insert started leaving, wrote a book proposal and robert kennedy would pop up in different situations a literary agent he mentioned bobby kennedy right a book about him. i do not plan to write a book about him. but i realize as i read were deeply look at robert kennedy through the context of the racial transformations in the 1960s. that would allow me too explore, to really disrupt it we think we know. look at the larger context of racial change get to know about him this aspect of his public life was very essential i think had been largely overlooked. i sort of came into it and it has been an amazing journey. i have learned quite a bit. and on. the snapshots of the 60s that's used with bobby kennedy. with kennedy himself he is an iconic figure people have written about him arthur's lesson jurors famous book other people have written about him and his brother. what were the prevailing views but remain to be said about that? great question the prevailing views were he doesn't seem as central. people thought he did not do enough, he was not integrated into the context of african-america

and i that robert kennedy felt this passionately and intensely in a really gave it his all. in ways that were unique to him. kenneth: it is interesting right. i particularly president kennedy and you had written that particular incident the 700 southerners and senators. and segregation and that he had promised with that segregation and how to and after his elected and they were sending him pens. and okay you have executive order. and that indirectly the administration it in the department of justice, so why that misconception it. patricia: i think it is very good question. collington historians. i would argue that. the effort to get the civil rights to introduce in 1962, and have a played out and they were all for civil rights lab hundred legislation but the reality, the power of southern get democrats we can only do what you do. after he moves towards his in 1963, his advisor told him not to do the speech. we thought it would jeopardize the election. that was 1964 fighting that could happen. he's known doing it. and the only people that thought he should do is his brother an

you have robert kennedy son saying that that robert kennedy's 1st reaction to news of the assassination of j. f . k. was to phone the ca, and more or less did they do it? who conducted this hard was his actual cool. i mean, robert kennedy junior, very young. he said that to us, he tells us the story. robert kennedy suspected something on day one. and jackie kennedy and him wrote a note soon thereafter, to wrote to kosher. in the soviet union tell him that they knew that this was non russian plot to, to kill kennedy. that in fact it was right wing group in the united states. they said in the letter that had done this, there was a correspondence between the kennedys and cruise shop that had been going on before the assassination is an interesting sign angle to put in. robert kennedy makes very clear that his father, in $68.00 was running for president on part of that agenda was that he was going to revisit, gonna enact the policies that had begun under john his brother. and that he was among other things. going to look into the assassination again because he never just never believed the

they said they said robert kennedy was the attorney general for johnson if, if robert kennedy felt so strongly about as he could have prosecuted, the people that were involved in the, the real people who were involved in jeff cases as a nation. i did tell you that there was a phone call. we haven't, we have the voices on tape where linda johnson clearly tells robert mcnamara. this was a bad idea, withdrawn from vietnam. that how much clear can you be that johnson did not agree with these policies? and he used to use the us as a nation rather quickly to take control. and within 2 days, issue issued national security action memorandum, $273.00, which reversed which basically set up a new militancy in the american position. india now allowing us forward to conduct air patrols and naval patrols along the noisy enemy's coast. then ended in the tonkin bay buck debacle in august of $64.00 in the fall flag. it's now increasingly called last night and operation. yeah. and that was a basis for the war. but why did law kennedy not do anything? why did he not attorney general? he's gone off on da

robert kennedy jr., you mentioned him.there are anti-vax influencers that are out there that have used that platform to spread misinformation. so, the fact that it's coming out now i'm actually a little surprised because this was a huge issue when the measles was going around and that information was getting out. facebook knows this is happening, and these people are still slipping through the cracks. >> the white house cited a report that came out in may. the report identifies what they call the disinformation dozen, 12 people including robert kennedy jr. but then a bunch of other people that you might not know their names, who are sources of lies about the vaccine, providing these 12 people i think more than 60% of the lies on facebook -- i don't have an issue with facebook dealing with it, but i guess a couple things. first of all, is there not a problem here with the white house telling private companies what content to allow and what content not to allow? we see the opposite of this from conservatives who get mad when

