempting things, but i won't. i usually think those who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes, and that's what my book is about. that's why i'm here today. i want to thank my amazing co-author, john obi.d john, stand up. [applause] >> i met john in 2013 2013 i be it was and we worked on the book for five years, but it's about me as a young girl here in the state of mississippi who had that restful spirit. it didn't rest been and it can't rest now and it won't res

cross well frankly can't tell if it's the news from behind the robert kennedy humans or a human rights group announced that it will bail out five hundred inmates from rikers island these are people who have not been convicted yet of anything and are in prison because they can't pay bail many say the bail system only punishes poor people who don't have the money and shore shore there are no wealthy people at rikers island but that's because if you are wealthy. you are by definition a good person like we can all agree on that all right think about it when was the last time you saw a wealthy person who was not a generous is. a risk rag full heart like. the aliens the roster. the crew all the old person who cares for all humankind. you know we give the jury would give the shirt off their servants back to a person currently on fire god if god does not reward bad people where the wealth that is scientific facts. in the eighty eight hundred by a dude with mercury poisoning so sure bail keeps exclusively poor people locked up but it's only one of the crafty devices we have to lock up poor peop

we lost martin luther king jr., senator robert kennedy. the civil rights movement was underway, but far from settled, so we were grappling with real issues, and interest to public service. we continue to grapple with real issues. i hope it draws young people to public service. -- we are in is every default in country, and the issues we face as a country and a world are ever evolving, and it takes, different times require different actors and different actions. having been a part of the public life of this country for 50 years, i do see the change that can come. for example, the fact we have five women running for my seat that we field of 11, are seeing more women be successful, at least in their primary fights to seek public office, that is one example of the positive change that has come, but it requires people becoming engage in pushing for the change they seek. my call is genuine. there are real opportunities here, but it takes people getting engaged in making the investment, not only their time, but of their thinking, which has been sh

jane: both of us inspired by john kennedy, then robert kennedy. i knew ted kennedy whit quite wr -- quite well. and i am sure you know who died just last year. a huge mentor to me. >> a wonderful guy. jane: he was a senator, but, your idealism shines through the whole book, and how you get turned on to politics. you have a few unsuccessful moments, but that is a test. then you end up finally not just as lieutenant governor of massachusetts, but you en up as u.s. senator. you have an unsuccessful run for president. i remember it. i was in congress then. one story about that but then you were back in the senate. in a very senior role. senate foreign relation committee is a huge. you use it well then you go to administration to do your best to do 3 or 4 big things, one of which succeed when was big, i think iran deal. >>> and paris climate. jane: another one, they are big deals. >> problem with, i have to say if i can switch. my last chapter in the book is called protecting the planet. it talks not just about what shaping with climate change but the -

good friend that would stay at the compound and he started building and the attorney general robert kennedylooked into it leave you heard about them. ultimately they stayed at the house with a pull of republican celebrity to drive sinatra crazy. that is such a great story. >> the author of the rat pack married to a kennedy. but after this happened with the ambassador between the two camps. it was a huge deal back then. >> it would be like don -- george clooney dropping don cheadle. it was a lot of a fork. >> the book is on sale. if you haven't picked it up i recommend it highly. spee17 >> starting 70 miles east of here. and then to turn into those classic views of the calendars of those famous images. >> to think of this as abandoned and completely empty. for those that live in the area they come here to do ceremonies and pay homage to their ancestors. this is an important site for those in the southwest. >> nominated and in indianapolis and was strongly gave for speeches that day and the campaign people said this is the thing to do but the people come to you. and that's what happened he wo

you've got the assassination of robert kennedy. 1968. the sales here and in american has three. august of that year, nasa decided after a failure of apollo six they decide in august that we are going to the moon in december. delicious and low earth orbit. dallas in august. by december we are going to the moon because we will achieve john f. kennedy's vision of getting to them in by the end of the decade. of course our brave astronauts did with their country called them to do and they did things that we believe, potentially the question bill anders' wife asked at the time, i think it was chris kraft. the question was what are the chances he's going to come home alive? the answer was 50%. that is the amount of risk that they were taking. i'm guessing he was saying and not on the high side. the other thing important to know about apollo eight, 1968, celebrating the anniversary of that on christmas eve. at this mission would've failed in not only would've changed forever our vision of going to the moon, they would've changed forever christmas. imagine having a disaster on christmas