robert f kennedy, you have an attorney general who was close to his brother. you could not be closer. they did a good job for civil rights and taking on big companies. partisanship works its way in. a clearly does -- it clearly does, wiretapping that has been maliciously misused. prosecution and justice are different. prosecutors go for indictments, most cases conviction. that is the name of the game if you are the fbi, it is getting the bad guys. the purpose of the judiciary is to find justice between the case for the prosecution and the defense. you have a big thumb on the scale if you have them as one. you are up to something. i think we try to get at it with the inspector general system. i was part of that with the carter administration. independent of the governor, capable of earning cases against bad behavior by their own department. you try to isolate them so the prosecutor or investigator does not feel loyalty politically. we are still experimenting. you are onto something. some presidents including jack kennedy believed that the attorney general worke

host: you mentioned senator robert kennedy and you wrote about him in a book. would he have received the democratic nomination had he lived? guest: under the old system of selecting nominees it would have been hard. very few primaries, california was one of them, he had another coming up. he had a big battle with eugene mccarthy who was strong in new york. that would have been a real tussle. hubert humphrey was backed by the establishment of the party. i do not know where to would have been gone -- where dale what have gone. -- would have gone. i think he could have. the convention in 68 was controlled by the bosses and old system of governors picking delegations. it would have been hard. it would have been better for the country to help bobby kennedy walk into that tall and red ligh-- rally the antiwar forces. it would have been great to have a real battle in the convention instead of on the streets of chicago. i am thrilled at the prospect that he would have lived and there would have been a debate over the war. it might have gone the right direction. it woul

it was complicated by the emergence of the candidacy of robert f kennedy senator, robert f kennedy a younger brother of president john f kennedy and robert kennedy announced in mid-march 1968 that he too was going to join the presidential sweepstakes that he was going to present himself as a candidate for. the democratic nomination and when he did so in mid-march 1968. he declared johnson's vietnam policy as bankrupt. so johnson was facing an insurgent threat from his own party in the 1968. it was becoming increasingly clear that he was going to have a tough time to win the nomination that his chances the upcoming democratic primaries. including wisconsin later, oregon and california were not really great. and the final factor that that swung johnson to decide not to seek re-election in 1968. was not the cronkite moment, but was the council of an informal group of advisors called the wise men so commonly called the wise men. these were foreign policy experts including a former. secretary of state dean atchison under secretary of state other officials including a supreme court justice

but robert kennedy jr. doesn't work for facebook. robert kennedy jr. just posts on facebook with his anti-vaccine nonsense. what's the best way to go after that? >> the best way to combat misinformation from somebody who has read something online that has made them scared of the vaccine, is to see that people they know have gotten it and been fine. i think that's going to be particularly valuable having someone in your orbit that you know and trust delivering that message, particularly for, for instance, the black community for the latino community, where their opposition to the vaccine is not about politics or about identity or making a stand about which side of this battle you're on, but rather about concerns about how much can you trust the medical establishment to give you accurate information. i think seeing someone that you know and trust get the vaccine turns out okay is going to be the best way to move forward. >> i will say though that there is growing evidence that making vaccination compulsory actually works. about 16% of people right now sa

robert kennedy jr. is a big anti-vaxxer and has been out there for years with an anti-advantages message spreading misinformation and telling lies. what do you want tech companies to do when it comes, to you know, either being marjorie taylor greene on the right or robert kennedy jr. on the left? >> well, jake, there are a number of steps tech companies can take to take the spread of misinformation. number one, they can identify people who are super spreaders of misinformation and limit the information that they share. number two. they can take the data that they have that tells us how much misinformation is really spreading, who it's affecting. they can share that publicly and transparently with researchers. they can also, jake, take a closer look at modifying their algorithms which, again, serve up content that's false to people. sometimes again and again if he look at the false content once because that's the way the algorithms are designed. tech companies will say they have taken some steps forward,

. >> next number to be history professor patricia sullivan examines robert kennedy's role in the civil and then spencer mcbride looks at more of a founder joseph smith presidential candidacy of 1844 that ended in his assassination. and later activist tamika malory offers her thoughts on racial justice predicted by more information about tb.org or consult your program guide. and now here is patricia sullivan on robert kennedy in the civil rights movement. >> i am jonathan price director of the presidential library museum. on behalf of all of my library and foundation colleagues and

even robert kennedy said, no, that can't be done. tell us about the sig nif kaps of his opinion. >> well, the significance, beyond the fact that he was a democrat, comes from the fact that he said that this is a single act. the creation of the district. then, the question becomes, does congress have authority to do what is contemplated by these various proposals that have come over the years? and the conclusion that the office of legal counsel gave him was that, no, they do not. it is a single act to create the district. it is finished. if you want do something more, like retrocession and so forth, you're going to need to find some authority under the constitution. and the important issue here was just brought up by senator lankford. namely, that the district is unique. it's not an ordinary process of creating a new state from territory acquired for the express purpose of creating new states from it. the louisiana purchase, et cetera. it is sui generous. it was created, expressly, under article 1, not under article 4, to be the seat

john f kennedy and robert kennedy where here. nds aboutjohn f kennedy. and this would take you out to the platforms to penn station. the most exciting bit is the roof. this view is incredible. we're besides the chrysler building and the empire state building, and if you look down there you can see the statue of liberty. let's go see the roof sign. you can see it all over the city, can't you? i can see it, actually, from the town where i live in newjersey. the letters are enormous, aren't they, when you get up close? the letters are about 20—feet tall and they're illuminated by leds. how many people have touched the sign, joe? you are in a group of less than a dozen people, i am sure. thank you for bringing me up here. oh, you are welcome. jessie said to come here to see an orchestra but the address seems to be a normal block of flats. who is it? hi, it'sjo. knocks. hello. hi. are you sam? iam. what is happening here? so, this groupmuse. this is a classical music house party. 0k. so come with me. we arrive in the middle of a recita

it was complicated by the emergence of the candidacy of robert f. kennedy. senator robert f. kennedy, the younger brother of john kennedy. he announced he would join the presidential sweep stakes. he was going to present himself as a candidate for the democratic nomination. he declared the vietnam policy as bankrupt. the final factor that swung johnson was the counsel of an informal group of advisers called the wise men. commonly called the wise men. these were foreign policy experts, including a former secretary of state, undersecretary of state. other officials including a supreme court justice who is very friendly to president johnson that the wise men had gotten together in november of 1967 and at that time largely had supported johnson's war effort. they endorsed it. by late march, 1968, the wise men were asked to meet again at the white house and they, at that time, largely, if not unanimously, to find war in vietnam. the wise men turned johnson's thinking. 1968, he was not going to seek re-election. these wise men turned johnson against the war in vietnam. in wrapping u

. ♪ narrator: not long ago, it gave a warm welcome to robert kennedy. , on the outskirts of the city, escorts of honor here, there and everywhere. the streets feel more and more crowded. kennedy's campaign song grieves -- greets us for one of the windows. >> ♪ hope for kennedy hope for kennedy ♪ ♪ ♪ narrator: the motorcade turns on to the famous street. it's clear now that the enthusiasm being shown here in berlin is of a different quality from that encountered in cologne or frankfurt. berlin's political situation is -- a free island in a communist sea is reflected in their greeting. they are free, but nobody forgets a freedomless existence is only a few blocks away. ♪ ♪ yesterday morning, the east berlin police draped flags on the gate. and now, a few minutes before the president's arrival, the communists rollout a large propaganda sign. ♪ as the motorcade turns on to the 17th of june street, cameras on the communist side of the wall are set up. it's the first time the president kennedy stands before the wall. ♪ the motorcade leaves and crosses 17th of