this is the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of senator robert kennedy. chris matthews has a new book out about senator kennedy. cadman know senator kennedy's grandson joe kennedy is a member of the house here and this is something i'm looking forward to. another book here a year of significance recommended again by the dynasty in china if you want to understand china, you need to understand the main dynasty. this book is on the temptations of power. another way to look into the mindset of that happening the middle east and what's happening within islam worldwide. this book was recommended to me it is a very interesting book called the sides and mr. freshwater mussels. we have the widest diversity in the world in my district in southwest alabama. this thing that you could probably throw like a rocket and hurt somebody with is supposed to be a book about cuba. it's just called cuba. the author is hugh thomas. this has been a dated. the book by walter isakson called the innovators. the people that actually come up with all the great ideas we see in the tech

[laughter] but to be inspired by john kennedy and robert kennedy. both of us but i certainly knew ted kennedy quite well i worked five years in the early seventies for kennedy in the nixon .-period. during his time at law school so he was an enormous mentor to me. we canceled the subcommittee in the senate when he was a senator. but the idealism shines through the whole book how you are turned on to politics with those successful moments but that's a test but then you finally end up not just as governor is massachusetts but then the united states senator with a sick unsuccessful run for president. i remember it. i was supportive and i was in congress then. but then you were back in the senate in a very senior role. the senate foreign relations committee is huge but then you go into the administration to do three or four big things that is the right thing to do that is the iran deal. >> it is a big deal. >> but my last chapter in the book is called protecting the planet talking about climate change and paris and how we got there and our position. they

. >> robert kennedy. i talk about this in the book. it's an amazing journey our country has taken over the last 70 plus years. the world we have built around a set of values since that set of time. all of a sudden that is all being thrown into a mixer. the test now is for our constitutions to stand up. they do that through the leadership of individual men and women. the people have been elected to uphold our constitution and to defend the united states of america and our institutions. >> in reading your book you talk about the lies told to the american people throughout the war in vietnam by politicians, by the military and in many cases, you know, the bombings, the assassinations, all of the things that we as a country went through. >> >> it is more dangerous. >> yes. it is more dangerous. for one thing today we have a president who clearly is not equipped to do the job. i will not go into all of the details. everybody in washington knows this. >> he is not fit for the job. >> i don't believe he is given what we have seen. give tennes

. >> at the bus inspired by john kennedy and then robert kennedy. both of us closer, but i certainly knew ted kennedy quite well. i worked for five years in the early 70s during the nixon. for john tenney with an cantonese roommate roommate in college, in law school and whom i am sure you know who died just this last year and was an enormous mentor to me. it was a wonderful ex. to be counseled the two subcommittees in the senate when he was a senator. but yes, your idealism shines through this whole boat and how you get turned on to politics. you have a few unsuccessful moments, but that is a test. you end up finally not just as lieutenant governor of massachusetts, but as the united state senator. you have an unsuccessful run for president. remember it. i was in congress and in fact cannot let me tell you one story about that. you're back in the senate in a very, very senior role. the senate foreign relations committee is a huge perch and used it well and you go into the administration and tried your best to do three or four big things, one of which

puts -- >> his sister was a terrific judge, one problem, the constitution, a statute called the robert kennedy statute precludes a president from appointing close relatives to positions. just making the point. why are people so insistent on question my arguments. have an argument with me, maybe you have won this argument. it is not a sin to put forth your best argument and the wrong. >> i want to ask about whether -- [applause] >> whether impeachment requires a crime. you believe you have the right reading here but different people have different readings. who is the authority here? the constitution binds all 3 branches of government but if people in congress have a good faith disagreement over whether you are right in your reading of the constitution and they wish to impeach the president for something that might not be a crime and they say we by this and we think we are entitled to do this, that is up to congress. >> definitely up to congress but we have 3 branches of government, you left one out. the president is impeached and removed without it being a crime because congress doesn't believ