brought as a journalist artist and friend of bobby kennedy to reminisce and to mourn the death of robert kennedy to mike will have been elected president if he had not been murdered. the 60s for carson wasn't all a matter of consciousness raising. one of his highest. show in fact the highest. show for carson was actually the wedding of an iconic figure of the 1960s known as tiny tim. tiny tim was famous for his falsetto rendition of tiptoe through the tulips and his unusual clothing style unusual even by the standards of the 1960s. when he tied the knot 58 million people tuned in to the special wedding show on the "tonight show." now johnny carson loved his work. he was really not all that happy when he wasn't working. he was a perfectionist and invested huge amounts of planning and energy into making the show look as spontaneous and is effortless as is seen through the television was not comfortable with the camera even with family. as johnny carson had a failure of his third marriage he said if i had put the work into by marriage that i had put in my show -- carson was friendly but it was more

for work on the speech of that party, the labour party ahead, he still language from the late robert kennedy is shameless about the things he says and does and it's not because he's a smart man, he is quite a man. it's all about power joe biden for joe biden. it's about promoting joe biden. he met with a bunch of historians the other week and wanted to know, how could he be eager than franklin roosevelt and lbj and barack obama? so he's lurched hard left where before he was not hard left and he will do whatever he has to beat his chest, pack himself in the back, make claims about inventing vaccines enter stupid income from whatever it takes to promote joe biden and his legacy. joe biden is hooked on this phrase jim crow i got to thinking about this, there is really no better was alive in washington d.c. to talk about jim crow and joe biden about why? joe biden was part of jim crow. listen to this short article from npr national public radio in 1975 number two say to you that joe biden is the most racist president in the oval office since woodrow wilson. >> those are those who think somehow t

as you know, apologists, they haven't acknowledged it and evan thomas of his biography of robert kennedy said there is no evidence. what is the current state of evidence whether john kennedy tacitly explicitly or directly said go get him? >> directly. the cia is not going to make those decisions on their own. even before church and pike, nowadays any kind of covert action has to be blessed off by the president with the presidential finding and that is not the case in the beginning of kennedy administration. but under dulles, they're not going to make these kind of decisions because dulles does have free run over eisenhower and not nur kennedy and specifically under cone. he filed dulles at the very beginning of his president. he becomes president in january of 1961 and bay of pigs is a couple of months later and dulles is later and mccone is the hand picked replacement. mccone will not do anything without the blessing of at least bobby. there might be times when we only get to bobby kennedy, the attorney general, but there is no evidence they didn't talk about everything together. so i w

democrats are doing more than facebook robert kennedy to kill the vaccine. when you see these politicians who have access to the best healthcare in the country wearing masks they are sending a clear message to the vaccine hesitants, there is no other side to this pandemic. joining us is florida congressman byron donald. you actually got into it with one of your colleagues today who chastised you for not wearing a mask. what happened? >> i was trying to get onto the floor to vote, he was going to one of the metal detectors which is a dumb thing to have on the house for but that's another story for another day. he turned around, saw me and was basically you're being selfish for not being vaccinated, that is why we all have to wear a mask. i look at him like mind your business, why are you worried about what i am doing, worry about yourself, you've been vaccinated, congratulations, leave me alone, mind your business, why are you worried about what i'm doing but the truth of the matter is they are not paying attention to the science, continue to pay attention to

monday it's an extra day book tv some of the authors you see historian patricia sullivan and robert kennedy and the civil rights movement, wall street journal columnist jason riley on the life of economist thomas olin alex marlow of breitbart news critical look at mainstream media. when full schedule information online @booktv.org or consult your program guide. now here's john with a look at the tactical decisions that secure the continental army's victory in the revolutionary war. certificate evening everyone print welcome to our talk this evening with john for a link on their winning independence but i am team on from the avon library we are in webinar modes of you have any questions at any point throughout her discussion popped them a into the q&a box or the chat box will read them at the end i'll turn it over to my calling to introduce john. to back thank you tina. the united historical society is pleased to cosponsor this conversation with a dedicated historian to enlighten us with new information and may be new theories. especially that of the southernon strategy. we love that because

as a bottom line, the democrats are doing more than any facebook or robert kennedy to kill the vaccinethe politicians that have access to the best health care in the country wearing masks they are sending a very clear message to the vaccine hesitant. there is no other side to this pandemic. joining us now is florida congressman byron donalds. congressman, you actually got into it with one of your colleagues today who chastise you for not wearing a mask. what happened? >> i was actually just trying to get onto the floor to vote and he was going through one of the metal detectors which by the way is still a dumb thing to have in front of the house for but that's another story for another day. he turned around and saw me and said you are selfish for not being vaccinated and that's why you're all having to wear a mask. i looked at him like mind your business, why are you worried about what i'm doing? worry about yourself, you've been vaccinated. congratulations, take care of yourself and leave me alone. mind your business. why are you worried about why it i'm doing? at the left has complet

kennedy, robert kennedy, of course many legends ofjohn f. kennedy.ding, and under you can see the statue of liberty. let's go see the side. liberty. let's no see the side. ., let's go see the side. you can see it all _ let's go see the side. you can see it all over _ let's go see the side. you can see it all over the _ let's go see the side. you can see it all over the city, - let's go see the side. you can see it all over the city, can't l see it all over the city, can't you? ican you? i can actually see it from where i live, newjersey. the letters are enormous when you get up close. the letters are about 20 feet call and illuminated by leds. how many people have touched the side? you are in a group of less than a dozen people, i am sure. thank you for bringing me up here. you are welcome. i was told to come here to see an orchestra but the address seems to be a normal block of flats. who is it? hello, this isjoe. hello. hello. are you sam? what is happening? this is a classical music house party. come with me. we arrive in the middle of a recital.

he was critical of robert kennedy because he had worked for joe mccarthy in the early 1950's. the kennedy family sort of kept pearson at a distance. pearson was a generation older than john kennedy. the president's up to that point where his age or older and now this president was 20 years younger. pearson was the generation of christian death -- khrushchev. he was one of the few american correspondents invited to do interviews with him. he came away convinced that he wanted to avoid war at all costs . that's the message he took back to kennedy and it played a part in kennedy's thinking during the cuban missile crisis. host: lbj administration, civil-rights legislation was passed and pearson became a real advocate. how did he view lyndon johnson's work on the bill? mr. ritchie: when johnson was vice president he was writing columns saying johnson is speaking out on civil-rights, chairing the commission on civil rights at the time and looking at hiring equal opportunity. johnson was talking about the issue well kennedy was not. as president, he was trying to downplay the civil

history professor patricia sullivan examines robert kennedy's role in a movement. wall street columnist jason riley discusses the life of a career. and the editor-in-chief argues the mainstream media has destroyed its own credibility. find full schedule information on-line at book tv.org or consult your program guide. >> during a virtual event at the reagan presidential library, fox news host martha maccallum discussed world war ii's battle of iwo jima with a fellow host. here's a session of the program. >> i was grateful to the editor. when i started about writing a book, i told him a story about going to my grand father's attic when i was a little and finding these letters that had been written by my mother's first cousin who was killed in iwo jima. when i read these letters, they moved me to tears. i thought if i'm going to write a book, i want it to be a book that's about something i'm going to learn a ton researching. i spent the next three years researching iwo jima learning about the battle, and immersing myself in this one battle from the pacific world war

some of the authors you will see her historian patricia sullivan on robert kennedy in the civil rightsmist thomas soul. and alex marlow with the critical look at mainstream media. five. information online apple tv.org or consult your program guide. >> good afternoon everybody could happen tour panelists and audience. i am paul farmer i will work with the book passage curating and hosting special events for social justice. i am especially proud to be part of today's very important events. thank you for taking time out from what could be middle of a busy workday, busy week. think it's important that you are participating and witnessing what i believe will be a phenomenal discussion

jail, police established a temporary holding facility at robert f. kennedy stadium.lashed and mutilated a large tarpaulin covering the field. when it was apparent that bogged down court procedures would cause the detention of many prisoners overnight, they were transferred to the washington coliseum, a large auditorium nearby. by nightfall, all demonstrators were indoors. blankets were secured from the military, and more than enough food to take care of prisoners'needs. reaction of some prisoners was to destroy the sanitary facilities, tear up the blankets, and throw the food on the floor. many refused to be properly booked and identified. on tuesday, with most of their fellow demonstrators under arrest, the remaining may day activists employed hit and run tactics throughout the morning. about about noon, police prepared for a planned march on the justice department. official estimates indicated about 800 protesters would take part. however, these were joined by over 3000 others who had been released by the court. dodged police warned the courts. police warned the de