. >> host: both of us inspired by john kennedy and then robert kennedy. both of us, you closer but i certainly knew ted kennedy quite well. i worked for five years and early '70s for kennedys roommate in college, and law school. at uva law school. so i'm sure you know who died just this last year and was an enormous mentor to me. >> guest: a great guy. >> host: a wonderful experience to be counseled to subcommittees in the senate when he listened to. but yes, your idealism shines through this will book and take it turned onto politics. you have a few unsuccessful moments but that's a test. and then you end up finally not just as lieutenant governor of massachusetts budget end up as a united states senator. you have an unsuccessful run for president. i remember it. i was supportive. i was in congress and then. and, in fact, let me tell one story about that. then you're back in the senate it a very, very senior role. i mean, the senate foreign relations committee is a huge perch, and you used it well. then you go into the administration and tried your best t

. >> robert kennedy, correct. and i talk about this in the book. it's an amazing journey that our country has taken over the last 70 plus years with the end of world war ii and the world we have built around a set of values since that period of time. but all of the sudden, that is all being thrown into a mixer. and the test now is for our institutions to stand up. and how do they do that? they do that through the leadership of individual men and women. the people that have been elected to uphold our constitution and to stand up to defend the united states of america and our institutions. so this is a moment where it's a crisis of conscience for people in the united states senate on the other side of the aisle where they have been willing to be more protective of their chairmanships, of their paper, of their president than they have of the constitution and the institutions themselves. >> in reading your book, you do. you talk about the lies that were told to the american people throughout the war in vietnam by politicians, by the military in many ca

you've got the assassination of martin luther king you have the assassination of robert kennedy. 1968, a failed year in american history. and in august of that year, nasa decides after a failure of apollo 6, they decide in august that we're going to the moon in december. apollo 6 didn't even go to the moon. it was just in low-earth orbit. they said by december we're going to the moon because we're going to achieve ultimately john f. kennedy's vision of getting to the moon bit end of the decade. of course, our braves a th astr did what our country called them to do and did things we believed would potentially -- you know, the question bill anders' wife asked at the time, the question was, what are the chances he's going to come home alive? the answer was 50%. that's the amount of risk they were taking. i'm guessing that he was saying that because it was on the high side. and yet -- and here's the other thing that's important to know about that story. apollo 8, 1968. so we're celebrating the an verse -- anniversary of that on christmas eve. if this mission had failed, it would have been

if he and robert kennedy had lived, it wouldn't have just been about race. it would have been about poverty and fighting against poverty for all people. if they had lived, six weeks apart they were killed. the dream is still alive but the dreamers were killed. i understood. i come from a home not too far from here. we're not too far from here. not too far from here as a kid, my mother had the picture of dr. kennedy and king up there -- president kennedy and king and i'm going to tell you, this is not about my politics, this is about what they did. if my mother and father, if my mother was still alive when barack obama was president, we would have pictures of the whole family, barack obama, michelle, sasha, malia, and the bobbleheads. see, i come from that family. i come from that family. and my mother was the woman who gave me my heart, my father gave me the courage, my late father, he passed away august 8th. my mother always taught me, i'm telling you, whenever i would be sitting at the kitchen table and if i had a peanut, do you know how many uses of a pea

it was devised by a guy named edgar khan who was robert kennedy's speech writer in the '90s. so time banking has not taken off in the u.s. in part because there is some administration involved and some resources. and so i was studying the issues that we're facing, and so right now as we're here together, so there are a number of things that are making americans very, very angry and despair-ridden. and part of it is that our labor efrce participation rate has fallen to 62.9% which is the same levels as el salvador and the dominican republic right now because of an exodus of men from the work force where as we're here together almost 1 in 5 american men of prime working wages between the age of 21 30 has not worked in the last 12 months. so i started digging into time banking because i was frying to figure out -- trying to figure out if we do automate the truck driving jobs and 30% of the malls close and mcdonald's rolls out self-serve kiosks by 2020 whichy they've already said they will do, so then you need to do a few dramatic things to create more y touchpoints in the econom

is threatened, and the things we care about most are in question, we should heed the words of robert kennedy who spoke here in south africa. he said "our answer is the world's hope, it is to rely on youth. it is to rely on the spirit of the young." so, young people, who are in the audience, who are listening -- [cheers and applause] president obama: my message to you is simple. keep believing. keep marching. keep building, keep raising her -- your voice. every generation has the opportunity to remake the world. mandela said, "young people are capable, when aroused, of reading down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom." now is a good time to be aroused. [cheers and applause] president obama: now is a good time to be fired up and for those of us who care about the legacy that we honor here today, about equality and dignity and democracy and solidarity and kindness, those of us who remain young at heart, if not in body, we have an obligation to help our youth succeed. some of you know here in south africa, my foundation has been convening over the last few days, 200 young

it-- i remember as a very young man watching the celebrations of the lives of robert kennedy and martine in the land and it speaks to the character and the service and the life of john mccain that we do see. martha: i mean, this is a person who was willing to suffer the slings and arrows of battle in combat and also the slings and arrows of political life as well and i think he did both with a joy of the battle and of the fight in a way that is really unparalleled throughout the course of his life. there's joe lieberman as he leaves. he talked about leaving office himself and john mccain saying, gee, i hope this means you're going to get a house in jerusalem with a balcony i can look out over and he says he hoped the balcony he could look out over existed for him in heaven. bret: you know, karl, talk about the underlying message. senator mccain made all of those decisions about the memorial this week both in arizona and in washington, and clearly, the message that he wanted to get through was that the country needs to work together, republican and democrat, and in the symbolism of the c

and so i'd like to welcome on stage nancy and from the robert f. kennedy center kerry kennedy. >> i was in rikers island for over two years simply because i could not afford the ransom on my freedom. nearly 90 pfrs thos% of those id are black or latino, only 53% of new yorkers are black or latino. i'm here to ask you to join the mass bailout and effort to free hundreds of legally innocent women and 50 children jailed at rikers island within a matter of weeks. and it starts monday! let's do this. >> 80% of the people on rikers have not been convicted of a crime. yet they are sitting in a cage simply because they can't afford bail. if you are rich and you get arrested, you pay bhail and you go home to your family, to your school, to your career. but if you can't afford bail, then for the exact same thing, you don't go home. instead they rush you to jail. they lock you in a cage. they tear you from your family, your school, your job. if you are enduring poverty in this country, you lose your right to be innocent until proven guilty. that is a crime. poverty is not a crime. go to m

it was devised by edgar khan who was robert kennedy speechwriter in the '90s. time the bank has not taken off in the u.s. in part because there is some administration all and resources. i was studying the issues we were facing. there are no would think spanking americans angry and despair written. and part of it is only before. >> to spatially has fallen to 60 2.0% which is the same level as el salvador and the dominican republic and right now because of the exodus of men from the workforce were as we hear together almost one in five american men are prime working age between 21-30 has not worked in the last 12 months. i started digging into time banking because i was trying to figure out if we actually do automate ways three half-million truck driving jobs in the country next ten years and 30% of the malls close in the next four years and mcdonald's roles at self-serve kiosk in every location in united states by 2020 which hillary said they will do, so then you need to do a few dramatic thinks to create more touch point for the economy. the first thing is we n

brett kavanaugh was reversed by a margin of 62 with both justice roberts and kennedy in the majority.he late justice scalia and justice clarence thomas were in the dissent in that case, but it shows he is somebody who squarely aligns with justice thomas when it comes to judicial philosophy. it shows that he is somebody who can see interest of industry over people, the industry of the powerful over the minority. he is somebody who would gut and undercut the important work that are federal agencies are undertaking right now to protect the american public when it .omes to environmental racism he is somebody who would absolutely shift the court to the right. justice kennedy was by no means a progressive on the court, but his vote was in play. in fact, in about 50 cases concerning civil rights matters, he and roberts were on opposite ends of the spectrum with brett kavanaugh we can expect 100% of the time will likely have five areervative justices who turning the clock back on incredibly important areas for minority communities in our country. juan: before we get more deeply into his actua