well respected criminal defense lawyer who had been deputy attorney general under robert kennedy in the kennedy justice department. highly respected. backers job was try to hammer out a deal on the records and tapes. in fact, he carried a draft with him and the plan was to give those over to the united states government to hold. nixon would be free to access them to work on his memoirs, which he was talking about doing. the becker was also supposed to explain the ramifications of -- the legal ramifications of the case to nixon. and tell him not accepting this pardon would amount to an admission of guilt. and ford said, i want you to sit down face to face with him and make sure that he understands this. with that direction, becker flies off in a government plane with jack miller headed for sand clementa, not knowing where this is going to take them. one thing that is curious is why president forthwith select this young lawyer, who was untested in many ways, to negotiate one of the juiciest deals in american political history. it was largely because nobody knew him. the washington press c

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this is not robert -- kennedy was the attorney general for his brother the president.torney general to let politics interfere with the prosecutorial function. what you cannot do is let politics get into the prosecution game. here bill barr staefd donald trump, roger stone, michael flynn. i think that cross as line and goes way beyond anything that any other four ags, republican and democrat that i ever served under did. >> sounds like bill barr is on a rehab tour. he refers to donald trump's lies as b.s.. let's remind viewers of the voter fraud lies he peddled. >> there are several states that only have mail in voting including -- >> this is playing with fire. we're very closely divided country here and if people have to have confidence in the results of the election and legitimacy of the government, and people trying to change the rules to this methodology which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion is reckless and dangerous and people are playing with fire. >> what do you make of this attempt to rehab. sounds like he has gone to the same crisis coun

monday it's an extra day book tv some of the authors you see historian patricia sullivan and robert kennedy the civil rights movement, wall street journal columnist jason riley on the life of economist thomas olin alex marlow of breitbart

put out a study that more than 60% of the vaccine misinformation is from 12 people, one of them robert kennedywho has been an anti-vax propagandist for years now. would it help if the white house were instead of to call out facebook or to at least also call out the individuals, or does that just give them a bigger platform? >> i wouldn't recommend calling out the individuals, but i do think facebook, twitter, all those social media platforms have a responsibility to stop disinformation. the vaccine is just one example of disinformation on facebook. around the census and the citizenship question, around critical race theory, there are like ten people pushing out these disinformation campaigns on these issues. and facebook historically when i was in my advocacy world has not taken these issues seriously and said, oh, we're just -- we want to protect the first amendment, but what about protecting people's lives, what about protecting democracy? they have continued to falter. and civil rights groups, progressive groups and now the administration is calling them to task. >> one of the complications

robert kennedy rendered a lengthy opinion on this. tell us about the significance of his opinion when he said that the constitution doesn't give congress the power by statute to turn d.c. into a state. >> beyond the fact that he was a democrat, the dis--- the to sit -- the significant says that this is a single act and then the question becomes if congress has authority to do what is contemplated by these various proposals that have come over the years. the conclusion was that no they don't. it is a single act. if you want to do something more you have to find authority under the constitution and important issue here is that the district is unique. it's not an ordinary process of creating a new state from territories acquired like the louisiana purchase. it was created expressly under article one to be the seat of the federal government. under s 51, the seat of government would be this tiny enclave and i invite you to think in response to an earlier question what this would mean with the much reduced authority of congress to have excl

. >> of the misinformation on the vaccines come from 12 people now including robert kennedy jr.ho continues spreading lies about vaccines. what do you think is the best way to combat misinformation? >> yeah. this is the plague of our times. i do think facebook has a much bigger responsibility. look, if this group knows that it's the 12, facebook has known for a long time it's these 12. they don't have to give them a platform. you don't have to give a platform to people who spread lies in the middle of a global pandemic. facebook could just do that. they have chosen not to. so i think facebook could do that. i think other social media platforms should be doing more deplatforming people who are actively trying to get people killed seems to me to be a pretty reasonable strategy at this moment. >> the american academy of pediatrics is recommending universal masking in school for everyone over the age of 2. that includes school staff. what do you think about that? >> you know, i have enormous respect for the aap, great organization. i think i, for me at this point i look at the cdc g

robert kennedy, attorney general, was a political adviser to his brother, president john kennedy andident barack obama. so the question isn't whether an attorney general has a legitimate political role. they do. they're a member of the president's cabinet. they can advice on policy or legislation or help in the selection of judges. the really important question is when that political role seeps into the criminal and civil enforcement mechanisms of the department of justice. if that happens, that's awful. that's really, really bad. we saw some of that with attorney general barr. we saw it both in the paul manafort prosecution and in the roger stone prosecution and the way we saw it is we saw the reaction from career assistant u.s. attorneys in the field, in this case in the district of columbia. so political role, okay. it's happened. it's okay. an attorney general is a part of the president's cabinet, allowing politics to seep into enforcement mechanisms of the department of justice, deeply, deeply dangerous. >> chuck rosenberg, kittie benner, great to have your perspective. thank yo

a really concerted effort to, again, shape the meaning of brown, when he has attorney general robert kennedybefore him in some hearings for the senate commerce committee. he does not at this point say brown is a terrible decision. instead, again, he's attempting to drain the meaning from brown. he says, he heaps scorn on -- ervin heaps scorn on educators who want racially balanced schools, he says. then he asks attorney general kennedy the following loaded question. he says, "do you not agree with me that denying a school child the right to attend his neighborhood school in transferring him by bus or otherwise to another community for the purpose of racially mixing the school" -- note that phrase, racially mixing -- "the school in that other community is a violation of the 14th amendment as interpreted by the supreme court in brown versus board of education?" kennedy is knocked off of, you know, his sort of, you know, his groove. and there were reporters in attendance who say that he twisted in his chair, and he's trying to be noncommittal. and then senator ervin poses this precisely worded

one of the disinformation dozen out there is robert kennedy jr., the anti-vaxxer who's been sullying family's name for decades now. we have a disproportionately unvaccinated americans in the black community, the latino community. this is still a problem, and it's not just political. >> it's not just political. people have different reasons for not getting vaccinated. some people haven't been able to get off work or get there or figure out how to get everything done. and some people are just genuinely skeptical of a vaccine that is an emergency authorization, has not been fully authorized by the fda. so they are concerned about that. now, obviously when you're concerned about long-term effects, the problem is that we know that one of the long-term effects of covid is death. you won't even live to find out the long-term effects of the vaccine because you will not live if you catch covid. like, that's part of the issue. but the government has not been able to convince people. they have tried the carrots. now they're going to try the sticks, and part of the issue is that not only is this

some of the authors you will see are historian patricia sullivan on robert kennedy and the civil rights movement, "wall street journal" columnist jason ri leigh on the life of -- riley on the life of an economist. and breitbart news with a critical look at mainstream media. find the schedule live on book tv.org. >>> good evening. i'm one of the owners of a store, 5:30 here in california. i think a lot of you are probably watching this at different time zones around the country or even around the world. we welcome you to our store, our on-line version of our store. today's program really is one i've been looking forward to because we're welcoming two key figures from the obama administration, and between them they have written a pair of books that shed a great deal of light on the current state of the world and really perilous state of the world. our featured guest was deputy national security advisor for strategic communication under president obama. he's now co chair of a group called the national security action, a political ngo. he's a frequent contributor to nbc news and msnbc. and

some of the authors you will see are historian patricia sullivan on robert kennedy and the civil rightstreet journal" columnist jason ri leigh on the life of -- riley on the life of an economist. and breitbart news with a critical look at mainstream media. find the schedule live on book tv.org. >>> good evening. i'm one of the owners of a store, 5:30 here in california. i think a lot of you are probably watg