the robert f. kennedy human rights group has announced plans to bail out more than 500 women and teenagers from rikers island in new york in an attempt to show how the current bail system criminalizes poverty. the group's president kerry kennedy said -- "there are no wealthy people on rikers island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail." in news from chicago, disgraced chicago police commander jon burge has died at the age of 70. between 1972 and 1991, more than 200 people, most of them african-american, were tortured under his reign. officers under his command routinely used electric shock, suffocation with plastic bags, typewriter covers, among other methods, to extract confessions from men who were later shown to be innocent. in 2015, the chicago city council approved a $5.5 million reparations fund for victims of police torture. one victim of the torture was an african-american man named darrell cannon who spent more than 20 years in prison who confessed to a murder he didn't co

robert chappaquiddick kennedy. >> this is a land where women will be forced into back alley abortions, black would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizen stores in midnight raids and writers and artists would be censured at the whim of government. >> sean: then a few years later, of course democrats tried to bring the prime court justice who became one of the finest justices in our generation, clarence thomas, through the mud. 1991, senate democrats pulled out his former colleague anita hill making sexual harassment allegations against him. sound familiar? this character assassination was so vicious and so horrible, so nasty, justice thomas called it a high-tech lynching. take a look. >> this is a circus, it's a national disgrace. and from my standpoint as a black american, as far as i'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deigned to think for themselves. to do for themselves. to have different ideas. and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. you will be lynched, dest

you have to go back to robert kennedy, 50 years ago. >> ted kennedy. >> and he was shot, then ted kennedythe kennedy family, but i think mccain is more than a senator, and not just the vietnam background, he is the hero of the cold war. we had john glenn and neil armstrong, but mccain is a hero representing his vietnam generation in a meaningful, poignant way. >> expanding other generations as well. jamie was saying earlier, he had a young following. his presidential campaigns were the early -- people were excited and moved by his movement. it would almost be fitting if that was parked outside the cathedral. that's who he was. as we sit and watch this, there's no question this is a passing of time. passing of history. the senate is entirely, entirely different now than when he arrived. and we have seen people leave one by one. but senator kennedy when he passed nine years ago did not have the fanfare like this, did not lie in state in the u.s. capital. his body was in massachusetts. this is how senator mccain wanted it. i agree with you, doug, he is bigger than a senator. he's much more t

what is interesting is i highly doubt you are going to see judge roberts act in a way that justice kennedy did in the sense that john roberts is more conservative than anthony k kennedy was. >> paul,an aryan, thank you so much. a reminder to all of you, please, please tune in tonight to the new cnn film, speaking of justices, supreme court film ruth bader ginsburg, rbg is the film, it airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific here on cnn. >>> still ahead cnn gets an exclusive new interview with taliban leaders about possible new peace talks in afghanistan. this as we learn as american service member has just been killed in an apparent insider attack. we are live in kabul with the very latest on the war that has now lasted 17 years. >>> a stunning remark from a male doctor claiming female physicians don't get paid as much because they quote don't work as hard. hmm. a doctor who has devoted herself to gender equality in medicine joins me live to respond. >>> first we will speak to the man who oversaw senator mccain's burial service at the u.s. naval academy. the commander shares what the

robert bork was labeled a racist and sexist without evidence by teddy kennedy and again, joe biden. robert bork's america is a land which women would be forced in to back alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizen's doors in midnight rage and school children could not be taught about evolution. ben: slanderous allegations that took down robert bork. fast-forward to 2012. mitt romney holding a tight competitive race with barack obama, harry reid simply slanders him by stating on the floor of the senate that romney hasn't paid his taxes. >> so the world's out he hasn't paid any taxes for ten years. let him prove he has paid taxes because he hasn't. ben: let him prove it. it's not reed's job to prove he didn't pay taxes, romney's job he didn't pay taxes. reid released a statement saying, quote -- and i was told harry reid likes to murder puppies in his backyard. how did reid respond that reid was an abject liar? here's what he said. >> no regrets about mitt romney, about the koch brothers, some people called it mccarthyite. >>

roberts and alito . rounding out the group is justice scalia, justice kennedy, justice thomas.have onesual to protestant, stevens, and the other two are jewish, ginsburg and breyer. mostly onay out issues of abortion when the public consciousness calms. as i note in the book, the supreme court received some criticism of the catholicism issue in 2000 seven when the justices for the first time struck down an abortion procedure which is known by its critics at the partial-birth abortion procedure and the majority of justices happen to be catholic. this is before justice sotomayor. that is when a lot of the criticism came to the forefront of our people voting their religion. , and sincee scalia he is conservative, he has a convincing argument at where he is at on the law anyway, even barry said about being influenced by his catholicism. he said there is no right to privacy which would protect abortion rights in the constitution. that is the end of the matter for me. i am just interpreting the constitution. i have strong religious police, but they do not influence me. he told me som

but please join me in welcoming president of the kennedy center deborah roberts. thank you. >> good evening and welcome. when stewart called me to share the fact that the summit was going to take place and to invite us to participate, ways overjoyed. because so many people don't even know and understand that we are the living memorial to john f. kennedy. my guess is in this room you all know that. but we love being involved in experiences like this and this summit. many you came from farther than virginia or maryland or down the street. and the saying is you only have one chance to make a first impression. and i just really want to say this is a hot place to spend time. we've been working on the chiller all day and i'm really, really sorry. but when faced with the option of either moving it or cancelling it or, we decided that we would all be here and experience it together. and last night it was warmer, right? so thank you, thank you so much for being here and thank you to the white house historical society for all their work during this summit and for including

here this is why we talk about roberts becoming the swing vote. kennedy having left. he was in the middle. >> is there any -- is it set up to be repealed? i hear conflicting things on the. >> it set up in a couple senses. number one the supreme court has to have a case. there has to be a case. they can't just decide you know what we had coffee this morning we think we will overturn and then go play tennis. that's not how it works. you have to have a case. there has to be cases that are bubbled up from lower courts. those cases are actually happening. state legislatures are passing legislation that they know would violate the current standards of the later cases. they are deliberately doing this so that cases will be created. abortion clinics, planned parenthood, the others are challenging those patches and lower courts are saying they are unconstitutional and then they get appealed. the supreme court then gets presented with cases that they could choose to take. the rule is for justices have to take a case for review but you need five justices to do anything. you are

kennedy: donald trump versus robert mueller, it's the super bowl. the meeting still might happen.regards to the meeting, abc news reports the president's former lawyer michael cohen participated in the multiple interviews with special counsel and is cooperating with a new york state probe into the inner workings of the trump family charity. who's getting the gatorade bath when the clock runs out. the panel is back. kayleigh, i will start with you. obviously the morning joe crowd wants to read this as all very bad news for the president. is this all doom and gloom? no, not in the slightest. we were told michael cohen holds the key to taking down the president, nothing came from that. the same with paul manafort, nothing. millions of pages have been reviewed. dozens of witnesses. nothing will come this but an indictment of the democrats for leading this charge. kennedy: do you share her enthusiasm? i realize she is a spokeswoman for the republican national committee. >> what matters is the timing of things. 45 days before the mid-terms, they see this at the silver bullet. the questi

what kennedy said about robert bork was despicable and disgusting. what was done to clarence thomas was despicable. what do you make of this now that we have had time? there's not a single person in the case of professor ford that she mentioned that was there that has corroborated the story and the same thing with mr. ramirez. >> number one, to the democrats, they knew about this since july 30th. they chose to do nothing about it. for them to complain about the process is like an arsonist complaining about a fire. the allegations against judge kavanaugh are collapsing. this has been the worst low point in the senate for me and that is saying a lot. i never thought it would get this bad. we will have a hearing thursday and i look forward. to supporting this good man. when it comes to donald trump, there are no boundaries or no rules. what ever you need to do to destroy he and his agenda, there are no rules. >> that's very sad. >> we have a serious allegation, and i know -- a month ago the girlfriend of keith ellison, number two at the dnc, was running